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21/06/2024

Art by Mary Feywood, Maartje van Dokkum,www.etsy.com/shop/maryfeywood

https://www.magoism.net/2024/06/poem-the-traveller-by-arlene-bailey/

Art by Mary Feywood, Maartje van Dokkum,www.etsy.com/shop/maryfeywood

20/06/2024

Photo by Sara Wright Almost two weeks ago my beloved Vet retired from the Bethel Animal Hospital. He will continue his healing acupuncture practice elsewhere part-time, but he will no longer be at the clinic. For regular acupuncture and all serious issues with my two dogs (one has been seriously ill for the last few years) he will work in conjunction with a new vet who I have yet to meet....

Photo by Sara Wright Almost two weeks ago my beloved Vet retired from the Bethel Animal Hospital. He will continue his healing acupuncture practice elsewhere part-time, but he will no longer be at …

19/06/2024

The Belly The belly of the bell is adorned with Water Nymphs and Striking Seats, enclosed by the Lower Support from below. In the case of the Divine Bell, the Name Text comes in two sections of the bell’s body (Figures 24-1 and 24-2). For the Sangwonsa Bell, there are four relieves – two sets of two water nymphs (see ) and two striking seats – displayed in four corners alternatively....

[Editor’s Note: This essay to be posted as sequels is from the second volume of the S/HE journal. See S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 2 Number 1, 2023). Page numbers…

17/06/2024

Image art by Dale Allen My father and I Were staring at the beautiful night sky. It was so black, so big, and unbounded. And the stars were there Trillions of them! Fixed, bright, clear: It was magnificent. I felt small under that panorama. It’s been there so long, And it will be there Even when this earth is long gone....

Image art by Dale Allen My father and I Were staring at the beautiful night sky. It was so black, so big, and unbounded. And the stars were there Trillions of them! Fixed, bright, clear: It was mag…

14/06/2024

When I heard about the opportunity to review a new book by Max Dashu, the creator of the online Suppressed Histories Archives, I jumped and danced widdershins with excitement! Dashu is not only a font of information—with her Suppressed Women’s History online, her online classes, her lectures at various women’s events, as well as her books—but also an encyclopedic touchstone to reclaim women’s herstory and empowerment....

[This is from S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (V3 N1, 2023) Its Ebook edition and paperback are available at Mago Bookstore.] When I heard about the opportunity to review a new bo…

12/06/2024

Photo Credit: Jony Ariadi Traditional (elite male-centered, elite male-imagined) theology often engages in theodicy, or an attempt to find a reason for, or justify, the presence of evil in spite of a supposed omnipotent yet all-loving Divine. This I feel is a philosophical quandary that can only arise by splitting the Divine from nature. Evil is man-made; to my way of thinking it is doing something when one is fully aware of - even precisely because of - the suffering and harm it will cause....

Photo Credit: Jony Ariadi Traditional (elite male-centered, elite male-imagined) theology often engages in theodicy, or an attempt to find a reason for, or justify, the presence of evil in spite of…

11/06/2024

Photo by Sara Wright In 2024, science seems to be catching up with reality. “A rapid succession of peer-reviewed studies and reports all point to a single unambiguous conclusion: that Canada’s unqualified claims of ‘sustainable forest management’ belie a reality of widespread forest degradation”. Almost 36 million acres of forests have been clear cut in Quebec and Ontario alone. Canada still has six percent of old growth forests left but clear cuts almost exclusively....

Photo by Sara Wright In 2024, science seems to be catching up with reality. “A rapid succession of peer-reviewed studies and reports all point to a single unambiguous conclusion: that Canada’s unqu…

08/06/2024

A beguine, Excerpt from a manuscript of the beguinage of Sint-Aubertus in Ghent. Made ca. 1840. From Wikimedia Commons Hail Mary Mother of God Queen of Heaven Star of the Sea you are a lover to me our bodies shiver in the cold each shiver a sacrament proof of purity our passion is a cross we bear some seek solace in particular friendships Sister Timothy Sister Ignatia Sister Mathias Sister Sebastian grant this day we fall into no sin…...

A beguine, Excerpt from a manuscript of the beguinage of Sint-Aubertus in Ghent. Made ca. 1840. From Wikimedia Commons Hail Mary Mother of God Queen of Heaven Star of the Sea you are a lover to me …

07/06/2024

Feature Details of the Sangwonsa Bell and the Divine Bell The Sangwonsa Bell and the Divine Bell are two most renowned bells of ancient Korea (see Figures 15 and 16). Both bells have the standard features in three parts – the head, the chest, and the belly. The head is marked by the Heavenly Plate and includes the Dragon Loop and the Dragon Tube sculpted atop the Heavenly Plate....

[Editor’s Note: This essay to be posted as sequels is from the second volume of the S/HE journal. See S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 2 Number 1, 2023). Page numbers…

06/06/2024

“I felt a long-lost part of me was being restored — that I was con­necting to the deepest core of my being and finding power and strength beyond anything I had experienced. It bubbled up within me and turned my perception of our cultural mores upside-down. My foundational beliefs had been pried up just enough to allow me to access the vast and fecund psychic terrain beneath....

“I felt a long-lost part of me was being restored — that I was con­necting to the deepest core of my being and finding power and strength beyond anything I had experienced. It bubbled up within me …

05/06/2024

Wikimedia Commons image "Every Moment a voice out of this world calls on our soul to wake up and rise….answer the call." --Rumi Uninvited, unexpectedly a hawk’s dark wing against the starkly blue sky purple crocus pushing through the early spring earth late winter snow melting on the window sills early morning light filling the room tears falling at the beauty of it all every moment a reminder to pause pray rejoice

Wikimedia Commons image “Every Moment a voice out of this world calls on our soul to wake up and rise….answer the call.” –Rumi Uninvited, unexpectedly a hawk’s dark wing against t…

01/06/2024

Photo by Sara Wright After the Crowning Emerald and lime chartreuse lemon burgundy burnt umber leafy green breath transformer palms and needles raining light. magic bean spirals skyward star gazing ferns feather paths pearls at my feet wild lilies woodland valley brook scarlet roots hug weeping fruit trees conversing underground pollinated rose petals nourish moist earth each tear slips away…...

Photo by Sara Wright After the Crowning Emerald and lime chartreuse lemon burgundy burnt umber leafy green breath transformer  palms and needles  raining light. magic bean spirals skyward…

31/05/2024

Photo by Sara Wright I sit under the snowy crabapple as fragile flower petals drift one by one to the ground, covering my hair in white butterflies, soon to become the first mulch of the year. Our Lady is always nourishing new life… The hum of a thousand bees is deafening – bumblebees - glorious golden rotund bodies swarming from one tree to another with so many relatives – everyone seeking sweet nectar....

Photo by Sara Wright I sit under the snowy crabapple as fragile flower petals drift one by one to the ground, covering my hair in white butterflies, soon to become the first mulch of the year. Our …

30/05/2024

Here is what I wrote about this inaugural conference in preparation for my conversation during the plenary roundtable conversation which opens the conference: The S/HE Divine Studies Online Conference, a younger sister born with the anticipation to aid the S/HE journal, takes the form of an academic conference. Researchers, scholars, and scholars-to-be are welcome and encouraged to present their research results....

Here is what I wrote about this inaugural conference in preparation for my conversation during the plenary roundtable conversation which opens the conference: The S/HE Divine Studies Online Confere…

28/05/2024

I come from a household with little money to spare. Money makes me clam up, and when someone asks me for it, I freeze. Large purchases bring a wave of nausea and guilt and I cling to what I have with a desperation I'm embarrassed to show outwardly. Every purchase comes with a price on my mental health. I have money wounds....

I come from a household with little money to spare. Money makes me clam up, and when someone asks me for it, I freeze. Large purchases bring a wave of nausea and guilt and I cling to what I have wi…

21/05/2024

Screenshot We, the Mago Community, are born this spring! Mago Work volunteers, readers, authors, contributors, advocates, and supporters are collectively brought forth to the world under the roof of the Mago Community! Indeed. Why now? It is about time. The upcoming event, 2024 S/HE Divine Studies Online Conference, calls for the assembly of the Mago People, the People of S/HE, the Creatrix, to stand tall and visible....

Screenshot We, the Mago Community, are born this spring! Mago Work volunteers, readers, authors, contributors, advocates, and supporters are collectively brought forth to the world under the roof o…

20/05/2024

The Mago Community is born amidst the fundraising campaign for the upcoming S/HE Divine Studies Online Conference! Happy Mother’s Month and we look forward to connecting with you for the following projects and events!

Join The Mago Circle, Facebook group ( to stay connected with Mago Sisters/Associates on social media. The Mago Community is born amidst the fundraising campaign for the upcoming S/HE Divine Studie…

12/05/2024

Hello dear Ones,

Happy Mother's Day and Happy a new beginning for The Mago Community with this new step! With much love, respect, and gratitude to Dr. Beth Raps and Ms. Rebecca Whenhman!

"I have experienced that The Mago Work is in the hands of Life. With courage and trust, I say, “Now it is time for each member of the Mago Community to come forward to do your part! Let The Mago Work grow into the tree of Life!” Beth and her assistant, Mago Community member Ms. Rebecca Whenham, have set up a campaign that everyone can contribute to. As you will see on our campaign page, gifts of every amount are being welcomed—from $5 to $500! Here is a link to the campaign, “Support Mago Community’s 2024 Divine Studies Conference.”"

On this Mother’s Day 2024, it is beyond an honor that Dr. Beth Raps, our fundraising advisor and egalitarian money advocate and philosopher, launches the Mago Community’s inaugural campaign for sup…

12/05/2024

Dale Allen has for 25 years shared the healing energy of the sacred feminine through her work: In Our Right Minds, which has been widely acclaimed at universities, conferences, corporations,theaters, and expos across the US, Canada, from Kauai to Dubai, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Her new book on Amazon is an International Bestseller, and the film version has been awarded in 19 Independent Film Festivals worldwide....

Dale Allen has for 25 years shared the healing energy of the sacred feminine through her work: In Our Right Minds, which has been widely acclaimed at universities, conferences, corporations,theater…

10/05/2024

Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess edited by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang and Helen Benigni is a kaleidoscopic gaze at the Great Goddess interpreted and expressed in myriad creative and academic ways. The contributors explore individually and collectively the theme of “matriversal” cosmologies and the various ways in which peoples across time have experienced and expressed the intercosmic kinship relations. The essays, artwork and other contributions refer also to the unity many cultures feel with constellations and deities, an astral imaginary. ...

[This is from S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (V3 N1, 2023) Its Ebook edition and paperback are available at Mago Bookstore.] Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess edited…

09/05/2024

The peer-reviewed journal S/HE is seeking two Academic Co-editors, one the Primary Academic Co-editor and the second the Academic Co-editor, to take the responsibilities of editing the journal with…

09/05/2024

Tribe by Amanda Clark, earthangelsarts - Etsy

Tribe by Amanda Clark, earthangelsarts – Etsy

07/05/2024

Ancient Olive Tree, Sardegna, by Mary Saracino The Mother Lode of Memory © Mary Saracino From the deep vein of memory my blood sings your name my bones recall the seed from which all things began planted in the ochre chambers of caves the curvaceous lips of conches the generous mouths of sustaining rivers the feathered limbs of ravens, owls, heron, swans…...

Ancient Olive Tree, Sardegna, by Mary Saracino The Mother Lode of Memory © Mary Saracino From the deep vein of memory my blood sings your name my bones recall the seed from which all things began p…

04/05/2024

Flying and Falling 1, porcelain sculpture by Suzanne Bellamy, 1991,created for the cover of The Falling Woman by Susan HawthornePorcelain 47 cm x 40 cm, private collection© Suzanne Bellamy, 1991. All rights reserved.© on the above photo Susan Hawthorne, 2024. Notes I am trying to work out how to write about unrecorded history. The best way in is through orature, mythic traditions....

03/05/2024

Swan Cloud in Negative, Art by Claire Dorey How the Heavenly Goose, Sacred Metaphor for Mother’s Voice, Tumbled into Mass Graves and Brothels Weightless, She floats upon a cloud of feathers, soaring above an abyss between worlds: The past and future.Aphrodite riding Her goose is a transitional image, perhaps marking a pinch point in time that She, as Goddess of Love, transcends....

Swan Cloud in Negative, Art by Claire Dorey How the Heavenly Goose, Sacred Metaphor for Mother’s Voice, Tumbled into Mass Graves and Brothels Weightless, She floats upon a cloud of feathers, soarin…

02/05/2024

Red Poppies Manfredonia Puglia, by Mary Beth Moser She returns each spring to her mother’s wailing arms, hair unkempt after months beneath Earth’s layered loam, where she reigned upon a throne of amethyst and opal. No underworld combs untangled the want of sunlight from her tresses, no brushes rid her curls of the endless nights that denied her the solace of her mother’s fierce eyes....

[Author’s Note: Originally published in TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Issue 6, September 2007, www.triviavoices.net.] Red Poppies Manfredonia Puglia, by Mary Beth Moser She returns each spring …

02/05/2024

Wikimedia Commons image “Mothers will make peace so no sons will die”—Huda, a Palestinian journalist living in Jordan, as quoted in “Women’s Gathering Give Peace a Chance,” Women’s E-News, April 13, 2006. Will it come to this, then? The mothers risinglike Furies unleashed, banishing warfrom the souls of men, their fierce wombshowling with the memory of seedling sons —...

Wikimedia Commons image “Mothers will make peace so no sons will die”—Huda, a Palestinian journalist living in Jordan, as quoted in “Women’s Gathering Give Peace a Chance,” Women’s E-News, April 13…

01/05/2024

This book includes photos and drawings that illustrate and support the research and arguments contained within thereby making the content more accessible. In the book, The Woman Who Married the Bear, Barbara A. Mann and Kaarina Kailo, do an excellent job exploring Bear spirituality across cultures in Indigenous North America, Indigenous Eurasia, and the European North identifying clues that Bear traditions can be dated as far back as 80,000–120,000 BP....

[This is from S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (V3 N1, 2023) Its Ebook edition and paperback are available at Mago Bookstore.] This book includes photos and drawings that illustrat…

30/04/2024

THE TWO BELLS: THE SANGWONSA BELL AND THE DIVINE BELL It is unknown how many Sillan bells were cast or lost in the course of history. Only eleven Sillan whale-dragon bells are reportedly extant today.[1] Among them, the smallest comes 72 cm in height and the largest 366 cm in height. Six bells are in Japan, while five bells are in South Korea....

[Editor’s Note: This essay to be posted as sequels is from the second volume of the S/HE journal. See S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (Volume 2 Number 1, 2023). Page numbers…

29/04/2024

The peer-reviewed journal S/HE is seeking an Academic Co-editor or the Primary Academic editor to take the responsibilities of editing. It is a part-time volunteer position. In this role, you will play an active part in ensuring the completion and quality of journal issues as a member of S/HE Academic Co-editors. Having published for the third year, the S/HE journal has grown into a worldwide pool of authors and readership. You may find some sample articles and issues here: https://sheijgs.space

The peer-reviewed journal S/HE is seeking an Academic Co-editor or the Primary Academic editor to take the responsibilities of editing. It is a part-time volunteer position. In this role, you will …