Anique Radiant HeartInvoking The Goddess

Archive · The Australian Goddess Conference, 2016 to 2022

Goddess Conference Australia

A conference for women on the many paths to the Goddess, presented by the Temple of the Global Goddess from 2016 to 2022. It was the only women-only Goddess event in Australia, rooted in ceremony and art, and held in a natural environment not far from Sydney. The Conference is no longer held.

The Conference archive: programme, Wisdom Keepers and venue

Invoking the Rainbow Serpent Spirit of the Divine Feminine

Many paths to the Goddess

There are many ways and many paths to the Divine Feminine, and women are worshipping the Goddess as Mary, Kali, Kuan Yin, Hecate, Tara, Hokmah, Shekinah, Sophia, Cybele, Brigit and so many more.

The theme of the first Conference, in 2016. Here in Australia there has never been an Indigenous Goddess tradition as such, though there are many powerful Ancestor and Creator Beings who are Feminine. The link for us all in this tapestry of devotion is the Land. And here in Australia, the Supreme Feminine Creator being of this Land is the Rainbow Serpent. The women gathered in Her name, in this Cauldron of Potential, in all their glorious diversity.

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

Women leaping for joy with arms raised on a green lawn.Anique in white with a crown of purple flowers, beside a sister before the Goddess, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2016.A large circle of women dancing arm in arm.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2016.Anique in white lace and a crown of flowers with a sister, 2017.Two women in ceremony in the bush at the 2018 conference.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Two women seated with a frame drum, sharing song at the 2018 conference.Anique in white lace and a flower crown, smiling, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Priestesses in white with frame drums, standing in the ceremony smoke, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Anique seated in white lace among the women, 2017.A priestess with a red fan and a crown of roses and horns, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Women dancing in a great circle in the hall, 2016.Anique with the priestesses in white before the Goddess mural, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Priestesses in purple at the smoking ceremony, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Anique in her crown of flowers, laughing, 2018.The altar: a tall purple vessel among candles and flowers, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.A laughing woman in a crown of purple flowers raising her cup, 2016.Anique in a flower crown with a sister before the Goddess mural, 2018.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Priestesses in white with crowns of yellow and purple flowers, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Anique in a cream cloak and crown of roses with a sister, 2018.A singer with her guitar before a bright painted Goddess, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2017.A veiled, masked figure robed in white and gold, 2016.Anique in red lace and a crown of red flowers with a sister, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2018.Priestesses in purple and gold with flower crowns, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2018.Anique in red with a sister before the Goddess mural, 2019.The smoking ceremony among the trees, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.A painted hanging of the Goddess with arms raised, 2016.Anique in red lace with a feather fan beside a sister, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Tealight candles and frangipani on the altar, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.A woman in red beside the Temple of the Global Goddess banner, 2016.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.The women of the 2017 conference gathered together under the trees.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.An Elder in a rainbow cloak smoking a priestess in white, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.A woman in a long dark gown walking through the smoke, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women lying in a circle around a mandala altar, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Two women laughing together in the hall, 2017.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.An Elder in blue standing in the ceremony smoke, 2018.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.A woman with her arms raised high in joy, 2018.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women with their frame drums, 2018.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Two priestesses in green and sea blue, 2018.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Women passing through the smoking ceremony, 2019.Two priestesses in red and white robes at dusk, 2019.A priestess kneeling by the ceremony fire, 2019.Two women opening their arms wide under the trees, 2019.Women in red and white with their arms raised together, 2019.Two sisters, one in a crown of red flowers, sharing a kiss, 2019.Priestesses in red gathered at night, 2019.A spiral laid out on the hall floor, 2019.A rainbow altar lit with candles and fairy lights, 2019.Harp and frame drum on the stage, 2019.

2016 to 2022

The conference years

  • 201618–20 November, Baden-Powell Centre, Pennant Hills, on 36 hectares of bushland beside Lane Cove National Park, Sydney. With a Wise Woman Moon Lodge fringe day.
  • 2017The second gathering, with Wisdom Keepers from Australia and the UK.
  • 201814–16 September. Theme: Embodiment of the Growth.
  • 2019October, with Brooke Medicine Eagle and a convocation of Priestesses.
  • 202222–24 April, St Joseph’s Spirituality & Education Centre, Kincumber South, on the Central Coast. The 5th and final Conference, honouring Amaterasu and Pele, on the theme “I AM”.
“I am Growth, and I will walk with you and support you as you Grow.”

The Temple of the Global Goddess

The “I Work for the Goddess” Award for Excellence

There is a great uprising and unleashing of the Feminine in the world today. The Temple of the Global Goddess began a tradition of honouring women who dedicate their lives to this change: women who, by virtue of their particular passion, even if it is not described as “Goddess”, are opening the hearts and minds of women to Her power, grace and love.

In 2018 the first award went to Jane Hardwicke Collings, whose ground-breaking work teaching women the shamanic ways of women has brought many to the Temple door. She was presented with a lunary envisioned by Anique and made by Jann James.

Presenters

The Wisdom Keepers

Aunty Bilawara Lee

Elder of the Larrakia Nation of Darwin, and the Australian Aboriginal representative on the International Indigenous Grandmothers Council. Her name means the red-tailed black cockatoo, an ancestral spirit being that brings about change.

Anique Radiant Heart

High Priestess of the Global Goddess, Goddess scholar, sacred singer-songwriter and author of “Chanting the Chakras”. Crowned a Foremother of the Australian Goddess Community in 2007.

Judy Mort

Priestess of Avalon and midwife of more than 20 years, exploring the Avalon–Australian connection through ritual, ceremony and wild nature.

Maree Lipschitz

Teacher of Women’s Blood Mysteries and ordained Priestess of the Temple of the Global Goddess, who with Deborah Franco founded a Goddess Temple in Redfern, Sydney.

Sal Lavallee

Ngarigo and Yuin artist from the Snowy River and South Coast country, who created the conference artwork and logo.

Yia Alias

Transpersonal counsellor, artist, writer and Women’s Mystery mentor on the shamanic path of connecting to the Soul of the Earth.

Becky Johansson

Priestess of Rhiannon, psychotherapist and co-teacher of the Rhiannon Training at the Glastonbury Goddess Temple, UK.

Elizabeth Brandis

Crystal sound therapist who plays Alchemy crystal singing bowls at sacred sites around the world.

Mignon Mukti

Musician and sacred activist who organised resistance concerts in South Africa during apartheid, and now leads the global kirtan circle Divine Songs from the Illawarra.

Tess Elliot

Artist and art therapist of 27 years, creating transpersonal workshops and retreats with the creative arts and Earth-based spirituality.

In their words

From the women who came

“A truly fabulous and transformative and joyous time at the Goddess Conference.”
Wendy Rule
“What was the most incredible part of the weekend was the gifting of knowledge and love and healing from the Indigenous Elders.”
Mishele Richardson
“I’ve just spent 4 days in the company of strong wise Women from all over the world… what an inspiration!! My heart is bursting with Gratitude.”
Diane Houston
“It was such a beautiful weekend. Many thanks to you all for the dreaming and the doing. It sits in my heart, a soft light of inspiration and love.”
Kat Heff
“It’s taken a few days to have any words to describe the event, which was really the most magical and wonderful of times.”
Caroline Sarah
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