Full Moon 26-09-07

[juliejam]

Originally Posted by FlyAgaric

After our legal wedding, we are having a Celtic handsfasting, hopefully under a large oak tree surrounded by nature, with lots of Ale and merry times

Another thing that makes me feel spiritual when in nature are the smells, natures scents beat any synthetic smells you can imagine, sends me to another time and space. Especially just after a downpour on a warm day.

Your wedding plans sounds great ..Im sure you will both be wearing the correct dress for this magical occasion..Again your hit the nail on the head when you talk of smells of nature theres nothing else like it Ive been out in the rain while out walking my Dog at that moment you dont want to run to get back indoors you just want to stand there and embrace that feeling ..Its like a feeling of purification from the outside in ...if you know what i mean.. and im pretty sure you do ..( will you be jumping the broom at your wedding..) I made my first broom this year from some birch which i cut in early spring..

Julie

[FlyAgaric]

Originally Posted by juliejam

Your wedding plans sounds great ..Im sure you will both be wearing the correct dress for this magical occasion..Again your hit the nail on the head when you talk of smells of nature theres nothing else like it Ive been out in the rain while out walking my Dog at that moment you dont want to run to get back indoors you just want to stand there and embrace that feeling ..Its like a feeling of purification from the outside in ...if you know what i mean.. and im pretty sure you do ..( will you be jumping the broom at your wedding..) I made my first broom this year from some birch which i cut in early spring..

Julie

Yep, all the trimmings. Medieval attire, brides maids in fairy wings and flower headdresses, a white horse, and Lisa Thiel and Lorenna Mckennitt playing in the background.

The only problem is we want it on the Summer Solstice, but its hard to find a good priestess at that time of year, they are all booked.

[Jay77]

Originally Posted by juliejam

Going back to magical places and the Celts ...my special place where i feel a connection with earth and everything around it is not that far from me ..Its part of a park now but as i mentioned was once a forest..Two very large Oaks are there of great age with twisted branches ..as you walk through a small pathway you feel you are walking through a gateway from one world to the another one of the past I feel..to see the sunlight flickering through the tree tops ..its just sure delight..Its where i feel Celtic weddings would have taken place..Ive taken many pic's of this place in different seasons..its very special to me.

Will look some pic's out.

Julie

Have you ever visited Kingley Vale yew grove in Sussex, Julie? That gives me the same feeling that you describe, as if I've stepped out of time into another place. And I love Avebury too, in fact that whole area around the Ridgeway has a special, ancient feel quite unlike the country up here in the Midlands. I love walking on the Ridgeway, I love the idea of being part of a long line of people stretching back for thousands of years who've travelled along it.

Jane

[juliejam]

Originally Posted by Jay77

Have you ever visited Kingley Vale yew grove in Sussex, Julie? That gives me the same feeling that you describe, as if I've stepped out of time into another place. And I love Avebury too, in fact that whole area around the Ridgeway has a special, ancient feel quite unlike the country up here in the Midlands. I love walking on the Ridgeway, I love the idea of being part of a long line of people stretching back for thousands of years who've travelled along it.

Jane

Just checked out the web site..what a lovely place must make a trip
there one day ..Some of those Yew tree's can be hundreds of years old.
You always seem to find them around Grave yards..They are a very scared tree ..In Celtic times they were known as the tree of Death. In Old England the Yew was known as The witches Tree since it was associated with sorcery and magic..Maybe that why you feel a difference a feeling when walking amongst these old trees..

Julie

[Ambriel]

Originally Posted by FlyAgaric

I have never been to Avebury, but its on my to do list. I heard it doesn’t have fascism there like it does at Stonehenge so you can actually go up to the stones at Avebury.

There's no real restriction on access at Avebury. We rode down there for the solar eclipse in 1999. Amazing place.

I think they've relaxed the restrictions at Stonehenge in recent years, but what can you expect when there are morons about such as the ones who graffittied Skara Brae recently.

[Ambriel]

Originally Posted by Jay77

And I love Avebury too, in fact that whole area around the Ridgeway has a special, ancient feel quite unlike the country up here in the Midlands.

I walked the Ridgeway once, many years ago, camping along the path. Fantastic experience. Something to see at every turning. That was before we moved up to Scotland, of course.

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by FlyAgaric

HEHE. No, I don’t watch TV, unless I am watching a DVD. It numbs the brain.

I love bats. I used to live next to one of the longest underground tunnels in the UK, it houses some of the rarest bats in the UK, so was classed as a place of scientific interest. Have a look if your interested. In the summer evenings the skies would sometimes be a flock of bats. I cant remember how many bats the tunnel houses, but it’s a lot.

Basingstoke Canal - Greywell Tunnel

hi i have been reading your posts you seem a fasinating fella and know alot,i have always been fasinated about stone henge how they got those stones to stand like that only they can know,they never had cranes in them days,only man power must have taken them years to construct.Also i love the moon very cool and calming i find, like at peace with the world if you know what i mean.

[FlyAgaric]

Originally Posted by Ambriel

There's no real restriction on access at Avebury. We rode down there for the solar eclipse in 1999. Amazing place.

I think they've relaxed the restrictions at Stonehenge in recent years, but what can you expect when there are morons about such as the ones who graffittied Skara Brae recently.

Yes, but all you need to do to stop that, is employ a few security guards to do that, in fact the Druids ( I don’t mean the new age travellers) have already offered to do it free of charge. The graffiti is just an excuse.

The English Heritage and National Trust just use that excuse to make millions each week from it, do you have any idea how expensive it is to get into that place now and how many people visit it? The stones have survived thousand of years with out the help of money making companies, they can survive another few thousand years without them. They even add insult to injury by stating on the entrance to the stones before the huge money making gates on a sign, that you, as a British person, have the right to these marvellous parts of our history, but only if I pay money, and even then I am allowed nowhere near them I was not even allowed to propose to my girl friend there, something that would have taken a minute.

I know wardens that used to work for Stonehenge, and two of them left because they started to see what a money making scam it was. The company that runs Stonehenge, say they want to protect the stones, when they are using aggressive advertising tactics to attract as many tourist and visitor as possible, causing more and more cars to go there, harming the stones more than any member of the public could. They care about making money from it, not protecting them.

[FlyAgaric]

Originally Posted by naturelover

hi i have been reading your posts you seem a fasinating fella and know alot,i have always been fasinated about stone henge how they got those stones to stand like that only they can know,they never had cranes in them days,only man power must have taken them years to construct.Also i love the moon very cool and calming i find, like at peace with the world if you know what i mean.

Thanks naturelover. Its nice to know someone likes my posts, I am quite opinionated and sometimes a little hot-headed, and tend to annoy a lot of people, so its nice to know someone agrees with me.

[Ambriel]

Here's a picture of last night's almost full Moon:


Weather permitting, I'm going to try again tonight, exposing more for the darker areas soas to bring out a bit more detail in the crater formations.