Sublime

Indoors, the church was a patriarch. But outside? The earth seemed like a mother.

reverenced.

Stukeley became a Freemason, and discovered – on being summoned to Kew Palace – that the then Princess of Wales shared his enthusiasm for Druidry. She apparently became the patroness of a Druid group that he organised, taking on the name ‘Veleda, Archdruidess of Kew’.

Since antiquity, the main traditional astrological and alchemical correspondence to marriage has been the coniunctio Solis (☉) et Lunae (☾), the coniunctio Lunae et Lunae, and the conjunction of the moon with the ascendent.

Her

There you have the start of Herland! One family, all descended from one mother! She lived to a hundred years old; lived to see her hundred and twenty-five great-granddaughters born; lived as Queen-Priestess-Mother of them all; and died with a nobler pride and a fuller joy than perhaps any human soul has ever known—she alone had founded a new race!