Diluvianism
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Category: Issue15
An Abundance of Greens
I didn’t lose it all in the recent USA downturn, but, like many others, I watched my material wealth shrink this past year. Am I worthless because I’m worth less? Of course not. I’m worthwhile, no matter what I’m worth financially. Having less money doesn’t have to mean having less joy or less abundance. I didn’t lose my job – since I am self-employed, I know I won’t be laid off – but work has slowed down, giving me time to appreciate the many ways abundance pops up in my life.
Read MoreLoving Brynhild – Part 2
But not right away. Sigurd was being unavoidably detained. I was lying on the top of Mount Hindarfiall, rumored to be somewhere in Frankland, but in fact was in the area later to be known as Sweden. As I lay there, a tortuous circle of flames angrily reached for the sky at hellish temperatures.
Read More“Crossroads”, by Jenna Greene
Crossroads is the debut album of Jenna Green – a collection of original songs. The songs tell stories of inner searching, finding solutions and solace through nature, the wisdom of the ancients, mystery and inner strength.
Read More“The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece”, by Margeurite Rigoglioso
This is a fascinating book. Nobody ever really explained to me exactly who is the father of Persephone/Kore and I must confess that I never gave it a thought until I read this book. But even in the stories I did know there are plenty of hints that something very different was going on, and a visit to an archaeological museum in Sicily a few years ago, a museum which was absolutely stuffed to the rafters with images labelled as Demeter and Kore, had led me see the two as dual goddess, with daughter and mother almost impossible to separate from one another.
Read MoreAnd Bessie Sang the Wind
On Brinkies Brae, tumble-stone ocean,
Tips her head to listen deep
Smells the sea spray, breathes her magic
Silent spells her secrets keep
The Lost World of Old Europe
We certainly couldn’t miss this and managed to visit Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum on the last weekend of the exhibition, a trip well worth making.
Read MoreDemeter and the Barley Cakes
The great Mysteries at Eleusis are one of the most astonishing stories in human history, because they are still mysterious in so many ways. It seems that over two thousand years of initiation for both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, no-one ever talked about what happened in the Rites.
Read More“The Temple of the Subway Goddess”, a novel by Carolyn Lee Boyd
This book is magical. Seriously. It worked on me in a very subtle way – I love science fiction and set about the novel with my usual SF brain in gear, but quickly found that I was becoming engaged with the story in a very different way. For as the time-travelling priestess Mira follows her own destiny to come to a time some 7,000 years in the future, to a neighbourhood which could belong to any American or European city,
Read MoreGoddesses of the Seven Rays – An Invocation
The esoteric philosophy of Helena Blavatsky and Alice A Bailey both advocated the idea of the seven rays. These mysterious rays have been described as “seven great divine Emanations, Aeons or Spirits”1 and “Seven Holy Ones, self-born from the inherent power in the Matrix of Mother Substance.”2 It is said that each ray holds a unique quality which manifests in the universe and throughout all of creation.
Read MoreHallows: Suggestions for Celebration
For Witches, such as myself, Pagans and other followers of the Old Ways, Hallows (also known as Samhain or Halloween, among other names) marks the third, final harvest and a new year. It is a time of introspection, withdrawal and honoring the Goddesses known as “dark”, the Crone or Hag. As Winter draws near, we begin that journey down and within.
Read MoreMeditations on 21 Women – Part 1
I was studying ‘Awakening Osiris’ by Normandi Ellis. This is a new translation of the ‘Egyptian Book of the Dead’ an ancient classical writing of western spirituality. In the 21st century the world seems to be moving at a very fast pace and we struggle to keep up. It is easy, in this situation, to lose sight of our spiritual origin or to forget the close connections there are between the natural world and the spiritual world.
Read MoreLammas and the Harvest
Lovely Lively Lammas
the special time of year
when the Goddess
takes on the role
of the Harvest Mother
The Call of Isis
Q: Goddess of Old, whence, whereto do You call The Querent?
A: Down Paths of The Unforgettable,
Beyond dreary tomes and tombs
Of modern day macabre.
SheBear Mothers and Daughters
As a young woman in the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, I lived in the heart of the rising tide of change in Berkeley, California, where I was a student at the University of California. I feel it is important to include some of my background here because my journey to becoming a mother was shaped by my own experiences and explorations into consciousness transformation in those days.
Read MoreThe Rearranging of the ‘Rising’ Sun
For many years the Sun has become symbolic as a beacon of enlightenment and nourishment in various eras and cultures of the ancient world. The sun was viewed in many areas of the world as the symbol of hope; and as that which would save humanity from the darkness, and all of the evils which were considered to be associated with it. In various ancient civilizations, (specifically where there was still the stance of the sun as the divine feminine, but with careful analysis can understand the progression of male-centeredness and domination) we are also presented with the sun in the masculine form.
Read MoreThe Woman at the Well
Sensuality was never the intention,
Her beauty a figment of lustful imagination,
She is of no consequence, a distraction;
biblical interpretation
