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Yew Breathing and New Learning

Posted on October 11, 2016 By Chris No Comments on Yew Breathing and New Learning
Yew Breathing and New Learning
Trees

It has been a while since I have visited the wisdom keeper that is the Llangernyw Yew tree. I was feeling that I should, even though I felt oddly out of kilter with the place. Maybe this  was an opportunity to recover myself, to recover my attachment to the tree, and to remember the good … Read More “Yew Breathing and New Learning” »

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Meadowsweet, Larks and Loughcrew – Summer 2015 – P1

Posted on July 22, 2015July 27, 2015 By Chris No Comments on Meadowsweet, Larks and Loughcrew – Summer 2015 – P1
Meadowsweet, Larks and Loughcrew – Summer 2015 – P1
Ancestors, Circles and Stones, Dolmens and Chambers, Ghosts and shades, Hills and Mounds, Wheel of the Year

In the first of my seven Summer Solstice stories I will tell you about how I encountered an ancestral spirit who would work with my Spirit Self to bring about a culmination of my ancestral work on this weekend’s journeying. This was only realised through the two days work, so the stories piece into each other like fragments of a mirror revealing a full picture towards the end.

In order to pull all the stories together I have used the tag Ireland solstice 2015.

Sunset to Sunrise

I was asleep at sunset and then awake again at sunrise. Seems like a long time, but actually it was only a few hours. On arrival, tired by excited, we zoomed off in the hire car heading for the first destination. It was a place I had heard of by reputation, but we hadn’t visited it yet – Loughcrew. We know nothing about it.

Solstice P1 - Loughcrew - June 15 (12)
Loughcrew’s information sign

The car park has space for a few coaches and about 20 cars. This was clearly an important site, and we weren’t used to such “hospitality”. I noticed a memorial to a guy called “Mick Tobin“. The dowsing rods said that paying our respects was a useful starting point for the day’s work, so we acknowledged the gentleman – this “Child of the Solstice” as he was poetically named. It seemed fitting to our Solstice outing!

Solstice P1 - Loughcrew - June 15 (1)
Mick Tobin’s memorial at Loughcrew

I walked up the steps a few minutes after Kal. At the top of the steps, before the path went into the foot of the hill, there was an interesting triangle of green grass and young trees that caught my eye and made me stop. It was a place of preparation. I dowsed to the correct spot, and got energetically cleansed and prepared. Cailleach appeared offering me the protection of her Black Dragon once again (see previous Ireland visit). I gratefully accepted this, and as the dragon’s wings enfolded me I felt a surge of power, and felt that wave burst out like a blast across the countryside around, sending a warning message to all the potentially mischievous spirits. “Be warned” – it signalled – “this one’s with The Dark Lady!”

I drew in the powers of the four elements from their respective cardinal points, and with that felt that I had offered something in return to Cailleach for my protection – the energy formed by the union of the elements that is the singularity of my self.

Kal was waiting by the gate with a grin on his face as he watched me. What, I asked? “A place of preparation?” he inquired? I nodded. “That was the same spot as I was used.” We laughed. Such synchronicities already! What next?

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Protection, Infection, Aura and Environment

Posted on July 13, 2015June 29, 2015 By kal No Comments on Protection, Infection, Aura and Environment
Protection, Infection, Aura and Environment
Aura, Chakras, Crystals, Energy healing, How To, Protection

I have often been told that I am a veritable expert in the field of energy. I have to laugh, and say, “if only you knew…” Like all of us, I get caught out and like all of us, I get caught out often. Indeed, like all of us…you get the picture. I was visiting … Read More “Protection, Infection, Aura and Environment” »

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A higher self comes knocking…

Posted on June 21, 2015June 8, 2015 By kal No Comments on A higher self comes knocking…
Higher-Self, Other Entities, Remote Viewing, Spirit Guides, Spirits, Visions

This life (as opposed to any other life) is stranger than strange and this comes from a guy who has seen and experience much weirdness. The other day I was sat with a dear lady when a voice from the ether enters my mind.

“You can share your aura”

What? Who? Where? Were the questions that entered my mind. Now you have to have realised by now that I can recognise an external voice when it enters my mind. Particularly when said voice says something mysteriously odd.

My dear friend and I were watching some film or other when this voice had interrupted me so it wasn’t like I was thinking about auras and sharing. However before I could formulate a question, the voice came again…

“You can share your aura”

Another thing that I have to point out here is that I am not a one for hearing voices. I mean, yes, I go out into the world and commune with various beings, however, rarely has my normal state of mind been interrupted thus.

Addressing the owner of this voice I asked “who or what are you?” and to my surprise I got an answer.

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The Weight of Souls

Posted on June 17, 2015June 18, 2015 By kal No Comments on The Weight of Souls
The Weight of Souls
Circles and Stones, Ley Lines, Protection, Ritual, Visions

Woodhenge - May 15 (15)

“Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so” is a famous quote from the Hitch-Hikers Guide (needs no further introduction). Over the last few months Chris and I have often delved into the notion of time. With my sciency background and mind chock full of sci-fi books, films and TV I am not averse to considering temporal phenomena as it relates to sacred experiences. However I have to confess that it was Chris that came up with this idea during one of our long car journeys.

Back Story: Many years ago I made a mistake. A big one, I means a really big one. I was living in the south-west of the country at the time in a town called Barnstaple. In that worthy village, I found a church that was filled to the brim with shades. I was truly surprised at the number of them. Being recently gifted the name Spirit Walker I decided in my magnificence to remove the shades from the church yard and take them to some place more fitting. 

A late night and a ceremony later and all the shades were captured within the confines of a crystal. As it happened a few short months later I found myself at wood henge. Which I thought would be an excellent place to let these shades go. Boy was that a mistake. Almost as soon as I let them go, they scooted off down the power (ley/death/pilgrim) lines that converge at WoodHenge. It was a mistake that I could no recover from. How could I? Having said that and given that it is such an awe-inspiring foobar I often wonder why I am not overly concerned with having this tarnish on my personal history.

Chris and I were discussing temporal mechanics and energy (of the subtle kind). It was one of them chicken and egg situations and I can’t honestly recall the genesis of the topic however one curious theory emerged. Is it possible to rectify a past energetic mistake in the present? With this came to mind the WoodHenge Shade Affair. Could that monumental fiasco be repaired. We talked around the subject but that’s all it was, talk.

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Learning more about “the dress”

Posted on December 13, 2014December 10, 2014 By kal 2 Comments on Learning more about “the dress”
Learning more about “the dress”
Other Entities, Staff, Visions

In this post I told you about my intuitive push towards buying a dress. I know, it sounds weird to me too. Gosh! However, since Chris and I were out hunting answers at sacred sites, I thought that I  might try and discover more about this departure from the norm. It was approaching mid-day when … Read More “Learning more about “the dress”” »

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A Bedroom, Faery and Goddess – p5 Solstice 2014

Posted on August 7, 2014 By kal No Comments on A Bedroom, Faery and Goddess – p5 Solstice 2014
Energy cleansing, Experiment, Faery, Ghosts and shades, How To, Other Entities, Protection, Spirits, Visions

Okay, this post just shows the dedication with which we report our experiences. Read it quickly because this post will self-destruct in five seconds… Gwas and I had just visited four sacred places on our first afternoon/evening in Ireland. It was the eve of the Summer Solstice (2014) and already we had had enough brilliant … Read More “A Bedroom, Faery and Goddess – p5 Solstice 2014” »

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