Tag Archives: Goddess

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, […]

Lammas/Imbolc @ EarthGaia 2019 C.E.

In the Southern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing dark, post-Summer Solstice; and in the Northern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing light, post-Winter 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 […]

(Book Review) Myths Shattered and Restored, editors Marion Dumont & Gayatri Devi

What a pleasure to read this collection of diverse scholarly voices who speak of global mythological/spiritual traditions from within a Goddess frame: that is, from within a frame where She is understood as primal in an organic way, and without any apology. This is Volume 1 of proceedings from an annual conference of the Association […]

PaGaian Cosmology Course

Starting now for the Northern Hemisphere Autumn: “… This year-long course is suitable for both the novice and the experienced. It is offered as a ceremonial journey into the Creativity of the Cosmos as it is expressed in the Seasonal Moments of our Planet, in your particular place, and with Goddess metaphor. The Triple Spiral motif […]

Lammas/Imbolc Season Feb 2018

In the Southern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing dark, post-Summer Solstice; and in the Northern Hemisphere it is the season of the waxing light, post-Winter 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 […]

Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess

“Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess restores the original vision of celebrating cultural and natural landmarks from the perspective of Goddess feminist activism. By taking such categories as time, seasons, nature and the female divine as a point of departure, this book brings modern minds out of patriarchal holiday conventions and invites the reader to join […]

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 […]

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz4Z1QYmW7I   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 […]

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