Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
Here’s an extract from my book, The Dragon Whisperer’s Son, published in 2021, about how an evil imposter, Goronwy Pevr, takes over the land of Camelot. I’m sure some of you will recognise what inspired me! GORONWY PEVR HAD QUICKLY emerged from behind a tall thicket of poison ivy on the opposite bank, and then…
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I was saying to a friend the other day about how living in Glastonbury is just like living backstage in the Theatre of Dreams. I’ve been here for 11 years now … more than long enough to notice that most visitors are secretly hoping to catch the will-o-wisp, the ignis fatuus or Fool’s Fire that…
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Listen to me reading an extract from my book, The Grail Mysteries, in which Merlin and the Company of the Grail are in a race against time and all the evil forces arrayed against them, to bury the Thirteen Treasures of Britain on the Winter Solstice. We join the action just after they have installed…
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The Glastonbury Chronicles are based on authentic fairy tales and are written with love for adults who are still children at heart.
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I was going to say that if you’re looking for some great escapism, then the final book to tell you about in this series would be ideal. But then I realised that The Grail Mysteries is no escape all at all. It is a bridge into the Other Worlds that are just as real as…
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If I was asked to describe exactly what the Mystery Teachings were about in just eight words, I would say: “The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon”. You might wonder why that is such a crucial topic to be understood on the road to wisdom and enlightenment. Well, it’s because the Marriage of the…
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Who was Merlin really? It’s a question I often get asked. Well, we have to go back to the 12th century, when a school of scribes was appointed by the Norman conquest to win the hearts and minds of the unruly Celts, and they reinvented Merlin from an already-existing native, mythological shaman called Myrddin Wylt.
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In the last article, Part 3, Forging our own fairy sword of truth, we discussed the metaphorical meaning of the Three of Swords, and I used an example from the Fey Tarot in which a male faery is rising from the sea with the dawn breaking just behind him. Dawn is a major character in…
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Sometimes people use old myths about faeries, dwarves and wizards to build a cosy, walled cognitive space – in the same way that as children we used to construct camps from blankets and bedspreads in which to hide from the realities of the adult world. However, the ancient myths were not meant for that purpose, and…
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If you have followed my guidance in Part 1, you will hopefully have begun the process of diving down deep into the frozen lake of your emotions and using the heat of concentration – through visualisation or shamanic journeying – in the alchemic crucible of your own inner space to release them and bring them…
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This article forms the beginning of a shamanic quest for my readers to help them understand and work with the imagery contained within my books that are based on Celtic magic. So if you’ve just stumbled into this Mystery Teachings class, you may want to go to the Introduction first, and then follow the links…
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Shaman of Avalon 