Hi Jo Will re send my comment and hopefully will not get deleted this time 🤣🤣 Could I first say what a great guest David Halpin was and I follow him on 'Circle Stories' which is just brilliant 👍 Was very interested with your discussion about magical places within the landscape. When I was a small child during the late 1950s, early 1960s I lived in North Wales in a very rural setting surrounded by fields. The immediate field behind our house was bordered by a hedge some 50 yards away which had been originally 'layered' but now was some what overgrown. There was a random section of this hedge about 15 feet long which was a meeting place for all the local childhood and family picnickers from far and wide. We used to pretend the hedge was a railway carriage whilst sitting amongst all the horizontally 'layered' branches of the hawthorn trees which made up the majority of the hedge. I can remember spending alot of time alone sitting in this hedge surrounded by cows. The interesting thing about this seemingly random piece of hedge in the middle of nowhere was that all the lower branches of this little section were worn 'glass smooth' ? indicating that it must have been used by generations of children as a meeting place for maybe hundreds of years? Why ? In later years and even after discussing with my parents, I have never been able to work out why this bit of hedge was such an important meeting place ? I will travel back to this area next year and hopefully might find a sacred spring, old stone or ancient railway that made this such an intuitive magical, meeting place.
Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable episode. Jo, I wonder whether you might have considered interviewing children who have experienced faery encounters? It seems that, often, encounters involve children, yet their experiences and perspectives are only reported decades later, in their adulthood. Might it perhaps be possible to interview children who have had more recent experiences? I'm not sure, though, if that would be appropriate from a research point of view.
Great podcast - just one thing to note - the colours associated with the Chakra system (the correct pronunciation is CHakra (think Charlie) it's a hard 'C' sound in sanskrit) are a modern western addition and have nothing to do with any of the ancient Vedic or Tibetan buddhist chakra systems. I think it's important to note this, since our psyche is often so suggestible that we may see things as we want to see them - patterns across systems for example - that are not actually there. Thanks for your consideration.
I just published my omen book, As the Universe So the Soul: An Everyday Omen Guidebook, and in this ancient knowledge of omens, there are many folklores about fairies taking children & adults specifically through dancing. There are many omens about astral traveling & time warps with people who travel to fairy realms too. ✨🧚🏾♀️ This book is a first edition because even at almost 300 pages I have so many MORE resources I’ll put in subsequent editions but #Fae omens are very prominent through certain civilizations for sure!
Read any of the folklore and you'll see that our ancestors believed it was a very bad idea to go into the circles or take children in. You may not be so lucky in the future.
And there are wonders to behold there too, which is I feel important to teach our kids. There might be other reasons that the folklore told us to stay away…for eg those who would like to break traditions…and it is also true that it can be the wrong choice to enter - that must also be taught to our kids. Each person has to decide that for themselves at that time. Trust your intuition.
Wonderful discussion thankyou
Spot on
Hi Jo
Will re send my comment and hopefully will not get deleted this time 🤣🤣
Could I first say what a great guest David Halpin was and I follow him on 'Circle Stories' which is just brilliant 👍
Was very interested with your discussion about magical places within the landscape.
When I was a small child during the late 1950s, early 1960s I lived in North Wales in a very rural setting surrounded by fields.
The immediate field behind our house was bordered by a hedge some 50 yards away which had been originally 'layered' but now was some what overgrown.
There was a random section of this hedge about 15 feet long which was a meeting place for all the local childhood and family picnickers from far and wide.
We used to pretend the hedge was a railway carriage whilst sitting amongst all the horizontally 'layered' branches of the hawthorn trees which made up the majority of the hedge. I can remember spending alot of time alone sitting in this hedge surrounded by cows.
The interesting thing about this seemingly random piece of hedge in the middle of nowhere was that all the lower branches of this little section were worn 'glass smooth' ? indicating that it must have been used by generations of children as a meeting place for maybe hundreds of years? Why ?
In later years and even after discussing with my parents, I have never been able to work out why this bit of hedge was such an important meeting place ?
I will travel back to this area next year and hopefully might find a sacred spring, old stone or ancient railway that made this such an intuitive magical, meeting place.
Always good to hear David on these topics. Great channel!
Thank you as always for providing such a wonderful listening experience with fascinating and informative guests! ❤
Thanks for listening
Hi Jo
Really good episode with David Halpin 👍
I commented on this a couple of hours ago and it has disappeared? I do hope I have done nothing wrong 🤔
Thank you for this very interesting and enjoyable episode. Jo, I wonder whether you might have considered interviewing children who have experienced faery encounters? It seems that, often, encounters involve children, yet their experiences and perspectives are only reported decades later, in their adulthood. Might it perhaps be possible to interview children who have had more recent experiences? I'm not sure, though, if that would be appropriate from a research point of view.
Lovely conversation! I love going through the Schools Collection on duchas
Me too!!
Great podcast - just one thing to note - the colours associated with the Chakra system (the correct pronunciation is CHakra (think Charlie) it's a hard 'C' sound in sanskrit) are a modern western addition and have nothing to do with any of the ancient Vedic or Tibetan buddhist chakra systems. I think it's important to note this, since our psyche is often so suggestible that we may see things as we want to see them - patterns across systems for example - that are not actually there. Thanks for your consideration.
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I just published my omen book, As the Universe So the Soul: An Everyday Omen Guidebook, and in this ancient knowledge of omens, there are many folklores about fairies taking children & adults specifically through dancing. There are many omens about astral traveling & time warps with people who travel to fairy realms too. ✨🧚🏾♀️ This book is a first edition because even at almost 300 pages I have so many MORE resources I’ll put in subsequent editions but #Fae omens are very prominent through certain civilizations for sure!
Oh wow! Congratulations on that .
Read any of the folklore and you'll see that our ancestors believed it was a very bad idea to go into the circles or take children in. You may not be so lucky in the future.
And there are wonders to behold there too, which is I feel important to teach our kids. There might be other reasons that the folklore told us to stay away…for eg those who would like to break traditions…and it is also true that it can be the wrong choice to enter - that must also be taught to our kids. Each person has to decide that for themselves at that time. Trust your intuition.