Hera Alone on the Mountain by Patricia Monaghan From this height I can see everything. I watch the day recede, I watch the light fade into red, I watch the brown leaves fall to earth. It is time to strip to the bone. Time to measure the worth of each moment, to catch the last […]
Goddess Calendar Updates
Goddess Calendar for June 2019 by Kimberly F. Moore
“Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower’s scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear […]
Goddess Calendar November 2018 by Kimberly Moore
Listen. . . With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall. ~ Adelaide Crapsey Samhain and Day of the Dead celebrations roll right into November. The veils are thin. Our Ancestors and Beloved Dead are around us and all time seems to be held in […]
Goddess Calendar and Feast Days for February 2018
“The Sun’s path has returned to where it was at Samhain. Take some time to notice the quality of the light, for it is the same now as that shimmering magical glow of late October. But instead of the season of dark and silence before us, in the Northern Hemisphere, the season of light and growth […]
Goddess Calendar and Feast Days for November 2017
Samhain and Day of the Dead celebrations roll right into November. The veils are thin. Our Ancestors and Beloved Dead are around us and all time seems to be held in sway to the liminality of the worlds right now. Astrological Samhain is when Scorpio reaches 15 degrees and occurs on November 7. Connect with […]
Goddess Calendar Feast Days and Celebrations for July 2017
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock Goddess is opulent and profuse. Berries are thick and dripping on the vines, begging […]
Goddess Calendar, Feast Days, and Celebrations for June 2017
“On this June day the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year – those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.” ~ Francis King June is here and […]
Goddess Calendar of Feast Days and Celebrations for May 2017 by Kimberly F. Moore
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Maketh all things softly smile, Painteth pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup with cowslip-wreaths, Whence a smokeless incense breathes. Girls are peeling the sweet willow, Poplar white, and Gilead-tree, And troops of boys Shouting with whoop and hilloa, And hip, hip three times […]
Goddess Feast Days, Celebrations, and News for December
Welcome December, the Goddesses of Light, and the Crones of Winter! Winter Solstice is symbolic of the Return of Light. In ancient times, when the agricultural calendar was the focus, people knew that Winter Solstice signified the halfway point of Winter. There was hope in the fact that half of the hardest, coldest months were […]
August Goddess Feast Days and Celebrations for 2013
August is a busy month! Here in South Florida, Theatokos Temple is holding a Full Moon and Nemoralia Celebration at the Red Tent in Boca Raton. If you are local, please join us. As a Priestess of Hekate, August 13 is a mindful evening and one dedicated to propitiating the Goddess Hekate. I will be […]