Ouroboros: Seasons of Life—Women's Passages is a Neopagan oratorio

Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...

 by musician, author, and composer Kay Gardner

Kay Gardner (composer)

Kay Gardner was a musician, composer, author, and musical producer involved in using music for creative and healing purposes. Her compositions include works for chamber orchestra, symphony orchestra, choir, flute, voice and piano...

. Written between 1992 and 1994, it was produced by Ladyslipper Records and recorded by an all-female group for the 1994 National Women's Music Festival. Ouroboros: Seasons of Life musically portrays a woman's life cycle from birth to death using Neopagan symbols and imagery. The Triple Goddess

Triple Goddess

The Triple Goddess is the subject of much of the writing of Robert Graves, and has been adopted by some neopagans as one of their primary deities. The term triple goddess is sometimes used outside of Neopaganism to refer to historical goddess triads and single goddesses of three forms or aspects...

 aspects of Maiden, Mother, and Crone are prominently featured, as are the four seasons and Neopagan holidays.

CD information: Ouroboros: Seasons of Life—Women's Passages (1994)
Ladyslipper; ASIN: B000008T5H

Movements

I. Beginning

II. Birth/Winter Solstice

1.Birth of the Sun-Child
2.Birth Interlude
3.Birth Chant

III. Childhood/Imbolic

1.Round Is Magic
2.Childhood Interlude
3.Childhood Chant

IV. Puberty/Spring Equinox

1.My First Moontime
2.Puberty Interlude
3.Puberty Chant

V. Maidenhood/Beltane

Beltane

Beltane or Beltaine is the anglicised spelling of Old Irish  Beltaine or Beltine , the Gaelic name for either the month of May or the festival that takes place on the first day of May.Bealtaine was historically a Gaelic festival celebrated in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.Bealtaine...

1.May Eve
2.Maidenhood Interlude
3.Maidenhood Chant

VI. Motherhood/Summer Solstice

1.So Newly Come
2.I Dance Yes
3.Motherhood Interlude

VII. Menopause/Lammas

Lammas

In some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day , the festival of the wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop...

1.Blood-Rite of the Thirteenth Moon
2.Menopause Interlude

VIII. Elderhood/Autumn Equinox

1.The Crone
2.Elderhood Interlude
3.Elderhood Chant

IX. Death-Rebirth/Samhain

Samhain

Samhain is a Gaelic harvest festival held on October 31–November 1. It was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and was popularised as the "Celtic New Year" from the late 19th century, following Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer...

1.Death of the Old One
2.Death Chant