One of the highlights of my year is the Midsummer Gathering of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Gatherings are held twice a year in Glastonbury, around the solstices, but the summer assembly is the one with the big ‘draws’: meditations, fellowship, a glittering and colourful public ceremony on Glastonbury Tor, a great feast and entertainment from the finest Bards; and, for the brave and the new, a dawn ritual at Stonehenge. To end it all, there are words of wisdom from Philip Carr-Gomm, the Chosen Chief (not as sermon like as it sounds! Not at all!) After things wrap up on Sunday lunchtime we take our leave, re-inspired, invigorated by what we have shared together, ready to go out and live our life’s purpose.
The Great Spirit speaks through us and to us, and if we are open hearted, and therefore able to listen, guides us and teaches us. So today I have learned this - repeated over and over in lots of different ways, through different people and through the natural world:
The importance of Vision in relation to manifestation is an ongoing theme in this blog. Another theme - dreams don’t become real if we just sit around doing nothing - vision also needs execution.
But there is more! We need to be fully present in the world, living in the here and now, and with divine purpose. We cannot live ‘provisionally’ - we cannot put off being fully ourselves until we have put that last piece in the jigsaw puzzle. There is no ‘when I get there’ - we are already there - but having a vision too means that we are both being and becoming.
