Tag Archives: Goddess
Feminism and the Future of Religion
… presented as a paper for the National Socialist Conference Sydney, 1990 – but if I didn’t tell you, you may think it was written yesterday … 🙂 FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF RELIGION By Glenys Livingstone published in full at The Girl God blog The essay begins: Feminism/the uprising of women continues to chip […]
Autumn Equinox – Thanksgiving and Grieving
In the traditional Autumn Equinox ceremony here, it is said: “In our part of Earth, the balance is tipping into the dark. Feel the shift within you, see in your mind’s eye the descent ahead, the darkness growing, remember the coolness of it. This is the time when we give thanks for our harvests – […]
God on the Run
GOD ON THE RUN By GlenysLivingstone Ph.D. This essay is an unedited paper as I presented it at the University of Western Sydney in June 1995. Hopefully some have come a little distance since then – I would write it differently now, and indeed I have, but it still seems to be useful as it […]
Lammas Thoughts … and a few Imbolc ones
We drift towards Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere … after the Summer Solstice, the peaking of light, the fullness of being, there comes the falling apart: the rose, the flower, peaks in beauty, then she fades, falls apart … the petals drop, and the seed is exposed. Sometimes the falling apart, the dissolution, comes abruptly […]
We are Sun, we are Food
As of Old, so was She understood … Her Power was/is to give Life – to feed and sustain the world (Inanna/Ishtar in “Mother of Living Nature” Adele Getty, p.39) May we graciously receive Her infinite daily abundance. May we experience fullness of being, that demands to be poured forth: may we be radiant like […]
Moon Goddess – Primordial Trinity
Moon Goddess: Primordial Trinity and Cosmic/Personal Heritage by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. This essay is an evolved version of an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. I am a regular contributor to the Return to Mago blog – you may like to check it for other essays, poems and art as […]
More on Holy Desire
Our desire, our longing, is the Beloved, is the Universe, desiring in us. (PaGaian Beltaine script 2013) Brian Swimme says: “I didn’t make up this desire: it is the Universe desiring in me.” and “Where does the Universe experience its ultimate desire?” … “within any particular.” (somewhere in Canticle to the Cosmos) We are united […]
Beltaine Poiesis – allurement, beauty, sight
Some of the Beltaine Poiesis as it has been celebrated in my PaGaian tradition (in the Southern Hemisphere) in early November – the Season of High Spring: – the traditional red is commonly understood in more recent historical times to represent the fertility of the maturing female: the menarche, the first menstrual flow. Perhaps the earlier significance […]
(Seasonal essay) Spring Equinox Southern Hemisphere September 2013 by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
(Seasonal essay) Spring Equinox Southern Hemisphere September 2013 by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D..
Demeter @ Spring Equinox
The story of Old tells us that Persephone beloved Daughter, returns from Her journey to the Underworld. Demeter, the Mother, stretches out Her arms – to receive and rejoice. The beloved One, the Lost One, returns with new Wisdom from the depths.[1] In the Spring Equinox ceremonial Poetry, as I have written it, I have […]
PaGaian Cosmology 
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