Many of the trunks were twisted and some had hollows in the trunk. One was big enough for me to go inside and feel the energy of the trees in a very different way.
My friend Georgina and I sang into the hollows, listening into the whirls of the wood and hearing harmonics ring through our voices.
Apple trees are sacred to many goddesses, including Aphrodite, Diana and Venus. If you slice an apple in half the pentagram, an ancient symbol of magical protection is revealed. We wondered whether the twisted bark was partly due to being on a ley line.One tree had fallen but apples were still growing from some of the branches. I was lucky that Georgina knew of this place, off the tourist map, one of the places she goes to walk and sing and listen to the land.
Many sacred sites, like this one, are in our own backyards and are waiting for us to honor them. Do you have a special place in nature that you go to for guidance? What messages have you been given?
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Dear Songkeeper, I learned of you from Kathy Parra. And funny, my name is Diane and I have always loved apples! I have sat on fallen trees in the woods to listen to the songs of nature and feel at one. By the ocean I hear symphonies . . .
I'm so sorry you haven't updated this blog since last year - I have just discovered it and wanted to read more!
There is a beautiful column in one of the side chapels of the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral that twists, very like that apple tree trunk; and then it twists back the other way. It has an extraordinary dynamism, like a living thing.
The spirit of the gods fills all open spaces, all shores, all fields and woods, if we can but slow down a little and listen out for it.
Go well
Imogen.
Imogen and Diane,
Thank you for your posts. It has been awhile since I've posted but I have been writing a children's novel now about trees and singing so am just now revisiting my blog. I have also been traveling and spent several months in the UK so sorry I didn't know about the crypt columns at Canterbury cathedral. I have been there many years ago.
I loved what you both wrote and thanks for leaving posts.
Imogen, I will be back in the UK in the spring of 2010. Perhaps e could meet at Kew Gardens.
Blessings,
Susan
Imogen and Diane,
Thank you for your posts. It has been awhile since I've posted but I have been writing a children's novel now about trees and singing so am just now revisiting my blog. I have also been traveling and spent several months in the UK so sorry I didn't know about the crypt columns at Canterbury cathedral. I have been there many years ago.
I loved what you both wrote and thanks for leaving posts.
Imogen, I will be back in the UK in the spring of 2010. Perhaps e could meet at Kew Gardens.
Blessings,
Susan
Imogen and Diane,
Thank you for your posts. It has been awhile since I've posted but I have been writing a children's novel now about trees and singing so am just now revisiting my blog. I have also been traveling and spent several months in the UK so sorry I didn't know about the crypt columns at Canterbury cathedral. I have been there many years ago.
I loved what you both wrote and thanks for leaving posts.
Imogen, I will be back in the UK in the spring of 2010. Perhaps e could meet at Kew Gardens.
Blessings,
Susan
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