Star Letter: Beneficial Connections At an agricultural show last August I was drawn to a beautiful heavy horse. I hugged her and kissed her nose and thought how lucky I was to be allowed to have such close contact with her. I found myself saying, ‘She wants a drink of...
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Hotbeds and Hotbins
In 1999, the year the total eclipse of the sun was visible from Cornwall, Tim and I took our then small children to see it. They were awed by the experience. That same holiday we also visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan to see a fantastic collection of plants in...
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The Deeper Spiritual Purpose of Pets
The process of placing our energy within a body, and in so doing forgetting that we are vast, majestic, Divine Beings made literally from the energy of Unconditional Love, is akin to being struck on the head by a heavy tree branch and rendered unconscious, only to awaken with no...
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Lessons from Woodland Creatures
Natural creatures, though instinctively shy or timid, are not wildly governed by fears and terrors, as we have been misinformed from our youth up. The ‘reign of terror’ is another of those pet scientific delusions, like the ‘struggle for existence,’ for which there is no basis in nature. Fear in...
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2013 August Issue Chat Page: Star Letter
Dear Friends, I was compelled to spend time with the white lions after reading Linda Tucker’s amazing book [200711, £7.99]. I found the book very profound and incredibly well-researched, gifted with a special insight to make the connections that Linda made which resulted in her establishing the White Lion Trust....
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The Ground of Truth
We all know how the media tend to focus on bad news. If we are lucky there might be a small item at the end of a news programme that is lighter or amusing. Many of us may simply turn off the radio or TV, or refuse to read the...
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Heron: the Meaning of our Cover Image for our May Issue of Cygnus Review 2013
We found our cover image this month so striking that we felt it must have some oracular meaning for us all, so we asked Claire Nahmad to elucidate: The heron signifies time, longevity, focused patience, untiring concentration and secret knowledge. It also symbolizes fertility, therapeutic forgetting, children and regeneration. Heron...
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No Dig Organic Heaven
I have been a no dig vegetable grower for over ten years. A kind friend of ours gave us some recycled railway sleepers that had lined a slurry pit on a local farm. We used them to create a hexagonal pattern of six triangular raised beds with a further two...
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Yew – Primeval Tree, World Tree, Guardian of Life
The World Tree (or Tree of Life) is doubtless one of the oldest symbols of the mystical union of human and nature. All life is sacred All streams of life unite in the World Tree and form a single organism which brings forth all living things – among them plant,...
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The Consciousness of the Wild
Years ago, before Tim and I were about to become parents, we planned our ‘last’ wilderness adventure. In the days before questioning the carbon spent on air travel, we flew to San Diego and took a 90-foot fishing boat down the coast, amongst the Pacific swell, to Baja California and...
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