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Category Archives: Early stirrings
An odd awakening
The first hints of sunrise were just appearing this morning, accompanied by the squabbling of gulls who were busy dive-bombing an unfortunate owl who had missed whatever cue serves to send owls back to the roost before the gulls wake, … Continue reading
Longing for home
It’s odd how it catches you, sometimes, off guard. The picture on the right is an image I’ve often tried to capture, usually without success, so when it popped up on a social media group I’m a member off, it … Continue reading
Posted in Early stirrings, Landscape, Self Awareness
Tagged Ancestors, Family, Home turf
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It was the moon that did it…
…hanging there in her fullness; already rising so far north since her brief flirting with the equinoctial horizon. Then today, past full but still ripe, high overhead; a ghostly image against the brightest blue of mid morning’s cloudless sky. How … Continue reading
Posted in Early stirrings, Landscape, society
Tagged Ancestors, Solstice of the Moon, symbolism
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Chasing the void
I must have seemed an odd child. What am I saying? I WAS an odd child. It just never seemed strange at the time. Much of my daily routine involved sitting on a bus. An hour and a half to … Continue reading
An Early Ally
In hindsight, there are moments in your life which can have significance beyond anything imagined at the time. It is often not till many years later, certainly in my case, with what I now recognise as my earliest ally, that … Continue reading
Interlude
It’s been an interesting few weeks. There has been a very definite change in energy; a lighter, livelier, more fluid energy. An open, joyous, wrap around your heart, make you want to dance energy. There are, of course, side effects … Continue reading
STOP!
I’d been in my first job for about a year, when I was assigned to go map the top of a mountain. After three months, we had pretty much finished the job, and two of the guys were demobilised. The … Continue reading
Posted in Early stirrings, Introduction to shamanism
Tagged alternate reality, Search, spirit guidance
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Tiny
Don’t suppose there are many people out there who, hand on heart, can say that their psychological well-being, childhood happiness and, perhaps, just perhaps, their continued existence beyond early teenage years was largely dependant on their relationship with a cow. … Continue reading
Intermission
Growing up on a farm in the mountains, much, regarding the interconnectedness of everything, is taken for granted. Life follows death in a continuous cycle, matching the seasons in their turn. Predator and prey co-exist in delicate balance. Water a … Continue reading
Rocks talk…
Being brought up on a remote hill farm has its benefits. One undoubtedly being that, in the event of any weirdness, word doesn’t get out at too young an age… Having said that, the first weirdness I remember didn’t actually … Continue reading
Posted in Early stirrings
Tagged alternate reality, Energy Healing, Meditation, Religion and Spirituality, Search
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Stepping Stones 