The day I saw the Lady of Avalon…
Glastonbury is one of my favourite places on earth. So many times in my life I have driven there as if carried by invisible wings - in despair, joy, anticipation, escape. The familiar trickling sound of the Chalice Well spring as you immerse your feet and drink the sacred waters. The echoing Magdalene Chapel where time seems to stand still, where singing voices ring sweet and true, fingers tracing labyrinths. The Tor, every climb like a rebirth, there and back again, always changed.
There was one thing that kept me going in the first coronavirus lockdown as a single parent with post-traumatic stress disorder home-educating two children who suddenly couldn’t offer her soul work to the world in the way she usually did–
“When this is over, I’m going to Glastonbury”
I had joined a druid group and I decided I would do my first rite on the Tor. There was a sweet spot between lockdowns where we were able to travel and off I flew, my first time without the children in so long, only to find the Tor crowded and busy. A friendly man who wanted to talk monopolised a lot of my time and it was getting cold. I also got scratched on brambles doing a “wildie”. There is a peaceful field at the bottom of the Tor where you can admire it from afar and I can often be found there napping on days when I am lucky enough to go to Avalon.
I went into meditation to begin the rite, my body full of endorphins, invigorated by the climb and by the sheer joy of freedom.
And She appeared - with dark hair, violet clothing, luminous skin with a violet hue. She called me by my name as she stood in the space between Tor and fields. I cannot remember much about the meditation except that the air felt like it was humming, and I was filled with clarity and peace. I did not think She was the Lady of Avalon at the time, as I was not yet at that point on my path.
Imagine my surprise when months later I open “Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of the Goddess” by Kathy Jones to find the Lady looking right back at me, as I had seen Her!
Artwork by Thalia Brown
