Litha also known as Midsummer , Estival Solstice and the Summer Solstice is the time in summer which signifies the longest day of the year. It’s a time which is celebrated as a fertility and light festival as the sun has reached its highest place in the sky with the longest time of daylight. Traditionally it is a festival celebrated all around the world, […]Hekate Devotion: Summer Solstice/Litha ... continue reading...
A Southern Hemisphere Perspective on Place by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
This essay is an edited excerpt from the Introduction to the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion, which was an outcome of her doctoral research/thesis entitled The Female Metaphor – Virgin, Mother, Crone – of the Dynamic Cosmological Unfolding: Her Embodiment in Seasonal Ritual as Catalyst for Personal and Cultural Change. This doctoral […]A Southern Hemisphere Perspective on Place by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. ... continue reading...
Celebrate Summer Solstice: Decolonise the Mind
"Summer Solstice poetry gets missed so often. It is a turning into the dark: it is not about “Love and Light” (Winter Solstice poetry may be for that). In the peaking of light at Summer there is the turning, the consuming, the dissolving, the dispersal." To celebrate Summer Solstice in Summer, and indeed the Wheel of Earth’s orbit around Sun, the Seasonal Moments as they express themselves in your region, is an act of decolonising the mind. It is to set your self free of imposed arbitrary ... continue reading...
December Solstice EarthGaia 2022 CE
"The actual Moment of December Solstice this year is 21:36 UTC 21st (7:36 22nd EST Australia which is where I am). " For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the Summer peaking of the light part of the day, and the turn /return to the dark part of the annual cycle. Out of the fullness of light the seed of dark is born: henceforth it will grow. It may celebrate the fullness of being, and the pouring […] December Solstice EarthGaia 2022 CE ... continue reading...
Submission Call (Updated)
Just a reminder that this submission is closing at the end of the month! I'm still hoping to be able to submit something, but I'll just have to see if I make it. The Witch’s Year (working title) Since Dancing the Sacred Wheel was first published in 2012, my personal practices of working the Wheel of the Year in the Southern Hemisphere as well as my connection with the land upon which I reside has evolved. While the traditional eight sabbats still form an underlying ... continue reading...
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