A Journey

I’m inspired by the journey into the Otherworld described by Heron in his Fern Law of Faery blog and encouraged by his comment on here and replies to me on his blog to try a focussed meditation for myself. So I went to the woods today.

It was in two stages. First I walked up along a path that zig-zags across the slope through the trees to a seat with a view along the valley. I sat here and prepared myself. I imagined myself entering the Otherworld and thought of the paths through the trees as spirit paths. When I had tuned into this I left the seat and continued up the slope to a higher seat under some trees which has a view across to the hills on the other side of the valley.

Now I was walking along the narrow path like it was a winding tunnel into the hill. The path was my gateway into the Otherworld. When I got to the higher seat I was ready to sit down and ‘journey’ properly, though I already thought I was half out of this world before getting there.

I wrote up my journey in my ‘Mystic Book’ and I don’t want to record all the details again here but I do want to record that I used the technique mentioned by Heron of looking out for something familiar to find a helper. I’m really pleased with this but I do need to keep it private at least for now.

It’s like there are some bits of the map in place. They could change, but even so I now have something to look for, or is it a key? Neither and both. But I’ve released the lock and taken a step on the path.

Enchanted Woods

I found this cave today, in a narrow valley. I’ve walked here lots of times before, but I  never found the path down the steep slope to this place. It’s too dark to see in very far. All around is earth and trees so this bit of rock sticking out, though covered in moss, looks strange and mysterious as if it doesn’t belong. Although I’m always walking around these woods, I often seem to find things I didn’t know were there. And sometimes I never find them again. No wonder I think the woods are enchanted.