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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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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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The feminine is becoming hardy
I love to take signs and clues from my everyday environment…so when the sweet peas that, all my life, have only ever flowered midsummer are still coming in my garden in November(!), I take that as a very good sign. Through wind, rain, low temperatures and frost, they just keep coming…though, in previous years, I’ve considered myself very fortunate indeed when they’ve bloomed for just two or three weeks in July. I see it as a clue that the much-needed feminine aspect in our world is becoming hardier. She is sustaining and holding herself tall and yet tender (still being herself…) in the face of all the elements that might throw themselves at her, making the frosted mornings her own to become part of an unfamiliar season; a new paradigm, if you will. Her fragility has become her very strength in a garden where even the leaves of the trees have long-since given up and withdrawn… Continue reading →
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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On track for non-duality: healing the rift by walking its path
This post is a long and winding path but I invite you to join me on it. Along the way, I stitch together so many observational threads about the feminine as guardian of “the long straight path” and where we are all headed in a world that is venturing beyond duality. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Leylines, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged ancient routes, are cities all the same now?, ayurveda, Belinu, Belinus Line, borders, Carl Johan Calleman, Carmino de Santiago, divine feminine, dragon lines, east and west, electro-sensitivity, Elen of the Ways, evolution, female, feminine solutions for the world, following clues, following intuition, gaining the overview, getting out of fear mindset, goddess wisdom, healing ourselves, healing rifts, healing the rift between male and female, healing the world, left and right hemispheres, listening to instinct, long straight path, Mabinogion, metaphor, Naturno, Naturns, ninth wave, oneness, openness and connection, sacred feminine, Saint Proculus Church Naturns, Sarn Helen, sovereignty, stop trying to conquor nature, synchronicity, the journey more than the destination, the journey of life, The Nine Waves of Creation, transformational effect of mountains, transformational journeys, twelth degree longitude, Tyrol, unity consciousness, vata spacial-awareness, walking meditation, Way of Saint James, where are we headed?
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The feminine has landed…so how do we induce her to stay?
…As the feminine learns to dare to take down her blockade and end her long denial of her own natural receptivity (having fully reactivated the divine integrity that keeps her perpetually intact from within), the male learns how much more fulfilling it is to give (not force) and how to enjoy holding something like a tender embrace (not an imprisonment or statement of ownership) once again. And as the feminine deigns to come into this arrangement, wanting to stay, to receive, to be offered the structures in which she can be her most playful and unlimited self, we all get to experience wholeness…together. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ayurveda, divine guidance, doshas, eighth wave, Eve, feminism, heal the world, healing the masculine, healing women, kundalini, living goddess, male and female realtionship, mid-life thriving, ninth wave, pitta, pudendal nerve, receptivity, return of the goddess, root chakra, sacred feminine, shakti, trust, unity consciousness, vata, vulnerability, wholeness, woman wisdom, women and shame, yin-yang
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Walls of honey
In my last blog, I shared a story about the two thousand-year old fortress walls that I noticed were alive with loudly humming bees flitting in and out of a small hole in the mortar; how I took this as a sign of hope. It became, for me, a metaphor made manifest of how something built to be hard, rigid and intractable had been broken open by something small, soft, honeyed…and it was like imagining egg yoke running over from the edges of the most surprising kind of shell, broken open before my very eyes. It encompassed the feeling of the kind of surprise we are set to experience as our world…the world we think we know so very well, that many of us have become so jaded and derogatory about…breaks open to reveal an inner softness; its own honeyed centre waiting to pour out like the sustenance we are all waiting for… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged a more expansive approach to diagnosis, beehive, bees, choosing our reality, choosing outcome, concept of the future, east and west hemispheres, futurist vision, healing the world, healthy relationships, how to navigate a diagnosis of illness, left and right brain hemispheres, Nine Waves of Creation, power of intention, quantum healing, quantum reality, spontaneous remission, the ninth wave, what will the ninth wave "look like", yin-yang
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Living from the centre
There is a place that I go…that I’ve worked with…for well over a decade now; you could call it my spiritual hub, somewhere I walk to process things through, even when I don’t know that I’m processing them or needing to work anything out. It doesn’t really matter to my readers where the place is; it could be anywhere and you probably have one similar of your own, somewhere that draws you to it, repeatedly, though you hardly know why. Long before I came to understand how I work with this particular landscape, as an externalised “model” of some inner landscape that I am also walking through, I came to this place and found a special solace from being there, like it helped me unravel parts of myself that might otherwise have remained in an unfathomable tangle. Through my feet, its features helped me untangle and make simpler what was otherwise unfathomably complex; layer upon layer, through many years’ walks that became littered with symbolism, adding a richness of association that was built upon each time I went there (which was often)…read on… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ancient landscape, Carl Johan Calleman, Consciousness, east and west hemispheres, finding wholeness, hemsipheres, holding centre, left and right brain hemispheres, Nine Waves of Creation, place in the middle, sacred feminine, shamonic experience, symbolic journey, the ninth wave, unity consciousness, void, working with symbols in the landscape
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Love letter to myself
The last decade has been a self-righting, a sort of rescue operation and a slow-steady reunion of two aspects of myself that had become exaggeratedly fragmented (I know now) expressly so I could learn how to put myself back together … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged communication with your Higher Self, healing, healing the rift, left and right hemispheres, love letter to myself, reconciling the past, seeing things from higher perspective, self-love, yin&yang
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Shaking up life’s algorithms
Sometimes just for fun, or because a silly-summery mood takes me over, I dive into something completely outside of my usual musical taste, you could say my comfort zone, into something frivolous, unexpected or as though I am become someone else for a holiday. Different cultures, completely different styles; there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain when you get to dip in to it all so freely as we now can do. Partly, its as though I am trying to throw some part of me off my own scent when I experiement, surprising myself into feeling something fresh. And indeed, these diversions do throw off the algorithms associated with my Spotify account, serving to pepper-up my future weekly lists with weird and wonderful suggestions aimed at meeting this new seasoning where it crosses with my more familiar choices. These diversions not only freshen up my “here and now” but, quite often, throw up some of the more interesting fusions of music that are some of my most treasured recent discoveries; where cultures and eras cross over into a free-for-all of musical taste. And, believe me, all these options exist out there – the world’s most diverse musical taste has never been more experiemental and available in a way that explorers like me help to encourage. In other words, my preparedness to open-up my taste a little now feeds into the potential for me to explore a lot more in the future. I am offered new and ever more creative shades of experience that might never have come up for me to sample had I stuck to the well trodden route of my more-typical music taste accessed in a more traditional way.
This is a post about music…or is it! Continue reading →
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Tagged diversity of choice, eighth wave, evolution, evolving musical taste, expanding boundaries, exploring new territory, intention, music, ninth wave, openness, Spotify, The Nine Waves of Creation, willingness to experience new things
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