The special full moon of October 2023

For the last few months my friend Maike and me do a full moon ritual where we let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore and where we concentrate on what will serve us and do us good in the future.

I must say that this has helped me a lot because I used to spend a lot of time thinking about things that happened in the past. Now I do that less, I think more about my every day situations and about my future.

So yesterday we did another ritual that, according to my moon calendar required a blue bowl with water and rosemary, sage and bay leaves. It smelled wonderful and at the end of the ritual we washed our hands in it so we can start a clean moon cycle.

Stress free winter dayz

Live Crete Alive is changing, as so many things in our personal life changed because of Covid. Many of us look different at the world of today and struggle sometimes to fit in. But it isn’t always about fitting in the world, it is more about fitting in your own body and mind. So if you need a pause to get into yourself let me know, you can come over for a few days and we will try to figure out what it is you need, by being relaxed, by talking, meditating, doing some yoga or a workshop, or to just chill.

Prinses Europe and the God Zeus

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This strong bull is actually the transformed God Zeus and on his back sits the Princess Europe who holds the world and the symbol of peace in her hands.

Around 4000 years ago these 2 made love under a plane tree in Gortyna Crete and gave birth to the famous king Minos, ruler of Crete and king of the minoan palace in Knossos.

For over 1000 years King Minos assured peace on the island Crete and created the highest civilisation in Europe.

The Romans and the olive tree

This olive tree probably saw the Romans build the tempel and odeon in the ancient city of Gortyna during the first century AD. But it also saw the city being destroyed by the Arabs in 828AD.

After this destruction live was quiet around it,

and then from the 19th century on escavations started in the area and the tree came to its right as all these years it was embrasing and protecting a pillar put there by the Romans.