Wholistic Arts

St John's Night, San Xoan de Poio It's the night of St John, and we're sitting watching the post-match interviews [Spain vs France, Euro 2012], waiting for the firework display (it's now 23:23 exactly!). We've eaten the traditional sardines and maize-bread, and after the fireworks we'll go downstairs to our own apartment, put baby to bed, then jump over our candles, as is our new custom since baby was born and is still too young to stay up so late to go and jump over the bonfires at midnight.  I was thinking, while trying to start the barbeque to cook the sardines, that the fire represents Leo and the longest day in the most pagan, primitive, prehistoric way, while the fish represents the Christian religion and its merging into (or highjacking of, if you look at another way) the ancient traditions. Together, the two elements represent the most basic elements of food (fish and bread, products of seafaring and farming) and heat. On the summer solstice we n...

Castle Ring, Cannock Chase Started out in the morning in new car. Went to Castle Ring in Cannock Chase. I drew a line on my Ancient Britain map where I thought the Belinus leyline was. According to my calculation it disects Castle Ring. Further research had shown that another source thought it disected Meon Hill near Stratford-on-Avon, so I needed to visit both! As an aside, I also found that a couple had come up with a theory about 'leylines'. They thought they were natural tracks made by animals, posibly migrating herds, and then used by man later as communication networks, interesting. At Castle Ring I walked completely round the large hill fort. My rods crossed all round the perimeter except for either side where I found the leyline, 23 paces in width again, disecting the site in a SW-NE direction. Looking NE in the distance was the coal power station at Rugely. Castle Ring was thought to have been occupied around AD 50, by the Celtic Cornovii tribe.The fort at it...