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Category Archives: History
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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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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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 →
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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 →
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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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Being the rainbow bridge
When we reach out our arms and embrace the broken aspect of the masculine, we bring it home to ourselves and the feminine values that are so needed by this world in order for us to move on together, intermingled as the best of both masculine and feminine qualities, as one unit. When we do this, we allow the masculine to dare to come home to the ever present embrace of the feminine, not to build up its walls of resistance even stronger against it. It is sad, yes, that so often the masculine has to be broken before it will come home in this way; but let it be broken only because of its own doings, not because the feminine contributed to that (which is not what the feminine is about anyway). As such, we all get to be the rainbow rather than chasing down its mythical ending (something I pondered just a few days ago as I was travelling home along a road arced by a rainbow, wondering which end the pot of gold was meant to be at; surely when we realise it is to be found at both ends, the whole of its bridge, joining one place to another, becomes that long sought-after gold). When we are the rainbow ourselves, rather than seeking it externally, we incorporate the best of both worlds…as ourselves; which makes it less of a destination than a state we get to be in, all of the time.
Rediscovering the much-needed rainbow bridge that I describe as it is so beautifully conveyed in a hundred year old “parable” of our times: E. M Forster’s “Howard’s End”. Continue reading →
Posted in Authorship, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Fiction, History, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, changing the paradigm, eight wave, EM Forster, forgiveness, global mind, healing the masculine, healing the world, Howard's End, left and right hemispheres, Merchant Ivory, Nine Waves of Creation, rainbow bridge, return of sacred feminine, unity consciousness
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Still coming
Quarter of a century since the Sally Potter film “Orlando” was released…something made me almost desperate to watch it just as the ninth wave hit its cusp and it was obvious why. The narrative takes us through both genders; the ever-romantic Orlando switching from male to female when a crisis of masculine identity is reached during a battle yet things prove even less plain-sailing when, as a woman, she is confronted with all the ridiculous social and legal infringements upon that gender’s liberty over the next two centuries. So where is she now, as she sits under a modern-day tree with her daughter by her side looking straight into the camera, a fixed knowing-gaze of such optimism it jolts you inside though a tear tries to form (hers and yours)? All these years later, I feel I know what she means as the film reveals new layers under the spotlight of hindsight; appreciating what was just starting back then, where we have been and where we are still coming to…together.
A remarkably prophetic film (from an equally prophetic novel) and a must watch if you consider yourself an agent of unity consciousness – dip into Orlando with me via this taster of Sally Potter’s still-pristine masterpiece. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged androgyny, eighth wave, evolution, feminine and masculine, healing the rift between male and female, healing the world, homosexuality, Jimmy Somerville, labyrinth, ninth wave, Orlando, return of sacred feminine, Sally Potter, tilda swinton, transgender, unity consciousness, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West, we are all the same, we are one
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Growing up
The astonishing aroma from these giant trees, straight after the storms, acted like an acute sensory hit or an activation of sorts and it turned out they had a great deal to tell me… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, History, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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