“YOU ARE NOT JUST L G B T or Q: YOU ARE EVERYTHING” The introductory video of the online global celebration of PRIDE 2021 on YouTube features this awesome, magical message – that as a queer person you are not simply the label attached to you in our ever expanding alphabet of definitions, that withinContinue reading “You Are Everything: YouTube Pride”
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Pleasure
Pleasure is a Goddess The Ancients knew Pleasure dissolves the boundaries Between Me and You. Pleasure is Divine You know this is True Pleasure can unchain the Soul Let the Real You through. . Pleasure opens the Way to Connection, Emotion, Devotion and Pleasure must occasionally make way for the many feelings it sets inContinue reading “Pleasure”
From AIDS to ETERNITY
NOW ON SALE IN PRINT OR EBOOK FORMAT AT LULU.COM : click here From Smalltown Boy to Queer Spirit Warrior, from gay bars to Radical Faerie gatherings, here is a tale of awakening to a multi-dimensional reality and of discovering the hidden spiritual powers of gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer people and how they are manifesting in the worldContinue reading “From AIDS to ETERNITY”
Gay Love is Ancient & Innate
The generally accepted belief that any kind of self-aware homosexual identity did not exist until the late 19th century was invented by heterosexuals who sought to ensure their dominance over society. This belief stands on shaky ground and deserves to be blown away and replaced by awareness of the many centuries in which gay loveContinue reading “Gay Love is Ancient & Innate”
As leaves belong to a tree
HUMANITY SO DISTRACTED by its stories and its woes it can’t see what’s in front of it, can’t see how this story goes because it can’t see what IS in the HERE and NOW the reality that hold us all: we’ve maybe forgotten HOW. … Elemental energies are building to a climax like never before,Continue reading “As leaves belong to a tree”
Living Is An Art
Living is an ART, not a SCIENCE: It’s about our MINDS and HEARTS not quarks and atoms. It’s about the CREATIVE SPARK a dance in which all play a part. Just as the stars in the sky make a whole as the leaves and branches make a tree as the blades of grass form aContinue reading “Living Is An Art”
Beltane Rites: A History
BELTANE is an ancient fire festival marking the point in Spring when Winter is finally defeated and the journey into Summer truly underway. The last vestiges of the dark half of the year were burned away in the Beltane fires, and Maypole dances whisked up a spirit of revelry and celebration. Of all the paganContinue reading “Beltane Rites: A History”
BELTANE 2021
All Change! All Change! All is Changing at Beltane! Take a ribbon, take a chance, let Nature lead us into the Dance! At Scorpio Full Moon the shadows are illumined, the past is released, We commune at the fire with spirits both living and deceased. Dis Pater Pluto takes a four month seat at theContinue reading “BELTANE 2021”
The Web of Life
THE WEB OF LIFE Is a Dancing Oneness LIFE – DEATH – REBIRTH An Eternal Cycle Designed to Carry Us Home. . The Web gave birth to a self-conscious species whose purpose it is to care for the creatures and create with the power divine within us – the Infinite Creative Potential of the HolyContinue reading “The Web of Life”
Trans Day of Visibility
In the years 1995-2000 I underwent a transformation of my being – due to sickness I was motivated to explore the metaphysical layers of existence and quickly worked out that: THERE ARE TWO LAYERS TO OUR HUMAN REALITY THE MATERIAL (PHYSICAL BODY) AND THE NON-MATERIAL (MIND, SPIRIT) The Western culture lost this understanding at someContinue reading “Trans Day of Visibility”
Gays in the Age of Aquarius
The age of Pisces: we swim around like fish in water, unaware that we are totally immersed in the element that gives us life. We fall for the illusions that rulers, religions, society want us to buy. We believe that we are limited and born to merely die. The age of Aquarius: the soul ofContinue reading “Gays in the Age of Aquarius”
Christ and Cybele
In the ancient pagan world the arrival of Spring was time for ceremonies celebrating rebirth and renewal. Christianity followed this pattern with its Easter festival. Will Roscoe writes in Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same Sex Love (published 2004): In late antiquity, the worship of Cybele and Attis was one of Christianity’s chief sourcesContinue reading “Christ and Cybele”
Spring Rises Within
Fresh Start Aries Moon Day SPRING RISING WITHIN From simple, humble beginnings GREAT THINGS BEGIN. At Equinox the Sun reaches The sign of the Ram: The first month of Spring Is the month of the I Am. Aries Fire warms us at Winter’s end – Spring calls us to growth, To renew bonds with friends,Continue reading “Spring Rises Within”
Shivratri
When I awoke from the materialist atheistic delusion that dominated my adolescent and early adult outlook on life at the age of 30, awoke to the sacred flow of Creation and humanity’s integral part in it, I searched for explanations of the Great Mystery of our existence in all the world’s major religions. Ultimately IContinue reading “Shivratri”
The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life
Modern western world has elevated the external – the objective, scientific, material – universe over the subjective, internal experience. The common goals in our culture are physical beauty, fame and fortune, not wisdom, compassion and spiritual awareness. Gay subculture buys into this big time, with the help of apps such as Grindr we are makingContinue reading “The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life”
A manifestation of our longing
One day we’ll perhaps realise it’s not simply a virus Not really spread through drops in the air, but a manifestation of our collective longing to become more united, become more aware, to come home to Who We Really Are, a result of the longing in our souls to evolve beyond confusion, separation and despair.Continue reading “A manifestation of our longing”
Aquarian Peak
The Aquarian spirit is building… Sun Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn all in Ganymede’s sign, with Pluto just behind and the other planets all in the same quarter of the zodiac – Neptune in Pisces, Chiron in Aries, Mars and Uranus in Taurus – apart from the Moon, who is coming up fast from the rear,Continue reading “Aquarian Peak”
No Separation
At the root of human woeIs the belief that we’re not whole.In this both monotheistic religion and sciencePlay their terrible roles. Original Sin is the Original Lie,Materialism says there’s nothing when we die,But there’s a deeper truth our souls know wellBeyond the duality of heaven and hellIn addition to the light of scientific reason. TheContinue reading “No Separation”
Imbolc 2021
The second half of Winter has begun. Imbolc on Feb 1st is the turning point, the magical moment where the Goddess drops her Grandmother Crone aspect and becomes again the Maiden, symbolising the potent energy growing in the land as Nature prepares to spring back into life from her dormant period.. Winter is the EarthContinue reading “Imbolc 2021”
LOVE is
LET’S GO BEYOND: love is love is love is love whoever loves whomever whether we love one or a lot let’s celebrate what we were born to do let’s celebrate our love let’s go beyond the lies and fear embrace the love that is sacred and queer our love illuminates the dark and opens upContinue reading “LOVE is”
REINCARNATION
“The soul has neither beginning nor end. [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives”– Origen,183-253 A.D. The two major Abrahamic religions, Christianity and Islam, deny the reality of reincarnation, but looking back at history we see this denial has more political than spiritual roots.Continue reading “REINCARNATION”
URANUS
“Uranus is the awakener, whose job is to keep us faithful to what keeps us unique, fascinating and weird.” Montufar In the ancient wisdom tradition astrology, Saturn was long considered to be the ruling planet of Aquarius, but the discovery of Uranus in 1781 led to this unusual planet being assigned the role. Uranus isContinue reading “URANUS”
Conversation with God
In the year 2000 I was emerging from five years in a transformational cocoon called AIDS, wondering how to integrate the cosmic experiences I had been having with being part of the world and joining the living again. The series of Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch were a vital source of insightContinue reading “Conversation with God”
Twenty Twenty OneNess
I’ve long dreamed of a holy Yuletide – a world at Peace and Oneness widely felt, since I discovered Sacred Presence for myself: long dreamed of humanity in deep appreciation of our part in the Divine Mystery and the miracle of Creation. . In 2020 we stopped, Christmas was cancelled for the first time sinceContinue reading “Twenty Twenty OneNess”
YULE 2020
Yule trees shine on silent streets, Within ourselves this year we have to find The Holy Presence of the Yuletide. For some that presence is found in a virgin birth, For others it’s found through Saturnalian mirth – It’s really about the return of the Sun/Son, The Divine Child, the Light of the Soul, TheContinue reading “YULE 2020”
Holy Suffolk: An Angle on the English
The Land holds the memories that people forgot, but when we rediscover how to speak to the earth, trees and sky, we’ll see that nothing is ever really lost. Returning to spend time in the town of my childhood, Stowmarket in mid-Suffolk, after 3 decades away, I am discovering an ancient connection in the landContinue reading “Holy Suffolk: An Angle on the English”
AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift
‘The great tides and strides of history all part of the Divine Plan: A species left to rule its world To build a divine sisterbrotherhood without the Goddess’s guiding hand. As we reach the point of unification voices of love and wisdom arise in every land, but they’re not the ones in power, this weContinue reading “AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift”
The Eternal Love of Diana
Diana was the name given to the people’s beloved Goddess, worshipped in Europe for over two millennia and still honoured by pagans today. The devotional love that she once inspired in the wider population reappeared in a very modern form as the almost cult-like reverence of Diana, Princess of Wales, who is back in theContinue reading “The Eternal Love of Diana”
The Metaphysics of a Virus
Diagnosed HIV+ in 1990 when aged 25, and Long Term Survivor of AIDS, I have lived most of my life with a deadly virus in my body. I have thought long and hard about what a virus is on a metaphysical level, why it affects some people and not others, why it has different effectsContinue reading “The Metaphysics of a Virus”
GODDESS PRAYER
THE WORLDS ABOVE & THE WORLDS BELOW At this time Humanity reaps what it has sown, We each find out how much we have grown in this year of rapid transformation at this time of evolution’s culmination. Religious fools are screaming “End Times” but the end that is due is of the delusion of separationContinue reading “GODDESS PRAYER”
Humanity’s Missing Mother
Since way back in prehistorical times humans have left behind evidence of a deep emotional, psychological and spiritual relationship with a feminine mother spirit which is noticeably lacking in the mainstream cultures and among the mass of the population around the planet today. For the majority of people in the confused and conflicted, frightened world,Continue reading “Humanity’s Missing Mother”
Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry
ONCE UPON A TIME all Love and Play and Sex between humans on planet earth was natural, normal and not-restricted-by-laws. We lived in the garden of Eden in the sense that we had not made some things right and some things wrong. We experienced the innocence of being a child of creation.. Every day weContinue reading “Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry”
Queer Spirituality
Queer Spirituality is the movement of lgbt+ people taking matters of faith into our own hands, making way for the discovery of the innate, magical flow of the divine gifts of the Soul. It is queer people finding our own ways to commune with and celebrate the Mystery behind all Creation, however we perceive that.Continue reading “Queer Spirituality”
Hanging with Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912-2002) Here are some quotations and photos to assist communion with the spirit of Harry, gay activist and founder of the 1950s Mattachine Society and one of the three founding motherfathers of the Radical Faeries…. Harry was born in Worthing, UK, and lived his life in the USA. Give yourself permission to enjoyContinue reading “Hanging with Harry Hay”
Aurobindo’s Vision
From Sri Aurobindo’s masterpiece Savitri, published in 1940, described on wikipedia as being about “the transcendence of man as the consummation of terrestrial evolution and the emergence of an immortal supramental gnostic race upon earth” A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;There was a thunder as of worlds that fall;Earth was o’errun with fireContinue reading “Aurobindo’s Vision”
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