Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone

Lammas Breath Meditation

… from PaGaian Cosmology Lammas/Late Summer ceremony: “Breathe this breath that is yours, as if it were your first … do you remember that it was so? Breathe this breath that is yours, as if it were your last … do you remember that it will be so? Breathe it now, this breath that is […]

As we turn towards the Dark: the Season of Lammas

After the peaking of Summer Solstice, there is the turn into the dark. Traditionally in Pagan circles, where this Seasonal transition is celebrated as “Lughnasad”, a straw man is burned, representing the passing of the fulfillment of Summer: all is given over, the harvest of the light part of the cycle is set, as the […]

A PaGaian Breath Meditation

(from Chapter 8 PaGaian Cosmology) Going within for the moment and becoming aware of your breath,  feeling this cycle within. With your imagination, remember all the breathing happening right now on the planet – feel/sense it with each breath.  The entire planet is breathing. Remember the constant dawning and setting of the Sun – happening […]

Celebrate Summer Solstice: Decolonise the Mind

To celebrate Summer Solstice in Summer, and indeed the Wheel of Earth’s orbit around Sun, the Seasonal Moments as they express themselves in your region, is an act of decolonising the mind. It is to set your self free of imposed arbitrary calendar, imposed by colonisers who have had an agenda of what constitutes a […]

We bless you and the Gift that you are

Each one/being is gift: that gift is all that is required, presence, the giving of your fullness of being. If you don’t have that, you might feel you have to go the shops (to buy a gift). But in the contemplation of your own self as gift, how you feed the world with your being […]

Some Thoughts About Holy Desire

All being knows desire in elemental ways, for water, for food, for sustenance: and many beings also know desire for air, and most creatures and plants know desire for relationship in some form, and for care. We come into being with these primordial desires, this hunger, this longing – we don’t make it up[i]. Each […]

Beltaine/Samhain Moment @ EarthGaia

In our everyday sacred journey around Mother Sun – the “Turas”[i]of our planet Earth – our orbit moves us into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain: the cross-quarter Moment/Season between Equinox (Spring S.H./Autumn N.H.) and Solstice (Summer S.H./Winter N.H.): that Moment will be at is 17:14 “Universal Time” on the 7th November … that’s November 8th 3:14 AEDT Australia […]

The Elemental Sensuousness of the Present Moment

As Beltaine Season comes around, it may be a time for remembering the sensuousness of the present moment, and our deep desire for this sensuousness. Deep within every present moment is the ever-present ‘glue’ that holds all things in form, that unites the Cosmos. If it were not present in every moment then we would […]

Equinox Moment @ EarthGaia

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia comes around again at 7:50 UT on the 23rd September, and it is Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.  At my place East Coast Australia that Moment of Earth-Sun relationship will be at 17:50 on the 23rd September … and all global times may be found […]

Imbolc/Lammas Season @ EarthGaia

In the Southern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing light, post-Winter Solstice; and in the Northern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing dark, post-Summer Solstice. At this time in Earth’s annual orbit, which is our everyday sacred journey, Earth makes the post-Solstice transition, crossing the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between Solstice and […]

Naturalistic Paganism

A community of Naturalistic & Humanistic Pagans

Celebration of Gaia

Marking Our Time on Earth

Feminism and Religion

Exploring the F-word in religion at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and community.

Stuart McHardy

A Lad o Pairts Speaks

Feral Words

Blog posts/essays & photos by William A. Young, linking travel, hiking, mythology, and some associated odds-and-ends