Tag Archives: PaGaian Cosmology

December Solstice 2023 – Summer/Winter

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around our Mother Sun. It is one of two Solstices for the year, the other being in June. For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the awesomeness of the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the turn /return to the growing dark […]

Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2023 C.E.

As our planet Earth, and we Her inhabitants, orbit Mother Sun in our everyday sacred journey,[i] we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain, the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the transition into High Spring (or Beltaine, as it may be named) towards the Summer Solstice, and in the Northern […]

PaGaian Cosmology and the Future of Goddess Spirituality

It is an interview by The Girlfriend God (Kelly Applegate-Nichols) with Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.. It was a good and entertaining conversation, with some of the personal and academic story of the unfolding of PaGaian Cosmology. It is long so start into it when you can relax and enjoy.

Equinox – Spring/Autumn @ EarthGaia September 2023 C.E.

Our Planet – “Earth” or “Gaia” as we may name Her, and both are Goddess names[i] – comes to one of Her annual points of balance in Her orbit around Sun on September 23rd 4:50 UTC (that’s 14:50 East Coast Australia, where I am). Other global times can be found at  archaeoastronomy.com. This is one of two […]

Demeter’s Gift of the Grain: as Persephone Descends

Demeter says: “I give you the wheat – the Mystery – the knowledge of life and death. I let you go as Child, (Daughter/Mabon) most loved of Mine: you descend to Wisdom, to Sovereignty. You will return as Mother, co-Creator with me. You are the Seed in the Fruit, becoming the Fruit in the Seed. Inner […]

Centred in a Wheel of Stones: a Powerful Point

My ancestors built great circles of stones that represented their perception of real time and space, and enabled them to tell time: the stone circles were cosmic calendars.[i] They went to great lengths and detail to get it right. It was obviously very important to them to have the stones of a particular kind, in the […]

Great Goddess Brigid and Her Three Creative Powers

Early Spring/Imbolc celebrations are traditionally a time of celebration of and dedication to, the nurturance of the New Young Being, as the new young light of the year begins to grow. This nurturance of new and tender life is no wimpy task: it is for the brave and courageous, whether one is committing to the […]

Imbolc/Lammas Season @ EarthGaia 2023 C.E.

With the passing of the Solstice Season, our Planet enters into the waxing light Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere and the waxing dark Seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. These first transition Seasonal Moments after Solstice are frequentlynamed in Old European tradition as Imbolc and Lammas respectively. We as Earth cross the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between […]

Feared and Revered exhibition: some thoughts

Some of the images that were present at the Feared and Revered exhibition in Canberra Australia: In the Orphic Hymns Aphrodite is praised in this way: “For all things are from you Who unites the Cosmos. You will the three-fold fates. You bring forth all things. Whatever is in the Heavens. And in the much […]

The Universe Story and Winter Solstice

One may contemplate the personal and collective primordial relationship with the Sun:  How five billion years ago the hydrogen atoms, created at the birth of the universe, came together to form our great Sun that now pours out this same primordial energy and has done so since the beginning of time. How some of this […]

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