Carn Crescent Crow

25/08/2026

C.C.C. — Crow Crescent Crow. Obviously. 🖤🐦‍⬛😎

13/08/2026

“During an eclipse of the sun one feels the group souls of the plants and of the animals lighting up ... all the physical embodiments of the animals and plants seem to pass into shadow, while the group souls become radiant.”

Rudolf Steiner

The Fifth Gospel (GA 148), Lecture Two
Kristiania (Oslo), 2 October 1913

12/08/2026

ECLIPSES - Palden Jenkins Palden Jenkins

Here's an extract from my book 'Power Points in Time - ancient festivals, lunar phases, plantary line-ups and historic moments'.

Even if you don’t see them you can sense them – there’s a powerful stillness, sometimes eerie and rather magical, to an eclipse. Time warps and funny thoughts or situations can arise – sometimes rather oracular and significant. It’s a time to treat specially, to pause for. Yes, go on, stop what you’re doing, go out under the Moon, open your arms to it and let it clean your heart of worries and woes. And observe your thoughts and feelings and what comes up inside you – they mean something.

Eclipses are extraordinary newmoons or fullmoons that can prove to be major turning-points. Around the time of an eclipse, a pensive, lurking, becalmed quality pervades the airwaves, as if everything is waiting for something. Birds return to their nests. Water surfaces or ocean waves can go still – or if they don’t, an uncanny timelessness can still make it very atmospheric. An eerie quietness pervades, even amidst chaos or activity. There’s a kind of empty feeling, or one of noticeable peace. It’s not exactly the Moon or Sun doing this directly: it’s the way they affect the resonance-field of the Earth, within which we live and have our being.

Try to observe the energy-weather at eclipses. They are awe-inspiring times when it can be auspicious to get clear on intents, perspectives and deep choices. It can be timely to cross watersheds or make a significant shift. It’s a propitious and ominous time. These are excellent times for ceremonies and meditations, or for pausing and dwelling on matters that lie outside time and circumstance.

This book is available here:

powerpoints

These extracts were reproduced with Paldens kind permission from Facebook.

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09/08/2026

The Giant and Quadrilateral of Manio, Carnac
Tucked away in the woods near Carnac is the Quadrilateral of Manio, a strange elongated arrangement of standing stones dating from the Neolithic period.

The monument is about 37 metres long, widening from roughly 7 metres at one end to 10 metres at the other. Although today it looks like a stone enclosure, archaeologists generally interpret the stones as the remains of the boundary of a long burial mound, the earth itself having disappeared over time.

Around 45 metres away stands the much more imposing Giant of Manio. At approximately 6.5 metres (21 feet) high, it's the tallest standing menhir at Carnac. It's thought that this enormous stone may have acted as a marker for the nearby monument, although its original meaning is unknown.

Standing beside it, I was struck by how human the Giant appeared. Its shape seemed almost like an enormous face looking out from the stone. I've noticed similar, almost human forms in some of the other prominent menhirs around Carnac, and it's something I'd like to look into further ,whether particular naturally shaped stones might have been deliberately chosen, rather than simply being whatever stone was available.

The whole place also felt much more ceremonial to me than I had expected. Of course, a burial place and a ceremonial place aren't mutually exclusive; the living may have returned to these monuments and interacted with them in ways we can no longer reconstruct.

Perhaps the thing that intrigued me most was the shape of the Quadrilateral itself. I was immediately reminded of King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor — another unusual, elongated rectangular monument defined by upright stones. Recent dating has shown that King Arthur's Hall is Neolithic too, placing the two monuments within the same broad prehistoric period.

That doesn't mean there was necessarily a connection between them, and structurally they aren't identical. But elongated rectangular stone monuments are unusual enough for the resemblance to have caught my attention. Why this shape? What was happening within these defined spaces, and are there other examples between Brittany and Cornwall?

01/08/2026

26/07/2026

ABOUT CAER BRÂN

Below are a few excerpts from Palden Jenkins fascinating blog, written as part of his field research for The Belarion Project. Shared with his kind permission.

Caer Brân has held a special place in my heart since Palden first introduced me to it many years ago. I remember when the land was put up for sale and wondering what might become of it. Thankfully, it's now in the care of the wonderful Cornish Heritage Trust. It's a truly special place and well worth a visit.

A Bronze Age gathering place in West Penwith, Cornwall

Palden Jenkins, June 2025

In former years I had come to the idea that, in the Mid-Bronze Age, Caer Brân served as a kind of parliament site for the whole of Penwith. This came to me after news came out some years ago about a circular enclosure, found using LIDAR scanning, on the cliffs at Pordenack Point, just south of Land’s End. This revealed something: Pordenack, Caer Brân and Castle an Dinas, three circular enclosures, were built in a straight line, oriented to the summer solstice sunrise.

This suddenly gave these three sites a lot more significance than had been seen previously.

Here are some findings from my recent visit to Caer Brân.

It seems to me that it is not the inherent earth energy of this place that matters, as is the case at a stone circle. There isn’t the same sense of energy here. It seems that the landscape positioning of Caer Brân matters more: there’s a strong visual connection with other key sites in Penwith and beyond, including Scilly, the Lizard and Carn Brea near Redruth. It has a wide, thirty-mile panorama.

Caer Brân doesn’t feel like a high-energy place, though it does have atmosphere. However, as a former gathering place, it feels to me as if it misses the human attention and ‘hwyl’ that it once witnessed and hosted. (Hwyl is Welsh for fun and stirring, special experiences).

Read Palden's full article here:

https://penwithbeyond.blog/2025/06/20/about-caer-bran/

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22/07/2026

La Table des Marchands, Locmariaquer, Brittany.

I found the atmosphere here noticeably different from Gavrinis, which we had visited last year.

Gavrinis felt like it had a slightly chaotic current running through its densely carved passage. La Table des Marchands felt quieter, steadier and more contained. Perhaps it was simply less crowded or visited , but the chamber seemed able to retain its silence.

At the far end stands the huge carved backstone, covered with repeated hooked forms often described as crooks. Their true meaning has been lost. Above it rests an even more extraordinary stone.

The ceiling slab was never originally intended to lie here. It once formed part of a much older carved stele, standing upright within the sacred landscape of Locmariaquer.

Before this chamber was built, that enormous stone was deliberately broken apart and its pieces reused.

One section was placed above La Table des Marchands. Another was carried several kilometres away and became the ceiling stone of Gavrinis. The carvings upon them are said to match up , the divided body and horns of a great animal, an axe and other mysterious forms that once belonged to a sing composition.

So Gavrinis and La Table des Marchands still hold separate fragments of the same ancient stone.
There is something so interesting and symbolic in that transformation. A mega monument once standing beneath the open sky, later broken and carried into two chambers of darkness.

Whether this was an act of ending, renewal, ancestral remembrance or the deliberate sharing of sacred power between places, we cannot know.

Little reliable folklore appears to survive specifically about this chamber. Its mystery lies instead in the archaeology itself of a sacred object broken but not discarded, its fragments preserved within new monuments and given another life.

Perhaps that partly explains the difference I felt. Gavrinis seemed full of movement, symbols and intersecting currents. La Table des Marchands felt more gathered around a single presence ,quieter, less chaotic, but no less wonderous.

17/07/2026