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All connected: navigating the tricky, sticky first experiences of realising our collective oneness
It’s never been more apparent that we are one giant organism…as connected as we have been made to feel disparate and separate. Ironically, though we seem even more separate than ever before, we are only proving this truism to ourselves and each other MORE right now, by feeling these awarenesses stirring in our own cells, often quite uncomfortably at first…and especially so during a dam-buster event such as New Year’s eve when all our boundaries come crashing down under the barrage of collective emotions. So, what now and how do we use this understanding to fuel a whole new collective momentum, towards a more positive state of affairs, in 2021 and beyond? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged 2021, all in this together, all related, awareness, bethechange, change of attitude, clairsentience, dealing with being an empath at new year, determination, empath, feeling the collective pain, higher consciousness, highly sensitive, hope, letsdothis, new beginning, oneness, optimism, rebirth, second chance, turning the page
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The unmistakable lightening of days
Let me take you on a walk through a city; am impromptu Imbolc ceremony with a difference. No green pasture this, no village tree surrounded by fields…but, rather, pavements cracked with gold that speak of new beginnings. As ever, my … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged against tyranny, balance, Boudica, Boudicca, brexit, Brigid's Day, Burne-Jones, Christoper E Street, city of gold, druids in London, earth connection, earth star, electrosensitivity, English eccentricity, enlightened city, fierce womanhood, Hampstead Heath, Helen Allingham, highly sensitive, Imbolc, intuition, light your own fire, London leylines, London's lost rivers, married to the Earth, Mary Magdalene, mass awakening, metoo, mothers and daughters, mystic, Nature in the city, new cycle, out of sight, personal growth, Pre-Raphaelites, rebirth, redheads, River Fleet, Rossetti, sacred feminine, sacred landscape London, sacred rivers, sacred sites, schumann resonance, silence breaker, silenced female, sisterhood, spiritual awakening, springtime, suppressed feminine, trees, trust in nature, vagina museum, visionary, what is Imbolc really about?, wild swimming, William Blake, William Morris, women take action
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Evolving through collective grief to the other side
Are we prepared to evolve? Really? Through all of our layers, to the very core of our being, fully commited to this in every way? Its such an important question and not being clear on this can prolongue a state of unacknowledged grieving for the “old norm”; grieving being a necessary process for both individuals and the collective…but not one we are meant to get stuck in for very long. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged birth of a new paradigm, chronic illness, collective grief, ecology, embracing change, fear of not being normal, feelings of foreboding, Gregg Braden, harmony, letting go of nostalgia, mercury detox, moving on from the past, neuroplasticity, new normal, overwhelm, physchology and evolution, processing collective and individual grief, rebirth, rewiring the body, sensitive soul, supporting your own evolution, transforming fear of change, turning point, we cant turn the clocks back, what is normal, working with the subconscious
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New growth out of old wood
New growth out of old wood is infinitely possible; we see it all the time, out in Nature, happening before our very eyes. Winter’s tree is reliably replaced by springtime’s new growth, to a pattern that always serves the purposes of the tree, however it may look from the outside. Whilst anyone may choose to withdraw inwards to suit the season, becoming as woody, barren, plain and withdrawn as they must be to meet the harsher climes of life, we still get to choose when to “sprout” our way out, in new and colourfully creative ways…over and over again, exactly as we say so… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged chronic pain, dissolving fear, feeling too much, hyper-sensitivity, Personal Development, rebirth, regeneration, self-limiting beliefs, synapses, synesthesia, tree wisdom
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Like a bee from a jar
Having just finished reading “Set Free: A Life Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan”, I realise suddenly that finding others people’s stories like this is terribly important to me and I am actively looking for more like this. Perhaps it is a sign that I am ready to join up with other people, even if only so far as noticing similar patterns in our experiences and smiling quietly to see those patterns in motion. Crossing paths with others operating from a dramatically reformatted and yet remarkably similar place to your own can be such encouragement. There is a powerful point of creative evolution, a sort of concentrated forward momentum, to be found in the meeting place between your two sets of experiences and the many ways that they are found to correspond; like the essence of oneness in action.
This book corresponded with my own experiences of a “tear it up and start again” life very powerfully and the real gift is that its author was prepared to overcome her initial misgivings to share what she did. I experience the same wobble and doubts about sharing my own story every time I write a blog…yet it feels to me that sharing the journey of awakening could be the most important thing that I am doing with my life (apart from taking the journey itself…). As above, I really hope that increasing numbers of people are prepared to hold their spiritual journeys somewhat less close to the chest in order to put these experiences out there since I suspect the time has come when we really need the encouragement of each other. We long to sense that we are not alone on these very intense personal journeys and to notice the patterns; for in those patterns, and the making conscious of them, we give even more wind to our collective sails…(extract from “Like a bee from the jar”). #SetFree #SpiritualAwakening
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Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Yoga
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Tagged Bhutan, Buddhism, complete chnage of lifestyle, east and west, eighth wave, Emma Slade, harmony, left and right hemispheres, living to a new paradigm, Nine Waves of Creation, ninth wave, Om Mani Padme Hum, PTSD, rebirth, recovery, sacred feminine, Set Free, spiritual awakening, spiritual breakthrough, the end of banking?, unity consciousness, when life breaks down...
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In every ending…a new beginning
The mother could not be such without the child, nor the beginning exist without the ending…and so we go on birthing ourselves through the creative fires of each other, joined together equally by the creative watery flow that courses back and forth; linked by both the “fire” and the “water” processes that generate who we are.
There is no imperative to have been through the literal birthing experience to know and understand this fundamental process of life since it is the basis of all experience; the yin and the yang in action. Many of us have been (or are going) through our own particular version of the kind of fire that transforms and yet we can trust that the water of healing and deeper understanding will always follow. I sense that the healing, invigorating and enlightening waters of this reality are on the brink of breaching their holding spaces and overflowing their edges right now, for all of us, as we collectively birth into the themes of the Aquarius age. Just as I am hearing from water across so many aspects of my life, I sense that we are collectively expectant (and just a little bit nervous…as is only natural) as we reach that equally collective moment of the waters breaking ready to birth something entirely new and transformational into our world. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged alchemy, astrology, awakening through the birth experience, birth trauma, catalyst, celebration of parenthood, darkest before the dawn, emotional trauma around giving birth, evolution, fear around birth, fire sign, going into labour, isolation of parenthood, kundalini and childbirth, kundalini rising, mother-daughter relationship, new moon, ode to motherhood, parenting alone, peacock, phoenix, post-natal depression, rebirth, remembering other lifetimes, sacred feminine, the gift of experience, transformation through fire, violet flame, water, waterfall, when kundalini burns, yin and yang
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Shaken not stirred…obviously the way we like it
As I wake up this morning to what I find I already knew before I opened my eyes, it seems we have chosen the route of most entropy in order to evolve. Not what so many of us wanted; not … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, In the news, Life choices, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged American election result, break down before build up, changing the paradigm, changing the world, cygnus, entropy, grace, healing the world, love, necessary healing, oneness, optimism, people power, power of love, rebirth, shaking things up, shedding light on broken systems, stepping out of fear, stronger than ever, swan, unity
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Uncommon alchemy: a Glastonbury tale
Repeatedly bumping into one or two people that you feel that you know and yet never saying a word to them (except with your eyes), knowing that they feel it too…these are the kind of clues to your own experience that present through the layers of Glastonbury. This along with so many signs and synchronicities that it is is quite possible to feel like you are entering a theme park dedicated to all of your own thematic threads, which gives it an air of detachment from everyday life that starts delivering as soon as you arrive. For this reason, I suspect, Avalon can only really be found through the portal of your own heart-journey, not somebody else’s route, so be prepared to give yourself up to this as fluidly as your timetable allows (preferably, having no such schedule). For my own part, I was struck by my choice of a week in October; an interesting choice, just before All Hallows and yet, I already suspected, going there when Somerset’s dark-pagan underbelly was closest to the surface was part of what was held in store for me…and it was.
Sharing an exceptional few days of pure alchemy working with the ancient landscape of Glastonbury…. (read on). Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Leylines, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged alchemy, All Hallows, apple tree, attracting your experiences, Avalon, Avalon of the Heart, contrast, Dion Fortune, dragon lines, end of separation, Fisher King, following your theme, germination, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor, grounding, Guinevere, healing water, holy grail, holy thorn, iron-rich water, King Arthur, labyrinth, leylines, light and dark, Michael and Mary leyline, Michael layline, overcoming fear, polarity, potential, rebalancing, rebirth, red berries, red lion, return to the womb, sacred feminine, sacred site, seed, shrine, synchroncitiy, The Chalice Well, The White Spring, transformation, twice-blossoming, vesica piscis, wholeness, winter blossom, yin and yang
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Spinning light
Many of us are natural-born spinners and don’t even know it; we spin stories around the fireside of our blogs or when we meet people who seem ready to listen and, of course, there is already so much “spin” in the world but then why should the big-manipulators, the game-players, have all the use of that skill set out there in the world? There is another “story” to be told about what is currently happening in this world and I know I am here to tell it; me as only one voice amongst so many others forming a chorus and so many of them the women who are finding their voices after eons of needing to be seen and not heard. Women have often spun together in groups and spinning our version of truth to each other and to our organically grown audience is a way that we get to revive that activity in a way that truly makes a difference because, together, we are spinning a brand new reality. Inspired by this and many others outlined in this post, I have decided to change the name of my blogging and social media “brand” from Scattering the Light to Spinning the Light (read on…) Continue reading →
Posted in Authorship, Blogging, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life journey, metaphor, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Writing
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Tagged Artemis, Athena, Blogging, come out of hiding, Consciousness, Egyptian, evolution, finding your voice, Freya, Frigg, goddess, Holda, Isis, light, lightworker, Maya, metaphor, motivation to write, new era, power of words, rebirth, rewrite your story, Rumpelstiltskin, sacred feminine, Sleeping Beauty, speaking your truth, spindle, spinning, spinning wheel, spiral, symbology, weaving, web, wool, writing, yarn
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Choosing a trajectory
Does a butterfly, on the brink of that first flight, with nothing but an instinct as her guide to something she has never done before, suddenly decide not to jump? Could anything persuade her that there was no point to it, that she might as well curl up and pretend to still be a caterpillar down there on the ground? Launching ourselves at that “future” version of ourselves (rather than harping upon the experiences and limitations of the past…as we have learned to do so very well) is exactly like being a butterfly that must first try out those newly unfolded wings without having a clue what they were intended for and yet we are at that point as soon as we say we are ready for it. My writing and painting is all about encouraging that next forward-leap and tuning into what is truly possible around the edges of what “seems” to be our world (click on the link to read so much more…)
This is a milestone post exploring the WHOLE journey I have been on and what motivates me as an artist and writer. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Leylines, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged addiction, alchemy, art, awakening, Biography, claiming your mastery, Consciousness, create your own reality, divinity, DNA, Elen of the Ways, embodied divinity, ending victimhood, enlightenment, evolution, frequency, future self, getting rid of lables, imaginal cells, jumping timelines, leylines, making sense of life, metamorphosis, metaphor, mirror-touch synaesthesia, multi-dimensional experience, nothing is a mistake, quantum healing, rebirth, reincarnation, sacred feminine, sacred landscape, shaman, sovereignty, spiritual awakening, surrendering, synaesthesia, syncronicity, taking a leap into the unknown, taking back your power, transformation, visionary, we are the ones we've been waiting for
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