So long ago now, it seems, I shifted retreats out of Mt. Shasta, California (one power vortex) to Chartres Cathedral, in Chartres, France (another power vortex) … and for over 20 years I have been given the incredible grace of delivery in beloved Chartres.
It is ‘home port’ for me in Europe. I still give thanks to my students/clients who introduced me to France initially, in the mid-90s — and to Chartres specifically, because something ineffable happened there — and is still, to this day, available with every intake of breath.
I would enter Europe, deliver sessions in Holland, Belgium, Germany … Wherever I was, the last stop on the trip was me wanting to rejuvenate — in Chartres.
This was prior to shifting five-day retreats there off of Mt. Shasta.
It was one fine evening at dinner, when I realized I went there to rejuvenate, to refresh after long weeks of delivery.
Chartres has not ever failed me. Nor I Her, I hope.
So many individuals came through the gates/doors of Chartres, and each one, I can honestly say, met themselves in a way that beforehand, they had not ever known.
This is an extraordinary, humbling position I found myself in over and over again.
It’s right on my passion line of Service.
Just this last summer, I spent two weeks in Chartres, although this time, I stayed/housesat in the beautiful French home of a dear Sister while she was off traveling. It wasn’t as a tourist or stranger; it was as an old friend being there, and from there, I offered the Work.
I was also acutely aware that the tides were turning. Not that doors were closing — She doesn’t ever close doors. But that something was on the horizon.
This had me contemplate regret and loss. But that didn’t last. Because really, there wasn’t any of either!
It did have me look out across the horizon.
And there I discovered fruit …
It’s always both sides of the veil in the Work; it’s not ever about ‘delivery for others’ unless it is about delivery of Self.
I have long wanted to open the doors of the Work in the beloved homeland of my roots; Ireland.
Patience, grasshopper …
The doors have opened. And I am now shifting into that level of opening, allowance, experience, integration, and greater embodiment of living a soul-infused life on Earth.
I will be in Dublin May 2020 for five days of sessions. Then I will be in London for the next week’s five days of sessions.
Ask me if I’m thrilled.
Chartres Retreats still stay in that place/space of wonder.
And, a retreat called Seat of the Ancients will be gathering — different — not the same format as Chartres — in the Autumn of 2020 — in the sacred land of County Meath, Ireland.