{"id":34029,"date":"2017-09-23T15:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34029"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:50:57","slug":"chalice-well-and-its-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/chalice-well-and-its-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalice well and its gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stillness and tranquility<br \/>\nMeets the traveller who<br \/>\nStumbles on this resting place<br \/>\nHushed and calm the view<br \/>\nSweeps away before thee<br \/>\nWith its harmony aloft<br \/>\nA breathing space a reposeful face<br \/>\nWhere everywhere feels soft<\/p>\n<p>In Well house lane this sanctuary<br \/>\nIts sabbatical of sorts<br \/>\nIn the vale of Avalon<br \/>\nA great sharing of thoughts<br \/>\nA pilgrimage for anyones<br \/>\nRecuperation and<br \/>\nReviving and restoring<br \/>\nOne can feel a gentle hand<\/p>\n<p>Leaning in towards us<br \/>\nIn amongst the glorious flowers<br \/>\nThe lions heads fountain quietly roars<br \/>\nDelivering for hours<br \/>\nIts throughly sacred water<br \/>\nThat is so thirst quenching too<br \/>\nAt 250,000 gallons a day<br \/>\nAll good and true<\/p>\n<p>Slow down,just  sit and rest awhile<br \/>\nThe vesica pisces pool<br \/>\nThe solace one finds all about<br \/>\nA reunion to all<br \/>\nTrue responsiveness and intuition<br \/>\nDrives the traveller on<br \/>\nIts vibrant and effusive<br \/>\nAnd not until you have gone<\/p>\n<p>Will that overwhelming feeling<br \/>\nLeave you, I can say<br \/>\nThe water cold and sparkling<br \/>\nFrom an aquifer away<br \/>\nIn the lower levels<br \/>\nOf the Pennard sands to where<br \/>\nThe secrets and the magick gathers<br \/>\nMixing with the air<\/p>\n<p>Between the Tor and chalice Hill<br \/>\nWhere great yews stand sublime<br \/>\nWhere so much inspiration lurks<br \/>\nTo expose you to the time<br \/>\nTo expose you to the mystery<br \/>\nThe inscrutable of smiles<br \/>\nPractice your affirmations<br \/>\nTo so last out the miles<\/p>\n<p>Of going home or elsewhere<br \/>\nLeaving it all behind<br \/>\nThe holy well the chalice shop<br \/>\nThe nicest shop you will find<br \/>\nWaving to the red spring<br \/>\nA female deity<br \/>\nIt be the essence of true life<br \/>\nAnd its place in Glastonbury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stillness and tranquility Meets the traveller who Stumbles on this resting place Hushed and calm the view Sweeps away before thee With its harmony aloft A breathing space a reposeful face Where everywhere feels soft In Well house lane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/chalice-well-and-its-gardens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36725,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}