The Legend of Babalon and Gaia:

A Goddess Theology of Babalon and Gaia:

Mothers of Matter : Goddesses of Earth

First, some definitions via Wikipedia:

On Gaia:

In Greek mythology, Gaia, a poetical form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth', also spelled Gaea, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants; as well as of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.

On Gaia Theory:

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

On Babalon

Babalon /ˈbæbælən/ (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

In her most abstract form, Babalon represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman.

She is also identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. Along with her status as an archetype or goddess, Crowley believed that Babalon had an earthly aspect or avatar; a living woman who occupied the spiritual office of the "Scarlet Woman".

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In essence, Gaia is the synergy of the Earth in her natural state. She is the homeostasis of nature-undisturbed. She is the delicate thread of alignment between the cycles of the living: the spider’s web, the seasons, the nourishing soil, the crystalline water, the air so clear it nourishes the spirit on every breath. She is the wild beasts of the African planes, the redwood trees, the deep aquifers, the violently erupting volcanoes, the rhythm of the Ocean.

Babalon is the latex-loving lady, the pink & black boudoir, thigh-high boots, midnight runs to the pharmacy to buy eyelash glue and glitter, silicone vibrators that really get you off, orgies in the back of the nightclub, waist-cinchers, fishnet pantyhose and neon lights. Babalon is the the sacred-whore who loves life as it is, in all its fallenness. She too is a Mother Goddess of this Earth.

The paradox is that Gaia and Babalon are sisters. One is not more powerful, justified, right or necessary than the other, but they exist in sacred relationship to one another – in a dance – mutually informing, mutually spiraling in their creativity.

My introduction to Babalon, came via the spiritual coach and witch, Carolyn Elliot, author of Existential Kink. Prior to meeting her I was so immersed in the idea that healing the Earth ecosystems was the only authentic spiritual path – because, I believed, that if the planet surrenders into the destruction that’s happening upon her, we will all die with her and therefore any other spiritual path is mute.

Yet I couldn’t deny how tantalizing Carolyn Elliott’s sultry, witchy spirituality made me feel (and I have always loved latex clothing and black lipstick).

Through studying Carolyn’s work (and through her, deeper layers of occultism) while holding it in tandem with my rigid eco-theology, my understand of what reality is began to change and now I understand it as much more complex, magickal and mysterious than before.

By allowing myself to be in this dance of worship of both Gaia and Babalon, I have found my power, strength voice and hope while letting go of judgement and resentment for what I believed was wrong with life on Earth exactly how it is.