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Cake for the Queen of Heaven and Earth

In the Winter Solstice Communion blessing as it has been done in PaGaian tradition, the participants, are named as “Cake for the Queen of Heaven and Earth”[1]: it is a reference from a biblical text (Jeremiah) where it is noted that the women are (still) baking cakes for the Queen of Heaven, Astarte[2]- it’s hard […]

We are Gift of Grandmother Supernova

We are Gift of Tiamat – our Goddess Mother supernova. Out of her stardust we are born. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and trace elements. We are Gift of Tiamat – out of her stardust we are born[i]. “Tiamat” is the name that Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme give to the ancestral star out […]

Cosmic Silent Night for Winter Solstice

Written by Connie Barlow This Cosmic version of Silent Night has been a traditional part of PaGaian Winter Solstice ceremony for over a decade now, sung after the ceremonial lighting of the fire, and  announcement is made of our Origins.  For each verse, the first and last lines are always the same: FIRST LINE: Silent night. […]

Our Mother

Our Mother Who is with us, Holy is Our Being. Thy Kin-dom is present. Thy Desire is felt throughout the Cosmos. We graciously receive your Infinite Daily Abundance. May we forgive each other and ourselves our lack of skill and insensitivity. May we understand our Inner Guidance, and perceive each other’s needs. For Thine is […]

The Passing of Last Summer’s Growth

  The ‘passing of last Summer’s growth’ may be a metaphor for the passing of all/any that has come to fullness of being, or that has had a fullness, a blossoming of some kind and borne fruit, which has been received: and it may be in hearts and minds, an event or events, that were […]

Restoring Dea – Female Metaphor for Deity (Essay Part 3) by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D

This essay is the third part in a series of edited excerpts from chapter 3 of the author’s book,PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. She is grain/food Before She appeared in human form, there were stones, trees, pools, fruits and animals that She either lived in or were identified with Her or parts of Her. For […]

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/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 […]

Summer Solstice: Omega Gateway

This essay is an edited excerpt from Chapter 5 of the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. Dates for Summer Solstice: Southern Hemisphere – December 20-23 Northern Hemisphere – June 20-23   The “moment of grace”[1]that is Summer Solstice, marks the stillpoint in the height of Summer, when Earth’s tilt and orbit cause the […]

Summer Solstice Moment of Union

In the traditional PaGaian Summer Solstice ceremony, the fullness and wholeness/unity of being that is celebrated in the peaking of Sun’s light at this time, is expressed in the ceremonial invocation as a dyad poem, or “Conversation of Union” as I name it. It is my adaptation of Starhawk’s “Invocation to the Ground of Being”” […]

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