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Contemplating Triple Goddess as Creative Triad, a Depth of Love

This essay is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of chapter 3 of the book, PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. She has three faces, but She is One. These faces kaleidoscope into each other, they blur, they support each other, they are in each other – if they were not […]

A Cosmology of Peace

Cosmogenesis Dance

At Winter Solstice ceremony in MoonCourt in 2017 we filmed our Cosmogenesis Dance. The Dance has three layers which are resonant with the three qualities of Cosmogenesis and the three aspects of the Female Metaphor/Goddess. There is a bit of story about the dance, and instructions here (Appendix I of PaGaian Cosmology), and also in this […]

Re-visioning Medusa anthology

My proof copy arrived! yay! … almost ready for publication on June Solstice! Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom  edited by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., Trista Hendren and Pat Daly Check out the Table of Contents   Pre-order here

We Are Cosmic Dynamics

At the Solstices, in traditional PaGaian ceremony, we recognize and recall the sacred space (that is, “call the directions”), with recognition that we are Cosmic Dynamics of the elements, as poetically inspired by cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme’s perception of water, fire, earth and air.[1] This recalling, and “creating of sacred space” is ceremoniously invited and […]

June Solstice @ EarthGaia 2017 C.E.

It is the Season of Solstice, when Earth’s tilt leans both hemispheres, South and North, to the furthest point in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source of life and being. Thus the hours of dark or light peak, come to fullness; and there is a turning, a re-turning, to the other again. Solstice may be […]

Gate of the Year

I said to the one who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And the angel said: “Go out into the darkness                                     and put your hand in the hand of the One. That will be to you better than a light                                     […]

Conceiving, Imagining … the New at Samhain

In the PaGaian version of Samhain/Deep Autumn ceremony participants journey to the Luminous World Egg … a term taken from Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance (p.210), where she also names that place as “The Shining Isle”, which is of course, the Seed of conception, a metaphor for the female egg: it is the place for rebirth. […]

Red Threads of Autumn Equinox

I am always conscious of the passing of my ceremonial circle’s sister-friend Lyn at this time of the year’s cycle; the Seasonal Moment of Autumn Equinox – “Mabon” as it is often named. Since Lyn’s passing over a decade ago, I have always kept a place in the Autumn Equinox ceremonial circle for the Lost […]

Mother Medusa: Regenerative One

an essay by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. for the anthology Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom I first saw Her in myself, and gave voice to Her, after I had given a paper on Women and Religion, at the Women and Labour Conference in Australia in 1980; and the paper had attracted quite a bit […]

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