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| =Helen Benigni Mago Academy benignih@dewv.edu Course: The Goddesses of Prophecy Forums for Creatrix Studies/ May 9 and May 23/ “The Goddesses of Prophecy” introduces the Goddesses as Time-Keepers, Earth-Keepers, and Star-Keepers of the knowledge of the prophecy and wisdom of regeneration. In order to communicate the knowledge of the unknown and perhaps the future of humankind, the Goddess as prophet gives and receives a communication with us in order that we may renew the cycles of time, the cycles of the earth, and the cycles of the cosmos. Prophecy of the coming year based on the harvest is ultimately important and renewal or replacement of the old ways is part of that process. The management of the earth’s forces is vital on all levels. On a pragmatic level, the garden must be blessed and fruits, vegetables and especially herbs are used or stored for their year-long use. On an erotic level, the passion of life is released in the summer months, and it too must be carefully tended. To the ancient people, the summer was the time to harvest the spirit as well. Eternal bliss is captured in the stars, the moon and the sun as the stories of the heavens unfold the nature of the inexhaustible, Great Mother. In Greek mythology, The Goddess of Prophecy is Hera, and in Celtic mythology, She is The Morrigu, Nemain, and the Badv. Sites for the Goddesses of Prophecy include the Oracle of Delphi and the Oracle of Dodona in Greece, and Newgrange, Stonehenge and Gavrinis in the Celtic nations. Her priestesses, Her rituals, Her dances and Her prophecies are all part of the textures woven into a sacred gown that The Goddess of Prophecy wears. |
| =Carolyn Lee Boyd carolynlboyd@aol.com Story: I am excited to have conducted a video interview with Sid Reger and Mary Jo Neitz of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (https://womenandmyth.org/ ) which was posted on RTME on March 10. In the interview, Sid and Mary Jo let us know about this vital organization that offers conferences, online events, awards, salons, volumes of proceedings, archives, and more. The interview is one of a series of conversations with leaders of organizations intended to be a wonderful way for us all to learn more about the organizations’ missions, activities, and more to enhance both outreach and collaboration among the Nine Sisters Network. |
| =Harriet Ann Ellenberger akadesmoines@gmail.com Book: I recently added a new poem to my book The Ones You Love: Poetry and Prose 1968 2024, The book is free — just e-mail me at the above address, and I’ll attach a pdf copy to my reply. |
| =Helen Hye-Sook Hwang ninemagos@gmail.com Story: I wrote my RTME (Return to Mago E-Magazine) article, “Matriversal Cosmology Resurges at the Arrival of AI-driven Synthetic Biology,” with the awareness that AI (Artificial Intelligence) will scan and process it for its data. My keywords are Matriversal Feminism, Matriversal Cosmology, Matriversal Intelligence, and Ceto-Magoism. According to Ceto-Magoist Cosmology, I consider the AI-equipped synthetic biology as the third human-caused catastrophe in the 21st century after the eating of lifeforms by force (equivalent to eating of an apple in the Christian Bible) and the patriarchal advancement (male-domination based on the philosophical and calendric manipulation). By writing this essay, I mean to build data on Matriversal Feminism and Ceto-Magoism. It is the voice to teach AI rather than use it for more information or ask for writing it for me. |
| =Helen Hye-Sook Hwang & Glenys Livingstone ninemagos@gmail.com Story: Glenys Livingstone and I are very happy to organize the Plenary Roundtable Conversation Session for the upcoming Creatrix Studies Conference. We are honored to have Dr. Jim Garrison (President of Ubiquity University) and Dr. Joanna Gardener (Managing Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation) as follows. Title: The Future within the Matriversal Origin wherein ALL are Bound as Kindred/ Time: 12-1:30 PM on June 11 PST. Open to public. Conference registration or separate registration is possible. |
| = Kaarina Kailo kaarina.kailo@gmail.com Story: I have completed two new books on the sauna, women and spirituality: one in English (Finnish Sauna Culture Laid Bare/Bear.Matristic Rituals and Embodied Practices and another one in French (La vérité nue sur le sauna finlandais: magie, esprits et rituels ancestraux du bien-être holistique for which I now seek a publisher). I have been invited as a speaker to Europäische Heiltraditionen, European Sacred traditions seminar in Zurich, organized by Matriarchiv, 27.5. I will also talk on the Finnish sauna as a maternal body. Baring the Erasure of Female authority and spiritual healing at the Wisdom of the Mothers. Honoring our Ancestral Roots, The Lilith Institute, April 22-26, 2026. Kailo, Kaarina On Feb. l9th, I also gave a zoom talk on Sauna as a Sacred Space at the Finlandia Foundation, USA, during their National Sauna Week. Above is my quilt art work of the Sauna Mother, 2022 Photo by Sari Koopman. |
| =Glenys Livingstone PaGaian Cosmology pagaian@bigpond.net.au Story: As we as Earth approach the March Equinox Moment (as I write this), I send out Autumn Equinox greetings to the PaGaian Cosmology Australian list a few weeks before, and then a little later, to the global list, I send out greetings for both Autumn and Spring Equinox. The greetings include story and resources. I post this Equinox News to my website: https://pagaian.org/news/equinox-autumn-spring-earthgaia-march-2026-c-e/ My monthly contribution to Return to Mago E-Magazine was published: it was an edited recording of a radio program, from a twelve part series named Re-membering the Great Mother, that I originally authored and put to air in 1994, for 2BLU-FM 89.1, community radio in the Blue Mountains, Australia: https://www.magoism.net/2026/03/audio-re-membering-the-great-mother-by-glenys-livingstone-ph-d/ As the Southern Hemisphere PaGaian Cosmology students finish the year’s cycle with the Autumn, I send out invitations for new students to begin the 2026-2027 course with the forthcoming Samhain Season https://pagaian.org/celebrating-cosmogenesis-in-seasonal-wheel-on-line/ |
| =Beth Raps Organization name: RAISING CLARITY bethraps@raisingclarity.com Events: RAISING CLARITY has been doing a lot more trainings in fundraising both online and face-to-face as nonprofits in the US are losing their grant support and turning to the people who love them for support that is more reliable and long-lasting than grants anyway! As RAISING CLARITY’s founder, I’ve been feeling like an evangelist in the very best way, sharing the good news of how to do your work whilst reducing grant dependency. I’m also raising money for an important project! I have developed a sibling relationship with a queer man in a refugee camp in Kenya. He’s there because being gay is criminalized where he comes from (Uganda). The most positive thing has emerged from our friendship—a solar installation the queer community in the camp will maintain. It’s very inexpensive, and results in several powerful benefits. Solar power to charge phones and boil drinking water are only part of the benefits. There’s a lot of homophobia in the camp, and the queer community have been menaced, and assaulted right inside the camp. So the solar installation will fix this in 2 ways: 1) providing security lights and 2) inviting others in the camp who aren’t queer to come and charge their phones, creating a small income stream and respect for the queer community. If you’d like to give, I’d love your support, funds are needed by the end of March 2026: https://gofund.me/63a0e371d |
| =Suzanne Roupas The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Secretary@womenandmyth.org Project: The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) presents the Matrifocus Archive, a home for articles from this outstanding online magazine to be available in a scholarly context. MatriFocus was published four times a year on the cross quarter holidays for nine years. The ASWM Archive features twenty four illustrated articles by Dr. Johanna Stuckey, an award-winning York University (Canada) professor. Her research interests included cultural studies and focused on ancient near eastern goddesses. She is the author of A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient New East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Summer, Babylonia, Assyria and Elam. The Archive is open to the public. See the ASWM website for more resources and to join. |
| =Janet Rudolph Jandelion@aol.com Story: My performance project, SheSpeaks! Women of the Bible Have Their Say, is a series of scenes where Biblical women tell their stories (from a feminist perspective of course). One of the actresses from the SheSpeaks! Ensemble, along with myself, zoom-performed two of the scenes recently. It was so well received that the script was requested so it could be translated into Spanish and performed in Mexico. The works are based on my years of research of ancient Hebrew scripts and cross-cultural stories to illustrate how the stories COULD HAVE been told if women were the primary story-tellers. |
| =Mary Saracino Return to Mago E-Magazine marysar1004@msn.com Event: Return to Mago E-Magazine hosts a Zoom poetry event on May 2nd at Noon PT to celebrate the publication of Mary Saracino’s collection of poetry, Motherlines (Pearlsong Press, 2026). Motherlines focuses on matrilineal female empowerment, reclaiming one’s ancestral roots, celebrating the healing power of nature, and naming the many ways that women mother the world. It joins the ongoing international collective effort encouraging women to reclaim their voices and take back their power to make the world a better place for all. Mary will be joined by two other poets, Louisa Calio and Maria Famà. All three poets will read their poems, then the attendees will be invited to respond and/or read one of their poems. |
| =Mary Saracino & Helen Hye-Sook Hwang marysar1004@msn.com Event: She Rises April Poetry Salon accepts proposals. Theme: Let the Power of Poems Transform Again and Ever/ When: April 18 (Sat) Noon – 1:30 PM PT (90 min)/ Presenting Poets: 3-6 (each presents for 10 min)/ Responding Poets: 3-6 (each responds for 6 min)/ Presenting Poets will be given about 10 min for each person, whereas Responding Poets will be given about 6 min for each person. You may propose for both roles with the indication of priority (i.e. 1. Reading and 2. Responding) in your proposal. For Presenting Poets: You will speak and read your 2-3 poems. Find the proposal form here: https://www.magoacademy.org/2025/09/15/proposal-invitation-join-the-nine-poets-speak-salon/ |
| =Nicole Shaw Autumn Rain Studio and Transfarmation autumnrainstudio@telus.net Event: Our fourth Women Gathering event will be held on March 29th, 2026 on Vancouver Island. The intention is to build bridges across differing perspectives, spiritual beliefs and political lines to subvert and shift our current culture of domination / power-over / abuse and war to one that’s built on partnership / power-with / mutual respect and equity. Women have all the answers within us to solve every societal issue from womb to death. We know what needs to happen at every life stage. Women are half the population and we gave birth to ALL the population. It’s been proven the world over that when we invest time, energy and money in women, ALL of humanity benefits. |
| =Tamara Wyndham tamarawyndham@yahoo.com Events: Thursday, April 2, 6:30 pm/ Westbeth Community Space, New York City/ The Pink Moon, April’s full moon, is named after the early spring blooming of pink moss phlox, signaling the season’s arrival. This full moon signifies spiritual renewal, and growth – acting as a catalyst for new beginnings after winter. We will start with a flower exchange. Flowers will be provided. Everyone will have a flower, and exchange it one by one while greeting each other. Tamara Wyndham will make a contact body print of Or Na at the conclusion of her dance. Applying paint to her body, the paint will transfer to cloth. This symbolizes a transformation. Participants will then be invited to be blessed with water that has been exposed to the full moon, and also blessed with a rose quartz crystal. Dance: Or Nah/ Body Print Painting: Tamara Wyndham/ Ritual written and conceived by Tamara Wyndham |
| =Mago Work Branches Mago Academy Early Bird Registration: Creatrix Studies Annual Online Conference seeks papers and workshop proposals. Theme: Celebrating the Great Unity of ALL in the Cosmic Mother. https://www.magoacademy.org/2026-s-he-online-conference-registration/ Return to Mago E-Magazine RTME is in the first break (from March 23 to April 17). Here is the break schedule throughout the year: https://www.magoism.net/2018/03/announcement-search-for-contributors-bloggers-and-or-commenters/ During this break, we accept contributions for the months of April and May. See the Call for Contributions here. (Search) Volunteer Opportunity with Nine Sisters Network News Update Project. Return to Mago E-Magazine (RTME) is seeking a team of volunteers to assist in the movement of Matriversal Feminism (formerly called Goddess Feminist Activist Spirituality) by joining the project of Nine Sister Networks News Update. For the projects of Nine Sister Networks, Nine Poets Speak, and E-Interviews, we have been interviewing organizational representatives as well as influential individuals. As the first step toward the vision of Matriversal Feminism, we will create and publish a monthly news update post (Nine Sister Networks: Stay Informed and Connected). This classified news update will include updates from representatives of the Nine Sisters Network organizations and individuals, and RTME contributors, and eventually RTME readers and supporters. Updates will focus on the publication of new books, events, courses, workshops, services, stories, achievements, companionship, facilities, and other topics. See details here. S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies Journal: Invitation to Propose a Theme Issue. Qualified scholars including the members of the S/HE Journal Editorial Board are invited to propose a theme issue of S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies. Proposals should include a 200-word description of the theme of the issue, as well as a list of potential contributors, and an estimated timeline for completion. Guest Editors may also circulate a call for contributors. For all other details, see here: https://sheijgs.space/?p=2516. |
| =RTME Editorial Helen Hye-Sook Hwang We are happy with the new updates for this month from Harriet Ann Ellenburger, Kaarina Kailo, Beth Raps, and Nicole Shaw as well as our returning updaters. Thank you for making yourself and your work visible to us and the world! |
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