I read the above book 15 or so years ago and it really opened me up to the sacred/spiritual side of me. As I read that and subsequent books about Avalon and the Arthurian Legends, I felt a very strong connection with those times.
May 1999 I had a dream with a clear vision of me in deep blue robes in a barge on a lake and going through, opening, the mists. The sight of the surroundings was edged in my mind and I drew it when I woke up.
In September that year, after just finishing my Reiki Mastery, I went on a bus-tour through the southern part of the UK with my sister. When our tourguide found out that a few of us had a great interest in the Arthurian/Avalon legends, she included more of these sidetrips in our tour, but to my utter disappointment, Glastonbury was not on the list.
When we had one day free in Bournemouth I decided to hire a car, drove to Glastonbury, did all the touristy things and then walked the "Tor". I was supposed to be in the above picture, but we forgot to set the backlight and I faded in the dark background. After a short meditation sitting on the top of the Tor it was getting close to the end of the day and we made our way down. I kept looking back and then as we were about to take the turn to Glastonbury village I stopped in my tracks and called out to my sister:"This is it, this is what I saw in my vision". It was the same lighting, same side of the ruins on top of the Tor and it was so easy to imagine how it would have looked then. The feeling of connectedness to those times and the Goddess energy was so strong, I was pretty overwhelmed.
When we loaded the picture on the computer I was covered in "Christ-bumps" as I call them. I remember saying, that's it: "The Gateway" And as the timing coincided with my new start in teaching Reiki, it really became the start of the rest of my life.
From then on this picture has become my "Signature", Firstly as the "Gateway to the Rest of Your Life" and now "Thetagateway".
May there always be Gateways for us to step through to evolve into true Mastery
