Anchors and Masts Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast (Khalil Gibran)

Ten films I love

July 14, 2010

Well what a delight, Sue at Discombobula has been kind enough to pass on to me the I Love Your Blog award! I’m very grateful and am in pretty august company. The idea is to list ten things that you love, and pass on the award. Check out Sue’s post here where she lists her [...]

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Sacred Messiness

July 9, 2010

I’m delighted today to publish a guest post by Marian Van Eyk McCain, editor of a new book GreenSpirit, Path to a New Consciousness. Marian has long been one of my favourite writers and I was happy to meet her in real life a few weeks ago and spend time in her beautiful corner of [...]

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How obedient are you?

July 7, 2010

see more Lolcats and funny pictures Obedience is an old-fashioned and emotive word, isn’t it? Memories of childhood and school. Makes me want to yell “SHAN’T” at the top of my voice! It’s one of the three vows Benedictine monastics take. I’d love to know how you react to the word and the concept. What [...]

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What’s in a label?

July 3, 2010

Often when I’m talking about the Enneagram, people get worried that discovering their personality “type” is going to put a label on them. We tend to resent being labelled, but we label ourselves all the time: conservative/liberal, gay/straight, old/young, extrovert/introvert. Some of our labels are factual, some are a question of degree, some are more [...]

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Solstice grieving, Solstice hope

June 21, 2010

Today is Summer Solstice in the Northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year, on which people gather to greet the sun at sacred sites such as Stonehenge. As I stand in my wild garden today, I see and hear dozens of bees conducting their age-old sacred dance in and out of the flowers. But [...]

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Plastic not fantastic

June 7, 2010

Do you want to join me in an experiment to see how much plastic we use and how we can decrease it radically? Following my last post about earth-based spirituality, I went searching for some intelligent blogs exploring Paganism, and stumbled across Quaker Pagan Reflections. In turn this led me to its offshoot, Chestnut House, [...]

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I’m Christian but…

May 31, 2010

“I’m Christian but I would say I have Pagan leanings.” If I had £10 for every time I’ve heard a woman say that recently, I’d be… well perhaps not wealthy but at least off to have a meal in a very expensive restaurant. What might this mean? Are Christians and Pagans always at odds? First, [...]