It was a fabulous sunny Sunday and there was no way I was going to be staying in my rooms in Devonshire with the Solar deity virtually shouting my name.
So without a thought I decided to wander off to the legendary home of King Arthur, namely Tintagel. I had been there twice before, once with Gwas last summer (when it rained) and the last winter when it was sunny but windy.
Today had the promise of a summers day in Spring! I arrived at the great castle around lunch time and was pleased to say that the weather couldn’t have been better than today. I walked about the grounds of the castle looking for some inspiration. As I looked over parapets and walls I realised that although not completely gone, my sense of vertigo had improved a lot over the last year.
Finally I sensed a place that would be good to do a commune and taking my rods out I quickly confirmed this. Excellent.
Last summer Gwas and I visited this castle and Gwas was able to have a wonderful commune with Merlin. I was eagerly expecting a similar experience.
I lay on the grass in one of the outer ‘rooms’ of the castle and asked to be put in the presence of the magician. A fair while passed with no response or acknowledgement. Perhaps I wasn’t going to be as privileged as Gwas? Never mind I thought, the sun was nice and warm and so I relaxed into the grass a bit more and let the warmth fill me.
I really am a Sun person, I pondered. You couldn’t doubt it. Another voice in my mind agreed with me. “Yes student, you are a Sun person” There was a bit of a cynical tone to the voice I thought and the word “student” definitely had some undertone to be sure. Of course I recognised the voice instantly,Cailleach!
My eyes were closed but there she was, in all her gorgeous glory. As I admired her figure a question popped into my head. Why was it that people portrayed her as a hag or an old crone when to me she was a beautiful presence?
“Are you really going to ask me that?” She looked at me, smiling a smile the kind of which I have only seen on her face.
Quite poetic that line
No, I guess not. I responded and then pondered her presence. I was expecting a grizzled old man, staff and all, Merlin, but I get, Cailleach, and there was that “student” thing again.
“You worry too much,” she said, again in a charming voice.
Shouldn’t I be worried? I asked.
“No, all goes well for you, you are on the path, well and truly.”
I was glad to hear that, I had been worried about how my quest was going.
“Do not worry about it, it is going to happen,” I noticed something odd about the way she spoke then. She wasn’t using contractions. She spoke full, complete words.
Anyway, she continued, “I have a gift for you” O I thought, sounds good. She smiled, knowing my thoughts again.
As a side note I realise now of course that “of course” she would as she was in my head, doh!
Anyway (again) “Go to the waterfall below and you will find it.” Before I could ask whether this was a ‘blue key’ or what it was, or what I was to do with it. She was gone. I got up immediately, which startled a couple who had taken a seat some feet away from me. And was off scampering down the steps towards the sea.
As you can see from the pictures the waterfall was a small but beautifully placed one. I stood just to the side of the bottom of it and looked around. My attention was immediately caught by a glistening double-fist sized lump of quartz crystal. It sparkled as the water ran over it. What quite surprised me was the number of people (and children) that were around the waterfall and yet none had stooped to pick this piece up.
I immediately did so and carried it off to sit in the sun and dry it off. What a fabulous gift. I didn’t have to dowse to make sure this is what I was looking for. So another clue towards gaining knighthood had been found. I wonder of what use it will be.
I still had a lot of exploring to do at Tintagel and now thanks to that dame Cailleach I had to lug a huge lump of crystal with me!
Kal Malik – a step closer
ps:
Here is the crystal that I found:
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