Moira Lake Healing

18/09/2017

Last chance coming up to do the autumn 'Warriors and Weeds' workshop as a stand-alone weekend. (In 2018 it'll only be available as part of a one-year course.) We'll be working on Dartmoor, Sept 29th to October 1st, working deeply with the teachings from the powerful plant spirits of that land. Contact me via www.hearthstarhealing.com for more info.

16/06/2017

Been spending time with the beautiful flowers on the beach where we'll be holding the second 'Warriors and Weeds' plant spirit workshop in a couple of weeks. Learning more every day about the sacred alliance between plants and humans... so much stronger and clearer than anything created by fear or hatred!

16/05/2017

At the 'Riding the Tidal Waves of Change' day on Saturday, while talking about the Saturn/Pluto multiple conjunction coming up in January 2020, I mentioned research on (non-astrological) long-term cycles of climate change, economics and conflict, and that the current cycle of conflict peaks in early 2020. In this video Gregg Braden gives a clear description of these cycles - I recommend watching it. And, thanks to all the participants and to my colleagues Kate and Barry for all you contributed to making it a great day!

Last week I whilst at the Pan Asia Futurists Network in Seoul, I had the great honour to …

27/04/2017

Once someone said to me, ‘Everyone I know finds this world unbearable’. Instead of receiving her statement, I defended myself against it with thoughts: it was too extreme, too much of a generalisation, it depended on what you meant by ‘unbearable’, it wasn’t true of me. Then I realised that I was only proving her point. I was trying to reduce the impact of what she said because I couldn’t bear, in that moment, to let it simply be true. [ 989 more words ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2017/04/27/every-step-you-take-creating-the-world

Once someone said to me, ‘Everyone I know finds this world unbearable’. Instead of receiving her statement, I defended myself against it with thoughts: it was too extreme, too much of a generalisat…

07/02/2017

Even in these maddest of times – perhaps especially in these times – I believe it’s possible for us to create a world in which all life is honoured and loved. But I feel we can’t succeed in this if we treat it as something humans have to do alone. It can be hard to move beyond this human-centred mind-set, because collectively we’ve forgotten how to stand together with the other-than-human beings of Earth. But these beings are not merely our victims. They have wisdom and power, and even now, they are willing to accept us as their allies. In each of these three workshops we will include and go beyond personal healing and learning. We will work with plant spirits, as well as the elements, spirits of place and other beings of the natural world, to remember something new: how to create together the world we long for.

21/12/2016

I've been a human being for quite a while now, so plenty of opportunity to experience what a timid and frail species we are much of the time. But I know that's not all we are. We've all had glimpses, in ourselves and others, of the glorious creatures we can be. If we weren't essentially beings of beauty and power, on the road (even if limping) to creating something wonderful, why on earth would so much effort and money be relentlessly poured into convincing us that we're weak and worthless? [ 514 more words ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/12/21/the-world-the-dream-the-raven

  I’ve been a human being for quite a while now, so plenty of opportunity to experience what a timid and frail species we are much of the time. But I know that’s not all we are. We…

24/10/2016

Do have a look at the post below from Alexis Walsh, about her fascinating workshop on dreaming coming up in November on Dartmoor. Alexis has been working with dreaming most of her life, and this is a great opportunity.

29/07/2016

If you haven't booked already, there's still time to squeeze into the Ecopsychology Gathering 2016: The Edge of the Wild. The Gathering is next week, Thursday 4th-Sunday 7th August, and it's full of activities, fun and workshops honouring our Grandmother Earth and our part in her life. I'm doing a three-hour workshop on learning from plant spirits, which will be an excellent introduction to this vitally important knowledge. There'll be keynote talks from my long-term colleague and founder of Ecopsychology in the UK, Hilary Prentice on indigenous wisdom, and Colin Campbell, a fascinating sangoma from Botswana. Find out more at www.ecopsychologygathering.org.

26/07/2016

Had a lovely day recently with some friends on Richard Lannowe Hall's boat 'Physis' based in Falmouth. He's an ecotherapist who takes individuals and groups out on the sea. They're working on themselves while also getting involved with the work of sailing, and receiving healing and teaching - not to mention challenges - from Mother Ocean. The groups include young people working on substance abuse, depression, sexual abuse etc. It's inspiring stuff, and if you're a therapist or eco-practitioner you might like to take advantage of one of his 'taster' days so you can experience it for yourself. One of the big delights for me was 'blind helming', steering the boat while blindfolded! Find out more from Richard at www.sailadayeco.com.

21/04/2016

Does anyone not love the Spring? Leaving aside that speaker in Eliot’s Waste Land, of course, who claimed that April is the cruellest month – and in fact s/he did have a point, because breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, can be a painful reawakening if you’ve opted for perpetual hibernation. So yes, there probably are people who don’t love this season, much as people who are grieving or heartbroken sometimes experience the beauty of Earth or the happiness of others as only one more wound. [ 867 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/04/21/everything-you-need-is-right-here/

Does anyone not love the Spring? Leaving aside that speaker in Eliot’s Waste Land, of course, who claimed that April is the cruellest month – and in fact s/he did have a point, because breeding lil…

21/03/2016

People who know my background sometimes ask me why I decided to stop being a psychotherapist. I often reply, ‘So I could focus on my healing work’, but that doesn’t really answer the question. The fact is, I’d been doing energy healing as long as I’d been a therapist (over twenty years), and for a lot of that time I loved both aspects of my job and felt they combined well. [ 557 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/03/21/at-the-round-earths-imagind-corners/

People who know my background sometimes ask me why I decided to stop being a psychotherapist. I often reply, ‘So I could focus on my healing work’, but that doesn’t really answer the question. The …

11/03/2016

Greetings. Well, I’m glad to say this blog has decided to pull its socks up and take more of an interest in its appearance. Whether its author will do the same, I can’t say, but I hope you agree that the blog looks a lot better and is much nicer to use. I’m also thinking about its general orientation. A number of people have asked for more posts specifically addressing topics within shamanism, and in particular healing with plant spirits. [ 179 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/03/11/like-the-new-look/

Greetings. Well, I’m glad to say this blog has decided to pull its socks up and take more of an interest in its appearance. Whether its author will do the same, I can’t say, but I hope you agree th…

22/02/2016

Greetings. I hope you like this photo of me striding across Dartmoor. It’s a selfie I took the other day while I was wandering about up there. In my fierce distracted way I was thinking that the poems and stories we love in early childhood seem sometimes to contain some essence of who we will become. Years ago when I used to teach astrology, I used to get students to remember their favourite fairy stories, then we looked at their birth charts and the correlations were wonderfully close. [ 311 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/02/22/old-meg-old-moira-and-the-prophetic-power-of-poetry

  Greetings. I hope you like this photo of me striding across Dartmoor. It’s a selfie I took the other day while I was wandering about up there. In my fierce distracted way I was thinking that...

07/02/2016

In Part 1 of Healing the Addiction to War, I commented on Britain's ceaseless waging of war all over the world, and the polluting and corrosive impact of this not only on the troops sent into combat, but on us all. Now I want to look at how we might receive these fighters back into our communities in a way that restores both them and us, so that collectively we might heal from war's poisons. [ 699 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2016/02/07/healing-the-addiction-to-war-part-2-2/

In Part 1 of Healing the Addiction to War, I commented on Britain's ceaseless waging of war all over the world, and the polluting and corrosive impact of this not only on the troops sent into comba...

04/02/2016

This is so exciting!!

For me personally, I find that evolution is just one big circle that keeps spinning and altering its path. Like the medicine wheel, which symbolizes the never ending circle of life.

04/02/2016

This short film might not appear too thrilling, but it's important and it's really worth a look, especially when good alternatives to take-away cups are so easy to use.

Have your coffee in-house today, or bring a keep cup!

22/01/2016

Here's a link to a really beautiful and inspiring, heartfelt film about Juliette de Bairacli Levy, the great herbalist, healer and radical wild soul. It lasts 75 minutes, so settle down with a cuppa to enjoy it. I know you'll love it!
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/8638/Juliette-of-the-Herbs

21/01/2016

For the new project, please visit http://jordic.com/ffracer This animation shows all important battles that took place over the last ten centuries. The sizes...

16/01/2016

A couple of days ago on my way to work I switched on the Radio 4 news, just to keep abreast of the day's lies, and in the following programme Melvyn Bragg was talking with a few astronomers about the planet Saturn. Now, I'm not so silly as to think we'd get a serious consideration of the astrological understanding of Saturn, but still...forty-five minutes on the planet, and not even the tiniest mention of its massive cultural significance over centuries - both astrologically, and through the influence of astrology in art, literature, philosophy, medicine, music and psychology.

I've seen many hundreds, if not thousands, of clients' birth charts in the thirty years that I've been practising as an astrologer, and every person has related deeply to what I've shared with them about the significance of Saturn in their personal history and current experiences. Yet even when these 'experts' spoke of Saturn's twenty-nine-and-a-half year cycle, they still made no mention of the life-changing impact of these cycles on human lives at the ages of twenty-nine, fifty-eight and eighty-seven. This is profound and wilful ignorance on the part of the academic world and the BBC. Of course, despite my disgust I wasn't in the least surprised. This tiny-mindedness is what we've learned to expect from the media, the government and the academic world. But why are we putting up with such nonsense?

19/12/2015

Rabia al Basri, 8th century woman, Sufi poet of Basra, Iraq - meets 20th century painter Georgia O'Keefe from the USA. Hope they like each other.

08/12/2015

So we in Britain are at war again. Not that we weren’t at war already, of course. We always seem to be at war. And if we’re not officially at war, we’re threatening war, warning each other about the likelihood of war, debating the advantages of war, cringing in fear of war or looking forward to the prizes of war. The greatest of these prizes is invariably claimed to be peace. [ 514 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2015/12/08/healing-the-addiction-to-war

So we in Britain are at war again. Not that we weren’t at war already, of course. We always seem to be at war. And if we’re not officially at war, we’re threatening war, warning each other about th...

25/11/2015

You might have noticed that an awful lot of people are talking about narcissism these days, enthusiastically labelling each other in typical narcissistic style. I hear them projecting their own weaknesses onto others, even firing off diagnoses of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’, without much idea of what that really means. The truth is that we all live in, and suffer from, a deeply narcissistic culture – almost all of us contribute to it, and we’re all degraded by it. [ 731 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2015/11/25/your-fabulous-face/

You might have noticed that an awful lot of people are talking about narcissism these days, enthusiastically labelling each other in typical narcissistic style. I hear them projecting their own wea...

19/11/2015

Hallo, I'm back at last on Planet Facebook. Just been having another look at that great wee film, 'The Story of Stuff'. If you haven't seen it, do take a look. In 20 minutes you get a clever little cartoon showing just what happens in the chain of unnecessary consumption. Even if you've seen it before it's worth another look.Excellent thing to show in schools, as well. You can see it here: http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff.

This groundbreaking cartoon takes a closer look at how we make, use, and toss Stuff and calls us together to create a world that is more sustainable, just, and fun. Have you seen it yet?

22/09/2015

Just back from the Scillies... such a blessing. Stormy waves, rainbows, sun, endlessly inventive clouds. Almost no cars, no wifi, just slow time to love the beauty of small shells. I could spend all day lying on the beach looking at shells and glittering sand. I could spend the rest of my life getting to know and understand just one of them. Of course, in our wonderful holographic universe, if I really understood one little shell I would understand everything...

03/09/2015

In How to be in Your Body, Parts 1 and 2, I mentioned how being grounded has two aspects - firstly, being securely present in your body, as described in those two posts; secondly, being strongly connected to Earth. In this post I'm focusing on how to develop that strong connection, and why you would want to. Your body is part of the body of Earth, as are the bodies of all natural creatures. [ 656 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2015/09/03/how-to-be-on-earth

In How to be in Your Body, Parts 1 and 2, I mentioned how being grounded has two aspects - firstly, being securely present in your body, as described in those two posts; secondly, being strongly co...

28/08/2015

On Saturday 29th August at 19.35 BST, there's a full moon in Pisces, conjunct Neptune, and of course the opposing sun in Virgo. There's lots to say about it, but I'm not going to. With apologies to people who've enjoyed the new and full moon reports, I've decided to stop doing them. At the moment it's difficult for me to say exactly why I feel the need to do this, but for some time I've been feeling uncomfortable about the influence of the moon. [ 337 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2015/08/28/walking-away-from-the-moon

On Saturday 29th August at 19.35 BST, there's a full moon in Pisces, conjunct Neptune, and of course the opposing sun in Virgo. There's lots to say about it, but I'm not going to. With apologies to...

13/08/2015

Well, I'm working hard on my book on healing, shamanism and the nature of reality, with a central focus on plant spirit healing. The work is going well, and I'm enjoying the challenge of finding ways to put complex subjects in fairly simple ways without losing the vital, beautiful essence.

If you're interested in this, or you like my blog, or this page, or you just wish me well, it would be great if you'd 'like' this page. It counts a lot in the world of publishing! Thank you.

13/08/2015

The new moon on August 14th, at 3.53pm BST, is the easiest we've had for a while. In the full moon report for July 31st we looked at the fiery qualities of the sun in Leo, and how it relates to our capacity to shine as our authentic self. Then, of course, the moon opposed the sun from Aquarius. This time the sun and moon are together in Leo, beginning a lunar cycle imbued with the creativity and optimism natural to that sign. [ 402 more words. ]

http://moiralakehealing.com/2015/08/13/the-august-2015-new-moon-relax

The new moon on August 14th, at 3.53pm BST, is the easiest we've had for a while. In the full moon report for July 31st we looked at the fiery qualities of the sun in Leo, and how it relates to our...

10/08/2015

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