Ystradgynlais Psychotherapy

Ystradgynlais Psychotherapy We offer psychotherapy and counselling in the Swansea Valley area. www.asclepiustherapy.co.uk

28/07/2026

Explore “The Odyssey” through Jungian, psychodynamic, narrative and cognitive behavioural therapies, examining war trauma, refugees, alienation and the difficul

26/05/2026

A few rooms to let at Asclepius Therapy 33a Walter Road Swansea. Very reasonable rates by rge day, week or month. Busy team of 15 therapists looking to expand. Please 07592330467

26/05/2026
27/03/2026

The party announced 73 candidates on March 19 near Glasgow, but withdrawals hit quickly: Linda Holt from North East Fife cited lack of party support amid scrutiny over her social media posts on Humza Yousaf and asylum seekers; Roland Jackson from Mid Fife and Glenrothes blamed a party error and fami...

25/03/2026

The United Kingdom is under more constitutional strain than at any point since Irish partition in 1922. Scotland pushes for independence, Wales debates its futu

20/03/2026
The tattvic tides run on. According to Indian esoteric thought they are the impulses flowing through Prana or reality. W...
20/03/2026

The tattvic tides run on. According to Indian esoteric thought they are the impulses flowing through Prana or reality. We are balanced between them the cycles of sleep and wakefulness, between the synapses of our neural pathways, between stimulus and response, between pulse and heartbeat, between complex hormonal patterns and the Cycladian rhythms of ourselves. Between being and time and being and nothingness we are the player of infinite games. And in these moments we are never still and are the energy of eternal delight. At the season of the Crone I wonder if masculinity in all its troubled ontological fear that runs from the epistemology of the Divine Feminine. The Sky Father's absolute rule wants certainty, objectivity and control. They fear the cycle of menstrual blood, the coming of the menopause and female anger. They fear that the world is not certain, controled or predictable. The world is not stable, quantum physics exorcised the machine of the Universe of it long ago. We did not find God in the Machine we found another and She is not a Skyfather. All of us were female first and it disturbs many. Perhaps the rise of trans activism and identity is a recognition of this fluidity at the centre of all. Perhaps it is time to recognise these tides in the fluidity of identity and of meaning.

For people like me, upon the left I sense the fragments of the 1950s within my persona, my sense of style and sexuality . Yet I see the binary within and without and recognise the unconscious bias the floats through my aura and sense of being. Yet my creativity has never been higher than it is now . This is the feminine the sense of desire I feel and let us temper that knowledge. In the castration of Chronos/Saturn by Zeus and the throwing of his severed phallus and testicles into the sea conceived Aphrodite and of libido in all its forms. Zeus ironically laid the foundations for his own overthrow. And of the crisis of patriarchy today..

Perhaps these tides flowing now will slay the old insecure masculinity of the gammon, of the populist right and lead to another form of masculinity that can be a companion, friend, lover or brother to the strong women of today. Perhaps the fear of the trans exclusive radical feminists are also a part or reflection of the fear of the dissolution of binary differences. Perhaps it too is a product of patriarchy of male violence and of Eros made sick by the poison of Paul and Augustine fail to kill her they made her merely sick. Female anger flowing from Eris, is a great tide flowing through the world and the human collective unconscious. Its almost Hegelian as the process of thesis and antithesis flows into a new synthesis. The 1950s man that I am runs back to bearded male philosophers with great books to understand and then I catch myself in a mirror and laugh at my defence mechanism. The Triple Will of Mother, Maiden and Chrone mocks me gently but firmly and from the Southern continents the Goddess of the Global South reminds me that I came out of Africa and that I must see the tides of the post colonial energies and forms before I am truly whole.

The tides flow through me as I dance to Samhain. The divergence of meaning is all around and yet I must escape the narcissism small difference and the myth of individuality and fiction of self. These tides are eternal Shiva, Kali and Khrisna eternally with a redeconstruction of self ever becoming ever reforming eternally moving through millions of years.

The tides run deep in me today and I sense they will run for ever. Let us welcome those Tattvic tides that bring us being. Time is not stable it is objectively subjective and we all know it. Good morning everybody....

Room to let at Asclepius Therapy  33a Walter Road Swanse. We have a room to let by the week, day or hour. It's ideally s...
29/01/2026

Room to let at Asclepius Therapy 33a Walter Road Swanse. We have a room to let by the week, day or hour. It's ideally suited for a therapist or a practitioner of most Therapeutic backgrounds. Price per week is £55, per day ,£16 per day or £6 per hour. Available Mondays Thursdays Friday and Sundays. days per week for second floor room. First floor large room available for similar price all days but Tuesday and Wednesdays. Would suit therapist, ot psychic, reader ot healer. Clinic has 15 existing staff , wifi is very warm and very busy schedule For more details ring Martyn on 07506113493.

17/01/2026

Of diamonds and rust....in middle January

Perhaps it is the curses and blessings of mid January or indeed the nearing of my 68 th birthday in April or as the astrologers would say that my progressed Moon is crossing into the eighth house. This song was is in my head as I walked the dogs today.

The song was written by Joan Baez and deals with her doomed love affair with Bob Dylan. In short, vivid and powerful images she combines past and present with sensuality and hope. The Moon is invoked , the snow of Washington Square and the polarity of being ' so good with words whilst keeping things vague".

The diamonds and rust of the Years rush by as a phone call is taken from a voice heard last ' a couple of light years ago"

The diamonds and rust of a life well lived, peppered with the seven deadly sins and of the pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will floated back to me across the years and decades of my incarnation in this space and time. Like Robert Halford the lead singer of Judas Priest I have little hair and my face carries in it the lines of experience, the battering of time and the hope of the eternal boy who wants to storm the walls of heaven and cast down the false Saviours.

If 'love is the only engine of survival' to quote Cohen then I am its champion and prophet armed with its power. Or as Dylan Thomas said " though lovers be lost, love shall not". Baez's song so brilliantly imagined, imaged and invoked destroys time and the turbulence of aging . It was D Z Philips who argued that eternity rests not in the quantity of time but instead in its quality. In my life I have never been cynical of this fact and have long celebrated the eternal now, the moment of realisation that an odd trick of light, the shape of an image in the sky, the trickle of a memory, a thought long hidden bursts into life and light. A lit match or flame in the heart of a Lily can be a moment of eternity.

The rust at the centre of life is but a measure of mortality of which the gods are jealous. Who would truly want to live forever? The unique moment of a life, of any human heart and heat is always all we need to be. I feel as if I play with words in my bicameral mind. The moments are unique and never will be again. When Nietzche wrote of the eternal return he was seeking an attitude and antidote to the ceaseless boredom of St Augustine and the salvation of the heavenly city. A song like this celebrating the diamonds and rust of a life well lived in all its senses is a conception devoutly to be wished . The transits move on flowing powerfully across time and space. I do not need salvation at this time, I am my own saviour from Saviours and old dead white men offer little. A very distant secondary solution might be a good coffee ...enjoy your day....

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