Re-enchantment.
Is the way forward there's a lot happening in the world and Um.
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Humans doing some not very nice things to each other,
To our planet.
I know that everyone here shares a very similar Um,
Set of values we are for kindness,
We are for decency.
And so it can feel a little disenchanting to look around us at the moment.
Um,
And so the reading,
The offering is an invitation to re-enchantment.
And I invite you to find that this month,
Wherever you do,
To remember that there is meaning,
There is magic,
And to allow that to empower you.
One of the ways that I'm going to be re-enchanting in the next,
In the coming month,
The coming times,
Is I'm going to go and spend some time on the shores of Loch Ness.
I'm very,
Very excited about that.
I don't know Loch Ness well.
I've been there once when I was.
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Knee-high to a grasshopper,
As they say.
So.
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It's going to be a new exploration.
Of enchantment and I wanted to bring the energy of it in because it feels quite magical.
I wanted to bring that magical feeling into our reading and so our spread for today is based around that.
Now,
I don't know how easily you get excited about geology.
I find that it can be quite exciting.
And one of the things I discovered is that Loch Ness It runs in a line for those of you who don't know the map.
I considered drawing it on my whiteboard.
There are skills I have and skills I don't have,
And it wouldn't enlighten you anymore as to the shape of Loch Ness or of Scotland.
But it is.
It runs in a line.
So diagonally down.
Across Scotland.
And so I was looking into the geology and the history of it.
So this diagonal line,
You've got sort of Inverness at the sea and you've got Loch Ness coming down that goes all the way across to.
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For William and.
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The Highlands,
Ben Nevis is the highest peak in Britain,
And it goes all the way down there.
And what I discovered is that years and years ago,
Like eons ago,
The two sides of this line were actually different continents.
Um,
Years and years and years.
Eons,
I'm going to say eons,
Because years just doesn't even cut it.
Eons ago.
The continents were not where they are now so long ago that it's kind of beyond our comprehension.
And.
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The continents are still moving and always have moved.
And so they they move together.
And this line down.
Scotland is one of the places where two continents that were not.
That we're separate.
Eventually,
Over eons and eons,
Came together and formed this landmass.
So really,
Really.
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Geologically exciting.
In terms of the energy coming together.
Um,
And so our first two.
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Positions for the spread for today,
For these coming weeks.
Are about what two things are coming together at the moment to form something new.
And then overarching that is this concept of eons,
Of something so big that we cannot observe it happening.
And we experience it happening without knowing that we're experiencing it happening.
So this third position is about,
You know,
Big thing is happening right now that's actually so big that we're not even really aware of it.
We might.
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Be able to kind of trace it back once it's happened,
But it's happening right now.
So these are our first three positions.
And then have a position for Loch Ness itself.
Bodies of water are amazing.
Loch Ness is really deep.
I believe it's the deepest lake in Scotland.
It's mysterious.
It's this huge body of water.
And so it has,
You know,
We interact with it on the surface.
We try to see into the depths.
And it's a body of water,
So it's contained in the land around it.
You know,
Water's contained in.
In the shape of what's in it.
So kind of bringing all those ideas together.
And there's a lovely mindfulness meditation you can do,
The lake meditation where you consider yourself to be.
A lake.
There are other ones you can do mountain meditation,
But the lake one's really nice.
So kind of bringing these ideas together for this position and spread.
In this reading,
It's really about what What contains us?
At this time.
And what.
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And containing us shapes us and what are we Um,
What are we containing as well?
All of those things.
Amen.
Another position here and.
She had to be in here and it's Nessie.
And I'm going to say Nessie and not the Loch Ness Monster because I don't believe that Nessie is a monster.
I do believe that Nessie is real.
And I don't pretend to be able to define that reality.
So I'm going to.
See her and refer to her at the moment as a spirit of place.
Um,
So the sort of spiritual aspect of the place,
The guardian of the place.
Um so This is our invitation,
Really,
To interact with spirits of place.
In these coming weeks to remember that all places are sacred.
And all places have a spirit.
And so.
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The way that we are in a place.
Will change depending on how we interact with our spirit of place whether we acknowledge it or not whether we seek it,
Whether we honour it,
How we go about that.
So we have Nessie,
The spirit of place.
And then finally,
At the bottom of the reading,
We have the act of.
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Of pilgrimage and of offering.
So.
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Anytime I go to a special place like this,
I consider it a kind of pilgrimage.
And I will be taking offerings and what I usually offer.
When I make pilgrimage to a place is stories.
So some of you have heard me tell stories.
I have a.
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Handful of stories that I'm really that I really love,
That I've done readings around before.
The Almond Blossom one from the Algaus,
One of them,
The Selkie Woman stories,
Another.
So the offerings I'll be taking will be stories.
And so this position in the spread is about how.
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Um,
What magical acts can we do in the coming times?
That allow for that re-enchantment.
That allow for that that reconnection.
With magic that do honour and recognise the world that we live in as a sacred world.
So that is our spread for today.
