Pepe at 2 and a half months old exploring his environment

I keep harping on (harp, music, melody, strings!) about the connection to us human beings and our animals because I see the disconnection almost every day when I’m out walking my dog Pepe. Most people just don’t get how much our wonderful pets can really help us to become more stable.

They are a different species – yes – and they do have a very fast way of communication – yes – but it is not foreign to us; in fact it is a language that we have just disconnected from in our modern day lives, which are lived very artificially in an environment that we have built for ourselves.

This language that they speak, I believe is the language of the heart. It is pure energy and emotion. It is not all about the body language and the scent (which dogs also learn from), it is also the energy that is at play at that time too. They live in the moment, enabling them to transform and change in an instant from one way of being to another and then back again. No offence was taken, they don’t do the head chat- the ‘next time I’ll get you back’ type of thing – they just react based on the information they have been given and what kind of abilities and energy that each individual dog has learned to be, then they let go.

I hear a lot about how many people don’t trust their dogs: this saddens me a lot. When dogs (I am mainly talking about dogs because I have studied them more) are around their humans they are constantly feeling. They read the pictures that are going on inside us based on what energy is being felt and projected. How do you think it makes them feel when we don’t trust them 100%? Do you think they can rely on us better as protectors when they can feel this uncertainty all the time?

It’s not that we don’t trust our animals, I think; it’s more that we don’t trust ourselves. We see this mode of communication that we know goes on and it baffles us because we haven’t learned it. I always say that I trust my dog 100%. He has grown up with me, he has listened to my voice, he has been around my energy – he knows me. I can roll on the floor with him and know that he will not bite and be gentle; I can have him around my grandchildren and know that he will also be the same with them! What I also know though is to teach my grandchildren this language of the heart – to notice more on a deeper level, to take charge of themselves more and to read this energy of animals. I can give them the skills that they will need to live with Nature.

Even though I can sense, see and feel this energy language of dogs, their speed of communication is always faster – my job then understanding this is to stay present in the moment without tension when I’m out and about with my little man. It’s not about being perfect, it’s about understanding and then from that place having skills and tools that can help you to deal with any given situation. Thankfully there are now a lot of books, videos, DVDs etc. out there that can show you many tools in order to for you to build up methods based on who you are (which is why there are so many, as we have many different types of energy information out there). We are all different, my energy will not be the same as yours, but the language of the heart gives us a bridge which connects us to each other and to the Earth.

If you are scared of big dogs and you have a small dog (like mine) then take a large walking stick with you when you go out walking, not so that you can give menacing glances every time a large dog comes near, waving your stick in the air like a sword, but so that you can feel that stick in your hand and calm the panic that is rising inside yourself, knowing you have a tool to deal with fear. That is the first action to take – after that see how things go. Your own dog will now have felt how you are more able to be still and calm inside, which can feed through your dog into the communication it now gives to the other dog, creating a difference. Even if the large dog is friendly and you can see that but it is coming up to you and your little mutt in a very boisterous, bounding way (which is play in big dog world) you can still have the presence to make sure that that dog learns to calm down before it approaches you.  Once again it won’t be the waving the stick in the air or the menacing glance that does it, but the change in how you feel inside. That then changes your body language which comes through to your dog and is communicated to the approaching, bounding bundle of joy. You will learn how to gain respect and space from this which will carry over into the human world. If you still feel under confident then do your research and find someone who can help you.

In my dog’s early learning days when I was walking my little man in Wales, I came across a wonderful elderly Welsh woman who was sitting on a bench resting, watching the river that was flowing nearby. My little man seeing another human being, went into his bouncy ‘great to meet you’ mode and bounded off in her direction with me behind calling him back. I could not get to him before he got to her and he was rather wet and very muddy and this dear lady was dressed in what my gran would say ‘her Sunday best’. She had a walking stick which was at her side and as quick as a flash she grabbed the stick and with a no-nonsense “No!”,  she stopped him in his tracks, holding the walking stick like a staff. As he stopped and calmed right down, she then put the stick down and just used her hand to stroke his back, still keeping him away from her clean clothes, enabling me to get close to him and bring him back into my control. The interaction finished with smiles and as we walked away the elderly woman went back to her peaceful watching of the river. I was amazed at her control and her presence. This interaction also taught me to become faster at dealing with my dog’s energy, which means I have to stay in the moment more. What a great way to stay sane!

What I have seen in the dog world is the misunderstanding of the large and small. You have small dogs that attack large dogs on sight and large dogs that have no understanding of how to interact with small dogs. Behind these dogs you have their humans, probably wishing that it could be different, because the reality is it doesn’t feel good to be in this type of situation all the time. The conflict does not only become the dogs’ issue but the humans as well.

Your dog will (what we say) ‘like’ some dogs better than others, but that too is down to energy. Nature is not stupid but extremely intelligent. Two dogs will know if their energy conflicts too much and they will stay away from each other. Translate that to human beings and it comes down to the fact that you won’t like everyone (your energy will conflict) but by respecting yourself and using tolerance you can work with even the people you don’t like if circumstances arise. Fighting in the dog world only happens when everything else has been tried first, it is more balanced. It happens even less if we are not in the mix, with our disregard for emotional energy conversation!

Sometimes in play when energy is running high, two dogs might change and get a bit more into aggression as neither of them has the calming ability to bring the play level back to a good place – this is not manic etc. it is just pure emotion at work. It will be your job then to help them out. This too teaches us how to stay balanced and how to learn to calm difficult situations – how great is that!

Recently I was talking to two wonderful women who were long term horse lovers and rode regularly. Our conversation moved into the wonders of animal energy, as my small dog was getting used to their larger ones.  I carried on with my verbal communication and I watched as another type of communication went on in the dog world.

The ladies that I had met proceeded to tell me how their horses could sense anything that was going on inside them and would mirror it back to them, making them have to change; to enable them to control the horses more, thereby creating a stronger loving bond between them.

This reality creates self-control for humans, helping us to become more stable and balanced. Nature is Balance, this is what our beautiful planet strives for! This wisdom though, does not get left at the door of working with your animals, but needs to be taken into every interaction with humans as well because we are all energy!

So if horses can mirror our inner energy what do you think other animals can do?

In my Welsh Celtic culture if you worked energy as a healer (shaman, seer etc.)  it was common to have a small dog or cat with you. These animals are so close to Nature that they can read at a much faster level what is going on in an environment, or a person. They can read what type of energy is there on whatever level it exists and they will respond and let you know. Isn’t that an amazing gift? Isn’t that a great level of intelligence!

I watched a program once that went into the ability of animals to detect ailments inside the human body. I watched them train the more interested dogs that loved to track this kind of thing and I saw how these wonderful animals did a fantastic job of helping us. At the end of this program I heard the excited presenter state how we humans are working to try to develop machines that will do what these wonderful dogs were doing, taking away the need to work with Nature.

This I believe is where our insanity starts, when we think that we can beat Nature. Machines, even at a sophisticated level, cannot give the level of care and attention to us as humans than animals can. When you build machines to beat Nature it will not teach you how to work with Nature but how to come further and further away from her gifts – those gifts that help us to truly understand our bodies, emotionally and physically.

This world is alive and vibrant with energy (vibration). We have not been left alone here to deal with it; instead we have been given the most amazing gift, Nature and all she creates for us. A  giant planet caring for us like the most loving mother, giving us many, many tools to help us gain the skills we need to understand and stay balanced – not to be perfect, but to stay balanced in order to enjoy the world!

Learn from your animals, learn from Nature, learn from your interactions, stay in the moment. Watch, respect, be patient, gain the wisdom and the tools you need, love your mistakes, let go, and most of all do not try to be perfect – just work to be balanced as often as  you can and aim for inner peace, just like Nature!

Pepe now 2 years old still loving life!

Written by C Cleobury

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Now as an adult however and spending many years researching Earth Based Cultural knowledge including my own, I can see that ‘real Celtic Wisdom’ is not taught in Welsh schools,  just the history of battles and the odd nice story. Where is the Celtic wisdom of the wheel, where are the stories of the spirits of the stone, trees and water?

I was taught the Lord’s Prayer in school and much about Religious Education etc. but not about my own Celtic deep Wisdom. I was not taught about blessing the four corners, I was not taught about the colours for the spiritual directions, I was not taught any of the deep spiritual wisdom that was an intricate part of my own culture.

When my son went to school it was slightly different: by then the schools had also introduced multi-cultural religion. He got to learn about Muslims, Jews, Catholics, etc. he even got to go on a trip to a Mosque but nowhere was he once taught about the spiritual wealth of his own people. Not once was he taken on a day trip to view sacred stones where he could be taught to walk in a circle three times in a sun-wise (clock-wise) direction and learn about his ancestry. Why is this I wonder?

Note: We now know that bees dance in circles or figure of 8 to show where good food sources are. The honeybees’ dance encodes key information about where their food is. They dance to show other bees where the food is located in relation to the current position of the sun. Honeybees are now an endangered species! http://animalwise.org/2011/08/25/the-honeybee-waggle-dance-%E2%80%93-is-it-a-language/

 We are living in 2012 with a wealth of knowledge of different cultures, new sciences and new understandings and yet it seems we cannot put into the curriculum the vast wisdom banks of the Celtic People. We cannot teach the sacred ceremonies and we cannot learn about our Earth the way that the Celtic people understood it. Amazing!

I remember learning about the Norse Gods and their belief in a world of below, centre and above etc. because of course this was important to be taught in school.

As a child I used to play amongst a circle of very old stones that stood in a park that my parents used to take me to. I was always fascinated by them and loved to sit alongside the stone and feel the texture of it, especially if it had been a hot day as the stone would stay warm. I did not know however, the significance of those stones, just that they were very old.

If we are that advanced as a people, with the capacity to teach our children about different religions in school (which is good), we are giving them a better understanding when they see someone wearing a turban, a cap or a veil etc. so that they will have more respect for that culture, because it is uncommon in the religion of Britain.

Why is it then that we are also not teaching Earth Based Spirituality? After all, it was here in Britain way before religion. Where is the respect for the Celtic wisdom of the British Isle in main school education? Is it because they didn’t have a stone church to worship in, their only real connect to the sacred being the Earth?

Lady Llanover

In Wales on St. David’s day we celebrate with the daffodil or the leek (which has its own story) worn in our costumes. The girls dressed in red, black and white with their large black hats firmly tied on their heads with white ribbon.

A costume given to the Welsh people by Lady Llanover, an amazing woman who upon seeing the disconnection of her people due to how much their ways of life had been destroyed, decided to give them something in which to be proud; something that said in a physical way, “I am Welsh” and so the costume was born, based on the old checks and stripes of Welsh flannel.

The Welsh costume doll bought for me by my Grandmother

On St. David’s Day we do not however hear about St. Non, his mother – it is not something that is taught. This woman was also full of the magic of the Celts just like her son and gave birth (so the stories of the past say) to her son in the middle of a thunderstorm. As she was lying on the ground about to give birth, a bolt of lightning streaked out from the sky and struck the boulder at the back of her head, splitting it in two. Wow! Amazing eh!

a stone at the old home of St. Non

I had to learn many years later from the Earth Based Wisdom of the Native Americans, of the importance of lightning and its special significance. I only found out about St. Non many years later as an adult and yet her son David, who was made a saint by the church, as was his mother (as are also many original Celtic Spiritual People) is widely known.

Celtic Spirituality kept societies together and gave them an awareness of taking care of the Earth, which I think is a pretty important thing to teach, especially in 2012 when we have so much dissatisfaction and lack of respect. Our young disconnected from the one thing we all have in common – the Earth; a planet spinning out in space with the Sun, Moon and many stars for companions. Celtic Spirituality was more than just a language or a costume – it dealt with cosmic wisdom and how that related back to the human being.

It is sadness that I see filling the hearts of many when they disconnect from this view of the world. It makes the human life smaller as a result, doubling the effects that trouble us by the many things we have built in our society that keep us permanently frantic.

Kids are taught in school that trees make our oxygen (as one of my grandchildren told me as I worked to explain the importance of this to him) but they are not taught to feel it. They are not taught about the tree as a living Spiritual being. They are not taught about the tree with wisdom, just with words.

If we wish to give back to our children a good life, then connect them to the Earth. Tell them the stories of the Ancestors of olden times that spoke to the water and show them how to feel the breath of trees. On You Tube right now are Grand Mother Agnes (one of the 13 Grandmothers) and Masaru Emoto, author of ‘Hidden Messages in Water’, both of whom are championing respect for water along with many others who are not mentioned here.

I once did some energy work on two young teenage lads that had come to give this ‘weird and wacky’ thing a try. (I was in a public place inside a room with a glass frontage giving taster treatments for charity). As one young boy sat in the chair and I started to work on him, I felt his energy body move. As his energy body moved so did his physical one. The young boy, who was roughly 16 – 17 years old, shouted “Wow! That’s freaky”. His friend, who was also in the room asked what was up. The young boy answered that his body was moving on its own and he didn’t understand how that was happening, as I was hardly touching him (this impact being more profound as I am 5ft 2in and he was a strapping lad of almost 6ft). I told him that what he was experiencing was his own energy and that his body was realigning with this, working to bring it into balance.

This young man did not know about the world of energy – I had not told him anything prior to giving him a treatment, except for the fact that I would lightly put my hands on his body and checked that doing that was OK. But this young boy could feel energy, as I believe we all can.

This is the world that children live in: this is the world their bodies recognise; this is the world they see and feel. Wouldn’t it be great if instead of being afraid of it, they would understand it as a way of life – as something natural?

The courage of these two lads to come and try something different and to see what this was all about (even though it was done as a giggle) was wonderful to see.

Our children are crying out for deeper wisdom for a connection that stops the madness. That wisdom is here in the British Isles and in the Earth-based cultures around the world. It is in the memory living deep within the rocks, stones, trees, water etc. and in the blood and bones of the Celtic people and their Ancestors, ready to burst forth, sharing with all who want to learn it!

starburst by C Cleobury

I have been looking back at my roots researching and discovering the deeper meaning behind a lot of traditions that I grew up in:-

For instance a tradition in my family on the night of New Year’s Eve before 12pm was to send the ‘dark man’ outside with a piece of  fresh new coal in his hand. The ‘dark man’ usually was someone in the family that had black or really dark hair, along with a very swarthy type of complexion. Locked outside the front door of the house this dark man had to wait until the stroke of midnight, at which time he had to knock loudly and ask to come in – the women of the house (my mother or my Gran) would then open the door letting the dark man in. The dark man then passed the coal onto the woman so that she could put it on the fire.

I remember my Grandmother and my Mother were very strict about doing this tradition as it was seen to be very unlucky unless we did. The true meaning behind it lost over the many years to them, but the pull to keep it alive still very strong.

When I celebrated a New Year’s Eve many years later as an adult with an Irish friend, I found that the ‘Dark Man’ ceremony also existed for them too. I don’t remember if coal was used (as it was many years ago) but I do remember it had to be a dark haired swarthy man of the house that had to go wait outside. They then had to utter some words on the stroke of midnight along with three loud raps of the door before they were let back in.

An old tradition in Wales, also across the miles in Ireland, remnants of something ancient from the past that remained despite the many invasions that did their best to destroy what was originally here.

On New Years’ Day I used to go with my brother door to door singing. A song that had been taught to me since I was little to wish in the ‘Good’ for the family upon who’s door I knocked. We were always greeted well and also given money, as it was good luck to offer money to the children that ‘sang in the good’. Sometimes we were made to sing the song more than once or to sing it in Welsh if we had sung it in English. The gift of money not given to us until the person was satisfied that it had been done well. The finishing hour for the ‘Good Luck’ was 12noon New Year’s Day, by which time we had to stop going round the houses and come home. As I was roughly around 6 or 7 at the time when I first started ‘singing in the good’in charge of my much younger brother, I didn’t wonder too far, but it was the custom of the day and many children would be seen out and about knocking on doors.

My brother and I enjoyed this festivity very much and went home with a feeling of pride and joy as the money jingled in our pockets. The deeper understanding of why children were to do this ceremony lost in the eithers of time but the tradition (thankfully) still remained!

Many different types of ceremonies like the ones above have been practised by people all over the world for different times of the year, New Years’ Eve and New Years’ Day just being two of them.

Many people will tell you it’s because that years ago people did not understand as much as we do today and did not have our technological expertise to explain their world to them – so they made these traditions in their little known understanding of the world to ensure their safety etc.

What if however that is not why it was done? When you look at Earth Based people around the world their history is steeped in tradition, ceremony, story and song, creating pictures and feelings. Each ceremony maybe different but what is the same is the depth behind them, the ability to describe the cosmic world that we live in an extremely accurate way.  You only have to look at the information that comes from the Mayan people, the Bhagavad Gita, the Native Americans, etc. to see that. Then there is Ancient Sumeria, the list is endless of old world history.

We are not taught this kind of history in schools, or have this type of detailed information running through our families but regardless of that this older wisdom still seeps through begging us to take note and listen.

As science progresses, the striking similarity in what they are discovering and what was already written or sung or drawn in Ancient times is astounding.

What better way to keep the truth alive than in song, after all we were once taught 1+1 as a kind of chant in school, as the education system of the time knew that kids learned better in this way. What better way to imprint history into the human body than in dance.

What better way to trigger memory than in drawing and painting. These things create a feeling so strong inside that nothing, but nothing stops it from flowing. It doesn’t matter what technology is developed or how that describes the ancestors of history as less evolved. The circles that are carved on ancient stone tells you a different story because something deep inside is awakened! Something so deep that it now creates movement to find the truth, to search, to discover your true roots as a human being.

The sun's light - 2001 C Cleobury

Why did I and my brother get taught a song to sing on New Years’ Day – because in a much older time in Wales it was the children who could bring in the new energy for the coming year – because the children’s energy was cleaner, a more pure source as they were new to the physical world and therefore still stronger in the ability to be connected to the oneness of Source Energy.

Money in the modern times maybe replacing other gifts that would have been given as an exchange, which is usual for a blessing. Energy to stay clear has to flow just like water, it is never stagnant, it always moves.

As for New Years’ Eve – in olden times it was the women who tended the fire for the New Times or the New Year (just as in later years). The women with their ability to work with the finer realms and their gift of being able to Nurture a community had this task. They were the embodiment of the energy of the Earth.  The men in those times recognised and honoured this.

As for the ‘Dark Man’ – Black in Celtic history is not seen as Evil as it is by the church. (The church did a lot to change and take over a natural way of being to impress its viewpoint on the people of the day). Black was an energy that was full of creativity and beauty and sacredness.  Take a look at the sky at night away from the lights that we have built to hide it and what you see is an immense beauty filled with stars. The silence of it taking you deep into your soul. The Dark Man I believe was based upon the deep wisdom of this energy.

Take a quick look at what science is excited about today and you will hear about Black Holes and Dark Matter. They have yet to understand these things fully etc. but we are living in a time when great leaps are being made!

I pray that before Science does get us out there to live on other planets that we have discovered within ourselves our own Ancient Roots irrespective of what culture we come from, that awakens in us our real history, a history that goes back in time to ‘Earth Years’ not just the very short time that we are taught in our schools!

Take a look at the megalithic stone structures built around the world and see what they tell you.

In our new understanding of old ways I pray we will create from a better place, one that does not harm the planet and respects all life, so that our children who are born blessed with sacred energy get to live out their lives knowing who they really are – thus creating the circle for humankind to finally live in peace and harmony.

"Celtic Goddess 2011" C Cleobury

Written by C Cleobury

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via Starbust Greetings Card.

I have been hearing of late how ‘Nature is cruel’, something that seems to be believed by many people. Even on the beautiful programs that show our wonderful variety of animal life, they sometimes say how Nature is ‘dangerous, unpredictable and cruel’.

To me it just goes to show how far away from our precious Earth we have come.

We live on a planet with a diverse range of life and living conditions. Some places are covered in ice, others in deserts, others rich in plant life and plentiful trees. In between all of that we have our oceans, seas, rivers, lakes etc. We have animals that live on land and under the soil. We have animals that live in our oceans, seas and rivers and we have a variety of flying creatures and birds. These animals live off plant life and other animals, insects, etc. They are not cruel, just living their lives. Nature in its very understanding of diversity has created balance.

What we have done however, is made our own man-made world, filled with what we deem as beautiful, stable and safe. In this man-made world we have forgotten that we live on a ‘Planet’ – a planet that has its own life, full of evolving and changing patterns.

In our man-made world we look at our natural planet as something akin to alien and work to change it to suit our idea of how we want to live. We are in fact trying with all our might to mould a planet into a shape that suits our needs, forgetting that we are but ants on its surface.

In a recent programme called ‘Star Gazing Live’, I heard how our beautiful planet gets changed due to the gravitational pull of the Moon. Our Moon moves the oceans of our seas and moulds them from a kind of circular shape to an oval (vesica piscis): it even does the same thing to our planet, but because our planet is made up of hard rock it’s only very minimally squashed into an oval, so therefore unnoticeable.

This is the Universe our planet lives in. She has a life and a purpose for existing. She has movement, (rotation) and is also affected by what is around her.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to understand how to live and move with that cycle rather than trying to go against it, or change it and live life more naturally with Nature and in balance! Understanding that animals (all kinds) are not human beings and therefore do not behave in the same way which does not make them cruel!

Our Ancestors had a much better understanding of how to live on a moving, changing planet. They had knowledge of herbs to heal, they did operations (as information from Egypt and other parts of the world have shown). They had extensive knowledge of the Stars, as well as how the Cosmos affected the Earth depending on where various planets were in relation to her. They knew how to live in harmony with the animals around them and understood that they were different – and they knew about the ‘unseen’ realms that also had a powerful effect on the Earth as well as her people and all living things.

As we come into 2012 I am hearing science talk a lot more about what cannot be seen with the naked eye (the unseen realms) and how it has a powerful effect on us and our planet. Black holes and Dark Matter are two of the most talked about little understood new discoveries. They cannot be seen and have only been discovered due to the effect that these things have on what is around them. Is this so far away from what our Ancestors were saying thousands of years ago or what Earth based cultures still understand? That is, that the unseen is what creates our world and influences it!

When I dug back into my own culture I found many things that came out as story or myth etc. that had behind them a much deeper meaning and understanding.

The sons of Myddfy for instance, were two boys born of a human father and a non-human mother. A mother who came from the water of a lake. It is a beautiful story with a kind of a sad ending as the mother goes back to the water and leaves her sons and husband behind. It is only when the boys grow up that they then see their mother again and are told that their mission on earth was to relieve the pain and misery of mankind. She took them to a place which is still called the Physician’s Dingle (Pant y Meddygon), where she showed them the virtues of the plants and herbs which grew there, and taught them the art of healing.

They listened to their mother’s instruction and became the most skilful physicians in the land. Rhys Grug, Lord of Llandovery and Dynevor Castles, gave them rank, lands and privileges at Myddfai for their healing art ability and helping people. The fame of the Physicians of Myddfai was established over the whole of Wales, and continued for centuries amongst their descendants. The last descendant of the Physicians of Myddfai was John Jones who died in 1743. The Physicians had practised Herbal Medicine in Myddfai for 500 years in continuous succession. It is also known that they traded with Italy and the Arab lands in search for truth and the pursuance of good medicine to help people.

Once again a story of myth – in it the wisdom of connecting to the Sacred Feminine Divine energy, this one coming from a Lake and able to manifest into the physical world, working magic which she was able to pass on to her sons. The work of the Sacred Feminine Energy, to find harmony and benefit all.

This story, much like that of Black Holes and Dark Matter, also cannot be proved as such, but they’re  effects can be seen!

Old Llanwddyn (photograph above) is a village that once thrived in the old ways of Welsh life. It was a village that was self-sufficient and now lays waste under the waters of Lake Vyrnwy. (The said village was flooded due to the need for a better water supply in Liverpool as they had polluted their own).  In a recent DVD that I watched of the history of this place I was interested to hear of an incident in which a well-known man in the village who was able to see and deal with Spirits, trapped a bad Spirit under a boulder that had been causing trouble for the local farmer. Once trapped, this Spirit caused no more difficulties and life went back to normal.  When it came to blowing up this rock to create the dam that was to be built for the reservoir which flooded the village, the local people refused to do it and outsiders had to be brought in to remove the rock. According to the video of Lake Vyrnwy, where the rock once stood there has been difficulty in this area ever since.

Once again the ‘unseen’ having an effect on our world!……

Science now says (according to what I’m hearing) that Dark matter could be the stuff that stops our stars from being flung out into space, keeping them instead in the order of where they are (or maybe even where they need to be?). This Dark Matter is everywhere and makes up 90% (so they say) of what is out there in space, which is far more than the 10% of what we can physically see and have found.

I believe our Ancestors through their wisdom of Ceremony, song and dance with the many seers, stone builders, herbal healers, energy workers, body workers, story tellers, etc. etc. were keeping a fire burning in a wisdom that tells us who we really are and what we are really all about – and even how our Earth in it’s amazing solar system really does work.

For me I feel that without this understanding of a deeper truth, it makes our every-day life mundane, taking away the true connection to our full potential. I see it in the disconnected eyes of our new youth that have grown up in  a society that has failed to show them how to truly live.

In a recent post by Ike West, she talks about how the umbilical cord of a new born child was kept by the Dakota in a sacred way to benefit the child in its Earth Walk. This information switched on a light bulb in me when I read it and took me back in my memory to when my son was born and how I too kept the umbilical cord tied with a ribbon which was kept in a carved wooden box along with other mementoes of his birth. I did not know about traditions (unlike the Dakota people that Ike speaks about) and the Sacredness of doing this: I just felt in my heart that it was a special thing to do. I kept this cord for a very long time way into my son’s late teen years.

The sharing of Earth-based wisdom, traditions, myths, sacred ways, etc. helps us to once again to connect with the Unseen and puts us back into our Centre, connected not only to the Earth but to Cosmic Wisdom. It helps us to realise, to put the jigsaw pieces together,  gaining comfort in the understanding of somthing old, that until that time we had no words or explanation for only a spurring onward from a feeling deep within our hearts.

Wouldn’t it be great if all mothers knew that their child severed from the cord to her womb could now connect to a deeper cord straight into the Earth – the amazing planet on which they live. Each mother being told that her offspring would have the opportunity to flourish, with the protective grace of a whole planet. Trees would become their relatives as would all life and maybe as in the story of the Sons of Myddfy, this Earth Mother with her many skills and huge diversity could teach them how to work for the best possible outcome for all!

The more research that I do, not only into my own Celtic Welsh Ancestry but also that of others, the more deep-rooted wisdom I find with a much better way to live on a moving, changing planet.

It is in the connections, not the differences that the great power for healing begins.

The Sacred wisdom running through the divine feminine that gives birth to all life  can create balance, helping us to turn our lives from ones of mundane boredom and selfish pursuits – trying to capture and control a planet, into one that strives to work with it and honour all that is created!

To all the Earth based wisdom keepers that have strived to keep the deep rooted fires of truth alive – I give thanks!

'Fire Woman' by C Cleobury

Written by C Cleobury

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Ynys Afallach which is Welsh and means the Land of Apples, is better known by its English name of Avalon – the land of Avalon where King Arthur was taken by the Welsh bard Taliesin. It is a magical place where women are the wisdom keepers, seers and healers.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Vita Merlini, – mentions that the Island of Apples is called ‘Fortunate’, as it produces all things without toil.

King Arthur was taken here wounded and put onto a bed of gold to be healed. Gold is not only a precious metal (which is what we are taught) but also a vibrational quality that is Cosmic in its Nature and has perfection as its heart.

Myth and legend now becomes inner mystery and wisdom. This story now deepens and tells the tale of how the feminine heals the masculine, by placing him in the realm of the perfected energy of Oneness by connecting to the Gold energy level. In this place there is no need to struggle, no need to rush, no need to figure things out etc.  as all things just naturally flow in ‘Goodness’, so much so that everything is possible.

The place that has been recognised as Avalon is Bardsey Island in Wales. An important clue to the identification of the mysterious island of Avalon comes from a book called Irish Druids and old Irish Religions. In the pages it mentions that ‘The Welsh Avalon’, or the Island of Apples is the everlasting source of the Elixir of Life, the home of Arthur and other mythological heroes. It lay beyond Cardigan Bay, the Annwn of the old sun, in the direction of Ireland. When you look at a map of the British Isles there is only one possible location for such an island and that is Bardsey.  Bardsey lies off the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula.

Bardsey Island even has a list of special grants given to pilgrims by the Vatican for their travels over to such a sacred land. This is also a good clue as to how old and sacred the land is in this place as many religions took over or adopted what was here before them in order to claim power for themselves, thereby integrating the local people into their way.

The Isle of Avalon, ‘Ynys Afallach’ is a sacred land where apple trees grew and women were the seers, healers and wisdom keepers; where people travelled long ways to gain their sacred deep inner Cosmic truths!

One Apple growing on a tree now has a different meaning! Its shape with the woody bit at the top (stalk) and the leafy bit at the bottom, with a core going straight through the middle, shares with us its wisdom.

The core of the apple, although hollow also houses many seeds, each seed housed in a star shaped centre and each seed the shape of a Vesica Pisces (the centre piece of these two circles below), which is also a very sacred female shape. In Earth-based tradition it is said that we come from the stars. Our Golden Sun whose light shines on the face of the Moon giving us a softer glow, is a star! A star that shares with us its golden light. So our human bodies are in fact mingled with star energy.

Our Earth, much like an apple, also has a North and a South, a top and a bottom.  It is through these centre points it is said that the Earth breathes – inhaling and exhaling her magical breath of life in and out into the Universe.  It is at these points that we have our magnetic poles.

The Vesica Pisces, is the shape of the human eye and the most sacred feminine parts of a woman – it is the seed of an Apple. Apple is Afal (in Welsh the F becomes a V)

It is the feminine, female, birthing, growing, nurturing quality of life!

In our culture it is the shape of a rugby ball – in a game where strategies of speed, domination, strength and physical force are held in high esteem. The truth of our real world is hidden everywhere in plain sight!

When we shift our breathing to that of an apple i.e. with a north and south, then we too change our magnetic field and ways of consciousness. Breathing up from the Earth and out into the Cosmos – then from the Cosmos back down into the Earth, it creates a different energetic effect inside of us and of course puts us in our centre, or ‘Core’, just like an Apple! It is only from the core that we can see our roundness and our ‘star quality’!…

Shifting your breathing to that of an apple allows you to be more connected with the ‘First Breath of Life’ – which of course comes from the Earth. If we connect to the Earth we become more balanced.

If it wasn’t for the trees etc. then breathing would not even be possible for us as human beings.

The apple tree is seen as Sacred by the Celtic people. It has the ability to live not only in the physical world but to be able to grow its branches up high so that its fruit could also flourish in other realms. Now it is not only just a fruit tree, but a very wise and sacred mystical teaching tool.

When you say a tree is just a tree and nothing more, then that is what it becomes. Over time it can get used and abused, as it is just a tree. When you see a tree as Sacred, when you breathe the ‘First Breath of Life’, then that tree becomes the Spirit that it truly is, providing us with not only nourishment of the body, but also of the Soul.

Apple Dragon - made for my Grandson Kal-El

Written by C Cleobury

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My conversations however were a little different, with a combination of the odd sentence in Welsh and the rest in English. My Grandmother however, didn’t mind and would quite happily talk to me in either language.

One of the Welsh words that was used a lot in my family as I was growing up was the word ‘Hwyl’. I remember particularly as a teenager that if I didn’t want to do something this was the word that would be used to motivate me into action.  Sometimes, if my Mother or Grandmother were feeling a bit tired or drained from their daily lives, this would be the word to describe how they felt –   they didn’t have the Hwyl any more.

So Hwyl was an activation energy – an energy of power, fire, motivation etc. There is no real English translation for it as it describes a feeling and that feeling can be expressed in different ways by different people, depending on how they view it.

Hwyl has sometime been described as a fire in the belly that burns, galvanising you into action. It has been described as a song, or music, or a feeling of lightness.

Even if you are not a Welsh speaking Welsh person, most people have heard the word and felt its meaning.

Hwyl is  a word that has been coming to me strongly of late and I’ve been sitting in silence looking deep into my body to see where it really does live in me. What I experienced was this:-

What I understood and saw it as was a droplet of Sunlight resting, floating in the centre of the heart with the softness of a dandelion clock. Gentle, round, filled with the seeds of life – ready to become active at a moment’s notice, waiting for that right time that brings the sensation of the wind that blows the right way, activating it, scattering its many seeds into the air to create a new journey, not in any haphazard way, but with a power and intention that stems from Love.

It burns Golden just like the Sun, which is why there is always a sensation of heat flowing through the body when this energy is activated. (those of you who have experience Hwyl will have felt this). Being in the heart it is deeply connected to the Earth, to her feminine softness and divine energy of Source, which is pulled up.

It has the heat of a Dragon’s breath, that once activated opens a momentum to bring change. Brought through the Sacred Feminine, that change brings forth great beauty as it balances both Energies which are always present, as One!

(In my mind’s eye another vision came to me when I looked inside – the word ‘neutrino’, meaning “small neutral one” in Italian. Neutrinos are generated by nuclear reactions deep within the Sun. Neutrinos travel at the speed of light)

Hwyl – one word coming from an Ancient past where language was once a description of feeling; the feeling of Spirit deep in your Soul and not just as a way to define objects.

Our way forward for the new times I believe is to discover for ourselves our Hwyl and our deep connection to our Earth.

“To the Ancient wisdom from the World Ancestors that ever inspires me – I give thanks!”

Written by C Cleobury

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2012 is upon us – the transition time of the old fading (The old being Patriarchy – Masculine Energy) and the new (Feminine – Female Energy) coming forward. This is the time for inner transition for all of us – a time to put down our toys and learn how to become true Spiritual adults.

For a lot of us this will mean learning how to grow up, not just grow older. Most of us behave as if this Earth can continue spinning in space the same as it always has, while we battle on its surface for every bit of material thing that we can possess so that we can say we are, more, better, or superior, etc.

Masculine Energy gone mad!

The Earth is our home, our Mother and as a loving gentle Mother she births us into this world, feeds us, clothes us etc. As a Sacred Feminine Energy she provides us with all that we need. We can learn from her trees, her stones, her mountains, her water, and her air – on and on with as many things as she has created she teaches us. She shows us how to grow and stay balanced, all we have to do is reach out to her and listen.

2012 – this is the time to hear her!…

I have just come back from my time away listening to Nature, to rock, tree, wind, water, star and Moon. The beauty that I saw and felt burst my heart and brought tears to my eyes. We don’t really need to do anything – just stop, sit, be still, listen and absorb the truths that Nature can teach.

Most people are still taught that learning comes with a book and pen in hand and has to have one or more people, either standing or sitting in front of you spilling out words or writing them down on a board etc. (Masculine Energy) – but learning can be very different when working with Feminine Energy, it can come in a dream, it can flow into your blood, it can be absorbed through touch, it can be whispered on the wind. It does not need to be this way or that way and you do not need to be in a school to hear it; but sadly even now in 2012 we are not taught this in schools, why?

It is not about whether Masculine Energy is better or worse than Feminine Energy but rather the lack of awareness and teaching of said Feminine Energy and its many, many gifts of Wisdom!

These are the times of transition. It is not five years away, or ten, it is now. The Sacred Feminine Energy that births the world and all of creation is here – listen, feel, see! Learn how to change, learn that you have choices, learn what is important, and listen to your heart.

It is not about should it be this way or that way anymore but about what works. Blowing parts of the world up does not work, we know this but we still do it. The powers that be direct the Masculine energy out into the world saying its ok, the Earth will still be here tomorrow – where is our say in it? I sure as hell don’t want to blow anything up, do you?

Where is our Circle of leaders that work for the good of the people? This is 2012, no one should be starving, enslaved, or at war and yet it is happening – it might be that it is happening in different parts of the world and not right on your doorstep, but it is happening.

I feel too much time, thought and energy has gone into the Masculine Energy so much so that we have forgotten that it is the Feminine and only the Feminine Energy that creates life. Only the Feminine energy has the womb that nurtures and loves the being that will one day come forth from her sacred softness and enter the world.

What I absorbed from the land that spoke to me these last two weeks is that this is the new focus, this is the new energy. Feed what is important! So for me that is just what I will do, “Feed what is important!”

• Respect the ‘good’wisdom that comes from dreams!

Before I went away my dreams brought me new insights from people I once knew who were no longer in physical form. The dream encouraged me to take action, moving me forward to create changes. The movement taking me out into Nature, to collect various foliage, to make into arrangements for past loved ones.  All the time I collected the small branches of Ivy, holly, spruce etc. I prayed and offered the trees my gratitude and thanks for what they were giving me.

It was because of this dream and the floral arrangements that were made as a result, that a time was created with my family allowing any pain that was still with me and also with others that I touched to be released. A dream connecting me to the Spirit World spurred me on to create change, which did happen because I listened.

Transition times are important, so for these last two weeks I spent time in Ceremony honouring my Ancestors and praying for the Earth, her water, her land, her trees, her stone.

New Year’s Eve was spent lighting candles and singing to the Earth with sounds, (but without words) visualising pictures that were inspired from deep within my heart and created strong feeling. The song I had sung, connecting to my deepest good dreams for the Sacred Feminine, the Earth, Spirit and humanity.

After the singing I quietly sat back into my chair and watched the sky. As I sat in the darkness looking up at a clear star filled blackness, I saw, a shooting star.

I sat watching the sky till almost 2am on New Year’s Day  - in silence and in peace, bathed in the light from the Moon, knowing that around the world there were other people and many Circles creating their Good Ceremonies for this New Time

2012 the time for transition, the time for the sacred feminine to come to life in all of us!

Written by C Cleobury

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The times my Mother and Grandmother sat with my brother and I making decorations! Gluing and sticking different coloured pieces of paper together, linking these long strips in chain link fashion that would eventually hang from the ceiling with the hope of getting the house more festive with our endeavours. Cutting the crinkled crepe paper into shapes that would eventually become our festive hats, complete with feathered ribbon tassels which sat at the top. The childhood squeals of delight from my brother and I as we made mistakes and stuck things in the wrong places. My mother trying to get us all to be serious as she tried to put right our creative endeavours but couldn’t stop the laughter from bubbling up inside her along with my Grandmother.

Christmas morning getting up at 5am to sneak downstairs to see if the Magic had happened and the faithful Santa had been, being as quiet as mice so as not to wake our parents. Startling our beloved Grandmother as we come through the living room door, feeling the chill in the room as the fire has not been lit yet. Grandmother chiding us as to how early we were up but at the same time getting the room warm for us by working to light the coal fire putting the newspaper and logs into the open grate. Our excitement as we’d find our Christmas sacks stuffed with toys as they sat in the living-room; Grandmother preparing the food for the Christmas dinner in the kitchen, getting ready the pastry for the tarts, (which I used to like to help her with – or hinder depending on who’s view you saw it from!) then peeling the vegetables for the day, the turkey already cooked the day before.

These are the wonderful memories that flow through my mind of a past Childhood Christmas. The preparation and decoration of a home ready to bring in the festivities, always with fresh holly and mistletoe hanging from our walls that we had gone out to gather.

The whole event of New Year as we sang to let go of the Old and bring in the New!  Simple things that make a home a home and a family a family, events that bring people together with memories that last a lifetime.

Now as a Grandmother myself I see Christmas very differently. Why is it do you think that we teach mystery and magic to our children from a very young age about this time, only to crash it down much later on in their childhood. When in reality there is a mystery that we can teach them that would never go away – only increase with time and more understanding.

After all, in Ancient times towards the end of a year it was seen as time of celebration (dates differing, names changing etc.); a time when we offered to each other what we had gathered for the year coming into winter to share with those close to us; family and friends and the community we lived in. A time when we gave blessings for all we had been given from an abundant Earth and shouldered our responsibilities for bringing in a shining New Year filled with goodness as we made our preparations of gratitude. A time when we counted our blessings for the gifts of our loved ones that were still with us and remembered those with whom we had shared our past.

It was never about how much we could buy or how many gifts we would get. It was about Ceremony, sharing a space and time with our loved ones and those from the Unseen realms. It was about honouring the Nature Spirits, giving thanks to the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc. for all that they had provided us with. Gratitude and thanks, mixed with prayer, music, dance and song. Knowing that our Ancestors were there with us, working diligently for our highest good behind the veil – Real Magic!

So much is going on at this moment in time as we come to the ending of 2011. The world is shifting and with it the old ideas of what this life is all about. More people are concerned with how others are doing out there in the world as well as in their own village or town. It may not seem that way in the news or on the TV, but their job is only to preach disaster and despair.

But this genuine concern for the world is growing and people are now making this time a “Sacred Time” once again; a time when as an individual or as a group we honour what is real and look to how we can create change that is better not just for ourselves but for everyone. People are once again praying to their Ancestors for their help and looking towards the Earth. There is a lot to pray for!

This Christmas I hope you too are out there creating your own Ceremonies and prayers for the Earth, so that our children and in the future our children’s children will have her as a home and remember what a real special time of the year this is.

This time of the year when hundreds of people turn their thoughts to helping their world become a better one. A time when people turn their thoughts to others in different parts of the world that are having a hard time of it now and send them their wishes and prayers of support and help so that they may know they are not alone.

Our collective thoughts can have an impact on the world! As we near 2012 this is the time for visualising unity for the Earth understanding that when we do this collectively as a people we become really strong.

Much like an email that I was sent that told of how various suspension bridges have been brought down by the vibration of many people marching across them, we too can bring down the walls of ignorance that have created separation with our collective vibration of Ceremony and prayer and with courage and solidarity shoulder our responsibilities to bring in for 2012 the building of bridges that create  “peace – TOGETHER!”

Written by C Cleobury

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Some years back when looking for our heart place to buy to put a trailer as a holiday home, my partner and I came across a trailer park in Machynlledd. It was situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by various mountains (or hills as my partner likes to call them). There was a river running at the back of this site and it was very quiet.

The site’s name and that of its owner is not included in the story below.

(“This trailer park site was to give me such a big awakening into the realm of spirit  vibration as to make the awakening one of the most excruciatingly painful and very strong that I have had to date. Within my Spiritual Intuitive Journey, one of the things I have learned over the years is not how much I have to learn, but how much more I have to let go of to enable my intuitive inner teaching to flow.

Our society teaches you to separate mind from heart to gain wisdom, when really all it does is give you false information. I have no proof of what is written below, this is just my own experience and words.”).

As we turned the car into the road that would take us into the trailer site I had a feeling of dread. This dread I told myself was nonsense as I used my eyes to look over the  area and found it to be visually absolutely beautiful , so much so that I worked really hard to ignore my first feeling. As we parked the car up and my partner raved about how wonderful the place was, my feeling of foreboding grew. By now we had left the car behind and were talking to the owner of the site, and by this time I was really struggling. Not only now did I have a feeling of foreboding but my body had started to hurt. Working to be as polite as possible (when really all I wanted to do was run out of that place as fast as I could) I gave various eye signals to my partner that said it was time to leave. My partner bless him was unsure as to what I was signalling and was still chatting away quite merrily to the owner who we had only just met. The owner ecstatic to see possibly new perspective buyers started to take us round the site itself telling us its virtues.

After about 10 mins or so, subtle signals aside, I now started to make stronger verbal ones that said (very politely) that although this site was wonderful that we had others to see and needed to leave in order to get to said sites, but that we would obviously consider the one we were viewing, (I didn’t want to offend the guy).

My body by now was in so much physical pain that I was almost doubled up and was finding it hard to breathe properly. It was as if there were two swords shoved into my back and they were being twisted (not that I would know what it really feels like to have a sword in my back but the visual was quite strong, as was the menace behind it). We walked slowly (too slowly for me!) back to the car park and on the way I noticed the house that the owner owned on the site had a Welsh name. My partner seeing the Welsh name too, asked if the area had once had a Welsh settlement on it. I on the other hand was now walking away from the two of them in an effort to motivate my partner to move quicker, but I listened intently to how the conversation went, as I was interested in anything about my old culture that might give reason to what I was experiencing.

The owner of the site told my partner that in the history he knew of the place, the Welsh people had never lived on it (the next bit was said with a smirk etc. because this is how we now view our ancestors wisdom) and that in the past the Welsh people would not come anywhere near this area, as they said it housed evil Spirits. The nearest ancient Welsh village was miles away. This view point in the Welsh people was so strong, that in later years when the various hills and ground had been mined for iron, the English mine owners had had to go to Ireland to get the man power that they needed to mine the area, as the Welsh would not do it.

That was all I needed to hear – I now very quickly moved back to the car leaving my partner to say hastily goodbyes to said caravan owner. It wasn’t until he was in the car and we were moving out of the car park that I let go of my polite society don’t show  etc. and doubled over and let the tears that were now in my eyes show. My partner was distraught to see how much distress I was in and promptly drove me to a place that he knew I went to regularly to rejuvenate, as I found the land filled with good energy and really peaceful.

It took me almost 1 and half hours for the pain to leave my body and much longer for the feeling of foreboding to go. My partner was nonplussed as to why I just hadn’t told him, and to be honest so was I – I had learned my lesson well that day. I am a strong person (a gift from the women in my family); what I hadn’t fully realised though was that so too was my teaching from western society of how to come out of the heart and how to ignore intuitive wisdom in the face of seemingly visual beauty.

Example:- Most of us do this without even realising we’ve done it. Maybe we say yes to something when really we wanted to say no etc. Then wonder why we don’t feel too good etc. etc.

As to whether or not there are evil spirits in that area – well it depends on your understanding of vibrational energy.  Is there something causing an imbalance in that area? I think there is! Is it due to the metals in the rocks etc. or is there something else living in that place on an unseen level – I don’t know. All I know is that I have not physically been back to that place, I trust my Ancestor’s wisdom and my intuitive guidance that says that for me that place is not good!

I have however sent prayers for that place for whatever that imbalance is to be cleared and still think of it from time to time with that in mind.

As we make our journey out of our heads and into our hearts, we don’t lose the ability of the mind we clarify it. This is the wisdom our Ancestors left us, this is the way to inner peace!

If you have had similar experiences please share your stories here and help others that might be struggling with their experiences to know that they are not alone!

Written by C Cleobury

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