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Month: July 2012

Between the Earth and Stars podcast

Posted on July 31, 2012 By Gwas No Comments on Between the Earth and Stars podcast
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You may notice that I’ve added a new podcast to the list in the sidebar? OK – you might not have noticed, but I have done that. I have been listening to Oraia the Sphinx‘s podcast for a few months now and am finally catching up on the many wonderful shows that she puts out … Read More “Between the Earth and Stars podcast” »

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The Soul of A Car

Posted on July 30, 2012 By Gwas 8 Comments on The Soul of A Car
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Does a car have a soul? How can a piece of metal and plastic have anything as ephemeral and mystical as a ‘soul’? What do I mean by this? Let me address some of these definitions before I start my story.

What I am talking about here is the thought-form that is created by a human when they have spent time with an object. The thoughts, the fears, the highs and the lows – the emotional content and its resultant energy – can become imbued into an object, I believe. I believe we leave energetic traces of ourselves all over the place. We leave energy in the objects we interact with (through touch or through proximity or even through applying our attention to something). This energy imprint is renewed and re-energised every time we release emotion inside the car. In this way we build an energetic imprint.

If we choose to give that energetic imprint “form”, say for example by giving the car a name, or even just by considering that the car has a “soul” then we often talk about a car’s “personality”. This is what I am talking about when I mention a car’s soul – its collection of residual human energy frequencies, and these frequencies can coalesced into a single subtle energy form through an act of will.

Right, so now you know what I am talking about hopefully when I tell you the tale of how my old car said goodbye to me recently. Here’s the story.

Full Spiral With A Car

I have been from one end of the country to the other with my last car. It was a Subaru Legacy estate which was great for all the off-road driving that I did down bumpy dirt tracks in all weathers. When the car began to politely inform me that it was approaching the end of its useful life and wanted to be retired from such arduous work (via warning lights on the dashboard, not by any psychic means) then I knew it was time for us to part.

Subaru Legacy – a reliable 4-wheel drive car

As I drove out to Sherwood Forest the GPS took me down the roads through Buxton and Chesterfield to get to the destination. It seemed the most direct route, and in terms of time it was estimated at 1h 40 from my starting point. On the way back from the forest I again set the SatNav to take me home, as I have only been to this area once before and wasn’t convinced I would be able to navigate my way out. Straight away I noticed that the directions were not the reverse of the way I had come in. The route was different, but still timed at 1h 40 so I assumed it would be the same route back, but perhaps via a slightly different road initially.

As we got further into the journey I realised we were going a totally different way. I was being taken back via Sheffield and down the Snake Pass past Ladybower Reservoir. As we made our winding way down the pass I noticed a solitary white sign on a post pointing up to the hills – “Holmfirth“. My mind jolted. Where did I know that town name from? Then it struck me – that was a town close to the dealership in Honley where I had bought the car, and I had driven through Holmfirth when I first took the car home. This very road was the route I had taken to drive it back! What an amazing coincidence!

I mentioned the coincidence to Kal, and he said, “It’s the car saying goodbye.” M said the same thing later when I relayed the tale. This made me sit and think about the car. Had something at a subliminal level or via some other means brought me back to the starting point with this car? After all – there are only two times that I have driven that route in this car – once when I picked it up, and this last outing to a sacred site in it. Literally the next day I was due to drive the car down to the dealership where I would trade it in for a newer one.

I needed to find out more about this, so I began to think about what the incident might be telling me about energy and ‘inanimate’ materials.

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Spread of the Dragon at New Moon

Posted on July 26, 2012 By Gwas 6 Comments on Spread of the Dragon at New Moon
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In the second part of the Sherwood excursion you find the two intrepid excursioneers trying to navigate themselves through the forest after leaving The Major Oak. We were heading for a mound labelled on the modern maps as Hanger Hill. I knew it to be Thynghowe, reputedly a meeting point for druids and a moot hill of ancient times according to the available written record and mythology. I had dowsed that this particular place was my spiritual centre in the mainland of Britain, and now we were trying to locate it.

Of course I had printed out a detailed Ordnance Survey map of the area, and then forgotten to bring it with me. Usual stuff. So I reverted to my new favourite navigation app – ViewRanger. Oddly Sherwood Forest had a 3G connection near to the Visitor Centre, so I downloaded the map squares covering the forest and within seconds I had the same detailed OS maps on my phone. Wow – techno-drude to the rescue! I can’t recommend ViewRanger highly enough. It’s the navigation app with everything in one place – perfect for a travelling Hedge Druid.

At the Major Oak I had seen a vision of the Thynghowe mound. It was a low hill upon which I was standing. As I stood at its centre several vortexes of subtle energy grew around me until they became one large vortex spiralling upwards in a woven tapestry of energy threads, each thread phosphorescent with its own colour. It was a beautiful vision. Now I wondered whether reality would live up to the vision?

On the way to the mound I began thinking about my current quest – to open the third eye chakra. The visions I have been having recently seem to be good evidence that this aspect of my psychic work is improving every time I try it. What is holding me back is that I seem to be getting fewer opportunities to practise this kind of thing. Nevertheless I was pleased that I could get information much more easily now, and with far less energetic input than I have needed previously. Something is changing.

The Hidden Mound

As we walked towards Hanger Hill the rain eased up. Kal even danced a little skippy jig at the prospect that the sun might come out. I didn’t think so, but I’ve been proved wrong too many times to be so obviously pessimistic. We walked the long path to the mound and on the way I saw a sign that made me laugh. It read “Warning Forest Operations“, but I saw the potential for a bit of fun so I took this photograph:

Stupid signs warn of forest dangers

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The Heartbeat of Sherwood

Posted on July 24, 2012July 27, 2012 By Gwas No Comments on The Heartbeat of Sherwood
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Often I need to squeeze an evening out of nowhere in order to get my spiritual path moving a little. I had been stagnating for a while, burdened by “life” getting in the way of what I wanted to do. It happens sometimes. So, I made some time and invited Kal to come with me on a ridiculous quest to Sherwood Forest in the early evening. This evening I would feel the heartbeat of the forest, discover a hidden sacred site, and have a vision that would leave me wondering what I had got involved in! Here’s the first half of that tale.

Unlike my previous visit to the forest I had a particular reason for being here tonight. Last time I had met the Spirit of Place which we all know as the legendary Robin, a title later to be assumed or subsumed into a figure who some believe may have real historical roots – it’s a long debate for another time. On this occasion I was in search of the place known as Thynghowe, an ancient artificial mound that I consider to me my spiritual centre in the land on this side of the Irish Sea. Of course, as I explained in my previous post about finding the centre – it’s not a case of finding the physical exact centre based upon geography. It’s a spiritual place, and I was here to find out what that meant for me.

You may remember that my reason for locating this centre was a vision I had that I called “the dragon at the solstice centre”? Well, I was late for the solstice part of that, but I was in the right place regarding the dragon element. “Thing” places are the mounds of ancient law-giving, renowned as meeting places and moot hills, and central to the lands in which they are situated. They also usually have a tale of dragons fighting associated with them. I understood that to mean a site where male and female energies interacted in an interesting way – sometimes in conflict, sometimes in harmony.

Information board about Sherwood Forest

As we arrived I could already see that it was more resplendent in Summer than it had been in Winter. Obvious, really, but would it feel good too? It was  a wet day everywhere, especially through Derbyshire, and the sky was grey and the air filled with drizzle. We got kitted out for the occasion. It was New Moon, and only days before Ramadan. New Moon generally means a time of difficult energy working for me, given that I am a moon-oriented energy person. So it would turn out to be.

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Finding my spiritual centre in England

Posted on July 21, 2012 By Gwas 1 Comment on Finding my spiritual centre in England
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There are many ways that people have devised to find the centre of lands. From the beginnings of recorded history and probably much before then humans have established centres of land masses in order to establish a “pole” – a symbolic tree whose roots are planted in the core of the planet and whose branches … Read More “Finding my spiritual centre in England” »

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A Summer of Re-Balancing

Posted on July 19, 2012July 19, 2012 By Gwas 1 Comment on A Summer of Re-Balancing
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This short post is motivated by the incessant occurrence of a single topic of conversation related to the British people’s favourite subject: the weather. One of the popular topics amongst those who fail to keep track of life is the wail against the weather spouting from every mouth like some Romanesque fountain figure: “Why is … Read More “A Summer of Re-Balancing” »

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Essential Elements of Natural Magick

Posted on July 17, 2012July 17, 2012 By Gwas No Comments on Essential Elements of Natural Magick
Natural Magick, Theory

I have been re-visiting some of the essential elements of the magickal work that I do. Sometimes when working I forget various parts of these elements that I have found to be essential components to the success of such work. When I forget to employ all five of the elements in the process of doing … Read More “Essential Elements of Natural Magick” »

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