Tag Archives: PaGaian Cosmology
Samhain Ceremony and Cosmogenesis
A core inspiration for the processes of the Samhain/Deep Autumn seasonal rite as it has been done here at my place for over a decade, is Robin Morgan’s poem, “The Network of the Imaginary Mother“.[1] The whole poem helped me through a gateway into new language and perceptions some 34 years ago (1980), but the main […]
Ancient Irish Sites – photos and story
First the photos that inspired this post: Some Fantastic 19th century Photos of Irish Archaeology Sites … and the story that I wrote some seven years ago begins with a feeling about the uncovering of the Triple Spiral – which is a significant recent event (late last century). I have never visited the home of […]
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 […]
PaGaian Lammas – Celebrating an Autopoietic Cosmos
She Who receives all, transforms all – in every moment Lammas may be a Seasonal Moment for the recognition of the autopoietic quality of Cosmogenesis [1], the Larger Self whom we are –and the power each thing has to participate directly in the cosmos-creating endeavour” (Swimme and Berry The Universe Story p.75) : it is a powerful thing to […]
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 […]
Season of the Rose – Blossom and Thorn
Summer Solstice ceremony is a celebration and invocation of the Sacred Fullness/Wholeness of Being – when our Sun is at its peak of radiance in our part of the world … when Summer fruits are ripening and pouring forth in abundance, when greenery is thriving (as it is in my region). The fullness of being […]
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 […]
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