On Thursday I drove north in sunshine. The hedgerows are fuzzed with the first tender, tentative leaves. Catkins sway in the breeze and even the untended verges beside the road
Tag: perception
Thursday in the northThursday in the north
Thursday dawned hopefully over Derbyshire. It was the day of our monthly meeting so we headed out for Great Hucklow, where our party converged from various directions on the Queen
Spirit-Born…Spirit-Born…
Tarot Card – The Magician: A conduit of forces From High to Low * ‘Love under will shall be the whole of the law…’ *** The wind blows where it
GoliathGoliath
Image source: Linkedin * It has been a lousy weekend. How’s that for a start to a cold, wet Monday? The wind demolished the fence and it is now beyond
After the Flood…After the Flood…
* ‘After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.’ * When men began to increase on the earth daughters were born to them… The Sons of God saw
An open mindAn open mind
* “You’ve got problems, you know that?” I just looked at him… the usual answer was superfluous; he knows it well enough by now. “I was just thinking those exact
One name…One name…
Tarot Card – The Lovers: ‘open up and get out of the way.’ * ‘Leaf and flame hath but one name’ * Yva followed on Abadam’s heels, “O Abadam,” she
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*** Having considered the physical, psychological and spiritual structures of the human being, we now examine how these interact with our ability to ACT… Not something that should be taken
Petals, wood and stonePetals, wood and stone
Friday the four of us met as usual at the Queen Anne in Great Hucklow for lunch and business before the evening’s meeting. It was a damp day, not particularly
Gardening…?Gardening…?
The honeysuckle hedge has got a little overgrown, The roses have gone loopy and the lawn has not been mown, Valerian is sprouting out of every nook and cranny… And
Lazarus…Lazarus…
*** Tarot Card – Death: although the ground is strewn with body parts a glorious sun rises on the horizon. * ‘Loose him and let him go’ John 11.44 ***
A misbehaving mindA misbehaving mind
“Susan…” I was never called Susan. Except when I was in trouble. I looked up; Miss Bedford, blue eyes wide under raised brows, looked down with a severity belied by
Wilderness…Wilderness…
*** Tarot Card – The Devil, In this instance, represents the Egoic Nature. * ‘You were a sealer of the sum…’ The Living One * …Then was he led up
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*** A Dickens of a Christmas! Tonight our talk mixes the mystical darkness of the solstice plus a little humour… ‘Timeless Darkness’ – Three days of liminality… And what to
Wells…Wells…
It is a goodly while since I was last at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. Three years, when I think…Back then I took fewer photographs…though my friend still commented upon quite
Turn of the wheelTurn of the wheel
The car pulled out in front of me and stood out from the rest of the traffic like the proverbial sore thumb. I followed it up the long road towards
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Rider Waite Tarot *** A Walk with Death… Death is one of the most important things about our lives, and yet many people have remarkably shallow views on it, preferring
Portals…Portals…
* “In the programme…” said the man wearing a green-kilt, * * “…the portal-stones lead to another time.” * * “He’s referring to a television programme,” said Wen, quietly. *
Where do they go to?…Where do they go to?…
* …And the Wood-Stone started to glow, White it was… * * And I felt an impetus to take flight, but only as far as the end of the passage…
Into the Hill…Into the Hill…
* Further vindication of our unscheduled return was granted upon re-entering the chamber. The free standing stone and the facing stone, which were separated by space and shadow, were both
Inner Sanctum…Inner Sanctum…
* The thing is… It is impossible to ‘do’ such sites in one visit. In fact, it is not possible to ‘do’ such sites at all. If anything, they
The road home…The road home…
* Wen and I are back on the road which leads past Bryn Celli Ddu… We had to double-back to the hotel because someone called down ‘Cloud City’ before we
Nice weather for ducksNice weather for ducks
It has been raining yet again. So much for getting anything done outside today. Walking the dog will be enough. The camera is getting used to it by now. Though
Hidden Avebury…Hidden Avebury…
* … And from Needles of Stone, to Avenues, or at least, what remains of one… * The ‘Mary Line’ which we had been following from Cornwall runs right through
The Great Mystery: Dreaming…The Great Mystery: Dreaming…
* The mystery conspires with the animal world whose souls so resemble the purity and innocence of a human child. * It recognises the miracle of life in both seed