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ARTFINDER: The Magic Garden by Kate Monkman - It's always magical when the foxgloves appear n...
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Friday, 8 April 2016
Spring Equinox
The Caer Euni stone circle is only about a 40mins walk
from my house so thought it would be the ideal place to celebrate the Spring
Equinox, I headed up with my dog Sadie & we were lucky to get glorious
sunshine but it was still quite cold seeing the first lambs of the spring on
our way up a majestic Red Kite circled above taking advantage of the
clear day.
I've visited the circle quiet often since I moved here
& it always feels really atmospheric & magical, in sunshine its
stunning with views of the nearby hill fort, the Arans & on a clear day
Moel Famau in the far distance, but if the weather turns & a mist comes in
it can feel a little oppressive & have sometimes had the feeling of being
watched (probably just my over active imagination!)
The site consists of a large kerb circle 40 feet in
diameter & a ring cairn immediately opposite, there is evidence of
settlement on the site dating back to the 3rd Millennium but the circle isn't
that well known so I can't find much information on it but I have read in a
local walking book that the land around the nearby lake Llyn Caer Euni is
linked to legends of the horned god Cernunnos.
I'm a complete novice when it comes to the pagan, celtic
or druid ceremonies so I'm still kind of 'winging'it but I did my own version
of a spring type blessing burning some incense,
Sadie didn't seem to mind & sat quite happy enjoying the sunshine, I
wrote this little poem while I was up there
Spring Blessings
From Winters slumber deep underground, comes life
returning all around
The days still are cold but bright, with a deep pink sun
that sets at night,
With each leaf & bud so fresh & new, Mother Earth gently encourages to push on
through, to stand tall & proud upon the world and sing with joy 'the
spring has come, the world has turned'
Happy Spring Equinox!
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Trip to Fairy Fayre & the Glastonbury Goblin!
I’ve always wanted to make it to one of the faerie events
in Glastonbury & this year I finally managed it & went to the wonderful
spring faerie fayre in the town hall organised by Karen Kay ( see http://www.faeryevents.com/ for more
info on her fairy events)
I headed down with my friend Louise &
her 2 children Freya & Luca who got dressed up in fantastic fairy outfits. Glastonbury
itself is crystal shop heaven with more or less every shop being magical, pagan
or new age in some way, even the estate agents had a toadstool in the window!
We had a quick wander around before the fair started which was next to the abbey which sadly we
didn’t get time to visit there’s just too much to see in one day
The fair was fabulous with loads of stalls & amazing
artists & crafts people, I got to meet my all-time favourite artist Brian
Froud who’s books inspired me years ago to start painting the faery realm, I’d
only ever seen flower fairy type images before his work & his faery art
seems to capture what I would think was the true nature of faery it’s
absolutely outstanding & well worth looking up if you have not come across
his work before though chances are you have come across his work & maybe not
realised as he did all the design artwork for the Dark Crystal & Labyrinth film with David Bowie, which brings me neatly
to the most wonderful part of the trip & the highlight for me, which was a talk by Brian Froud
& his wife Wendy (who is equally fantastic & created the costumes &
puppets for the films from Brian’s designs) all about the making
of the films featuring various props, costumes & sketches,
the talk was really interesting & funny too as Brain & Wendy were so
warm & genuine, we even found out some insider behind the scenes stories from the
making of the films one of my favourites being that David Bowie had to
do all the filming with wee stained gloves as they only had one pair for him
& the first day on set their son Toby who was the baby in the film weed on
him!
Some other highlights included visiting fairy artist
Linda Ravenscroft's Mystic Garden shop which was beautiful & magical, lucky for us she was working in the shop that day so we got to have a chat &
I brought a signed print of a lovely Owl from her vanishing series, also I loved
going into the Starchild incense shop which is just gorgeous.
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