To Do or Not to Do ….
Although, at the moment, we are constantly changing – on all levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual … and quite probably on all planes and in all dimensions, but that’s a whole different blog! And, as time is bizarrely being deconstructed around us, sometimes it is very easy to slip back into old, familiar ways. But as the sun sets on Solstice Day, why not let its light show you new ways, which will lead to new adventures? I mean. at this point in our evolutionary journey, what have we got to lose?
For many, many years, every Solstice I have gone to Avebury. I don’t just love the place, I adore it. And I had planned to go this year. It’s what I’ve always done and thought I would always do. It is, for want of a better phrase, my “happy” place and in many ways it is home as I have spent several lifetimes with those beautiful stones. They sometimes sing to me when I’m not there, softly calling until I journey south to see them… and what a sound they make when they sing. There are simply no words to describe it, so the idea of not going to sing with them was deeply distressing for me.
But, as with all things now, what you have always done, is not always what you need to do when you seriously start to live in the NOW moment. You have to do what is right in that instant of time. Not what was right the last time you thought about it. You could have changed a dozen times since then! But sometimes the pull of what has been is very powerful and the choice often becomes stick with the old or open to the new, which will always encourage expansion and growth. So, I guess, no Avebury for me this year.
But, what do you do when you suddenly find you can’t do what you always do… well, of course, you can look for signs, but it’s easy to miss them when you are only looking at the past , assuming it will also be the future. You forget to look in the NOW. For an intellegent species, we can be really daft!
So, while I was sulking about not seeing my lovely stones, I picked up a book I hadn’t read in nearly 30 years and I was amazed. Reading it now was a revelation. I understood it on so many different levels. It was Glastonbury – Avalon of the Heart by Dion Fortune. Goodness only knows what the younger version of me made of it, but the older version felt my heart open and I saw what I had never seen before – my deep connection to the place.
In my 20s the connection was Arthur. His legend was the thing that made me take the journey from London. Then in my 40s it was the shopping … all those books and crystals are irreistable! And now in my 50s I found it was something else entirely. It was Brigid.
I love Brigid, Bridgit, Brede, Bride, Brigantia – the goddess of many names. But I usually only work with her at Imbolc and Summer Solstice. So, when I had an overwhelming urge to play Brigid by Damn the Bard I was a bit surprised until I found the reference in my book saying she was at Glastonbury, and spent time in quiet contemplation on the Isle of Beckary near Wearyall Hill. I must have known, I’ve read the book before, but I had completely forgotten and I had to open to the possibility that Glastonbury was the place to go this Solstice. Not what I was expecting at all. I was probably still secretly hoping it was all a mistake and I could go to Avebury!
But, even if I don’t go to Glastonbry, the thought of doing it is enough to break the old, rigid ways within me and open me to something more… to other possibilities, other eneries, which will still be a great blessing.
So what are you doing this Solstice? What you always do? Or what you need to do as the Wheel of the Year turns and the light returns, allowing us to move slowly towards the start of our outward cycle of growth?
Do yourself a favour – check and make sure you are doing what needs to be done and be ready to release the old if you need to, to make room for the new. And find a place to go, or a ritual to do, which helps you move forward rather than hinders your progress, your never-ending journey towards the light, and embodying more Divine Light as a blessing for all on the earthplane at this time.
I leave you with a quote from Dion Fortune from her book: “…experience proves that there is power in holy places, power to quicken the spiritual life and vitalise the soul with fresh enthusiasm and inspiration. Where strong spiritual emotions have been felt over long periods of time by successive generations of dedicated men and women… the mental atomsosphere of the place becomes imbued with the spiritual forces and sensitive souls capable of response are deeply stirred thereby when they come to it,”
Let something quicken your spiritual life and re-vitalise your soul this Solstice… find the place you need to be, or the people you need to be with and go for it!
Oh – and feel free to put youtube, Brigid and Damn the Bard into Google and listen to this beautiful song. And let Brigid bless you in so very many ways, despite the fact she does’t usually come out to play until Imbolc.
Bright Blessings!
Gail.
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