Glastonbury – I remember you

01.06.2011 - 04.06.2011 24 °C

Remembering places I've never been

I have wanted to visit Glastonbury since I first heard the story/legends of Arthur and the Isle of Avalon. Having now journeyed here I am not at all surprised that it is often called the myth making place. The air itself is fertile. Fertile for imaginings.

It is a very odd feeling to walk around a place you have never been and to feel you are remembering it. Glastonbury for me is one of those places I instantly felt at home...at the very least a connection. Often I need to sort of sit in a place for a day or two to sense I have absorbed it a little, this time I sort of just dropped in.

Our hotel – The George and Pilgrams

A historic hotel with many stories all its own. A rickety spiral staircase to get to our second floor room, murals that capture the faery-like and romantic quality of the town and a location to puts us at the centre of it all.

The tour – people

I'm travelling with five people and a tour guide. We are all different but have a common thread of desire to explore these lands, the energies and myths. Three American women, a wise one from Ohio, a maiden student of myth and metaphor from Santa Barbara, and an elven adventurer from another land of myth and storymaking...Malibu. The remaining two are two Australian explorers, my dear friend who has been journeying through Greece, her own motherland connection and then of course, yours truly who has been like a wild dragonfae remembering places I have never been and exploring wonders that have spoken directly to my heart.

Our learned leader Jamie of the Gothic Image shop in Glastonbury. Having been doing these tours for over twenty years he managed to lead us into these places without painting the picture of how we would see or experience it. Though we experienced each place as a group I felt we also got to experience it in our own space.

www.gothicimagetours.co.uk

Glastonbury – a place for finding what connects rather than what disconnects

Glastonbury is a place like none other in that the community appears to be not just tolerant but embracing of the different faiths, beliefs and customs that thrive there. It is a place of pilgrimage for varied spiritual paths. The church in the centre of town is a perfect example of this integration. Within its grounds is labyrinth that has been created by the town that respects the Christian God, Roman deities, Celtic deities and others who have made Glastonbury the place it is today. I found this integration to be a model of how I feel it should be. Finding the things that bond us rather than separate us. Respecting each individuals path to the sacred.