Walking the Ancient Path in a Modern World
Why wouldn’t you want to go out on a wet and windy night to climb up a steep hill in the dark to visit a stone circle on an exposed ridge? Such rhetoric did play momentarily in my mind, but I ignored its facetiousness, and went anyway. The Corvus Correspondence As I arrived at the … Read More “Moel-Ty-Uchaf 2016 – Flickering Venus and Forgiveness” »
It has become almost a tradition for me to do a tarot reading in order to both frame the year, and to inspire my outings. This year I had not felt the need to do a reading until March. This surprised me, but I went with the feeling. Now was the time. As usual I … Read More “Camelot Tarot 2015 – The First Half” »
Imbolc began this year for me while I was meditating in the middle of Delamere Forest at midnight. Having felt the combined feminine forces of The Maid (Brigid) and The Crone (Morrigan/Cailleach) then I knew that my ventures the next day would now be filled with beautiful connections. Kal and I had planned a full … Read More “Imbolc 2015 p1 – The Robin at Arthurs Well” »
The road up to Cerrig Arthur stone circle is narrow and steep. It climbs sharply out of the town of Barmouth, winding at precarious angles until it settles into a straight line ascent above the seaside town. From houses through woods then out into open fields the road lifts you clear of the roar of … Read More “Cerrig Arthur and The Seven Sleepers 2015” »
I originally named this post “The Second Arthur Site 2015” because it forms a part of what I now realise will be a series of posts that aim to describe a journey throughout the year. This journey will encompass many ancient sites related to King Arthur, and the signature of the site will be that … Read More “Arthurs Table and the Landscape Zodiac” »
If I had researched the geographical locations of the sites we were intending to visit I would have placed this one last. As it happens it was positioned in the middle of the day, but as you may have come to expect – it turns out we visited the site at exactly the right time. … Read More “Winter Solstice 2014 p3 – Arrows point to Arthur” »
This is the first in a short series of tales about my journey into the darkest depths of Yorkshire for the Winter Solstice this year. It was only one day’s outing, yet it managed to encompass a number of new sacred sites and to throw up a number of amazing synchronicities between the work that … Read More “Winter Solstice 2014 p1 – Thornborough, Arthur and Death” »
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