Cornwall and Glastonbury family pilgrimage

We just returned from an amazing family trip to Cornwall and upwards to Glastonbury, enjoying time together, visiting stones and wells, getting onto a little bit of Bodmin and out to the rugged Cornish coastline and being free and able to flow with the energy. I loved the stone circles, Boscawen-Un especially, with its central stone, and the boys and I loved Chun Quoit where we learned about protection, and all the walking on the heather-clad moors, and the fun on the beach and finding Logan’s Rock and all the laughter that brought, the various springs and wells and wet shoes and the memories made.

Glastonbury felt almost a shock after the spaciousness of Cornwall, but it is always lovely to connect with the sacred land and see familiar faces, and of course get up the Tor and dip in the white spring! The boys loved it too for different reasons - ice cream for Eben at an Italian restaurant and rolling down the Tor for Elijah, with rabbit poo and all!

In Cornwall, one thing which struck me when away is all the development and the parcelling of the agricultural fields, all devoid of bio-diversity. It was so sad to see so many neolithic complexes now destroyed with the stones lining fields as walls. One day I took the boys for lunch at Land’s End and we sat in the restaurant with views out to the Scilly Isles and I looked around me and asked the boys to notice the commonality - every single person in that restaurant, whether on their own or eating with others, was looking at a phone! It struck me then how much we’ve checked out and not in, how we don’t even notice our surroundings.

I have been questioning whether to continue blogging, because one of my explorations while away was to see what life might be like lived offline, having left my laptop at home for the first trip since having a laptop all these years…it was liberating, I had more time, was less distracted, could listen more clearly…and thus I am questioning the merits of encouraging others to be online, and yet I know that sometimes there is benefit, that sometimes we need the external to help us access more of the internal - the universe is always communicating with us, we just have to notice the patterns.

So for now life continues anon. There’s lots going on at Beinspired to keep us busy but still the energy is tricky and I feel it will be until the equinox when things will shift on. We’ve finally received an autism diagnosis for Elijah and feeling into that, and all that life brings with its changes…but one thing is clear, that we have little control and little choice but to keep surrendering to it, and living moment to moment, in simplicity and as much peace as we can muster, and praying for help when needed, to the Goddess, Mother Earth herself, this is a fab book if you need reminding...https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Rose-Radical-Divine-Feminine/dp/B07YXCV2WB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SOFKJ4E0KMJ9&keywords=the+way+of+the+rose&qid=1677618921&sprefix=the+way+f+the+rose%2Caps%2C260&sr=8-1

Love Emma x