Happy autumnal equinox!

Happy International Day Of Peace!

I think they go really well together. Gratitude for the abundance of the year, a point of astronomical balance, and hope for abundance and safety as we move into the dark half of the year seems like an excellent moment to ask Who will you make peace with today? Seems to me that if we all ( Read more... )

Just in time for my flu jab on Monday (for this year, at least, the NHS is still at work, looking after vulnerable people like me by providing us with free flu jabs), and probably as a result of a general lack of meditation/reiki/other forms of keeping my stress levels down for the past few weeks, I am having an achey, run-down week. And now I have ( Read more... )

Stonehenge up close: digital laser scan reveals secrets of the past

Most detailed analysis yet of prehistoric stone circle shows how masons spent more time making key areas look the best
Maev Kennedy 
The Guardian, 
Tuesday 9 October 2012
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Local loaves for Lammas
Campaigners for real bread are attempting to revive the ancient harvest festival of Lammas, or loaf-mass

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Spring has sprung
The sap has riz
I wonder where the Pagans is?

We'll make quick blot tonight, and celebrate with a good dinner tomorrow.

Blessed Ostara, folks!

Isn't it odd that a date, agreed upon by a chunk of the world's population, but certainly not shared by all, should have a profound psychological impact?

New year, resolutions, high hopes, the ditching of anything that went wrong before, best foot forward.

It's beginning to get lighter now, here where the seasonal shifts are immediate and dramatic in ( Read more... )

Whatever you celebrate - and if you don't, too - midwinter's a rather wonderful time.

Laid up with Lurgi over the past few days, Yule was NOT as I had planned. And yet the festive feel is still in the air, despite the rain, and tomorrow is Christmas with the family.

This year may be low-key, and that's fine.

Having just discovered the ideal Yule- ( Read more... )

Secret history of Stonehenge revealed
David Keys

Saturday 26 November 2011Ancient site may have been place of worship 500 years before the first stone was erected


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For those celebrating by the calendar, blessed Samhain!

For those celebrating by the stars, it'll be blessed Samhain next Moon-day, as we build to a full moon.

I've decided that this whole 7 day period is Samhain. Why not? I bet our ancestors had several days-long celebrations. So I'm keeping my eye on how I feel, what I sense, how I act over this ( Read more... )

Scorpio Horoscope for week of October 6, 2011


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