Today is World Labyrinth Day, when everyone is invited to walk a labyrinth at 1pm local time. As the WLD website says, this is "to help create a rolling wave of peaceful energy passing from one time zone to the next around the globe."
You don't have to walk it with your feet - you can follow a small path with a finger or just your eyes if it's public art on a wall!
The photo above shows a labyrinth at London's Cannon Street Station. It is part of a series created by Mark Wallinger for the Art on the Underground programme. There are, according to TfL, 270 different labyrinths designed by Mark, with one at each of London's Underground stations that existed in 2013.
A Guinness World Record Tube challenge is to visit them all in the shortest time. I've not done that, but I do look out for them when I use a station that isn't a part of any of my regular journeys.
Today I am planning to find more labyrinths in London, and walk one I've not visited before. I'll share photos at a later date. I've been fascinated by labyrinths for many years. I've walked them when I get the opportunity, I've read about them, visited them, written about them, and drawn them on paper. Here are links to some of my earlier posts:
- Walking the Labyrinth at Julian's Bower
- Book Review: Labyrinth - Walking the Radiant Path
- Occult London: Maze and Labyrinths in Underground Art
- Mansion House Station
- Bermondsey and Southwark
- Into the Labyrinth: The Knossos Exhibition's First Room
- Review: Ariadne's Thread - Ancient Minoan Rites
World Labyrinth Day is a modern-day custom, but walking labyrinths is such a widespread folkloric custom in general that I've given this post a "folklore" tag too.
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