Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation – Scorpio sun/Taurus moon

Wheel of Life Full Moon Meditation - Scorpio sun/Taurus moon – 5th November 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.

MEDITATION FOR
SCORPIO SUN REFLECTED BY TAURUS MOON
NOVEMBER 5th 2025

12 NOON LOCAL TIME

The Scorpio quest: as the alchemy of the past year matures, we reflect upon our initiatives and quest the wisdom of our actions. The Wheel of Life is designed to mature our inner truth-seeking, forever weaving a path through the obstacles of material incarnation. We are co-creators with our planet of its potential for beauty and harmony. So in Scorpio we see signs of these achievements in our lives.

NEW WAYS OF COMING TOGETHER TO SHARE VISION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP - a deep, invisible, connection lit by a candle.

[Photo by Charlotte Yonge, 2018]
Group visioning and celebration, using the group synergy for crafting individual futures, North Devon.

PILGRIMAGE – As a ‘mystery play’ we find the underlying energy systems or chakras of a landscape and follow the flow of energy from root to crown.
This way we harmonise with the inner ‘spirit of place’:

NOTES from a talk by Peter Dawkins:

“Pilgrimage is about doing the right thing at the right time with the right purpose and orientation of intent, we create a ‘mystery’. We improvise along a theme, with the actors creating the implication and metaphor. Stagecraft shapes the space, and this allows for audience interpretation, learning and raising awareness through questing boundaries, meanings and truths”.

THE SEEDS OF EXPERIENCE: In the centre of our psyche this ‘blossoming’ of wisdom is the subtle search for experience and revealed truth. We are forever being thrilled by our journey through Earth’s subtle layers of elemental life, which guide us to unfold a brilliant inside view of the planetary angel.

Peter Dawkins: ‘The Solar Cycle’ - https://www.zoence.co.uk/time-cycles/solar-festivals/

The Great Festivals of our Planet:

These World Festivals celebrate the great power-points in time that affect us and nature profoundly—although there is a distinct and important difference between the lunar and the solar. The solar cycle and festivals are to do with the Sun and the outpouring of light and life, whereas the lunar cycle and festivals are to do with the Moon and the reflection of the Sun's light back to Earth. The solar are associated with our divine spirit and the creative and illuminating life forces; the lunar are associated with our psyche and the modulating forces that affect the basic patterns and operations of the life force. The solar relates to wisdom and ‘fire’; the lunar relates to intelligence and ‘water’. Peter Dawkins.

PILGRIMAGE – As a ‘mystery play’ we find the underlying energy systems or chakras of a landscape and follow the flow of energy from root to crown.
This way we harmonise with the inner ‘spirit of place’.

PLANTING SEEDS OF LIGHT WITH EACH FOOTSTEP: The seasons of our inner ‘sun’ take us through the birthing-to-seeding – seed, bud, flower, fruit, we are planted to feel the joy of creativity and renewal.

‘The Seed’ - Graphics by Michel Beaufoy
Creating our own art forms engage with the spirit of the land, co-creating new symbols of joy and appreciation
By the time we reach the Gemini Full Moon, it reflects the key theme of Scorpio ‘The Transformer and Alchemist/Magician’. Here we open up the ‘seedpod’ of insights from the past year.

THE SEEDS FOR A NEW ‘GREAT AGE’ OF AQUARIUS
As we move into a new ‘Great Age’ of around 25000 years, what alchemical process is now unfolding? As pioneers at the gateways of transition, what seed wisdoms have unfolded in Humanity’s planetary psyche? The Planet Pluto is residing in Aquarius, and the theme is a ‘new form of leadership’. This article surveys the clues, from Shakespeare’s theatres in the Milky Way landscape, to our local ‘group synergy’ in which the spirit of place becomes our advisor and inspirer. Our ‘grail’ space is what we voluntarily create as a work of art in the landscape and at this time of year, gather our inspirations and landscape research.

Cygnus ‘the pure poet’ along the Milky Way of the British Zodiac. The alignment fits in with Megalithic research, linking with the Rollright Stones, and further along a solstice line to a junction with a N - S alignment with Carnac. Beneath our feet the spirit of our earliest ancestors still quivers in exotic patterns.

Cygnus, the landscape temple in the wing of which Stratford is carried in its alchemical theatre. Since the Renaissance was built upon a Europe-wide revival of ancient alchemical texts, these informed the playwrights of ‘transformative’ plays of the Shakers of the Spear of Wisdom. All through the landscape, cultural re-invention took place as the restoration of the arts and sciences.

‘ The Swan symbolism has been employed from ancient times as a symbol of the shaman and hierophantic initiate-poet, such as for Orpheus, and it was famously used by Ben Jonson to describe Shakespeare as "The Sweet Swan of Avon" (i.e. the sweetly singing swan or poet). Like the powerful neck of the bull, the long neck of the swan emphasises the throat. It is via the throat that we speak, and if it is wisdom that we speak then it is said that we are sounding the Word, the spoken form of the Wisdom of God. This, it is said, in terms of divinity, creates the universe. A true poet is said to imitate or echo, as a human being, this divine creativity. Nature does the same in its own way, and man is just as much a part of nature as he/she is part of the spiritual world.’ Sarah Dawkins, https://gatekeeper.org.uk/2020/06/sarah-writes-from-cygnus-the-swan/

Sarah Dawkins with group honouring the spirit of place through enhancing its sacred grail space with Paneurythmy at the Rollright stones of ‘Cygnus’. The arts create group resonance and synchronous rhythm with the angelic chorus.

NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF AA LINES which TRANSFORM MEGALITHIC sacred geometry into a ‘new mystic path’ indicated by the work of Gatekeeper and Zoence (Peter and Sarah Dawkins). Within the British Zodiac, the Milky Way (the Alpha and Omega Line) has been the focus of pilgrimage this year, especially in relation to the Renaissance Shakespearean Theatres positioned in three sites. The power of Shakespeare’s plays is immeasurable. Preston (in the sign of Taurus in the Lamanche zodiac) is the birthplace of one of the three Shakespearean theatres along the Milky Way line of the British zodiac. A fitting ‘rebirth of mystery plays’ here, their fame never to diminish after 400 years.

Theatre in the round: a crucible for audience immersion, where alchemy and philosophy come alive.

The transformative alchemical grail space of the circle: Shakespeare North Playhouse, Preston – in the sign of Taurus in the Lamanche Zodiac (see ‘Lamanche Zodiac’ by Kathryn Jane Preston).

Stratford – in the sign of Cygnus the Swan/’Pure Poet’ – a large flock of swans are ever ready along the banks.

Shakespeare’s Globe – London South Bank, on the cusp of Scorpio/Sagittarius

THE SAGES AND HUMAN EVOLUTION: Due to the philosophical groups, distilling the astrophysics of the ‘sages’ of the Renaissance, and those following the tradition of theatres anchored the secret myth surrounding the galactical constellations. The Renaissance poets and playwrights caught the spirit of the time, and the ancient wisdom became encoded in the powerful plays.

‘THE PLAY’S THE THING’ (‘Hamlet’). Now we make group mandalas with flowers and candles to represent our group ‘grail space’.

Spring Imbolc 2023: a celebration of the abundance of the flowering of Nature. Also a special visit from neighbouring peacocks, enhancing the magic of our ‘Cygnus’ landscape. Nearby Stratford’s riverside ‘Royal Shakespeare Theatre’ is entertained by the huge flock of swans. These exotic birds seem in a permanent state of celebration.

THE PASSING OF PISCES: The magic of the ‘galactic initiation’ of the sages, caught the spirit of the outgoing ‘Great Age Of Pisces’, which 400 years later is becoming imprinted on humanity.

Meantime landscapes architectures (star maps) were designed as the perfect grail space, Uri Leitch has studied Katherine Maltwood’s zodiac, and its relationship to an equinox line that links its Glastonbury’s Milky Way with Canterbury and the Promontory of Hercules in Cornwall. The Phoenician traders brought in the God Hercules to interpret the sun’s cycles as they traded tin along the coast of Britain. Long before them, Megalithic builders established the symbolic ‘star systems’ of the South West and South East of Britain, linking the ‘Michael and Mary Line’ with the sacred paths of these star maps: Bury St Edmunds (Libra}, Avebury (Capricorn), Glastonbury (Aquarius), Dartmoor and Exmoor (linked in a figure eight, again in Aquarius, and Bodmin (Aquarius). The emphasis is in this next Great Age, seeding this year.

We carry a seed of imminent magic, and now we learn to dialogue with our planetary womb and soil: ‘The dialogue between soil and soul runs incredibly deep and has been a passion of mine for over a decade. When we reconnect with the soil, the plants and all elements of the natural world, we awaken a direct line of remembrance within the intelligence of our bodies and the living ecosystems that sustain us.’ Zach Bush

Pilgrimage is a way of creating a silent dialogue with the elemental life around us:

[Montage by Charlotte Yonge, 2016 - capturing the ‘luminous interconnectivity’ of landscape wellsprings. ‘Shrine’ frames the well beside the road in Sheepstor village, a prayer to pure water and the healing power it brings. Rising up to the tors, there are stone rows, capturing the atmosphere of sacred space. Stone rows look like spears, and the name derives from the root ‘skytle’, meaning ‘bolt’, ‘shuttle’ or ‘arrow’... which we conclude must refer to an earlier ‘star map’ of teaching paths relating to Sagittarius. So our ‘zodiac’ emerged.

By building a rapport through earlier languages and the spirit of place, the guiding symbols of spiritual transformation begin to emerge into our imagination. A ‘Dartmoor zodiac’ has been discussed in earlier articles for the Gatekeeper website. But for what reason in this day and age? The spirit of place – or ‘kindly luminous beings’ – is simply a place of ongoing transformation, as we blend our energies along the paths. This is the ‘Scorpio effect’, where ‘soul building’ is a collaborative fusion of human heart with the planetary soul, layer upon layer. As alchemists, we can then go about our daily business within a new emanation of ‘pilgrim footsteps’ as gifts of nature given as building blocks in wide varieties of living contexts. ‘Life goes on’ we say, as we still feel a luminous glow following our daily footsteps.

At the conclusion of your creative project, this is the time of great importance, where deep reflection contemplation can bring a quality of renewal and confidence. Like the ‘seed’ of life unfolding through the seasons’ challenges, our year’s growing pattern releases our inner light to radiate through our hearts. This is the gift of planetary incarnation: we are an emerging ‘Gaian-human’, in which all elements of life on Earth are revealed within us in an expanding experience of wholeness and beauty.

THE CUTTING EDGE OF WHOLENESS

At the end of the year, we celebrate what we felt were successes during the passing year. Each season brings a new insight, challenge and unfolding. These are indications of new learning, insight and wisdom. Scorpio is a sign of ‘the inner transformer’, which we as incoming light workers with our heart-felt seed vision, are seeking through the challenges of being in a physical form. As we reflect, so we transform our ‘soul body’ to adapt to the planet’s gifts of insight, and to honour them and celebrate our collaborative visioning experiences.

In the BRITISH ZODIAC, we find the Scorpio-Sagittarius cusp along the Thames Valley and Thames Estuary. Here, in Kingston-upon-Thames – site of the crowning of Anglo-Saxon Kings at the Kings Stone – is the Kingston Zodiac of Mary Caine sitting like a mother swan nurturing her archetype ‘children’ or cygnets. It was the site of our first pilgrimage as the Gatekeeper Trust, and we travelled pageant-style to St Anne’s Well on St Anne’s Hill (the gateway to the zodiac). St Anne gave birth to Mary along the way, and at the well we lit floating candles.

St Ann’s Hill with its ancient hill fort guards the gateway to the ‘star map’.... Nearby is the black dog leaping (bottom left in the diagram). Since then we have found many locations named ‘Black Dog’ indicating a star map nearby, guarded by the Anubis of myth, ‘guardian of the underworld’.

‘In 1334 a chapel was built by the monks of Chertsey Abbey (now ruined) and dedicated to St. Ann. This led to the name of the hill being changed from Eldebury or Oldbury Hill to St. Ann’s Hill. A natural spring called the nun’s well is associated with, or possibly predates, the chapel. Still there today it was originally deemed holy, said to have medicinal properties.’ https://www.tbhpartnership.org.uk/news/st-anns-hill-a-rich-history-in-20-steps/

The well hidden Nun’s Well surrounded by many paths and trees, what a wonderful hidden treasure!

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10083 The ‘Nun’s Well’ or St Ann’s Well, where we arrived with our ‘pageant’ of St Ann giving birth to Mary. We lit floating candles on our first pilgrimage in the life of the trust. It is associated with a ruined chapel and and old fortifications..

The book cover ‘The Kingston Zodiac’ by Mary Caine is an artistic rendition of a very carefully researched landscape. Even in Gemini, she writes, we can find statistics that show that more twins are born within this sign than in the others. Also, the rise of the computer industry in Virgo shows a hidden archetypal influence… these stood out in my memory, as we walked and talked with Mary.

The gateway cusps of the ‘Milky Way’ can be found at each end of the alignment. It is an initiatory landscape, a line stretching NW towards the Taurus and Gemini cusp from the Kingston Zodiac south of London.

Peter Dawkins image of the traditional ‘Gypsy Switch’ and the route of the Milky Way (AA Line, ‘Alpha and Omega’) from London to North Wales: https://www.zoence.co.uk/zodiac/discovery-of-the-british-landscape-zodiac/

‘The AA Points. The line from High Cross to London, which Watling Street more or less follows, forms the cusp of Sagittarius-Scorpio. This line, continued in the other direction (north-westerly) crosses the ecliptic at the place to which Orion's finger (or his stick/club) points, which is the cusp of Gemini-Taurus.

In this illustration we can see the ‘Boar of Britain’ with its head in Wales, its crown in Anglesey, and feet in Cornwall. A deep tradition of the continuity of human consciousness in its subliminal ‘complete’ state. Acting in wholeness involves planting our feet into traditions only partially understood, yet the layers of memory from the devout pilgrims have laid a ‘silver trail’ of light which some can see.

Milky Way route from N Wales to London became the Celtic ‘Royal Road’ called ‘Watling Street’. The red dotted line designates the route of the ‘Milky Way’ which extends to ‘Bran’s Way’ through which the head of Bran the Blessed was taken to the ‘White Hill’ (Tower of London) to be buried there. Thus the tradition of the symbol from the Milky Way Galaxy was taught as a training for initiates, specifically the Celtic kings.

Tradition has it that the ‘Great Sow’ flies through the sky, dropping her piglets to the ground, which then become the ‘mystery schools’ of the sages. Is the ‘Boar of Britain’ a symbol of the ancient mystery traditions overlaying a measured ‘solstice and equinoxial alignments’ from the Megalithic Age?

There is also a similar mythology of the ‘Swan’ and her cygnets… and the ‘Swan Knights’ were traditionally those rescuing damsels in distress, and no one was permitted to ask their name. The Knights of the Seven Swans was one of these groups in Medieval Europe, whose task was to protect the ‘symbolic illuminated wheels’ (chakra points) in the landscape, bound together by networks of pilgrim paths.

In Kingston upon Thames we find the ‘Kings Stone’, a coronation symbol, set in the land so that all the Anglo-Saxon kings could be seen as attached to the ‘stoney land’ beneath their feet in true sovereignty.

Screenshot from Wikipedia. These older sovereigns may still speak to our lives' quest for individual sovereignty in a modern town.

This symbol also encourages us to treat our landscape ‘menhirs’ as places to assert our own individual sovereignty, and how we are carriers of the ‘seed of light’ in our hearts as gifts to the land beneath our feet.

All these wisdom traditions help us to realise that we constantly release ‘footsteps of light’ into the land, and at some point we will receive its answers: wholeness and beauty are immanent in the way we walk.

After our year’s experiences, what has been happening? Condensing our memories, we ask ‘What sacred synthesis have our ‘seeds of light’ become?’ For the ‘footsteps of our inner star selves’ have been welcomed by the living elemental forms and expanded into our planetary and cultural ‘soul’ or ‘angel’. The creative process makes us truly ‘emergent Gaian-humans’, a new incarnation within the heart of the Universal spirit of love and truth.

The Milky Way of Britain stretches NW across ‘High Cross’ the Celtic Centre, and continues through North Wales on the A4 road. As pilgrims we are recreating wholeness within our updated traditions, and our new stories of delight and wonder…. generating heightened awareness in our local landscapes add to these passages of light and cultural memory.

Together we reconsider how after all our years to connection and landscape work, we are passing through a doorway: A new ‘AGE OF AQUARIUS’ predicted in the constellations:

What does it mean to us as members of GATEKEEPER TRUST and its seeds of reconnection through that used to be called the ‘Isles of the Hesperides’ or ‘The Golden Apples of the North’…

...SCORPIO 2025 brings new interconnectedness with expanded links across to the Isle of Man and Ireland, as well as Scotland

ISLE OF MAN – In many pilgrimages to the old Tynwald site we discovered that the island was divided into four quadrants. However, the island is also proud of its ‘triskelle’ – the three legs of Man.

The Megalithic alignments under our feet connect with Lundy island, in which is revealed the ‘Lundy Egg’, a pre-cursor, and in alignment with, the Stonehenge complex. The sacredness of our island’s landscape is emerging from over 10,000 years ago.

Alignment from Castle Dore to Carnac, the line forms an angle with a midsummer solstice line through Yes Tor and High Willhays, up towards Avebury, and on to huge Rudston Menhir.

IRELAND – Eire the spirit of Ireland, depicted (see Peter Dawkins) and the four quarters of ancient Ireland.

Image by Peter Dawkins: the four regions of Ireland, oriented to Holy Island at the root chakra.

Linking Ireland with meditation candles.

The pilgrims in Ireland meet to link up at the quarter-day festivals of Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain, and in recent times the ‘Samhain fires’ are lit in both the Isle of Man and Uisneagh Ireland. Soon we hope bonfire will be lit in Britain and Scotland at the same time of the year.

THE ISLE OF MAN – A MAP OF THE ‘THREE LEGS’

Ireland to the West.
Scotland to the North.
England/Wales to the East.

Megalithis triskelon in Newgrange.

Being the centre of the ‘Land of the Golden Apples’, ‘The Hesperides’, this archetype ‘Triskelon’ links us all, with ancient triskele’s found at Newgrange and all over the world.

Experimental diagram by Richard Crowhurst. As we pilgrimaged, the ‘legs’ seemed to come into focus. The wisdom of the ‘triskele’ as a symbol of ‘turning the wheel’ of the landscape, guided our many pilgrimages to the sacred sites. We visited in the 1990’s, and then in 2015 and 2016, small groups continuing the research with Sarah Dawkins and setting up the Trust’s ‘Wheel of Life’ link-up pilgrimages and full moon attunements.

Group song:
[tune ‘Hymne’ by Vangellis]

Crows roaring, all over the sky
A chair in a beautiful garden.
I see life from another perspective –
Fertile beauty (repeat)
Regal guardians protect
Soft, silver bed springs from dark roots.
Together we will make a thousand suns,
The hard work we did is now turned to light.

THE GRAIL LEGENDS - theatrical re-enactments - are stories about our guiding angelic spirits of place, and at the Scorpio/Sagittarius cusp, the Thames and the London landscape is where this year Peter and Sarah Dawkins hold their final ‘Cygnus’ pilgrimage linking the three Shakespearean theatres.

A Montage of Pilgrimage images to honour London’s angelic presences at the ‘centre’: Trafalgar Square, and the lakeside plants holding the magic of water and fresh summer plants beside our path. In the distance is Buckingham Palace ‘

Westminster Abbey from the Abbey Gardens, forms the theme of this montage on ‘Thorney Island’.
After an event celebrating Shakespeare’s plays and deep wisdom, lead by Mark Rylance. The old trees outside the Houses of Parliament spoke of dedication. The evening glow heightened my perceptions of Westminster Abbey and the joy of the performances. In the centre, a shrine to a king, lit by delicate violet lighting.

Wiki: ‘Thorney Island: It was formed by rivulets of the River Tyburn, which entered the Thames nearby. In Roman times, and presumably earlier, Thorney Island may have been part of a natural ford where Watling Street crossed the Thames of particular importance before the construction of London Bridge. The name may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon Þorn-īeg, meaning "Thorn Island".,,, monks tamed the island until by the time of Edward the Confessor it was "A delightful place, surrounded by fertile land and green fields". The abbey's College Garden survives, a thousand years later, and may be the oldest garden in England. ,,,,,In 1831, the boundaries of the former island were described as the Chelsea Waterworks, the Grosvenor Canal, and the ornamental water in St James's Park.’

These Montages captured the overlighting angelic presences in sacred places of London. Taken by Charlotte Yonge from events in 2019: Shakespeare in the Abbey’ at Westminster, and The Angels of London’ lead by Peter Dawkins: St James’ Park. London and its role on the ‘AA’ line, brings Nature into its parks and lining its streets. The peace and beauty of the parks brings heightened awareness to many, offsetting the long traffic queues that frame the sacred spaces.

The orientation of the ‘Rose Centres’ of London, adapted from Peter Dawkins’ draft. These endpoints are almost immaculately equidistant from the London Stone, in their oppositional positions. The background of this image is ‘one of the oldest gardens in Britain’ and flanks the Houses of Parliament, lying behind the East end of Westminster Abbey. This sacred site is where today the political upheaval is refining Britain’s role in establishing the ‘New Golden Age’. [believe me, this year is like an alchemical kettle in the transformation of the old patterns of planetary Humanity.

Pluto in Aquarius transforms all types of leadership into ones that are fair, wise and true… most importantly, leaders generate artistic, eloquent and inspiring images that underpin a loving community. This way, the symbol of the Swan leads us in recreating the purity and beauty of Nature.

On our ‘British cultural angel’s Cygnus landscape , our ‘pure poet’ Swans near the Shakespeare Toyal Theatre, Stratford, sail gently along to entertain us with a deep atmosphere of peace and tranquility.

[Photo Charlotte Yonge 2023) The Swan Fountain outside the Shakespeare Royal Theatre, Stratford. Its elegance and ‘dance of devotion’ theme is inspiring passers-by with the theme of ‘pure poet’ of our hearts, which as theatre-goers it is intended we should become centred and enlightened.

EDITORS: Charlotte Yonge, Jane Knight and Rose Williams. October 2025.