As I write this blog post, I am travelling back from Glastonbury, or the Isle of Avalon, the heart chakra of Earth. I had to write as the memories were still so fresh in my mind, so afraid that I would forget these feelings, new emotions and gentle (yet powerful) shifts in energy.
Some people I have only known for three days, yet I have laughed and cried with them, over the breakfast table, feeling a sense of closeness and openness, a sense of ease and safety which has come so naturally, it felt as though they had always been in my life.
There was one moment during our retreat, when we visited the Chalice Well Gardens, up at the lion’s head sacred fountain. I was cleansing my crystals with the clear cool of the iron oxide waters, whilst my seventy-four-year old mum dipped her toes into the shallow of the stream below me.
My dear friend Stuart chose this very moment to capture her, dipping her feet in the flow of the sacred waters and all became still in this natural space. Just in that calm, the light, the energy……I could feel something in the atmosphere, perhaps between me, mum and Stuart, perhaps between water, crystals and skin….there was a kind of silent magik in the air.
When our Reiki Master Melanie asked what our favourite memory of Glastonbury was, my thoughts returned to that moment in the Chalice Well Gardens. How the energy just hung there for a few seconds and seemingly we all understood something that we couldn’t quite articulate.
Outside of the cottage that mum and I stayed in, was a large spinning wheel artefact that had been propped up against the stone wall. It repeatedly kept stealing my attention every time I walked past it.
As I was reading through a new book on Wicca that I had purchased from one of the gorgeous bookshops in Glastonbury town, I was reading through the lists of Gods that can be connected to as part of the faith. Immediately I was drawn to the Slavic God “Rod”. He stood out because two weeks ago, during a shamanic drum meditation journey, I clearly saw the name Rod during my meditation and could make no sense of why I simply received a name and my peers all appeared to receive deep and meaningful meditation journeys.
I decided to research this Slavic God and to my amazement, I have found out that he is the God of family connections and not only that, but his symbol is also the spinning wheel.
It was in that moment that I understood the power of family connection, the power of friends (old and new) and the spirit of community and above all, gratitude and love.
“There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere”; Wellesley Tudor Pole (Found of Chalice Well Trust).
Until next time,
Tanya
What an awesome, beautiful experience!