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Women in a smoking ceremony among the trees, at Goddess Conference Australia 2016.

Archive · Goddess Conference Australia, 2016 to 2022

Many paths to the Goddess.

The Conference is no longer held. This is a record of the five gatherings, 2016 to 2022.

The Goddess Conference Australia was about celebrating our glorious diversity. There are numerous ways a woman can find the Goddess. Some do it through study, others do it through devotion, and others do it through the tarot, oracles, drumming, craft, art, dance; there are a myriad paths to Goddess. We also worship Her through many traditions and cultures and by being devoted to one particular Goddess or several.

The grass labyrinth spiralling around a great tree.

Goddess Conference Australia · 2016 to 2022

Our intention was to build community, create sacred space, celebrate the Goddess, empower ourselves and each other, and explore the mysteries of the Divine Feminine.

Walk the labyrinth

Ceremony, ritual and the grass labyrinth in the grounds, beneath a great old tree.

Workshops and Wisdom Keepers

Drumming, chant, dance, story, art and teaching from women walking many paths to the Goddess.

Honouring Country

Smoking ceremony and the wisdom of the Aunties, with Aunty Bilawara Lee as Cultural Protocols Advisor.

The market

Every delegate is offered a place in the market for her work, crafts and offerings.

Two Goddesses each year

The Goddess Conference Australia was held from 2016 to 2022. Each Conference celebrated a turn of the Wheel of the Global Goddess, and each honoured two different Goddesses.

The Wheel of Transformation of the Temple of the Global Goddess.

The 2022 Conference · the 5th in the series

Honouring Amaterasu and Pele

Amaterasu emerging from the cave, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Amaterasu

Great Japanese Goddess of the Sun.

Pele, painted by David Howard Hitchcock, c. 1929.

Pele

Great Volcano Goddess of Hawaii.

The theme

“I AM”

The theme was the I AM: the deep understanding that we are Divinity, we are the Goddess, we are Divine Beings having a physical experience.

I am the Fullness and I tell you that fullness is everywhere even within the emptiness. When you focus on fullness, you are granted deeper levels of light, sound and sensations.

The weekend

How the 2022 Conference unfolded, Friday 22 – Sunday 24 April 2022.

  1. Friday

    Arrival and Opening Ceremony

    Women arrived from 4pm to settle in, shared dinner, then gathered for the Opening Ceremony.

  2. Saturday

    Workshops, Wisdom Keepers and ceremony

    Morning crystal bowls and chant in the Temple, a panel of Goddess Elders, workshops through the day, and the evening ceremony in the Temple and labyrinth.

  3. Sunday

    Workshops and Closing Ceremony

    Morning chant, workshops, and the Closing Ceremony before everyone departed at 4pm.

See the full 2022 programme

From the Conferences

Sisters, ceremony and celebration, 2016 to 2019.

The Temple’s work continues

Goddess Conference Australia is no longer held. Anique’s gatherings, training and journeys go on.

Twenty-two goddess figures in a row on black, among them a painted Halaf figurine, the Bird Lady of Naqada, the Queen of the Night, the Minoan Snake Goddess, the Venus of Willendorf, the Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, the Sleeping Lady of Malta and a white porcelain Kuan Yin.
The Goddess of a thousand names and faces