Shaman of Avalon
If you were to ask me who I thought was responsible for most of the strife and divisions we face in the West today, I’d give you one name: William Caxton. I think that, were it not for the invention of Caxton’s printing press in the 15th century, we would all be living in a…
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When I first began training in shamanism, I was living at the following address: 77 Oakhill Road, Sevenoaks. That’s three 7s …777…and two oaks. It was so obvious to even my dense, sleepy brain, as it was at the time, that it jumped out at me. I knew there must be a message there, although…
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Tonight’s full moon marks the real Easter, which, before Christianity, used to be celebrated on the first full moon after the Spring Equinox on March 21st. In this article and video, I explain how the origins of the festival of Easter go back as far as the most ancient dragon lore, which existed long before…
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I so love the way the Mysteries keep themselves alive! Their survival instinct is as strong as Mother Nature’s, which is hardly surprising because they are the dragons of the ouroboros that carry the sacred measurements of the whole cosmos. The Mysteries seed themselves as mnemonics into nursery rhymes, hymns, carols, psalms … any poem…
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I went through a period in my early teens of being an atheist, mainly because my prayers to the god they kept telling me about were falling on stony ground. The Christian church’s deity just wasn’t working for me. And so I gave up all belief in any kind of divinity until I started my…
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I once wrote a very long essay about how humans couldn’t possibly have come from apes, as Darwin suspected but never proved, and that our ancestors were never ignorant, club-carrying caveman that said “Ug” a lot. Even now, the synonym used for knuckle-dragging thugs is “Neanderthal”. I think it’s bloody insulting to the Neanderthals. In…
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I’m using the word ‘soul’ in the context of meaning ‘who we really are’. When we are ‘who we really are’, we are perfectly aligned and in harmony with our pilgrim path through this life below, and with the stars above from whence we came. However, we need to open the doors of our…
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The sole and soul purpose of the journey of the mythological hero is for him to ultimately join the perpetual choirs that are continually and joyously singing the praises of this magnificent creation, the resonance from the song lines of which fertilises and sustains its overarching, magnitudinal majesty. At night, the Moon and the stars…
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Once we understand the codes in the great masterpieces preserved in the churches, abbeys and cathedrals, then it becomes clear that these symbols are a series of still-life tableaus forming a narrative about the alchemical process of the transformation of metals, with ourselves as the crude lead. Each metal is assigned a god or goddess…
Read MoreIn putting together my chapter on the symbolic meaning of numbers in ancient myths for the new book, I was going to include this in the section on the number 17, but then changed my mind as I want Stories in the Stars to have a sort of timeless quality and not be pinned…
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My book, The Grail Mysteries, features the Vesica Piscis in a faery tale for adults about shamanic sex rites and Sovereignty achieved through the Marriage of the Sun and the Moon. So I thought it might be useful to delve down deeper into this symbol to show its metaphorical meaning. The universe communicates with itself…
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Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 