blogs, meditations, stories, music and podcasts
a moonthly journal of my creative outpourings
The Tarot of Overstanding
a change of plan I spent my 59th birthday at the funeral of my best friend from school. It was a sad and poignant day but also a celebration of his life and impact. At the time, I had published 15 books but I had never...
The Seeds of Alchemy
Hiatus Time The good news is that the knee operation went well and I am making a good recovery. The prognosis is good. The healing though is slow and steady : a nudge from the Universe to slow down and take stock perhaps...
Walking Well
For as long as I can remember, I have had a painful right knee. I’ve had various treatments and fixes over the years but nothing has really worked and now I am down to bone on bone. Even if you aren’t medically trained,...
Plotting and Pantsing
Are You a Plotter or a Pantser? Last month I came across this question for the first time and had no idea what it meant at first. I came across it in an author’s forum which gives a small clue. It asks if you, as an...
Down to Business
If you read my blog last month, you will have seen I hit yet another milestone on Insight Timer - this moonth, something else equally remarkable happened. They approached me to see if I had any meditations that would be...
Four Million Listens
Just less that six years ago, I was approached by Maddy Gerrard of Insight Timer and asked if I wanted to upload some free meditations. I didn’t think that much of it as I’d never heard of them but I did. I uploaded a...
Halfway There
Halfway There As we come to the end of June, I thought it a good time to take a stock check and a bit of a breather. So, the second book in the Soulwaves Anthology came out in January and the third book is emerging...
Back in the Groove
Back in the Groove In retrospect, taking two 'moonths' to relocate and get back into the writing groove is quite short. So now I am installed in my new writing room/music production space - just a little tidying up to do...
New Plans : New Perspectives
New Perspectives It’s only just dawned on me that our recent house move played out over a whole moon orbit. We started our move just before the April New Moon and this New Moon sees us in and installed with my new...
Creating Meditales
The Soulwaves Triptych While it was well over 15 years, and 15 other books, before Soulwaves : A Future History finally got published, the first of many dominoes seems to have toppled and started, well, somewhat of a...
Igniting the Spark
My guest on this podcast is Stephanie James - a psychotherapist, transformational life coach, presenter, radio show and podcast host, author and film maker, so somewhat of a polymath. In this podcast, we chat about the...
The Moon Wave
Riding a Moon Wave While I have operated with the Moon phase in mind for many years, this year I am using it as the clock to which I time the creation and release of my new output. Apart from giving me a target to stick...
Beams of Peace
In this delightful podcast, I am chatting to fellow Insight Timer meditation teacher and the progenitor of Peacebeams, Jane Murray. Note that this podcast contains a meditation at the end, so pull over if you are...
New Yarns
This moonth has seen a spinning together of many threads and the weaving of new yarns - in both senses of that word. The publication of book two in the Soulwaves Anthology is the visible, exterior linchpin - along with...
In Thirteen Moons
The Last Thirteen Moonths Thirteen Moon orbits ago, I finally published a novel that I started 15 years and 15 other books ago. Then, in the first lockdown, a book I hadn’t planned wandered along. It’s a set of shortish...
The Path of Ascension
In this delightful podcast, I am chatting to the intuitive channel, healer and amazingly tuned-in soul who goes by the name of Suzanne Ross. Topics we chat about: How there are no job titles quite yet for what Suzanne...
Comings and Goings
Comings In 2020, we saw the strange behaviour of Dominic Cummings 'going' to Barnard’s Castle - something we did slightly more legally and ethically in our new motorhome later in the year. This last year also saw lots of...
Preparing for Launch
So 15 years and 15 books ago, I wrote the first draft of Soulwaves : A Future History which was eventually was published on the 1st New Moon of 2020. Since then, the novel has inspired the creation of an album of five...
Entanglement
Do you agonize about how your endeavors will turn out? Are events and decisions from your past interrupting your present? When you are falling asleep at night, do the trouble-gremlins dance on your chest, preventing you...
Sound Wisdom
Have you noticed a change in the world in the last month at the macro-level? Well it has rippled down to me on a micro-level. and see the end of my last blog on how I was open to be shown a way that I hadn't imagined For...
The Cycle of Projects
So while the UK opened up, we managed to get a full three and a half week's of touring in a working motorhome - with no recourse to call out the RAC. And while I was away, I used the time to bring the Soulwaves : A...
The Paths of Return
The notion that we are following a Path of Return is an intriguing one. For starters, it implies we are not so much heading somewhere in our lives but perhaps heading back from where we came from. Along the way though is...
Going Wild
It's taken a while but at last our motorhome has a motor. So for most of this month, we are travelling around the UK with not much of a plan but to follow our instinct and find the Indian Summer. So we're heading North,...
Back to First Base
After two abortive road trips, and the vehicle spending over two weeks back at the dealer, our motorhome journey has been eventful and had more downs than ups. We've found though that the local Fiat garage can fix it and...
The Road to Nowhere
So we are now the owners of a motorhome, kind of - she was called Bunty von Burstner. Unfortunately our first planned two week trip was cut short and 'she' is back with the dealer as 'she' kept going 'fawlty' - if she...
A Summer to Love
This moonth sees an emergence as the easing of lock down begins. Some decisions have been made. No more private clients or 1-2-1 work for me, just creation of books, meditations and course materials - and the odd online...
Springing Forward
Another moonth later and spring has sprung. naturally with me, a whole bunch of new content has also emerged, which I’ve put into one place down the bottom of this blog. For many, lock down I am sure has been stressful....
Three Million Listens
A 'moonth' ago, I wrote a slightly morose blog, as if it might have been my last one. In uncertain times, I took actions as if there might be no tomorrow. Another moonth on and we can now see some of the trajectory, a...
Out of the Void
In just one Moon orbit of the Earth, much has changed. Like most of the planet, we are in self-isolation and in equal awe at how the virus is spreading but how such acts of compassion and humanity are also nicely...
The Void and The Density
This 'moonth' has seen an unprecedented level of creativity, even for me. Three podcasts, three new ambient tracks and one guided meditation just popped out of nowhere. More specifically they came from the Void to the...
Starting a ‘Wave
When you haven't written a book, getting it actually published can seem like a bit of a mountain to climb. When you do get it published, it can appear like another bigger and harder mountain appears - and that's to tell...
A Gift That Keeps on Giving
Just over 10 years ago, I published my first non-fiction book called Blocks. To accompany it, I created a set of meditations. Little did I know then that would lead me down a completely different path. This month, my...
Finding a Way
While I have been busy creating the Soulwaves book itself, I have consciously done nothing about publishing it, other than to observe what is happening in the industry. So rather than me having to find the way to get it...
15 Books Later
Fifteen books later, the book I started first has finally been written - and narrated. It's now off for typesetting as this blog gets published. The day after the book is done and it's now kind of out of my hands, it's...
Small Steps Big Steps
Soulwaves : The Audiobook This month has been consumed by audiobook production - slotted in around loads of family support. At 100 chapters and just shy of 100k words, there is no short cut. I am managing 10...
Taking Hands off the Wheel
Artwork by Siri Stiklestad Opli The month of August has become a big handle turning exercise. September augurs more of the same. The reason being is that 35 of the 100 chapters of Soulwaves are now narrated. I make no...
Two Million Listens
Several blogs ago I set my stall our to post once a month as a bread crumb trail of what was going on in my life - the original purpose and format for a blog perhaps. Something happened at the start of this...
Re-tyre-ment
Now I should state that I am really not a fan of Formula 1. To me the prospect of watching paint dry is more compelling. That said, I am a big fan of analogy and metaphor and the concept of taking a pit stop...
Cogs Are Turning
This month I did something I have never done before in the middle of a big project. I took a month off. Well not exactly, I packed up a house I’d lived in for 20 years and had a week's holiday on a wide beam...
Winding Down and Winding Up
The two pillars in the High Priestess card in the Tarot represent Involution and Evolution. Involution is like a winding down, or curling up, and it leads to evolution when it unfolds again. Reflecting on this natural...
Crossing Over
This month sees a couple of new crossings over. One of them was planned and the other unexpected and accidental. Crossing #1 : Non-fiction to fiction The first planned crossing is from non-fiction author to...
Being Seen and Heard
Being Seen This month I did something I have been meaning to do for ages, I had some new photography done for my site. The wonderful Maria O'Brien of Haiga Photography popped over to my house on a glorious...
The Turning Point
This January, I did something that I had not done for a number of years. I started out by taking my foot off the gas. Partly ticking off something from the bucket list and partly winding up my 60th year with some fellow...
Phases of Life
This month saw the unexpected passing of my mother-in-law. She has been in a care home for 8 years and wasn't ill (for once). She had had a happy day, laughing and joking and was chatting to my father-in-law watching TV...
My Biz My Way Part 2
This time last year I was invited by Judith Morgan to reflect on how I did my business my way. A year on, or another Sun orbit, I thought it worthwhile to reflect on how it all went. You can read the first...
Paths of Return
The Paths of Return This month has been nothing less than amazing ... and that's after a load of amazing months. It has been a time when many threads have come together and many seeds planted years ago finally...
The Slowest Book I’ve Written
In 2012, on September 3rd, I started writing what became my quickest book called This We Know. 14 days later, on the 17th September (that same year), a copy of the print version arrived in the post - and it was available...
A Blog Going Back to Basics
© gabrielle cole When blogs first came about, they were mainly designed to act as a chronological journal. Some still are but many, including this one, are repositories of articles, often categorised to make blogs easier...
One Million Listens
This month I reached a milestone which was not in my wildest of wild dreams and not on any To Do List, or set of goals. My meditations and podcasts on mindfulness have been listened to over 1 million times. When we hit...