GATEKEEPER 2010 LOCAL EVENTS DIARY
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CONTACT:
Ellena Fries (01736 363534 or 07900 324079) info@ellenafries.com |
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CONTACT: Richard Livings (01246 208595) rich.livings@virgin.net
An ongoing series of
pilgrimages exploring the energies and mythology of the Peak District. For
details of programme, contact Richard Livings. |
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DEVON (NORTH) Back to Top |
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CONTACT:
Charlotte Yonge (01934 834426 or 01769 573243)
charlotteyonge@gmail.com Further explorations and research into the South Devon
landscape. For details of programme, contact
Charlotte Yonge. HEALING ALTARS IN THE LANDSCAPE Saturday 11
September 2010
Rose
& Crown Centre, South Molton With Charlotte
Yonge
Please see Education
Programme for details |
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DEVON (SOUTH) Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Maggi Fielder (01803 849399)Further explorations and
research into the South Devon landscape.
For details of programme, contact Maggi Fielder. |
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DORSET AND SOMERSET Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Roma Harding (01305 816644 or
01305 813043)
spiraloftranquility.roma@virgin.net Explorations
and pilgrimages into the Somerset and Dorset landscapes. For details of programme, contact Roma
Harding. |
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CONTACT: Lucy Wyatt (01502 478056) |
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SPRING EQUINOX PILGRIMAGE Monday 22 March 2010 At Little Gidding, With Clare Higson A day of connection in the
place which inspired TS Elliot and the Templars as well as man of prayer,
Nicholas Farrer, to found his community here. |
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SUMMER SOLSTICE PILGRIMAGE Monday
21 June 2010 The Hollesley
Alignment This year we
explore the Tunstall section, another link in the ley, anchored by the
Rockstone With Pam Bridges (Contact Lucy Wyatt 01502 478056) |
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AUTUMN EQUINOX PILGRIMAGE Wednesday
22 September 2010 Ingagatestone With
Julia Cleave (Contact Julia
Cleave 01206 827617) julia@10devere.freeserve.co.uk Continuing the exploration of the landscapes of mid
Essex with a visit to historic Ingatestone Hall, an Elizabethan manor house
with Jacobite connections. |
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WINTER SOLSTICE PILGRIMAGE Tuesday
21st December 2010 With Lucy
Wyatt (01502 478056) stonehousefarm.wyatt@btinternet.com |
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FIFE & PERTHSHIRE Back to Top |
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CONTACT:
Maggie Lascelles (01250 881233) lascelles2@btinternet.com. |
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HerTFORDshire (NORTH) Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Shirley
Laflin (01438 357143) careersconcern@laflin.force9.co.uk Local pilgrimages in the North Hertfordshire
landscape. For information, contact
Shirley Laflin. |
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HerTFORDshire (SOUTH) Back to Top
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THE QUEST FOR CATHARS IN BRITAIN
With Barbara Siddall (02089 501857)
Pilgrimages in the spring and summer to Ashbridge and
Berkhampsted. For further details
please contact Barbara Siddall. |
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CONTACT: Alice Richardson-Foster
(01772 690440) Explorations into the Lancashire
landscape around the cycle of the year. Visit the Bleasdale stone circle in
the Lune Valley at the solstices and equinoxes, starting on 21 March
2009. For details of programme, please
contact Alice Richardson-Foster. |
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CONTACT: Diane Morland (01522
751261) d.morland210@btinternet.com THE HEAD OF THE CRAB Sunday 27th June 2010 This year we are joining Anthony Gill on The
Lincolnshire Zodiac ‘Walking with the stars – the year’s round’ walks
programme, The focus of the walks is to acknowledge the head area of each
sign and to help celebrate this first public year of The Lincolnshire Zodiac
2009-2010. As well as a crab, the sign of Cancer can be observed as a ship in
full sail sited around the village of Stickney (A16 about 8 miles north of
Boston). tel: 0845 6434 795 www.lincszodiac.com. |
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CONTACT: Elizabeth Fraser (0208 748 0177)This year’s pilgrimages continue the exploration of Sacred London, leading up to the Olympic Games in 2012, and form part of the London Winter Conference 2009.(Contact Sarah Dawkins 01295 688185) sarah@zoence.co.uk |
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St GEORGES DAY PILGRIMAGE Saturday 21st March
2010 With Sue Sheridan (01753 856331)
This
pilgrimage follows the theme of St George, the ‘Slayer of Dragons’ and a
fighting soldier in the Roman Army.
Starting at St George’s Cathedral, the journey is through the Peace
Garden at the Imperial War Museum (and site of Bedlam Hospital, where Pugin,
the architect of St George’s Cathedral, tragically ended his days), to the
church of St George the Martyr at Tabard Street, finishing with a group of
local mummers performing a short St George’s Day drama. Pub lunch at Rose and Crown, and optional
visit to the famous George Inn at the end of the pilgrimage. Booking
essential. |
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This year’s London pilgrimages continue the exploration of sacred
London, leading up to the Olympic Games in 2012, and form part of the London Winter
Conference 2010. Please book through
the Gatekeeper Secretary (01803 864680) secretary@gatekeeper.org.uk |
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PARLIAMENT
HILL PILGRIMAGE Saturday
7 August 2010 With Charlotte Yonge
‘Lugnasadh
Celebration’. We take on the mantle of
the poet and Boudicca’s bards in honouring the hill’s ancient role in the
sacred city, and create a peace altar, with celebrations at the Mount. |
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LEA
RIVER PILGRIMAGE Sunday 19 September 2010 With Louise Coe
Following
on from the talks at the last London Conference, this pilgrimage will explore
some of the energies of the River Lee and its relationship to Sacred London. |
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MALVERN & THREE COUNTIES Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Fiona Hopes (01684 892533) fiona@song-of-the-earth.com Local pilgrimages at each of the
festivals working around the Wheel of Life in the landscape. ‘TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON……’ Saturday 27 March 2010 All
life is cyclical, growth and harvest, flower and seed. This workshop is about understanding the
cycles of life within ourselves and our lives, the cycles within our gardens,
the land and the landscape, and the cycles within our decisions and our
society. In
this one-day workshop, we will work with the alchemical Wheel of Life, and
through our observation of the living world, we will reconnect to the natural
rhythms of the Earth, Moon and Sun, and the four elements of earth, water,
air and fire, the turning of the year, life flowing ever onwards. This endless cycle of birth and death and
rebirth has been symbolised since ancient times by the Sun God, the Green
Man, John Barleycorn, the song of the Earth, of Demeter, the song of the
hearth, of Hestia, and the song of the heart, of Venus. Our exploration of the garden within,
understanding the landscape of our hearts, will allow us to reclaim our place
within the web of life, within our world and within the Garden of Eden. SACRED GEOMETRY, SACRED SPACE Saturday 29 May 2010 This experiential workshop will explore how, with only the
simple tools of compasses and square, the tools of the freemason, patterns
can be drawn that can be easily developed into the working drawings for some
of the great cathedrals and ancient monuments of the western world. We will feel and look at what makes a space
‘sacred’, and how we can replicate that in our own homes, our gardens or in
the landscape. In the course of the day, we will create our own rose windows,
gothic arches, and set out the geometry on the land for our own flattened
Type B stone circle. No mathematical
knowledge is needed, just an open mind and a willingness to have fun. |
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HEALING ALTARS IN
THE LANDSCAPE
Saturday,
10th July 20210
Chipping Camden, OxfordshireWith Charlotte Yonge (01934 834426)charlotteyonge@gmail.com
We are pilgrims on a path of creative synthesis in a new world of technology and global communication. Our yearning is to healing our connection with the land, our ancestors and our inner wisdom. Making Healing Altars is a powerful way of way of healing separation and blessing our world. We use expressive arts to empower our creative self to awaken more fully to our soul purpose, through creating symbols for our loving imagination and intention. On this day we honour our ancestral past - collective ‘soul knowing’ - and the wisdom in the landscape, through mandala, poetry, sound dance or creative journal, as a way of restoring and reconnecting with our own creative potencies in the present. |
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SCOTTISH BORDERS Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Alma Dowle (01750 62224) Pilgrimages
in the beautiful Eildon Hills, along the beginning of St Cuthbert’s Way to
Lindisfarne. Wonderful views of the
Border countryside and visit the Cistercian Melrose Abbey, dedicated to St
Mary. For further details, contact
Alma Dowle. |
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CONTACT: Anne Guest Mason (01694 781295) Exploratory
monthly pilgrimages that include silent walking and sitting. For further details please contact Anne
Guest Mason. |
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CONTACT: Celia Gunn and Anthony Thorley
(01761 435497)
AThorl@aol.comLocal pilgrimages within the Somerset landscape; see Associated Events. Please contact Anthony Thorley and Celia Gunn. |
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SOUTH DOWNS Back to Top |
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CONTACT: Michelle and Lee Greensmith (02392 482280)
ilovecrystals@talktalk.net Local pilgrimages on the South Downs, at each of the
festivals, including visits to Old Winchester Hill. For further details, please contact
Michelle and Lee Greensmith. |
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Contact: Mo Usher (01483 452058)
FESTIVAL OF LIGHT
Sunday 31st January 2010A pilgrimage exploring the chakra system of central
Guildford, healing the land and ourselves, and celebrating Spring with the
return of the light and new life to the land. With Mo Usher
Saturday 8thMay 2010 – Festival of Unification(to the south, for the start of summer) – visit Wootton Church and the Pilgrims’ Way.With Mo Usher Saturday 8th August 2010 – Festival of Transformation(to the west, for the start of autumn) – visit Waverley Abbey.With Mo UsherSunday 31st October 2010 – Festival of Peace(to the north, for the start of winter) – visit Pepperharrow.With Mo Usher Early February 2011 – Festival of
Unification (in the centre, for completion of the cycle). With Mo
Usher |
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CONTACT:
Louise Coe (01342 825664) |
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CONTACT: Susan Sheridan (01753 856331)
susan@susansheridan.com Continuing the exploration of the Thames Valley landscape
temple and the surrounding area. For
details of programme, contact Susan Sheridan. |
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CONTACT: Anne Guest Mason (01694 781295) anne@newrosecottage.co.uk |
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In the borderlands between Shropshire, Herefordshire
and Wales we are continuing our programme of pilgrimages celebrating the
eight solar festivals of the year. The work unfolds as we progress through
the year. |
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CONTACT: Megan Wingfield (01686 621779)The Welsh Grail Line runs up Wales from Llansteffan near
Carmarthen, through Tregaron Bog, Strata Florida Abbey, the Ystwyth Valley,
to Bryn Crugog and the opposite valley. For anyone wishing to explore the
Welsh Grail Line, with information on the chakras, maps and directions,
please contact Megan Wingfield. |
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CONTACT: Sue Taylor (01608 686435)Local pilgrimages following a healing & meditative theme
within the Brailes landscape temple and Cygnus, the Swan of Stratford, in
tune with the solar and lunar festivals throughout the year. Meet at 10am.
On the following Tuesdays in 2010:
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23 March |
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22 June |
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3 August |
21 September |
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2 November |
21 December |
CONTACT: Celia Gunn and Anthony Thorley
(01761 435497)
Local pilgrimages within the Somerset
landscape; see Associated Events. Please contact Anthony Thorley and Celia
Gunn. |
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When booking any pilgrimage, it is essential that you are open and clear
about your level of fitness, so that suitable arrangements can be made if
needed. Pilgrimages are flexible and usually can be adapted to include
all levels of fitness, but it is ESSENTIAL that you inform the
organiser at least a week ahead of the time of the pilgrimage. People coming
on pilgrimages do so at their own risk and The Gatekeeper Trust cannot be
held liable for those who come under-equipped, inappropriately dressed, or
who take unnecessary risks. Every effort is made to ensure that details of the events are correct
at time of publication, but we reserve the right to change details without
notice. There will be a charge for all
events and pilgrimages. Concessions and bursaries are available on application to the
Gatekeeper Trust Secretary: secretary@gatekeeper.org.uk
or telephone on 01803 864680. |
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