Mago Academy is happy to announce the first online Mago Festival and seeks creative works (mandala, mudra, and crafts) that depict or symbolize the Nine Goddesses/Maidens or the Nine Mago Creatrix (the Triad Mother and HER Eight Daughters), to be part of 2017 Nine Day Solstice Celebration during Dec. 13/14-Dec. 21-22.
Why Making the Nine Goddess Symbol?
The Nine Goddess/Mago iconography is indeed an old one, pre-patriarchal in origin, found across cultures and periods. By regenerating it in our time, we invoke the power of the Primordial Mother, the Nine Mago Creatrix, from whom everything is derived. Through the Nine Goddess Symbol we create, we visualize and enact cross-cultural (pre-patriarchal in origin) unity of people that restores peace and self-healing among the terrestrial community of the Great Goddess. Most urgently, by summoning the Reality of WE/HER/NOW (Gynocentric Reality) that originates from the Great Goddess, the Nine Mago Creatrix, we debunk the derivative and corrupted nature of patriarchal cultures and cleanse its contaminations on all levels collectively.
Why Hosting the Mago Gift Festival?
Where gynocentric culture prevails, there perforce takes place sharing and blessing of all in WE. Reviving the Nine Mago Symbol in our time requires a befitting context, which is non-patriarchal, non-capitalist, and non-hierarchical in principle. Mago Academy aims at channeling a time/space for sharing our gifts and resources in a non-exchange economic mode. The Mago Gift Festival reminds of us that WE/HERE/NOW is the gift of the Nine Mago Creatrix, given for free to all in WE.
Resources about the Nine Mago Movement and Gift Economy
- Nine Day Solstice Celebration
- She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? (Volume 1)
- She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? (Volume 2)
- Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess
- The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
- The Gift in the Heart of Language by Genevieve Vaughan
- “Gift Giving as the Female Principle vs. Patriarchal Capitalism” by Genevieve Vaughan
- “Shifting the paradigm to a maternal gift economy” by Genevieve Vaughan
- “Feminist Semiotics for Social Change: the Mother or the Market” by Genevieve Vaughan
How to Participate
One can register and participate in the following three-fold way (Participant, Prize-Donor, and/or Visitor):
(1) As Participant, you can upload the image(s) of your work (mandala, mudra or craft) in jpg or video file before or during the nine days (Dec. 13/14-21/22). One may post multiple works.
(2) As Prize-Donor, you can upload the image of your prizes including your books (print and/or electronic), tickets to workshops, events or goods. You may choose participants that you would like to award your prizes by commenting on the presented symbol. Describe the method of delivering your prizes.
(3) As Visitor, you can comment and make suggestions.
How to Register
Fill out the simple registration form and return it as attachment in your mails to magoacademy@gmail.com. The Nine Day Solstice Celebration Planning Circle will invite you to one or both of the Virtual Villages (see below). If you are a presenter for Nine Day Solstice Celebration, no registration from is required. Upon submitting your registration form, you (Participants and Prize-Donors) will be invited to become Author to make posts.
Venues
During the nine days (Dec. 13/14-Dec. 21/22), Mago Academy will open two Virtual Villages in which our participants will display their works in one of the following venues:
(1) Facebook Group, “Nine Mago Symbol Festival”. The group will remain visible to the members of The Mago Circle (Facebook Group).
(2) Mago Pool Circle (http://www.magopoolcircle.net). The main section of the Front Page will be spared for Mago Gift Festival.
Outcomes
- Mago Academy will select and propose works to be included in such future projects as The Nine Mago Creatrix children’s books, deck cards, and/or collective writing projects that include She Rises Volume 2, Gynapedia/Mago Wickedary of Goddess Feminist Activism, and/or Return to Mago E-Magazine.
- Also they will be given onsite prizes by our Prize Donors as well as comments and responses by other participants and visitors.
Registration Form
Name:
Contact info:
Organization and/or website:
Roles (multiple roles and submissions are encouraged)
- I would like to become Participants ( ), Donor ( ), and/or Visitor ( ).
- For Participants: List the title, medium, and/or genre as well as a brief description (max. 100 words).
- For Donors, List item(s).