Findhorn Beach at sunset, the Moray Firth.
While the far southwest of England continued to be battered by storms, the last week was mostly very calm and bright here in the North. This was sunset at Findhorn beach, close by the Findhorn community. The beach faces North, but the clouds were reflecting the orange sunset glow back on to the water. I’m loving the combination of greens, blues, orange and pink.
We have just passed Imbolc, the ancient Celtic festival marking the midpoint between winter solstice and the spring equinox, associated with the goddess Brighid, and meant to mark the first signs of spring. The days are brighter, and, I hope, calmer!
“Separation is thus the initiating cause of illness and disease – separation from the sources of sustaining energy. Separation seems to be a particularly human bane, largely born of conscious, thinking awareness and the strong sense of individuality that it creates. Where there is subject and object, ‘I’ and ‘other’, it is easy to acquire the perception of separateness: of discrete, independent, self-sufficient (and ultimately self-deficient), beings that move upon the world but forget that they are intimately within the world.”
– Simon & Sue Lilly, ‘Tree: Essence of Healing’