When I’m in the smallest room of a house, perched on a ladder and prying off some loose plaster, I have to remind myself why I’m doing all this. It takes a bit of a leap of the imagination, but in the grand scheme of things, I am working for the flourishing of all beings. Read More …
Something major has shifted. Suddenly, the thick defences I built long ago have changed fundamentally. I now no longer see them as walls, but as a living, breathing, flowering and flourishing hedge. It feels like coming alive. For ages I have dreamed of a life of connection with the spirits who share my life. And Read More …
Two days ago, Upton Community Protection Camp was evicted from the site it had occupied since April 2014. The occupation significantly delayed any test drilling on that site and has added the cost of a legal eviction procedure to the fracking company’s bill. Upton has set a standard for anti-fracking campaigns in the UK. It Read More …
In my attempt to wake up and become more aware of my life as it happens, of the sacred Here and Now, I have come up against an old limitation. My guiding spirits showed it to me as a castle with thick defensive walls, its portcullis closed and too heavy for me to raise on Read More …
I really don’t know how to do it. How to pay attention to life as it happens. How to find the sacred in the everyday and acknowledge it in the moment. I try and then I forget to try. Because I am seriously clueless, I consulted my tarot cards. I asked how I can train Read More …
Taking my first steps towards the here and now, the place where the sacred meets the everyday, I first came across the obstacle of my own shadow – all the bits of myself that I would prefer to keep in the dark and unacknowledged. The only way to encounter the subtle life of the sacred, Read More …
Questing for signs of the sacred in the everyday, I find myself in the present moment. Beyond techniques of the sacred, like meditation and shamanic journeys, the here and now is the only portal to the awareness of Spirit that I have found. So the sacred here and now is where I need to take Read More …
For so long, I have been dreaming about a particular way of living. I have courted it and longed for it and prepared myself for it. And now finally I realise that I could die of old age doing that. What I really need is to focus my efforts and create that life. I am Read More …
For several weeks now, I’ve been working closely with soil. I have given it the mulch and fertiliser it needs to thrive. I’ve sown seeds in it and watched baby plants grow. And I have relished eating the first fresh greens. I witnessed very closely how important a good, healthy soil is. As a Druid, Read More …
Working on my raised vegetable bed, I’m learning once again that soil is alive. Every time I dig into the earth, I meet beetles, worms and centipedes. Apart from those, the soil is teeming with micro-organisms and fungi and all sorts of things that you can’t even see with the naked eye. All of them Read More …