Tag Archives: imagination

White Sun…

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Stuart France

* The White Sun of the Tarot Fool is reputed to signify the spiritual sun… An impersonal power manifesting as a limitless energy radiated to the world-system of planets without number, streaming out and over them from their respective suns. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Year of the Pig…

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Stuart France

Image – Sue Vincent * The device of riddling is common to most traditional cultures. Maidens set riddles for their suitors: ‘What is sweeter than mead…?’ ‘What is whiter than snow…?’ ‘What is lighter than a spark…?’ * Antagonists use … Continue reading →

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Soul-Seer…

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Stuart France

Bryn Celli Ddu – Interior *** Deep in the belly of the earth, somewhere in Wales… Bark Jaw-Dark was under attack… First she was a speck, black against the sky, then she was an arrow balancing the breeze, finally, after … Continue reading →

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‘Planet Ape’…

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Stuart France

A Nineteen-Sixty-Eight film allegory… * The final scene… * Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awake from hibernation after a near-light-speed space trip. Their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet. Taylor’s estimate places them in Orion’s Bellatrix System, … Continue reading →

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Time Bleed…

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Sue Vincent

*** … “Stratford Strange Day!” “I don’t know what you mean?” “Well, the first thing was our conversation before we’d even properly decided we were going to Stratford…” “Which one?” “Statues!” “Oh, that one. It didn’t strike me as particularly … Continue reading →

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The Moons of Mountain Ana…

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Stuart France

* Mountain Ana made the phone to scream. Squeal of a thousand and one pigs! Fingers of pain scratch my brain… She is upset that Gramps has traded her ring. ‘Soz, Mountain Ana.’ * When Gramps turned up wearing Nancy’s … Continue reading →

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St Michael’s-on-Wyre…

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Stuart France

*** I first visited St Michael’s-on-Wyre over forty-five years ago. I was around eight or nine years old at the time and we called in on the way back from a day on Beacon Fell. Something about the memory of … Continue reading →

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Phantom Inns…

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Sue Vincent

* Count Jan Potocki (pron. Yan Pototchkee) was born of an aristocratic Polish family in 1761. In 1815, shortly after completing his masterwork, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, and suffering from a chronic illness he took his own life by … Continue reading →

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Also Temples…

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Stuart France

‘Vitruvian Man’ *** Many, if not all, geometric forms can be used as templum, and the diagrammatic glyphs of most spiritual systems can be mapped on to the form of the human body after a three-fold pattern. Despite exoteric claims … Continue reading →