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26/08/2025

This Fall will be full with courses and projects!

Join The Mago Circle, Facebook group ( to stay connected with Mago Sisters/Associates on social media. We are also in Academy.edu, Substack and Bluesky. Mago Academy is happy to announce (1) Fall 2…

26/08/2025

photo by Judith Chambers on Unsplash - Harriet Ann Ellenberger for Albert E. B. O'Brien (1948 - 2024)

photo by Judith Chambers on Unsplash – Harriet Ann Ellenberger for Albert E. B. O’Brien (1948 – 2024)

24/08/2025

Annalisa Derr, Ph.D., is an independent goddess scholar, sacred feminine embodiment facilitator, and ritual theatre creatrix. She earned her doctorate in Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a BA in Theater with specialized training in international masked and physical performance. Her forthcoming book with Inner Traditions reimagines the Sumerian myth, “The Descent of Inanna,” as an affirming sacred menstrual narrative to help liberate women from internalized menstrual sexism and stigmatization and (re)awaken them to their Sacred Feminine Power....

Annalisa Derr, Ph.D., is an independent goddess scholar, sacred feminine embodiment facilitator, and ritual theatre creatrix. She earned her doctorate in Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth…

09/08/2025

Return to Mago E-Magazine celebrates the 13th year this year and Return to Mago (RTM) E-Magazine Co-editors seek to form organizational alliances beyond individual alliances. RTM E-Magazine as one of the four branches of The Mago Work (together with Mago Academy, Mago Books, and the S/HE Journal), has served a broad readership from across the continents and cultures by publishing five times per week....

Return to Mago E-Magazine celebrates the 13th year this year and Return to Mago (RTM) E-Magazine Co-editors seek to form organizational alliances beyond individual alliances. RTM E-Magazine as one …

09/08/2025

We have a virtual open house today!

Mago Academy offers Wisdom of Mary Magdalen , as an elective course of the Creatrix Studies Programs (CSP). You may take it as 1 credit course toward your M.A. or Ph.D. in Creatrix Studies pro…

02/08/2025

Creatrix Studies: A fall trimester core course!

Mago Academy offers Ceto-Ecofeminist Spirituality, as an elective course of the Creatrix Studies Programs (CSP). You may take it as 1 credit course toward your M.A. or Ph.D. in Creatrix Studie…

19/07/2025

We are very excited to share this with you. The S/HE Forum Course is a new spin-off hybrid of the S/HE Conference and the Creatrix Studies Programs.

The S/HE Forum Fall 2025 Course & Registration Mago Academy offers the S/HE Forum Fall 2025 Course, a total of 4 forums, as an elective course of the Creatrix Studies Programs (CSP). You may ta…

12/07/2025

Photo by Sarah Wolfe I laugh when humans say— meditation is quiet. I implore my children, to again try it. Slow and steady is the breath; in my bosom you lay. Close your eyes now, you can see better that way. Listen closely for the first drumbeat; coming from your chest— a percussion of life-giving blood & oxygen. Next comes the wind rustling mid-summer leaves,...

Photo by Sarah Wolfe I laugh when humans say— meditation is quiet. I implore my children, to again try it. Slow and steady is the breath; in my bosom you lay. Close your eyes now, you can see be…

09/07/2025

Namu Wiki image Tales from North Gyeongsang, Daegu Metropolitan City (D) Of 10 tales, “Mago” and “Magu” are referred to nine times, whereas “Magui” is mentioned only once. In one tale, Mago is mentioned in relation to Cheontae Stronghold. Gomo (Great Mother) is mentioned in two tales. Minor divine agents include “Gobu (Great Mother’s Husband)” and “Seondong (Child Mage)” in two tales....

05/07/2025

The image is © Suzanne Bellamy, 2008.It is the cover image of our joint book, Unsettling the Land by Suzanne Bellamy and Susan Hawthorne. I saw three emus close to the water, disturbed 10 wild turkeys and put to flight any number of swans and native companions. In every little bay were pelicans by the score, singly, in pairs and by the hundred, mountain ducks in small bands, wood ducks, teal, blue cranes, black and white cranes by the hundred, white cranes by the thousand; ibises, both the ordinary kind and the all-white, in immense flocks, feeding in the long water-covered grass; great black shags....

The image is © Suzanne Bellamy, 2008.It is the cover image of our joint book, Unsettling the Land by Suzanne Bellamy and Susan Hawthorne. I saw three emus close to the water, disturbed 10 wild turk…

03/07/2025

Art by Claire Dorey Pondering the implications of the Y Bottle-Neck; the demonization of single mothers; the destruction of the Mother Goddess; and the Male God Archetype. Boris Johnson, an ex British prime minister, who was forced to resign before his term was over, due to a sexual misconduct cover up, said children of single mothers were “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate.”[1]...

01/07/2025

Homage to Meridel LeSueur On the Anniversary of Her Death: 11/13/96 You held my hand As no one ever has before or since; Looking in my eyes With your piercing gaze You named me Persephone. You stepped out of the darkness today To rally your daughters; My heart is blessed with tears To be amongst them. How did I find you then…...

Homage to Meridel LeSueur On the Anniversary of Her Death: 11/13/96 You held my hand As no one ever has before or since; Looking in my eyes With your piercing gaze You named me Persephone. You step…