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Category: Astrology

November 17, 2020 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Consciousness, guided mystical walks, mystical travel, Neolithic, Photography

The City and the Stars (2) : The Houses of Skara Brae

by Steve Tanham

Skara Brae’s modern story began in 1850 when a violent sea-storm tore off the layers of grass, sand and soil that had covered what appeared to be two ancient and completely intact Neolithic houses. For 4,000 years, they had been lost to history, having been mysteriously abandoned. (1000 words, a ten-minute read) The local landowner at the time was William Watt, who lived at … Read More The City and the Stars (2) : The Houses of Skara Brae

November 12, 2020 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Consciousness, guided mystical walks, mystical travel, Neolithic, Photography

The City and the Stars (1)

by Steve Tanham

With the Pictish Trail weekend a long car journey and a boat ride behind us, we had awakened in Stromness to the early morning of an overcast Orkney day – The excavated and intact Neolithic village of Skara Brae was a few short miles away… (1300 words, a ten-minute read) We had not expected to be here at all. Visiting Orkney for the second … Read More The City and the Stars (1)

December 5, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

Cycles of Light (2) – Wheels of Fortune

by Steve Tanham

Part two of our investigation into the mysterious mental and emotional construct we call the ‘week’ and its celestial influences… This time we begin to examine the intimate relationship between events on Earth and the map of the ancient heavens.

November 28, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

Cycles of Light (1)

by Steve Tanham

The mysterious mental and emotional construct we call the ‘week’ and its celestial influences… Click on the link below for the post…

June 13, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Belief and Faith, Castles, Consciousness, English Lake District, guided mystical walks, Higher Mind, Lake District, Magic, meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality

The way to dusty death?

by Steve Tanham

We were in Ulverston, Dean and I. We’d just climbed the famous ‘Hoad’ – a tall monument on the top of a tall hill that looks like a lighthouse… but isn’t. There’s some important symbology in that, but we’ll return to it later. He was on his way back from Somerset to northern Scotland – the Glenlivet area of the North Cairngorms, where he … Read More The way to dusty death?

June 11, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Harmony, Higher Mind, Life-sciences, Magic, myths and spirituality, Pentagram, Photography, Sacred Geometry, secret language of mythology, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Golden Eye of Fiveness (3)

by Steve Tanham

“It is highly dishonourable for a Reasonable Soul to live in so Divinely built a Mansion as the Body she resides in, altogether unacquainted with the exquisite structure of it…” Robert Boyle In Part One, and Part Two we looked at a the emergence of a special number, Phi, that allowed the division of any ‘whole’ – like a figure in a painting or … Read More The Golden Eye of Fiveness (3)

June 6, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Harmony, Higher Mind, Life-sciences, Magic, myths and spirituality, Photography, Sacred Geometry, secret language of mythology, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Golden Eye of Fiveness (2)

by Steve Tanham

In Part One, we looked at a very simple sequence of numbers that ‘orbited’ or homed-in on a certain value. Now we need to examine that value and look at the sheer magic of what it represents. This new number was 1.618. It’s derivation is summarised in the diagram above, and described in the previous post. Simply: (red numbers) we add the two previous … Read More The Golden Eye of Fiveness (2)

June 4, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Harmony, Higher Mind, Life-sciences, Magic, myths and spirituality, Photography, Sacred Geometry, secret language of mythology, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Golden Eye of Fiveness (1)

by Steve Tanham

In the dream the Hermit was speaking. “I am the eye of fiveness,” he said. I listened… dreams are not always this lucid. “In the beginning was the division, not the multiplication; and the division contained what divided it, but in another form…” I was listening, intently. The figure of the Hermit promised great insight… “No-thing can be a principle. It does not have … Read More The Golden Eye of Fiveness (1)

May 30, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Astrology, Belief and Faith, Biology and mysticism, Castles, Child of Light, Consciousness, Egregore, Esoteric Meaning of Myth, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Highlands of Scotland, Initiation, landscapes, Magic, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Mystical ritual drama, myths and spirituality, Scotland, Silent Eye School, spiritual turning around, Spirituality, Travel and Photography, Understanding Fear

Five Faces of the Macbeth Human

by Steve Tanham

Exploring the faces of the ‘human condition’ should be consuming our world at the moment. We might reasonably conclude that understanding the heights and depths of our shared experience, as we drain the planet of its living life, would be of interest to us. But we don’t… Instead, if we ask any questions at all, we spend months looking at things from a political … Read More Five Faces of the Macbeth Human

March 7, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

by Steve Tanham

In the preceding parts of this series (see below for full list) we have seen how Arthur M. Young, inventor and chief engineer of Bell’s early helicopter design, was convinced that it was possible to construct a ‘map of human meaning’, a graphic figure that would show the relationships between the laws of physics and the observer in a new way. In its experiments, … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

February 28, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (7)

by Steve Tanham

Now we have finished with our incursion into maths, and I know that will be welcome… Why have we been talking about such non-spiritual things as acceleration, velocity (speed) and distance? The answer is that these aspects of motion are at the heart of how we learn about the world, and how we interact with it. In learning, we forget how we learned and … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (7)

February 21, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (6)

by Steve Tanham

(Above: the original Bell 30 which established commercial helicopter technology, and was invented and developed by Arthur M. Young. Picture Wikipedia, public domain) In our last post, we looked at those most frightening objects: numbers which are squared and cubed. This exercise in cruelty was an attempt to remove the fear of these things in order to put them in a very special … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (6)