28/10/2025
Members have been creating a labyrinth in Duchess Woods as part of this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival! It’s open throughout Tuesday 28th October to visit. You’ll find it just by the entrance at the northeast of the carpark.
At this time of year we turn the clocks back to GMT, find out our scarves and hats and gloves and prepare for winter.
Halloween then All Saints Day and Guy Fawkes night, before we get to December, with the winter solstice and Christmas with a promise of brighter days of year.
So as we hunker down for the darker part of the year, it’s a time that can make us SAD or just sad.
It is easy for us to suppress our thoughts and emotions in our daily lives, thinking we will deal with it later.
A Labyrinth offers you a way to relax mentally and physically as you follow its coils.
The story of the Labyrinth can be traced back to Ancient Greece and the story of King Minos. He displeased the gods, so they had his wife bear him a son who was half man and half bull. (The Mino-taur) The son developed beast like tendencies which made his family trap him, in a labyrinth under the palace.
Theseus then had to travel to the centre of the labyrinth to find and kill the Minotaur.
Over the years the story has been handed on and people have come to use labyrinths to help them face their own hidden beast.
The labyrinth can help you as you follow and reflect on each turn, just as life holds its twists and turns. At the centre we can then choose to face our fears and overcome them, just as Theseus did, before returning to the everyday world
(This event is part of this year's Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival)
