Month: April 2016

Leaf and Flame: Solar Symbol

Leaf and Flame: Sue’s journal of the first morning The Silent Eye There was a full moon as we walked back from the inn on the Friday night and the moon greeted us the following morning, sailing across a pastel sky. It has become something of a tradition to greet the dawn on our weekend workshops. The sortie is not obligatory, but every year … Read More Leaf and Flame: Solar Symbol

Seed Thoughts…

Stuart’s deep ‘seeds’ from the Leaf and Flame workshop. Was that only a week ago? The Silent Eye The Outer is reflected Emotion…The Inner is reflected Form…The Outer reflects the Inner and the Inner reflects the Outer…The Principles: work not for themselves but for others.               The Companions: work not for others but for themselves.The Red, The White … Read More Seed Thoughts…

Finding Gawain – Act Two

Finding Gawain – Act Two  Gawain staggers from the castle of Camelot, the memory of the Green Knight’s bloody axe vivid in his mind as though the mere dropping of it onto the temple floor carried no significance, and its dark presence remains with him, still. Across the land he strides, stumbling and falling in the darkness, mouthing unintelligible noises as the full horror … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Two

Exit Lady Ragnell. Enter Ali Alone.. Foliate Man Part Five

Originally posted on Chronicles of an Orange-Haired Woman!:
The letter was waiting for me when I returned from the delightful Foliate Man weekend. Having read it, I tried to put its full import on hold for as long as possible by allowing Lady Ragnell to stay, to tell more of her story than I had initially thought possible. But my body reacted even as…

Leaf and Flame: shadow play

The Silent Eye “Pick a card,” said the headless apparition, holding out his severed head to the assembled company, each in turn. “Any card…” So, how do you behead a green giant and have him pick up his head and walk? You could use lighting, make up and computerised effects, but we are fairly low-tech where special effects are concerned… we had a sheet, … Read More Leaf and Flame: shadow play

Leaf and Flame: Getting started

The Silent Eye A pre-panic lunch at the Queen Anne is traditional. By this point in the proceedings, however,  some stomachs are not at all cooperative, only being willing to be fed out of necessity. Food is not really the focus, though….it is at the Queen Anne that the team gather and early arrivals know where to find us. Once we are in the … Read More Leaf and Flame: Getting started

Finding Gawain – Act One

Finding Gawain – Act One The last of the sunlight has gone. The light of the torches flickers in the great hall. The Table Round has assembled for more Yule merriment, but the room has turned to ice. The giant, green figure rides on his equally mighty horse into the sacred space of Camelot’s inner chamber. It is a monstrous sight; a circle of … Read More Finding Gawain – Act One

Foxy Lady: ‘The Foliate Man’ Part Three

Originally posted on Chronicles of an Orange-Haired Woman!:
(Thanks to Chris H for this photo of me in Foxy Lady Mode) https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/crossroads/ Sometimes, strange creatures are encountered at the crossroads of our lives… Fox appears at dawn, pointing at potential danger on the snow-trembling lip of my cave’s wide mouth. Fresh fall of flakes whirl in forlorn whispers outside. Huddled in my cocoon of…

Magic

The Silent Eye A silent given grace you seek to find Within the moonlit forests of the mind Where mossy doubt obscures the silver stream And clarity comes only in a dream Where thou and I and we are of one mind Blessed by the lucent magic of the Hind. View original post

Dark-Veiled Foul Hag: Lady Ragnell Speaks. Foliate Man Part Two

Originally posted on Chronicles of an Orange-Haired Woman!:
Cursed! Crouched in crunching bones and cruelly deformed face! Left, at the whim of a power greater than I, to limp haltingly through the Enchanted Forest, searching for a true and chivalrous knight. Ah! But the loathsome irony of it all! That I, Lady Ragnell – accounted so beautiful in days gone by – should now…

The Last Post?

We are now only two days away from the Silent Eye’s 2016 workshop, Leaf and Flame, organised by my two co-directors of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness Stuart France and Sue Vincent. I have the dubious honour of having the largest vehicle. Tomorrow, I will spend five hours or so loading the major fixtures needed to create the Temple of the Mysteries that … Read More The Last Post?

Finding a path

As perfectly expressed as you could wish for… The Silent Eye Tap ‘spirituality’ into the search bar of Amazon and you will be faced with around half a million choices. Not so very long ago, you could trawl every bookstore in town.. and most towns had a fair few to choose from… and you would be lucky to find anything more than a bible. Ask … Read More Finding a path