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LAMMAS 2013
Cloak of feathers cloak of fur
Standing in circle feel the air
Circle of stone, circle of nine
Standing on earth the harvest in
Harvest of the land and harvest within
Reaping what we sow through seeds of time
Standing now in the circle of nine
Rusty red fox standing there
Ready to go back to nature’s lair
Animals burrowing below the ground
Fall of leaves is autumn’s sound
The harvest of apples the harvest in
Can you feel the changes you made within
Can you feel the depth within your heart
All that is there as you fall apart
As the harvest within returns to the earth
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A
s I prepare for the eighteenth
Goddess conference, my footsteps chase after my spirit as it
already flies through Glastonbury
ahead of my body, which, here in Ontario,
is clad in earth colours – and rain gear.
As She emerges from Her rainy, cool
spring, Mother Earth struggles with Her
harvest, drying out her bounty – a mother
trying to nourish her family in difficult
times. I wonder if that’s how She feels? Her
abundance is thwarted by the very rains she
sends to freshen the earth and fill the reservoirs. Her seeds are mechanically changed,
Her soils deadened by our tampering, Her
waters poisoned, Her hills beheaded. And
yet She loves us with such passion that She
still provides us with food and water, beauty
and song, healing and comfort, as does a
mother who brings up her family with nourishment and stories, warmth, safety and
love, forever remembered. I watch the peonies bow down under
a thunderstorm’s power, while pansies
turn their smiling faces up to the raindrops
and lilacs explode in lush purple, and I
think of Blodeuwedd, the Lady of Flowers,
whose strength and courage shows in Her
colourful harvest blooming in spite of the
weather. Her flowers mark the seasons, yet
the wheel seems to turn faster every year. If
it was decades ago when I crumbled lavender by my grandmother’s door, why is the
fragrance still in the air? If I have only just
planted poppy seeds, why do they already
dance in my mind – red ribbons blowing in
tomorrow’s wind? Are the past, the present
and the future one and the same? Travelling back in time, I recall a Goddess
Conference years ago, when the priestesses
created a beautiful labyrinth with thousands
of rose petals. I was gifted with the responsibility of holding the energy, providing the
priestesses with sustenance, guiding participants to the gatekeeper of the sacred space. I remember a little girl who skipped into
the hall and, not waiting for the gatekeeper,
entered the labyrinth with the enthusiasm
and confidence of a Goddess child. She
danced into the centre, turning each time
with a dramatic flourish. Once there, she
leaned upon the very large and tilted crystal bowl full of water, wisely peering into
her reflection, deep in thought. The bowl
wavered. The water swished to its brim. I
focussed every bit of energy I could to the
Ready for the turn of the wheel and
nature’s rebirth
When you cast away all you no longer need
Ground to the earth all your intention seeds
Have you truly learnt all the lessons of time
Stepped into your power and freed your mind
Circle of stone, circle of nine
Can you hear now the whisper of time
Cloak of feathers cloak of fur
Fox returned now to it’s own lair
Cloak of feathers circle of nine
Connection to stones and ancient times
Harvest within, harvest home
Reaping now all that has been sown
Vanda Lloyd, Priestess of Avalon
water to stay within its crystal walls and the
bowl to keep its frail balance. She lingered,
and then, bowl and water still intact, she
skipped back through the labyrinth – backwards. And she disappeared. Today, that little girl is a graceful
young woman, who embodies the Divine
Feminine in Her true Maiden incarnation, as
do her companions: the baby who nursed
at her mother’s breast through one conference now floats wherever she is needed in
an ethereal cloud; another is statuesque
and proud; the once mischievous trickster
is now a Green Man in the making. All were
raised in the Goddess tradition, all growing
with respect for Her energy, doing Her work. And tomorrow? If the past, present and
future are one, they, and all youngsters today,
are tomorrow’s guardians of Her traditions,
as they stand on the shoulders of the priestesses – indeed, of the Goddess – who came
before them , already nourishing the future.
We are as Blodeuwedd’s flowers: buds
opening into colourful petals which will
bloom, then drop down to nourish the earth
and feed the new roots – all in one season,
all in one life, all in a collective lifetime, all
at the same time. And we tend them as She
tends us, all the growing things, with love
and devotion, with faith in the future. For
the future is today.
Blessed be,
Roz Bound – Conference Elder
The Power of Sacred Drama
A
t this year’s Goddess Conference Ariadne Productions,
a Glastonbury based Sacred Drama Theatre company,
are presenting a new production, especially written
to reflect the Conference theme of honouring Eartha
the Earth Mother and grounding the Vision of the Motherworld.
The play emerged from conversations between myself and
theatre director and priestess Katie Player. I have written the
script and the play is arranged and directed by Katie and the cast.
Other people are involved as actors, creating music and staging.
Sacred Drama is a performance art in which the underlying myths of a
society are presented so that they can be experienced mentally, emotionally and viscerally (in the body). Sacred drama brings the worlds
of myth and the divine forces that underlie our everyday world into
conscious experience. Many cultures, from ancient Greece and Rome,
to India, Tibet and Bali, enacted the mythic stories of their ancestors,
expressing their beliefs about the divine forces at work in their societies, and how they influence human behaviour.
Ariadne Productions began in the early 1980s. Our aim was to
rework the traditional patriarchal myths that underlie our society
and its beliefs. I felt a strong urge to seek beneath the tales I had been
told, to find the stories of the powers and presence of the ancient
Goddess of long ago. For example, in the traditional Greek legend
of Demeter and Persephone, which many people know, Persephone
or Kore is raped and abducted by the male god Pluto, and taken
into the Underworld of Hades. However Pluto was originally a
Goddess, the Grandmother of Persephone, so why did Persephone
descend each year into the earth to visit Her Grandmother? What
was Her original story? What happened? There are indications in
ancient paintings from Thera, that Kore chose each year to descend
into the Underworld to visit Her Grandmother Pluto. This story
is mirrored in the Sumerian myth of the descent of Inanna to visit
Her Grandmother, the powerful Underworld Goddess Ereshkigal.
In creating our sacred dramas each time we changed the story to
reveal a new world in which Goddess is loved and adored..
For 13 years in the 1980s and 1990s we explored the myths
of many lands, reworking the old tales, returning them to a more
egalitarian world view, with Goddess being restored to Her rightful
place in the mythos, and thus to Her rightful place in the world. I
wrote many dramas, sometimes alone and sometimes with others.
We were a group of amateurs – those who created the drama for
the love of doing it. We performed one or two sacred dramas each
year at psychically potent times of the year, in the Glastonbury
Assembly Rooms for just a few nights. They were life changing
Sacred Drama at the 2006 Goddess Conference
energetic experiences for the casts and the audiences, never to be
forgotten. Some are recorded in “On Finding Treasure: Mystery Plays of
the Goddess” Kathy Jones (Ariadne Publications)
In I995 I had a life-threatening experience with breast cancer,
which allowed more love to flow in me. It also coincided with the
start of the Glastonbury Goddess Conference – the first one was held
as I recovered from treatments for cancer. The energy that had fuelled
Ariadne Productions went into creating the Conference, and over the
last 18 years the Conference has grown and become a much larger
experience of the Mysteries of Avalon – a sacred drama in itself.
During the 2006 Conference we presented the Creation Myth
of the Isle of Avalon, in which everyone in the Conference participated. It was a great experience, as we told the story of the formation of the sacred landscape here in Avalon, as Swan Maiden, Lover,
Mother and Crone.
Now in 2013, with the help of director Katie Player, we are
beginning a new wave of Ariadne Productions, with plans to develop
a dedicated sacred drama ensemble and to create more productions
throughout the year. Let us know if you would like to be involved.
For practical reasons you need to be based in or near to Glastonbury.
In the Autumn Director Katie Player is planning a Sacred Drama
course inspired by the story of Keridwen’s Potion. Six weekly evening meetings, and a weekend, which can be taken separately. For
more details contact [email protected]
Kathy Jones, Priestess Initiator, Teacher and Goddess Conference
Creatrix / Organiser
Priestess of Holle – The German Priestess Training
A
fter I initiated as a Priestess of
Avalon in 2007 I began researching the Goddesses that were honoured before Christianity came
here in the land where I live, in Germany. I
began to work on a German Wheel of the
Goddess, bringing together my knowledge
as a qualified archaeologist and researcher
in Comparative Religions and my understanding of the Great Goddess as Her priestess. I have only placed Goddesses onto
the Wheel that are indigenous here. For
example even though from the top of my
head I can think of the sites of one temple to
Kybele and one to Isis within 30 mins from
where I live, I didn’t place them onto the
Wheel. Many people here in Germany who
feel drawn to the Goddess turn to these
wonderful, strong Goddesses that are however routed in other and very different lands,
simply because they have no idea of the
strong Goddess heritage that we have here!
About 2000 years ago a variety of different
peoples lived in the lands that today are
Germany. To put it very simply, you could
say the West and South were part of the
celtic world, while the North and the East
were inhabited by germanic peoples. We
don’t know who the peoples were who
lived here before the Iron Age. Later there
were influences from the Slavs, and I have
tried to put together a Goddess Wheel that
includes all the heritage from the whole of
Germany. So on the German Wheel of the
Goddess there are celtic Goddesses, germanic and norse Goddesses and also slavic
Goddesses.
The Great Goddess in the centre here in
Germany is Holle. There are legends and
stories about Her all over Germany, often
mentioning her regional names, like Frau
Percht in the South, and Frau Frick in the
North, Frau Härke or Frau Gode, and well
into the Netherlands and France. Her home
is at the bottom of Her lake, Holleteich,
on Mount Meissner in Hessen, which is
located roughly in the centre of Germany.
In 2008 a beautiful statue of Holle was
erected there. Holle is the heart and soul of
the land we live in, giving life to all that lives
here, bringing us the seasons and making
the weather, teaching us all we know and
generously guiding and blessing us.
The Maiden in the North-East are Skadi
and Brigida, Brigid by Her german name,
Healer and Bringer of New Beginnings. Her
animals are the cow and the sheep. There
are many chapels and churches dedicated to
Her, especially in the Eifel Mountains. Skadi
is the Wolf Maiden, the Virgin Huntress,
whole onto herself, who brings us focus
and self-confidence. She is also the snow
that covers the land in February.
The Central Altar
Blessing our wands
I have for a while been thinking about
offering a German priestess training, passing on all that I have learned, researched
and received in the last 10 years and in this
sense being a way-shower to people who
want to dedicate themselves to Holle as
their priestesses. I had planned to begin this
training at Samhain but in January I was all
of a sudden guided to offer it now, and very
quickly it all came together. So at Imbolc
six beautifully adventurous women set out
with me to journey through the Wheel of
the Year to meet and open their hearts to
the Goddesses of the german wheel. On
the first circle we ceremonially began our
journey together, did a healing ceremony
for our Inner Maidens and reclaimed the
hill where I live, Venusberg, as a sacred
Goddess place, calling to Brigida there and
chanting Her name in the woods.
The Mother of Fire in the East is Sunna,
Sun Goddess, who comes to us through
the Merseburger Zaubersprüche, and Bear
Mother Artio, Artha by Her continental
name. A beautiful figurine of Artha has been
found in Switzerland, and there is an inscription to Her on a cliff in the southern Eifel
Mountains. She is also Ostara, Goddess
of the Greening of the Land. Ostara has
been mentioned by Beda Venerabilis and
Germany’s patriarchal archaeologists and
philologists try very hard to prove that She
has never existed. However, for at least
200 years this is the name that people
in Germany have given the Goddess of
Spring, of the Rising Sun who awakens the
Flowers, blesses the animals and fertilises
the world, and the name Ostara holds this
energy. So in my understanding it doesn’t
matter if people did call Her Ostara 2000
years ago, or if they didn’t, because in any
case the Goddess of this energy existed
then and now and Ostara is the name by
which we address Her today. So I claim the
name Ostara for the Mother of Fire. At the
Spring Equinox Holle is journeying across
the land and women wishing to become
Mothers bake Hollezöpfe – the traditional
german easter cake, and drink clear water
from a well or lake or brook, collected at
sunrise, to become pregnant. I know from
experience that this works!
In the priestess training on the second
circle we learned basic energy work and
ceremonial work, as well as the history and
the meaning of the labyrinth. We created
and ceremonially walked a beautiful spring
labyrinth from flowers and we did a fire ceremony for balance and harmony in our lives
and in the world.
The Lover Goddess at Beltane in
Germany is Loreley, initiatrix into the deep
healing medicine that is love and the surrendering to its flow, Freya in Her aspect
of Goddess of Sensuality and Sexuality, as
well as Warrior Woman with Her cat and
Her swan, and Epona, whose name means
Mare. The Romans honoured this celtic
Goddess by placing roses onto Her altar.
For this weekend each of the students
had created their own ceremony which they
then facilitated within the group. Together
we gave feedback in a loving, supportive
way and worked out how the things that
had not been perfect yet could be done
differently. We also shared our experiences
and our thoughts on sexuality and femininity, and created ceremonial masks.
The Mother of Water in the South
is Rahanna, Queen of Emotions and of
the Wild Sea, Sirona, Lady of the Healing
Waters and the Rhine Maidens. Rahanna
is the norse Goddess of the Ocean and
the three Rhine Maidens teach us to go
with the flow and to express our emotions.
Sirona is a celtic goddess who was widely
worshipped from the Hunsrück Mountains
to France. She has many temples near
wells and springs in the Hunsrück, which
in Roman times beacame huge spas. In the
temple of Hochscheid a statue was found
of Her, larger than life, which shows Her
holding a snake and a basket with eggs.
Replicas of this statue have been put up all
along the Sirona Trail, a hiking trail through
the Hunsrück. On this training circle we
learned all about Journeying into the
Otherworld, and on the Sunday journeyed
physically to an ancient spring in the Eifel
Mountains, that was dedicated to Medusa
in roman times, and which was held sacred
probably for a long time before that. There
we immersed ourselves deeply into the
Mysteries of the Chalice, dedicating our
own priestess chalices to Sirona and receiving Her blessing and words of wisdom.
Dedicating our chalices to the
Mother of Water at Medusa’s Well
You can see that the directions on the
german wheel are the same as they are on
the Wheel of Avalon and very often I am
asked why I have water in the south. One
of the reasons is that there are MANY stories about how Holle keeps the the unborn
souls in a cradle on the bottom of lakes and
of how women who want to become mothers bathe in sacred wells, lakes and brooks
or drink water from these on special days.
So it is very clear that the transition from
Lover to Mother happens through water,
and therefore water is in the south.
At Lammas we have an abundance of
names in Germany to celebrate the Mother
Goddess by: She is Caiva, the Golden One,
a celtic Goddess who was honoured in the
southwest of Germany – Her direction on
the wheel; golden-haired Sif, from norse
mythology, mother of the golden fields
and of the cutting of the crops; Rosmerta,
another celtic Goddess, Lady of abundance,
depicted with a cornucopia or with a purse,
who had temples, again in the southwest of
Germany and in France; Lohra, Lady of the
Woodlands and the horned creatures; and
Rigani, the Queen.
At the Autumn Equinox the Goddess
takes on Her shape as Mother of Earth and
we celebrate Nerthus, who is also Hertha,
She who is Eartha, the earth Herself, home
to us all. She journeys across the land in a
waggon pulled by two cows and Her sacred
places are all moors. Nerthus is a germanic
goddess who was brought down to us by
Tacitus. So was Tamfana, who is the Lady
of the Harvest. Arduinna and Abnoba are
regional celtic Earth Mothers who gave
their names to the Black Forest (abnoba
mons in roman times) and the Ardennes.
The Crone in the Northwest is Matrona.
Matrona is a roman word meaning “woman
of influence, woman of high status”, and
it was given to the triple Goddess of the
germanic Ubian tribe, when the Romans
relocated this tribe to the region between
Cologne / the Rhine and the nothern part
of the Eifel Mountains. Today we know of
about 800 temples to Her in this small area!
We don't know by what name the Ubians
called their Great Goddess – maybe they
simply called her Lady. Where I live (20
minutes from Cologne) She is still loved
and honoured in Her full glory and might.
On the Wheel for the whole of Germany
however She represents the Crone, celebrated at Samhain, for it is She who holds
the doorway into life, into death and into
life again. Matrona holds a basket in Her lap,
emphasising the cyclic nature of life and the
power of renewal She holds: Just as She
changes from Maiden to Mother to Crone
to Maiden again, She also changes us, Her
womb being the powerful vessel of transformation. The second round of priestess
training will begin at Samhain. The Crone is
also Hel, the powerful norse Goddess who
reigns in the Underworld.
In the North the Mother of Air is
Perchta, Birdwoman, Leader of the Wild
Hunt and Still Centre of the Whirlwind.
She holds us in Her dreaming womb and
brings us visions. She has not only one
sacred day, but a whole season: from
the Winter Solstice and the Mütternacht
(Mothers’ Night) on December 24th follow
Her twelve Rauhnächte (Sacred Nights
of Smoke or of Smudging), ending on the
Perchtnacht (Perchta’s Night) on January
5th. The Mother of Air is also Ana, She who
is Death, Bone Woman and Keeper of the
Ancestors. The first group of priestess students will dedicate themselves to Holle in
a ceremony they are now developing and
planning at the Winter Solstice.
It fills me with such joy that today so
many different faces of Goddess are being
remembered in Germany, that Her places are
reclaimed and Her names are sung again on
Her land. I really honour this first group of
priestess students for their courage to follow
their hearts, for taking on the title “priestess“ again and for being seen as Priestesses
of the Goddess. Some of my students have
leapt up and started to put themselves out
there, already organising and facilitating
wonderful Goddess events. All they needed
was somebody help them to take that leap.
And people are so hungry for Goddess!
Last weekend when we reclaimed Medusa’s
Well, which is part of another touristic hiking
trail, there were loads of other people and
they loved see us do what we did. I hope
that this first group really is the beginning of
something that will grow and that very soon
there will be many priestesses serving the
Lady here in Germany. If you would like to
know more about the german wheel or are
interested in the priestess training email me
at: [email protected] I’m looking forward to hearing from you and create magic
with you.
Blessed Be!
Joanne Foucher – Priestess of Avalon
The Arktoi
The Arktoi ( or Little Bears) is a developing
group of Goddess loving families journeying through the year together to celebrate
seasonal festivals with children. It is led
by Priestesses from the Goddess Temple
who also are parents and grandparents
and have an education / childcare background. The aim is to promote children’s
spiritual development and connection
to the Goddess and Her nature through
simple but meaningful ceremonies. We do
not charge families to attend, but hope to
involve them in fund raising as and when
funds are needed. The group celebrated Litha on Sunday
23rd June; Chalice Well Gardens allowed
us free use of the space before opening
times so that we could ceremony in private. Children learned about the red and
the white spring, tasting the water, mixing
a magical alchemy of waters for blessing
themselves, their friends and the plants.
They gave thanks to the Goddess Domnu,
Goddess of all waters, and for the water
that sustains life. They ended by sending
leaves as prayer boats along the meander
by the waterfall asking that the waters of
the earth may always run pure and free.
Steph
Teaching in exile, birthing Goddess communities
W
hen you are in Avalon, in the Temple, in the Priestesses of Iberia. It was an amazing journey that held us during
Conference, you feel at home, you feel like “this all the difficult times and decisions that we had to take those days.
is how things were meant to be or really near to We travelled inwards in more than one sense, but we were in the
that”. And then you come home and priestess in best company all the way.
a seasonal ceremony or organize a Goddess Conference and you On Mabon 2012 the first four students dedicated themselves as
realize that you need a community to support you – to hold sacred “Eban / Teban de Iberia” – daughters and sons of Iberia, the title they
space, to sing songs, to draw new images of the Divine Feminine, get after completing the First Spiral. Then I felt we were birthing a
because you can’t and you shouldn’t do it all on your own. Goddess community, we had new people full of gifts to share and
Sometimes I feel in exile, an alien in a very Catholic country. when my longing for Avalon is too strong to stand I remember that
Fortunately the Goddess always sends us pagan-friendly, new- my exile is somehow voluntary and it has a reason – we, priestesses
agey people and sometimes, only sometime, these people fall in in exile, are called by Her to be the stone thrown into the water to
love with the way we celebrate, they discover Iberia as the central create ripples, to wake up little Avalons everywhere singing all Her
Goddess of our land and they want to dedicate themselves as Her Ten Thousand Names.
priestesses or priests.
So it became kind of natural that we had to start teaching about Jana de Madrid, priestess of Iberia
Iberia and Her sister Goddesses, about the Wheel of Year and
our own particular way of celebrating life as a sacred whole. We
were priestesses trained in Avalon or in the Reclaiming tradition
and we have come together as one to create the Iberian Goddess
Conferences, we could do it, we had to do it.
Following the example of the Avalon training, we have three
spirals – the first to get to know the Goddesses and their sacred
seasons, the second to develop priestessing tools and abilities and
the third to deepen the relationship with Iberia, Goddess of the
Iberian Peninsula.
Six of the Priestesses of the Iberian Goddess Conference
completed last year the Third Spiral and dedicated ourselves as
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Goddess Poetry
Invocaton to Ker – Conference 2011
We take the flame of Avalon
The fire in our hearts
And we send it out to the four corners;
We send fire to the East
We send light to the North
We send heat to the south
We send warmth to the west.
Great Mother Ker
We stand here in gratitude
For all we receive here
All that you have ripened in us
Great Mother Ker
At this time of plenty,
of lushness in field and barn
Great gratitude for the magic
you work in our lives
For our Herstory, for our legacy
Come to us Ker
Bring your blessings on this Temple
This womb of dreams
This bounty of grandmothers
This field of mothers
This cornucopia of daughters
Blessings on the hands that hold
The shoulders that carry
The hearts that dream us
Into a future filled with
your beauty and abundance
With my heart full of yearning
Soul searching for Land.
I have walked every coombe,
Every hill, every crevise,
I have sat in Her Temple
I have swum in her cave.
We feel your energy rising
The sunlight spilling us forward
Shining your love outwards
Radiating your fecundity
Into our dark places
Our wakeful nights
Holding us in honeyed sureness
That there IS enough
MORE than enough
Enough time
Enough hands
Enough hearts
To grow, to build, to open
There is enough to feast
And feast enough to share …
I have called, I have called
Till She stood before me
My Lady, Beloved,
My violet ray.
I have stood here before
Here with the Lady
And seen Her reflected
In each beautiful gaze –
Lady, Lady, Lady …
Lady and Priestess
Together again.
Katie Player, Priestess of Avalon
Dedicand – Avalon
Dedicating as a Priestess of Avalon
I have stood here before
Here at the Lake’s edge
At daybreak, at dusk
Her barge I have called.
I have stood in the prow
As the Mists rose around me
Zweijaehrige Priesterinnenausbildung
in Deutschland
Fuer Frauen und Maenner,
die die Goettin lieben
mit Joanne Foucher
Priesterin von Avalon, Priesterin von Holle
Erstes Jahr : Priesterin der Goettin
Acht Ausbildungswochenenden zwischen
dem 9.11.2013 und dem 28.9.2014
Verbinde Dich mit den Goettinnen des deutschen
Jahresrades und erlerne das alte Handwerk der Priesterin.
Zweites Jahr : Priesterin von Holle Vier
Ausbildungswochenenden Vertiefe Deine Verbindung
zu Holle, der Großen Goettin in Deutschland und
tauche ein in Ihre transformierende Energie
Weitere Informationen auf :
http://avalonpaintings.weebly.com/priesterinnenausbildung.html
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We would like to thank so many people who support the
Glastonbury Goddess Temple and who help in so many ways. Lisa
and Lorraine for editing this newsletter and Paul for designing and
printing it. All the Madrons and Friends who financially support
us. All the Melissas who keep the Temple open every day and
help with the seasonal ceremonies. Everyone who volunteers to
maintain the garden at the Goddess Hall, especially Duncan who
mows the grass and Trevor who composts with artistry. All the
priestesses and priests who participate in the ceremonies and put
on events at the Temple. Georgina our fantastic Madron Mother.
Sue who has found all sorts of amazing new delights for our shop.
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and priests. Mike who looks after the Goddess Hall and the flow of
money. Tony and Shoshana for organising the New Moon Healing.
Everyone, including Tina, Mary, Michele, Michelle and Vanda, who
regularly help with the Ceremonial Healing Days. Thank you to
Kathy for her continuing expanding Temple vision and the unseen
work. And thanks to everyone who contributes in so many different
ways to make our Goddess Temple and Goddess Hall shine.
Giving Your Time and Energy
The Goddess Temple in the Courtyard of the Glastonbury
Experience is open to the public seven days a week with volunteer
Temple Melissas looking after the space while it is open. All kinds of
people come to the Temple, some experiencing a Goddess Sacred
Space for the first time, and many Goddess pilgrims who come to
bathe in Her loving energy, to attend Ceremonies and Healing Days.
We always need more volunteer Temple Melissas. If you would
like to become a Melissa and can offer two or more hours of your
time regularly to care for this beautiful sacred space. Contact Katie
Player, tel : 07527 560 004; email : [email protected].
Become a Temple Madron
Make a monthly standing order donation to the Goddess Temple
to help cover our regular monthly costs. Any amount you can
donate will support the Temple. As a Temple Madron you will
receive our Temple Newsletter four times a year, plus invitations to special yearly Madrons, Friends and Melissa days where
Goddess speakers and presenters will delight and entertain you.
Contact Georgina Sirett-Smith, tel: 07780 966 929; email:
[email protected].
Make standing orders to The Glastonbury Goddess Temple, Sort
Code : 40-22-07 Account No. : 21374532 and let us know your
address for newsletters by emailing : [email protected].
Soul Healing
Nine Month Intensive Healing Course With priestess healer Kathy Jones Sept. 27th/29th 2013-­‐June 6th/8th 2014 Learn to heal yourself, your friends and family. Enhance and deepen your natural healing abilities. Become a professional healer. Connect with your
own and other people’s deep soul journeys. Explore
and expand your consciousness, the energetic worlds
and the nature of reality.
Full details www.goddesstemple.co.uk Email [email protected] Glastonbury Goddess Temple, 2-­‐4 High St, Glastonbury, BA6 9DU Priestess of Rhiannon
Priestess of Love Training
with
Katinka Soetens
Rhiannon, the Great Goddess of Love calls to us. She asks
us to remember who we are: Sacred Embodiments of Her.
Erotic, sensual, powerful, alive, conscious,
compassionate, beautiful, wild, wise and loving.
Priestesses of Her Temple which is our body, our mind
and our heart, and the land around us.
Eight weekends of teaching between
12th/13th Oct 2013-6th/7th Sept 2014
Further Info: The Goddess Temple,
2-4 High St, Glastonbury, BA6 9DU
Tel 01458 831518
Website www.goddesstemple.co.uk
Jahresausbildung
zur Priesterin der Göttin – Priesterin der Neuen Zeit/
zum Priester der Göttin – Priester der Neuen Zeit
in Deutschland
mit Dr. Miriam Wallraven
Priesterin von Avalon/Priesterin von Brighid
Habilitierte Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin
* Erlebe die Vielfalt der keltischen und germanischen Göttinnen im Jahreskreis
* Erfahre ihre transformierenden Energien in Deinem Leben
* Erlerne das mythologische und theoretische Wissen und das praktische rituelle
Handwerk der Priesterin/des Priesters für eine neue Zeit
Ein intensiver spiritueller Weg für Frauen und Männer
8 Wochenenden im Jahreskreis
(November 2013 – September 2014) in Tübingen
Diese Jahresausbildung verbindet Wissenschaft mit ritueller Praxis,
gesellschaftlich-politisches Wissen mit Mythologie, Kreativität
mit persönlichem spirituellem Wachstum.
Weitere Informationen: [email protected]
Editors, Lorraine Pickles & Lisa Newing, Priestesses of Avalon • design and print by Paul Williment, e-mail : [email protected]