Category Archives: Stuart France

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 →

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The Riddle of the Initiate

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Sue Vincent

The Song of Seven Veils …From Heart to Head a Lay… * My First is sinuous, scaly and smooth It is found in lake but not in love, what is below is like that above… * My Sixth lies at … Continue reading →

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St David’s Head…Stuart France

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… Above it all… * Aries in Ochre… * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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Et in Arcadia Ego…

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* In English, Latin loan-words carry overtones of intellectual, moral and aesthetic superiority that are not borne by their Anglo-Saxon equivalents: ‘maternal’ for ‘motherly’ for example or ‘intoxicated’ for ‘drunk’ etc. * Unfortunately, our word for ego, ‘personality’, is derived … Continue reading →

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Fishing…

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* We can understand something of what lies beyond our experience by examining analogous cases that lie within it. * The relationship between the world, divinity, and the divine source, Continue reading at France & Vincent

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The Flower of Alchemy…

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Before a bud… The moon in flood Has sucked the sap Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Dove-Avatar…

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* What is This That you are? * It has a personal aspect that is wise, merciful, and good. Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Lyricist…

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Turisaz * …Merlin was still lamenting his plight; ‘How does it happen that the seasons are so different? Spring provides leaves and flowers, Summer gives crops, Autumn ripe apples, but then Winter’s ice wastes all! O, that there were no … Continue reading →

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Understanding…

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Direct awareness of that consciousness both eternal and complete which is the source and ground of the manifest world is a possibility that can be realised by human beings at any stage of their personal development from infant to … Continue reading →

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Shivering River…

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* The traditional number of runes stands at twenty-four. A colt has twenty-four milk teeth. Sleipnir is a colt. * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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