All paths in this pilgrimage lead inward, to the quiet centre of the great landscape zodiac that Katharine Maltwood first mapped in the 1920s — a wheel of effigies some ten miles across, traced in mounds, lanes, rivers and field-tracks, pivoting around a single point near Butleigh.
Maltwood was an artist and sculptor who, while illustrating Arthurian legend, came to believe that the figures of the zodiac were drawn into the Somerset landscape itself: a Lion, a Bull, an Archer, a Virgin, all read in the contours of fields and ancient earthworks. Her work named the Glastonbury Zodiac as we know it today, and gave us the central figure of the wheel — Virgo, the Earth Mother, lying on her back with her head pointing west, her form drawn in part by the River Cary.
Upon Virgo rises Wimble Toot — a small conical Bronze Age round barrow, crowned with a circle of trees. In the old reading of the land, this mound marks the breast of the Virgo figure: toot, an old word kin to teat. It is the highest point of her body, and the point chosen for this July's closing work.
The centre, or zero point, is close to Butleigh at a secret location in sight of the Tor.
Where the three networks meet
This is the place where the work of these four days completes. Zero Point — the field outside Butleigh, in sight of the Tor — is the still axis around which Maltwood's whole wheel turns; it is where the 2021 ceremony closed. This time, the culmination moves to Wimble Toot itself: the breast of Virgo, the highest body-point of the landscape figure, the heart of the Heart Chakra grid.
At Wimble Toot the threads are gathered. The AinSoph Stargate ring carried from the Tor, the Planetary City of Light grid carried from York, and the Glastonbury Heart Chakra wheel held by the zodiac itself — all three find a single body-point to meet, briefly, before being released back into their own networks.
The full account of the original closing ceremony — and the 2021 photographs — is held on the Planetary Healers blog:
Read "Zero Point and the Closing Ceremony" →
The shape of the four days
Each day carries its own task. Nothing rushed, nothing forced — simply walking the land in the right order, letting the three networks settle through the body, until the closing day at Wimble Toot.
The long road south. Setting down at The Lion at West Pennard for the four nights ahead. A first quiet evening on Avalon soil, letting the body know it has arrived.
Up Glastonbury Tor — AinSoph Stargate One — and re-opening the link to the global ring of twelve. Then down into the valley to the Chalice Well, to drink the iron-bright waters and let the body attune to the steady frequency of the land.
A long day on the wheel. Beginning at Zero Point — re-committing there with the photographs and the memory of 2021 — then a quiet tour of the Glastonbury Zodiac as Maltwood read it, ending at Wimble Toot for the crystal preparation for the Planetary City of Light network.
Back to the Chalice Well — a slower, quieter return, holding what has settled through the body across the previous days. A small celebration of the four-day arc, and thanks given for what has come through.
Check-out by 11 AM. Then a welcoming open day for anyone who can come to Glastonbury — to share in the Divine Feminine energies that have flowed into the land during the vault opening week. No cost, no programme, just presence on the land. If you're thinking of coming, drop me a short note ahead and we'll arrange where to meet.
Where I stay · The base for the work
Four nights in West Pennard — set between Glastonbury Tor and the centre of the zodiac, the perfect anchor from which to walk each station of the pilgrimage.
The Lion at West Pennard
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West Pennard sits just east of Glastonbury, a short drive from both the Tor and the Butleigh centre — placing the resting place itself within the body of the zodiac.
And so the circle closes — from the first journey of 2021, through the two outer networks, the waters of the Chalice Well, and home to the heart of the zodiac. Three stargate networks, briefly held in one place, on one piece of holy land.
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