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Guardians of the Tall Stones by Moyra Caldecott, is now available exclusively for the Kindle from Amazon. You can also read it for free with Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

The blurb:

An ancient community is threatened by the evil designs of a corrupt and ambitious priest, and its only defence is the courageous young psychic Kyra.

The Guardians of the Tall Stones is set in Bronze Age Britain, a time when magic existed in the workings of everyday life and the threat of evil loomed in the shadows. This book contains four novels.

The Tall Stones
Kyra’s village is threatened by the evil designs of Wardyke, a corrupt and ambitious priest, and she is its only defence. But to defend her community, Kyra must enter the forbidden circle of stones and call upon its unseen, mystical powers…

The Temple of the Sun
Kyra, the courageous young psychic we met in The Tall Stones, undertakes the hazardous journey with Karne and Fern to the Sacred Temple, where Kyra is to receive her training as a priestess and renew her love for the Lord Khu-ren. But a malevolent spirit still opposes them, and its influence has already permeated the sanctity of the Temple. Kyra is forced once again to face the evil Magician-Priest, Wardyke, whose thirst for revenge and power threatens the balance between good and evil…

Shadow on the Stones
Kyra, priest of the Temple of the Sun, and her husband the Lord Khu-ren, have guided their civilisation to a time of spiritual strength, psychic energy, and communal peace. But there is a shadow on the Stones — the spreading influence of the terrible god Groth, dark god of chaos and barbarity. Only the priests of the Temple possess the power to resist the tides of destruction…

The Silver Vortex
Deva is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of the High Priest of the greatest of the mighty stone circles. She seeks to master the arts of sorcery in order to reclaim her lover from a previous incarnation. Now, trapped by a desire she cannot control, she risks more than herself, and puts the whole community in danger…

For more info, please see the Guardians of the Tall Stones page on mushroom-ebooks.com.

Julian Caldecott

A poem ‘I have no permanence …’ by Moyra, from her book The Breathless Pause (2009):

I have no permanence
as the thought of God.
Tomorrow
He may not think me
as I am,
with name
and birthday
and little bag of tricks.

But That which is He
is Whole and not divided
and everything that Is
is He.

So in Him
my spirit rides eternally
like a drop of water
in the sea.

Moyra Caldecott’s children have recently finished moving Moyra into the Woodland Grove Care Home in Bath, and selling her house in Southdown. Her possessions have been distributed, many of them brought to the Home where she is living comfortably surrounded by her favourite objects and artefacts – books, paintings, blown glass, geological exhibits, and so on.

At the age of 87, being unable now to speak or write, construct sentences or find words, she is limited in what she can do. Nevertheless she seems quite happy, and her children visit when they can. Julian is closest, since he lives in Bath. Rachel lives in southern France. Stratford, the eldest, lives in Oxford, but is hampered by prostate cancer which he has been fighting for three years.

We plan to post here information about Moyra’s interests and any relevant activities of her children. This site should be a way to continue Moyra’s presence on the Web. Her numerous published books, most of them remaining in print thanks to the work of Mushroom Publishing, are a stimulus to read as she would read. She was fascinated by folklore and mythology, art, history, and cosmology.

Those subjects and others will be followed here on the Moyra Caldecott web pages. We hope you drop by from time to time!

Stratford, Julian, and Rachel Caldecott

I went often to the canal after that.
I did not see the sign again –
the combination of a dark house
and blazing windows in the reflection.
It was a “one-off” symbol
given to me
to teach me
and to comfort me.

This week the Icelandic volcano
erupting
has disrupted air travel in Europe .
Both my sons,
Julian in Indonesia ,
Strat in America ,
can’t get back to their homes
in England .

Not since Icarus fell from the sky
has man been in so much trouble
flying.
Was it the volcanic ash cloud from Santorini
made Icarus fall,
or coming too near the Sun
in pride?
And would the Icelandic volcano
make an end of our civilisation,
based on flying
and money,
as the Santorini volcano did the Minoans
in Crete?

Mary’s son
holds
the Light
that was before
the light –
the Light
that was before
Mary –
but not before
her son.

Mary’s son
lifts the golden sphere
and throws it at the dark.
‘Look,’ he cries.
‘Now
All is Light.’

Contained in flesh
are we?
No. No!
Contained in the unimaginable
sphere of God’s love.
No small thing
our cares, our fears
until touched
by this touch.
This key
turns us from our fears
and turning
frees us.
Now we know
that we are known…
and cared for.

Small are we?
No. No!
Each fills the universe,
for each the universe
is there.
Now we feel it.
Now we abandon
doubt
and jettison
despair.

Touching this icon
flesh dissolves
and our true containment
contains us.
What was great to us before
now shrinks
and the small and disregarded seed,
the secret and abiding
meaning of our lives,
expands.
With God’s all-seeing eye
we see
and seeing
know.
In His hands
we rest
and in His heart
are blessed.