The Alchemical Secrets of Glastonbury Tor

The multiple layering of a vortex allows the greatest interaction between the elements within it. .. An essential procedure of alchemists was the solutio, in which the contents of the retort [long necked glass container] could be dissolved back into the prima materia as a first step in purification, preliminary to the creation of a new form. In the process, the mysterious Mercurius acted both as ‘supreme solvent’ and as the base matter in which the alchemist must return before making further progress.

While the Tor functions as an alchemical retort or alembic, its alchemical potency is due to the fact that it is also a point of interaction and connection with the revolving heavenly dimension. In Northern Europe, the summit of the axis mundi is attached to the Pole Star around which revolve the heavens ~ sometimes shown as the twelve houses of the Zodiac. The axis mundi is a conductor of celestial energy, sometimes shown as the lightening from the Gods and thus the passageway between worlds.

In the Celtic tradition, the Tor as a revolving and brilliant spiral castle ~ Caer Sidi ~ also receives and steps down the energies of the greater cosmos. At the same time, the water and the iron in the aquifer that forms its core may increase the Tor’s receptivity to the fields of celestial energy, such as the magnetic and electromagnetic fields of the sun…

Through the calcium and iron in the upper and lower parts of the aquifer, together with the solvent and vortical effects of the water, Glastonbury Tor maintains a specific energetic polarity that makes it highly receptive to subtle celestial influences...read more>>>...