Hidden Artemis
Elena Ray donated our cover image for issue 6.
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Category: issue6
Mythology, Menstruation and the Land of Milk and Honey
The Temple of Hera at Olympia is thought to be by far the oldest and predates the temple of Zeus (470 BCE – completed circa 456 BCE). In fact the earliest Greek temple, according to Carl Kerényi, was that of Hera, and it was a prototype for the later, more “Olympian structures”.
Read MoreA Temple in Canterbury?
As I was walking in the local country parkland next to my council estate on the edge of Canterbury last November, I was thinking – as I often did – how much I wished I could move to Glastonbury, a place I love. Such spiritual support, the Goddess Festival and especially the Temple. I have been a Priestess for many years now – ordained with the FOI and a 3rd degree initiated Witch, teaching circles and workshops; but my heart still yearned for the community I experience in Glastonbury.
Read MoreCosmic Harmony and the Balance of Love
From many wonderful paintings, the Egyptian Goddess Ma’at, the Goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order, calls to us from the deep past. Represented in numerous paintings as a tall, young woman, Ma’at is instantly recognisable by the tall ostrich feather that she wears in her headband. This is her feather of truth, against which all of our hearts will be weighed in the Hall of Judgement.
Read MoreMaking Sacred: Space For The Not-Yet
As the Wheel turns into Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Seasonal Moment of Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere. For those in the planet’s South, Earth’s tilt is delivering the post-Summer Solstice welcoming of the new Dark, the first harvest celebration.
Read MoreFarthest North
Absence of frost,
Winter a spent force,
almost.
Fire Goddess Dance With Me
Fire Goddess dance with me
Awaken me in early sunlight
New moon reflecting inner grace
Come, tell me about new promises
New Orleans: A Sacred Place of Goddess Struggles to Survive Our Arrogance
In the last few months the world was reminded once again how the arrogance of humankind is destroying families, communities and Mother Earth.
Read MoreFire-Maker
Heather-bound, barefoot and dancing,
Soul fire held in dreaming tension,
Smiles the sky and sings the hollows,
Combs the beach and walks its beauty.
The Goddess is Alive in Every Woman
In the beginning, everything began, as it always does, with birth. The Great Mother of All gave birth, and the Earth began to breathe. Again, and again, and again, the Great Mother gave birth. And the plants began to breathe and the animals began to breathe and the two-legged ones began to breathe. All forms of life began to breathe. To breathe, to live. In the air, on the land, in the water, and even in the fires of deep sulfurous vents where light never shines, all forms of life began to breathe. And they were all very hungry.
Read MoreTrusting the Language of Goddess
In my studies of ancestral wisdom concerning the primordial symbolism defining the Divine Vulva (but it could be any ancient image) I have often wondered about, and asked other women, how they connect with the goddesses of old.
Read MoreImbolc Midwinter Celebration
Come to me
Oh holy Mother Goddess
During this midwinter
In my dreams
In my dreams
I am a wild woman
living in a forest of pine trees
high against a mountain.
Still She Sings the Northern Isles
Hard, like women’s salty tears, She waits,
Old as bone, kissed brittle starlight.
Dreaming centuries of tides and sea spray.
Warm as sandstone breathing sunlight.
You are a Hara Woman
Untie the knots,
Release the shame,
Unravel your beauty,
From the inside of self.
Nature is changing – as are you.
