Walking the Ancient Path in a Modern World
In this post I want to bring together some of the themes of the year, and associate key posts with those themes. Together they forms a description of my spiritual year for 2016. THEME 1 – Taliesin: bardic work, light, awen and courage. IMBOLC: Brigid at Derbyshire sites such as Gawton’s Well. I experienced the … Read More “2016 Summary of the Year” »
Any creative act can have its moments of high intensity, and then some lulls. When you have a creative project under way the lulls are like having a headache – you don’t really want them and you feel as though they are somewhat forced upon you. So it was that this month “real life events” … Read More “London 2016 – The Return of the Spirit of Creation” »
Judy Hall – one of the foremost active authors on crystal working, has a new book out: Life-Changing Crystals. I was interested enough to consider whether the information that she was giving out in her book had general relevance – could anyone and everyone find the same uses for these crystals? I dowsed each of the crystals she … Read More “Crystals are personal” »
This post is from memory, since the events it describes occurred April 2010. At that time I was in the midst of writing my book “Active Enlightenment” (plug intended). I was probably about two-thirds done and had come to what is called, in the trade…writers block. I had tried all sorts to get myself moving, … Read More “Re-Calling the Muse” »
This year begins much as last year began, except that the world has turned throughout hundreds of spins and travelled once around our major light source to measure out a year in its dizzy cycle. Our wavering Moon has ebbed and flowed with the tides over those long months and has lit our path on … Read More “Alderley Edge 2011 – consternation and confirmation” »
I have just finished the book “Exploring the World of the Druids” by Miranda J. Green (see previous posting). My opinion of it is that it would make a fine textbook for a knowledge-hungry student, but I felt it lacked any real appreciation of druidry as a philosophy, and had too much reliance on the … Read More “Tales from the texts – part 1” »
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