Tag Archives: Goddess

Appropriating Her Maternal Creativity

As poet Robin Morgan asks in The Network of the Imaginary Mother: What have they dared, Sucking at man’s wounds for wine,  Celebrating his flesh as food? …  Who have they dared to hang on that spine instead and then deny, across millennia? … She goes on and proclaims: … this cup, this chalice, this primordial […]

Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2024 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia as our Planet may be named,[i] will occur March 20th at 3:06 UTC (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). Equinox is a moment of balance of dark and light for the Planet, when the dark and the light in the South and in the […]

womens-spirituality.org – some foremothers

“Women’s Spirituality emerged as a major component of the “second wave” of the women’s liberation movement in the 70’s and 80’s. On this site you will meet some of the Foremothers of that emergence, many of whom are actively continuing and evolving their work today. They are scholars, artists, activists, authors, teachers, performers and ritualists. […]

December Solstice 2023 – Summer/Winter

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around our Mother Sun. It is one of two Solstices for the year, the other being in June. For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the turn /return to the growing dark […]

Feared and Revered exhibition: some thoughts

Some of the images that were present at the Feared and Revered exhibition in Canberra Australia: In the Orphic Hymns Aphrodite is praised in this way: “For all things are from you Who unites the Cosmos. You will the three-fold fates. You bring forth all things. Whatever is in the Heavens. And in the much […]

Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2023 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia (as our Planet may be named[i]), will occur March 20th at 21:24 UTC (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). Equinox is a moment of balance of dark and light for the Planet, when the dark and the light in the South and in the […]

PaGaian Cosmology Course: Goddess, Cosmogenesis and the Wheel of the Year

For those living in the Northern Hemisphere, my course in PaGaian Cosmology is starting with the advent of Autumn there, anytime now with the Introduction (which is substantial), and then with Samhain material in late September-early October. This course is rich in material, and suitable for the novice as well as the experienced who may wish […]

Mother Matrix

PaGaian Cosmology Course 2021 -2022

The PaGaian Cosmology course for the Northern Hemisphere begins with the coming of Autumn there: with the Introduction material sent anytime in September, and then Samhain/Deep Autumn material sent out in early-mid October. Students may set their own pace within alignment to the Seasonal transitions. … The year-long on-line course is suitable for the novice […]

PaGaian Cosmology Preface

The term “PaGaian” requires some explanation: it expresses a reclaiming of the term “Pagan” as meaning a person who dwells in “country”, yet with “Gaian” spliced in, it expresses a renewed and contemporary understanding of that “country”. “Gaia” is a name for humanity’s Habitat, an ancient yet new name, which I understand to include whole […]

Naturalistic Paganism

A community of Naturalistic & Humanistic Pagans

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

Stuart McHardy

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Feral Words

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