Effective spirituality: being an active agent
I’ve been dwelling a lot recently on the question of how to bring spiritual values and ethics back into the material infrastructure of a world gone mad with greed and lust for individual gain. While I feel the measurable impact of the energy and vibration work done by all spiritual workers, I find myself longing for a more effective spirituality. How do we make soulfulness more active in shaping the new earth we choose to co-create? How do we emerge from the fringes and claim an influential place at the centre of things? We have to find a way to embed soul into every sphere of society and the way we live, to breathe it into every aspect of life with love but also with dynamic and inspiring credence.
Owning the crone; becoming a woman elder
I woke recently with a vivid image from childhood still imprinted on my mind. It was of my beloved Nan’s arthritically misshapen hands, plunged into a creamware bowl of flour and butter. That promising scent of deliciousness to come, the one I’d been present to so often when baking with her, still teased my nose as I floated gently back to full consciousness. It might not seem immediately obvious, but for me it was a clear indication of another move towards owning the crone and becoming a woman elder.
Awen – the ancient and modern super-power
In the Celtic bardic tradition when a poet was filled with Awen – divine inspirational flow – they weren’t just acting as a messenger of the gods. As they spoke or sung those exalted words there was a very real sense that they took on the being and essence of what they were recounting. They were bringing it to life.
I find this idea incredibly encouraging in these times of tumult and uncertainty. As always, I and many others like me are asking, what can I do? As just one person, alone?
The Dawn of Everything: a book for now
I posted about how The Dawn of Everything was blowing my mind on Facebook, but I really think it merits a bit more time and attention so here we go.
It’s written by archeologist David Wengrow and anthropologist David Graeber, so that’s two of my subjects of fascination combined for a start. But it ventures far beyond just another history book, literally, because it questions all the deep-rooted assumptions popular history has taught us about how human society developed.
We all know the story, and I’m guilty of buying into it too from what I’d read previously. In humanity’s early days we were peace-loving hunter-gatherers living in idyllic small groups.
The life cycle of stars
Here’s my poem inspired by the life cycle of stars, which for me echoes the incarnation of the limitless light of the soul into the density of a human body: as above so below. I love gazing up at the night sky, and I’m lucky that we live in a place of low light pollution so they’re often astonishingly clear (when the Welsh rainclouds are taking a night off anyway)! I think that at a cellular level, literally, we recognise our origins out there in the vast expanse and we gain a sense of belonging, hope, and perspective through seeing our place in this cosmic context.
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A message of healing, renewal, and letting go.
Pause.
Breathe.
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Scorpio Full Moon tomorrow 🌕♏
Meeting the fire of Beltane 🔥
Expect intensity.
Hidden truths may rise.
Work with what you feel -
there’s real power in it.
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Quietly, everything is shifting.
You don’t need to know exactly what it means yet.
Just stay curious -
about what you value,
what you believe,
where you stand.
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