Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation – Libra sun/Aries moon

Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation - Libra sun/Aries moon – 7th October 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.

FULL MOON LIBRA MOON ARIES
6th October 2025
Meditation at 12 NOON

Libra Sun reflected by Full Moon in Aries. The moon enhanced the Libra qualities as the ‘mediator’ who seeks to balance within us the creation of a vision of beauty, harmony and wisdom within our world.

With gratitude to Peter Dawkins
https://www.zoence.co.uk/info-landscape-temples/british-isles/

Each kingdom in the Isles of the Hesperides has its own ‘star map’ teaching landscape, through which separate cultures emerged, each interacting with and balancing the other two.

Evidence of the British landscape lies in its mythology and symbolism in the landscape and culture. Libra encompasses much of East Anglia, and a local terrestrial zodiac lies at one end of the Michael and Mary line and is centred on Bury St Edmunds. Five other local zodiac designs are connected by the Michael and Mary line. Our research focus asks, are the energies of these landscapes balanced, and what is the function of Libra in our own vision quest?

OUR SOLAR QUEST

The quest for our Libra qualities is to ask how we can balance our different worlds or life-spheres: spiritual, psychological, electro-technological and our wonderful mother-elementals in Nature. Each electron is a life-sphere in itself and deserves our love, collaborative dream and friendship.

In the Libra landscape we find Michael Burgess’ Bury St Edmunds landscape zodiac and with its classical vesica pisces central symbol.

Michael W Burgess’ terrestrial zodiac

In this depiction we find a triangle (Hawks Lays and the Hartest Stone) in the area of the vesica pisces, and suitably it represents balance or the Law of goodwill, harmony and co-creativity. Inviting group synergy is a skilful leadership role, where each member has a vested interest in putting their best vision for beauty and harmony forward and working to balance with that of other members.

NOTES: ‘The Libra dove’ is found at Whepstead in the area of the ‘vesica’ between circles at the area of the ‘Milky Way’ position, (between Sagittarius and Scorpio). The church is dedicated to St Petronella, daughter of St Peter, who has a ‘cross keys’ icon representing the cross-over point of the Milky Way with the sun’s ecliptic, a key to pilgrimage routes. (See Anthony Thorley’s research into the alchemical traditions of pilgrimage in the Glastonbury zodiac)… Also aligned with this Milky Way are the churches of Hoxne and Bradfield Combust, with St Christopher paintings. St Christopher is also a saint symbolising the Milky Way symbology as the path from birth to death to rebirth. He carries the Christ on his shoulder across the river Styx. The interpretation is that pilgrims believe they re-enact the life of Christ for remission of sins, etc.

Royston also can be found in Libra on the Michael and Mary line which enters the Bury zodiac. It links with landscape zodiacs southward. Thus this Libra ‘balance’ is key to how the ancient alignment is activated through at least five other landscape zodiacs: Capricorn (Avebury), Aquarius (Glastonbury, Dartmoor and Exmoor and Bodmin Moor. This is quite extraordinary as this line continues to further shores around the world. Is this a template for ‘mediating’ the earth energies around the planet, as of course other ancient alignments will also be integrating solar and lunar energy along with the anchoring of earth energy in Britain?

Further into Cornwall the Bodmin Moor zodiac is also ‘stitched’ to the Michael and Mary Line at the sign of Sagittarius:

https://earthlydelights.co.uk/archive/Bodmin%20Moor%20Zodiac/zodiac.html

Are these emerging ‘balancing’ landscapes becoming a ‘circlet of starmap’ interacting together?

The balancing action of the Michael and Mary Line as it passes through six zodiacs intermingles with a Megalithic solstice line. (See Howard Crowhurst’s video ‘South England Solstice Line’. It completes its task just beyond Bury St Edmunds zodiac.

QUEST FOR OUR VISION: In what ways can I use my ‘inner mediator/diplomat’ skills to promote and build my vision in harmony with others’ heart-felt dreams?

The sign of LIBRA symbolises the ‘mediator and diplomat’ skills of vision enactment through building group synergy and collaboration. In preparation for leadership of group synergy, skills of setting good boundaries (Cancer) and fine tuning a visionary project (Virgo) in time and place conducive to creating beauty and harmony in collaboration with earth wisdom and energies. As Libran leaders, we balance multiple ‘views’ into our incarnation, and as students of LIBRAN mastery, we learn to balance all these views in order to allow our star self to emerge with that of others, with ever brighter light.

The Michael and Mary Line comes through the Gemini and Taurus signs of the Bury landscape, through the vesica and out through the Sagittarius/Scorpio cusp. Thus the energising of the line by the zodiac star maps includes the bridge between the Exmoor and Dartmoor zodiacs. These landscapes also interact together through their Milky Way gateways Gemini and Taurus, and by turning their wheels in opposite directions: anti-clockwise in Exmoor and clockwise in Dartmoor, creating a wonderful vortex. This figure 8 brings another consideration of how earth energy can be pilgrimage-activated into a vortex similar to that of water, through which spiritual/evolutionary energy can enter the planetary energy fields. Attuning to the ‘kindly luminous beings’ of the spirits of place, we begin to co-create visions of beauty and harmony with the cultural angels that seek our collaboration.

Mid-Devon pilgrimage routes.

A map showing the crossing from Knowstone menhir past the holy well at Rackenford, past Templeton, Black Dog (‘Anubis’ Egyptian black dog Guardian of the Underworld) is similar to the way the ‘Girt Dog of Langport’ guards pilgrims to the Glastonbury Zodiac.

[Mapcarta] Map showing the small roads linking the Knowstone menhir with Black Dog village in the south. In Egyptian tradition, Annubis (The Black Dog guardian of the Underworld} and it is found near the periphery of landscape zodiacs in Britain.

The quest and intuitive response:

The sun sign represents our vision quest, calling for a creative skill to develop along our path, and the moon represents the ‘receptive intuitive’ answer. To continue round the ‘wheel of life’ in the landscape is to externalise the latent potential of our psyche. Our planet offers us this ‘parenting’ role for our soul-making.

Our aim as pilgrims: How can we mediate the individual visioning process within group SYNERGY. We are individual visionaries, co-creating higher levels of resonance through partnership with Nature and partnership with each other. How do we bring our vision goal through mediating with the larger public?

As our 2025 Aries ‘super-moon’ (where it is very close to Earth) is reflecting back the ‘solar initiative of Libra’ – balance of all our ‘worlds’ of consciousness, we gain Intuition from the physical pilgrimage settings for our plan of action. These are subjected to trial and error, as testing a plan brings more insights from living contexts. We need to be in constant contact with our ‘dream team’ with constantly adjusting our vision’s fine tuning.

DARTMOOR ‘CENTRE OF BALANCE’: TWO BRIDGES AND WISTMAN’S WOOD

The most recent pilgrimage to this central cross-roads at Two Bridges in Dartmore, was in autumn this year: the aim was of rediscovering the origin of the River Dart. A supportive adult pilgrim lead his grandson to discover the river source as part of his ‘home education’. This shows how sacred sites are full of imagery and support for emerging imagination in young people.
As parents, we are a child’s ‘dream team’, proposing the quest, exploring imaginative answers.

DISCOVERY OF THURLSTONE AND THE ARTHUR AND GUINEVERE LINE:

The group were bonded as creative individuals each contributing some observations from their own ‘neck of the woods’.

GROUP REPORT 2019:
Fourteen of us gathered on the full moon for a ceremony in Thurlestone church where we linked with the national Gatekeeper group and the 'Dancing Round the British Landscape Zodiac' project. As the South Hams falls within the sign of Aquarius (according to the sidereal zodiac), we were among the first to 'turn this Wheel of Life'!

We then focussed on the Arthur Line which flows through Thurlestone church, followed by a short ceremony at Malborough Spring through which the Guinevere flows. By dowsing before and after our ceremony, Margaret Hannah was able to detect that the width of the line had increased from 7 to 11 paces - and had moved slightly!

THE GROUP SYNERGY

The group’s concerted energy is built upon tuning into the spirit of place, the angels of the landscape and our cultural evolution. Human creative intent and focus includes sensitive information about the landscape context of a project, and this is the ‘angel’s intent’ to co-create new forms of beauty and harmony synchronised with human heart and imagination synchronised.

As gatekeepers of wisdom, truth and beauty, we are giving birth to new form, new resonance and new understandings in our groups. This feeds our natural environment through which we grow and create passages of consciousness. The following are notes and illustrations made in retrospect, on the ‘emergence’ of new historical or mythological understanding of the group in our Dartmoor home.

THE SPHINX LINE – the marriage of Virgo and Leo in ancient tradition, symbolises the human soul within animalistic forms of expression, and the natural forces of the world.

Peter Dawkins’ ‘Sphinx Line’ https://www.zoence.co.uk/zodiac/british-landscape-zodiac/…

‘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.’

In later civilisation it was referred to as the ‘Masonic Compass’ as the master masons used the ancient parameters of building and physical environmental alignments, to measure their ‘Gothic’ and other building projects, drawing upon ancient texts that only a few ‘master masons’ interpret.

RESEARCH WITH A ROUGH SKETCH
Testing this hypothesis, how to balance the ideal (Virgo) with the real (Leo): how did the zodiac ‘starmap’ become a story told in ceremony and ritual in the ancient cultures who inhabited the land?

The following is an approximate ‘zodiac’ outline for Dartmoor, begun in 2013. For the group in Dartmoor, this template formed a starting point for own symbolical interpretation based on our local pilgrimages.

We had found where Leo and Virgo might have been created in our own landscape … guesswork, and testing hidden interpretations followed for our growing database.

We held a pilgrimage at King’s Tor, which is the fulcrum of the rough compass image above, and contemplate the significance of the centre of Dartmoor as a ‘teaching landscape’. What wisdoms were taught about the Sphynx?

A bardic-pilgrim at King’s Tor at work writing poetry.

The group poem was composed by each pilgrim offering the ‘key insight’ from their poem:

King’s Tor Bards, Dartmoor 2014
Sleeping giants surrounded by rocks
Scattered by a past awakening,
Yellow bright flower summons the bee.
Still, as eternal love holds 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.

Kings Tor picnic. we shared a picnic and a ‘Lammas Loaf’ as part of our ceremony on this mysterious, special day.

The ‘heart rock’ at Kings Tor was a very inspiring image of how the elements balanced the mineral rocks, revealing a heart in balance.

How the ‘compass’ came about:

As our research into the moor’s symbology progressed, the ‘Leo’ and ‘Virgo’ segments were highlighted as an experiment to test the hypothesis with our modern thinking. The Sphinx occurs as a balance and marriage of both these signs. Seen on the map as aligned to King’s Tor, we therefore explored the Neolithic sanctuary found in the Tottiford Reservoir. It had suddenly emerged in research, within a year of drought that revealed shapes, stones and artefacts.

The dried out reservoir was investigated by an archaeological team who found a complex ‘ceremonial landscape’ with two avenues, a stone circle, a mound and hut foundations, all normally covered with water.

The ‘Time Team’ archaeological group reconstructed the double row of the ‘processional way’ part of what they call a very special site: Watch ‘Reservoir Rituals’;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfDS68UqL00

The double row ‘processional way’

Using available evidence, the team reconstructed the stone circle. It eventually became easier to envisage the procession and significance of the whole stone complex which is a wonder for our imagination.

We imagine: is this where the ancestors taught about the ‘embodiment’ of human consciousness? Reimagined by the ‘Sphinx’ of Egypt and the mystery of human soul migration, we are an amalgamation of natural systems; an animal form hosting the evolution of the creative spirit represented by ‘Venus’ of beauty and the alchemy of the ‘ideal’ emerging into ‘the real’. We are incarnating the Virgo ‘virgin ideal’, put into action within human form and community (Leo).

This is also encoded in the mythology of the Holy Grail and the Arthurian legends. Thus the zodiac also can represent the ‘Round Table’ of initiation. The sun sign represents the question ‘how may I serve?’ and the moon an intuitive response. Now perhaps we can investigate these key symbols within the Glastonbury and other terrestrial zodiacs.

Peter Dawkins: ‘The greatest myth of all – the primary myth of Britain – is that of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which ‘table’ is the Zodiac. Arthur (Celtic Hu, meaning ’Light’) is the Sun-King. He travels the ecliptic in his sun-chariot but his throne is equated with the centre (the Occult Pole) of the Zodiac. He is the divine guardian of the Holy Grail, the divine Grail King.’

The ‘SPHINX’ half lion (Leo) half woman (Virgo) , describes the human condition. Where this alignment occurs in a terrestrial landscape, there we would find the stories told by mystics and priests. These stories would have been empowered by the processional rituals within the land, teaching the wisdom of the rules of embodiment: balance from within and the cultivation of consciousness in co-creation with earthly elements.

We can learn how the landscape sanctuaries are especially set up to support the evolution of human consciousness. We can act as co-creators of the blueprint of wisdom held within our collective memory and imprinted in the stones of ancient sanctuaries.

LOCAL PILGRIM GROUP ‘SYNERGY’ in DEVON – A marriage of individual intuition and physical ‘planning’ (Virgo the ‘craftsman’).

Here’s how to prepare and plan through group mediation, following the example of the South Hams pilgrims from 2015 through to 2025.

1. Attunement to guiding ‘light beings’ of Gatekeeper, enlightening our interest and aspirations, we offered our love and gratitude to their guidance.
2. Sharing Records and evidence – taking turns around the circle, we shared our individual explorations and insights from events.
3. Giving thanks for the past year. Sharing draft plans and places researched. Collecting a date-oriented draft timetable. The personal reflections: how to acquire these, members discuss their activities and intuitions?
4. Offering the overview draft for blessing by the landscape angels. Giving thanks for our guidance.
5. Closing the group.
6. SHARED LUNCH.

THE ARTS ARE A MAJOR THEME IN OUR GROUP:

The poetry from the centre of the zodiac:

To The Centre of the Zodiac

Weaponed warriors wait by the gate as we process to the gathering point.
Our peaceful intent trumps their dark potential.

Standing in a fluid circle we give assent to the Gatekeeper’s vision of the pilgrimage.
Sounding the sacred Om, then in single, silent file, with eyes and hearts open, walk the ancient way.

Light percussion of rain, urgent whispers of wind, noticing eyes remapping the bleak moors with a celestial template, ten seekers sloughing the mundane at each standing stone.

Counting steps for countless years we pilgrims touch, embrace or press our face against lichen stone. Why do we feel we are coming home?

A sudden downpour of sleet and rain, instead of stopping us, urges us on, adding a hood, hat or scarf, the pilgrim’s acceptance of difficulty is the Path.

The long stony way brings us to the fairy grove of mossy green oaks, which seem to dance among the sleeping moss-cushioned stones. Standing in a new circle we are blessed by the anticipated sun.

Dappled and dreaming we collect the makings of our Mandala.
Assembled at the altar amongst the ferns and trees, a flat stone receives our circle of lichened twigs, river pebbles and emerald moss.

Our songs echo through the sacred grove and the passing stranger wonders.
A group of botanising scholars add to their notes, this is also holy ground.

Returning to the point of our departure, the Inn is host to the blessing of a bride and groom.
White geese strut amongst the gowned and suited guests on the tailored lawns.
Love and joy and laughter augments our cream teas as we sit by a fire in a great stone hearth.
All is well.
Arthur Glendinning – 15th June 2013

ARTS IN THE LANDSCAPE AS ‘MEDIATOR’ OF GROUP ENERGY:

GROUP SONG AT WISTMAN’S WOOD AT THE CENTRE OF DARTMOOR, 2017:

Group song of the Wistman’s Wood bards 2011:
Ancient wisdom
Dewdrops on stones.
Mist and moss,
The mushroom and dung
Silent presence,
We are guided
And protected for ever.

Quiet eternity
Blessing your feet.
Mysty track of life,
As ages pass.
Settled on moist moss,
The roots of the past
Are all around.

There will be misty periods
And sunlit times,
Pile of dung.
Feel our silent presence
as we guide and protect you ever
Allow for the destination to be unseen.

I am a pioneering spirit of love wisdom,
And vision – soul journey to beauty.
To see with the heart
Is to truly live.
Strongly planted heart protection,
Secret beauty open,
Heart recycles
Cool heart-pool space.

As the wood is not open to visitors in order to protect the fragile ecology, here is a mortange of images from our first visits. (Caroline Danby, 2013)

The inspired Haytor ‘bards’ wrote a song, performed by the group’s individual verses and combined with each person’s key image to create a group song:

HAYTOR BARDIC SONG – July 2012.
A mystery tour of creative glory,
Soft cumulus clouds drift above gigantic granite outcrops.
I grew up on your heartland.
Space is freedom,
This forever land in forever time I honour.
Gently the feminine embraces even the hardest stone.
The stone lion, unmoving since time began, crouches without intent.
Haytor’s outline is of feminine power and beauty.
Dark shadows melt across the shifting landscape.
Journey’s end – a vast wooded valley:
Be calm. Be still, Honour Me.
[By the Haytor Bards].

The group studied zodiac symbology with Anthony Thorley, whose theory was that through a ‘star map’, such as Glastonbury, there runs a ‘Milky Way, identified by ‘green lanes’ and stone pathways through villages. The pilgrims at the time of the Milky Way activity believed that Christ and Mary reigned in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Anthony discovered that St Christopher’s story of carrying the Christ Child over the River Styx (the River of Death) was painted on churches indicating their position in ‘the way’. In the Northumbrian zodiac monks from Lindisfarne would walk through the paths, beside the rivers, collecting herbs. These paths and rivers when mapped appeared to create a ‘silver wheel’ over which in tradition Arianrhod the ‘weaver’ could preside. These ‘silver wheels’ often had places representing a number of stars, and in his estimation each would be attended to by the monks of the ‘earlier alchemical-minded Christianity’, as representing the larger zodiac star map, thus blessing and enhancing the landscape through their ritual prayers while walking. That was one of his interpretations of the old tradition.

Anthony revealed the Milky Way through the Glastonbury zodiac. At its start, the West Pennard Church of St Nicholas has a wall painting of St Christopher and the Christ Child crossing the River Styx: This denoted the start of the Milky Way at Lamyatt Beacon. It formed a theoretical basis of how early pilgrims of the alchemical Christian belief, gave the story of Christ and Mary Magdalene ‘reigning’ from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, at the cross over of the ecliptic and the galaxy on the horizon.

See John Wadsworth’s annual Milky Way Pilgrimages: Many pilgrimages, most famously the El Camino way to Santiago de Compostela, once known as the via Lactea, are based on the idea of walking the Milky Way, with its starry formation being mapped onto the earth in certain key locations. The observance of such a pilgrimage has long been regarded as a form of spiritual initiation, guided by profound esoteric wisdom.

See www.kairosastrology.co.uk

In the ‘Gemini’ sign of the Dartmoor landscape we envisage Belstone whose church is dedicated to ‘St Mary the Virgin’. In a Dartmoor gathering, Anthony Thorley depicted the two columns of the Milky Way being connected by the ‘archway’ of the galaxy of stars above us. We experience death/transmutation/ascension up the left pillar and rebirth/ into matter on the right hand pillar.

In a talk given by Anthony Thorley he defined the ‘Milky Way’ route of a zodiac as having two gateways or pillars, one for ascension the other for rebirth.

BALANCING EXPERIMENTAL ART AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCE: This inspired a draft zodiac for the Dartmoor complex with the prospective ‘Sphinx Line’: In the South the ‘longest stone avenue in the world is described, ending just below Wistman’s Wood. An inner-to-outer symbol of ‘walking the line’ balanced between the ‘ideal’ myth and our ‘inner flux’ of intuitive energy emerging within the pilgrimage group.

Stall Moor stone row ‘the longest in England’. This row starts at South Brent, and ends with a stone circle ‘The Cornwall Maidens’. It forms the southern part of the ‘Milky Way’, with Highter White Tor and Lower White Tor in the North.
https://www.dartmoorwalks.org.uk/resource/rows.php

‘The Dancers’ stone circle at the end of Stall Moor ‘the longest stone row in England.’ https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=152370

The ‘star map’ of Dartmoor has therefore a key ingredient in this longest stone row, with ‘White Moor Hill’ and ‘White Moor Marsh’ that suggest the ‘Milky Way’ pathway through the centre.

White Moor Stone Circle:
https://www.isleofalbion.co.uk/sites/48/white_moor.php
Maybe the dancing stones are waiting for our contribution to ‘turning the energies’ of the year’s seasons to create the miracles we yearn for.

THE AUTUMN EQUINOX AND THE SOLAR ECLIPSE

As we develop ‘star map’ theories adding our own intuition, we seem to be approaching new intuitions about our larger cosmos. These higher vibrations are becoming grounded in our symbolic landscapes.

The theme of a grand ‘air’ sign trine aspecting Saturn, interprets as ‘make your vision real’. This coupled with the ‘supermoon’ at its fullest, and the new Comet with six smaller comets in its train, on 7th October, brings a new focus of visionary importance to humanity. A powerful galactic presence, 3-mile long and turning turquoise, the comet indicates ‘gifts of cosmic love’ for humanity, say astrologers.

Astrologer Pam Gregory: this is a beautifully creative regenerative aspect for humanity’.

THE TIME IS NOW, when Pluto and Saturn give us a new focus, so that we can SEE, FEEL AND TOUCH OUR our vision in real time.

Editors: Charlotte Yonge, Rose Williams and Jane Knight, with thanks to Peter Dawkins for the inspiration of the Sphinx Line and British Zodiac within our landscape.
October 2025.