Full Moon Meditation – 18th September

FULL MOON SUN IN VIRGO REFLECTING MOON IN PISCES

September 18th
12 noon local time

VIRGO also represents between the ‘first harvest’, the first fruits of the year, and autumn equinox. We reflect on how to celebrate the maturing creative ventures on which we have been engaged. How did our vision of harmony and beauty develop, what key threads are coming to the surface? [boil with crabapples, add honey - the level of vitamin C is very high].

Blackberries are in different degrees of ripening.

THE ‘SPHINX LINE’ (COSMIC COMPASS) OF THE BRITISH ZODIAC

(Peter Dawkins: https://www.zoence.co.uk/zodiac/british-landscape-zodiac/ - Virgo the crafts perfectionist, helps us refine our collaborative adventure through art forms. Our quest for a Virgo partnership with the landscape, is to discover the process of ‘fine tuning’ perception, sensation and vision. So what does this tell us?

‘Twin-ing’ body and soul, we are like the Sphinx, and so the landscape confirms this, a wisdom from ancient times the Truth of human incarnation. What is more, we are embodied star beings, now looking at our way home as PURE POETS… exploring and opening to the way ‘sacred arts’ in the landscape attune our awareness body, mind and soul.

PRECISION AND DIRECTION: PETER DAWKINS’ RESEARCH - THE ROYAL ROADS OF BRITAIN WITHIN THE ‘BRITISH ZODIAC’:

https://www.zoence.co.uk/zodiac/british-landscape-zodiac/
…The Zodiac, subdivided into twelve or ten divisions, was a pattern habitually used by the Celtic people and other races, by means of which they laid out and ‘mapped’ their local and national landscapes in a recognisable way, and at the same time ‘married’ the wisdom of the sky (heavens) with the land (earth). In this way both history and myth were joined together in a way that expressed the wisdom, and people could relate to each other and find each other according to where they lived within the organised and mythologised landscape.

… The axis of the Compass follows the division (cusp) between the signs Leo and Virgo in the unequal-sign zodiac. In the British Zodiac the Fosse Way is laid along this axis. This axis or division is known as the Sphinx Line, the sphinx having the body of a lion (Leo) and the head of a woman (Virgo), thus marrying the two. The line passes through Lincoln, Leicester, High Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon (approximately) and continues south-westwards to Bath on the ecliptic. The fascinating thing is that, whilst the Watling Street (A5) route is allied with the myths of Bran, the Holy Grail and the sovereignty of the land, the Fosse Way is associated with the other great myths of Britain: Robin Hood and Maid Marion, whose men were dressed in Lincoln green; King Lear, associated with Leicester; Guy of Warwick; Shakespeare, associated with Stratford-upon-Avon; and King Bladdud, son of Lear, who founded the spa town of Bath.

LINCOLN AND STRATFORD LIE WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENT

The ‘bread basket’ county of Lincolnshire is promising new ‘seeds of insights’ which illustrate our ‘harvest of sacred knowledge’ - we have multiple perspectives on incarnation of a ‘free spirit of love’ within the animalistic body provided for us by Nature. These insights are best conveyed through the arts as shared sacred insights;.

Lately, a precious and beautiful Roman dodecahedron has been discovered in Lincoln. ‘Roman dodecahedra are something of an enigma: there is no known mention of these 12-sided, hollow objects in ancient Roman texts or images.’ [https://theconversation.com/].

To me this is about crafting a ‘multi-directional’ perspective on life, accommodating many views and attitudes in our fellow humans. This ‘fine tuning’ arrives at a focus of intent, of acceptance and willingness to creative from the ‘unknown’ dimensions of nature’s rules and ‘birthing’ role in our lives.

The FOSSE WAY following the Sphinx line, balances Leo and Virgo and Lincoln has a sacred role in its energetic destiny. It passes through or near significant sanctuaries and royal palaces.

ALONG THE SPHINX LINE we find the home of the pure poets of Shakespeare’s Plays, the Sweet Swan-poets of Avon established in Stratford upon Avon. The Cygnus constellation linked to the Fosse Way engages with the landscape in a mathematical, geomantic dialogue. This embodies ‘Virgo’ as the crafter of embodiment and FINE TUNING of the sphinx within us. We are a synthesis of soul, spirit and body, and this challenge can be expressed from generation to generation through the ART OF SACRED SPACE, or the re-creation of our planet as an integrated sacred temple. The planet becomes our cosmic ‘home’ in the loving ‘maternal embrace; universal Being.

….and the Fosse Way is particularly associated with Bath. Pre Roman king Bladud who had suspiciously geomantic skills. He was reputed to ‘fly’ to Greece and bring Pythagorean philosophers to Britain, specifically to the Stones and Circles of Stanton Drew. This sanctuary is written about as a ‘model of the Universe’, and a Druidic academy master minded by King Bladud. In his mythology, he was described as ‘flying through the air on man-made wings, only to crash on the ‘White Hill’ of London (The Tower Hill, symbolic even today of a preparation place for kings’ coronations).

King Bladud (from the Lyte Pedigree of 1605. British Library Catalog entry Add. Ms. 48343). He has ‘wings’ that lifted him along the orientations in the land to arrive at Caer Troia/London.

King Bladud looking like an upright Sphinx - depicting his ‘flight’ to the White Hill or Tower of London where he was subsequently buried. In terms of the four ‘Royal Roads’ this interconnection can have geomantic and magical implications for ‘working with earth energy’

The king was associated with ‘Abaris The Hyperborean’ as a ‘shamistic missionary and savior-figure’.

Wiki: According to Herodotus, he was said to have traveled around the world with an arrow[2][3] symbolizing Apollo, eating no food.[4] Heraclides Ponticus (c. 390 BC–c. 310 BC) wrote that Abaris flew on it. Plato (Charmides 158C) classes him amongst the "Thracian physicians" who practice medicine upon the soul as well as the body by means of "incantations" (ἐπωδαί, epodaí[5]). A temple to Persephone at Sparta was attributed to Abaris by Pausanias (9.10). Alan H. Griffiths compares Abaris to Aristeas in terms of being a "shamanistic missionary and savior-figure" and notes Pindar places Abaris during the time of Croesus

Eighteenth century Bath architect John Wood redesigned the City of Bath, along geomantic designs taken from Megalithic measurements, and representing the sun and the moon amongst other symbols. [look out for a forthcoming book by Anthony Thorley, His past research for the Gatekeeper Trust has included Glastonbury Zodiac’s Milky Way and King Alfred’s ‘Wessex Temple’ leading from the Fosse Way to Winchester as an initiation into his kingship.)

This landscape temple aligns with the Michael LIne, and crosses over the Fosse Way at the Milky Way gateway of the Glastonbury Zodiac.

Creek Sphinx. Attic red-figure pyxis, 2nd half of the 5th century BC. From Nola (Italy).

Even Earlier: Golbekli Tepe ‘Birdman’
[I like the weaving chakras and ‘jet wings’]

The head of this icon changed into a female muse in Egyptian art, reflecting a true Virgoan mystery of wisdom and beauty reborn: an rarthly fertility meaning. Therefore we are now at a time when ‘giving birth to a new age’ and the time for gathering seeds of eternal wisdom is significant, and relates to how we co-create with the fertility of Earth herself.

HOW DO WE RECONCILE OUR DUAL IDENTITY AS BOTH A SPIRITUAL ENTITY AND ANIMAL ‘SYNTHESIS’.?

As our ‘democratic’ civilisation seeks to develop the philosophy of democracy emerging from Greek philosophical traditions set in motion by Pythagoras and Socrates, it is significant that the even earlier ‘Sphinx’ symbol appears as a ‘star map’ feature (researched by Peter Dawkins, see above).

SYMBOL OF ROYALTY AND SACRED STATUS - to be ‘Lion Hearted’ with the fine tuning of mind and spirit, is our birthright, the synthesis of which as sovereign beings we are here to develop as a ‘Gaian-human’ incarnation’. (See the Lorian Association: https://lorian.org).

With the head of a female human [spirit] and a body of an animal, [lion] how do we see ourselves mastering Nature in our lives?

The head (crown chakra connection with spiritual source of inspiration (Virgo) and the body of a lion, representing brave hearted physical incarnation of disciplined passion (Leo), the description fits our dilemma: are we a spirit or are we an animal, synthesising with a ‘passion of purpose’ to focus into the demands

of physical realities. Itt is problematic to be BOTH, and therein lies the secret of unconditional love for ourselves first of all. We have within us mystical power of creativity and we have brains which represent all aspects of being in the body as a conscious, creative being.

THE IDEAL AND THE REAL: Our rational mind expresses ‘pure thought’ capable of measuring and fine tuning aspects of physical life. Our intuitive mind meditates between our physical awareness of our environments, and the rational focus of perception, and so we give birth to conscious intent and love through our heart-brain.

[see ‘The Heart’s little Brain’ - Jefferson Institute - https://research.jefferson.edu/2022-magazine/the-hearts-little-brain.html].

Now science reveals that we have neuropeptides (found in the brain) in the nexus of nerves around the heart (the heart’s brain). It is now up to us to become aware of this capacity.

HEARTMATH [https://www.heartmath.com) offer a training in using the ‘Heart-Breath’, which is demonstrated on graphs that it generates coherency of the physical heart, mental thought, and endocrine emotion. Science can now demonstrat the evolution of consciousness as achieving ‘coherence’.

We become the ‘sphinx within’ through PILGRIMAGE AND ARTS OF THE HEART: This is the power of heart-to-heart dialogue withthe invisible ‘spirit of the land’ which relates to the synthesising role of our heart-brain: the body senses intelligence in its environment, and understandable as logical in terms of the coherent steps of the ‘GROWTH CYCL’E of all of Natures beauty. We are receptive to and excited by this beauty around us.

The ‘seed cycle’ [with gratitude to MIchele Beaufoy in New Zealand]

QUEST: Can we internalise our psychic seed cycle, whatever we feel, it generates a seed insight, no judgment! This is portraying the manifestation of natural beauty and evolution of consciousness. Our insights give birth to new form, new seeds of vision, and so we travel along from seed to seed, to bud and flower, and back to new seed.

VIRGO – the ‘craftsman’ –[ ‘man’ = ‘the thinker’] capable of fine tuning spiritual vision into a new ‘creative flower’ that balances feeling and thought. A creative gardener of any sort will calculate the season, the time, the programme of growth and fruiting, and make a pilot action plan with care and precision. Then Nature takes over and there is a time for pruning in order to encourage future growth.

We are all crafting our heartfelt vision for the future. Each day time ‘is of the essence’, as we look towards putting a timeless vision of harmony and beauty into action.

ENERGISING THE ROYAL ROAD:

The arts are connected to the ‘COSMIC COMPASS’ between Leo and Virgo, and is interpreted as the ‘PURE POET’ in which spiritual celebrations involve creating ‘SACRED SPACE’ through the art of Pilgrimage using ‘altar of the arts and visualisation’. Through creative working with the land’s energy, we dance for healing, fore the renewal of beauty and truth. The spirit of the land is in tune with many ancestors of the past and their landscape designs and sciences.

ARTS IN THE LANDSCAPE as a fine-tuned COLLABORATIVE ‘GROUP SOUL’ awaking - The Lincoln dancers twin with Gatekeeper pilgrimage events, celebrating the Full Moon.

A regular festival celebration by the LIncoln Circle dancers also dance every month. This dedicated group has been continuing Suzy Straw’s project Encircling the land in Sacred Dance. It is an adventure in ‘group attunement’ through dance. It mirrors the group in South Devon pilgrimaging in Dartmoor, honouring its Zodiac sacred sites.

DARTMOOR PILGRIMS ON THE CUSP OF AQUARIUS AND PISCES IN THE BRITISH ZODIAC

Circle dancers on pilgrimage to Haytor in Dartmoor (2017). Their group also plans a head and gathers group insights every year in order to build the new year’s programme.

Bardic style sensory pilgrimage: writing improvised poetry around Kings Tor, the fulcrum of the ‘sphinx line’ in Dartmoor. “What is the ‘overview’ of the landscape?; Describe the minute details of an 1” x 1” square at your feet; “Describe what it is like to be a rock; Listen to the angel’s whisper…. gather all you images and see what verse emerges.

Haytor Poets being given drafting instructions. Sensory awareness is the ‘door of perception’ through which the spirit of place calls to our creative ‘playful self’.

A crevice in the rocks provides intimate settings, strong support, dark and evocative crevices…..calling to the spirit of place.

The Kings Tor Rocks are full of promise to the modern bards.

[montageC J Yonge, 2016]

Kings Tor Bards group poem:
Sleeping giants surrounded by rocks
scattered by a past awakening,
Yellow bright flower summons the bee.
Still, as eternal love olds our fleeting minds,
Rocky summit reflects the singing swan.
Wild horses are free.
I sit and watch the changes,
And offer silence carved by the zephyr of my love.

This photo-montage gathers a kaleidoscope of impressions to reflect and recall the voice of Nature.. Each rock speaks, our absorbent mind gathers the landscape’s living presence in a multitude of sensory information.

The group’s art-in-the-landscape includes paintings and poetry, maps and measurement, and lies at the other end of the Fosse Way. Haytor represents the ‘Virgo’ section of the Dartmoor landscape zodiac, (work in progress) but showing precision interpretation as we also tune into our group’s energy;. The mythology of this hill involves a ‘virginal bridge’ who rejects her parents’ insistence of providing her with a suitable husband. There is veil which she will inherit if she does. She asserts that she will only marry the ‘true love’ of her life, and so she does. She inherits the veil in the end. This is a classic Virgo ‘test of true love’ and purity of intent, where the ‘veil’ represents the veil of illusion and tradition, that obscure ‘true love’. We are all tested in this purity of heart and intent.

ROYAL ROADS: As the Fosse Way is a part of a saltire cross through the centre at High Cross, the ancient boundaries suggest ritual passages, particularly as Bath’s mythology of King Bladud and King Bran’s Journey to London, both suggest royal connections to religiously symbolic roads. The geomantically trained NORMAN bishops or ‘clerics’ worked closely with the kings and barons in delineating or linking sacred boundaries. [see Anthony Thorley and the Capricorn Zodiac in which all churches were built pre-reformation, and carried geomantic symbology acknowledging the earlier pre-Megalithic star-map symbology of orientation to solar and lunar rising/setting cycles.

SOUTH HAMS and the DARTMOOR ZODIAC

Bards of Wistman’s Wood poem:

The circle receives around us
The blissful softness of rock.
Space speaks invisible words of knowing:
“Oneness with all life,
Go with the flow, take the path
Of least resistance.
Light is air,
Walking hand in hand with the wind -
Worries evaporating to infinity.”

EXTENSION OF THE FOSSE WAY INTO SMALL ROADS AND TRACKS:

Along the way through the High Cross junction with Watling Street, the Fosse Way travels through Virgo and Aquarius. ExtensionS of the Fosse Way includes small road running SW from Exeter along encircling Dartmoor, and making a connection with a ‘holy isle’ anciently ‘St Michael’s Island, now named Burgh Island, whose hotel rests upon the foundations of a religious building. Fortuitously, this island reflects the ‘holy’ nature of the arts and our inner ‘pure poet’ of spiritual vision, for its annual programme contains along repertoire of arts based events, and a good audience capacity.

THE AQUARIAN EXTENSION OF THE FOSSE WAY This ‘Royal Road’ ends in a spray of ancient tracks linking old wells and sanctuaries. At Plymouth, the coast has several symbolic sites that seem to indicate the ‘foot’ of the Fosse Way as spreading access to both the sea and to Cornwall’s powerful circle sanctuaries.fine tuning the ‘arrow’ in the landscape. It leads to another ancient sacred path through Dartmoor, which we believe to be the ‘Milky Way’ route to Belstone.

QUARTZ PATH AND STONE ROWS AT UGBOROUGH

Multiple Stone Rows across Dartmoor, running N-S. [image Megalithic Portal]

White Horse Hill, aligned Sout of Belsone on the stone avenues.The white stone remains of a cist of internationally important prehistory burial.

White Moor Stone Circle (Whitmor)

++Piles Hill, is home to a remarkablrow, a monument of considerable historical and ritual significance. Stretching mpressive 850 meters across Ugborough and Harford Moors, this stone row aligns itself east to west and gently curves upwards, forming a shape akin to a smile.It is ….believed to date back to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, and it’s comprised of around 40 visible stones. Some of these stones stand upright, while others lie recumbent on the ground, concealed by the surrounding vegetation.

https://archaeologymag.com/2023/10/quartz-path-in-dartmoor/

At the South point near Ivybridge, is Ugborough Beacon, the beginning of the avenues of stone rows leading to White Hill, and on to the North Belstone and the Nine Maidens Stone Circle on the Michael and Mary Line. This is the orientation, and the pilgrim ways to Exmoor cross through Belstone and Cosden, representing Gemini, NORTHERN gateway to the Milky Way.

The interpretation of this compass is being fine tuned by more measured techniques. However, it was fortuitous that at the time I began researching Dartmoor, The Time Team had published is archaeological work in Tottisford Reservoir around 2015, when there was a severe drought. The drought revealed a ritual Megalthic complex containing avenues, barrows and a stone circle. Thus The Dartmoor landscape zodiac emerged out of agreed symbolic sites such as Haytor suggesting the ‘Virgo’ function of purity, virginity and in the shape of the hills ‘pregnancy’. In addition, it has been acknowledged that a ‘star map’ in the landscape will suggest a starting point in Leo (see Mary Caine’s work on the Kingston Zodiac). This fortuitously again, happened in 2015 when planning pilgrimages to sanctuaries in Dartmoor, Mardon Down Stone Circle. The draft outline then emerged, with the N-S avenues of stones linking to site names such as ‘White Hill’ and ‘White Horse Hill’ suggesting of ceremonial routes named after the ‘girdle of the heavens’ or ‘Milky Way’, or ‘field of stars’ or ‘Silver circle’.

T J Joyce ‘An Ancient British Trackway 1911’ (https://devonassoc.org.uk/devoninfo/an-ancient-british-trackway-1911/ British Trackway’ By T. J. Joce. (Read at Dartmouth, 26th July, 1911.) ‘It will, perhaps, be of interest to trace the road in each direction and to see that it is not only as old as the Roman invasion, but is probably an ancient thoroughfare, dating from before the dawn of history in the island. We shall find it in all conditions, from a state of complete alienation to private purposes to the full traffic of a principal highway. A TWELFTH-century chronicler, probably making use of a still earlier writer, describes the four chief highways of Britain, and states that the Fosse Way extended from the beginning of Cornwall to the end of Scotland,’scilicet a principio Cornugalliae in finem Scottiae. ….the Great Road, passing ‘from High Cross, passing through Cirencester, Bath, Shepton Mallet and Ilchester…

T. J. Joyce 1931[https://devonassoc.org.uk/devoninfo/goatpath-1931/]

Small roads and tracks are highlighted by places named ‘Cross’: In this region of good land we find a rare thing – a short stretch of our way in its original width, near Metley, and here the lane is known as Highweek Lane from the parish through which we have just passed. Thence we go on to Higher Wotton Cross and Lower Wotton Cross, past those farms. Next we come to Venn Cross near the farm of that name. The next is Bovey Cross, our old road being known as Bovey Lane, indicative of its direction. An older road to Bovey than the present one went by Staple Hill, near Ash Hill. Percombe Cross, Beaston Cross.

Passing through Goatpath, linking to Totnes, (where the Trojan King Brutus is said to have landed and then founded ‘Caer Troia’ (London), the River Dart and the Exmoor Zodiac (work in progress see records by the South Hams pilgrim group). This crosses between the cusp of ‘Virgo and Leo’, speculated being anciently considered a ‘gateway’ of Dartmore’s ‘cosmic compass’.

A sacred landscape could be part of the ‘energising’ of ths royal road, linking history, and then mythologies of kings and sacred landscapes.

THE ‘PRACTICE’ SPHINX LINE OF THE DARTMOOR ZODIAC - (South Hams pilgrims work in progress) an exploratory Mind-Map of reality: a rough diagram reveals speculations that the fulcrum lies in the area of Princeton in Capricorn, involving ‘Kings’ Tor’ suggestive of the royal prerogative of responsibility for the sacred areas of ancient ritual procession. The point of the centre line of the compass seems to come at the cusp of Leo and Virgo.

It can be seen in this map that an ‘arrow’ of avenue exists in the Sagittarius section, where Sheepstor is found, and the origin of the name refers to Skytlestor, meaning ‘arrow, shuttle or bolt’. Another coincidence, or is there an underlying archetypal ‘language and measurement of the start’ from very early civilisations?

The original Fosse Way small roads traveled to incorporate the most ancient of sanctuaries, ie. the Bodmin, Exmoor and Dartmoor star maps, which are being researched and drafted.

The A30 and A34 skirts around the Dartmoor tors, as if feeding pilgrims into the different gateways to the Milky Way. Could this ‘royal road’ highway have been linking the large areas of stone sanctuaries? Just south West of Exeter is ‘Spinsters’ Rock’. all that’s left of a multiplex of avenues and stone complex of stone sepulcres, that were observed as being as large as the Avebury complex.

The remains of the ritual complex: SPINSTERS’ DOLMEN CHAMBER nr SHILSTONE FARM https://www.devonperspectives.co.uk/spinsters_rock.html

Shilstone Moor circles sketched by Rev John Swete 1796 (http://www.dartmoorwalks.org.uk/site/spinsters.php

Eye witness accounts show this site was of a formidable size: ‘Richard Polwhele [6, Vol 1, p150] gives this description of the stone rows and circles that were once seen in the vicinity of the dolmen but have now vanished Towards the west of the cromlech I remarked several conical pillars about four foot high. On the fourth side there are three, standing in a direct line from east to west. With respect to columns erected on a circular plan, the number of stones erect are various. The distance of the pillars from each other is different in different circles, but is the same, or nearly so, in one and the same circle.’

Rev. W. Grey: " Wednesday, 4th July, 1838. Visited from Moreton the Druidical circles above the cromlech. The cromlech lies in a field about 110 yards to the east. There are two concentric circles of stones, the inner circle having entrances facing the cardinal points, that to the north being sixty-five paces in length and five broad. The outer circle, besides these, has avenues diverging towards north-east, south-east, south-west, and north-west. A smaller circle seems to intersect the larger, of which the avenue eastwards is very evident." ’(Dartmoor Perspectives’: https://www.devonperspectives.co.uk/spinsters_rock.html).

I speculate now that the Fosse Way extension from Exeter, enabled this ‘sacred site to be a gateway to the ‘geomantic purpose’ of the royal road in linking with the Dartmoor star map. Like the Michael Line, access to sacred landscapes like Megalithic star maps would have been through these central paths/leys/royal roads.

Running along the boundary of Dartmoor, THE ANCIENT CELTIC route, looks as though it previously extended branches of Celtic small roads, that reach down towards Plymouth, in to connect with the landscape of Aquarius./Pisces, and creating gateways into the Dartmoor landscape zodiac (work in progress). These link to and interact symbolically with the Dartmoor as a very ancient symbolic ritual complex or ‘star map’.

Gatekeeper pilgrimages captured many energy currents, including THE NINE MAIDENS CIRCLE AT BELSTONE. (near the cusp of Aquarius/Pisces in the British zodiac, it is also the gateway of the Dartmoor ‘girdle of the heavens’ - Milky Way.

BELSTONE BARDS Group poem 2013.

Nine Maidens circle Belstone
Such harmony and merriment
as we sang and danced around the stones.
Lichen flowers on ancient rock –
Ceres' abundance in small -
‘love, light, lichens’
I love my perch and am at rest.
Grizzled elders send out
heart-felt vibrations of love and peace:
‘Allow your own insights
To spark the opening of your heart
Expand and extend your own being
Into the magical landscape of love’.

Oh Angel, bring soothing strength to our fragility
But I sense your loving arms around
A rising crest, subtle curves, twin peaks
Let us into your imaginal heart,
Be soaring above, so kind, so creative
Lead us holy parent with your patience
And living wind, cleansing rain, firm rock
Entertain and entice our shape-shifting hearts.

Lead us to our hearts desire: just to commune with you.

BORDERING WITH CORNWALL The small roads run E-W through South Hams towards Plymouth.
The track above takes a line to Plymouth, where off the coast are: St Michael’s Island (Burgh) Drakes Island, St Georges Island, St Michael’s Chapel Rame Head, and the Great Mewstone Island (NHS bird sanctuary) off Wembury.

St Michael’s Island (Now Burgh Island) - the listed hotel building has been used for many arts including films and TV series, demonstrating is dramatic setting for storytelling! Its 2023 programme includes ‘Artist Experiences’- music, Summer Ball, Music, Christmas celebrations, Art Deco Glamour dressing up events. These tend to reflect the importance of the ‘arts’ in the landscape where the hotel is positioned.

[Wiki] St George’s Island (nature reserve)-(Historically St Michael’s Island) Looe Island (Cornish: Enys Lann-Managh, meaning Island of the Monk's Enclosure),...According to local legend, Joseph of Arimathea landed here with the Christ Child.[2] Some scholars, including Glyn S. Lewis, suggest the island could be Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

St Michael’s Chapel, Rame Head.

QUEST FOR RESEARCH: For what purpose was the chapel built, in connection with the FOSSE WAY - St Michael and St George wield the spear of intent and represent the ‘questing for truth and beauty’.

CONCLUSION:

This Etruscan Sphinx Hor-em-akhet (by John W. Schultz) illustrates how our spiritual path is connected to the physical (body of the lion) as well as the invisible worlds (the wings),with the integration point is at our ‘alta major’ chakra at the back of the neck. Our guidance enters here, and is directed to our heart, where we conceive our heart vision as a seed. As we receive guidance, we engage with our throat and brow to continue visualisation, then offer this up in a quest ‘is this good, is it true, is it loving? Our intuitive answer then propels us into another hybrid ‘Virgoan’ plan of love in action.

Our stories are how the spirit of the land communes with our spirit.
‘Stories are the way human beings best communicate and learn. This has always been true. Stories can be inspirational and healing guides for us in life. They nourish the power of our imaginations, and show us how to be the best human beings we can be. Stories are living portals into the wholeness of who we are.’ Lucinda Herring, Lorian Association (www.lorian.org).

Our stories delve deep into our psyche, the womb of conscious emergence. Virgo Sun: Virgo questing 'fine tuning' our vision of how we collaborate with our beautiful planet, and develop seeds of intuitive response from earth’s innate wisdom, which inspires our poetry of love.

The emerging picture as gatekeeper researchers into sanctuaries, is that paths of earth energy seem to have been specifically synchronised with accessible stone sanctuaries or star maps. We are now developing merging Human family as ‘Gaian-Human’ … an emergence of Universal Love, where we are intuitively drawn to access the ‘wisdom of Nature.’

Editors: Charlotte Yonge and Rose Williams, 2024.

Elderberry [Sambucus] ripens in September.

QUEST FOR INSPIRATION FROM NATURE: ‘What new creative seeds are forming in YOUR life this month, that need fine tuning and honouring?