Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott and you join me on day 27 of my pilgrimage as I walk across England following the Michael and Mary energy currents and today I'm at a very special place.
I'm in Wiltshire.
Tomorrow I will get to Avebury but I'm at a place in Wiltshire just above a town called Devizes at a place that's known as Oliver's Castle.
Now this is a crossing point not only of the Mary and Michael currents which is a node point but it is also where they cross the ley line.
And Oliver's Castle well it's it's you know it's just a mound really but what extraordinary views this is on top of a hillside with very steep sides almost cliff cliff face covered in grasses and escarpment that falls right down to the bottom of the valley.
So this would have been an incredibly important position to see the landscape around as the views are absolutely breathtaking.
And in the middle of this it's probably about the size of a UK football pitch but but sort of circular I'm just sort of spinning around as I talk to you and this is where the node point is and I don't know exactly if I'm standing on it but it just say in the centre of the enclosure and that's where I'm standing.
And it was really interesting because today as I walked up to Oliver's Castle I kind of felt this sense of well will I feel anything?
Yesterday I didn't feel that much when I was by the stones the devil's bed and bolster which supposedly had the very strong vibe of an energy current there of the Michael current but as I walked up here towards Oliver's Castle I knew I was stepping into holy sacred ground it's it's got a very ancient feeling about it.
It's not got the intimate spiritual sort of feeling of maybe some of the places I've visited particularly in churches but it's got this it's almost like Glastonbury Tor feeling it's got this expansive energising feel for me as I walk into it there's a real sense of otherness here other energy here.
And it's been really helpful today because today as I've been walking we've had some news about our dog who's at home being looked after very well but he's it sounds like he's a bit poorly at the moment he's very very elderly and we have been on standby ever since we've started I say we because my husband's helping me ever since we've started this pilgrimage to if necessary just down tools and go back home to to you know look after the dog and maybe it will be his final days I don't know.
So we got a message that the dog was maybe in a little bit of discomfort and we're just waiting now to see whether that's going to settle down of its own accord or whether we need to go back home and just press pause on the pilgrimage for a while.
And I'm saying this because it doesn't matter what the outcome is whether we go home whether we stay here whether I walk tomorrow whether I don't walk tomorrow I really do understand and this is what I think the pilgrimage is teaching me is that I don't I genuinely don't know what's going to happen from one day to the next from one minute to the next.
I might have plans I mean we all like a good plan don't we but ultimately a plan is just a an aspiration of something that may or may not happen.
And so the mantra I've been learning on this pilgrimage is that whatever happens is what's meant to happen and I don't mean that in a defeatist way or as in a lie down and let the world walk all over me kind of way I just mean it that I don't know what is going to unfold but I do know that I will meet whatever unfolds and walk with it and align myself with it and find a way through it.
So today as I say goodbye to the node point here at Oliver's Castle in Wiltshire I think I'm going to Avebury tomorrow but equally maybe I'm not maybe it's time to go home and see my dog.
Who knows yeah we just don't know we have no idea we have no real control but whatever happens we can turn up with whatever the universe offers us and walk in that direction without resistance.
