Category Archives: The Feathered Seer

Circles Beyond Time: Seeking the Seer

* The birds told me of your coming. Hawk and Raven follow you; sight and memory, soaring of wings and thought. I see you… tall and grey, small and red. I see the purpose in your step and know where … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: Connections

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One , Two  and Three can be found by clicking the highlighted link. We toured the church in Bakewell with our companions, stopping at each of … Continue reading

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Space for error

For five years, it was Steve who was the principal writer of the annual workshops. I don’t think any of us had really considered that it would ever be otherwise. We contributed, both ideas and certain sections of the weekend, … Continue reading

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The Raven Spirit by Alethea Kehas

Reblogged from Alethea Kehas Since my visit to the Nest, I have felt haunted. There is a restlessness inside of me; one which my rational mind has tried to reason with. If you were meant to be there, you’d be there. … Continue reading

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Flight of the Seer VII…

* Given our quiet revolution, it was heartening that so many of the Companions stayed on after the workshop to play out in the landscape. The feeling was that many others would have too had not circumstances dictated otherwise. For … Continue reading

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The Feathered Seer – Part 2 (or when foxes come out) by Running Elk

Fast forward a year to the “Leaf and Flame: the Foliate Man” weekend. The directors of the Silent Eye (a modern mystery school), not really knowing what they might be letting themselves in for, honoured me with a request to … Continue reading

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The Feathered Seer – The bitter drop

‘If you have not lived through something it is not true’ Kabir The fourth ritual took us to a place of fear. Within the local landscape there is a high place that had, for a long time, remained hidden from … Continue reading

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Panics quietly stage left…

It is that time of year. The time when my bedroom starts to ressemble a theatrical costume department, the days suddenly start racing by far too quickly and The Day approaches with panic-inducing velocity. Not that I am starting to … Continue reading

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Reserve your place now – The Feathered Seer

The Clan of the Raven has withdrawn to the hills. They have withdrawn to a high place in the sacred lands, nearer the heart… Their fires are dead, their hearths are cold and the hilltop is now silent under the … Continue reading

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Announcing The Silent Eye Annual Workshop for 2017

“In a time before memory…when the land was yet young and Albion unborn, I dreamed the stars of a time yet to be. I dreamed your becoming. …I see you. I called and you have come. The time is now.” … Continue reading

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