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Heart and Soul Poetics: Reflections on the Alchemical Inner Journey, and Moving to Glastonbury

I'm so delighted to be moving to Glastonbury. Born in Staffordshire, and after living and travelling in London, Brighton, Suffolk and abroad - I now feel like I am returning to an even deeper sense of home, in myself, and in my favourite place on Earth. The Glastonbury  Tercentennial  Labyrinth,  in the churchyard of St John the Baptist I feel this way, so sure of my home and my direction, essentially because it was my inner voice that guided me to this point. In a time of great change a strong song broke out of my heart and called me to Glastonbury. I knew it was my soul speaking to me. I had known the message was there for years, but it was only through sitting and listening deeply that I finally accepted the call.  This spiral inward journey of the heart is like walking the labyrinth, or as the psychologist  Carl Jung put it,  'circumabulating the Self'. Our sensitive and feeling hearts seem to spiral around our souls, perhaps in order ...