The Source ~ River Avon ~ East
Wendy Robertson Fyfe
The Source ~ River Avon ~ East
From dark, deep depths
through a myriad of
multiple fractures,
water rises
creating clear pools
where bubbles now silently
ripple the surface
of forgotten songs.
Fractures are vital,
how ancient waters
feel their way out, fresh.
For eons bubbles
keep coming up
in different places,
different pools.
Tend your fractures dear people,
that the origins of your depths
bubble up, create new pools.
Quench the thirst of your life
from eternal waters
created from movement
and fractures of the world.
Be Earth’s fulfilment.
Be praise and song.
Wendy Robertson Fyfe
This poem is one of a series of poems being with the source of the River Avon in Wiltshire, England. Avon means river. River River, we believe, is an invocation. There are nine rivers named thus in Scotland (Abhainn - avin), Wales (Afon) and England. This particular River Avon flows through/by/centring of Avebury, Stonehenge, Salisbury and arrives into the salty sea at Christchurch in Dorset.
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… from River Avon, River River, to Atlantic Ocean: we have heard it said from various sources to be named from Greek origins ‘Atlantikos’, of Atlas, a Titan, who in Greek mythology was destined/tasked/condemned, or blessed and cursed, to bear the heavens for eternity … associated with the first celestial sphere, maths and astronomy. We’ve heard another source of the Atlantic name is Atlas, the first King of Atlantis. The sources of the name Iona are more mysterious. We have heard it said, so far, coming from Gaelic ‘i’ (pronounced eee) for Island, with Hebrew roots yoná meaning dove and the prophet Jonah, yew-place, Irish Ioua first noted becoming Iona from 1274, also Norse origin from Hiōe meaning ‘island of the den of the brown bear’.
Midsummer Solstice Iona Vigil Fast
Here is a ‘one-of’ opportunity to apply for one space available in a Midsummer Solstice Iona Vigil Fast. This is for one of you who is already deep in your Pilgrimage of Soul having offered yourself in such a way once or more previously, and longing/feeling called to be present/offer yourself to Mystery now in this magical Isle where the veils between the worlds are already thin. What origins, what names and revelations, might bubble up, ripple, wave-in & out for you in this wild Atlantic Isle?
The Isle is steeped in the history of Druidry, Celtic human and more-than-human world entanglements, with Christian Celts and Viking killings; a place where seeds of the holy are held, lived and crafted in dangerous times; of Nunnery, Abbey, sacred wild script/land/ocean.
What and who might be waiting for you here in this Isle, too old a land to embed fossils. What and who, for example, may become seen and audible at the Well of Eternal Youth/Well of Aoife (beauty/splendor)/Tobar na H-Aoise, the top of Dun I/Dùn-Ì; or the North-West tip where Lewisian Gneiss meets Atlantic Ocean, and so much more.
The land here at this time of year is most ‘alive’ at the surface when it is hardly dark in a day yet where the shadow is directly under your feet, straight down. Hence this call is for someone already well resourced and ready for upper/middle/underworld re-shaping. We will meet for 10 days at the North of Iona at The Green Shed, and afterwards at Iona Pods mid-Isle. Message us for further information, application, conversation for this one available place stunner ~
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Abbey Of Soul is a place and portal for remembering and living life as sacred, for carrying the ancient sacred fire and water in ever emerging ways. A place for Ceremony.
Abbey Of Soul is a place/portal for tending the hollows where the veils are thin and the Gods, Goddesses, humans, Earth Community and Mystery can sing together in remembering our unique, tending the dead, life-giving songs intertwining within an animate Cosmos. (Recording here, Herring Gulls make love eggs song)
Abbey Of Soul is a place for deep listening and soul conversations inviting untold possibilities to unfold, where revelation is the way we orientate life to guide us as we open further into being ceremony.
Abbey Of Soul is a place to dive deep into the mythopoetic seams and rivers under current daily life; stories in conversation with image, dream, myth, symbol, an animate Earth Community, Mystery beyond the current surface life into deeper intimacy, Pilgrimage of Soul.
Abbey Of Soul is a place from which to return into daily life with your unique gifts to feed death-life.
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Please share with anyone you know who feels deep thirst longing to be quenched, to belong.
With love
Wendy/PI’A
"The seer views from the deeper eyes of eternal and prophetic vision beyond current individualism and human-centric identities prevalent in Western extraction cultures; from a deeper truth. The seer carries and brings forth a thread of the eternal through Earth’s generations." wrf.
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