She has degrees in Social Work and Psychology and completed a PhD at Monash University in 1999. She is Hecate, Lillith, Medusa, Kali, Erishkagel,Chamunda, Coatlique – Divine Compassionate One, She Who Creates the Space to Be. Blood & Honey doesn’t just address this question; it slams the reader into the story - and that existential question - in a brilliant, unending roller-coaster ride.” -- Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light Imbolc/Early Spring – a Season of Uncertainty by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. (Slideshow) Beltaine Goddess by Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D. (Prose) Halcyon for the Season by Deanne Quarrie. On the contrary, woman once deified and thus later in the guise of the female divine has been the primal representative of ultimate reality in Goddess-worshipping cultures. She was therefore, a manifestation of the Moon-Goddess who was worshiped at the two solstices as the Goddess of Life in Death and Death in Life and, when the Pleiades set, she sent the sacred king his summons for death. Sacred Couple –Mesopotamia 2000-1600 BCE “Lovers Embracing on Bed”, Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth, Diane Wolkstein and Samuael Noah Kramer. Meet Mago Contributor, Deanne Quarrie. Published in September 1st 2020 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fantasy, young adult books. [iv]“Not-Yet” is a term used by Brian Swimme, The Earth’s Imagination, video 8 “The Surprise of Cosmogenesis”. I have the power to protect the ones I love, and I will sacrifice anything for them. That an archetype is …. And since that night, although I’ve managed to doubt almost everything else, I have not doubted that the world is double, and that the more powerful, initiating part of it we have been conditioned not to perceive. When they nested on the open sea, the winds remained calm and the weather balmy. Something better.”. The journey to this numinous place within requires first a journey back, through some of each one’s transformations, however each may wish to name those transformations at this time. In the Land of Blood and Honey subtitles. This in Orphic doctrine is noted as the symbology of a thunderbolt or meteoric stone. During the legal slaughter, Hunters bait bears with junk food by putting old donuts etc. If you retreat into your mind—into your magic—I’ll follow you, Lou.” He shook me slightly, tears glistening in those frightened eyes. I ended the interview with questions, ‘what is transmigration of souls like when we are not surviving violence and wars? Skip this list. As the light part of the cycle waxes from Early Spring, form/life builds in desire. But I try to honor those seven days before and the seven days after by trying to have the frantic moments before the Halcyon Days begin and then even when busy, hold the peace and calm of that beautiful smooth sea in my mind. “She keeps looking at you.” Ansel tripped over a stray limb, nearly landing face-first in the snow. The mysteries deepen, as this young woman had no interest in botany let alone the idea of botany as a study. When it was ready, they carried the sun to the top of the highest mountain and dropped it into the sky so that it would give light. Within the Celtic tradition, it is the wake of Lugh, the Sun King, and it is the Crone that reaps him. Arriving Spring 2021 Co-editors: Kaalii Cargill, Ph.D. and Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. Preorder Now! Now is the time for dreaming, for drawing on the richness within, trusting the sentience, within which we are immersed, and which we are: and then awaiting the arrival, being patient with the fermentation and gestation. Whatever she brought back she shared with others in the Apartment building. This art form is not dead. In the Land of Blood and Honey Movie. Women simply need …. The Goddess traditions surveyed in the 22 chapters include the Female Divine in the major “world religions”—not only Hinduism and Buddhism, but also in the “Western Religions” of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, popularly regarded as impervious to the Goddess. Engineering or some technical field was the Bosnian young woman’s major course of study. I am talking about the vast resources found in epigenetic processes that shape our genome from how each of us live our lives, what we eat and grow, how we play and dance right down to every decision and choice we make. Many years have passed. The Woman’s Encyclopaedia of Myths and Secrets. The autopoietic space in us recognizes Her, is comforted by Her, desires Her self-transcendence and self-dissolution; Lammas is an opportunity to be with our organism’s love of Larger Self – this Native Place. Much of this material has never been brought to light as a whole. Seize the moment, this Moment – and converse with the depths within your own bodymind, wherein She is. He couldn’t know how much I cherished them, how I wished I could keep them in my pocket to pull out whenever he felt sad. “You’re impossible.”, “I exhaled in delight as they floated toward me, as they landed on my hair. Peace and love and joy surrounding the Winter Solstice make it perfect. Image from Mann and Lyle, “Sacred Sexuality” p.74. If desire/allurement is the same cosmic dynamic as gravity, as cosmologist Brian Swimme suggests[6], then desire like gravity is the dynamic that links/holds us to our Place, to “that which is”, as philosopher Linda Holler describes the effect of gravity[7]. To date, most of our books have been in the area of feminist Goddess spirituality. Desire is receiving. In working with these various and sundry data including folklore, paintings, arts, literature, poetry, toponyms, rituals, historical and religious records, and apocryphal texts, I encountered an organic structure that relates these seemingly unrelated materials and named it Magoism. Tara, Hallie Iglehart Austen, p.122 On November 7th at 22:56 UTC EarthGaia crosses the midpoint in Her orbit between Equinox and Solstice. She told me she felt guided to pick the mushrooms and plants. The number five brings change. Livingstone, Glenys. And yet I see that the opposite is true also. As such, in the patriarchal stories She is often associated with harshness, orgiastic rituals but we may re-story “wildness” in our times as something “innocent” – in direct relationship with the Mother. Priming your mind to seeing demons or angels is working with fiction. They say nobody survives a deadly kiss. Lou, Reid, Coco, and Ansel are on the run from coven, kingdom, and church—fugitives with nowhere to hide. But a tool is no more than a tool. Praised as Mistress of love and of knowledge at the same time. A liar. The chapters that follow are grouped in five sections: Pre-patriarchal Goddesses, Goddesses in Ancient Religions, Goddesses in Indigenous Traditions, Goddesses in World Religious Traditions, and New Goddess Spiritualities. NY: Harper and Row, 1999. I suggest Magoist cosmology, underpinning of the Magoist cosmogony, as an antidote to the detriments of patriarchal consciousness. In my clinical informed Kolo (Slavic Folk Circle and/or Round Dance) Trauma practices I realized I encountered the purest Orphic doctrine. It was a bitterly cold and clear full-moon night, and we were inside Debbie’s cabin, situated halfway up a snow-covered mountain in Vermont, and surrounded by woods. 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