Mystical Tour

Joy and mystery and magic. Two days ago I started the tour. A Women's Journey to Avalon. Wonderful times. The two most profund experiences have been the Lady Chapel section of the ruins at old Sarum. If you do not know what Old Sarum is (I didn't) do an image search it is amazing. The most sacred part is the cathedral ruins. I received a healing on the grass from our wonderful tour guide Cameron and just being in this place I felt the energy and the mystery. The single stone in the ruins below is where we could feel the energy the most. 

Since coming to this land of beauty, deep green fields and faery magic I am feeling the earth energy.

There are so many sacred places in England and they are alive with earth energy, the energy of the earth goddess, I am truly loving it.

STONEHENGE

The next day we walked inside Stonehenge. My excitement took on a strange calm as we neared the new entrance to Stonehenge. Very different, we were driven from the new visitors centre to the Henge. 

It is so different walking inside those majestic stones, my body could feel the closeness and I needed a few minutes to ground my energies to be able to step inside the circle. Luckily we took the time to sit near the heel stone in sacred circle. The four of us on the tour connecting with the land and our reason for being here. It was so wonderful to honour earth, air, fire and water in sacred circle. I love our group and how we bring a balanced wholeness to every place we visit. Now it was time to enter Stonehenge, excitement building. We cannot touch the stones and I am okay with that. Being so close I did not need to touch them they were touching me. 

Each time I go to Stonehenge I experience the energies differently. Did you know there is as much stone deep in the earth as you see coming out of the earth? The words I used to describe it was male majesty, Stonehenge grounds and holds the energy for this area of Salisbury. It is a conduit, and grounding rod. These are my feelings not science.

I experience it as being truly majestic. The stones speak to my heart, a personal friend. When we drove by Stonehenge a few days later I looked at it in the distance and new walking around it would just never do, I have touched and been touched by these stones just by being in their presence and loving them. To walk around them would be like being around Don and not being able to touch him.

STONEHENGE ROCKS - okay the little kid who was wanting to run around and hug each stone needed to say that for she was very well behaved and did not touch one stone inside the henge.

That is all for now - more to come later. 

London

I am sitting in my hotel at Heathrow. Tomorrow I start the tour " A Women's Journey to Avalon".

I have spent the last two days walking around the British Museum. It really is big. 

Today I went back to visit the jade. I realized yesterday I had missed it. 4 years ago I visited it,as well. 

This section touches my heart, for me it is the most peaceful section of the museum. Beauty and grace in stone. Jade is a most interesting stone to carve, when it heats up the stone almost carves itself. When I carve it I use a diamond wheel. The artisans who carved these pieces used hand tools, love and holding the shape as a picture in their mind. My favourite piece is from China, the Neolithic period, the Hongshan culture, around 3500 BC.  I will include the picture.

The last two days I have been struck with how challenging it is just to be with me. Those quiet moments when there is no internet, no one to talk to, no museum to wander around, just me. 

I am getting used to my travelling companion - me.  All the preparation I made is really helping. The book I created helps me remember why I am doing this and what is important to me. 

My spiritual practice is also a wonderful friend. Bringing me back to my heart and deep connection.

I will make this blog a short one as my brain is still getting used to a different time. More to come soon.

Does this path have heart?

Does this path have heart?

Less than a week and I will be traveling to the next phase of my pilgrimage. I have been asking myself how will remember why I am doing this? How will I support myself when I start to miss the ones I love at home? Over the past 6 months I have begun to create a book. My pilgrimage book. Filled with pictures to inspire me and images of wondrous beings who will walk with me. 

Since starting my book, poems, inspirations, quotes and pictures have come my way from Spirit and people who feel inspired to send me something. I am so grateful. These generous offerings have become a part of my book. I will check it each morning to see what is being offered to me today.

Maybe something to consciously carry into my day.

Something to keep in mind as I travel, take pictures and or sit and contemplate my surroundings.

 As the time to begin this phase comes closer my intuiton has offered me many internal images of England, helping me to see how I might do and be on this pilgrimage. Walking softly in relationship with my surroundings, being in a deeper relationship with that which I can see and that which is behind that which appears. Remembering to breathe in the architecture, plants and flowers, people and landscape. Opening my heart and being opened with each moment. 

My last visit to England took me to Stonehenge. Not my first time. Yet, I was as excited as if it were. As I walked around this sacred space I took pictures for families so they could all be together, spoke with a few people and walked the land around the stones. When we left for home I realized that I felt as though I had been there all by myself. Just me, the stones and the land. It was the land that spoke to me as much as the stones. The feeling was powerful and wondrous. All by myself. I just realized that I can walk in two timelines at the same time. Listen to what the places I visit have to offer me, be in relationship with both the seen and the unseen. Listen for the call my pilgrimage is calling me to hear in this moment. 

Does this path have heart? May this question from my Life Mission III manual begin to live in me. And I have to say yes because there have been so many supportive hearts helping me to really take this journey. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And my heart is moving me forward into the unknown  - thank you. My heart is open to the mystery - thank you. Stay tuned. May the unfoldment unfold with ease and grace. 

Love Diane