Beautiful photos

Pagan rituals thanks to Willow Gray.

Our Samhain Bonfire

Sometimes the photos come out really tiny. I don't know why. But the fire was hot and huge and lasted all day into the night.

Autumnal feelings

Sternen. The Star. This is the Inn where we would go on special occasions to eat røsti and spiegeleier and drink apfelwein.


A view of Worb with the church in the foreground and the castle behind Schloss Worb.


This is an old archival photo of Worb.


A panorama of Worb we could see when we went for walks.

Melancholy and nostalgia are feelings which take over me in autumn time.
I used to walk in Stockholm in some of my favourite parks kicking leaves and daydreaming. Counting the days, till I could be free.
Birches are plentiful in Sweden. They touch me with their long pale limbs.
Once in Warsaw in the autumn I was in a park with a statue of Chopin, this is a vivid memory. Hearing Polish and listening in. Drinking in a Dairy bar a glass of cream! Imagine.
Living i Switzerland and going for long walks in the countryside. Worb was a place I loved living, it was on a traditional farm that had a cottage/støckli. It was adorable, cosy and heated with a kakelofen. The view was over a cherry orchard and hens pecking about the grass.
Hazelnut bush next to the veranda, a pig and cows with bells. Just below us in the garden were goats. It was wonderful. It is one of my favourite places of all time.

Joik and Kula

This whole exploration started when I began to listen to Joik singing and Kula calling. I love the sounds of the voices and am looking for good recordings.
The Axis Mundi research and the Shaman drums has come at a perfect time of year. The thin time.

More Axis Mundi

Both these Sami drums show Axis Mundi interestingly. I have also studied Native American drum symbols and Siberian ones and Axis Mundi is represented as well in them on occasion.
This is the THIN time of year when we are exceptionally close to the spirit world. Samhain or Halloween, Day of the Dead in Mexico, is a time when portals open and we can learn from the experience of openness and shedding fear. Our dead our living are close.
Shamans have access to this state Axis Mundi through ritual and drum beating, chanting and their very own power to be so.
We are making fires at this time of year and those are great sources of energy, light and warmth and attract souls of animals and humans alike to gather together. Thin. The thin time.

AXIS MUNDI

The research brings me to this destination AXIS MUNDI.

Siberian Shaman Drum designs

Reminiscent of the Sami drums w. different symbols/runes.