Spiritual Growth - Morning Star Institute -- Journey 99

Merlin's Cave, Tintagel, England

Excerpts from:

The Myth of the Sacred Millennial Journey of the Archangel Mikael (Michael), The Holy Grail and the Marriage of the Sun and Moon: the Total Solar Eclipse

August 6-20, 1999

“You are lovingly invited to be a member of the sacred wedding party celebrating the Sacred Marriage of the Sun and Moon, August 11, 1999--to be conducted at Land’s End, Cornwall, England. Please join us in this once in ten thousand year celebration of this sacred journey.”

This invitation was hand delivered by the Keepers of the Sacred Secrets many moons before the journey.

Prologue:

Boston, Friday, August 6, 1999 (Written September 29, 2000 Michaelmas)

We left the summer shores of New England to Pilgrimage across the grey Atlantic Ocean to the place where myth and legends come alive in the land of the ancients, known as Cornwall, England and the Pyrenees, France.

This journey was honoring the completion of a 2000-year cycle and it was heralding in a new millennium marked by the form of a grand astrological cross in conjunction with the Total Solar Eclipse.

We each got to intuitively choose a mythical character, which we were to embrace as an identity that would enhance our understanding of ourselves by acting out that very persona.

The Solar Eclipse Journey

Day One: Saturday, August 7, 1999 (Journey to Tintagel, England)

It was tolling midnight as we stole silently down the narrow hedgerows and passageways in search of the outskirts of town near King Arthur’s castle in Tintagel. We lit up the dark night until we came to this very town, which was wide-awake with the young and the old spilling out from blazing pubs and taverns. Campfires flickered on the hillside overlooking the castle ruins and the ocean kept the heart beat of eternity. Ah, the air was filled with salt and dew. We were back on the shores of legendary times. Conversation and laughter carried over the ravine and those who could hear between the lines knew this very night long ago.

Day Two: Sunday, August 8, 1999 (Holy Day of the Archangel Mikael)

After a full day and eve of travel, the rooks awoke us to the sun rising over ancient stonewalls and moist green pastures. Breaking our fast, we discovered the meaning of the encampment and our first day of voyage played out to be quite unplanned.

In the fields across from our way station, Mordred was battling King Arthur in their final combat and we were to witness this enactment. Enchantment could not be more tangible. Each Pilgrim had the freedom to wander the fields or the streets and thus we scattered, united and scattered throughout the day. It was a star-filled night above the roof of our chambers and sleep came early for many of us.

Day Three: Monday, August 9, 1999

We all loaded into the coach after a sumptuous breakfast of eggs, toast and tea and the Capt’n (JC) known as Merlin and Guardian Angel guided us to the sacred stones of Bodmin Moor. Here we hiked along footpaths winding to the place of ancient ritual and sanctuary.

Under a stone shelter, we journeyed to meet the male aspect of ourselves. In order to attend the celestial marriage of the Sun and Moon, and to unite our own masculine and feminine aspects, we need to embrace our own internal male and female.

The Faery Queen (Sherry) took us to the Otherworld on the spirit of her drum. Merlin guided us to our inner realm. We met our sacred male within. This masculine symbol vibrated with the stones and pinnacles of this place of worship. Thunder echoed in the distance. The Keepers of the Sacred Secrets (JC and Sher) brought us back from other dimensions.

Day Four: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 (Eve of the Total Solar Eclipse)

Tintagel remained a place of fervent activity. The anticipation of the eclipse was electric, hovering around and charging up the many humans gathered for the event. Queues reached the streets for pasties and brew. Pigeons and trash littered the sidewalks. Lorries and transports crawled through the human infested streets.

We too moved like lava through the throngs, making our way by foot to the mouth of the sea. This morning the sun glistened on the water and the footpaths were crammed with eager folk. The stones were warm and the air was still.

As Pilgrims we moved unnoticed to the mouth of the stream cascading over the mossy cliff walls. We clustered near to the wizard to hear his words on life, loss and the passing-over of a loved one.

Merlin, on the threshold of his powerful cave, passionately encouraged the Pilgrims to communicate with the spirit-realm, to listen to the voice of the sea, to open to the vibration of the stones, to cleanse with the purity of the stream, to feel the essence of the wind, and to speak to the spirit of loved ones.

We were asked to enter his cave with respect. Following the footsteps of the Faery Queen, who was formerly guided by the purple serpent, we walked into the mother’s womb. To my knowledge, none of us was blessed by any mythical guidance, but we each met with our own female within on a self-guided journey.

The ocean and the cave worked in unison to remind us of the female power. Quietly merging with the stonewalls, the female aspect of our humanness presented herself. The flow of humans around us was like a river that pulsed to the depths of the cave, touching the rising tide and then surging back out again. As Pilgrims, we too surged out of the cave, but as we burst into the light of day, we gave birth to our female aspect. This sparkling new feeling glistened like the salt water meeting the sand, washing the tiny pebbles clean.

Just after English teatime, we gathered again to share about the experiences we had at the Widows Window and Merlin's Cave. For the remainder of the evening, we were given freedom to prepare for the sacred marriage of the Sun and Moon in our own manner.

How grand was this eclipse? The Keepers of the Sacred Secrets speak,

“it will be one of the greatest moments on this earth—a Solar Eclipse ushering in the coming millennium. This Total Solar Eclipse is in the sign of the King, the royal sign of Leo.

During this eclipse, what is referred to as a ‘Grand Cross’ will be formed in the heavens by the sun and the planets. The Sun and the Moon in Leo are opposite Uranus in Aquarius, squaring Saturn in Taurus on the one hand, and Mars in Scorpio on the other. These four main zodiacal signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio (the eagle) and Aquarius (the human water-bearer) will form this ‘Grand Cross.’”

The eclipse will pass from the Atlantic Ocean crossing land and sea to complete over the Indian Ocean. And we, as Pilgrims will bear witness to it, standing on the Cornish Coast two miles north of King Arthur’s Castle in Tintagel.

Wednesday, August 11, 1999
(Day of the Total Solar Eclipse)