| THE ISIS PAPERS |
| THE FLOWERING MIRROR OF THE GODDESS Summer Solstice 2002 - Issue 15 |
| Table of Contents |
| The Lady of the Flowers - Nanette MacLellan Unfolding this Season - Sue Silvermarie Our Lady of the Flowers - Linda Iles "Come, Mother of Flowers" (Ovid) "Saskia as the Goddess Flora" (Rembrandt) - Lawrence Durdin-Robertson Flora/Floralia - Caroline Wise Flora, Green and White - Denise Dumars The Litany of the Goddesses of the Flowers - Linda Iles The Labyrinth and the Rose - Chartres Labyrinth and quote by Susan Griffin Deep Ecology Walking Meditation - Jessica Montgomery Rosa Anima Mundi - Catherine Wright Dancing the Labyrinth - Kahena Kahena in the Labyrinth - Renata Russell I Walk with an Open Heart - Diana Rocha-Parks The Flowering Mirror of the Goddess - Misha Ma'Heo revolution: to make again a garden of this place - Elizabeth Roberts Qualities a Gardener Learns While Tending the Earth Greening the Goddess Within - Kat Robb Riding with the Warrior - Denise Allen You've Come the Wrong Way, Baby?! - Callista Lee May Faire 1987 - Joanne Astraea and Joanna Colbert The Witch in the Garden The Green Moon Mother - Laura Janesdaughter Notes from a Websurfer's Gardeon - contributed anonymously The Garden of Flora - Linda Iles The Goddess in the Garden - Nanette MacLellan |
| The contributions in this issue are based (for the most part) on a two day event called "The Flowering Mirror of the Goddess" held on April 20-21 2002 in Long Beach, California. In these two days, we honoured the Goddess as the Lady of the Flowers, the Labyrinth, the Rose, and the Lady of the Beasts. We looked into Her Mirror and saw ourselves as Warriors, Maenads, and Drummers as well as Gardeners, Herbalists, and Artists. We celebrated the growing cycles of our lives at an evening ritual and Flora, the Roman Goddess of Spring, in a closing ritual. We read poems from "We'Moon '02" and we were nourished by Coyoe Cocina. From the other side of the world, Briianu sent regrets that she could not be there and makes the marvellous suggestion that we devote an issue of The Isis Papers to our event and so here we are! |
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| "The Lady of the Flowers" |
| Our Lady of the Flowers is present at the beginning of every new cycle, the Herald of Spring, Abundance and Renewal. Her blooms are the crowning product of an older, previous cycle which began unseen within a seed that rested in the cold earth during winter. When times are darkest, Her Powers are generating what is yet to bloom in our future. In flowers Our Lady brings to us gifts of happiness and healing, making life pleasant and beautiful; and She brings us the harbingers of death. Many plants that are annual in their cycles die after they bloom. Yet within the heart of every flower lies the seed of the future, a continuation of the cycle, the promise of a bright tomorrow. Life continues, it flowers from the womb of the goddess, and She will never die. from "Our Lady of the Flowers" |
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