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The River Wye looking down-stream from Kerne Bridge In the last newsletter I wrote of the month-long pilgrimage along the River Wye. People carried spring water from the source at Plynlimon to the sea at Chapel Rock between the two Severn Bridges to highlight how much the river has become polluted. I mentioned how the name ...

By Peter Knight On Saturday June 5th 2021, Sue Wallace and Peter Knight (GKT Local Contacts for Wiltshire) facilitated a mindful-shamanic walk across the beautiful rolling hills of Wiltshire (which comes under the Capricorn segment of the landscape zodiac of which the GKT has been researching and walking). Thirteen pilgrims (including GKT supporters) meet at Avebury, ...

By Jeremy Rye When I wake early and know that any further sleep will elude me, I allow myself to drift off in to London and seek out a pilgrimage to wander through my mind. This post is restricted for access by Friends of the Gatekeeper Trust – click here to join and gain access or login ...

Back in the early 1980s Baroness Edmee Di Pauli invited Peter Dawkins to hold weekend events in their Elizabethan moated house, Stanley Hall, situated in Essex. For four years, the eight solar festivals were celebrated in true Troubadour style, the themes of the weekends following the initiatory cycle of the year. There were lectures, music ...

REPORT ON EAST ANGLIAN GATEKEEPER PILGRIMAGES 2020 2020 was an interesting year, as well as a learning experience too. Our Spring Equinox visit to Ely Cathedral had to be cancelled because of the Covid lockdown, which was terribly disappointing. However, the Cathedral was open again for the Autumn Equinox, for our combined event with the Wheel ...

This pandemic year found three of us gathering in the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Field to walk to St Paul’s on our fourth annual Sagittarius Thames Pilgrimage, postponed by two weeks due to lockdown. We kept our social distances during lunch and reviewed the Landscape Zodiac map for the Wheel of Life Pilgrimages, and told interested ...

The River Dove Ilam is set just inside Staffordshire and nestles below the landmark hills of Dovedale in a wooded vale close to the confluence of the rivers Manifold and Dove. It is a beautiful area which attracts many visitors so its best experienced towards dawn or dusk to feel enrobed in its healing quality. The village itself ...

Teachings for These Times in Relation to 21st December, 2020 By Peter Dawkins Uluru, in the centre of Australia, is a brilliant natural symbol of Shiva’s lingam which lies within the root chakra, encircled three and a half times by the serpent-goddess Kundalini. When suitably aroused, she then rises upwards through the other chakras. Many years ago ...

Gatekeeper Trust City of London Samhain Pilgrimage Report 31 October 2020 Group Leader – Roberta Ardern Tyler – Phyllis SantaMaria Pilgrims start by heading to Pater Noster Square outside St Paul’s Cathedral A small group of slightly apprehensive pilgrims and a black Labrador called Oscar arrived at the rendezvous point in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral across the road from ...

By Mike Newton The constellation of Taurus has been recognised from the very earliest days of archaic astronomy dating back over 5000 years. It may have been the very first recognised constellation because at that time it marked the beginning of the year at the point of the spring sun. There are many references to the ...