I’d always been vaguely aware of astrocartography but never thought about it much even though I now live something like 6,000 miles away from where I was born, until Neith suggested I should do a relocation chart for myself. The results were fascinating.
A relocation chart basically casts your natal chart for the place of [...]
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Relocation charts
Posted in Astrology, Thinking, Travel, tagged invisibility, relocation chart on 6 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Birds chirp, people snore
Posted in Awareness, Meditation, Travel on 26 August 2006 | 2 Comments »
I was on a week long road trip recently and shared a room with two travelling companions, both of whom could easily snore the whole of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries in a night. When we travelled together several years ago, I would sulk, stay up half the night and make a big deal about [...]
Last night in Africa
Posted in Travel on 15 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have been a week in Cape Town, South Africa and am due to return to Europe tomorrow. This trip has been life-changing in many ways although my initial purpose was as a conference participant and tourist. A week may not be long enough to get a sense of a place, but I’ve experienced enough [...]
BookCrossing
Posted in Blogging, Travel on 10 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mind recently introduced me to bookcrossing, and I have to admit, I’m fascinated.
Books + travel + randomness = serendipity
I love it.
I’m off to South Africa for a conference in July and I’m already thinking of seeking the books ’set in the wild’ in Cape Town. Might release a few [...]
Have wheels, will travel
Posted in Travel on 25 April 2006 | 2 Comments »
When the transport company withdrew the only bus service from my place to work in this rural town where the buses only run once every hour anyway, I bit the bullet and bought an old banger for cheap. Not the most environmentally friendly option, I know, but being financially-challenged, I had little choice. It’s a [...]
Travellers and Magicians
Posted in Poetry, Thinking, Travel on 10 April 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’m back from being three weeks away. Travel is a funny thing, primarily because it messes with your sense of space and time. No wonder the invention of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution changed notions of ‘a here, a there and elsewhere’ (Trinh T. Minh-ha, Travelers’ Tales) so radically.
The notion of travel, that [...]
Zen travel
Posted in Poetry, Travel on 23 March 2006 | 2 Comments »
I was reading Three Zen Masters while on the road — a fairly monotonous three hours on land, one by air, and another hour on land again — and came across this poem by Ryokan.
Picking persimmons
My testicles are frozen
By the autumn wind.
- Ryokan (1758-1831)
It’s (nearly?) spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, not autumn, and I [...]
