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SUMMARY:The Milky Way Shakespeare South
DESCRIPTION:This Saturday all-day event\, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins\, will take place in London\, with talks\, guidance and visits to places connected with the Shakespeare Mystery. \nThe day will start with a private visit to and talk in Canonbury Tower\, Islington\, part of the Tudor Manor House of Canonbury\, where many Freemasonic and Rosicrucian ‘Shakespeare’ secrets can be revealed. \nAfter lunch in The Canonbury Tavern\, we will make an educational pilgrimage southwards to St John’s Gate\, St Bartholomew’s Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral\, then across the river to the Shakespeare Globe Theatre on the south bank\, culminating with a meal and talk in a private room in The Anchor\, Bankside\, Southwark. \nBankside\, containing the Globe theatre and the Anchor pub\, is not far from the White Tower of London on Bryn Gwynt (‘the White Hill’)\, which for the Celts seems to have marked the southern crossing point of the Milky Way meridian and the ecliptic of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales)\, which is the cusp of Sagittarius-Scorpio in the celestial zodiac in the sky. \nThe number of attendees for this event is limited. \nEvent Fee = £90 per person\n(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ Zoom talk\, morning and evening talks\, guided tour of Canonbury Tower\, guided educational walk\, private room bookings\, administration costs. The fee does not include travel\, food\, drink and accommodation.) \nTo book\, please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nOn acceptance of the booking and payment made\, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk\, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’\, will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this Milky Way Shakespeare Mystery. \nDetails about the British landscape zodiac: \n\nThe British Landscape Zodiac\nDiscovery of the British Landscape Zodiac\n\nThe displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way\, by AstroAnthony. (Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.)
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/the-milky-way-shakespeare-south/
LOCATION:Canonbury Tower\, 6 Canonbury Place\, Islington\, London\, N1 2NY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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SUMMARY:The Milky Way Shakespeare Swans
DESCRIPTION:This extended weekend event\, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins\, will take place in England’s ‘Shakespeare Country’\, the Cygnus (Swan) area of the British landscape zodiac. \nDuring this extended weekend\, we will be based in Warwick and visiting Warwick Castle\, Kenilworth Castle\, and Stratford-upon-Avon with its Royal Shakespeare Theatre. \nThe ‘Shakespeare Country’ represents Cygnus (the Swan) in the landscape zodiac of Britain/England. It is composed of two Swans\, twins\, as per the Gemini myth. One Gemini Swan is born immortal\, the other mortal\, but by helping each other as loving friends they both become immortal-mortals. Warwick is the head of the ‘immortal’ Swan\, with Kenilworth its beak and the Rollright Stone Circle its root or tail. Stratford-upon-Avon is the root/tail of the ‘mortal’ Swan – the Swan that is immortalised by means of the self-sacrifice of its immortal twin. \nThe Gemini are the spear-shaking Shakespeares. In the 16th/17th centuries\, certain human beings acted out this ages-old mystery that lies enshrined in the landscape. \nThe event will start in the evening of Thursday 25 September. \nOn Friday 26 September we will visit Warwick Castle\, home of the Dudley earls of Warwick in Tudor times\, and of Fulke Greville in Jacobean times. We will also visit Kenilworth Castle\, the once-palatial residence of the Earl of Leicester. \nIn the time of Queen Elizabeth I\, the Earl of Warwick was Ambrose Dudley\, the elder brother of Robert Dudley\, Earl of Leicester\, the Queen’s favourite\, to whom the Queen granted Kenilworth Castle. The Dudley brothers and Fulke Greville were intricately involved in the Rosicrucian Shakespeare project. \nIn 1575 the lavish Kenilworth Entertainment took place\, with both theatrical entertainment and jousting on a grand scale that echoed Edward I’s revival of the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table. It was this grand entertainment\, followed by its twin\, the Woodstock Entertainment\, which raised the annual Accession Day Tournaments of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign to a highly elaborate theatrical level as part of the Rosicrucian Shakespeare project. \nIt was at the Woodstock Entertainment that the Faerie Queen made her first publicly recorded appearance in English literature and drama. Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream derive inspiration and elements from these two entertainments. \nOn Saturday 27 September we will visit Stratford-upon-Avon\, home of the actor William Shakespeare and the Royal Shakespeare Company\, where we will explore the geomantic arrangement of the town\, visiting Holy Trinity Church\, burial place of the actor William Shakespeare and location of the Shakespeare Monument with its revealing esoteric message. In the evening we will visit the Royal Shakespeare Theatre for an RSC performance of the Shakespeare play\, Measure for Measure. \nOn Sunday 28 September\, after a concluding morning talk and sharing\, there will be an optional visit to the Rollright Stones\, wherein lies an even older ‘Shakespeare’ story. \nThe number of attendees for this event is limited. \nEvent Fee = £548 + accommodation (optional)\n(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ Zoom talk\, other talks elsewhere and on site\, Fri/Sat lunches\, Thu/Fri/Sat evening meals\, entrance fees to Warwick and Kenilworth Castles\, RSC ‘A’ ticket\, and administration costs. The fee does not include travel\, drink and accommodation.) \nIf needed\, help can be given in finding suitable overnight accommodation. \nTo book\, please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nOn acceptance of the booking and payment made\, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk\, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’\, will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this Milky Way Shakespeare Mystery. \nDetails about the British landscape zodiac: \n\nThe British Landscape Zodiac\nDiscovery of the British Landscape Zodiac\n\nThe displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way\, by AstroAnthony. (Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.)
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/the-milky-way-shakespeare-swans/
LOCATION:Warwick Arms Hotel\, 17 High St\,\, Warwick\, CV34 4AT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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SUMMARY:Swan Flight along the Milky Way
DESCRIPTION:Triple Shakespeare Mystery\nThis triple Shakespeare Mystery is comprised of three separate but interlinked Shakespeare Mystery events in the three locations where England’s Shakespeare theatres are located along the Milky Way of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales): – \n\n7-8 June 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare North‘\n25-28 September 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare Swans’\n25 October 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare South’\n\nThe British landscape zodiac\, known to the 16th/17th century English Rosicrucians. The three locations – Prescot\, Stratford-upon-Avon and London – are in key positions in the landscape zodiac\, and were carefully chosen so as to echo the outstanding stellar phenomena that occurred sequentially in the sky during the 32-year period\, 1572-1604. The purpose of this ‘echoing’ was part of the Hermetic science* that the English Rosicrucians\, like other European Magian societies\, practised. \nThe first and last of these locations mark the two places where the Milky Way galactic meridian appears to cross the ecliptic of the Zodiac. The middle one marks the star Deneb in the Cygnus (Swan) constellation. \n*“As above so below\, as below so above\, for the doing of the Great Work.”\nQuadruple Shakespeare Insights\nThe ‘Swan Flight along the Milky Way’ series of events is being supported by four FBRT talks on Zoom at the equinoxes and solstices\, each of which provides in-depth information about this great mystery that was performed by the Rosy Cross Society for the benefit of the whole wide world: – \n\nSunday 23 March 2025 – ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare‘\nSunday 22 June 2025 – ‘The Gemini-Shakespeare Blazing Star Period’\nSunday 21 Sept. 2025 – ‘The Shakespeare Gemini’\nSunday 21 Dec. 2025 –  ‘The Immortalising Power of the Shakespeare Folio Preface‘\n\nA recording of the first talk\, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’\, is provided free for those who book for one or more of the events\, as it serves as a necessary introduction. \nA recording of each talk is also being made available for a fee of £15. \nThe displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way\, by AstroAnthony. Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/swan-flight-along-the-milky-way/
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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SUMMARY:The Milky Way Shakespeare North
DESCRIPTION:This weekend event\, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins\, will take place on Saturday in Prescot\, Merseyside\, and on Sunday in St Helens\, Merseyside. \nIn Prescot we will visit the Shakespeare North Playhouse\, a new playhouse that opened in 2022. This 21st century playhouse is built near to the site and in commemoration of an earlier 16th century Elizabethan playhouse that was built and owned by Richard Harrington\, the tenant of Prescot Hall and younger brother of Percival Harrington\, the deputy steward of Prescot. \nThis Tudor playhouse\, built sometime between 1593-5\, was located on the edge of Knowsley Hall estate\, the chief residence of the Stanley family\, Earls of Derby and stewards of Prescot\, who maintained their own acting company until 1609\, which is also when the playhouse ceased its theatrical use. \nAs no architectural plans survive for the original Prescot Playhouse\, the new theatre’s layout is based on the 1629 design by Inigo Jones for the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall\, London. \nOn Saturday 7th June we will have a guided Heritage tour of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in the morning\, followed by lunch. In the afternoon there will be talks followed by a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the evening. \nThe next day\, on Sunday morning we will explore the Witches’ Brew Animal Trail in Prescot town centre\, to see if we can find the sculptures of the animals that were included in the witches’ brew of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. \nAfter this\, we will travel to nearby St Helens where the phenomenal award-winning Dream sculpture is located\, which we will visit. This soaring white sculpture is near the northern crossing point of the Milky Way meridian and the ecliptic of the landscape zodiac of Britain (England and Wales)\, which is the cusp of Gemini-Taurus in the celestial zodiac in the sky. \nThe Dream sculpture\, created by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa\, is a white dolomite-coated pillar 66 feet (20 metres) tall\, sited on an old spoil tip\, now a hillock in a landscaped park that has replaced the defunct Sutton Manor Colliery. The Dream’s title is ‘Ex Terra Lucem’ (‘From the ground\, light’)\, and symbolises a beam of light rising out of the dark coalmine below. It is cast with the neck\, head and face of a young woman with her eyes closed in meditation\, dreaming of a brighter future. \nThis weekend event will be honouring this idea\, with its hope for a brighter future. \nNumber of attendees for this event is limited (max.15). \nEvent Fee = £175 per person\n(Event fee includes ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’ talk\, talks on site\, theatre guided tour\, Saturday lunch\, play performance\, and administration. Cost does not include travel\, accommodation\, refreshments\, and other meals required.) \nTo book\, please contact the Organiser (FBRT). \nOn acceptance of the booking and payment made\, a link to a recording of the Zoom talk\, ‘The Milky Way Shakespeare’\,  will be sent to you. This talk is essential for understanding the reason for this event and the other two events in this triple Shakespeare Mystery. \nDetails about the British landscape zodiac: \n\nThe British Landscape Zodiac\nDiscovery of the British Landscape Zodiac\n\nThe displayed picture is a panoramic image of our Milky Way\, by AstroAnthony. (Wikimedia Commons: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.)
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/the-milky-way-shakespeare-north/
LOCATION:Shakespeare North Playhouse\, Prospero Place\, Prescot\, L34 3AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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SUMMARY:Procreating the Beauty of Golden Friendship
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare Mystery in Corsica\nA hybrid event\, led by Peter and Sarah Dawkins –  part pilgrimage and part talks\, attunements and sharing on Zoom. \nCorsica is known as the Isle of Beauty\, a ‘Mountain in the Sea’. It is in fact an island composed of a great mountain range made up geologically of a crystalline western part and a schistose north-eastern part\, with a central heart mountain called Monte d’Oro\, ‘Mountain of Gold’. \nFor our purposes\, this Isle of Beauty can be seen as equating mythically with Illyria\, on the shores of which the twins\, Viola and Sebastian\, are cast after being separated in a shipwreck\, as described in the Shakespeare play\, Twelfth Night. \nHistorically Illyria is the name of an ancient region of the Western Balkans\, but mythologically\, which is how Shakespeare uses the name\, it means ‘Land of the Stars’ or ‘Land of Freedom’. \nIn a Greek legend\, Illyr\, ancestor of the Illyrians\, was the son of Cadmus and Harmonia\, with his name meaning ‘beautiful like the Sun-Star’. When born\, he was left by a river\, where he was found and raised by a serpent. \nThese ‘Illyrian’ legends\, myths and Twelfth Night all refer symbolically to the setting free of the mortal psyche so as to be reborn and raised as an immortal soul\, a shining star of beauty. This describes the whole purpose of this hybrid pilgrimage\, wherein we are working with the sacral chakra of the landscape ‘Swan’ of Europe in order to procreate the golden child of beauty whose nature is love expressed as friendship. \nThis hybrid Mystery of Shakespeare event is part of a sequence of events in which we are working with the Dionysian Mystery of Europe\, wherein metaphorically the Bull (or Boar) becomes the Swan\, which is a symbolic way of describing the transformation and transmutation of the mortal psyche into an immortal soul. As Shakespeare says\, we are all actors performing on the stage of the world\, the stage in this instance being Europe. \nDue to the mountainous terrain of Corsica and the practicalities involved\, the pilgrimage in Corsica is being carried out by a small core-group of friends who are linked with and supported by other friends who are carrying out pilgrimages and attunements elsewhere. In this way\, via pilgrimage\, attunement\, meditation\, prayer and friendship\, the aim of the Mystery event as expressed in its title can be achieved. \nPROGRAMME \n\n11 May 2025 – Zoom talk\, ‘Corsica\, the Illyrian Isle of Beauty’.\n13-18 May 2025 – Corsica pilgrimage\, with Zoom meetings.\n24 May 2025 – Zoom meeting – Corsica pilgrimage summary.\n25 May 2025 – Zoom meeting – general sharing and conclusion.\n\nTWO TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS \n\nVirtual pilgrims: attendees of Zoom talk ‘Corsica\, the Illyrian Isle of Beauty’ and event Zoom meetings\, and who carry out a pilgrimage in their own chosen area.\nCorsica pilgrims: the pre-selected core-group who will pilgrimage in Corsica and participate in all the Zoom meetings. (This core-group is a closed group.)\n\nCOST \n\nVirtual pilgrims – £45 per person (inclusive of Corsica Zoom talk and meetings).\n\nBOOKING \nPlease contact FBRT for booking\, payment and other details. \nRECOMMENDED READING \nThe Wisdom of Shakespeare in Twelfth Night\, by Peter Dawkins.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/procreating-the-beauty-of-golden-friendship/
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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SUMMARY:The Beauty & Mystery of Florence
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare Mystery in Florence led by Peter Dawkins and Julia Cleave.\nEnter into the beauty\, secrets and art of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. A special cultural and educational week in Florence\, the cradle of the European Renaissance and inspirational nourishment of modern times. We shall explore its poetic beauty\, art and architecture\, and delve into its symbolism\, wisdom and mystery that gave rise to the stream of initiatic consciousness with which Shakespeare is imbued and which underlies the work of Francis Bacon\, the Comte de St Germain\, the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians. \nAt present\, this event is fully booked.
URL:https://www.fbrt.org.uk/event/the-beauty-mystery-of-florence/
CATEGORIES:Mystery of Shakespeare
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