Tag Archives: Glenys Livingstone
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 […]
Mother-Warrior
Mother-Warrior You are brave, you are Brave … You have conquered … You have taken in hand those forces of disintegration that threatened your existence You hold them in your hands your strong hands they writhe but you hold them fast. … Your strength is a-mazing your courage awesome. … Your wild hair flies in […]
Sacrifice is to Make Sacred in GoddessSpeak
In this season of Lammas: contemplating “making sacred”/sacrifice. The “making sacred”/sacrifice of Goddess is very different from the “sacrifice” demanded by patriarchal cosmology. The kind of “sacrifice” demanded by the father god of Christian cosmology, for example, may leave nothing for the self – it is an abnegation of the self. Whereas in Goddess cosmology […]
Re-Visioning Mythologies of Gender/Sex
This essay was first published in Goddess Pages in 2008, isssue 9. ‘Gender’ might be described as “one’s perception of their self as being” either female or male, and ‘sex’ as “the physical appearance of one’s body” as either female or male.[1] The “sex” of a body is commonly understood to necessarily be able to […]
(Essay 3) Restoring Her as Creative Triplicity: She Who Creates the Space to Be by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
… on this Dark Moon and in these times, just published at Return to Mago E-zine a creative re-writing of pages 99 -106 of PaGaian Cosmology, some 11 years on. You will find my re-writing of the other two qualities of Goddess/Cosmogenesis linked there also. May you be well Glenys
Mother Sun Ripens in Us: So May We Shine
In Summer Solstice ceremony as it may be done, the group blesses each with: It is the Sun that ripens in you: so may you shine. Mother Sun, our source of life and energy, is a model of the quality and power of Radiance.[1] She pours Herself forth in every moment: and Earth absorbs only a very […]
We Are the Ancestors
… for the current Samhain Season (in the Southern Hemisphere), as well as the planetary meltdown we witness: may we remember a deeper story always present. This was originally published in Gaian Voices Volume 6, Number 1 & 2, 2008 (by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.) In the last couple of years two significant friends of mine have passed, trans-formed. […]
Eyes of Goddess
… the Eyes of Goddess … we walk between Her eyes in Beltaine ceremony, to be seen by Her. To be seen by Her is healing, wholing, restoring … as opposed to the patriarchal gaze that judges, evaluates, diminishes. In these recent times (this era) the act of seeing has commonly become an act of […]
Video Review of PaGaian Cosmology Book
A friend recently found this on YouTube: PaGaian Cosmology (Book Chat) by Cassandra Tarot, July 21 2016. Cassandra says: “Less of a review, and more of an off-the-cuff, from-the-heart ramble, I talk a bit about the book PaGaian Cosmology and how it’s re-framed my view of the cosmos. I also chat a bit about […]
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