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Determination (a “feminine” quality par excellence)
Like a river that hits against a heavy rock fall, determination will still get there in the end, eroding away at the blockage, but that can take eons…or, with that uber-feminine quality that determination is so well-known for, it can find another way around, forge a brand new path, to continue its journey back to the sea. This is where we, collectively, are now…needing to adapt and forge new routes, to pick “determined and swift” over slowly chiselling away at the most obstinately resistant and sealed-off old ways, in order to get back to our collective wholeness. Women (as the embodiment of the feminine aspect in gender-expressed form) know how to do this; we were trained in it across all the thousands of years that we were met by so many intractable man-made obstacles! Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, History, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged art, balance, beyond survivalism into creativity, determination, eight wave, female friendships, feminine aspect needed, feminine qualities, healing chronic health, health recovery, inspiration, inspiring others, joy, lead by example, lets reinvent the world, new paradigm, now is our time, quantum history, rise of the feminine, Sex and the City, sexual liberation, showing up in the world, The Nine Waves of Creation, the ninth wave, vision for the future, what the world needs now, what we want, yin and yang
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No time to waste
Its more than possible to halt our our metamophosis with where we direct our minds (our habits and our comfort places). For instance, where is the contempory fiction that looks forwards, not to the topics of war, or cancer, or horror, or divorce, or past-trauma, or dsystopia, or kitchen-sink drama, or fluffy romance? Where is all the optimism, combined with new thinking and the sheer force of imagingation that is fiction?? Never forget that reading is how we sow seeds in the fertile ground of our minds; so, as any gardener knows well, be mindful of the quality of the soil but also of the kind of seeds that you sow. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, History, Life choices, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Writing
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Tagged choosing what to read, chosing what to read, expansion and acceleration, fiction for Asperger's, forward-looking literature, futuristic writers, geting to the point, human evolution, I don't have time to rush, is there any value left in retrospectives, joy of reading, Literature, living in the present moment, metamophosis, new paradigm, no time to waste, optimism, planting seeds in our minds, quantum leap, Ted Chiang, the point of fiction in a transitional era, timelines, transitional generation, writing style compared
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Choosing life: Jig of Life and the Ninth Wave
“For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
We are of the going water and the gone.
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that’s to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand.” Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Music & theatre, Personal Development, Remembering, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged age of aquarius, awake the witch, Before the Dawn, Carl Johan Calleman, choice point, choosing life, determination, eighth wave, evolution, Hounds of Love, James Joyce, Jig of Life, Kate Bush, King Arthur, near death experience, new paradigm, ninth wave, ninth wave of creation, Ophelia, quantum holographic wave, sacred feminine, Ulysses, working with the ninth wave
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The things we carry around with us…
There’s a time for each of us to sift through what we have, taking the best bits of our past and (as for the rest of it) knowing what, and when, to let go. Now is probably that time!
Sharing a story of how this has come up for me this week… Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Environment, History, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering
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Tagged cataclysm, cleansing, cultural belief systems, decluttering, drawing boundaries, end of separation, family history, family stories, fresh start, holding onto the past, learning from the ancestors, letting go, letting go of burdens, movement, moving home, new start, nomadic lifestyle, oneness, releasing attachment, releasing history, releasing the past, self-determination, stored memories, trauma
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The unmistakable lightening of days
Let me take you on a walk through a city; am impromptu Imbolc ceremony with a difference. No green pasture this, no village tree surrounded by fields…but, rather, pavements cracked with gold that speak of new beginnings. As ever, my … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged against tyranny, balance, Boudica, Boudicca, brexit, Brigid's Day, Burne-Jones, Christoper E Street, city of gold, druids in London, earth connection, earth star, electrosensitivity, English eccentricity, enlightened city, fierce womanhood, Hampstead Heath, Helen Allingham, highly sensitive, Imbolc, intuition, light your own fire, London leylines, London's lost rivers, married to the Earth, Mary Magdalene, mass awakening, metoo, mothers and daughters, mystic, Nature in the city, new cycle, out of sight, personal growth, Pre-Raphaelites, rebirth, redheads, River Fleet, Rossetti, sacred feminine, sacred landscape London, sacred rivers, sacred sites, schumann resonance, silence breaker, silenced female, sisterhood, spiritual awakening, springtime, suppressed feminine, trees, trust in nature, vagina museum, visionary, what is Imbolc really about?, wild swimming, William Blake, William Morris, women take action
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Soft landing
Amsterdam through Asperger’s eyes; a multi-dimensional map, a palette of many textures and a journey of deep self-exploration. Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged Amsterdam, Ann Frank, Asperger's and nationality traits, Asperger's and taking fiction and non-fiction characters to heart, Asperger's seeming aloof, Asperger's social preferences, Aspergers, austistic spectrum, autism, canal district, communication without words, Dutch, Ehlers-Danlos, executive function, fibromyalgia, food intolerances, good habits, healthy eating, holocaust, hooked into rhythms and patterns, individuality, Jordaan, left and right hemispheres, letting go of what doesn't support you, love Amsterdam, love of maps, maps, needing to pull back into yourself, neuroplasticity, positive thinking, self-acceptance, street plans, structure and softness, synesthesia, taking in sensory impressions as information, Temple Grandin, thinking in pictures, vegan gluten free food, watching life through windows, Westerkerk carrilon
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Fluidity and form in the living landscape of life
…these two artists I encountered had something in common. Though their mark making was pared back, economical with nothing superfluous in there at all, these landscapes THROBBED with unseen energetic life, before my very eyes, and reminded me that all things in existence are like this. We are all made-up of so much more than that which is registered by the first five senses and these other impulses make all of us, and the very landscape with which we interact at these unseen levels, who we truly are… Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Exhibitions, Landscape art, Life journey, Menu, Painting, Personal Development
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Tagged abstraction, ancient landscape, art as communicator of the abstract, Art purpose, balanced brain, conveying feeling in art, energy art, energy in the landscape, evolution, form and fluidity, harmony, holistic perception, inspiration, JF Blighton RE, Landscape art, language of art, left and right hemispheres, letting go of control, masculine and feminine, Philip Hughes, philosophy, return of the sacred feminine, the need for flow, unseen realms, whole brain function
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Memories from the stones
Sometimes its as though the stones of a place speak to us; sometimes its a feeling of a place that takes us back in time…reminding us of something important, like a memo to ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Holiday destinations, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged ancient civilizations, DH Lawrence, etruscans, Italy, Life Bistro, matriarchy, memories, messages across time, out of sync with the times, past lives, Travel, vegan, Volterra
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1000 stories, a single shared ending
What does Sheherazade have to tell us about where we are now, at the end of “1001 nights” of human history? Are we ready to face a new dawn together or do we throw ourselves back into a perpetual re-run of all those same old stories with their oh-so predictable endings? When this particular story came up for me just so powerfully again, having been such a long-running companion throughout my life, I found myself sitting up and taking note of what it had to tell me about how we are holding a whole new kind of an ending in the palm of our unified hands. Both the masculine and feminine aspects have to be prepared to face up to the fact there are no new endings to the stories they have both already heard; they can only move on by overcoming each of their fears (both equally vaid…yet together, they neutralise) creating a brand new story, together. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Music & theatre, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged allegory, arabian nights, end of conflict, evolution, heal the world, human race, masculine and feminine, Rimsky- Korsakov, save the world, Scheherazade, snow white, stories of humanity, unity consciousness, wanting the same things, wholeness, wisdom in ancient stories, yin and yang
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The wide open garden of the heart
You can feel as though you are standing on the very cusp of a meeting place between impulses that have tugged and pulled at one another for thousands of years of human history when you visit Canterbury. I thought that finding somewhere tranquil to spend 11 o’ clock on 11/11 would be a straightforward matter there…but what unfolded had a longer, deeper and more convoluted story to tell me about the relationship between masculine and feminine and where we are now as they learn to come back together in one place again. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Leylines, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged Boudicca, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, dragon lines, feminism, freedom, healing the world, injustice, leylines, Mary Magdalene, masculine, sacred feminine, sacred garden, Thomas Becket, unconditional love, Watlington Street, where feminine meets masculine, world energy grid
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spinning the light 
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