The inauguration of our new shrine (below) took place at 17.30 GMT at the octave of the Vernal Equinox 2010. The new shrine is built of locally collected Cornish slate, granite and quartz, with locally sourced shells and pebbles and a few crystals and fossils from our collection.
The shrine is built in the shape of a dolmen, to mimic the many mysterious neolithic dolmens and quoits found on the wild and windswept Cornish moors. Such as the very impressive one at Pawton near Wadebridge (pictured below), which is only a few miles from our North Cornwall home. A traditional Druid meeting place in local folklore and a very mysterious and atmospheric place, where the veil is often thin.
Spring Equinox Poetic Meditation
As the light finally
Catches its twin faced dark
A brief truce is called
As the balance of opposites
Merge and entwine.
As new life emerges
From the cold dark earth
And the egg of creativity
Breaks at the crack of dawn
The leaping hare dance.
As the rain and wind swirls
Around the budding branches
The sunset approaches, and equinoctial
Balance allows the suns rays
To burst through the bank of grey cloud.
The illuminating rays of the equinox sun
Allow the daffodils to glow
As they dance in the whirling wind
Joyfully they nod to the descending fiery orb
Beyond the solitary ancient Oak.
Catches its twin faced dark
A brief truce is called
As the balance of opposites
Merge and entwine.
As new life emerges
From the cold dark earth
And the egg of creativity
Breaks at the crack of dawn
The leaping hare dance.
As the rain and wind swirls
Around the budding branches
The sunset approaches, and equinoctial
Balance allows the suns rays
To burst through the bank of grey cloud.
The illuminating rays of the equinox sun
Allow the daffodils to glow
As they dance in the whirling wind
Joyfully they nod to the descending fiery orb
Beyond the solitary ancient Oak.
Above: The "tinners rabbits" an ancient spring-time fertility symboldepicting three Hares often found in West Country churches.
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