{"id":300,"date":"2016-07-20T21:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2016-07-29T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:19:04","slug":"stones-of-the-ancient-ones-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Stones of The Ancient Ones ~ Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-320 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2275-Version-2-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"Touching the Stone, feeling Home.\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2275-Version-2-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2275-Version-2-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2275-Version-2-1024x886.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2275-Version-2.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Touching the Stone, feeling Home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The presence in these stones has been calling me here for years. And, here I am. I have nothing to say. And so, it is funny what came through, as I am now without my usual waterfall of words. Not even a trickle.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my new friend and professional Guide of Orkney&#8217;s sacred sites,\u00a0Kath Wood told me, &#8220;You should write a book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-303 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2233-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2233\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2233-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2233-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2233-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2233-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am told that over and over. Is now the time? Now is the time. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, so, the day I met the Stones of Stenness,<\/p>\n<p>and The Ness of Brodgar,<\/p>\n<p>and The Ring of Brodgar I could feel something else wanting to be born, birthed, expressed, illuminated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2242\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2242-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stories are fun to write and share, and this journey is the perfect adventure, with photos, to embark on a full epic telling, and then, the next time the 100th person says, &#8220;You should write a book.&#8221; I&#8217;ll say, &#8220;I have. It&#8217;s called&#8230;.&#8221;&#8230;&amp; it will have a title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2243\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2243-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>How fun, something new&#8230;like being connected to these Stones and works of Art and Function.<\/p>\n<p>I will trust whatever comes through, in its own timing. Magic is carrying me now. I must trust &amp; move with what is moving me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stone of Stenness<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-301 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2223\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureclan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2223-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The presence in these stones has been calling me here for years. And, here I am. I have nothing to say. And so, it is funny what came through, as I am now without my usual waterfall of words. Not even a trickle. Today, my new friend and professional Guide of Orkney&#8217;s sacred sites,\u00a0Kath &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stones of The Ancient Ones ~ Orkney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}