So, you have taken the Christmas tree down, chucked it at the back of the garden and forgotten about it, have you? Sad that, isn’t it, especially since it cost so much and probably came all the way from Norway or Canada. There are several sites that give recommendations on what to do with the thing; … Continue reading »
Tagged with spirit …
the nativity decoded
I had a rare chance to watch some English TV on Christmas Day at our friend’s house. We watched a programme called ‘The Nativity Decoded’, which discussed the hidden meanings behind the story of the birth of Jesus. Most of the two hour show was concerned with whether the nativity story is based on historical … Continue reading »
What happens when your children do not believe in Santa anymore?
We went to Père Noel’s House yesterday, a little house out in the country filled with elves making presents and Mother Noel reading children’s stories. The detail of this house was incredible, small chairs and tables, beds, Santa’s toilette (see left) and pots and pans all laid out for the children to see as they … Continue reading »
another reply from Robert Wolff
The first time in Bali was 1939, before the war, when it was Netherlands Indies, and at that time Bali was out of bounds for missionaries. One reason probaby that even now there is something left of the old ways. (Not as much as people think). The only non-native people then were artists from all … Continue reading »
another letter to Robert Wolff
Dear Robert, thank you so much for your lovely, generous reply to my email. I am understanding now what you say about the fact that you ‘gave up trying’ to ’see’ – yes, it is all about unlearning our way of learning and instead just ‘being’. I have nearly finished reading Spiral and the way … Continue reading »
a reply from Robert Wolff
Dear Lune, thank you for appreciating Original Wisdom. I am fortunate that the publisher continues to keep it on its list – “big” publishers would have dropped it long ago, I have never been able to do what a writer is supposed to do: market, promote the book which of course means promoting myself. The … Continue reading »
a letter to Robert Wolff
Dear Robert, first may I thank you for spending the time to read this email, I am really honored. I have been very inspired by your writing, especially Original Wisdom, which I first read about a year ago and ever since have referred back to it constantly. I am afraid that I have scribbled and … Continue reading »
death
I have been thinking a lot about my dad recently. Bubble asked me the BIGGIE question two nights ago – “what actually happens when we die?” So we talked for three hours about it, and I told her about the body breaking down in the earth (and feeding the plants) and the spirit continuing, and … Continue reading »
more about vocations
Spirituality, the hardest thing is making something of it in the real world – a career out of it, it is so intangible: writing poetry, a novel, working with nature, painting faery paintings, making crafty things, clothes, gardening, even travelling to these mystic places – the problem is we could do all and anyone of … Continue reading »
vocation
I know it sounds silly, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching recently about what my vocation is in life (guess when its nearly up to 40 you start doing things like this) and also coming to the other side of children, knowing that you will have more time on your hands. I always … Continue reading »
Someone I love told me that he would like to know …
Someone I love told me that he would like to know more about the diaries he came across, and how I feel. I wanted to set it down in writing for him, as just to tell him off-the-cuff would be to misinterpret it, It is hard to explain something that feels so much part of … Continue reading »
keep up with the meditation
I must keep up with this, for the last two days I have been thinking about other things, thinking about the Wildwood and all the possibilities that I could think of. The meditiation must not suffer, and I must keep on trying to clear my mind as often as possible. I want to keep working … Continue reading »
A bat
We walked around town two days ago and I saw a bat winging its way through the street directly above my head, and this must mean that things are coming out of hibernation now, well it has been so hot in the last week, it has been like summer. He flitted past me as I … Continue reading »
Another Hare (tracks in the snow)
I had a dream last night about a hare, a game keeper was stalking it and shot it and then was taking the time to skin it in front of me. We saw other things too whilst we were walking around the forest in the night. He was trying to shoot anything he could see … Continue reading »
starting to walk
I have begun to walk every day, as well as doing the journeying every day to practice. I need to reconnect with nature, and walking through the wood, over the icicle bridge is one way of doing it. I connect with the world by breathing in and out – out; giving my spirit to the … Continue reading »
Sadness…….and smiles
I haven’t written for ages, I haven’t been near a computer for ages, I haven’t been near the Hotel for ages and things have changed. We moved out to the ‘Birdy Chalet’ – what I longed to do for a while,and now I see the birds outside my window every morning and evening. My job … Continue reading »
Werewolf dream
I saw the wolves slipping down from the mountainside, Falling together and then apart, Seething in jewel-like precision across the plain. In the darkness I couldn’t see their complete outlines, Only a melding of soot-grey and black forms, Wraith-like and vague. Falling in a liquid dream I was trying to turn over in my sleep, … Continue reading »
The end of the reign of books
This is where the book reading ends…….for now. I have come to the conclusion that I am getting nowhere by reading books, and that I want to put all the ones that are unfinished back onto the bookshelf. Basically, I am sick of going round and round and round in circles and not getting anywhere. … Continue reading »
More books…….again!
Going back to witchy roots, places I have travelled before, as the full moon turns to the crescent again, I am going around again: Craft of the Wild Witch………by Poppy Palin Spellcraft for Hedgewitches………by Rae Beth and Poppy Palin 13 Moons: A journal of a Natural Witch………..by Fiona Walker-Craven Seasonal magic: The diary of a … Continue reading »
The birds start singing again.
Been doing a lot of things like work, work and more work. I think that people realise that it is a hard job for me to do with Bubble too, so next year I will be here, but not living in, or working at the same job. It would be really nice if I could … Continue reading »
A Witches Garden
I have been having day dreams about a garden and an allotment in France recently. I have got the urge to dig in the soil again. Because I have been concentrating on touch for the past few days I think already my senses have been heightened a tiny bit because I suddenly have got the … Continue reading »
THE WILD SOUL HUNGERS
Emma Restall Orr’s book ‘Living Druidry’ has been the next book from the bookshelf. And although I have trawled through many different veins and traditions, I keep coming back to the Druid tradition of Emma’s and getting so much from it. So enough about books, I am going to start on a course of tuning … Continue reading »
Sighting the new moon
I see the new moon first, setting in the evening sky at dusk, clear and then becoming more hazy as she rushes towards the horizon, chasing the sun whom had just set before her. She is a slither of a thing, lying on her back, at 7.30 p.m. Lights of the far village on the … Continue reading »
Robin
l thought today, whilst walking back through the town that l have not whispered to Robin Hood for months. He is still hiding in the foliage, dank and sodden. The green man of England. l think that the mountains are too cold for the king of the moist woods. When l whisper for a companion, … Continue reading »
Hills of England
Sometimes I sit and think of the hills and dales of England and wonder why we decided to leave. Of course because of the obvious reasons; too much traffic, house prices, price of food etc. But there is nothing quite like the dawn mist as it rolls off the South Downs, or the hoot of … Continue reading »
