Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone

Virgin Warrior of Spirit

Virgin,        – warrior of the spirit,        urging me on        calling forth my green shoots singing them out of the darkness.        in love with this new life        no-one can distract you. Yet you do not curse the darkness        you know it and trust it. … After the storm, the tempest, the destruction,        in the compost, Is […]

O Mother Sun

O Mother Sun       who is with me       wherever I am. … May I always remember        your presence surging through my nerve fibres breathing in my body. Present in the forms all around me. … May I remember to be gracious For Thine is the planet. … O Mother Sun You are Daughter […]

Cake for the Queen of Heaven and Earth

In the Winter Solstice Communion blessing as it has been done in PaGaian tradition, the participants, are named as “Cake for the Queen of Heaven and Earth”[1]: it is a reference from a biblical text (Jeremiah) where it is noted that the women are (still) baking cakes for the Queen of Heaven, Astarte[2]- it’s hard […]

We are Gift of Grandmother Supernova

We are Gift of Tiamat – our Goddess Mother supernova. Out of her stardust we are born. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and trace elements. We are Gift of Tiamat – out of her stardust we are born[i]. “Tiamat” is the name that Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme give to the ancestral star out […]

Our Mother

Our Mother Who is with us, Holy is Our Being. Thy Kin-dom is present. Thy Desire is felt throughout the Cosmos. We graciously receive your Infinite Daily Abundance. May we forgive each other and ourselves our lack of skill and insensitivity. May we understand our Inner Guidance, and perceive each other’s needs. For Thine is […]

The Passing of Last Summer’s Growth

  The ‘passing of last Summer’s growth’ may be a metaphor for the passing of all/any that has come to fullness of being, or that has had a fullness, a blossoming of some kind and borne fruit, which has been received: and it may be in hearts and minds, an event or events, that were […]

Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (Essay Part 3) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D

This essay is the third part in a series of edited excerpts from chapter 3 of the author’s book,PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. She is grain/food Before She appeared in human form, there were stones, trees, pools, fruits and animals that She either lived in or were identified with Her or parts of Her. For […]

A Poem for the Dark Seasons

CRONE Sliding into the Old One’s merciful Darkness –   into Her unknown blanking out of previous understandings It is an act of mercy It is an act of love.   She covers me with her  Darkness   The blood that fills this space, this Womb is not for death it is for life.   Drawing […]

PaGaian Cosmology Course 2019-2020

The on-line PaGaian Cosmology course for the Southern Hemisphere year is starting with the Introduction anytime now, before the forthcoming Samhain/Deep Autumn season in late April/early May.   Your participation in the course may be a method for you to become more familiar with the work of PaGaian Cosmology which is a unique synthesis; of […]

Lammas Goddess Slideshow

On February 3rd at 14:40 UTC EarthGaia crosses the midpoint in Her orbit between Solstice and Equinox: for this year of 2021 C.E., and this date varies each year. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Season of Lammas – the welcoming of the Dark, post-Summer Solstice. Lammas, and all of the dark part of the cycle, […]

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