Previous Issue - Spring/Imbolc 2008
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The Goddess is Alive in Every Woman* The True Story of How She Came to Be, How She Disappeared, & How She Returned by Susun S. Weed 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 More >> |
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Trusting the Language of Goddess by Theresa Curtis-Diggs
Attention or conscious concentration on almost any part of the body produces some deep physical effect on it. - Charles Darwin 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 More >> |
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Making Sacred: Space For The Not-Yet By Glenys Livingstone 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 More >> |
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Cosmic Harmony and the Balance of Love*
by Lesley Jackson 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 More >> |
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Mythology, Menstruation and the Land of Milk and Honey
By André ZsigmondThe Promised Land?A prisoner of conscience at the age of 18 - escaping from communist Hungary in 1981 - searching for the “truth”, I immersed myself in religious studies in England. During communism the study of religion and the Scriptures was actively discouraged - it seemed ‘obvious’ therefore that they would have all the answers. Needless to say, the Bible only raised even more questions. Read More >> |
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A Temple in Canterbury?
by Rachel Mayatt 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 More >> |
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Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley 5000 - 3500 BC. On display in Britain for the first time are more than 250 artefacts, many of them on loan from museums in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. |
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