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Like willow
In order to heal, we sometimes need the deep, telluric energy that is a manifestation of the feminine aspect to come up through our “roots” and to flush through he whole of our system without any of the rub-factor that generates the circumstancial furniture of our lives being used to grab onto it for creative purposes in attempted merger with the masculine aspect. At such times, even the gentlest of meetings with the masculine can feel all too much and we long (at some level that we often fail to acknowledge) to just surrender to the flow and let everything slip out of our white-knuckle grip. This can resemble a sort of death as we stop all but the most fundamental activity to just “be” in its purest sense; when, really, it is a rebirth. Like flushing out an old plumbing system that has started to hiccough and vibrate whenever it is in use, our whole energy system requires that one-way flush to occur, and for this to be repeated for as long as it takes, for deep and lasting healing to take place. Once we have re-mastered its free flowing emergence, we can integrate it more fully than ever before. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Universe
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Tagged cathartic, chakras, emergence, feminine and masculine, healing, higher heart, kinetic, solar, sweet tears of release, telluric, torus, transformation, what is chronic illness, white willow, willow tree, yin and yang
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Blazing a trail along an alternate path
…So why not open to your instincts and let your feminine impulses be your guide, then you too can walk a softer path through so-called chaos; wherever you happen to be. Blaze your trail through it. Dare to unfurl your full stature there. Read all the subtle clues like the pro that you are. Remember who you already are in those places; that these are already your pathways. That there is no need to hide. And don’t forget to slip your shoes off and feel into where you are from your very roots, allowing that feeling to swell and grow upwards to the ceaseless light shining from your crown. For you may be surprised at the sheer power of the affirmative you receive for this simple act of reconnection with the surface of the earth in places that at one time always seemed to turn you away. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged ancient sites, Arthurian legend London, carving a different path, circular churches, coming out of hiding, Deva Premal, earthstar grid London, Elen of the Ways, Excaliber, feeling safe, finding a way through chaos, giving the feminine voice, goddess Diana, goddess Helen, green spaces in cities, guardian of the wells, holy wells of London, how the feminine was silenced in our cities, keeping out of fear, Knights Templar, ley lines, London's ley lines, London's parks, long straight paths, Old Pol's Stone, return of sacred feminine, River Fleet, sacred rivers, Saint Helen's church, sarsen stone, sovereignty, standing stone London, stone circles, Temple Church, the sword and the stone, Union Chapel Islington, yin and yang
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A sweeter way to be
Discovering this incredible, natural food source ethically and sustainably harvested in the jungles of Africa by people whose practices are gentle and whose lives have been tranformed (a food which felt like it was transforming my health) prompted me to consider many layers of broader relevance. I considered how we look forward to the future and what practices we use, for instance how we marry the best of traditional and modern methods (not always bowing to the latter…), how we take the quality of life of those producing the product into account and how their personal attributes (especially where this involves handling living things) feeds into the quality and the vibration of that product. Above all, there is something to be learned about how the sweetest and most nutritious things tend to come out of practices that involve the least interference, and bully tactics, of man. This approach to “harvesting” anything feeds into its energetic imprint when it reaches our cells as we eat it; you can literally taste the difference. When we snatch and grab at what we think is ours, the food tells a very different story… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Shopping, Vegetarianism
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Tagged bees, collaboration, ecology, good sugars, healthy food, honey, how the way we produce food affects its health benefits, organic food, sustainable farming methods, the future of food production, the way we produce food, traditional bee keeping, tropical forest honey, vata dosha, vata-pacifying diet, vegan, vibration of food
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A pool without sides
…Out of a molten sea of unmoving water, I can trust that ripples will form where they are most meaningful once I let go of any particular outcome that I already have in my mind. It’s a whole different way of being; one in which an innate trust that I am supported by a benevolent universe is fundamental to all that I am. The experiences I have access to feel vaster by far since I now cut to the chase of what is relevant, seldom pushing my feet off the bottom of what is not nor hand-walking my way along edges that were put there by others. Those things that make up my “relevance zone” are wilder, quirkier, more personal to me (yet also, somehow, more universal) and more intimately connected with each other than ever before. They are why this blog is so eclectic in its topics, why I seem to dart and weave between just so many unrelated things…but do I really, or are they all part of a vast coherent pattern that my very existence makes sense of. To me, both apply and this is the interconnected world that I have access to and now live in; where specialism and blinkeredness feel like the dead-weights of the past. In other words, while my pool has got infinitely bigger, I am no longer afraid to be in there since it is less about swimming than allowing the flow. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Cosmic events, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged benevolent universe, coherence, effect of the sun on intellect, expanded knowledge, higher intellegence, how the right hemisphere expands what we have access to, intellect, intuition, left and right hemispheres, living in flow, new ways of knowing, sea of awareness, synchronicity, The Nine Waves of Creation, the ninth wave, universal experience
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Navigating that darkest before the dawn feeling
A friend whose words I treasure shared this morning “There is nearly always a dip, a feeling that all is lost before the revelation of a mystery…” It struck me that this is the very same as the feeling as … Continue reading →
Lets sort this out, what are “yin” and “yang”?
“Yin and yang” – I talk about them such a lot but what are they in our everyday lives, beyond some abstract idea or a symbol we see daubed on the side of camper vans and on people’s tattoed flesh? Well … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Universe
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Tagged balancing the world, divine feminine, divine masculine, ending conflict, evolution, healing the world, using yin and yang in real life, what are yin and yang, yin and yang in health, yin-yang
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Consciously creating with the Ninth Wave
How do you adequately convey to people “I consider this book to be extraordinarily important” without saying so in terms that are either too general or personal? In fact I consider it to be one of the most significant things … Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Cosmic events, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged Carl Johan Calleman, evolution, holographic reality, Mayan calendar, ninth wave, quantum physics, rewriting history, sacred feminine, The Nine Waves of Creation, unity consciousness, yin-yang
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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
This post is such a beautiful and fitting end to my year and just so on-season with the Winter Solstice that has been the highlight of this festive month, having reignited a deep subconscious (life-long) relationship I had been having … 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, West Green House, winter garden, winter solstice, yin-yang
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