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Mmm, which Mary, the Virgin or the Magdalene?

That church guide description of the foliate heads is a typical and terribly boring/mundane example of church guide literature. Almost as good as one in Somerset which informed the reader that St. Michael was the well know patron of hill-tops! )

I’m just going to start a new thread with my Oxford curio. Keep this thread for your Binsey/Oxford research

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I dont know how long you have been doing ‘questy’ things but often things over lap. You’ll often hear Andy say something like, 8 out of 10 quests are a red herring… At least, thats how it appears in the ‘moment’ but often you can find yourself looking back over a ten year period and things that you did then which never made any sense, suddenly, in hind sight, start to be relivant.

I’ll start a new thread, maybe tonight, about a ‘wierd one’ I had in the Godstow area… Richard Ward and I gave a lecture about it years ago when the Questing Conference used to be held at Red Lion Square… I should really be putting it onto my website so maybe this’ll get me motivated.

Meanwhile, keep us informed of what you find. It would be great to see a picture of these feminine triple foliate heads; this also ties in with an ‘Oracle head’. You know its another interpretation of a Green Man, (better infact than just a ‘fertility symbol’) When you think about it, what does foliage come from the mouth mean? It means, words that grow, ‘fertile words’, wisdom… an Oracle.

I’ll sort out my Godstow material and put something up

Yuri

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Hi Vicky

I think that you’ll find what you want on this link

http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/oxford.htm

Its a webpage by Bob Trubshaw, about the landscape significance of Oxford. He explains the legen of Oxford being an ‘Omphalos’ (that is, a sacred centre; like a ‘chakra’ of Britain.)

My own research is into the ‘three crowns of britian’ in the near future when I have more time I’ll set up a post about it but in simple terms, there are three sacred islands for the isles of britain which are Iona, Glastonbury and Lindesfarne. At some lost time in history their ‘energies’ were taken and hidden into three crowns. For the matrix of Britain to work properly those ‘energies’ need to be returned to there rightful islands…thats the legend anyway.

The three crowns as a symbol, pop up everywhere. They are the coat of arms of King Arthur, Glastonbury Abbey, Oxford, Colchester (which in Roman times was called ‘Camulludunum’ (Camelot?) sacred town of St Helen) They are also represented as three crowned heads, male or female sometimes 3 queens, sometimes 3 kings… it goes on and on.)

But at Oxford, there is a church with 3 queens depicted, Oxford’s coat of arms is the three crowns. At Godstow nunnery there is an old gate with three crowns upon it leading to a secret garden, and Oxfrod was once considered a sacred ‘omphalos’; plus the Thames runs by, (really the River Isis)… anyway, read Bob Trubshaws webpage, I’m sure you’ll find what you want there.

Also, the ‘Mary’ could be many women, (Margaret was also known as Mariam) Andy’s sugestion that there could of been an ‘oracle’ head at Binsey is interesting and would tie in with the three crowns etc. Also, I cant recall clearly, but near to Godstow there are some woods, ‘Wytham’? but I recall there being some interesting place names there, my memory is shakey but names like ‘our lady’ or ‘my lady’ and ‘her sisters’ are place names given to trees in the woods there, and I think that the woods aligned with other places? Its been a long time though but you should check out an Ordnance Survey map of the area around Binsey (and that would include Godstow)

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Just some intsant reactions; St Margaret as you probably know is a ‘Dragon Slayer’ (akin to St’s George and Michael) Usually, wherever there is a dragonslaying church, this is a veiled reference to a ‘ley-line’ being pinned down in some way.

The well itself certainly sounds blocked (literally and probably metaphysically; the sensation of ‘waiting’ that you felt when you went there is probably acurate, the place is waiting to be ‘un-blocked’. But also, likely, by the berries and cross you saw there, maybe someone is doing there bit to try and remedy the situation… At places like this you can lend a little support just by visualising life-giving vibrant energy going into this site… you can do this ‘giving’ in such away that you yourself do not become ‘involved’ (and thereby you wont get ‘drained’) You are almost then, giving a call out, that other ‘sensitive’ people in the area come and do the same… if everyone who went there shined just a little bit of light then the place would eventually become bright and vibrant.

I dont think that I have ever been to Binsey but I have been questing nearby, with Richard Ward, many years ago… funnily enough, that was to do with well-cleansing, and Civil War type psychic research. We were at Godstow, Woodstock and Stanton Harcourt; investigating ‘Three Crowns symbolisms’.

I remember there being quite a lot of leyline, type alignment stuff in the area; Oxford and its surrounding area is probably a very important part of Britains matrix.

If St. Margaret’s is pinning down a leyline, and the well is blocked then it could be infecting the other sites that the leyline connects with… or maybe not… I dont want to put ideas into your head, you must listen to your own gut feelings and so on.

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Hi Vicky,

When Andy uses the description ‘active’ it can mean many different things, ie,

a, the place itself is very psychically strong or,
b, that many people visit the place with esoteric motives or,
c, that the location keeps popping up in peoples dreams or psychic readings etc

Also, if there are people going there regularly for ritualistic purposes, they neednt live in the area; they could come from hundreds of miles away… depends how big their ‘scheme’ is.

I dont know, Binsey hasnt been important to me but I would guess that if it were ‘active’ or important to many people then it probably holds a significant position to somekind of landscape design or ‘matrix’. Different groups of people would try and tap into it to work with or control the local energies, for good or bad, (always a grey area) If ‘bad’ people are using the energies you can always try and put a stop to it, but that task is often endless and tiring/soul destroying… so called ‘Black Questing’ sometimes it needs to be done (especially if you love the area that is being sucked dry or abused, but it is a thankless task and and can drain you terribly, psychically. Also, by pursuing the bad guys you are being distracted from your proper quest, so in a rondabout way the bad guys are still winning!!! This is why Andy, Richard and others are reluctant to go Black Questing, but sometimes you just have to.

Hope this helps

Yuri.

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Cheers Simon, thankyou for the welcome. I have added a ‘psychic questing.com’ link to my main page.

I havent looked at your icon quest yet but will do so soon.

cheers for now

Yuri.

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