The Heart of Scotland, The Yew Tree of Fortingall

I had an interesting, sometimes gloriously extraordinary, sometimes scary and bewildering adventure in Scotland over the summer.

This picture of me was taken outside the walls of the enclosure where the Fortingall Yew tree is located. The Andara crystals of course brought me there. I was obsessed by the idea of visiting it without even knowing why …. until I got there. 

And then the mystery unfolded.

This sacred tree is right in the very heart or centre of Scotland which happens to be the Heart Chakra of Scotland (it is literally where the major leylines of Scotland cross).

It whispered its ancient secrets to me.  It wasn't the first time I had made a pilgrimage there … though it was the first this lifetime.

I had cried out to it with tears in my eyes, "What do I do now? What do I do?"

It replied softly, "Pilgrim! Pilgrim! You go on. You just go on." No doubt it had said the same thing to many many hundreds of thousands of people who had over the millennia (around 5 thousand years to be true) made the trek to this most ancient and sacred shrine.

I felt a deep sense of love for the tree, a feeling that I had come home to it. I hadn't wanted to go anywhere else really. I had just wanted to stay in the shadow of its branches or at the very least within sight of its lush and healing foliage.

But as with all pilgrimages, this wasn't the final destination but a mere pit stop to replenish, in this case, to heal my wearied soul and mind.

And so with a deep sense of sadness, I bid it adieu.

My dear friend who accompanied me on this journey said I had visited it before in much more trying and dire circumstances and it was a good thing that this time it saw us arrive in a Mercedes Benz! LOL (Apparently I had been crawling the last time!!!)

The secret it whispered to me will stay with me for now until I unravel its mystery …. and who knows? it may be the subject matter of another post??

This journey to the Sacred Yew Tree of Fortingall Scotland though was a great reminder that we are all pilgrims on earth. That we put on the cloak and garb of this third dimensional reality. We journey seeking the divine and in so doing, find divinity within all things and within ourselves.

At the Fortingall Yew Tree, the very Heart of Scotland