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 Ariadne
Goddess Calendar Feast Days and Celebrations for September 2017
Altar of the West a cobalt bowl brimming with water a necklace of sequins or mermaid scales a velvet pouch heavy with coins a black mirror framed with shell amber perfumed oil redolent of spices a brass trident a golden salter two silver chalices a crystal vial of tears ~ Patricia Monaghan, Seasons of the […]
Light and Darkness of the Goddess {Carol P. Christ}
“Light and Darkness” is a song written and arranged to one of the oldest known European melodies by Ariadne Institute founding Co-Director Jana Ruble, following her first Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete. Every year since then, we have sung it in the caves of Crete during our rituals. A pilgrim told us that she learned it […]
Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra and the Goddess Ariadne {Kimberly F. Moore}
Take a deep breath. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. For many, March has been a challenging month and this is the purpose of the eclipse seasons in Spring and Fall – to challenge us; to catalyze forward movement even when we dig in our heels and hold on desperately to […]
Who is Ariadne? Deconstructing and Revisioning Greek Mythology {Carol P. Christ}
Sometimes we think of Greek myth as a pre-patriarchal or less patriarchal alternative to the stories of the Bible. After all, Goddesses appear in Greek myths while they are nearly absent from the Bible. Right? So far so good, but when we look more closely we can see that Greek myth enshrines patriarchal ideology just […]
The Goddess Signs© – Capricorn and the Spinning Wheel by Julie Loar {Rhythms Winter 2015}
Marking time by tracking the motions of the Moon and planets against the background of the stars has been part of every culture. Babylonians, Egyptians, and Mayas used zodiacs thousands of years ago. This circle of stars, which has sometimes been called the Girdle of the Goddess, seems an appropriate way to frame the year. […]
