The Rebirth

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Gaian Spirituality   The word religion derives from the Latin re-ligio meaning to re-link. The ultimate goal of all religious practices is to broach and reconcile the alienations that have estranged us from our divine Source.  We want to come to peace with the many dualities of our lives. At a spiritual level we want to Continue Reading …

The Beginning of the End…

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The Power of the Masculine –The Risen Phallus Rosaline Miles, in her wonderful book, The Women’s History of the World, stated that, “the rise of the phallus precipitated the fall of woman.”  The real exile from Eden started around 3000 BC, when Iron age, male-dominated, nomadic, warriors invaded and subjugated the people of peace-loving goddess-cultures. Continue Reading …

Shamanic Priestesses

Neolithic Spain: Shamans, Priestesses and Goddesses http://www.suppressedhistories.net/catalog/iberia.html

Neolithic and Bronze Age matriarchal clans were shamanistic in nature Their Priestesses were thought of as the Goddess’ earthly incarnation who, as part of their animistic rituals, mediated between the visible and spirit worlds . The holy women represented the feminine manifestation of the Trinity — Maiden, Mother and Crone. The primary role of the Continue Reading …

The Body and Blood of the Mother

The Venus of Lauselles was originally covered in red ochre

Sacred Confluence of Fertility Goddess worship, the center of Neolithic and Bronze Age clan spiritual life, realized the sacred confluence of fertility — women’s bodies, their sexuality and their menstrual cycles. Reverence for woman’s natural rhythms and monthly flow was at the very heart of Goddess worship. Woman’s sexuality, the sacred mystery of her menstruation Continue Reading …

The Triple Goddess

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As above so below In the name of the Maiden, the Mother and the Wise Woman From antiquity, the three aspects of the Goddess have been past down to us through our cultural mythology. We’ve come to know them as the Fates, the Furies, the Graces, the Muses, or even as Faith, Hope and Charity. Continue Reading …

Understanding The Power of The Matriarchy

The shape of the temples themselves has been likened to the shape of the earth-mother-goddess figures. The same observation has been made at certain Neolithic structures on the Orkney Islands. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/venusfigures.htm

The blessings of the Goddess upon the early clan women were many The most revered and feared was woman’s connection with, not control of, the creative force. Through their unique relationship with the cycles of the earth the faithful daughters of the Goddess enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with nature. Woman’s sacred status was inexorably bound to Continue Reading …

Goddess of Wonder — Goddess of Light

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I am the star that rises from the twilight sea. I bring men dreams to rule their destiny. I am the eternal Woman; I am She!  The tides of all souls belong to me- Touch of my hand confers polarity- These are the moontides, these belong to me.  — Dion Fortune, “Charge of the Moon Continue Reading …

Goddess of the Blood of Life, Part One

In a series of articles for Metaformia, Judy Grahn Ph.D. explores what seems to be a pressing question in Women’s Spirituality circles, with implications for women and gender relations overall. That is the two part question of what the relation is between the goddess and menstruation, and why the goddess was or is considered “bloodthirsty.” By “goddess” I mean various female deities in a number of traditions, both historic and contemporary. And by “bloodthirsty” I mean the innumerable accounts from both antiquity and contemporary practices of goddesses in particular needing to be propitiated with blood sacrifice.

Archaeomythology – Reviving the Goddess Civilizations of Old Europe

Archaeomythology Spring 2007

Teacher: Vicki Noble

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This course is an investigation of the meanings and usages of “archaeomythology,” a word coined to describe the brilliant interdisciplinary methodology developed by Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas whose revolutionary work brought to light the Goddess civilizations of Old Europe. We honor Marija Gimbutas’s work as the basis for better understanding Western prehistory and history, including especially the much-overlooked fact of a transition that took place from “matristic” or matriarchal culture to patriarchy (male-dominance). Rather than staying with the obsolete (but entrenched) notion that modern civilization developed in a linear way since the Stone Age (“progress”), Gimbutas discovered and documented the distinct changes that occurred as a response to invasions, migrations, and assimilations between two different cultural approaches to social organization. This “collision of cultures” can be seen consistently in the archaeological strata of the various sites, as well as the art forms and folk traditions that have continued as a “substratum” underneath the foreground patriarchal culture in Europe since the transition occurred.

Aluna – the World’s First Tidal Powered Moon Clock

Aluna

Imagine a breathtaking sculpture that combines cutting edge design and technology with an ancient knowledge of the Earth’s natural rhythms.
A monumental timepiece for the planet, a beacon for a sustainable future, reconnecting people with the Moon and tides.

Aluna is a unique proposal for the world’s first tidal powered Moon Clock. It will change the way we consider time and understand our planet.