Tag Archives: PaGaian Cosmology
there is nothing we have not been
Ancient peoples, our ancestors knew this: “I have flown as an eagle, Been a coracle on the sea, I have been a drop in a shower. A sword in hand, A shield in battle, A string in a harp, Nine years in enchantment, In water, in foam, I have absorbed fire, I have been a […]
Theology of War: the Enemy Behind All Enemies
This is an edited excerpt from PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., p. 73-74. Philosopher Paul Ricoeur describes how in the “creation” story of the Enuma Elish, the creative act “which distinguishes, separates, measures and puts into order”, is inseparable from the murder of the “oldest gods” (who is in fact […]
Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2022 C.E.
The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia (as our Planet may be named[i]), will occur at 15:33 UTC March 20th (that’s “Universal Time” as it is named – measured at Greenwich England). Equinox is a Moment of balance of dark and light for the Planet, when the dark and the light in the South and in the […]
A Gaialogue: Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Glenys Livingstone
I was privileged to be interviewed by the late Joanna Harcourt-Smith for her Future Primitive series of Gaialogues, on January 6th 2008, just two and a half years after the publication of my book PaGaian Cosmology, and just one and a half years after the advent of pagaian.org website. There has been a lot of […]
Harvest Dance for Lammas Ceremony
We may dance in celebration of our harvests – the reapings of our lives: and dance in trust of her Creative Dark. The dance that may be done is based on one that I learnt from Jean Houston, and I name it the “Harvest Dance”: Before we begin the dance, the celebrant traditionally asks: “Can […]
Lammas/Imbolc @ EarthGaia 2022 C.E.
With the passing of Solstice Season our Planet enters into the waxing dark Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere and the waxing light Seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. The first of the transition Moments are frequently named in Old European tradition as Lammas and Imbolc respectively. We as Earth cross the midpoint (the “cross-quarter”) between Solstice […]
December Solstice – Summer/Winter 2021C.E.
The Season of Solstice celebrates the sacred Moment when Earth’s tilt leans both hemispheres, South and North, to the furthest point in relationship with Mother Sun: it is the Seasonal Moment when the hours of light or dark peak, come to fullness, and there is a turning, a re-turning, to the other again. Solstice may […]
Attending to Summer Solstice Poetry
In the Southern Hemisphere, the Poetry of Summer Solstice is particularly ignored because at this Seasonal Moment, mainstream is celebrating Christmas, which is really a Winter Solstice thing appropriated by Christian faith long ago, and now appropriated by the capitalist consumer faith. Frequently even in Southern Hemisphere Pagan circles, where Summer Solstice is celebrated, the […]
Beltaine/Samhain @ EarthGaia November 2021
As our planet Earth, and we Her inhabitants, orbit Mother Sun in our everyday sacred journey[1], we move into the Seasonal Moment of Beltaine/Samhain (as it is named in Western Indigenous tradition). It is the cross-quarter transition between Equinox and Solstice: that is, into High Spring towards the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, and […]
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