Samhain…..Labradorite…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:37 on 31 October 2024
Samhain….
A Samhain poem by Wendy…
Strange after Samhain
A tumult of autumn leaves
whisks about my head,
thoughts take flight
as sharp gusts catch at birds
snatching them back and forth.
A cold splinter of sunlight
stabs through rusk-edged clouds,
which slide in unseemly haste
across grey-streaked sky.
All is unsettled, disjointed,
nothing quite belongs.
I'm caught up in this upheaval,
churning, gestating, coiled
within, strangely skewed views
of past and future
create shifting perspectives,
a sense of differently being,
where old thoughts seem odd.
As I lift and turn
in this jumble of leaves
I wonder just quite how
I will fall back
together.
Wendy Alford November 2013
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Labradorite…
I have a liking for Labradorite - I like the iridescent sheen of it. We have two small pieces, the smallest of which is in the Healing Room placed at the base of a statue of Bastet, the Egyptian Cat Goddess…
I
https://egyptianmuseum.org/deities-Bastet.
The larger piece is among other pleasing stones….
There’s a lovely lump of Labradorite in the Stromness Museum…..
https://www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/
……in the cabinet to your right as you walk in. I look at it and covet it.
So, when I saw that an exhibition/workshop based on Labradorite will be taking place in the Northlight Gallery…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/labradorite-workshop/
I put the dates on the calendar, and intend to go along – not so much for the workshop as the chance to look at and handle the magic that is Labradorite.
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