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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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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Her fragility has become her very strength in a garden where even the leaves of the trees have long-since given up and withdrawn… Continue reading →
Wanting more
When did we make it so wrong to want more? My own discontentment seems to eat me, eat at my life; there’s no settling any more, frustration bites at my heels. Like a cat on a hot tin roof, I hop from foot to foot, barely knowing what I want but wanting something.
This thing was always there, I realise; only it was holed up in a prison cell of sorts, like a wild animal in a cage in my dungeon. So all the time I was telling myself that I’m being ever-so humble, grateful and contented I was really wanting more than I ever said. For many women, it comes up like a guilty secret to start with and then you realise that all the little things were only ever attached to the bigger things; wanting more for the planet, for its people, for it all…especially the earth, that love of your life. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged allowing ourselves to want, changing the world, crone, divine feminine, female frustration, fire of transformation, heat, kundalini rising, lioness, menopause fire, phoenix, pitta, rising heat, sacred feminine, unleashing the goddess, vata, wild woman, woman power, women awakening, women rising
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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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Glass butterflies II
Glass Butterflies is a growing collection of photographs depicting butterflies in juxtaposition with glass: under frames, next to windows, inside glass houses…a metaphor that has deeply informed my painting, writing and thinking for a number of years. As well as taking me on a journey of deeply personal exploration, these synchronistic experiences have everything to do with releasing the Sacred Feminine from her “box” whilst learning to appreciate how that feminine aspect can be allowed to settle upon a much more equal and balanced relationship with the male-oriented, left-hemispherical “structures” of our three-dimensional reality. In a sense, the butterfly learns to work with “the box” on her terms and in ways that enhance her innate qualities; which is the very marriage of fluidity and form that underpins the art-process, taking “inspiration” through the journey of the creative act to where we have something tangible that we can interface with as a three-dimensional form of expression. As you can tell, the metaphor has many layers and continues to develop as one of the long-running themes of my experience. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal art, Architecture, Art, Art in the living space, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Installation art, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Photography, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Windows in art
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Tagged art and consciousness, art and evolution, balancing left and right hemispheres, butterflies in art, butterfly metaphor, divine feminine, inspiration, metamorphosis, sacred feminine, the ninth wave, yin and yang
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Out of the box
Perhaps Pandora was only ever meant to be the counter-impulse to a world that became so fixated upon compartmentalising everything that it was missing the point (or denying) that there is so much more than that which can be defined or pigeon-holed by the mind. Perhaps she was our safety-catch, primed to spring apart at just the right moment to save ourselves from our own self-defeating, self-limiting intellects. Perhaps many of us have experienced the unleashing of our own internal Pandora in recent years or decades and it is the combined effect of all these boxes springing open as one (mimicking many breakdowns and disasters in our lives…but, all of them, evolutionary in their nature) that is manifesting our next biggest evolutionary leap forwards. Who knows what small (or significant) part these archetypes have played, even as depicted in well-timed artworks hung on the walls of places where we spent our formative years; who know what a painting in a college full of women did for over thirty years at a key time in history (one of many drops in an evolutionary ocean). What makes a story such as hers ebb in and out of favour across the annuls of time yet never fully disappearing, even when we have tried to bury it deep in the basement under layers of dust? Yet, not to be set back by that unpromising outcome (much like many of us…) she found her way back into the daylight. Perhaps she has been pushing forwards with her message, with even more vigour than ever; the somewhat inconvenient wake-up call suggesting we might all want to let ourselves out of that mind-box once in a while. Whilst there were always going to be those that weren’t ready to hear her, I take heart from the fact there were others who were prepared to seek her out from her cobwebs and put her back in full view where she was always meant to be….(read more).
The true story of a painting lost and refound and how the way this became woven into my own life-story helped me to appreciate and understand the opening-up of my own personal Pandora’s Box as the evolutionary process that it was.
Posted in Art, Art history, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Artists, Biography, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, History, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged divine feminine, Dr Carl Calleman, Eve, evolution, Garden of Eden, heightened experience, JD Batten, left and right hemispheres, ninth wave, Pandora, Pre-Raphaelite, quantum-hollographic perspective of history, return of the right hemisphere, rise of feminism, St Andrews Hall Reading University, suppression of the female, The Nine Waves of Creation, yin-yang
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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 →
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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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Getting over the ultimate catastrophe
What I had hit upon…what indeed we are talking about here is a mass case of post-traumatic stress disorder that we all share and which variable triggers in our environment (that is, anything we have come to associate with “catastrophe” at the deepest levels) may well being “playing” inside of us like notes on a piano as these memories ask to be shown to the light of our consciousness so we can heal this planet as one. If we are alive, here and now, we are (at DNA level) survivors of this unthinkable cataclysm that took place in near-history (so, first off, congratulate yourself for that!) and yet it has remained completely suppressed by the orthodox version of history that we are taught and also by our own bodies, which have in effect volunteered to bury the information because it was just too painful to be seen. Such locked away trauma has a tendency to play out through our unconscious behaviour patterns and so-called irrational fears and, sooner or later…in order to heal…must see the light of day by being made conscious. Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient civilizations, ancient technology, Atlantis, Avebury, Barbara Hand Clow, buried trauma, cataclysm, catastophy, changing seasons, debilitating fear, deep psychological wound, divine feminine, DNA, electro-sensitivity cause, healing through remembering, healing trauma, making trauma conscious, mass trauma, post-traumatic stress, pre-menstrual symptoms root cause, precession of the equinoxes, psychology of seasonal affective disorder, re-writing history, return to the garden of Eden, seasons, Stonehenge, stop fearing the future, triggers, yin and yang
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Now is the time…
I loved this novel so much and, like all the best and most timely reads, I chose it almost by accident, feeling my way into the author via a particular root I was following (“root” feels like exactly the right … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alice Walker, ayahuasca, divine feminine, flow, grandmother, Now is the time to open your heart, review, river, shaman, shamanic journey, yagé
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Bless all the lambs
Their immense zest for life is the very thing that arrests me when I watch the lambs; the way these wooly youngsters engage with absolutely everything their idyllic green world has to offer, from the comedic pheasants walking by to the playful breeze that seem to whip them into jumping spirals of the most erratic motion, like leaves lifting off the ground. They race each other in playful gangs and they collaborate with audacious climbing partners, vying to get to the top. They suddenly leap up, bronking and bucking with bizarre spring-loadedness as though the ground has just tickled them. Then, when just as suddenly spent, they gravitate to their ever watchful mother’s side and succumb to warm grassy patches where, alone or in twin pairs, they meditate away all the gentle hours, eyes half closed and, yes, a kind of smile on their faces; apparently transported by an enviable ability to surrender themselves fully to the moment. Then again, suddenly up on those spring-loaded feet, they’re back to scrambling to that water’s edge, conquering the tree stump or forming pyramids on each other’s backs. If you have ever enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching a pack of dogs playing or even (for that matter) human children, these are really no different and their joie de vive is contagious as you watch. Continue reading →
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Tagged animal welfare, averting our gaze, blessing things, blessings, changing the world, creation, cultural conditioning, disconnect, divine feminine, emotional disconnect, empowerment, energy, expanded consciousness, focus, follow your bliss, follow your own course, how to help animals, intention, joy, lack of honesty around meat consumption, living what you believe, mainstream media, mass produced meat, namaste, not facing what we don't like, optimism is power, overwhelm, passion, personal genius, pessimism undermines us, post-traumatic stress, power of intention setting, power of positivity, prayer, vegetarian, visualisation, waterfalls
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