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Revisiting the Venetian labyrinth
What can we learn from the dying stars of the previous era; those places that thrived without apparent rhyme or reason due to a particular mix in their qualities? There’s much to learn when we come to realise that certain places asserted a particular energy (first) and then humans came along and interpreted that energy through their actions, expressing them as what looks like human life, human decisions, human preoccupations, human mastery. So what made people settle in this swampy, mosquito-ridden place, for instance; what made them just so determined to be here that they exercised all their powers of ingenuity to build where there was almost nothing to build on, to keep innovating, starting over from scratch when the waters reclaimed all their efforts, learning from their mistakes in order to build a city that became an empire and a spiritual, cultural, commercial tour de force of the separation era? What can we take away from that, on the inside, once we come to understand that the global mind is a mirror-image of the human mind, with all the same bells and whistles? My experiences of 30 years visiting this extraordinary place thew up some answers for me earlier this month. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged autonomy, awakening, awareness, balance, Carl Johan Calleman, end of separation, energy node, energy of place, global mind, heart resonance, human evolution, labyrinth, left and right brain hemispheres, light and dark, masculine and feminine, ninth wave, planetary mind, quantum evolution, shamonic journey, tree of life, Venice, working with places, yin-yang
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The frequency of birds
Exploring the higher frequency language of birds; its power to heal, and so much more; a subject so close to my heart that I have a lot to share… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art transformation tool, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged 7th dimension, A Sky of Honey, Aerial, Anni Sennov, Barbara Hand Clow, blackbird song, celebration, crystal frequencies, darkest before the dawn, geomagnetic, good news, healing bird song, Kate Bush, magnetic fields, multi-dimensional, Prelude, repairing DNA, Saint Francis preaching to birds, sound healing, synchronicity, The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions
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Crystalising
At the weekend, I had a fundamentally life-altering experience as I stood beside the iron-red waters of Glastonbury’s Chalice Well, in its serene garden-setting (which was just starting to bloom with spring blossom and other early flowers); trite though that sounds. … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Leylines, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged AuraTransformation, balance, balancing masculine and feminine, crystal energy, crystalisation, distorted feminine, distorted masculine, divine feminine, divine masculine, embodying the crystal energy, Glastonbury, healing, heart coherence, leylines, Michael and Mary leyline, New Time energy, oneness, sacred landscape, sacred sites, self discovery, The Chalice Well, The White Spring
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The magic of snow
A walk in the snow when snow is so rare, thus gilded by the brushstrokes of relative unfamiliarity, can take you out of yourself and remind you of currents of experience outside of the sequential… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development, Seasons, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, experience across time, magical walk, multiple timelines, mystical, non-linearity, not expecting anything particular, outside of time, reincarnation, removing experience filters, seeing beyond the ordinary, sensory experiences, sixth sense, snow, softening effect of snow, synesthesia, time portal, woodland
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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.
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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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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