ALL OVER PLANET EARTH PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO THE NATURAL WAY OF THE SOUL IN CONNECTION WITH NATURE, SPIRIT AND THE MOTHER DIVINE. All over the world people are feeling drawn to explore shamanic traditions that engage the spirit world, honour the sanctity and unity of life, that bring balance, healing and community throughContinue reading “TIME OF FIRE”
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You Are The Universe
Hindu ‘Chandogya Upanishad’ c 1000BCE: In the beginning was only Being One without a second Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos And entered into everything in it. There is nothing that did not come from him Of everything he is the innermost Self. He is the truth, he is the Self supreme YouContinue reading “You Are The Universe”
2020 VISION & PRAYER
Mine Eyes have seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord My Heart has felt the Bliss of the Return of Mother Divine My Body knows the Light of the Self in Ecstasy My Mind has found these things are found through Simplicity so can anybody tell me o why can’t humanity open theirContinue reading “2020 VISION & PRAYER”
THE SPIRIT OF YULE 2019
The second decade of the 21st century is ending with a reflective and profound line up of cosmic energies. Winter Solstice moment occurs at 4:20am on Sunday 22nd December (guess for some that’s all I need to say :-)) – at that time the Sun enters Capricorn (joining the gang of the solar system’s bigContinue reading “THE SPIRIT OF YULE 2019”
God in the Body
A few reminders from mystical ancestors that it is in the body that holiness happens: MICHAELANGELO (1475-1564) “Earth is the meagre source of all that we can know while still fleshbound. To those who see in the right way it gives most copiously…” “All that we have of wisdom and of faith Derives from theContinue reading “God in the Body”
World AIDS Day
In the early 1980s sex suddenly became scary – the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s took a very dark turn. At first known as Gay Cancer or GRID (gay-related-immune-defiency), the world eventually settled on HIV and AIDS as the terms for this deadly manifestation. A brief decade of sexual ‘innocence’, where play was plentifulContinue reading “World AIDS Day”
On the Path
For the first time in human history the teachings of all the religions, magical paths and spiritual practices of humankind are available to us to study and experience. As the planet shakes in ecological, economic and existential crises, there has never been a more urgent or rewarding time to dive in and discover what lifeContinue reading “On the Path”
Rainbow Rising
Spiritual liberation is the missing element in the modern journey of LGBTIQ+ people around the world. Coming out about our sexuality or gender identity results from our need to be true to ourselves, we listen to our souls and from the soul comes the courage to be who we are. The same principle applies toContinue reading “Rainbow Rising”
Gender and Homosex: AFRICAN WISDOM
“… among the Dagara people, gender has very little to do with anatomy. It is purely energetic. In that context, a male who is physically male can vibrate female energy, and vice versa. That is where the real gender is. Anatomic differences are simply there to determine who contributes what for the continuity ofContinue reading “Gender and Homosex: AFRICAN WISDOM”
Victory to Venus!
The Goddess played a central role in religious life of Europe and the Middle East for thousand of years until the rise of Christianity and Islam. Even during the patriarchal Greek and Roman eras the Goddess was still held in the highest of esteem. Worship of the Great Mother Cybele was the official religion ofContinue reading “Victory to Venus!”
The Autumn Goddess
The New Moon in Libra kicks off the first moon month of Autumn, it is the point at which Nature completes the equinoctial gear shift out of Summer that began when the Sun entered the sign of the scales, bringing energy of balance as we move into the darker half of the year. This periodContinue reading “The Autumn Goddess”
Autumn Equinox
Sun rises due east and sets due west day and night at equal length ~ balance as the season turns ~ from summer’s fire to autumn’s water spirit from Mercury ruled Virgo to Venus month Libra. . Equinox calling us to shift the centre out of mind into heart resting, releasing, expressing through art, makeContinue reading “Autumn Equinox”
When the Goddess Returns
WHEN THE GODDESS RETURNS people will fall to their knees begging forgiveness for all our destructive deeds. – Isis- Humanity forgot how to love the Earth as Mother forgot how to treat all living things as sister and brother. We take our Mother’s blood in the form of oil we pollute and abuse herContinue reading “When the Goddess Returns”
The Many Names of Queer
Some people like to claim there was no homosexual identity until the word was invented in the nineteenth century, yet this is a very limited way of thinking. Historians have certainly shown the emergence of a queer subculture in the form of molly houses in the 18th century, that grew out of the thriving theatreContinue reading “The Many Names of Queer”
The Soul is Trans
In a small town pub in Suffolk I spoke to a lad about the inner feminine – he took great offence to the idea that he might have a feminine part to himself, almost to the point of aggression. What in heaven’s name are they teaching kids at school? The Soul is Trans, we manifestContinue reading “The Soul is Trans”
Holy Queer Spirit
At certain times and in many places on planet earth, those people who bore both female and male spirit in one body, because they were rare and different, were regarded as holy beings. At certain times and in many places sexual union between people of the same visible gender, because it was only practised byContinue reading “Holy Queer Spirit”
Queer Spirit(ualists) with Attitude!
Attitude magazine this month has a colourful, somewhat teasing and intriguing, feature about some of the team behind this summer’s Queer Spirit Festival. The piece is appropriately enough entitled ‘Free Spirits’, making the point that here are queers finding our spiritual expression outside of formal religion. For some reason however the front page headline theyContinue reading “Queer Spirit(ualists) with Attitude!”
Queer Resistance
THEY WILL NOT BULLY US ANY MORE WILL NOT BEAT US WITH THEIR MACHO MANIA WE QUEERS DEMAND RESPECT FOR OUR EXISTENCE OR THE WORLD WILL MEET OUR RESISTANCE This is what we are up against… “Anti LGBT+ protesters descended on a hotel yesterday (April 11) in Kiev, Ukraine where the European Lesbian Conference (ELC)Continue reading “Queer Resistance”
THE LOST QUEER STORY OF EASTER
It’s well known that Christian holy days were placed in the calendar to replace long established pagan festivals. Spring was a time when the pagan cultures of Europe and the Middle East celebrated the rising energy of nature with ceremonies relating to suffering and rebirth. In southern Europe the Goddess Persephone/Proserpina was said to returnContinue reading “THE LOST QUEER STORY OF EASTER”
Canaries in the meth mine
the second sexual revolution has been building since the turn of the millennium once AIDS had disappeared from our hospitals and gay bars. dating websites were the start of the cyber game, which gay men embraced with gusto where drug deals and dates started to become a normal combination in some quarters gaydar – gayContinue reading “Canaries in the meth mine”
Chiron and the Rainbow
CHIRON was discovered in October 1977, and was at first considered by astronomers to be an asteroid, then upgraded to a ‘minor planet’ or a ‘comet nucleus’. Chiron orbits in the Solar System between Saturn and Uranus, and is regarded by astrologers to represent the spirit of the Wounded Healer, and act as the bridgeContinue reading “Chiron and the Rainbow”
The Rites of Queer Spirit
in the temples of the gods and goddesses of the ancient world, all around the Meditteranean, the women, queer men and the in-between/non-binary folk, practiced our sex rituals the rites of Dionysis , when women went to forest orgeia with their transsexual god, were built into the Greek calendar…. when men started to join inContinue reading “The Rites of Queer Spirit”
Faerie Freedom Fuckers
We fight the good fight with lipstick and kisses made for pleasure not for punishment we know that’s what a fist is; faeries fucking for freedom and fighting for the light we’re frolicking and fornicating to bring an end to the longest… darkest night. . Once, faerie menwomen opened the gates to the cosmos butContinue reading “Faerie Freedom Fuckers”
Cybele, Attis and the Gallae
Magna Mater to the Romans, crazy Goddess to Greeks, beloved Mother Cybele to the common folk, the queers, outcasts and rebels. Worshipped from 600BC in Greece, 200 BC in Rome and then across northern Africa, southern Europe and up as far north as Britain for 700 years, her priest/esses were known as the Gallae. TheContinue reading “Cybele, Attis and the Gallae”
DIVINE LOVE
We are told that GOD is LOVE and how delightfully simple that is… for we know that LOVE is not a person, LOVE is a PRESENCE that we experience within ourselves that we experience with others one on one, or one with many. So to know GOD, we should explore LOVE love beyond fear, beyondContinue reading “DIVINE LOVE”
Living Our Priesthood in the World
An excerpt from Two Flutes Playing…. To be gay is something that begins within ourselves. In begins in our hearts, in that place that is never separate from the living heart of Infinite Oneness. To be gay is something that begins with ourselves, that finds itself mirrored back, echoed back to us by the tribeContinue reading “Living Our Priesthood in the World”
Awakening the Joy-Body
Joy is a natural vibration that permeates life Along with love, will, desire and need. Joy opens the gates to connection without fear Joy has no shadow Joy is the soul at ease we can find it how we please From Two Flutes Playing by Andrew Ramer: “There is a primal force, the Creator ofContinue reading “Awakening the Joy-Body”
A QUEER HOMAGE TO THE GREAT MOTHER
Autumn Equinox 2018 “Here is a principal mythological role of the feminine principle: She gives birth to us physically, but She is the mother too of our second birth—our birth as spiritual entities. This is the basic meaning of the motif of the virgin birth, that our bodies are born naturally, but at a certainContinue reading “A QUEER HOMAGE TO THE GREAT MOTHER”
Calling all Queers!
“We look forward to creating a genuine Gay culture, one that is free from exploitation by bars, baths, and gay business owners. We look forward to re-establishing women’s mysteries and men’s mysteries as the highest expression of collective Gay culture and sexuality. We look forward to regaining our ancient historical roles as medicine people, healers,Continue reading “Calling all Queers!”
EUROPE IS AN ANCIENT FAERIELAND
We tend to think of the ancient Greek and Roman civilisations as being relatively accepting of homosexual acts and relationships in comparison to the Christian culture that superceded them in Europe. But we have been misled. The Greeks and Romans tolerated same sex activities only in certain circumstances, most famously that between adult and youngerContinue reading “EUROPE IS AN ANCIENT FAERIELAND”
Passing
The Soul decides when it’s time to go the Body knows and it lets it show We can resist, we can assist Dying is inevitable but it’s not the end As the portals open We can see, we can listen Between the Worlds To the Ancestors’ songs We might speak of what we see andContinue reading “Passing”
Challenges of Spiritual Manifestation
An excerpt from Two Flutes Playing by Andrew Ramer…… Very early in its history an asteroid came crashing into the planet Earth, knocking it off its course, causing physical damage, and tilting it on it axis. This event disrupted the inner and outer layers of the planet, creating an instability that in order to balanceContinue reading “Challenges of Spiritual Manifestation”
Gatekeepers: Gays in The Dagara Tribe
I feel very fortunate to have met Sobonfu Some in 2016 at the Summer Solstice. I asked her a question about the Dagara tribal attitude to gay people and the room was suddenly engulfed in a huge smile and laugh from the lovely Sobonfu. “We don’t call them gay” she said, “they are the specialContinue reading “Gatekeepers: Gays in The Dagara Tribe”
URANUS: Queer Planet
URANUS has shifted sign from fire Aries to earth Taurus. Astrologers are excited, for Uranus is the planet of inspiration, awakening, revolution and liberation. Beginning a new traversal of the zodiac from the first sign Aries since 2010, Uranus has spent 7 years subtly changing our very understanding of who we are. This shift canContinue reading “URANUS: Queer Planet”
THE ECSTATIC RITES OF SPRING
Equinox is the turning point – the inward pull of the Winter energies gives way to the growing, vital, impulse of the rising Spring. We can see in nature just how dramatic this shift is, and as humans we can learn from nature – to bring human minds, hearts and bodies in tune with theContinue reading “THE ECSTATIC RITES OF SPRING”
