The Oracle

Ah come on - you knew someone had to mention it.

Is there anyone else out there who gets the shivers and feels the power when stood at the Tor looking down on the town?

What about the Abbey?

I just get the buzz walking down the high street, and the shops they have are pure heaven.

So, if you've been, what did you think, if you haven't - why not?!!

Two words sum this place up, really

AWESOME PLACE!!!

I LOVE Glastonbury - it's the only place I feel completely comfortable to be who I want to be, and its such a friendly, beautiful town.

The town itself is wonderful - amazing shops, from beginners to advanced, healing rooms, mediums, great café's catering for many diets (including my gluten-free one!) and of course, the Goddess Temple - a place of peace and harmony.

It's just a great place, and I hope it stays that way!

The Tor, the Abbey, the Chalice Well - all such amazing places to visit, the history, the myths, the wonder behind each is just awesome.

So yep, we've been there now about 6 times, and we never intend to stop going there

Glastonbury has a rich history, yet within it there are mysteries, sagas and ethereal traditions which have a reality of their own. These mystery traditions variously infer that Glastonbury was:

a remnant of the Atlantean civilisation
settled by Sumerians who laid out a vast landscape zodiac here
a centre of teaching and initiation in ancient times
a place of the Goddess and Goddess traditions
the site of a classical Cretan labyrinth on the Tor
visited by Jesus as a young man *as in *And did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green?*
later settled by the refugee Joseph of Arimathaea and twelve acolytes, bringing the Holy Grail and founding one of the world's earliest proto-Christian settlements
the burial place of King Arthur and Guinevere and the resting place of many saints
and, in recent times, Glastonbury has been called the heart chakra of the planet.

Glastonbury abbey is Believed to be Avalon. There's something about the land of Avalon which makes it slightly shimmer, as if the subtle energies and perceptions of the inner worlds or the imagination permeate the physical fabric of this place and the life that goes on here. The veils between the worlds are thin here, opening doors of deepened perception. This seems to have existed since the beginnings of time. When all the beliefs are taken together, they show how the name Avalon could have settled on Glastonbury. First came its eerie non-Christian aspects as an enchanted Glass Island and as a point of contact with Annwn. One Celtic Otherworld could easily be equated with another; Annwn and Avalon did tend to merge or overlap; and at some stage, no one knows when, the idea took hold that Glastonbury might be the true Avalon.

Then, in the twelfth century, the monks learned the Welsh tradition of Arthur's burial and supposedly confirmed it by digging him up. His last earthly destination was agreed to have been Avalon. That clinched the identification. Glastonbury was now Avalon indeed, and the low-lying area round about became the Vale, or Vales, of Avalon.






It appears again in the Abbey's chronicles which is based on a document *in a holy house of religion in the Isle of Avalon, where King Arthur and Queen Guinevere lie*.







Beautiful, ain't it