Tag Archives: PaGaian Cosmology
Brian Swimme: the Omnicentric Universe
In this excerpt from his video The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, Brian Swimme Ph.D. describes the omnicentric nature of the Universe. This concept of the omnicentricity is essential to PaGaian Cosmology: the Centre of Creativity is here as much as anywhere. My favourite quote from this excerpt is: “Every place is that very place that gives birth to the […]
Conceiving, Imagining … the New at Samhain
In the PaGaian version of Samhain/Deep Autumn ceremony participants journey to the Luminous World Egg … a term taken from Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance (p.210), where she also names that place as “The Shining Isle”, which is of course, the Seed of conception, a metaphor for the female egg: it is the place for rebirth. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making Sacred: Space for the Not-Yet
It seems timely … as well as Seasonal (for both Hemispheres): originally published in Goddess Pages issue 6 (2008) As the Wheel turns into Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Seasonal Moment of Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere. For those in the planet’s South, Earth’s tilt is delivering the post-Summer Solstice welcoming of the new Dark, the […]
(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 […]
Storytime at HearthGround
Thomas Berry has named The Seasonal transitions as “moments of grace” … as they are moments of emergence and return, moments of transformation; and attention to these moments is fruitful As I write EarthGaia passes through the Moment Beltaine/Samhain (9:42 EST Australia) as noted here (for all global times). I share with this video of […]
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. […]
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