Sept-Dec Fall 2025 Creatrix Studies Courses

(Details are subjected to change without notice. For more, see Creatrix Studies Programs.)

Registration Fall 2025 Courses Here.

Ceto-ecofeminist Spirituality (2 Credits) Separate Registration & Course Details are available here.
Course no: 103
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Time: Sept 2-Oct 21 (Tuesdays, 4 hour-long 8 weekly sessions)

Description: Cetaceans (whales) are traditionally venerated as the terrestrial divine, nurturing all planetary beings by way of their biological-sonic-aquatic behaviors. Through the lens of Ceto-Magoism (the Whale-guided Way of Mago, the Creatrix), we will explore how restoring the human bond with the Natural World headed by whales, as it was in pre-patriarchal times, can stop the doomsday clock set by modern patriarchal drives. Demonized as sea monsters as well as dragons and serpents, whales hold the key to guide the Human World. The Magoist Cosmogony wherein the Cosmic Music is attributed to the creative force of the matriverse (maternally perceived universe) offers insights into how whale songs are cosmogenic.


Patriarchal Usurpation of the Great Goddess (1 Credit) Separate Registration & Course Details are available here.
Course no: 401
Instructor: Helen Benigni, Ph.D.

Time: Sept 1-Sept 22 (Mondays, 4 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: This course outlines how the Great Goddesses of the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages were diminished and molded by the onset of the patriarchy in Western Europe and the Mediterranean in the Iron Age. An explanation of how the Goddesses later were transferred into saints, martyrs, witches, and dark figures or even monsters in the myths of the patriarchy may be used to reclaim their original powers and restore their original status in our eyes.


Wisdom of Mary Magdalen (1 Credit) Separate Registration & Course Details are available here.
Course no: 402
Instructor: Judy Grahn, Ph.D.

Time: Nov 6-Nov 27 (Mondays, 4 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: Resurfacing after 1500 years, the unique “Gospel of Mary Magdalen” is full of wise, counter-patriarchal teachings on peace, justice, emotional intelligence and more. Studying the text plus scholarly sources including Professor Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity school, and poetic deciphers of Dr. Grahn’s poetry, students will be encouraged to learn to interpret an ancient text through what experts have said, what you see in it, and what your own intuitive art approach tells you.


Virtual Mago Whale Pilgrimage to Korea I (0.5 Credit) Separate Registration & Course Details are available here.

Course no: 301
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Time: Sept 20-Oct 11 (Fridays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: We will visit Bangudae whale petroglyphs in Ulsan and the Buddhist Temple of Gameunsa (Graced Temple) in Gyeongju to trace the sites mentioned in the Myth of the Pacifying Flute in which a dragon is described as the carrier of sea waves originated from the pods of narwhals or single-tusked whales. This will offer the key to open the symbolism of a dragon sculpted on the top of a gigantic metal whale bell better known as the Korean temple bell, which leads to the understanding of Sillan Temple Bells as the replica of whale songs to augment the salvific singing of whales from the seas.

Restoring the Magoist Calendar (13 Months 28 Days) I (0.5 Credit) Separate Registration & Course Details are available here.

Course no: 302
Instructor: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.

Time: Nov 21-Dec 12 (Fridays, 2 hour-long 4 weekly sessions)

Description: The 13 months and 28 days Magoist Calendar (lunar-menstrual-solar) is the key of entering the matriversal reality of WE/HERE/NOW wherein ALL are membered as kindred in the Cosmic Mother. Charting the synchronized cycle of women’s menstruation, lunation, and the Earth’s revolution around the sun, the Magoist Calendar guides human lives in harmony with the creative force of the Matriverse, the Cosmic Music or Ninefold Sonic Numerology. Characterized by regularity and synchronicity, the Magoist Calendar leads human societies in tune with the Cosmic Music, a ceaseless interplay of nine numbers, which creates, nurtures, and transforms ALL (including inorganic entities).

S/HE Forums Fall 2025 (1 Credit) Separate Registration & 4 Forum Details are available here.

Course no: 901
Instructors: Judy Grahn Ph.D., Danica Anderson Ph.D., Helen Benigni Ph.D., Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.

Time: Sept through Dec (Second and/or Fourth Sat of each month, 16 hours)

Description: The S/HE Forum is a collective teaching course prepared and facilitated by four forum organizers. Each of four forum organizers will lead 4 hours of either one or two sessions in a month for the duration of four months. Each facilitator/teacher leads a class focusing on the topic of her own expertise by inviting 2-4 guest speakers who will speak on the topic salient to the forum theme. Four forum titles are: Great Creatrix in Mesopotamia (Grahn), Embodied Herstory: Forensic Traumatology, Social Epigenetics, and the Inheritance of Female Trauma (Anderson), The Cosmic Mother at Eleusis (Benigni), and Introduction to the Bear/Shaman Queen Mother, Goma, and Her Manifestations (Hwang). For the degree program student, a research paper (one paper of approx. 3,000 words or two of approx. 1,500 words, bibliography not included) of your own topic ideally in relation to one of the four forum topics is required. For more details, contact Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com). You will be provided the syllabus upon registration.

Registration Fall 2025 Courses Here.