New Labyrinths

Older New Ones

More and more people are beginning to make labyrinths. The first new labyrinth award goes to Othems labyrinth on the island of Gotland off the east coast of Sweden. At the turn of the last century, as a study of what their fishermen fathers had recently been using, a school teacher at the north end of the island had his students make this labyrinth. It is energetically dead - as if Mother Nature knew it was just an academic exercise - but, it is the first "modern"/new labyrinth.

The first labyrinth Sig built in the UK was at a Glastonbury Earth Mysteries Gathering in May of 1985. The walls had mud from a nearby river, but it was also necessary to mow a path. Notice Glastonbury Tor in background.

This is the labyrinth Sig Lonegren made in his front lawn at his home in Vermont with the help of his publishers at Gothic Image Jamie George and Frances Howard-Gordon.

Sig's labyrinth in Winter. See the Goddess in the center, looking to the left, with her arms stretched out, and her hair swirling around. This is one of the earlier labyrinths (1986) to be constructed in the US during this modern labyrinthine revival.

Labyrinths are good places for ceremonies. Here Sig walks his labyrinth during a hand-fasting ceremony. Bark chunks make an excellent walking surface and weed controlling mulch.

Solsbury Hill is small flat-topped hill just outside Bath, England. It was earthworked in the Iron Age, is a Druidic seat, and is thought by scholars to be the site of Mount Baden, where Romano-Celtic leader "King" Arthur won his victory over Anglo-Saxon invaders. The labyrinth was cut on common ground on the north-west corner of the hill top during a single night in 1993, by "Boris" Morrice, Patrick Macmanaway and Duncan Johnson. It was sited on a visual axis with a horizon notch, in a location originally lacking dowsable earth energies of any kind.

Since the labyrinth is on common land used for grazing and open to the public, much work is necessary to keep the site in good physical order. Excitingly the labyrinth has attracted constant use, and considerable ley energies and water features have developed at the site. Your conscious and loving visit will assist in the further development of this new sacred site. The keeper may be contacted for further information and for feedback.