Fire and Spirit
In keeping with its original wind-nature, spirit is always an active, winged, swift-moving being as well as that which vivifies, stimulates, incites, fires, and inspires.
C.G. Jung
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
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Fire, Spirit and Labyrinth
The Labyrinth was started as a five year project five years ago. It felt essentially complete when the four mini-towers in each of the corners were finalized and the four fires were lit on the 2023 September Equinox.
When the Labyrinth was conceptualized, it felt that something should go in each corner, but it was not evident at the time what shapes the corners would take. Many designs were tried, and the four small towers eventually emerged.
The stone towers seem to anchor the Labyrinth – while walking the labyrinth is a fluid and moving experience, having the four unmoving, stone corners provides a sense of stability. There are of course four directions, four basic psychological types, four basic elements – all symbolizing a perhaps a basic wholeness.
Lighting the fires in the four corners brought a sense of warmth and spirit. The Labyrinth felt alive, and walking it became quite a spiritual experience…
Fire, Spirit and the Holy Ghost
In this quest to understand how the fires built in the four towers at the corners of the labyrinth became the symbolic culmination of twenty years of stonework, I realized…
The Spirit in the Fire
The Spirit in the Fire After twenty years of stone work, a turning point came: the towers were complete, and on the Equinox of 2023, the fires were lit for…
“All songs come to man when he is alone in the great solitude.”
sparker/ai “All songs come to man when he is alone in the great solitude.“ Of the many descriptions about the pull of Alaska and the arctic I have come across,…
Lovely! Honoring Nature in this way.
Thank you Steve.
Wow, Steve! What a phenomenal quest you’ve been on. I can only imagine what it feels like for you to walk walk this labyrinth! Thank you for share your journey with us.
Jenna ❤️
Thanks Jenna. I actually find it easier and more peaceful to walk the labyrinth n the winter rather than the summer — In the summer I tend to see the work that still needs to be done, the stones out of place… I enjoy it most in the summer when other people are there… In the summer what seems to help is meditative walking in variations of Thich Nhat Hanh kind of self-talk (” Breathing in I am calm. Breathing out, I smile.)