Walking the Ancient Path in a Modern World
Five Wells barrow near Chelmorton, Derbyshire [link]. Every once in a while I have an experience which is completely unexpected and yet immensely powerful. Yes, I am on a sacred path, and much of this is marked out for me, but when you’re not expecting something it can be much more powerful. Such was the … Read More “Five bones and Five Wells 2014” »
In this second part of my Samhain visit to Tinkinswood I tell about how I negotiate the charging of my new yew staff at a sacred site near to Cardiff. The site is a ‘burial chamber’, and was chosen due to the amazing response we got from it on our last visit. Having travelled over … Read More “Samhain 2013 p2 – Charging the Stag Staff” »
Samhain is a point of extreme contrast. It is in opposition to the bright awakening of Imbolc, and is the point of darkening – the clocks go back, the days shorten noticeably, the sun weakens, and the separation between the souls of the living and those of the dead is momentarily dissolved. This last aspect is … Read More “Samhain 2013 p1 – Tinkinswood and The Blood Ring” »
The mighty Llangernyw Yew suggested that I do a tarot reading if I wanted to find out more about the powers of my new yew staff which I had just initiated at Dinas Bran a few days prior to this second Welsh outing in a week. I created several questions, then dowsed for the number … Read More “Tarot for the Yew Staff 2013” »
It was shortly after the visit to Dinas Bran in Llangollen that an opportunity arose to visit the old Llangernyw Yew tree near Conwy. Of course the weather reports said “rain” so we planned for sun. It was sunny. The shadows were lengthening at the end of the day, but the temperature was still warm. … Read More “Cloak of the Green Man” »
July continued to be sunny, hot and dry. We were back from our Summer Solstice 2013 outing and among the familiar landscapes either side of Cheshire. In particular Kal and I felt drawn to the Dinas Bran site. Both of us had questions that we hoped to find the answers to, and the walk was … Read More “The Initiation of the Yew Staff 2013” »
We started our Cornwall adventure on a sunny Summer Solstice morning by visiting the last stone circle of these Albion islands – Boscawen Un. Having just come from Glastonbury where I had been given the task of engineering a meeting with a faery I was eager to find out whether the next few sites would reveal any … Read More “Summer Solstice 2013 p4 – Boscawen Un – A Switch of Staves” »
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