Miracles and My Personal Manifestation of Magic in Delfi

Do I believe in Miracles? Oh Yes. Mostly I believe in the miracle that Thoughts Become Things - the power of our thoughts and our deepest inner vibrations (often unconscious) to manifest and change physical reality. I have countless examples, but one shines a little more brightly and surprisingly than the rest.

The year was 1995 and I was 32 years old. I had been in training in Australia for one whole year with a witchy-wise-woman in the women's esoteric arts: everything from sacred drum making, energy healing and trance work to esoteric herbs, tarot and holding Women's Circle. After the full year completed at the Winter Solstice, she announced to myself and the other 2 initiates that the time was coming for me to complete my final initiation. None of us had the foggiest idea what she meant by this and it was not until a week or so later - after much meditation and silence - that she announced to us that MY final initiation needed to take place in Delfi, Greece, on the Rock of the Pythia.

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The initiation would take place after all 4 of us had prepared ourselves by a full moon cycle following the Sacred Way.

What is the Sacred Way? It was-is a sacred procession celebrating Demeter and the Eleusinian Rebirth Rites - the journey of Persephone and Demeter . It's a physical journey from Athens, starting with the Lesser Mysteries, and culminates at the Temple of Artemis at Eleusis. You can read more about the Sacred Way Here.

So, our teacher, myself and the other two young women prepared to travel, and on 1st January 1996 we arrived in Athens. We spent weeks along the Sacred Way in the most amazing time of spiritual journeying and connection, and then after Eleusis, and after some INCREDIBLE toning work at Klytemnestra's Tomb, we headed up to the ancient site at Delfi. Where the big surprise came. The site was HEAVILY guarded by soldiers with semi-automatic weapons and there was NO WAY to access the site privately after dark, let alone under the full moon.

We retreated back to our guesthouse to reconsider, the semi-automatic gun thing being somewhat of a serious deterrent.

My teacher was a strong, persuasive woman and after much discussion, we agreed to try to access the site secretly after dark anyway, and to play dumb tourist if we were caught. We spent the day in meditation and trace work, envisaging ourselves transparent and unseen, with a safe, private and undisturbed silent initiation ceremony.

I've never been so scared in my whole life.

But I still carry such strong memory of the scent of Juniper, the bright moonlight on a very chilly night, and the sight of the guards walking the perimeter. It is a BIG site.

I can still feel the terror in my heart as I stood on the Rock of the Pythia, with the other 3 women, and SAW and FELT the guard start to turn. But he didn't. He paused, lit a cigarette and walked the other way. It was as if we were truly invisible on that bright moonlit night. We managed to complete the ceremony and silently leave the historic site safely, without being seen, shot or arrested. LOL. Legs shaking. And skulking in the shadows not 200 metres from the armed guards.

I swear that he didn't turn fully was a miracle. And I swear that somehow we were not in the same physical realm as them. And yet we were.

We had some glorious days recovering together n Delfi and Itea before moving on to Loutraki and Kalamata. And then England and Ireland. Haha yes that is me with my post-chemo-regrowing hair in the mustard yellow top.

To this day, I still wear the little gold band I bought from a goldsmith at the ancient site in Delfi the following morning.

My little Greek band reminds me of miracles, the Sacred Way that was carved on my heart rather than recorded as a travel experience, and the Magick of Intention when Thoughts Become Things.