On the third day of our holiday we slowed and pottered … we had what my Mother would call “a lazy day” – which allowed me to catch up with some over due reading! A dear friend of mine – thank you Sue – bought me this book for my birthday! I’ve always been a sucker for a “spiritual biography”…
On the Tuesday of our holidays we went to see Downton Abbey – the movie! I know … cliche, cliche BUT we are homosexuals after all! There is a character in the film called Mr Barrow – who is also a homosexual – and who at the conclusion of the movie encounters his first “gay night club” – a rare…
All this week I am going to be blogging about my holiday adventures! Don’t get too excited – this year (partly due to finances and partly due to leaving things last minute) we decided on a “staycation” and holidayed at home. Rearranging ones wardrobe and tackling a mountain of ironing looming large in the airing cupboard may not be everyones…
As mentioned before Totem animals can be not only those creatures that we know now upon the Earth but other creatures too. Creatures that we might consider to be nothing more than legend and fantasy but which are in truth creatures of the elemental realm. Pegasus is one such creature – born of the blood of the Gorgon Medusa and…
It has long been known that birds follow an invisible path which only they can see and sense – not just the thermal currents of the air but also the electromagnetic pathways of our world that they use to navigate from place to place. But what if there were other pathways that the birds could see – that the majority…
Totem Animals are featured in many different cultures – in many different ways, from the Inuit community to the Native American, Hawaiian and Aborigine. Some focus only on those creatures seen in nature whilst others acknowledge too those “fabulous beasts” long since absent from this plane of existence which we – here in the West – might call the creatures…
Ask someone in the street about the Fairy folk and they will talk to you about Tinkerbell and Flower Fairies! Tutu wearing wide eyes girls with dragonfly wings and wands with stars on the end. This is the image we have been sold, a relatively modern day fairy folk, largely disempowered from their origins in the folk law of our…
In Peter Pan it’s Fairy Dust that makes the Darling children fly (that and a happy thought) but real Fairy Dust – and such thing does indeed exist – doesn’t have quite the same effect but it does do something similar. For the Fairy Folk have the power to lift the spirits of those who have fallen – emotionally –…
Once upon the fairy folk lived all around us, dancing with us side by side under the light of the full moon, sharing their sacred groves. Once upon a time the Fairy Folk aided us in our endeavours, invited into our homes, tending our gardens, milking our cows. Then the Christian folk came – seeing the Fairy Folk as demons…
The Trickster is a powerful archetypal figure found in many different cultures around the world from the Norse Loki – god of lies and flies made into a bit of an anti hero by recent Marvel Film – to the Native American Coyote – transformed into Wiley Coyote of the Road Runner cartoons – to the Devil of Christian Fables.…