Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation – Cancer sun/Capricorn moon

Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation - Cancer sun/Capricorn moon – 11th July 2025

The full moon link-up is offered as a way of connecting with other ‘inner pilgrims’.  You are invited to join in at 12 noon on this date - Meditation is a personal journey, which unfolds in our unique ways. As we attune together at 12 pm we can make our prayers more powerful with a common focus. For those who feel connected to this particular work of the Gatekeeper Trust perhaps we could share the focus of a wheel of silver light spinning in the British Zodiac, radiant and happy.

CANCER signifies the ‘inner guardian and protector’ within us, and with this archetype we develop the ability to set good boundaries, dimensions that will encapsulate our good dream, and direct our activities into focused action.
The ‘questing sign’ for Cancer is answered by the moon (intuitive response) in Capricorn: the symbol for the creative act of consolidator and initiator.

This article seeks to make clear the cycle of responsibility that we build when we have a ‘passion of purpose’ and a seed vision.

Arbor Low – a stone circle sanctuary with protective banks and exit/entries.

We can imagine sentries at the gates as priestly druids assemble to welcome the rising sun. Guardians keep the focus of earthly and cosmic energies as they blend.

The stones are all recumbent. This is the view to the bank and beyond.

The photo montage also became a symbol of encapsulating the sacred site in a modern time zone, showing the facets of perceived detail at the time: recumbent stones and wide open views: to which other sacred sites does it relate?

Gibb Hill Mound – pilgrims gather to take in the view. What role does this hill provide for the rest of the ritual site if not to expand perception of further landscape features?

In 2018 our group of pilgrims lit a candle in our lantern and it was placed on a recumbent stone near the centre. It represented what we saw ourselves doing, holding the flame of our hearts within secure boundaries. The site was set up in a similar way, creating good boundaries for holding the sacred site in stillness and mindfulness as a ceremony of light. The Megalithic ceremony would have visualised the nurturing of a whole landscape, linked from site to site by each ceremony.

The whole complex included a causeway leading to the entrance, and far in the distance the horizon spoke of other locations and orientations.

POETRY:

(entertaining impressions as we walk through the site, our receptive imagination feeds an inner need for dialogue with circular magic}

Building domes
Of custodial light
These guardian rocks speak,
At home in their caves,
For the star mysteries
That seep through all life

On this faithful planet:
“In the cave-bound stars of your hearts.
Light reflected to shade and protect,
We watch and recreate our will
To regenerate with your truth,
To perpetuate with your love
That incubates in our universe -
And in the star-wombs above.

CREATING SECURE BOUNDARIES FOR A ‘GOOD DREAM’

‘When we dream, anything is possible.’ Jaume Piensa

‘Ex Terra Lucem’ ("From the ground, light") encapsulated the miners’ higher purpose being fulfilled in modern art in a place of peace representing the mine’s purpose, and the modern intent. It has produced a place of pleasure and light.
We move from one dream to another, and so the circle of life and light continues.

ARTWORKS often serve this purpose, see The Dream, also encapsulated as a photo montage. The park was created with a few sculptures, the main one being of a young girl with her eyes closed as if in a dream of the future. The Miners’ purpose was fulfilled when the coal was sufficient to the technological purpose, and so the park represented modern day ‘memory space’ for visitors to the beautiful mount and artworks. Again we lit our lantern to represent our heart’s vision for our time. The montage encapsulates past and present.

BOUNDARIES OF THE IMAGINATION - Prescot Shakespeare North Playhouse

Based on the ‘circus’ of Megalitic stone ampitheatres and designed for the theatre of the imagination to live and survive a powerful period of storytelling with timeless mythical themes, the Shakespeare North Playhouse was built ….

…with the plan for the Cockpit by Inigo Jones mid-1590s and 1609… the modern version in Prescot holds the boundaries tried and tested from ancient cultures. So the magic of sacred design survives to hold our imagination in a focus.

THE SURVIVAL OF MAGIC: ONCE A VISION IS BEGUN TO BE BUILT:

A ‘passion of purpose’ propels us to gather like minded people to expand the dream. Now the Gemmini innovator within us requires containing boundaries, from which to view a larger reality. So the Mound at Arbor Low is a poetic feast of protective boundaries and increased expectation of a larger reality.

THE WIDER LANDSCAPE AROUND ARBURY LOW – GUARDIANS OF THE SACRED DRAGON PATHS OF THE ANCIENT INITIATE DRUIDS

Rowtor Rocks – [the photo montage captures special reflections and colour shades in the rocks and tree-decked mount. These seem to have been the ‘the cave-wombs’ for inner testing of the initiate’s dedication to vision. The caves and carved places spoke of a sacred pile that has been used from ancient to modern times, with cup marks and holes that challenge all knowledge of their origins with their ancient metaphor.

Robin Hood’s Stride – the gateway stones to a dragon path through the hillside rocks, testing the initiative of vision-in-action. The landscape seemed to me to be a dragon trail of challenges, with a gateway of four larger sarsens, two with different characteristics in polarity, and two looking like praying hands.

The rocks SYMBOLISE the stability and unmoving reliability of sacred landscape complexes. Once an important ritual site is chosen, the vision of connectivity between life forms is the ‘deity’ within all things that the Megalithic culture captured and linked according to the passage of sun and moon.

This sense of connectivity within all things, stimulates and expands all original visions. It becomes ‘mathematical geography’ to modern minds.

In the Megalithic search for marking and identifying the sacred geometry of sites, according to the paths of the sun and moon, the stone sanctuaries gave form and boundaries to their conscientious measurements, reflecting solar/lunar movements in relationship. The miracle of the heavens is a dance and bonding of the sun and moon, which gave rise to special associations in the landscape, marked by huge rocks, and reinforced by ritual devotion.

Out of these came sacred groves and healing springs of water amongst the rocks of boundaries and enclosures.

BUXTON

ST ANNE’S SPRING – healing traditions of immersion – inspiration come with healing: Thomas Hobbs:

"The Sun burnt clouds but glimmer to the fight,
when at famed Buxton’s hot bath we alight
unto St. Ann the Fountain sacred is:
With waters hot and cold its sources rise,
And in its Sulphur-veins there’s medicine lies.
This cures the palsied members of the old,
and cherishes the nerves grown stiff and cold"

— Thomas Hobbes, De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being The Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire (1636)

Wiki: The 1520s the spring was dedicated to St Anne (mother of the Virgin Mary) and the curative powers of the waters from the well were reported. A 16th-century act of Parliament ruled that a free supply of the spring water must be provided for the town's residents. The geothermal spring rises from about half a mile (1 km) below ground and about a quarter of a million gallons (a million litres) of water flow out per day. The mineral water emerges at a steady 27°C (80°F). Analysis of the water has indicated that it has a high magnesium content and that it originated from rainwater from around 5,000 years ago. The same spring water is bottled and sold as Buxton Mineral Water.

St Anne’s Drinking Well, Buxton

Above Buxton Five Wells Chambered Tomb:
Five Wells is the highest megalithic chambered tomb in the Peak District and you can see a reconstruction of it in Buxton Museum.

Stone remnants of ‘Five Wells’ tombs.

OUR PLANETARY INITIATION: Incarnating within planetary boundaries, we tap into our deep, stellar resources as seeds of new consciousness. Near Buxton many caves, wells and barrows signal the importance of ‘earth boundaries and resources’ retreats, safety, nurturing places for early civilization.

HOWARD CROWHURST

‘When Art and Science were one’

Researcher into the Megalithic Plan for Britain and the British Isles, his newly discovered alignments between Carnac in Britany, with the sacred sites in Britain;

• the meridian with the Rollight Line from the Uffington Horse, to Lindisfarne; the line from Silbury Hill to Castlerigg and Cape Wrath (p.154);

• The line from Castle Dore, through Lundy Island, Anglesea (Mona), Ben Nevis and Cape Wrath (p.154);

• The Ludd Line from the Needles Isle of Wight, through Durrington Shafts, Avebury, Castlerigg, Drummond Castle, to Cape Wrath (p.110)

Wiki:‘The major natural features of the British Isles were part of this epic undertaking. The highest points in each part of the land, Ben Nevis, High Willahays, Helvellyn, Milk Hill; the Holy Islands of Mona, Lundy and Lindisfarne; the limits of the British Island, Land's End, Cape Wrath, the Needles, Orkney.’

Screenprint from Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGeMFjZkAIc
by Howard Crowhurst: ‘The Megalithic Plan’ as it is revealed in the British Isles (Megalithomania). See also his book recently published: ‘The Megalithic Plan’.

PILGRIMAGE TO SILBURY HILL AND AVEBURY WITH PETER KNIGHT

Marking the middle of England: a cradle of perfect measurements from Silbury Hill and Avebury to Lindisfarne, the book concludes with Appendices rooting the measurements in Egyptian geometry. The maps he provides show alignments with Lindisfarne, Castlerigg and Cape Wrath. Down south, in Britany, a meridian links Castle Dore, Lundy and Cape Wrath. On page 268 he concludes that ‘Between Ruston monolith, Castlerigg, Lindisfarne, Ben Nevis and Cape Wrath, there is a magnificent geometric system using the GOLDEN RATIO and PYTHAGOREAN TRIANGLES.;

The encapsulating of Britain and her sacred sites through modern geometrists,

We live in between these ‘good boundaries’ that protect sacred space and how they have been preserved, we visit Silbury Hill and Avebury, study other sacred sites that relate magically in triangular shape, and thus build our communities.

The Avebury complex is anchored in the Michael and Mary Line which has many ‘sideboard’ connections:

The Michael and Mary Line anchoring Avebury and Silbury Hill within the Capricorn Zodiac (see Anthony Thorley’s calculations.). Along the way, Bury St Edmunds, Avebury, Glastonbury, Dartmoor, Exmoor and Bodmin Moor ‘terrestrial star maps, laid down probably before the Megalithic age, following a very ancient star wisdom tradition.

We therefore have the Cancer ‘sailing ship’ with Crowhurst’s sacred triangle. Our British Isles ‘angel’ sails with stability, due to the balance of sacred mathematical geology. In this year, planetary energies from the cosmos bring disturbance to Humanity’s patterns of regulation. We sail in stormy seas, and the ‘trim tab’ action may be the spiritual groups with their meditation styles and creative optimism. The ‘trim tab’ is a point of adjustment to the overall weather – in global terms, the upheavals of the beginning of the Aquarian Age in 2025. Recognising our role, each of us have an individual responsibility for ‘laying good boundaries’ to new qualities of humanitarian emergence.

A ‘Megalithic Sail’ into our timeline. These alignments hold sacred intelligence of our ancestors, it will fill the winds of our time.

OUR PILGRIMAGE PATHS HAVE A PROFOUND CONNECTION THROUGH TIME: AS PILGRIMS WE ARE LIKE ‘TRIM-TABS’ MANOVERING THROUGH EARTH ENERGY CHANGES: The ‘sail’ in the landscape, when filled with winds of the heartfelt ‘good intent’ and creative boundaries of stability and flexibility, the destiny of humanity can be unfurled and followed.

As we travel through the ‘spirit of place’ in our landscapes, we are adding our conscious ‘star self’ light as an activating principle bringing adjustments and building alignments into greater light of understanding. Like ‘trim tabs’ on a ship of conscious culture down the ages, we each have this responsibility.

Wlki:

‘Trim tabs’ are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilise the boat or aircraft in a particular desired attitude without the need for the operator to constantly apply a control force. This is done by adjusting the angle of the tab relative to the larger surface.

ARE MODERN CITIES ALIGNED ON ANCIENT GEO-MATHEMATICS?

As part of the landscape dynamics, a recently noticed ‘diamond’ (see Richard Douglas’ notes) in the landscape is another area through which the Michael and Mary Line travels, up from Avebury. to Bath, Oxford, Kingston on Thames and Winchester.

[A rough calculation with the online ‘distance calculator’] These form landscape boundaries anchored around a N-S alignment. Just South of Oxford the Michael and Mary Line passes through Dorchester on Thames henge, cursus, and then Wittenham Clumps and Sinoden Hill. On the bottom right edge is the Capricorn zodiac above Salisbury. As a foundation landscape containing Silbury and Avebury, Merlin’s Mound, Stonehenge, Durrington Walls and Haydown Hill, it is, says Anthony Thorley, a ‘third eye’ in the Wessex landscape temple through which King Arthur travelled to gather his fighting command of the ‘men of Cornwall’.

The Wessex chakras landscape temple (see Anthony Thorley’s explanation). It follows the Michel and Mary lines in an area that defines the ‘good boundaries’ of Wessex. Travelling through the root chakra and sacral ‘initiatory’ energies at Athelney Island, the line passes through Burrow Mump, Glastonbury, Bruton, Clay Hill (Alta Major) and Edington (Brow) King Alfred’s initiation as sovereign was through building earth energy through the sacred sites of Wessex, claiming his territory. He then beat and converted King Guthrun of the Danes at Edington, and then passed through the ‘third eye’ of initiation (Haydown Hill is the crown of the Capricorn Zodiac). The Roman Road passes round this hill, as an acknowledgement of its sacred role. He was crowned at Winchester. He followed the sovereign’s rite of passage in the landscape, passing gateways and boundaries which reach down the years to the Megalithic and pre-Pythagorean sun-moon lines of magnificent precision.

THE BOUNDARIES LAID DOWN THROUGH HISTORY, THE PILGRIMAGE DUTY OF SOVEREIGNS and the boundaries of their royal responsibilities:

Each city in the ‘sacred diamond’ of Oxford, features an aspect of the crowning and/or reign of an Anglo-Saxon king, and Oxford and Winchester host an educational role with their colleges renowned for educating future politicians or religious leaders. Thus we can assume that the ‘sailing boat’ landscape of Britain is a sort of metaphor for the cultural expansion in the last centuries, which is now becoming emancipated through global networks and universal technology.

Our own rite of passage for building with vision therefore draws from previous generations who kept a focus on the light of knowledge and understanding, engaging with cultural challenges to generate a new spark of inspiration and collaboration.

THE ‘GOOD DREAM’ HAS ANCIENT GUARDIANS, WHO CAN BE HONOURED AND CELEBRATED AS MODERN PILGRIMS. As individuals, we recreate our spiritual sovereignty in the landscape, recapitulating our cultural roots.

OUR INNER ROUND TABLE OF CREATIVE SELVES are enacted in simple, creative mindfulness and heart-centred response.

The passage of spiritual inspiration draws upon the physical and emotion episodes of our lives to materialize a ‘good dream’ of beauty, our passion of purpose, our ability to play with scheduling, scripting, drafting of new plans with our supportive ‘dream team’(Taurus), and the supportive cultural ‘boundary making’ of past examples and guidance/protection (Cancer). Finally we are ready to fine tune the timetable of new creative projects (Virgo). We are then ready to mediate with other groups (Libra) with diplomatic sense of individual originality (Gemini) coming to focus with our sense of inspired leadership (Leo).

A MODEL FOR THE ‘PROTECTOR’ and ‘GUARDIAN’ of creative path of initiation – A CIRCLE OF ‘CREATIVE SELVES’ IN A COLABORATIVE WHEEL OR ‘ROUND TABLE’.

The ‘ROUND TABLE of our ‘INNER HERO’s initiatory journey through life (ADAPTED FROM DRAFT BY PETER DAWKINS). If our ‘quest’ is for good boundaries and guardianship, the intuitive response (the moon in Capricorn) is for ‘consolidation’ of all creative initiatives (Gemini), so that the vision ‘plant’ may be initiated (in the next sign of Leo who takes the initially playful leadership role).

Our Wheel of Life spiritual advisor would say:

Prepared with your dream team (Taurus), and a collaborative innovation ‘seed’ vision, what would be the best ‘good boundaries’ for this project? What challenges the innovative idea? Do the collaborators agree with these necessary conditions?

Getting ready to make a provisional pilot plan for your vision, (Leo) what first draft of good boundaries would you accommodate?

Mythologically we become like knights of the holy grail, pledged to discover new wisdom and understanding.

Editor Charlotte Yonge 2025.