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Category Archives: Consciousness & evolution
Developing conscious awareness and encouraging self-evolution through meditation and other practices.
Little wren
All kinds of realities can look as real as anything as we proceed through our human existence; we are all surrounded by them, every day, but when we keep hurting ourselves because of them, we can be sure they are a fiction of some kind…perhaps one that is so long-running that we don’t even remember anything different. They can be as convincing as anything we have ever seen, made all the more potent through the tug of nostalgia and familiarity. When they are a false reality in our experience, and they suddenly dissolve, we don’t go to pieces with that circumstance but, rather, that dissolution is what it takes to end the repeat cycles of self-destruction….perhaps even those repeated across many lifetimes. We stop hurling ourselves and hurtling mindlessly towards things that don’t serve us, in search of what we have fixated upon as “what we need to perpetuate in order to survive”. As is sometimes the case before illusory worlds fall apart (as we are seeing happen right now in our world-politics…), the illusory reality sometimes has to be stepped up to become even more overtly unnatural than ever, in order for us to “get it” and move on. Such a moment is what proceeds the moment of realisation…when we, as it were, wake up to what is real and swiftly find our way back to ourselves.
This tale of extreme optimism was “told” to me by a little wren just the other day… Continue reading →
Phases of the Moon
We can lose touch with the thread of “who we meant to be” as the cloth of life becomes ever more wooly with the friction of circumstance and it can be so useful to reconnect with that most pristine of golden fibres; the one that led us to want to be here at this place and time in our collective evolutionary story, contributing our all-important piece to the tapestry. Working with phases of the moon has been such a powerful mechanism for carrying out such an overview; so much so that I want to share what I learned from an extraordinary book on this topic. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged Anni Sennov, architypes, cycles, evolutionary astrolgy, Golden Age Golden Earth, growth phase, introversion, middle age, moon and evolution, moon and health, Nine Waves of Creation, out of bounds moon, phases of the moon, Steven Forrest, The Book of the Moon, waxing crescent
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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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Good years without end
I’d watched this film over and over again for many years; and it was only when I recognised another story layered into it that I got its deeper message. Reappraising A Good Year; deeper than it looks. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Entertainment, Films, Holiday destinations, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged A Good Year, divine feminine, divine masculine, Elen of the Ways, Garden of Eden, Gladiator, golden energy, healing the wounded masculine, Magnus Maximus, radical life change, Ridley Scott, Russel Crowe, The Dream of Macsen, transforming your life, true sovereignty
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Out of bounds
Deep diving the Out of Bounds Moon: do you know what this is, do you have one, is it affecting your life in profound ways, an unseen super-power waiting to be worked with more consciously? I’m not the only person to learn this about myself recently and its been more insightful than I can possibly summarise. Read on to learn why. Continue reading →
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Tagged abandonment, astrological sun, astrology, axial tilt, Barbara Hand Clow, changing your mind, daring to be different, equinoxes, evolution, health issues, inner conflict, leaving, living on the fringe, moon, moon transits, ninth wave, nonconformity, out of bounds moon, out of bounds moon characteristics, out of bounds planets, outside, Steven Forrest, sun and moon, thriving, vegan, yin and yang
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Acknowledging the relationships we have
Sometimes acknowledging the relationships we have can be a beautifully simple yet powerful thing to do; transformative in its way… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather
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Tagged achieving aspirations, adapting to circumstance, bigger picture, circadian rhythms, cycles, getting things done, inspiration, living in the now, oneness, productivity, relationships, seasons, what is
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Finding my sweet spot
So, as an artist, what do I most want to do…do I want to present it all on an equal footing, as though you were standing there in that garden with me, getting to choose which blade of grass to examine closely next? (I tend to think that would make me into someone who delivers visual information, documentary fashion…but not an artist.) Or do I want to share what I, personally, focussed on and so experienced there because it was so high-frequency it overwhelmed me with love and appreciation of life and I want to dole that out like a tonic to all the world? The same goes for life, do I want to see the whole picture, or do I elect to find my own personal sweet spot and choose to stay there, as much as possible, modelling this way of being (not that this is why I do it) to anyone who cares to notice how good it can feel to be this way? Why do I suspect there’s more to this topic than meets the eye; that there’s pure alchemy at work when we, each of us, elect to seek out our own sweet spot and make it into our home, our very way of being, the thing that determines how we spend our time, what we give our thoughts to, how much joy, love and gratitude we feel every day… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Photography
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Tagged beauty, blur, bokeh, choosing what to focus on, gardens, guiding people towards beauty, healing the world, intention setting, lensbaby, living in joy, love, Monet, photography, role of the artist, sweet 50, sweet spot
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Becoming
I have just turned fifty in the last week; something which I have approached with unbridled optimism and even excitement (none of the woe and sardonic humour that most people seem to apply) yet it is a formidable portal, nonetheless. As it approached, I seemed to garner my unseen arsenal of personal strengths about me as through preparing to wear them all in a new and no-longer apologetic way. It felt like that season of watching the fruit spring from where the blossom had once been and I’ve been smacking my lips on how ripe that all feels; how I relish the opportunity to wear all the deeper, stronger colours of myself and be all that I am without hiding any of it anymore. A week into stepping into what feels like the lush garden of my fifties and I am still ambling around bare-foot, touching all the trees, wearing a Mona Lisa smile upon my lips…
Sharing thoughts on several midlife transitions I am currently navigating; all of them proving to be as fascinating as they are unchartered territory. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged AuraTransformation, bearing fruit, becoming yourself, dealing with change, empty nest, excitement, female power, freedom, golden energy, health, knowing yourself, liberty, living in joy, meditation, menopause, middle age, navigating life changes, optimism, portals, potential, second half of life, simplifying, transitions, turning 50, void
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Where there is paradox there is God
Source doesn’t move into form packed in neatly arranged boxes. God is in the detail, yes; but God is also in the so-called empty spaces within. Particle and wave; both the visible, tangible shape and the utterly intangible, indefinable, flux, will-o’-the-wisp and butterfly on the wing, never to be pinned down or held there…not even for a moment; only, perhaps, seemingly as a playful wink in the catch-me-if-you-can game. This is why Source can’t be found in dogma or rules; only in suggestions with the space to manoeuver. Source can be felt to be very near when these two qualities lie so close together that, paradoxically, they both push and pull against one another yet co-habitate so easily, comfortably, like old soul mates and companions, all at the same time and without conflict or contradiction… Continue reading →
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Tagged apparent contradiction, balance of masculine and feminine, creation, God is in the detail, paradox, particle and wave, potential, quantum, Source of creation, the paradox of creation, what is God, yin and yang
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Curiosity killed the joy
What happens when we start to consider that there can be many truths, all at the same time. After all, life is never a single, simple thread; everything we release into it becomes woven into a dense tapestry of other people and events and yet only we each get to choose which is our still-relatable thread to follow. No one else can come along and unpick or reclaim that thread as more-rightfully theirs, or even snip it out as though it never existed or was “wrong”, which is how we mess-up when we attempt to post-mortem anything that happened “in the past”. As we pull away at “what was”, there is always the risk that unpicking one part of the tapestry to make ourselves feel better will cause other things to fall apart for others…perhaps necessarily so in cases where something continues to be harmfully distorted to this day, but quite unnecessary in others, so this need to be a very conscious and considered choice… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Fiction, Life choices, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged allowing many truths, allowing people to be flawed, bad news overload, Christopher Robin, consciously choosing what to watch or read, how much do we need to know?, is all information good for us?, leave the past alone, moving on, should we unpick the past?, stop raking over the past, too much information, what is true history?, why are we addicted to mud raking?, Winnie the Pooh
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