day two of the gathering dawned bright and warm and the temperature rose with the sun.
more and more people arrived, tents, caravans and campers sprouted over the field like great toadstools and the laughter and calls of happy folk spread on the breeze.
that night we built a large fire and sat around it chatting, laughing, listening to those with the instruments play and sing.
T and L had their shaman drums and as the lady moon started to rise they drummed her up to cries and ululations.
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| solstice cafe |
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| new stonewylde bags~we bought two! |
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| beautiful celebration cakes |
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| solstice café and stonewylde stall |
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| our house band |
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| tarot readings |
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| chyna's beautiful works of art |
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finally the camp was over and from sunday afternoon we had to start saying goodbye to all our friends~always such a difficult thing to do.
the field slowly emptied until there were only a small group remaining
of course we could not go to Glastonbury...
we got there nice and early to get a parking space down the bottom of town by the Abbey and market and met our friends carp and crystal at the blue note café~sitting in the courtyard by star child enjoying a latte to wake me up!
of course i had to spend some pennies...
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| to add to my glennie kindred library |
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| although i blend my own incense its tradition i buy at least one from starchild~this is Gaia and smells glorious |
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a beautiful ceramic bowl (dried leaf from Avebury!) and... a beautiful Tor pendant. we all left on Wednesday and we made the very small mile or two detour to avebury    then down the road to the west kennet long barrow      
its hard to describe the feelings i had when i walked into the chamber, making sure there were no other people who were going to follow me in
even now thinking back the feelings are strong
ancient was one feeling, when you remember that it is a Neolithic barrow, older than the oldest phase of stonehenge, you cannot escape the feeling of age.
thoughts of the ancestors also came to me, the people who built this structure, the people living in small communities nearby and why this whole area~silbury, avebury, the sanctuary, windmill hill~was so sacred to them.
it made me think of my ancient ancestors~a part of my family down my maternal line all come from Wiltshire, mostly clustered around amesbury, old sarum and stonehenge~so far i have only gone back 500 years but i secretly wonder if my older ancestors lived in the area thousands of years ago and lived to see these sacred sites.
i really would love to find out...maybe a pathworking would help?
i felt a strong energy there
some people maybe don't because it is a chamber of the dead, but as i went further into the chamber i could feel it buzzing around me~it had a smell of rain and damp earth and old, old stones
i strongly felt the goddess there but maybe she was following me...
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