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We each drink from our own cup
Scour the internet and you will find King Arthur being claimed by the English, the Welsh, the Scots, even by the Breton. My feeling is that legends such as Arthur and Camelot and, yes, Elen of the Ways, defy geographical placement; quite by design, and there seems to be a self-sabotaging tripwire involved when you try to get your brain involved in order to prove a location, which gets quite close to demanding “ownership”. When we do this, in my experience, its like the portculis clamps shut and you are left outside in the cold of your own deeper experience for having pushed so hard out of a desire to nail something in “fact”. The trick is to enjoy the experience…whatever the enlightening experience is…without having to own or label it.
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Tagged ancient sites, camelot, cup that never runs dry, did Camelot really exist, Elen of the Ways, grail knights, grail legend, holy grail, holy union, iona, King Arthur, Maid Marion & Robin Hood, Mary Magdelene and Yeshua, mother earth, paths of gold, purpose of legends, sacred union, the point of ancient legend in modern life, torus, was Arthur english, was Arthur scottish, was Arthur welsh, wholeness, why do we seek proof of everything, yellow brick road, yin and yang
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Three winged tales for the year end
I’m going to share a trio of stories from my last day of the year; things that happened quite organically, though there seems to be a distinct thread of bird-magic running through them. The first relates to a new artwork … Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged birds, chronic pain, digital art process metaphor for life, emotions, experience filters, feeling too much, highly sensitive, metaphor, nervous system, owls, self understanding, taking off, understanding life
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When “Rudolf” was a woman…
Rudolf was probably a girl (the biggest, strongest reindeer are females who, unlike the males, don’t shed their antlers in winter)…Santa too (it was the female shamans who originally wore red and white costumes trimmed with fur, horned headdresses or … Continue reading →
Posted in Christmas, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged Christmas, Elen of the Ways, female culture, goddess, matriarchy, reindeer, rudolf, sacred feminine, santa, seasonal celebrations, shamanic flight, shamanism, sun goddess, winter solstice
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A woman’s voice across time
I like to think I’ve swept some grace through these places over the years; doing what grace does best, mixing up the light and the dark so that the line between them becomes softened…perhaps even more radiant. I like to think that in getting closer to finding my wholeness here, against all odds, I’ve increased the odds for all things that I’ve brushed past on my wending way… Exploring the underlying perfection of the places we happen to be in, however those happen to seem. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Landscape art, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged art, beauty, close to nature, connection to place, ecology, grace, inner work, loss of countryside, Mary Russell Mitford, mindfullness, our changing villages, our changing world, overpopulation, Painting, Spencers Wood, stuck points, Swallowfield, transformation, village life, wholeness
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…then a wonderful thing happened
What began as an exercise in practicality became infinite in its potential just as soon as I stopped worrying about “how much” I would get back in material terms. Once that limiting idea (how it trips us up!) had been dispensed with, the free-flowing rewards were as exponential as they were immeasurable as they were available to all parties and there was such a strong sense that this was only the beginning… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged energy art, energy commerce, energy exchange, expanding your belief system, exponential benefit, inspiration, love, making energetic space, making space for creativity, motivation as an artist, new approaches to business, new commerce, Painting, positivity, realising potential, self-belief, synchronicity, what is success
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The joy of finding tribe
When you find “tribe” your relative uniqueness can flip from being a weakness to becoming your very power-point…that which unites you and makes you more determined to be the difference together. Deep familiarity sweeps you over for the fact that it is so typically absent when you are amongst other people…and suddenly you are all lit up, laughing at all the ironies that once floored you, ignited with enthusiasm, passion, innovation and determination whilst eagerly gobbling up all the resources you can pool together. Its a powerful thing and all the more so when its been absent from your life for so long you had all but convinced yourself you were destined to travel this road alone.
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Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Environment, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged coming out of the solitary life, community, enthusiasm transforms the world, family, finding your tribe, I Pini, like-mindedness, passion for life, power of collaboration, shared passions, shared values, Tuscany, vegan
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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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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 →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged awakening, Consciousness, ending the illusion, light, optimism, reality, totem, wren
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Unreservedly whole
While we continue defending the feminine (like she needs to be defended…), championing her like she has been wronged, we remain completely out of balance. While our masculine aspect is still charged with any wrongdoing, and while he is commissioned with taking on what ails the so-called struggling feminine who supposedly needs “rescuing”, he will be condemned to hunting down and nailing dragons for all eternity in order to “prove himself”. This makes him unavailable to meet with the feminine in the “place” where he can take off his armour and come into full union with her; there will always be another task to be done and he will be forever distracted, absent, preoccupied, guarded. In order to meld fully, the unconditional surrender of all issues between these aspects needs to occur; and the bridge between them needs to be a motion of at once stepping forwards and reaching out to receive in both cases. A decommissioning of all reasons to be other than this bridge, with each other, from that moment forwards, needs to occur unreservedly; no more “buts…” (read on). Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Leylines, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged achieving balance, AuraTransformation, balancing masculine and feminine, cathedrals, Exeter cathedral, feminine and masculine, leylines, lunar eclipse, synchronicity
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Mixing up the wool with the silk
When we finally get to land in that place we have been circling yet never quite managed to get “in” to, we find that a great many things alter though the change in perspective may be subtle. With no expectations, no baggage, we simply become that divinely inspired meeting point of all that we are in the purely-creative pinpoint of each moment of self-exploration; one moment after another, ceaselessly rebirthing ourselves. Even if we have nothing to show for it but ourselves, we can never fail at this task and it will only ever lead us more swiftly and consistently towards our highest truth. Even if we seem to constantly change our minds or the direction we are heading in; even when we stop and start, backtrack, hesistate or take the slower, less obvious, route than other people seem to be taking, we are always in the process of creating our own greatest masterpiece or travelling our most divine path, right here and now if it is guided from this pin-point place where all our aspects meet like an internal compass of the heart. When the route we choose is all about following our own path and not about the distractions or collection of particular stop-offs we feel we “have” to make, we get to a place that is uniquely ours and which delivers something we were needing in that very moment, even though this may not be what we thought it would be. When we discover that we now have every choice at our fingertips…in fact, we can get our hands dirty with the stuff of life just as much as we want to from now on, but only in order to have some fun at being human and nothing to do with the old “slog and grind” that made it seem necessary or even better to go the long-hard way about doing anything, we dare to immerse ourselves in life without fear of being dragged back into the old ways of suffering and sacrifice. If things that used to feel just so important suddenly arn’t calling out to us any more, that’s fine; in fact its probably great. Think of it as a white noise switching off so we can better hear a brand new melody on the wind… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ancient routes, best of both worlds, breakthrough, embodiment, felting, feminine and masculine, grounding, megaliths, nuno felting, releasing old stories, route of life, spiritual journey, standing stones, we are our own creations, yin and yang
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