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Pieces of Eight…

Posted on December 15, 2019 by

* The notion of a simultaneous end and beginning is an important one in nature. It is the principle that underlies periodicity in the cycles of life and their renewal. It is the primary principle of eight-ness. * Continue reading … Continue reading →

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A pattern in the night

Posted on November 24, 2019 by

I couldn’t sleep. I’d gone to bed sleepy, read until I could read no more, then snuggled down expecting the inner lights to go out within minutes. An hour later I was still waiting… and wide awake. It might have … Continue reading →

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Written in stone

Posted on November 3, 2019 by

There has been a bit of a preoccupation around here lately with stone. Between the recent and forthcoming workshops we will have visited a fair number of stone circles, standing stones and burial chambers and it might be tempting to … Continue reading →

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Dance of Fire and Water: Planets… Stuart France

Posted on June 12, 2019 by

White represents the Crescent of the Soul: a vision of the tides of life, their ebb and flow… Red represents Matter over Spirit: when to act in peace and war, we all must know… Grey represents Spirit which mediates between … Continue reading →

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Dance of Fire and Water… Stuart France

Posted on June 11, 2019 by

Circle – Sun – Spirit * … After satisfactorily explaining the nature of the Earthly Realm, The Alchemists turned their attentions to the stars… Crescent – Moon – Soul * To those heavenly bodies which seemingly ‘wandered’ across the fixed … Continue reading →

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Perspectives on Perception… Stuart France

Posted on December 8, 2018 by

‘The Seed at Zero.’ * The Circle is Time Six of the Nine Process through time Three of the Nine Are outside time: Divine. Yet still impact And impinge in time By impelling this processional motion. * ‘ Six of … Continue reading →

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Baby Bear… Stuart France

Posted on October 14, 2018 by

Carreg Coetan Arthur *  Otherwise, ‘Arthur’s Quoit.’ Of which there are a goodly number dotted about our Blessed Isles. Which makes me wonder… It is hard not to regard this Arthur as a giant too. And indeed the folk record … Continue reading →

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Practical Geometry… Stuart France

Posted on October 7, 2018 by

* ‘My goal is to teach practical geometry to our students, not as something new, but rather as a collation of older scattered material. Say what you will. I think our predecessors worked miracles. They had immense energy, and tried … Continue reading →

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Archaeology… Stuart France

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

* All that… * * becomes one… * * does so… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Time Frame… Stuart France

Posted on August 30, 2018 by

‘The concept of ‘darkness’ was revealing. It is where light ends. But I also realised that darkness is not the absence of light but the antithesis of light. In other words, they are aspects of each other. Light and dark … Continue reading →

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