Tag Archives: Seasonal Moments

PaGaian Meditations – now digital

I am happy to announce that PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs are now available in digital format here. The  meditations may be useful to assist healing at any time. They may support and nurture a wholing connection with larger self in the full cycle of Her creativity – for group or individual contemplations. The whole set (usually 3 […]

Lammas/Imbolc Moment – Planet Earth Feb 2016

On February 4th at 9:30 “Universal Time” (as it is named) EarthGaia crosses the midpoint in Her orbit between Solstice and Equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere it is the Season of Lammas – the welcoming of the Dark, post-Summer Solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the welcoming of the Light, post-Winter Solstice. All planetary times […]

The Wheel of the Year in Stone

an edited excerpt from the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology Chapter 1 p. 50 -52 and for a more detailed developed version: the Introduction to A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos. My ancestors built great circles of stones that represented their perception of real time and space – cosmic calendars. They went to great lengths and detail […]

Celebrating PaGaian Cosmology On-Line

  PaGaian Cosmology On-Line A Celebration of Cosmogenesis in the Wheel of the Year a course and mentoring through eight Seasonal Moments (Sabbats) of Earth’s journey around Sun – the Solstices, Equinoxes and cross-quarter days PaGaian Cosmology is an eco-spirituality grounded in the Pagan/Indigenous tradition of Old Europe, linked to story of the unfolding Universe, and Triple Goddess Poetry. It […]

Equinox @ EarthGaia March 2015 C.E.

The Seasonal Moment of Equinox @ EarthGaia comes around again at 22:45 UT on the 20th March – the first for this Gregorian calendar year of 2015, and it is Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.  At my place East Coast Australia that is 8:45 on the 21st March … and all […]

from Dusk to Night @ MoonCourt

A series of photos of MoonCourt Goddess ceremonial space (Blue Mountains, Australia) – from dusk to night, in honour and celebration of the waxing Dark here …  Notice the star becoming visible in the centre of the roof “eye”. As Thomas Berry said: “The night has advanced. The stars are more brilliant than ever.” (Evening Thoughts, […]

Wheel of Year Ceremony: En-trancing Gaia’s Womb

By Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. Published in G.A.I.A. Newsletter October 2008, and re-published at Return to Mago blog as En-trancing Gaia’s Womb Through Seasonal Ceremony: Re-creating Her Sacred Site in 2012. In the earliest of Her stories, Gaia – also known as “Ge”, meaning Earth – was the possessor of the oracle in Delphi, the place at the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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