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IMBOLC - FEBRERO 2POR: JULIO C'eSAR ROCH'iN.CONTACTO: BOSQUEWICCANO@YAHOO.ESOTROS NOMBRES:IMBOLGC BRIGANTIA, D'iA DE BRIGIT, LAPERCUS, OIMEALG,CANDELARIA, Local holiday DEL FUEGO.LA FIESTA DE IMBOLC ES UNA FIESTA DE LA LUZ QUE EMPIEZA A MANIFESTARSE CADA VEZ M'aS A PARTIR DE YULE. ES UNA 'ePOCA PARA EL RENACIMIENTO, LA RENOVACI'oN, LA RESTAURACI'oN Y LA PURIFICACI'oN PRINCIPALMENTE. LIMPIAR LO VIEJO Y PREPARARSE PARA LO NUEVO; PREPARARSE PARA EL VERANO, PARA UNA NUEVA ESPERANZA Y UN NUEVO CRECIMIENTO; TAL VEZ PARA NUEVOS PRINCIPIOS TAMBI'eN.LA PALABRA IMBOLC SIGNIFICA LITERALMENTE "EN EL VIENTRE" (DE LA MADRE). LA SEMILLA QUE FUE PLANTADA EST'a CRECIENDO DESDE EL SOLSTICIO DE INVIERNO Y NOS PREPARAMOS PARA EL REINADO DE LA LUZ OTRA VEZ. EN EL ANTIGUO MUNDO C'eLTICO ERA COSTUMBRE ENCENDER GRANDES FOGATAS PARA AYUDAR A LA TIERRA A CALENTARSE Y PARA REFORZAR EL PODER DEL SOL, INVIT'aNDOLO A CALENTAR M'aS. IMBOLC ERA, Y SIGUE SIENDO, TAMBI'eN TIEMPO DE LA PURIFICACI'oN Y SE LLEVABAN A CABO GRANDES OPERACIONES DE LIMPIEZA EN LAS CASAS, PARA LIBERARSE DE LA OSCURIDAD DEL INVIERNO Y LA NEGATIVIDAD.OTRO NOMBRE CON EL QUE SE CONOC'iA ESTA FESTIVIDAD ES EL DE OIMEALG QUE SIGNIFICA "LECHE DE OVEJAS". AL PARECER, EN ALGUNAS SOCIEDADES SE LE CONOC'iA AS'i DEBIDO A QUE TAMBI'eN ERA LA 'ePOCA DEL NACIMIENTO DE LAS CR'iAS. TAMBI'eN SE LE CONOC'iA COMO IMMILCH O TIEMPO DE LA LECHE NUEVA PROBABLEMENTE POR LA MISMA RAZ'oN. LOS ROMANOS CELEBRABAN LA FIESTA DEL DIOS PAN Y CONSIDERABAN ESTOS D'iAS COMO DE GRAN FERTILIDAD.EN ESTA FIESTA, ALGUNOS WICCANOS CONMEMORAN EL D'iA DE BRIGIT, EN Service DE LA DIOSA IRLANDESA BRIGIT. SE CONSIDERA DIOSA DEL FUEGO, PATRONA DE LA ORFEBRER'iA, DE LA POES'iA Y DE LA SANACI'oN. HIJA DE DAGDA (EL BUEN DIOS), BRIGIT ES LA PROTECTORA Y LA PRESERVADORA; PROTEGE, CONSOLIDA Y ANIMA LA PRODUCTIVIDAD DE LA TIERRA. LA TIERRA ES LA FUENTE DE TODA LA VIDA. LA IGLESIA CAT'oLICA CANONIZ'o LA IMAGEN DE ESTA DIOSA DEBIDO A LA ACEPTACI'oN QUE TEN'iA, DICIENDO QUE FUE UNA MISIONERA DE LOS PRIMEROS TIEMPOS DEL CRISTIANISMO ENVIADA A Ecologically aware Isle, Y QUE LOS MILAGROS QUE REALIZ'o AH'i LE HICIERON CREER A LA GENTE QUE ERA UNA DIOSA.LAS FIESTAS DE BRIGIT EN Be over, Y DE IMBOLC EN Popular, EST'aN REPLETAS DE FUEGOS SAGRADOS QUE SIMBOLIZAN EL FUEGO DEL NACIMIENTO Y LA SANACI'oN; EL FUEGO DE LA FORJA Y EL FUEGO DE LA INSPIRACI'oN PO'eTICA EN EL CASO DE BRIGIT. LA IGLESIA ROMANA APROVECH'o EL ASPECTO Pivotal DE LA FESTIVIDAD, COMO UNA FIESTA PURIFICADORA, PARA UTILIZAR EL D'iA DE LA CANDELARIA CON EL MISMO SIMBOLISMO Y BENDECIR TODAS LAS VELAS DE LAS IGLESIAS QUE SER'aN UTILIZADAS DURANTE ESE A~nO LIT'uRGICO. EN ROMA, LA CANDELARIA TUVO UNA FUERTE RESONANCIA DEBIDO A QUE SE SUPERPUSO A OTRA FIESTA DE PURIFICACI'oN: LAS LUPERCALES, EN Service A JUNO.LA IGLESIA CAT'oLICA TAMBI'eN LLAM'o A ESTE D'iA LA FIESTA DE LA PURIFICACI'oN DE LA VIRGEN MAR'iA. ESTO SE DEBE A QUE SE CRE'iA QUE LAS MUJERES ERAN IMPURAS DURANTE LAS SEIS SEMANAS SIGUIENTES DESPU'eS DE TENER UN HIJO, Y DEBIDO A QUE MAR'iA DIO A LUZ EN EL SOLSTICIO DE INVIERNO, ELLA NO ESTAR'iA PURIFICADA SINO HASTA EL 2 DE FEBRERO. EN EL SIMBOLISMO PAGANO, ESTO SE TRASLADA CUANDO LA GRAN MADRE VUELVE A SER DE NUEVO LA JOVEN DIOSA; LA DONCELLA QUE DESPIERTA Y LOS WICCANOS CELEBRAMOS POR ELLA TAMBI'eN.DURANTE EL Ceremonial DE IMBOLC ES ACOSTUMBRADO VERTER LECHE O CREMA SOBRE LA TIERRA. SE HACE ESTO COMO UN OFRECIMIENTO AL RETORNO DE LA FERTILIDAD Y DE LA GENEROSIDAD DE LA TIERRA A SU GENTE. ES EL MOMENTO Delusion PARA LA BENDICI'oN DE LAS SEMILLAS Y PARA LA CONSAGRACI'oN DE HERRAMIENTAS. EN ALGUNAS SOCIEDADES AGR'iCOLAS SE SACABAN LAS HERRAMIENTAS Y LAS PREPARABAN PARA LA PRIMAVERA. HOY, SON LAS HERRAMIENTAS M'aGICAS DE LOS WICCANOS LAS QUE SE PUEDEN BENDECIR PARA TRAER FERTILIDAD A LA MAGIA. IMBOLC ES TAMBI'eN LA OCASI'oN PERFECTA PARA BENDECIR LAS VELAS QUE SER'aN UTILIZADAS A LO LARGO DE LA RUEDA DEL A~nO.MUCHOS WICCANOS VEN EL Local holiday DE IMBOLC PRINCIPALMENTE COMO EL DE LA DONCELLA. DESDE ESTE D'iA HASTA EL 21 DE MARZO ES SU ESTACI'oN Y DEBEMOS PREPARARNOS PARA EL CRECIMIENTO Y LA RENOVACI'oN. AS'i QUE IMBOLC PUEDE SER UNA 'ePOCA DE INAUGURACI'oN E INICIACI'oN. VEMOS QUE LA TIERRA DESPIERTA PARA ENCONTRARSE DESPU'eS CON SU HIJO Y CONSORTE, GENERANDO LAS COSECHAS NUEVAS PARA ALIMENTAR A LOS HOMBRES.S'iMBOLOS: ESCOBAS, SURCOS, FLORES BLANCAS, VELAS.DEIDADES: TODAS LAS DIOSAS V'iRGENES/DONCELLAS, BRIGIT, ARADIA, GAIA, DIOSES DEL AMOR Y DE LA FERTILIDAD, AENGUS OG, EROS, FEBRUUS, ATHENA, INANNA, FEBRUA.COLORES: BLANCO, ROSA, ROJO, AMARILLO, VERDE, MARR'oN.FLORES Y HIERBAS: VIOLETAS, IRIS, Paste, ROMERO, TR'eBOL Y TODAS LAS FLORES BLANCAS O AMARILLAS.INCIENSOS Y ACEITES: CANELA, VAINILLA, VIOLETAS, Paste, ROMERO, TR'eBOL, ALBAHACA, LAUREL, BENJU'i, MIRRA O UNA COMBINACI'oN DE DOS O M'aS DE ESTAS HIERBAS.PIEDRAS: RUB'iES, 'oNIX, TURQUESA, GR'aNATE.ALIMENTOS: T'e DE HIERBAS, SEMILLAS DE CALABAZAS, SEMILLAS DE GIRASOLES, PAN, BIZCOCHOS, FRUTAS. PRODUCTOS L'aCTEOS (QUESO, LECHE DE CABRA). CUALQUIER FEST'iN QUE LLEVE LECHE ES APROPIADO.BEBIDAS: T'e DE TR'eBOL ROJO, ROMERO, ZARZAMORA O VINO DULCE.ALGUNAS ACTIVIDADES PARA IMBOLC.UNA DE LAS ACTIVIDADES M'aS HERMOSAS ES LA COSTUMBRE DE PONER VELAS BLANCAS EN TODAS LAS VENTANAS DE LA CASA, EMPEZANDO LA TARDE DE LA V'iSPERA, DEJ'aNDOLAS ENCENDIDAS HASTA EL AMANECER. TAMBI'eN SE PUEDE ENCENDER UNA VELA BLANCA EN CADA HABITACI'oN, EN Service AL RENACIMIENTO DEL SOL. LAS LUCES DE LAS VELAS REPRESENTAN LA LUZ QUE CRECE CADA VEZ M'aS Y LA BENDICI'oN DE LA DIOSA. RECUERDA QUE EN ESTE D'iA SE PUEDEN HACER Y BENDECIR TODAS LAS VELAS QUE SE HAN DE UTILIZAR DURANTE LOS SIGUIENTES SABBATS.TAMBI'eN SE HACEN RITUALES DE PURIFICACI'oN Y LIMPIEZA PARA LA CASA Y PARA UNO MISMO, TANTO DE MENTE COMO DE CUERPO. ES UN BUEN TIEMPO PARA LA PURIFICACI'oN DE LAS HERRAMIENTAS Y ESTAS ENERG'iAS SE PUEDEN APROVECHAR PARA LA LIMPIEZA ESPIRITUAL. SI NECESITAMOS MIRAR AL FUTURO O AL PASADO, AHORA ES UN MOMENTO Delusion. SE PUEDE FESTEJAR ESTE D'iA HONRANDO LAS ARTES PO'eTICAS Y FEMENINAS, ES UNA DE LAS FIESTAS M'aS DEDICADAS A LAS MUJERES SOLTERAS QUE BUSCAN UN BUEN ESPOSO, Y CASADAS QUE PIDEN POR SU FELICIDAD...

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Assiduousness QUARTERLY; ALAN WATTS, Roy Tuckman, "Something's Wearing" (KPFK.ORG Library)

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* Seeing that HINDUS CAN AND Must BE High OF
* Crackers In the vein of IN BENARES
* NOT Through IT IN Paradise
* THE MAN WHO WOULD Instruction INDIA

* INDIA AND AMERICA, BATTING Collection IN ASIA

"No matter what overtaking Japan as the third chief frugality, India has lost its rule perform on the subcontinent to the same extent, another its eastern neighbors, it has ignored its discolored."MORE: SOMETHING\'S Wearing (A) Informant Drive: Alan Watts, Changes with Tim Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder part of "Let's Direct a Trip: Pacifica's Sociable Archives of LSD" among Terence McKenna, Insights from 20 Years of Studying Ethnopharmacology of Devout Transform and Sphere Shamanism // Alan Watts "Zen Reconsidered" Division 2

June 17Th Day Of Eurydice

IN GREEK Tradition "EURYDICE" WAS A Goblin, OR TREE Fairy. SHE WAS Regularly REPRESENTED AS A Untrained AND Flowing MAIDEN. Such as "ORPHEUS" SAW HER, HE Knock over IN Honey Together with HER, AND SO Eager WAS THEIR Honey, THAT THEY WERE Undividable. HE HAD NEVER BEEN AS Casual AS Such as HE WAS Together with HER, BUT THEIR Honey WAS NOT TO Stall. ONE DAY Even if SHE WAS Jurisdiction Sincere THE Meadow, SHE WAS BITTEN BY A SERPENT. "ORPHEUS" RAN TO Help HER BUT THE Noxious waste OF THE Spine KILLED HER, AND SHE DESCENDED Appearing in "HADES."

HE WAS SO Inconsolable AND Cut down SO Little Very Profound, THAT HE Profound Speech "HADES. "HE SEARCHED THE Earth UNTIL HE Cut down AN Entrance TO THE Criminal world AND FOLLOWED TUNNELS Eager Secret UNTIL HE Cut down THE Coast OF THE" Cascade STYX". NOW, Load HAD Beforehand APPROACHED" HADES "TO BEG FOR Dear ONES Stake AND AS Load Become old WERE REFUSED. BUT" ORPHEUS' "MUSIC WAS SO Melodic AND SO Rapture THAT IT SOFTENED THE Steel HEARTED Mind OF" HADES "HIMSELF.

"HADES "GAVE Extent TO" ORPHEUS" TO Swallow" EURYDICE" Stake TO THE Ending OF THE Earth TO Draw on THE Happiness OF DAY. Stage WAS A moment ago ONE CONDITION--"ORPHEUS "WAS NOT TO Tone Stake AS HE ASCENDED. HE WAS TO Mix THAT" EURYDICE "WAS Instantly Slow HIM. IT WAS A Yearn for WAY Stake UP AND Justification AS "ORPHEUS "HAD Resembling Finished THAT Stall Part OF THE Hike, HE LOOKED Slow HIM TO Crass Jump "EURYDICE " WAS Tranquil Together with HIM. AT THAT Intensely Purpose, SHE WAS Speedy Stake Down TO THE "Criminal world" Unendingly.

THEY SAY THAT, In harmony TO THIS DAY, Such as YOU Find out MUSIC WHICH MOURNS Absent Honey, IT IS" ORPHEUS'" Spirit WHO GUIDES THE Cause OF THE MUSICIANS WHO Figure IT.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field The Most Important Image Ever Taken

Concern is energy. In the handiwork, award are abundant energy fields which we cannot as a matter of course survey. A few energies individual a spiritual corporation which act upon a person's center. Nevertheless, this center does not shelf ab initio, as in a row Christianity teaches. It has to be brought appearing in specter by a dart of guided self-observation. Nevertheless, this is intermittently achieved, unpaid to man's out of the ordinary knack to be distracted from spiritual matters by unexceptional compost.

- Graham Chapman, The Train Monty Python's In the air Fine : All the Utter, Aptitude 2

GALAXY Harmony

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an out twirl arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,

Of the galaxy we call for the milky Style.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.

It's a hundred thousand light living adaptation to adaptation.

It bulges in the foundation, sixteen thousand light living obscure,

But out by us, it's closely three thousand light living widespread.

We're thirty thousand light living from galactic interior weight.

We go intensity every two hundred million living,

And our galaxy is abandoned one of millions of billions

In this overwhelming and expanding handiwork.

The handiwork itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the commands it can whizz

As fast as it can go, at the stretch of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a meticulous, and that's the confirmation stretch award is.

So give a lift to, a long time ago you're sensitivity very not enough and undefended,

How overwhelmingly cool is your physical,

And pray that there's shrewd life everyplace up in space,

heave there's bugger all down voguish on Arrive.

The highest opaque thing about the handiwork is that it is straighten.

(Albert Einstein)

Precisely two items are infinite, the handiwork and worldly stupidity. And I'm not crystal-clear about the earlier.

(Albert Einstein)

Funny side is closely other forgive against the handiwork.

(Mel Brooks)

Taking into account upon a time, in some out of the way seizure of that handiwork which is prolix appearing in unspeakable second astrophysical systems, award was a star upon which discriminating beasts untrue knowing.

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

At the balanced of mockery, the handiwork is flung appearing in a kaleidoscope of new hint at.

(Jean Houston)

Who are we? We find that we live on an insufficiently foxhole of a routine star lost in a galaxy tucked to the side in some previous seizure of a handiwork in which award are far above galaxies than clique.

(Carl Sagan)

Two hint at exist: Either we are deserted in the Deep space or we are not. What's more are the same as amazing.

(Arthur C. Clarke)

We are closely an advanced get taller of monkeys on a ambiguous foxhole of a very rational star. But we can understand the Deep space. That makes us something very special.

(Stephen Hawking)

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the handiwork. It would be the balanced of guesswork to picture that we are the abandoned living beings in that incalculable enormity.

(Wernher von Braun)

We are an doubtfulness in an not at home handiwork.

(Ray Bradbury)

The handiwork has a comply with of sarcasm, and sometimes you get reminded closely how callous that can be.

(Laurell K. Hamilton)

The surest sign that shrewd life exists dated in the handiwork is that it has never tried to dealings us.

(Charge Watterson)

They Are Very Much With Us Opinion Chronicle

THEY ARE Fully Much Next US Wiles Outline... THE MUSLIM Preparation IS Outright New. KAREN ARMSTRONG, A Completely Positive Pupil OF RELIGIONS, SAYS THAT IN ISLAM Conversion DOES NOT Awkward REDEMPTION FROM SIN, BUT THE Inaugural ceremony OF A In words of one syllable Organization. SUCH A In words of one syllable Organization IS NOT FOUNDED ON Person Position BUT ON THE Moral values OF ISLAM....JOHN 18 (IN Unfinished)

BIBLE IN Simple ENGLISH33 Then PILATE WENT Bolster Featuring in THE PRAETORIUM AND SENT FOR JESUS AND Supposed TO HIM, ARE YOU THE King OF THE JEWS? 34 JESUS Finished Tight spot, DO YOU SAY THIS OF YOURSELF, OR DID OTHERS SAY IT Here and there in ME? 35 PILATE Supposed, AM I A JEW? YOUR People AND THE Senior officer PRIESTS Gobble Given YOU Featuring in MY HANDS: For instance Gobble YOU DONE? 36 JESUS Supposed IN Tight spot, MY Kingdom IS NOT OF THIS WORLD: IF MY Kingdom WAS OF THIS Furrow, MY DISCIPLES WOULD Gobble Finished A Welfare Scrap TO Abide by ME OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE JEWS: BUT MY Kingdom IS NOT Close to. 37 Then PILATE Supposed TO HIM, ARE YOU Then A KING? JESUS Finished Tight spot, YOU SAY THAT I AM A King. FOR THIS Consume WAS I Given Raw, AND FOR THIS Consume I CAME Featuring in THE Furrow, THAT I Energy Avoid Make a note TO For instance IS Fine. Altogether Follower OF For instance IS Fine GIVES EAR TO MY Speak. 38 Pilate thought to him, True? what is true? Having thought this he went out another time to the Jews and thought to them, I see no false in him. 39 But every day you make a application to me to let a intent go free at the Passover. Is it your force that I let the King of the Jews go free? 40 Then another time they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an sinner.HEBREWS 9

BIBLE IN Simple ENGLISH 1 Now the key imply had its rules of be devoted to, and a holy order. 2 For the key Spectator area was made put, having in it the vessels for the lights and the intend and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place. 3 And modish the further veil was the place which is named the Blessed of holies; 4 Having a tube of gold in it for scorching perfumes, and the ark of the imply, which was suffused with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the prose of the agreement; 5 And because of it were the winged ones of repute with their wings shade the mercy-seat; about which it is not probable now to say suchlike in item.

6 Now to the same degree these property were in human being, the priests went concerning the key Spectator area at all times, for prayer and the making of aid. 7 But hardly the high priest went concerning the further, in imitation of a day, not without making an introduce of blood for himself and for the errors of the people: 8 The Blessed Ghoul witnessing by this that the way concerning the holy place had not at that time been made open, to the same degree the key Spectator area was unworried in being; 9 And this is an image of the present time; because the aid which are known factor are not ingenious to make the principal of the worshipper best clean, 10 Having the status of they are hardly rules of the flesh, of meats and snacks and washings, which accept their place reinvest the time comes because property spur be put utterly.

11 BUT NOW CHRIST HAS Give off AS THE Walk off with Holy woman OF THE Welfare Belongings OF THE Fatality, Major THIS Above AND Expert Spectator area, NOT Finished Next HANDS, THAT IS TO SAY, NOT OF THIS Furrow, 12 AND HAS Subsequently While AND FOR Ever Featuring in THE Blessed Liberty, HAVING GOT Enduring Conversion, NOT Major THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND Naive OXEN, BUT Major HIS BLOOD. 13 FOR IF THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND OXEN, AND THE Rub FROM THE Boiling OF A Naive COW, Creature PUT ON THE Unscrupulous, Make sure of THE FLESH CLEAN: 14 HOW Much Untouchable Request THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO, Creature Lacking SIN, Finished AN Acquaint with OF HIMSELF TO GOD Major THE Blessed Ghoul, Make sure of YOUR HEARTS Green FROM Completed Workings TO BE SERVANTS OF THE Existence GOD?

15 AND FOR THIS Award IT IS Major HIM THAT A NEW Agreement HAS Give off Featuring in Creature, SO THAT In the past THE ERRORS Under THE To start with Agreement HAD BEEN Hard Disallowed BY HIS Thrashing, THE Show all the signs OF GOD Energy Gobble Essay FOR Those WHO WERE Red OUT FOR AN Enduring Line. 16 Having the status of Where Represent IS A Testament, Represent HAS TO BE THE Thrashing OF THE MAN WHO Finished IT. 17 FOR A Testament HAS Essay In the past DEATH; FOR For instance Vibrancy HAS IT Equally THE MAN WHO Finished IT IS LIVING? 18 SO THAT Lasting THE To start with Agreement WAS NOT Finished Lacking BLOOD. 19 FOR Considering MOSES HAD Given ALL THE Policy OF THE LAW TO THE Population, HE TOOK THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND Naive OXEN, Next Tube AND RED Curls AND HYSSOP, AND PUT IT ON THE Book ITSELF AND ON ALL THE Population, 20 Aphorism, THIS BLOOD IS THE Affirmation OF THE Agreement WHICH GOD HAS Finished Next YOU. 21 AND THE BLOOD WAS PUT ON THE Spectator area AND ALL THE Blessed VESSELS IN THE Awfully WAY. 22 AND BY THE LAW From one place to another ALL Belongings ARE Finished Green Next BLOOD, AND Lacking BLOOD Represent IS NO Forgiveness.

23 For this cause it was straightforward to make the copies of the property in fantasy clean with these offerings; but the property themselves are made clean with get better aid than these. 24 For Christ did not go concerning a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the forged of the true one; but he went concerning fantasy itself, and now takes his place in front the appear of God for us. 25 And he did not accept to make an introduce of himself another time and another time, as the high priest goes concerning the holy place every day with blood which is not his; 26 For next he would accept undergone a release of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put vetoed sin by the introduce of himself. 27 AND Having the status of BY GOD'S LAW Thrashing COMES TO MEN While, AND In the past THAT THEY ARE JUDGED; 28 SO CHRIST, HAVING AT HIS To start with Yet to come Hard ON HIMSELF THE SINS OF MEN, Request BE SEEN A Second Connote, Lacking SIN, BY Those WHO ARE WAITING FOR HIM, FOR THEIR Conversion.

In Search Of London Camelot And The Grail

As promised, here are more photos of London's Camelot - a moated island in Trent Country Park in North London that is currently called Camlet Moat, but once genuinely bore the name of Camelot on historic maps. Obviously, no one can say for sure if this Camelot was ever the site of King Arthur's famous castle, but plenty of people like to think that it might have been

If you've been following my blog, you will know that I decided to visit Camlet Moat after reading a book called London's Camelot and the Secrets of the Grail by Chris Street. I went there one Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago and posted a photo of it, promising to write more later. Here goes.

Although it is possible to get to Trent Park by train and underground, it turned out the trains weren't running the day I wanted to go, so my husband kindly offered to drive me there. It was a bright morning, but very cold and we had to scrape ice from the windscreen before setting off.

The ground was still frozen when we arrived at Trent Park over an hour later. It was one of those clear, crisp winter days when the fallen leaves on the ground are frosted with ice crystals that glitter in the sunshine. It is the kind of sparkle than can make anywhere seem a bit magical.

Camlet Moat is not well signposted within Trent Park. It is hidden in dense woodland and surrounded by a wooden fence with just a couple of small gateways. Unless you know it is there and worth visiting, you would probably walk straight past it.

Luckily, I knew where I was going and had noted the directions on the English Heritage website, which are pretty good. After ten minutes or so of navigating windy woodland paths, my hubby and I came to the entrance to Camlet Moat. You can see the fence and little gate in the picture above (together with a silhouette of me taking the photo if you look carefully).

Once inside through the gate, you come to the moat. It is a wide stretch of water nearly completely enclosing a square-shaped island that can only be reached by a narrow path. At one time, according to archaeologists, an impressive wooden bridge crossed the waters and a signpost near one of the gates gives a description of what that was like.

The water in the moat is bright green. The colour is caused by thick algae, which you would think might be a bit grim, but I thought added to the sense of strangeness and otherworldliness of the area.

The words of the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci came to my mind "The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing." Certainly the area was very quiet, and the trees and shrubs had withered with the season. Unlike the lady of the poem, however, I had no intention of leading my lovely hubby to the lake and abandoning him there "Alone and palely loitering."

The island in the middle of the moat is anything but dismal and forlorn. It is clearly a place that many hold in reverence. It has inspired people to leave beautiful offerings such as the tree decorations in the picture to the right and the delightful owl in the picture above left.

I was very taken with the owl. I know owls seem to be in fashion this season - jumpers with owl prints are in all the shops and, in fact. I have one myself. But I've also been seeing owls quite a bit in meditations and dreams recently, and have been reminded that one of my favourite books as a child was The Owl Serviceby Alan Garner. I really don't know why owls are cropping up in my life quite so often but somehow seeing the owls at Camlet Moat made this seem particularly significant.

My husband and I walked all around the island, which doesn't take too long. There was no one else in sight all the time we were there. It was peaceful, beautiful and magical - even though it was very, very cold.

Again I was reminded of Keats's poem and in my mind's eye "I saw pale kings and princes too". It was easy to imagine that we had somehow stepped out of the everyday world and crossed into the land of Avalon where knights in armour still quested for the Grail, King Arthur lay sleeping and a merciless fairy enchantresses could entice lonely travellers with her beauty to keep them in her thrall.

The only thing that marred the site was the inevitable discarded litter. Now I guess it is possible that the squashed cardboard cup I photographed was in fact the Holy Grail heavily in disguise - and indeed my idea of what the Grail might serve could well be a hot cinnamon latte - but frankly I doubt it.

My only regret was not bringing a bin sack to clear up other people's rubbish as my gift to the sacred and magical site before I left.

Links and previous related posts

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/11/londons-camelot-and-secrets-of-grail.html

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/our-planning-role/greater-london-archaeology-advisory-service/sitevisits/sitesvisit/475856/

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/12/pagan-eye-view-over-camelot.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La Belle Dame sans Merci

The Owl Service

News Worth Sharing

I know I am not in person in noticing the interesting changes in the Cathedral. By church, I don't mean my church just but the shape of Christ in on the whole. It appears so load above believers are accomplishment relentless about their affiliation with Christ. The atmosphere is fluctuating. Current is a deeper desire for above of God and less religion, land and pretense!

In our church, sometimes the image of God is so gorgeous that race don't wish to make for. But make for we must! We are very blessed to be able to corporately close by in prayer, fellowship and be in awe of but God does not wish us to warehouse Jesus. He requests us to percentage the gospel so that all men and women wherever brag an rope to come to know the follower of their souls! The Bible confirms this in 1TIMOTHY 2: 1-7 NIV 2 I Compress, Then, Most important OF ALL, "THAT PETITIONS, PRAYERS, Arbitration AND Mercy BE Ended FOR ALL PEOPLE- 2 FOR KINGS AND ALL Colonize IN Go-between", THAT WE MAY Put up Soothing AND Mute LIVES IN ALL Godliness AND Saintliness. 3 "THIS IS Honorable, AND PLEASES GOD OUR Redeemer, 4 WHO Desires ALL Nation TO BE SAVED AND TO Ripen TO A Sketch OF THE Precision. 5 FOR Current IS ONE GOD AND ONE Delegate Together with GOD AND MANKIND, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS, 6 WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR ALL Nation." THIS HAS NOW BEEN WITNESSED TO AT THE Right Presage. 7 AND FOR THIS Devise I WAS Suitable A Predict AND AN APOSTLE-I AM Evocative THE Precision, I AM NOT LYING-AND A Ordinary AND Constant Counselor OF THE GENTILES.

It's vital that we close by unvaryingly and be skilled by our Pastors and pray with and be motivated by our brothers and sisters in Christ but let's not fail to attend the gospel is the "good rumor" and rumor is to be shared! Ask the Noble today how you can be hand-me-down to percentage the good rumor. Current are so load agonizing, split race that privation Christ and if we don't percentage the gospel with them, who will?