2022: The Year of Stepping Up!
2022: THE YEAR OF STEPPING UP A year ago I had a strong feeling that 2022 would be a step up year, both for me and for Cae Mabon. A...
THE 16 PORTALS OF THE GLADE OF DREAMS
A group of aspirants came to Cae Mabon to work with Iwan Brioc (see www.iwanbrioc.com) in April and again in August 2022. He guided us...
THE DRAGON MAKERS' TALE
It was a crazy idea, birthed in a conversation between Maya and me. Let’s build a dragon, no, two dragons. And instead of them being at...
Making Masks for the Gods and Goddesses of Eryri
BACKGROUND On the autumn equinox, 2021, ten brave souls set out on a pilgrimage along the Nantlle Valley Songline, from the wave-lashed...
'Blue Pearl: The Life of a Song' by Steve Banks
The song, 'Blue Pearl', was born at Cae Mabon in 2003, during a workshop Eric ran with Peter Harper, of the Centre for Alternative...
RETURN OF THE HEALING MAIDEN Merlin's Prophecy
For twenty years I’ve been proclaiming what I call ‘Merlin’s Prophecy’. It started in the nineties when I scripted an Irish-American TV...
MABON'S WAY: Walkabout in Mythic Eryri
Long ago I was a ‘bush artist’ in the remote Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. Unlike missionaries, anthropologists or...
BUZZ PARTY – Practising Utopia
It was to be a Buzz Fest, named after the ‘Way of the Buzzard’ mystery school who originally booked, then cancelled, this weekend. But...
COB-ADOBE-MUD: Early Humanity at Work
We are making an octagonal, reciprocal frame-roof structure overlooking the river. It will be a hangout space with a table, chairs and a...
WHAT A BELTANE WE HAD!
It’s the time of the great burgeoning, when buds become leaves in a two-week unfurling miracle. Blossom is everywhere, sap is rising,...
