Tag Archives: PaGaian Cosmology
Cosmogenesis Dance
At Winter Solstice ceremony in MoonCourt in 2017 we filmed our Cosmogenesis Dance. The Dance has three layers which are resonant with the three qualities of Cosmogenesis and the three aspects of the Female Metaphor/Goddess. There is a bit of story about the dance, and instructions here (Appendix I of PaGaian Cosmology), and also in this […]
June Solstice @ EarthGaia 2017 C.E.
It is the Season of Solstice, when Earth’s tilt leans both hemispheres, South and North, to the furthest point in relationship with Mother Sun, our Source of life and being. Thus the hours of dark or light peak, come to fullness; and there is a turning, a re-turning, to the other again. Solstice may be […]
Gate of the Year
I said to the one who stood at the Gate of the Year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And the angel said: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand in the hand of the One. That will be to you better than a light […]
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 […]





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