Walking in the footsteps of your year, at this Lughnasdah Solar Festival.

Take a sacred walk through hidden London with me. A pilgrimage through the fascinating city landscape of London.

The exact route we will take will be revealed closer to the time, as it comes from the place and where we are all in that moment. Revealed two weeks prior to the walk, the starts are either the Tower of London or the Globe Theatre. The London Stone is used as a marker as it marks the heart of the City of London and is often a focus for any of the walks I do. It is NOT the official meeting place.

You will get an email or notification of the route.

This is a sacred walk in preparation for the solar Festival of Lughnasdah. The Festival of Lammas, Lughnasdah or the Festival of Transformation (August 1st) celebrates the gateway into autumn. It is the shift in the seasons, when summer ends and autumn and all its gifts, begin.

Lughnasdah is the start of the ripening of the year, when we bring our awareness to what we want to come to pass in the different parts of our life after the effort and the growth that we have been putting forward during summer. This is not necessarily the final or the complete fruition of everything but as the year on year growth occurs we need to staging posts that help us to maintain our path and our journey.

Like all the fruit on a tree, the tree knows which are really ready to ripen and acts accordingly - we find it shedding certain fruit that either is not set right or that the tree does not have the resources to bring to ripening and to fulfil their journey.

A tree has no compunction in the discharging of these things where as often we find ourselves wanting to make all that we have in our lives continue and to ripen into something that we once saw. This is not in our best interests and with Lughnasdah, we have the opportunity to feel into what will come and what we now need to put down.

Pilgrimage.

London-based landscape designer Jeremy Rye will be leading guided tours of the four London walks that were known to Kings and Queens since the beginning of the monarchy in England.

These spiritual walks were undertaken by the monarchs and the landscape keepers of the time. They would journey at specific points in their reign, at certain times of the year or for the marking of events. These were not only a means of navigating a city but seen as instrumental in maintaining its health, spiritual and commercial success.

Unlike a typical history tour, this is an opportunity for participants to mirror these spiritual journeys, in part to strengthen our sense of self, answer questions we have and to transform. They are an ideal companion to other self-reflection practices such as journaling, therapy or meditation.

Jeremy Rye is a practicing landscape architect who integrates history and spirituality in his work.

Route:

There will be seven stops made along the way where Jeremy will both point out historic architectural features, their history and their connection to a spiritual question. Participants are invited to use these stops not only to listen but find answers for themselves.

Accessibility:

The walk will take on average 3 hours with a break and is not wheelchair accessible.

The walk will take part no matter the weather and tickets are non-refundable.

Host or Publisher Jeremy Rye