This first Sacred Beyond personal chronicle follows a week of ritual, early morning walks to Boscawen’un 

Stone Circle in Penwith, Cornwall, before this beautiful body of wisdom was truly formed.

This week of ritual was catalytic in so many ways 

but for you, dear reader, I invite you to drop into the potent realm of what I call:

‘Soul Experience In Body’, through my stories so that you can glimpse there the mystery and 

revelations that await you in what is to come in The Sacred Beyond. 

Last February, my Morning Pages guided me to walk to Boscawen’un Stone Circle every day during the full moon. I had been in Cornwall for about six weeks and was blessed to live close to an extraordinary stone circle. Over the past eleven years, it has become one of the central sacred sites on my Spiral Portal Path. Its name is Boscawen’un (pronounced Boscanoon).

I could walk out my door and get there from my home. It was normally an easy-to-walk public footpath to the circle, but it was winter in Penwith, and the path was ridiculously muddy and, in several places, impassable.  Detours over the hedgerow and into fields became necessary.  Not to mention last winter’s wet, cold, dark and windy weather.  Not for the faint of heart!

Despite these obstacles, I accepted the inner guidance to walk daily to Boscawen’un Stone Circle. This was an act of self-love, a Valentine’s gift to myself: to get up and walk to the stone circle, no matter the weather, my feelings, or my resistance.  

Six months later, I now have the opportunity to look back and re-read these blog posts. I can see that I was given this practice to nourish and strengthen my inner foundation, the magnetic base in my own body. It turns out I would need it only two weeks later to go through the experience of letting go of Rupert, my beloved dog, and supporting his passing.

It was one thing to let go of Rupert.  

It has been a whole other process to fully come into being without him – to choose to live here in Penwith on my own. 

To root into the sacred landscape – within and without. To root fully into me, my body, and receive being fully supported by the magnetic foundation of the stones in a circle outside of me and in my body, strong and sourced.

Sometimes, we can only appreciate why we were asked to do something with hindsight—looking back to receive the pearls of wisdom present all along, but we were so involved that we couldn’t see.  

We simply had to trust. To commit. To show up.  

For the practice. The request. The ask. 

For ourselves.

Here I am, six months later, on my own, in a new home only a few miles from where Rupert and I were living near Boscawen’un Stone Circle. I am getting to experience being near some of the other sacred sites of the Spiral Portals Path. 

I am experiencing that; yes, I am on my own, but I am not alone. 

Which is the title of my first blog here at The Sacred Beyond. 

Welcome to Blogging from the Beyond – my musings, transmissions, and explorations from The Sacred Beyond.  This is just one of the moments that helped birth The Sacred Beyond wisdom and mission.

I will meet you there in the circles…

Day 1. Boscawen’un at Sunrise, Monday, 12 February 2024

Received clear guidance from the Dark Moon energies to walk to Boscawen’un Stone Circle of the sunrise every day until the Full Moon on Sunday the 25th. This means getting up early, going outside rain or shine, and walking the ½ mile to be with the stone circle and open to my experience.  Yesterday, on my first day, I was greeted by red roses that had been left by a weekend ceremony.  Clear and sunny morning.  Sitting up against the center stone, I practised connecting with my spinal base for safety and grounding.

Magic and beauty in listening, honoring and taking sacred action from the intuitive guidance.

Day 2. Misty Morning at Boscawen’un

A quiet morning with the stones.  I was invited to stand with them in the circle and join them in the circle of the sisterhood.

Day 3. Resistance to getting up early.

I couldn’t get up before dawn this morning.  A long night of getting up and being awake with my 12-year-old dog.  Gave myself permission to sleep in.  When I woke up, I felt a strong desire to walk to the stones, even though it was after sunrise.  In the misty rain and on muddy paths, I entered the sacred space of the stone circle, delighted to return.

I stood at “my” spot in the circle with the other stones, and I began to listen to the “Magnetic Ground” practice—a Venus Portals practice of connecting with our pelvic bowl, our magnetic connection to Earth and to our spinal base, and cultivating safety within.

As I listened and breathed with the portals, I wove myself in and out of the stones as I walked around the circle three times, weaving a basket to hold me deeply and powerfully. 

I then walked to the center of the circle and sat at the base of the center stone, completing the practice and connecting my spinal base with my pelvic bowl.  Rooted.  Strong.  Connected. Cohesive. Contained. Like the center stone surrounded by the circle stones.  Boscawen’un.  As within, so without.

What a gift these roses are.  Someone arranged them at the base of the quartz stone in the past day.  The rosebud from Monday morning was lying on the ground, so I held it in my lap as I engaged with the Magnetic Ground practice and then placed the rosebud at the base of the stone where I sat. 🌹 

Deeply integrating the Venus Portals with the Spiral Path. As within, so without.  The Venus Spiral Path.  🌹🌀🌹

Day 4. Commitment to the Practice in the Midst of Life. Thursday, 15 February. 

4 hours of sleep. Early morning visit to the vet.  Dropping off Rupert for his liver scan and honoring my commitment to this daily practice, I drove back to Boscawen’un from Penzance and walked down to the circle from the A30.  Muddy and mizzly. West Entrance – Serpent Gate.  A new view of the stones.  Scattered roses. The Venus Rose.  Beauty.  Magnetic Ground practice.  Welcoming others who came into the circle, but staying focused and engaged with the practice, sitting in the center of the stones.

Returned to town.  Rupert was diagnosed with cancerous nodules on his liver.  Life and impending death. 

This commitment and practice are holding me in love as Rupert and I moved in to an ever-quickening spiral of our time together.  Twelve years this turn on the spiral.  Lifetimes together.  He has been my protector and my safety.  Letting go to cultivate the safety within.

The Spinal Base and the Magnetic Ground.  Within my own body.  Wired in each of us.  Having the keys and the map to access it.

Venus Spiral Path.

Day 5. Muddy Slog to the Circle. Friday, 16 February.

Got a glimpse of the sunrise on my walk to the stones. WET and MUDDY! It had rained on Thursday so hard to slog through extra thick, dark, muddy and larger-than-ever puddles. The water by the gate of the stone circle was so big that it was almost impossible to go around it. Slipped on the slippery mud into the dark and cold waters filling my left boot.

Arrived at the stone circle only to see a couple standing in the center, each with a small white piece of paper in their hands. Vows?

He looked over at me as I came up toward the gate.

Honored the sacredness of the circle and their private time and space there, I made my way home through the mud and puddles. 

Day 6. Gifts from the Practice. Saturday 17th February.

I’m not sleeping. My dog gets up every hour during the night, sometimes just to go outside and sniff the air. I’m looking for excuses not to go—tired, weather, don’t want to.  

Instead, choosing to honor my commitment.  To cultivate my capacity to RELY on myself, to be my word.

A quality of the inner masculine I am committed to embodying within myself.

RELIABILITY.

Misty, misty morning. The path not quite as muddy or wet as yesterday, I was able to get around the major puddle more easily.

Two other women were already there.  I sat outside the circle and began listening to the Magnetic Ground practice, giving them their space at the center stone.

I then was guided to walk around the stones, first on the outside, and then to weave in and out two times around, as though I was weaving the basket of my pelvic bowl out of the light and shakti generated in my ovaries to source the practice.

They left as I was completing my third time around the stones, so I entered and walked to the center stone. The Venus Rose, the rosebud that offered itself to me on Day 1, was lying on the ground near its base. Still intact as a rosebud but with the center of the rose now disconnected, I was guided to pick it up and take it over the quartz stone with the heart-shaped stone sitting on top.

Womb~heart.

Heart feels. Womb holds.

Powerfully feeling the connection within my own body of my womb~heart in the center of my body, I brought the heart stone and womb rose over the center stone and placed them at its base. 

WOMB~HEART. The ever-present connection of our wombs and hearts.  Every woman.  Providing us with the access to feel and be with ourselves.  To locate ourselves – in our bodies, on Earth, between the Earth and Cosmos, in the here and now.

Womb~Heart.

❤️🌹❤️

Day 7. Unexpected Completion of the Practice. The Venus Spiral Rose. 🌹🌀🌹

It poured with rain on Saturday night, so I parked up on the main road and walked down to the circle from the road.  I love the view of the circle when I enter from the west.  Such an amazing view of the circle of stones with the center of the stone at such a powerful angle.

I remember reading years ago that for the center stone to not only be at this angle but to remain at the same angle for hundreds, if not thousands of years, that its base must be deep and wide under the earth.  What a powerful metaphor.  Its foundation is deep, wide, stable and strong.  Nothing can knock it over.

I listened to the Magnetic Base practice again, this time beginning the practice as I walked down to the circle.  Walking down the path led me through the introduction. 

The  Magnetic  Foundation is found in your pelvic bowl.  It offers a sense of embodied safety,  security, sexual integrity,  inner strength,  and independence to help create our own inner pillar.  

It allows us to flow with our emotions and sexuality.  

It allows us to have healthy emotional boundaries on a sexual,  personal and emotional level.

With a healthy, intact, magnetic ground, we can fully engage in our intimate relationships. We can love ourselves and be sovereign and therefore, open and vulnerable to others.

It is here that our safety is intact on a core level, and from here, we relate to others from our place of true desire rather than need.

Deeper surrender comes from knowing ourselves and being individuated.  The  magnetic  ground  provides  a  felt  structure  for  resting  in  yourself  on  a  physical, emotional,  and  sexual  level,  uniting  all  three  of  these  into a matrix  that  bridges  multiple  dimensions  of our  experience.”

Katherine Zorensky, www.becomingkatherinez.com

Yes.  This.  Every word of this resonates deep within my pelvic bowl, my magnetic base.

I entered the circle from the west, listening and breathing with the practice. I walked one time around the outside of the circle, one time on the inside, and two times weaving in and out of the stones to create a complete weaving.

As I walked, the circle revealed that not only is it an outer mirror of our inner magnetic ground and spiral base, but it also contains all of the Venus Portals—the individual portals and the whole. I saw and felt the five portals reveal themselves to me as I walked, touching each stone as I walked by. The quartz stone on the south end of the circle, with the roses intentionally spread out at its base, spoke to me as one of the Venus Portals.

As within, so without.

All here.  The whole journey of the Venus Portals path.  We can walk the entire Venus Portals path here at Boscawen’un.  We can receive the container and the template for the portals here at Boscawen’un – like the beautiful rosebud, and then we can unfurl the petals of the portals and walk the Spiral Path to visit each of the portals individually, one rose petal at a time.

Sarah Hoskin

The Venus Spiral Rose

🌹🌀🌹