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

Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation - Capricorn sun/Cancer moon – 3rd January 2026

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.

SUN IN CAPRICORN, MOON IN CANCER
MEDITATION 3RD JANUARY 2026
12 NOON LOCAL TIME

Sun in Capricorn, Earth, the Initiator;
Moon in Cancer, Water, the Guardian

St Ann’s Well Dressing 2013, Buxton, Derbyshire (photo “visit Buxton”)

Welcome to our first newsletter for 2026. Wishing you all peaceful pilgrimaging on our beautiful planet as we start our annual pilgrimage around the British Landscape Zodiac. This full moon is another supermoon and is in the sign of Cancer, the element of water and guardianship, reflecting the element of earth and initiator in the sun in Capricorn.

Cancer on the British Landscape Zodiac takes us to the north of England and here in Buxton, Derbyshire, we find the element of water rising from the earth. St Ann’s Well is an ancient natural warm spring, one of the places in the area where the mineral water emerges at a steady 27C.

Originating from rainwater that flowed onto the local rock 5000 years ago and taking all that time to filter through to the pure drinking water we enjoy today. The Romans settled here and named the area Aquae Arnemetia, after the Romano-British goddess of the sacred grove. The healing powers of the warm mineral rich waters have been used for time immemorial. In the Middle Ages this spring became associated with the healing powers of St Ann and was renamed St Ann’s Well.

Here we meet Charlotte in the sun sign of Capricorn.

CAPRICORN ‘THE CONSOLIDATOR AND INITIATOR’

The sign symbolises our inner mystic at work in the dark womb of nature, activating new seeds of vision.
This quest completes the ‘round table’ of heroic deeds that are presented to us: the journey from vision to devotion, to passion of purpose concludes with a new seed vision of ‘love-in-action’ packed in a seed-shell of purpose, focus and good boundaries.

The ‘Round Table’ suggested by Peter Dawkins with interpretative graphics by Caroline Danby.

The crystal, sword, spear and shield come from Arthurian initiatory tradition, which Peter Dawkins interprets as the stages of initiation: learning to love, understand and serve. With a vision of limitless love and truth, we learn to grow and develop our light body through putting love in action with passion of purpose. We sprout a rooted plant of understanding, as our soul grows new petals of illumination at each conclusion of the cycle.

Themes we can take with us on pilgrimage:

The 12 signs become a 'Vision Quest' that can relate to the landscape zodiac and implicate visioning themes in both the sun and the moon rather like a dialogue reflecting each other. The sun Quest asks about the stages on a journey through the year, building an individual vision path. The moon represents an intuitive response in types of real life situations. The whole Wheel can be interpreted as the Round Table of initiation, each a creative skill to be learned. Thus ideally, we have within this a personal path of wisdom symbolised through pilgrimage themes.

The source of life deep in the earth’s cave of birth, relates also to our earthly identity, culture and natural settings. These ‘local’ identities define our personality and link us to a planetary project to build a harmonious planetary civilisation. Moving from the Pisces Great Age to the new Aquarian Great Age involves a sense of closure and understanding of where we have travelled down history.

The Sun Quest: How can I express the earthing and consolidation of my spiritual insights for this past year? The moon in Cancer gives us an intuition of ‘creating nurturing, good boundaries for building new vision’, and bonding in family groups. How do I express my life’s purpose in family development and learning?

SHARING THE SPIRIT OF PLACE WITH FAMILY

Consolidating the ‘good boundaries’ of family roots - family grouping opens ‘other’ and ‘self’ discernment, love opens resonant potentiality of landscape…

Peter Dawkins spoke about how he took his two sons out into the moors of Exmoor, his favourite landscape. He planned a camping holiday, with walking and attunement to the spirit of place.

In my childhood, I was brought up in the wilds of Africa, with trips to outlying places, where the heartbeat of the land was infused into my memories with deep emotional resonance. I was also taken into the Dartmoor hills, where we as a family shared the secrets of ‘luminous moss’ growing in deep stoney cracks in the boulders. Later on, in our first St Michael Line Gatekeeper pilgrimage, we found luminous moss in a deep well at Land’s End, Cornwall.

Through these primal ‘deep contact’ exposures, my psyche led me to many pilgrimages in Dartmoor, Hampshire and research into very early ‘Star Map’ astro-geological design.

Here I integrated my own identity, a synthesis of African pristine wilderness and the wilderness moorlands in England’s South West. Capricorn was the focus for my family and early development.

The Capricorn Terrestrial Zodiac - discovered and developed as a draft through a small research group with Anthony Thorley.

A tentative design of the Star Map of Capricorn that stretches between the ancient sanctuaries of Avebury, Stonehenge and Merlin’s Mound.

My historical bonding in this area: As a family we travelled to Marlborough and Merlin’s Mound in the College. It became part of my early ‘mixed nationality’, having moved from Africa to England when I was 18 years old.

This bonding later signified a link to key sovereigns such as King Alfred, whose headquarters in Winchester were also those of my family.

Later in early 2003, a small Gatekeeper research group moved around the area and up Haydown Hill, on which Fosbury Camp lies. It is shown here in our draft Star Map on the Scorpio position - the Milky Way ‘Ascension’ gateway on the cusp of Sagittarius. Opposite is the ‘Rebirth’ gateway between Gemini and Taurus.

Fosbury Iron Age Camp rampart.

On the opposite side of the map is Roundway, a village between Devizes and Avebury, through Alton Barnes and Alton Priors in the Pewsey Valley. It sits in the cusp of Taurus and Gemini indicating the ‘Birth’ gateway of the Milky Way. Above these two churches is Milk Hill, suggestive of the galactic pattern in the sky which crosses the sun’s ecliptic.

ANALYSIS 2003:

The Pewsey Valley was researched by Anthony Thorley, who found on the internet that all churches in the valley were pre-Reformation and situated in identical patterns found in the major constellations of the Milky Way.

VISIT 2019:

Three Gatekeepers visited Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, taking musical instruments to celebrate the sacred sites. We ended up finding old weathered stones under the floor of Alton Priors church. In addition, outside the farm arranged in a circl, were weathered stones collected from farmland, indicative of their earlier use as a ritual circle in this area.

A menhir stone under the floor of Alton Priors Church.

Outside, one of the old weathered stones collected from nearby fields by the farm next door.

The recent farmyard collection of weathered stones found by work in nearby fields.

The springs adjacent to Alton Priors Church.

Outside the church were several ponds, indicative of the sacred positioning of an earlier stone circle around sacred springs. We played our harmonium, singing bowls and horn in this little powerful glade.

A celebratory montage of the old sarsen stones, both under the floor and outside the South Door of the Church, weathered, and suggestive of an earlier stone circle. The old yew tree felt like a ‘guardian’ presence here.

Milk Hill on the ridge overlooking the churches. In the valley are annual ‘crop circle’ patterns.

All these symbols seemed to suggest that the Pewsey valley had a powerful influence on very early civilisation, and that they celebrated this ‘earth energy’ and water springs as part of a larger ‘astro-geological circle’. This circle is crossed by roads and in the centre ‘Scales Bridge’ indicative of its position as a balancing feature over the river. It has equidistant towns such as Devizes, Avebury, Marlborough, Amesbury/Durrington. It also includes Stonehenge and Woodhenge in the South.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2020
PRESENTING THE AVON RIVER ‘GRAIL TEMPLE’

The Avon Grail ‘cup’ and associated rivers.

Source of the River Avon at Alton Priors.

The confluence of Avon and Kennet Rivers at ‘Scales Bridge’ Fishing Lodge.

The Grail and Sword by David Furlong, symbolising the Avon Grail Landscape.

The River Avon gathers a ‘grail’ of water from the landscape of Capricorn, which flows South to Christchurch and the ancient headland of Hengistbury Head. Along the Way Old Sarum is the original city site with a strong political role in preparing the way for publishing the Domesday Book.

At the top of the landscape, the Marlborough Downs has been researched by David Furlong, revealing accurate geometry, which may be interpreted as ‘Merlin’s Hat’ and centred around Temple Farm and Temple Valley as a focus of earlier Templar activity.

‘AVEBURY decoded’ by David Furlong:
https://www.davidfurlong.co.uk/Avebury.htm

Avebury is a focus of megalithic lines is a theme developed by Howard Crowhurst: ‘The Megalithic Solstice Line of Southern England’ Youtube. Therefore this whole area has deep significance when decoded: how did the myth of Merlin relate to the secret Megalithic mathematical codes in landscape alignments?

There is a story of the ‘White Flying Sow’ who drops her piglets onto the land, which then become sacred sanctuaries.

The White Sow Mother of the Black Boar: ‘Long before warriors carved their names into legend, before kings fought for thrones, The White Sow roamed the land - a creature of power, mystery, and transformation. She was more than just a beast; she was a symbol of fertility and rebirth, the mother of the fearsome Black Boar. Her presence was both a blessing and a warning, a reminder that life and death are forever entwined in the cycle of nature. A Beast of Beauty and Chaos.. … In Caxton’s version, printed in 1485, the bear has been changed into a boar: “the bore ”.
https://thewhitehag.com

Other legends include King Arthur and his 12 knights, a story symbolising an initiatory path.
King Arthur is associated with Winchester, where there is the hill ‘Sleeper’s Hill’ in which he is said to have entered the earth and fought a bear/boar:

According to the Winchester manuscript, Arthur dreams of how a dragon defeats a “gresly Beare”; after Arthur wakes up a philosopher explains that Arthur need not worry: he is the dragon that will defeat the bear, who, in turn, symbolises a cruel and powerful tyrant that torments its people.

Other interpretations of the most famous King Arthur tales include King Arthur as the ‘Boar of Cornwall’:
https://thijsporck.com/2019/09/21/the-boar-who-would-be-king/

We have these deep foundational wisdom traditions of our origins in the Capricorn terrestrial zodiac.

In the Marlborough Downs (see David Furlong’s design_ at ‘Temple Farm’ and ‘Temple Bottom’ valley, many sarsens can be found, which are a part of the sacred landscape of King Arthur.

https://www.hiddenwiltshire.com/post/temple-bottom-and-of-the-last-templar

Sarsen Stone found in the Marlborough Downs. Merlin’s Mound and Silbury Hill mark the boundaries of the area.

The area is thick with sacred sites following from Avebury and related to Alfred’s journey to kingship. Further South lie Marden Henge and Hatfield Barrow:

Wiki: Marden Henge (also known as Hatfield Earthworks) is the largest Neolithic henge enclosure discovered to date in the United Kingdom. The monument is north-east of the village of Marden, Wiltshire, within the Vale of Pewsey and between the World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge. …. Antiquarian accounts of the site describe a huge mound within the enclosure called Hatfield Barrow, which collapsed after excavation by William Cunnington in the early 19th century. …Around 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) to the south, archaeologists have detected the presence of another henge known as Wilsford Henge.

Anthony Thorley interpreted Alfred’s path to kingship as an initiatory journey through South England arriving at the Capricorn Zodiac - the ‘alta major’ chakra of divine guidance of the Wessex temple - having fought King Guthrun. There he receives divine guidance and right to be crowned king. After a visit to Haydown Hill, his probable crowning (could have been at Kingston Upon Thames or Bath) and palace at Winchester associates him as rightful heir of King Arthur. Thus our national heritage is well and truly anchored in the CAPRICORN zodiac, which binds history and mythology together.

In this way, Gatekeeper Trust’s role of educating the public about sanctuaries and temples could also be interpreted as exploring our National Angel or ‘overlighting co-creative presence’. Here are a couple of teachings that can guide us:

DAVID SPANGLER (www.lorian.org) talks about the spirit of our individual Nations, and how we express this ‘national identity’ as a collaborative creative endeavor. Through online training in ‘discernment’ of ‘feel’ of the energy and new intuitive information; discernment of impact, how body energy reacts to the energy of ‘outside information’ (intuitive, or earth energy/information impacting awareness); discernment of integration of the energy/intelligence in my personal life-sphere… how dependable and accurate is this information/energy. ‘Applying discernment of anything ensures we have good, accurate, reliable, truthful information. … We discern in order to learn and grow in our own wisdom and ability to interact [with creation] … to know ourselves.’

The Soul of America or of Great Britain for instance ‘are not exactly like your soul or mine. The singular source of our incarnate identities. They function more like farmers tending a plot of land… …They are more precisely vast angelic beings, planetary angels, who could just as accurately be called the Angels of their respective nations…. They hold in their care the promise and potential of that nation…. They provide an energetic field of coherency and identity that holds the many varied elements of the nation together as a whole. In this they function in a similar manner to the Soul within each of us.’ … ‘ A national destiny is not an abstraction. It’s fulfilled through its people, by what they embody, how they behave, and what they contribute to the world. All national spiritual destinies are oriented to the world as a whole. In other words, while a nation may have purposes related to its own nature, wellbeing and character, its destiny is part of its contribution to all life on this planet.

IN A SIMILAR TEACHING, PETER DAWKINS SUGGESTS we are engaged in building the planetary light body, as well as ourselves and our nation:

It can be interpreted as a path of incarnation: becoming fully integrated with the creative light body of the earth and her wisdom.

The innate philosophy of our human/planet synthesis relates to how we share new forms of expression with Earth, and both our cosmic and planetary destiny are entwined together. David Spangler encourages a vision of our two created individuals: earth and human. We co-create to bring forth a ‘Gaian Human’ expression of divinity. In other words, bringing about a new expanded expression of our cosmic identity.

I believe that we have our own national identity and ‘’soul’ which is expressing through our lifestyle and surroundings, evolving through international cultural exchange. Through synthesis of traditions, the way we celebrate our ‘spirit of place’ in the landscape is multi-layered. As we love these environmental natural and landscape features, we discover the imprints of previous stages of civilization, rooted in other planetary locations, all along the theme of wisdom. These are the roots on which we build new light bodies and inner ‘rose temples of insights’.

CAPRICORN MAY REPRESENT OUR CURRENT STAGE OF BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE ‘SYNTHESIS OF CULTURES’ - in which we find our individual sovereignty: This comes through our engagement on the world stage, when we begin to build a global identity of ‘human-ness’, blending local spiritual expressions and traditions. Out of these we have formed ‘contemporary spirituality’, a life style in which we explore awakeness and mindfulness along traditional guidelines, synthesizing to meet present daily needs. For instance, Yoga for body awakeness and relaxation, and ‘mindfulness of breath’ for vitality, and ‘Embodiment Yoga’ for paying attention to the body’s memory that connects to feelings accrued over our life-time from early to later years.

QUESTING WITH OUR LANDSCAPE AS ‘HEALER’ and source of sovereignty.

The Capricorn ‘star map’ in progress has been collated by small groups of researchers. In the beginning, Anthony Thorley researched the ‘path to kingship’ that King Alfred followed, incorporating the Michael Line coming up through the West Country, through his palace at Athelney. It was here that he began gathering the ‘Men of Cornwall’ to fight the Danes.

The ‘Wessex Temple’ is also linked to the tentative Avebury-Stonehenge-Merlin’s Mound star map, reflecting Alfred’s journey to kingship, culminating in the crown chakra at Haydown Hill. The large circle linking Avebury with Stonehenge forms the ‘altar major’ chakra of ‘spiritual guidance and vision’ for Alfred’s transformative journey. The far right is the crown chakra of the Wessex Temple at Haydown Hill, around which curls a Roman Road linking Bath and Winchester. As Roman roads tended to be very straight, this signifies the importance of the hill as a sacred area.

https://gatekeeper.org.uk/2020/06/king-alfreds-landscape-journey-to-kingship/

OUR CHRISTIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY RECAPITULATES BOTH THE CELTIC AND LATER CRISTIAN STORIES.

ATHELNEY - The root chakra of the Wessex Temple:

Monument at Athelney, where Alfred had his stronghold, and the site of a monastic building.

The ‘Alfred Jewel’ celebrating kingship, found in a Somerset field.

Alfred’s journey began here. Along the way is Burroughbridge, earlier called ‘Myghell-borough’, on which are the ruins of a medieval church dedicated to St Michael. The temple axis carries on to Glastontury at the Solar Plexus, Bruton at the ‘heart chakra’, and Edington at the Brow where Arthur’s battle conquered King Guthrun of the Danes. He was subsequently converted to Christianity by Alfred, who went on to set up his palace in Winchester.

Burrow Mump and St Michael’s Church, with view to Glastonbury Tor.

Our traditions run deep, into the lives of saints, and some of them had iconography representing a ‘saltire cross’ which symbolised the ‘ecliptic crossing’ of the galaxy.

The ‘St George’ line connecting Ogbourne St George, Ogbourne St Andrew and Ogbourne Maisy, also points to a classic Rennaisance theme of ‘restoration of the arts and sciences’.

Is this the start of a line ‘shaking/activating’ a spear of light in the landscape? The start of the St George line which aligns three Ogbourne villages, followed by Merlin’s Mount, through the Capricorn Zodiac, to Stonehenge, and then Wilton House home of the Countess of Pembroke.

The line continues to Countess of Pembroke’s Wilton House where it is suggested that the ‘Areopagus of Poets’ of the Elizabethan age met to create the foundations of Shakespeare’s works. It appears that the ‘ley’ line also goes through Stonehenge and in surveying the house, a specific sacred geometric design emerges to denote ‘sacred space’ following Pyathorean geometry. It is also suggestive that this group of poets knew about the alignment, thus took the energy line of ‘St George’ to refer to their collective creation of Shakespeare’s works: ‘Shake-speare’ relates to the ancient wisdom tradition at the heart of the Rennaisance: ‘shaking the spear of wisdom at ignorance’.

Wiki: The Wilton Circle were an influential group of 16th-century English poets, led by Mary Sidney and based at Wilton. Sidney turned Wilton into a "paradise for poets", and the circle included Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Sir John Davies, Abraham Fraunce, and Samuel Daniel. They are described as "the most important and influential literary circle in English history" and Mary Sidney has been called a "patroness of the muses".

CANCER MOON REFLECTS CAPRICORN SUN-QUEST BY SUGGESTING INTUITIVE GUIDANCE:
As the ‘nurturing’ response to our quest, the moon symbolises nurture and good boundaries. Family life is a powerful source of national identity, and exchange of local landscape wisdom.

Today local projects in Devon include walking in the moors with our children, so as to engender the pleasure and stimulus of Nature as an educative, and healing, experience. Two Gatekeepers are working on a project in which children with autism can benefit: we can help children with special sensitivities to access these deeper levels of awareness - aided by the magnetism of sacred sites - and begin integrating them into social memory. (See ‘The Telepathy Tapes’ website showing research into the clairvoyant qualities demonstrated by children with autism). While walking in magnetic moorlands and hills, there is no need to talk in prescriptive terms of reference, just the use of adult spontaneous, expressive and imaginative flow, and brief distillations of a personal sense of wonder. Photography reveals an inner emotional experience, and thus our project relies on subtle interpretations from reports, photos and building observations through discussion.

A young explorer at Sisters’ Fountain ancient spring in Exmoor.

VISITING SISTERS’ FOUNTAIN, EXMOOR:
The deeper awareness of both woodland and the site of an old sacred well triggers deeper relaxation and pleasure. We may not understand at the time, but on reflection the atmosphere envelopes our senses and speaks deep meanings. Journals and records help document our journeys.

Young explorer at Belsone Tor.

AT BELSTONE TOR, a second stone circle confirms its duality reflecting the sign of Gemini in tradition. It portrays the powerful site as a ‘cosmic gateway’ with Taurus. Here it offers a solitary and expansive view to many horizons. Empowered by its drama, we find our imagination crystalizing for future reference and themes of sacred alignment.

Shadows: the Gemini effect. A stable point of reference in a young man’s memory of magic and atmosphere.

An iconic view of two shadows at Belstone Tor.
Tony observes: ‘...I am just going to surrender myself to the process and see where we are guided. It was so weird that I picked up two pilgrims’ shells and inscribed them with 2’.

At Belstone, playing with unusual discoveries: scallop shells and leaves capture the imagination. The message ‘surrendering to the process’ is a sign that a pilgrim grandparent is ‘learning on the job’, and trusting the landscape ‘spirit of the land’ is conveying new wisdom. Never forget that pilgrimage is a creative dialogue of ‘light body’ interaction, a subtle co-creativity of mind, memory and spirit.

On the beach at Saunton Sands, sitting on a driftwood ‘dragon’, listening to the waves, the senses capture atmosphere, which impacts upon our brain’s neural connections, bringing body sense into subtle focus and quietening the rational mind.

Through the arts (photography and symbolic ‘altars’) we record memories which show how the senses focus and deepen the energies of the spirit of place. In the sacred, luminous moors, a magic unfolds within our body-mind, that heals and soothes daily stresses - a deeper layer of sensitivity can emerge.

IN ANCHORING AND CONSOLIDATION OF MEMORY
With images such as these, we indent our psyche with triggers for emotional expansion, memories that begin nameless, and result in shared uplift.

INITIATION THROUGH AWARENESS …. A sharper discernment between vital signs, and choices from subtler layers of awareness, all help us begin to map and deepen life decisions, creating our memory framework: the art of choosing beauty, openness and wonder, allowing a nameless uplifting joy of life, so that we can reflect on past seeds, and project them into new futures.

It is at a deeper level that we allow a creative force of Nature into our processors, as we walk silently through the landscape. Capricorn represents how we bring these captured impressions together, into accessible imaginative creativity. The deep subconscious has, like Nature, the capacity of re-synthesis and the preparation for an internal ‘creativity spring’ to emerge into our consciousness.

CAPRICORN’S SEEDS OF WISDOM:
It is the coding within the landscape - an invisible sacred mathematical geometry - which co-creates with our inspired love-wisdom, to build a sense of national identity through OUR LIFE-CONTEXTS. This could be interpreted as the ‘angel’ or ‘presence’ of our cosmic selves incarnating as a ‘collective ideal’ being made ‘real’. The twin purpose of the ‘ideal and the real’ is to be an ever-present dialogue. It is a motivating force for a new emerging ‘selfhood’ that is anchored in planetary life.

https://www.peterdawkins.com/landscape/

‘The world, as well as our individual bodies, are the temples in which our souls reside. It is vital to know them well and to keep both as healthy as possible…… We could, in fact, not only create paradise on earth but also a planetary body of light.’

CAPRICORN as the ‘CONSOLIDATOR’ of the ‘REAL AND THE IDEAL’ within us, the inner landscape where love-wisdom is continuously being reborn.

Thus, as we pilgrimage, we get to know the hidden architecture of the planet’s light body: these archetypal patterns - ‘the ideal’ - are interacting with us in our ‘real’ world, creating an ever-weaving beauty and living form. Christmas ‘time’ is forever in the timeless sacred moment.

Editor: Charlotte Yonge December 2025.