Tag Archives: consciousness

Growing emotional…

It is the end of a long day; one of those days when many small things have seemed to go wrong and a few bigger things cast dark shadows on your horizon. You are tired…not the pleasant kind of snuggle-up-in-bed-with-a-book … Continue reading

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Only a Horse and a Sword ~ Steve Tanham

We become habitual in our thinking. It’s a good idea (and fun) to play little games with our mind to help us look at things differently. One of these is to look at things in a ‘zero-sum’ way: that is, … Continue reading

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Awakening #midnighthaiku

* Ancient  guardians On the shores of consciousness Mysteries awake *

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Bean-Stalker… Stuart France

One of the ‘Cove Stones’ from the Avebury complex. * …Crisis! The milk cow has finished giving… Akin to a second weaning, but worse, this is a call to arms. ‘Go forth young man and make your way in the … Continue reading

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The Creature on the Beach Beyond Thought ~ Steve Tanham

It lay there, head in the sky, gazing at the radiance. Its tail was still in the ocean of thought, the gentle waves urging it back where it belonged… The gaps in the waves had always been there; they were … Continue reading

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Morning glory…

It is 4am and I haven’t slept a wink. I’m not entirely happy about that. It is not as if I haven’t tried. My mind whirrs quietly, emotions heightened by a frustrated fatigue. Ani is draped across the sofa snoring … Continue reading

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Tower… Stuart France

* To complete our pentagrams we returned to our core principles and considered the shadow. * The setting was not the swiftly flowing Spey but a quitely progressing brook which arced in a crescent around the space in which we … Continue reading

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Circle… Stuart France

* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element. * In the first we would consider the element in … Continue reading

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Three Days of the Oyster-Catcher (Part 6) Beyond the Blasted Heath ~ Steve Tanham

And then the worlds around us literally fell away… We were all tired; it had been a wonderful day, and the weather had been kind – which is not always assured in Scotland… The brain tends to switch off, which … Continue reading

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Enneagram… Stuart France

* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element. * In the first we would consider the element in … Continue reading

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