Author Archives: Sue Vincent

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.

Door of Dreams

Posted on June 27, 2024 by Sue Vincent

* Would you walk the corridor of dreams Into the dark and unknown inner places Where silent voices whisper your desires From unkissed lips upon amorphous faces * Dare you cross the Temple chequerboard Where black and white in alternating … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Poetry | Tagged consciousness, imagination, Life, love, mystery, psychology, spirituality | 9 Comments

Time travelling: A place of kings and “holy air…”

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Sue Vincent

“Holy air encased in stone” … that is how Sir John Betjeman described the crypt at Repton, and it was this that we had come to see… we hoped. On a previous visit, the crypt had been locked. This time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ancient sites, archaeology, Churches, historic sites, Photography, Sacred sites, Stuart France and Sue Vincent | Tagged archaeology, churches, Derbyshire, folklore, ghosts, local legnds, Repton, Saxon | 17 Comments

Lucky

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Sue Vincent

There are few photographs of my years in Paris. The camera I had back then was minimal, film expensive to process and anyway, postcards did a far better job that I could ever do. It doesn’t matter. Back then it … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Friendship, painting | Tagged art. memories, memoirs, Montmartre, Paris, Place du Tertre, Thierry Arnault, Thomas Coffield | 48 Comments

Songs of a bard….

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Sue Vincent

I love the old stories, the legends and lays of ancient times when the world, from our vantage point, seemed both a more innocent and more magical place, where the impossible walked hand in hand with the improbable and where … Continue reading →

Posted in Crucible of the Sun, fantasy, History, Life, Love and Laughter, Mabinogion, Mythology, Spirituality, Stuart France, Uncategorized | Tagged Books, history, Life, magic, Stuart France | 4 Comments

Petals of the Rose

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Sue Vincent

Petals of the Rose Guided Journeys Sue Vincent A collection of guided meditations, designed to open aspects of the personality in as gentle and natural way as the petals of the rose open at the touch of the sun. Each … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Life, Poetry, writing | Tagged haiku, magic, mystery, psychology, spirituality | 1 Comment

Remember…

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Sue Vincent

Cold creeps in slowly, Bones, chilled and brittle Snap like twigs, Fragile and friable. Remembered warmth Turns the mind to memory; Sunlight and laughter And your hand in mine Murmuring dreams; Walking our future As our words entwine And our … Continue reading →

Posted in England, Landscape, Life, Love and Laughter, Photography, Poetry | Tagged being, Life, love, Photography, Poetry, spirituality | 8 Comments

A Pen and the Swords

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Sue Vincent

Sue – a photograph taken during her ‘Swords Phase’ *** February 6th, 2013… Some time around half past one this morning I dried my eyes and placed the final full stop at the end of the manuscript. The characters came … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Life, Love and Laughter, Spirituality | Tagged Life, love, magic, spirituality, yorkshire | 16 Comments

Mister Fox in Holmfirth

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Sue Vincent

Flames light the night and the beat of the drum calls… Guardians await the coming of the Silver Fox… Foxes prowl the night… …and the revellers become aware… and they follow. Music fills the night… Trees blossom with fireflowers… and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dance, England, Events, mystery, Photography, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, Traditions, travel | Tagged crow, fire dance, folk dance, legend, Mister Fox | 35 Comments

Mister Fox: Winter’s Tail…

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Sue Vincent

Where is Mister Fox? The night howls in triumph… pale eyes watch from the shadows… It is the night of the Hunter’s Moon and the dancing ground should be alive with flame as the Foxes dance in the dark. But … Continue reading →