Month by Month Reflections for the Year of Joy.
Nine Goddesses to Nurture Nine Steps on the Path of Joy
This Year of Joy calendar gathers nine steps along the Path of Joy into nine months, composed of four ten-day weeks. The weeks invite you to explore joy through each of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air, which can be experienced as metaphors – the fires of passion, for example, or the tears of sorrow – as well as richly concrete in themselves. The nine months, 360 days, come to an end on December 26, leaving five intercalary days before the Year for Joy begins again on January 1.
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Joy in the World The Month of Joyful Acceptance and Acknowledgement May 1 – June 9 The Goddess who presides over this month is Gaia Her Self The great Lady of Earth, giver of all things. Reminder of Her creation: Born of chaos, tumultuous cataclysms, fierce embraces of colliding stars, flung out and away from […]
Practicing Joy in the World The month of Joyful Awareness March 22 to April 30 “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring… What is all this juice and all this joy?” For poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring, with all its juice and joy, new life flagrant and fragrant everywhere, is the Earth’s yearly re-creation of the […]
Practicing Joy in the World The month of Joyful Beliefs February 10 to March 21. The Great Being who holds the power of this month comes soaring up from way down under, carrying potent joyful beliefs. And singing. She is Rainbow Serpent, known and celebrated among the Aboriginal people throughout the ancient land of Australia. […]
Practicing Joy in the World Month by Month Reflections for the Year of Joy Nine Goddesses to Nurture Nine Steps on the Path of Joy First Month: Sourcing in Joy January 1 – February 9 Goddess: Adi Para Shakti Imagine a lotus flower born from the earth and covering the earth. This magic lotus […]
The morning poetry group grew out of the 2010 West Coast Jean Houston Mystery School participants and was set up by Elizabeth Austin. Using Peggy Rubin’s Year of Joy calendar as a guide we take turns selecting poems for each ten day week. We also follow Peggy’s monthly postings on Practicing Joy. The person who […]
Good News from an Alternate Universe A Goddess Bible: Part One From joy all beings have come. In joy all beings are sustained. To joy all beings return. This is the highest teaching. This is the highest teaching. –The Upanishads The Lady’s Book of Joy The wise and playful people in a universe I dream […]