Glastonbury: August 10-12, 1999
October 17, 1999 (photos & text)
To my friends who I think might like to hear about this:

Just after writing about my experience in Glastonbury BELOW, a friend suggested I go to Patti Cota-Robles website. Here you will find out about what the various happenings this summer mean, including John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, and the activation of humanity's pineal gland. Much of it very much resonated with me, so I pass it on with love. It is lengthy but well worth it.

Also check out Ken Kalb's analysis of the unbelievable numerological synchronicity of the eclipse and the significance of the fixed signs of Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio and Taurus.

As I read both these sites, my hair stood on end so many times as it was so synchronistic with my already synchronistic experiences in Glastonbury, England from August 10-12. This is what stood out in particular for me:

• I was in Glastonbury, England for the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 at exactly 11:11 am (when you go to the website above and read, you will see how this is significant to Atlantis, many events this summer, including John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death, and the activation of humanity's pineal gland).
• My astrological sign is at 11 degrees LEO, one of the fixed signs of the Grand Cross, and LEO is the sign of the SUN which was eclipsed on August 11, 1999.
• My birthdate 8/4/1952 which adds to 11.... 8+4=12=3 1952=17=8 8+3=11
• 6 out of 10 of my natal chart planets as well as my south and north moon nodes were directly touched by the grand cross in fixed signs (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio) in the heavens on August 11, 1999.
• I experienced multiple "deja vu's" while attending Aura-Soma training at Dev-Aura in Tetford, Lincolnshire, England from July 30-August 6 and again from August 13-16.
• My 47th birthday (4+7=11) was on August 4th, during my Advanced Practitioner Training in Aura-Soma. My solar return astrology chart (the one for my 47th year) also has the same grand cross in fixed signs that occurred on the eclipse of August 11. I have 6 planets conjunct in the fixed signs (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio) plus my south and north moon nodes in Leo and Aquarius. I felt I was initiated by my trip to England (July 30-August 17), but in particular during my 3 days in Glastonbury during the solar eclipse. I was spontaneously a part of a ceremony to anchor the Mother Mary energy in the Glastonbury Abbey at the High Altar.

I arrived in Glastonbury on August 9th at 8pm, an hour late thankfully, so that I could witness the late summer sun still obliquely shining on the hills and shadowing the deep valleys. As I approached Glastonbury I could feel a stirring within. And then I saw the Tor in the distance, and my heart leaped with joy! I felt like I was coming home! I spent the next 3 full days of August 10, 11, & 12 in Glastonbury. I left on the sunny morning of August 13 with my heart aching to stay, and yet ready to return across the country to Lincolnshire and Aura-Soma.

THE ECLIPSE

In spite of the news you may have heard, it did not rain in Glastonbury the whole 3 days I was there, and the sun even peeked through many times during the 3 days. On the day of the eclipse, it was more sunny than usual in the morning hours, but as the eclipse began, it went back and forth from cloudy to blue sky sunny. Mostly is was cloudy, which was wonderful, as I could often gaze directly at the eclipse and let our energies become One. It was not total as you know, 98% is what the news said, and I was surprised that it did not get darker than it did. I was reminded that the sun is a very powerful Light.

The morning I awoke on the 11th, I asked myself "where would I like to be for the eclipse?", and it was definitely NOT the Tor as hundereds of people were up there. I could see them from my B&B! I wanted quiet meditation time, so I decided to stroll down Magdelene St... perhaps named after another "mother" Mary?...

As I turned onto Magdeline St. and walked towards the Abbey, I noticed the streets were uncharacteristically quiet with only a handful of people in the distance. All seemed to have become quiet on this most sacred day.... On the way, I passed the Abbey grounds that were visible through a high fence, and hardly anyone was there... so that's where I went....

I had not been to the Abbey yet, so it was a new experience for me. As I strolled the grounds, I was intensely drawn to meditate at the high altar of the Glastonbury Abbey. It is a simple rectangular grassy area about 9' x 6' surrounded by a chain (click on the photo above and you will see it in the foreground)...................

........... and as I was sitting quietly taking in the energies around me, I noticed a man dowsing the grounds for THE place to be for the eclipse. He went back and forth diligently scoping every inch of the grounds for a shift in the energies, which would suggest perhaps the place where something extraordinary would happen. To my surprise, as he approached me and then walked beside me, the rod swung! Out of 36 acres, I was on the very spot to be!

Rodney, the "dowser", sat down next to me and then 5 other people materialized out of nowhere and also sat down. My aura was feeling very crowded so it was either move or join them. I checked in with myself and it felt absolutely synchronistic to be with them.

Rodney had brought a single red rose for Mother Mary and the Divine Feminine. He wanted to place it in the center of the High Altar, but a guard saw him and stopped him. The look of pain on his face I will always remember.

When I looked about at the others, to my delightful surprise, was a familiar face... the man I met as I departed from the bus when I arrived two evenings earlier. As I left the bus, I realized I was lost and was pacing back and forth in front of the bus stop trying to decide which direction to walk. He came upon me and I asked him directions. It was the direction he too was walking so we strolled together for a ways. He had just moved there 2 weeks earlier from near Stratford-on-Avon. And then we bid farewell.... now back to the Abbey... He recongnized me as well, and we greeted each other again.... a very handsome man, a man I was drawn to the moment I met him.... at this moment, I cannot recall him name, so I shall call him David.

Each of us introduced ourselves and to my second surprise, there were 3 people from the US. A woman from Boulder, CO, Nancy, and a mother and daughter from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Rodney, though from England, was currently living in Seattle. And "assisting" Rodney was Tibo, a man who looked to be quite earthy and happy in his colorful tied-dyed teeshirt and bushy beard! (Click on the photo at the left and you will see us by the High Altar of the abbey.)

Rodney explained that he was guided and compelled to come to Glastonbury for the eclipse to anchor the "Blue Serpent... the Mary energy". I didn't know what he was talking about (until I later read the book mentioned above), but what he said resonated, so I stayed with the group.

I was feeling more and more a gentle, sweet energy rising from within me. It was as if I was "becoming" all that I hoped to be. And at the same time, I knew that I was this all along and was finally seeing it within myself... perhaps for the first time. I was feeling so deep and so free within... I cannot describe it adequately.

It was so very quiet in the abbey, only a few people and somehow I felt we were protected and perhaps even invisible to those that were there. We were in another dimension it seemed as all else seemed to stand still for that hour and a half during the eclipse....

There were 7 of us in a circle at the point just outside the High Altar on the side closest to the altar end of the cathedral. We weren't permitted to go inside the chain surrounding the actual location of the High Altar. As we visited with each other and made "camp", I noticed the woman from Ft. Lauderdale was weeping. She said "this is such a deep healing for me, I cannot tell you! It is so deep...." The next thing I knew David was quickly kneeling by her side, holding her in his arms. I watched him and I could sense an empathy and caring that is rarely seen in men. In my heart, I was even more attracted to him. I learned later that his "profession" is as a nurse.... then I understood his heart even more.

(I was later to meet him again and had the opportunity to have lunch with him, but I did not.... I wasn't quite ready yet to embrace the awakened Goddess within me ... *wink & big smile*)

Rodney first cast a circle with sacred cornmeal, surrounding the seven of us in a protective light of grace. He then pulled out a beautiful red patterned cloth and laid it down on the soft grass. We began to spontaneously create an offering to the Divine Feminine, which became an altar between us. We placed crystals, a branch from the sacred yew tree of the Chalice Well, sacred cornmeal, the single red rose, the sacred red water of the Chalice Well, and much more. We did a simple, spontaneous, quiet, heartfelt ceremony anchoring the Mother/Mary/Goddess energy there in the abbey at the High Altar.

Rodney was "forcing" the ceremony rather than embracing and becoming the Goddess/Feminine energy which I was feeling so very strongly... We were in a circle holding hands and Rodney was to my left, so I gently squeezed his hand and I looked softly into his eyes and said "It's not about making it happen, it's about being the energy and letting it just be..." In that moment, he just melted and then we really did some good work/play.

In a huge Tibetan bowl, we toned the Holy Chalice Well water and then each of us drank from it, twice, thrice around... it became for me the Holy Grail, the chalice-womb of Mother Mary that we created. It was symbolic of the recepticle that is Woman, full filled and overflowing her gifts to the world. Still, quiet, receptive, all-knowing, wise, accepting, non-judging, all loving. It was beautiful.

As we began to come back into 3-dimensional time and begin to move about, Rodney took the single red rose and placed it inside the High Altar. We all smiled. It felt perfect to have it within Our altar as we surrounded it and poured our collective heartfelt energies into it. And then its place was on the High Altar. The guard was another example of how perfectly events are orchestrated.

During the eclipse, Rodney dowsed and the ley lines were still and inactive. After the eclipse was over, about an hour and a half later, the ley lines had changed completely. We had successfully anchored and shifted the Divine Feminine Mary energy at one of the most important points in England where the Mary and Michael energies converge at the High Altar, while in the midst of the site of the Holy Grail and the Isle of Avalon. It was magic!

THE CHALICE WELL

I found myself at the Chalice Well everyday meditating and communing with the Holy Grail and the Goddess energies.... I especially found the Well Head, the 3rd level of the garden grounds, to be a very sacred place. Even those who didn't feel energy could sense it, as those who visited the 3 levels at the Chalice Well grounds, became quiet and reflective.

The grounds there are quite small actually, being on the side of Chalice Hill at the base of the Tor, so it is fairly steep. Where you enter at the bottom of the grounds is a beautiful fountain going through 7 tiers/levels of double round basins (each level resembling breasts or the infinity symbol). As the water moves down each tier, it moves in a circular motion around each side of the breasted basin. To me the 7 tiers represent the 7 chakras and the size of each level from top to bottom looked very much like a the body of a Woman/Goddess.

At the top, a vulva shaped sculpture springs forth the healing water down to the first tear, which was quite small. As the tiers moved downward, they became bigger and bigger. What would be the solar plexus chakra was the biggest, and then the tier is smaller at the sacral chakra and smaller again at the last level, the root chakra. As the water leaves the 7th lower root tier through a once again vulva scuplture, the healing water drops onto a huge mushroom shaped rock (which suggested to me the male principle) and then falls into a huge pool shaped in the Vesica Pisces. To me, this represents the coming together of the two principles of male and female, forming the third principle of Divine Union. And all around are beautiful flowers in an immaculately maintained garden. I quietly sat in this beautiful energy for a long time....

As I walked up the hill from the beautiful Vesica Pisces gardens, I entered through a gated wall into what felt to me to be the 1st level of consciousness, an area with another simpler fountain pouring down several feet and then through a straight trough into a rectangular pool. The small garden was enclosed with tall, dense foliage, giving me the feeling of exquisite protection. It is here that I was drawn to wash my feet in preparation for the 2nd level of consciousness. (Photo to the left.) This area is called “King Aurthur’s Court”.

Now following the quite steep path up to an area above the 1st level, I came to a low walled rectangular area(photo to the left). The entrance was at the low end and at the high end, near the top of the wall, is a lion's head with the red healing waters of the Chalice Well emerging through the mouth of the lion (photo to the right). It is the same water that I bathed in below. Visitors are encouraged to drink of this water.

As I reverently and humbly stooped to cup my hands to receive the water, I knew this is the 2nd initiation in preparation for the 3rd and final level of consciousness. Isn't it perfect that an offspring of the Holy Thorn tree which is said to have sprouted miraculously from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus Christ’s uncle, grows directly above the Lion's Head?

Walking now up a path (photo to the left) lined with spectacular multi-colored flowers 3-4' tall, I could sense that the densely treed area ahead was special. Once again, I passed through an iron gate (photo to the right) into the 3rd level. Here is the Source of the healing waters... the sacred Well Head.

I stepped down into a small circular area canopied by huge Yew trees. which are said to hold protection over this sacred site. On the floor of the well area is beautifully placed stone rock with spiral fossils and ancient spiraled seashells embedded within. In the center is the round well, about 3 feet across. The infamous wooden lid is open resting against an ancient rock. On the top of the wooden slatted well cover is the ornate iron Vesica Pisces symbol with a sword running vertically through it (photo to the left). A heavy iron grate covers the top of the well which is surprisingly open, allowing you to see down about 3 feet to the top of the water line. You can also see the beginnings of the chamber below the Well Head that is said to be a perfect Golden Mean rectangular 3-dimensional area.

It is said that the Holy Grail is buried here. I found out later that the Holy Grail is said to be the Chalice of the Last Supper used by Jesus and the 12 apostles. It was brought filled with the blood of Jesus by Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus' Uncle, to Glastonbury. I felt so moved here, I cannot tell you. All who came to the Well Head moved slowly and sat quietly on the intimate walled area surrounded the well head. Just through the dense Yew trees you could almost see the top of the Tor..... no matter... we were there. (Photo to the right is just above Chalice Well Gardens looking at the Tor.)

The afternoon of the eclipse, I once again visited the Chalice Well head. At the Well Head were 4 candles burning on the stone lip surrounding the Well Head. People had left many offerings there, such as food and flowers (photo to the left). Someone had placed a beautiful spray of blue, red, yellow and white flowers on top of the open well cover (the 3 primary colors of creation plus white which is all colors). And someone created an exquisite ring of pink, violet and white flowers, such as one might where as a crown upon the head, and left it upon the grate directly above the water of the well. As I sat there and meditated, a sudden welling of tears came from deep within. Deep feelings of knowing and understanding came to the surface as I began to re-member my connections there.... It was sadness and gratitude all at the same time… knowing what was lost so long ago, and what is being remembered once again... the sacred Divine Woman... being remembered by me and now by all who read this story. This is the story of my soul that is evolving at this time.

For more on my journey since my trip to Glastonbury, read my monthly Newsletters.

The whole trip to England was so special for me. I love it there. It's so peaceful and beautiful, old and mysterious. It was my "first" visit there and it seems so silly now that I was frightened to go to England all my life.... now I know I was not ready to remember..... until now....

UPON RETURNING HOME...

The night I returned home, I had 2 very profound dreams... I saw sacred stone megalithic circles within the earth beneath me here where I live in North Carolina. I was told that the ground of the United States, too, is old and carries the energies of the red man for thousands of years, and this energy is just as old, sacred and powerful as any energy on the planet. I was told this energy is everywhere in the mainland of the United States. I was then initiated into the “red and white” energies. It was beyond words and I can't describe it adequately.

Since I've been home, I've felt a re-surgence, re-awakening of the ancient matriarchal energies bubbling up from deep inside me. I did not know anything about the information in Patti Cota-Robles website until I read it the day I initially wrote this. I feel somehow I had a "date" to be in Glastonbury at the eclipse... I cannot explain it, it's a knowing I feel. The veil is very thin right now.

Because the veil is very thin right now, we are all experiencing unusual events in our lives. The other night for example, I couldn't sleep, which is not unusual for many people right now. As I moved about in my home, watched a little TV, did some reading, I noticed that my perceptions were quite different. I saw energies moving in my peripheral vision from time to time and shadows became real. It was as if that which is "not real" became real and vice versa. I remember reading an article a few years ago from a student of Carlos Castaneda and he said the way to develop your inner vision and dreamtime is to watch shadows as if THEY were what is reality... I've tried it and it's very revealing. I also know since my car accident in 1988 which altered my left eye, that my peripheral vision is what is most revealing in terms of subtle energies. It is through your peripheral vision that you will see energy. Try it.

I also have felt drawn to read Marion Zimmer Bradley's books. A good friend suggested "Forest House", "Lady of Avalon" and then "Mists of Avalon". I have just read "Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage" by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. and it has been thoroughly satisfying. It is about her pilgrimage to the land of the Goddess. "Mists" has been on my library bookshelf for 7 years and I've tried to pick it up to read it, but could not... For years, my friends and everyone I know have been insisting that I read it and yet I felt the timing was not right. I even pulled the book down to try to read it before my trip, but it just didn't call me. I knew that I needed somehow to experience the energies first. Now, I'm savoring every word!!! I know that I will understand more and more about my experiences there as I read it. It is such a treasure!

Well, this is my continually revised version of October 17 as Hurricane Irene, the 3rd huricane in 6 weeks, is upon us! It seems appropriate that I would be putting the photos here and updating this as a 3rd cleansing is happening. As I am moved, I will continue to write about it and revise it here.

Thank you for allowing me to share this with you. I hope it has helped you in some way.

Many blessings to you all....with love from my heart,
Anne