I’m craving Avalon.
Over the last few weeks, the Glastonbury Longing has hit home. Don’t care about the shops, or the festivals – I’ve been pining for a windswept walk up the tor, stumbling through the faerie woodlands, blissing out in Chalice Well Gardens and meditating in the incense-scented Goddess Temple.
Glastonbury tends to be thought of as the geographical location for Avalon (though I’ve read it as being out west in the Irish sea and the Atlantic Ocean), though often it’s thought of a state of mind, a place in your heart, a kind of spiritual heartbeat pulsing throughout the world.
The idea of Avalon being everywhere has really called out to me in the past few weeks as I leave my house in the mornings to catch my bus. I walk out of my home, catch a glimpse of the lavender morning and gasp – this is just like Avalon, this is just like Glastonbury.
Probably because whenever I stay in Glastonbury I am also staying in a housing estate.
To me, Avalon is a sacred undercurrent to our landscape. It’s a wavelength just a teeny tiny fraction of a shift away from the wavelength we live in, so close, but not super obvious. I consider the Avalon Undercurrent to be the spiritual soul of Britain, it’s spiritual essence and I can feel it in the mornings I venture outside into the world. (Any morning where I am concious and outside and ungrumpy is a sacred morning, Avalon or not.) It’s an undercurrent I can feel strongly even here in the east of England, which is probably the least geographically inspiring place in the whole of the British Isles.
Whenever I leave Glastonbury, the centre of so many myths and faery stories (which excites me no end), I am always sad. But I know that the whole world is beautiful and spiritual and connected, not just these historically special places like Glastonbury and Avebury. I think that’s perhaps what the Avalon is Everywhere theory is all about.
Very well put… and I whole heartedly agree…
Kourtney
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Love the thought of Avalon as an undercurrent stream of energy, a dimension all of it own and even though I live in Sweden, my heart knows how to connect to that specific current too. I live on ancient viking ground and perhaps there´s a connection here somewhere – alteast between the old goddesses and their priestesses.
Sigh, Sometimes I get “home sick” you know. I guess we all do.
Anyway, thanks to you I have ordered a bellydancing DVD…and the BOOK you´ve been reading. I am shapeshifting for sure, sort of reincarnating myself in this lifetime.
Thanks for being such an inspiration force in my life!
Oh wow going to miss you at the circle! I didn’t say much to you but I listened and learned alot! Thank you for that. I’m glad you have this blog so I can keep on listening and learning.
I decided to live my dreams now and 9 months ago moved to Hawaii. As I read your post I realized, I moved to my Avalon.
I embrace every day here and get to immerse myself in the beauty of the Ocean, the tropics, the good wholesome food, the Aloha of the people.
Today is another day I will spend many moments in Avalon.
That’s so wonderful. I am so happy for you! I hope to go to Hawaii one day.
Love the idea of Avalon as an energy undercurrent through the UK. A few years ago I spent a week at witchcamp retreat in California and we worked with the Avalon energy all week in sacred space – potent!!! So much unfolded in my life in the weeks that followed — most importantly solidifying my relationship with my now-husband 🙂
I’m subscribing to your RSS feed now so I can keep in touch post GC. Big hugs!
Avalon is a state of mind indeed, and I can connect in my heart. But Glastonbury is a place in time and space—I have to take a plane to get there! lol in central New York. Thanks for the encouragement.
I love the idea of Avalon being a state of mind. Of course it is. I am going to hold that thought. Thank you!
Ah, synchronicity! Just posted about Avalon today! 🙂