Category: Silent Eye School

To dare, to dream, to be…

The Silent Eye ‘To know, to dare, to will… and to keep silent’… this is a phrase heard within many branches of the Mysteries and one which echoes facets of the labyrinthine journey undertaken by those of us who work within them. It is an old saying, but none the worse for that, as much of the magical and mystical tradition is rooted in … Read More To dare, to dream, to be…

Islands…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Image: Pixabay Over the past few days, social media has been awash with disgust at the note left on an ambulance window when the paramedics had been called to a dying man. It was a critical and time sensitive occasion and the patient died later in hospital. The man who had left the note, which read…

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A Woman of Power and Substance

It is the winter of 1584. The well-dressed woman watches as her fourth husband storms out of the dining hall at their present home, Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire. In the corner of the room sits a younger woman, now smiling at the angry departure of the man of the house–the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury. The seated woman with the secretive smile has good reason … Read More A Woman of Power and Substance

Alpha et Omega…

Lords of Division

No passing bells For those fine fathers Who dodge and draft The deaths of others ⦿ The weapon makers’ art Is mute, no finer part Than see the sons of heaven Torn apart ⦿ ©Copyright Stephen Tanham

Remember…

The Silent Eye Paper poppies bloom, as fragile as the lives they represent. Every year it is the same, I try to find some way of saying what is in my heart and the words will not come.  I was not there, I have no right to speak of war and its atrocities. I have not seen it with my own eyes. I have … Read More Remember…

Et in Arcadia Ego… Stuart France

Solstice of the Moon: A last adventure

Seven days, seven photos – day seven

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve

Seven days, seven black and white photos – Day Six

SEVEN DAYS. SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF YOUR LIFE. NO PEOPLE. NO EXPLANATION. CHALLENGE SOMEONE NEW EACH DAY’ My thanks to Sue Vincent for inviting me. In turn, I invite anyone who wishes to join the challenge. Thank you Steve

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The Deadly Edge of Love (part two)

(Continued from Part One of The Deadly Edge of Love) It’s the morning of 18th November, 1558. Robert Dudley is witnessing a miracle. In her dying months, Queen Mary, Elizabeth’s half-sister, and daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon, has restored Elizabeth to the line of succession, following the failure of her marriage alliance with Charles II of Spain. Now, Mary is dead, and … Read More The Deadly Edge of Love (part two)

Circles of Heaven…