Love and Joy at Beltane!

Well, now Beltane really is almost upon us and the blog will enter a temporary lull as I go off to celebrate at Camp. When I looked out of my office window yesterday at the sweeping vista of the Kennet valley I was struck by the sudden acceleration in the greening – even over the [...]

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World Drum Project

The Earth our Mother, who holds and sustains us all, is in a state of delicate balance. A lot of current research now points to the fact that if humanity does not take action, now, then the tipping point may already be upon us, and the decline of our beloved home will be irreversible. This [...]

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Can you feel the sap rising?!!

In a little under two weeks we will be celebrating the Beltane festival. Beltane, the last Spring festival and the threshold of summer, is a high-energy, passionate and burgeoning time, full of growing light and warmth. It makes me want to dance with joy! I can feel the sap rising and the pulse of the [...]

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Beautiful Beeches…

As I work again on the Ovate grade of the Druid learning, I am much with the spirit of trees.
Beech is my totem tree, my graceful Queen of the Woods. Here in the South, they stand tall and silvery, their arching branches like waterfalls of green. The shimmering delicacy of their leaves – eye-achingly verdant [...]

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Gardeners World Again!

I so love Gardeners World – when it’s not on I long for it, and when it is I eschew any social activity going to settle myself down in front of it on a Friday evening. It has an odd effect – something between an adrenaline rush and a mug of hot chocolate – but [...]

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Work as Worship

An ongoing theme… much as I hold with personal responsibility and karmic exchange, sometimes we just need to have trust in the Great Spirit and the flow of the Universe. Work is really challenging me at the moment, and just when I started to question it all, a wonderful message came through from someone who [...]

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Doctor Who and Diversity

I so love Radio 4 and all that it teaches me – last week there was a disabled comedian on You and Yours (I think) talking about the new series of Doctor Who. I have to admit to never being that keen on Doctor Who – I like a bit of whimsical sci-fi but it [...]

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A very (un)civil partnership…

Yesterday I attended the civil partnership of some lovely friends in Bristol. I’ve never been to such an event before (well, until a couple of years ago none of us could!) and it got me thinking…
I have a few friends who are gay women, most of whom are in loving, long term relationships. What gay [...]

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Jung & Elderhood

Today I ran a workshop for a group of colleagues on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and we had great fun exploring psychological preference. Jung’s typology is, of course, at the heart of the MBTI instrument. I don’t pretend to understand all of Jung’s writings, but what I have managed to synthesize in my not-particularly-academic [...]

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Trees are wonderful things…

… and the capable man I live with takes great photos. As the greening of the trees is almost upon us – here’s a favourite, with verdant blessings!

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