Tag Archives: Neolithic monuments

Circles Beyond Time ~ A Rock and a Hard Place

Posted on October 17, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We left the standing stone and walked back through the gate onto the Edge. Normally we would walk back a different way, but the path is a morass at the best of times and it had rained a lot in … Continue reading →

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Going West: Where Ancient Sites Collide

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Wreathed in mist and roses, the Mother greets those who visit the sacred spring of St Non. The little shrine to the Virgin was erected in 1951 when the Passionist Fathers restored and rededicated the spring, as if to leave … Continue reading →

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Written in stone

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Sue Vincent

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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Our Song of Truth…

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* We circle the Long Stone, feet planted gently but firmly on the earth… Arms and hands hang loosely by our sides… We close our eyes… We breathe deeply… We perform our breathing exercise… And then again breathe deeply, listening … Continue reading →

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Feeling Beyond Form…

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* We certainly hadn’t intended to talk about Arthur, let alone Merlin when we pencilled in Penrith as the starting point for our weekend workshop. But the land has a way of communicating it’s own ‘sweet terror’ and when we … Continue reading →

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Shadow Play…

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Shadowing’ is our term for the phenomenon whereby a standing stone, or group of stones, recreates a distant landscape feature and thereby renders it immediately apparent or tangible. Most other megalithic writers on the subject have also, independently, recognised … Continue reading →

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Wish you were here…

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* In Olden Times, Holidays were originally just that… Holy Days. The whole community would lay aside their work day duties and together engage in deeply or intrinsically symbolic activities which related to the situation that they all found themselves … Continue reading →

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Why Myth? ~ Stuart France

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…history became legend, legend became myth…’ What a pleasant conceit, to suppose that this process produces myth. Whilst undoubtedly true for many legends the process can also work the other way. Many legends for example have produced history. Pre-eminently … Continue reading →

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Rings of Earth and Sky – Steve Tanham

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

To find that time and circumstance Had placed us in an isle of fertile space Where others led us to a place A ring wherein the sky and earth would quarter meet There is no sense of wonder deeper Than … Continue reading →

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The right-side of zero II… Stuart France

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* There may well be other contrasts we could make… * * Like that between dressed and cut stone… * * The living and the dead… * Source: Stuart France at The Silent Eye

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