Walking the Ancient Path in a Modern World
For a while I’ve felt that I needed a staff that is more practical than my too-obvious antlered yew staff. The yew staff was right at the time, and is good for ceremonial occasions, but is impractical, too decorative, and was fashioned by someone else. I felt I needed something more subtle that I can carve … Read More “Spring Equinox 2015 p5 – Oak Staff of Sherwood” »
The next stop on our Easterly journey was to another place that we had visited only once before – Dale Hermitage. The hermitage is a rock-cut chamber scoured from the sandstone above the village of Dale Abbey. The abbey of the village name if a scant ruin now, and the hermitage is much more energetically … Read More “Spring Equinox 2015 p4 – Dark Shadows and Christos Energy” »
Having found very little in the way of sacred sites to keep us in Rutland or Leicestershire we headed northwards towards Nottinghamshire. We had in mind to head for Dale Hermitage, but there would be an unexpectedly pleasant detour first, for as we passed round the outskirts of Nottingham a place popped into mind – … Read More “Spring Equinox 2015 p3 – Hemlock Stone vortex” »
It had been an excellent day so far and there was no reason why it shouldn’t continue as such. So it was a surprise when we arrived at the top of Cat Stone hill looking for a sacred site. From the picture that we had it seemed that this was both a large site and … Read More “Earth Healing : Beltane 2013 – 3” »
Well, what a year. Or rather what a slow year. To be more accurate it has been a spurts and sputters kind of year as far as sacred journeys go. We had a fabulous trip out to Delphi in Greece that seemed to be the promise of something special. But then the weather back home … Read More “The Hermit and the Sun : Beltane 2013 – 2” »
When writing up these quests we tend to go for the salient and relevant points. However we have so often find that innocuous little details play significant parts and so, more for ourselves than anything else we add those bits here – just in case. Here is one such entry. Gwas wanted to visit a well … Read More “Sister and the Well: Beltane 2013 – 1” »
I had deliberately kept the number of site visits low for Beltane. The daylight hours are still short, the distance we had to travel to get there was sufficient to drain away the day, and I wanted to be able to feel ‘unhurried’ when we got to a site. Almost as if enhancing this mood … Read More “Beltane 2013 p2 – Wilderness and Laughter” »
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