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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Seeing the world
Its a classic time of year for me to be adding a load of eye-catching nature pictures to my newsfeed following long winter walks. To those of my friends who don’t live in my part of the world, or even a similar climate (and there are several), it may seem as though I live in a completely DIFFERENT world, but I don’t…not really.
I started doing an online photography course yesterday and I loved it when the teacher described how she saw a feather hanging off a branch in a pubic garden and pounced on it with her camera. Her friend said to her “How did you SEE that?” and she replied “How did you NOT?” I’m just the same and, like her, I would have then spent the next half hour angling different shots at this feather while my friend scuffed her feet around wondering when we were going for some lunch – I do that to my family all the time – but its not that I’m trying to force the beauty out of a subject. Its already there…its everywhere, its just a case of being receptive to it, to really see it, to notice it wherever it presents itself. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Photography, Seasons, Walks
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Tagged appreciation, beauty, nature, photography
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Doe, A Deer, A Female Deer: The Spirit of Mother Christmas
Please see my more up-to-date post (dec 2018) on this topic and with a working link to the full original article shared below which is a wonderful read in this topic from Gather Victoria. This post is such a beautiful and fitting … Continue reading →
Posted in Art technique, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged antlers, Christmas, deer, doe, Elen of the Ways, horned goddess, return of light, Santa Claus, shamanism, winter solstice
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The yin-yang garden
This is all the same winter garden as experienced during a period of less than three hours, first in day and then in night. Notice how the deep dark velvets and jewel tones sing out mostly in the daytime, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Gardens & gardening, Menu, Nature, Photography, Seasons
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Tagged blossom in winter, Christmas garden, Christmas lights, contrasting light, December, English garden, fairy lights, formal garden, gardens to visit, magical garden, moongate, night garden, other-worldly, photography, shiva shakti, West Green House, winter garden, winter solstice, yin-yang
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The song that is most sweet in the dark
On the night of the full super moon, a robin sang sweetly in my garden for the hour until the moon peaked. It began in darkness and then, the cloud mass had begun to break-up and to separate, dissolved into wisps. The newly appeared and dazzling moon looked like it was racing through a cotton-wool landscape or materialising and dematerialising in the centre of a flower that just kept emerging, throwing new petals out of its own void. It was like watching the universe take shape; something birthed out of nothing and, all the time, this sweet monologue of bird song, the seventh dimensional sound that was once the “word” that birthed it all. What made this song so powerful, so compelling, so “stop right there” in my tracks in order to hear every note of it, for all the night was bitterly cold? It was like I was receiving a download, a melodious morse code, that some aspect of myself was busily deciphering. What was so compelling was that its pure beauty came out of darkness; was this incongruous melody that cut through the blankness as though asserting “I choose to make from all this dark potential THIS”…. Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Seasons, Space weather, supermoons, Universe
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Tagged cancer, choosing what to make of a situation, doing things differently, ending fear of the unknown, night-singing bird, not knowing, pure potential, redefining illness and challenge, reinterpretting darkness, robin song, singing in the dark
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Resculpting Mondays
This post started as something of a joke; something lighthearted before Christmas and yet there’s real substance to it as I consider all the ideas that got hooked onto this mindset of Monday. Why do we feel so different about the start of the working week? And how do we get to soften that, to resculpt it….like soft clay that we can turn into anything we like? Continue reading →
I just don’t know
Its the ability to hold a space for “other”, to change your mind or your direction, to learn something new, to be shown you were mistaken, to be surprised and to experience the thrill of mystery (and allow it to remain thus…) that makes life what it is; a vast unending sea of potential out of which all evolution arises. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged allowing, breakthrough, confusion, Consciousness, disengaging the rational brain, evolution, letting go, not having to have all the answers, not knowing, not thinking, potential, release, surrender
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spinning the light 