"Do I belong to some ancient race? I like to walk in ancient places. These are things that I can understand" The Levellers.
I was eight years old the first time I stood in this place. Eight years old when I walked in this ancient place and eight years old when I found my spiritual home. This is a place of myth and magic, a place where to just stand and breathe is a declaration of something greater, where answers are freely given to those who dare to feel their shape.
This is a place that defines you, that lifts you up and sends your heart on a journey of exploration. It’s a place that washes you from the inside and leaves you lighter. It speaks to you of history, ancestors, blood, bone and destiny. It opens you up, and dares to you explore beyond it’s surface. It says to me “stand here, clear your mind and open your heart” and you wait for the wind to whip wildly through you, eddying in violent peaks until the chains that held you down have been washed free and you can begin to see how you are touched by the subtle brushes with something other that paints you as exceptional within your own mind, because you know in the most profound of ways that to know the heart of this place renders you as more than others will ever be able to see. You know that the others who come here will never penetrate through to the heart of the horse and that this is yours alone to bear.
It’s like a blood brothership but there is no sacrifice demanded here. All that was ever demanded has been willingly given and returned many times over. It is a soul connection: like recognises like and demands to be heard. There is a place in me where the horse fits as if it were made, and there is a space that I occupy within the horse, that has been there since before time. What walks here is eternal, infinite and beyond the scope of many. It speaks with a low voice of a reality that was long ago jettisoned for a life more practical and less sacred.
This is my place to connect and my place to taste the shape of the answers to the questions I never really needed to ask. This is the ancient place I walk and the place that has been my home through many incarnations. This is a place that has been home to wisdom and warriors. In this ancient place, I walk upon hallowed ground.