Our seven circuit Medieval Labyrinth is located on our 1/2 acre
private property in Lehigh Acres Florida. We began the project in
October of 2008. The square building is the run-off observatory. It
houses an 8" Schmidt Cass, an adjacent outside pad is for a 10"
Meade Dobsonian telescope.
Labyrinths may be found across continents and in many cultures.
Their age reaches far back into antiquity with the oldest documented
spirals being some 4,000 yrs old. They are a melding of earth
energies with physical objects with the spiral and the land working
both in the physical and the spiritual to promote and encourage
peace, harmony and tranquility.
Curiously, labyrinths usually tell us where they need to go. There is a
place in the shade of a china berry tree that has always been
different. This sacred space has been here since we moved in
thirteen years ago. Gatherings held on the other side of the property
away from this area didn't have quite the same energies as
gatherings held in and near this spot. On dowsing and using a
pendulum it just kinda of told me where and what needed to go and it
was here. It's difficult to explain, it just happens that way.
A Labyrinth is a walking meditation that can mean different things to
different people. Walking one may ease your mind and help you to
see life in the context of the path below your feet. We are all beings
of a spiritual and physical nature on the twisting, meandering path of
our lives. Our labyrinth is constructed of hand cast concrete poured
into custom wooden forms that we designed and made. When the
cement set up, we knocked the concrete clear of the supporting
boards and trimmed the edges of the path slabs each by hand, with a
wood rasp. Doing this activity reminded me of all the suspended
dome panels to the Calusa Planetarium that I had trimmed by hand,
with a nibbler tool, long ago. I worked up on the sky, on scaffolding
before turning more to the land. Now I'm back between both again.
Sometimes I placed items in the path as the cement was setting up;
Luna's footy prints, shiny things, or if we were lucky, some of the
denizens of the night would walk across the paths as they were
setting up over night...
Jim and Luna, Jim bolting down the forms to pour the
cement into and Luna snooping around for bugs to
investigate.
cement into and Luna snooping around for bugs to
investigate.
Almost three Circuits done!
We drew and laid the paths out. You'll notice in walking
the labyrinth that the individual pieces are not entirely
perfect nor should they be, but then neither is the land we
laid the pieces out on, it isn't flat or perfect either, it's much
like life's ups and downs, high points and depressions.
The labyrinth was finished in January of 2009, my husband
Jim built it for me as a 29th Anniversary gift for 2008. I had
missed being able to go and walk labyrinths periodically
and wanted a more permanent one like some I had seen
online in other places. They were certainly calling to me as
was the land. It's beautiful to walk and photograph.
If you would like to come out and walk, you are welcome to
make arrangements. Weekends and days are fine.
Weekend nights are fine by firelight, come out, have some
tea or coffee under the china berry tree and relax a bit as
you walk our wonderful peaceful labyrinth. To make
arrangements to walk contact me here. We are in Lehigh
Acres which is an un-incorporated area of Fort Myers FL. If
you fly in to the Airport you will more than likely see the
Labyrinth from the air !
Additional information on Labyrinths:
Labyrinthos Resource Center
Chartres Cathedral
Prayer Labyrinth
Labyrinth World Wide Locator
Construction notes:
Jim drew the initial design and made the templates. This is
a Seven Circuit and 28' in Diameter. The Center
measures 7' across. It took 102 60lb bags of concrete to
make. We bought a concrete mixer. It took three month's
to complete (worked over weekends.) If stretched out it
would be about 350' long, round trip approximately 750'
the labyrinth that the individual pieces are not entirely
perfect nor should they be, but then neither is the land we
laid the pieces out on, it isn't flat or perfect either, it's much
like life's ups and downs, high points and depressions.
The labyrinth was finished in January of 2009, my husband
Jim built it for me as a 29th Anniversary gift for 2008. I had
missed being able to go and walk labyrinths periodically
and wanted a more permanent one like some I had seen
online in other places. They were certainly calling to me as
was the land. It's beautiful to walk and photograph.
If you would like to come out and walk, you are welcome to
make arrangements. Weekends and days are fine.
Weekend nights are fine by firelight, come out, have some
tea or coffee under the china berry tree and relax a bit as
you walk our wonderful peaceful labyrinth. To make
arrangements to walk contact me here. We are in Lehigh
Acres which is an un-incorporated area of Fort Myers FL. If
you fly in to the Airport you will more than likely see the
Labyrinth from the air !
Additional information on Labyrinths:
Labyrinthos Resource Center
Chartres Cathedral
Prayer Labyrinth
Labyrinth World Wide Locator
Construction notes:
Jim drew the initial design and made the templates. This is
a Seven Circuit and 28' in Diameter. The Center
measures 7' across. It took 102 60lb bags of concrete to
make. We bought a concrete mixer. It took three month's
to complete (worked over weekends.) If stretched out it
would be about 350' long, round trip approximately 750'
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