Wishing you a happy Easter with Julie’s beautiful arrangement for the Upper Room and our angel with camelia flower. With love & blessings from The Well.
Wishing you a happy Easter
Category: Chalice Well News
Retreat House and Meeting Room are opening
With the announcement of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, we have been able to start planning how and when we can re-open Little St. Michael’s Retreat House and at last welcome you back to come and stay! This has been a challenging year, and you may well be looking forward to the rejuvenation and nourishment that a retreat can bring.
Companionship
The prefix ‘com’ stems from the Latin to mean ‘with’, pan from the Latin ‘pane’ or ‘bread’. In the Latin-speaking world, your companions were the individuals that you broke bread with and with whom you shared a common table. Wellesley Tudor Pole chose the word ‘companion’ for those who were to work together to safeguard the Chalice Well property. Rarely has companionship…
Spring Equinox | Thoughts on the Well Dressing
This Well dressing includes Thuja plicata, Pittosporum tenuifolium; budding leaf branches of hazel, medlar, silver birch and amelanchier; flowering branches of weeping cherry, ornamental quince and forsythia; alder cones; and flowers including primroses, polyanthus, hellebores and daffodils.
Love makes a family …
We would like to offer this post ~
in gratitude to all who are mothers; and for all acts of caring, nurturing and mothering;
in joy for all the ways you’ve found to connect to and support those you call family;
and in love for all those who have lost someone you consider a mother or child, especially those gone far too soon.
At this time of year…
At this time of year, we would normally be opening the doors of our retreat house to our Companions, after our winter deep clean. Just to say that we are thinking of you, we miss you and as the new retreat manager here I look forward to welcoming you as soon as we are able.[…]Read more…
Earth Festival: First Stirring/Imbolc/(Saint) Brigid’s Day/Candlemas
Here we are still in winter but with our thoughts turned to the hopes of spring. As before and especially at Winter Solstice, this dressing is built upon the strength and ongoing growth of evergreens, long looked to as symbols of hope.
“Bitter the waters of grief; but sweet is the Well-spring”
The Coming of Bride’ was written by Alice alongside her students of the Chalice Well for the Guild of Festival Players (Glastonbury and Street). It was first produced on 6th August 1914. The play follows Bride’s story
Interconnectedness
What are lichens? They are a mutualistic symbiosis. The plant body (or thallus) consists of two quite different organisms together in an intimate association; a fungus and a microscopic green plant (an alga). The fungus makes up the bulk of the thallus and the algal cells are buried within it. Or rather, imagine the fungus[…]Read more…
Winter Solstice | Thoughts on the Well Dressing – the Returning Light
The foundation of this Winter Solstice dressing is made from yew (Taxus baccata) and larch (Larix decidua), symbols of transformation, rebirth and spiritual connection. Simply as an evergreen, the yew represents perpetual life and hope; whilst birch (Betula pendula) acknowledges the turning of the Wheel. With them is holly (Ilex aquifolium) for protection and in[…]Read more…