#hallowquest

Blogspot and WordPress: Why I have two sites

Let me try and explain in such a way that is clear, in the general sense, without being gratuitously personal in the more specific.

A couple of weeks ago, an unpleasant situation brewed up on here – and, despite trying to pretend that I am thick-skinned, I actually found it incredibly upsetting, anxiety-inducing and intimidating.

The whole thing had the effect of bursting my little bubble of…

Fog clears in Ali’s Wasteland

  Wookey Hole Caves, near where I live…

Thick, thick fog splays its vast webbed foot over the village, shutting out all noise, making cars into silent deadly monsters with lights which only appear feet from your own vehicle. It was like this yesterday, too.

Wasteland weather – and this is only too apt. I have reached lesson 2 of ‘Hallowquest’ – and, as is so often the case in this life, it is…

        Yesterday, I started preparatory work on the Hallowquest. It is a year-long course of study, and looks at the mythology, symbolism and characters in the Arthurian Cycle.

I have mentioned before that I do meditations on the Arthurian Tarot deck designed and thought up by John and Caitlin Matthews – and the Hallowquest is the course they created back in the nineteen nineties.

I have done…