Through addiction and anxiety,
anger and jealousy

to the Altar of the Heart
I come to make my offering again.

This time You accept it and say:

“May its fire light the way 
to the worship of my family.”

I wrote the words above a few years ago when I offered my heart to Gwyn  on an altar in meditation (I’d tried once before and that time He rejected it!).

Since then my heart has been with Gwyn in the Otherworld. I first saw it again around six months ago in a shamanic journey in an icy pool thawing out.

In a meditation for Gwyn’s Feast with the Monastery of Annwn last September Gwyn returned my heart and said that the Heart of Annwn now beats in my chest as it beats in the chests of all living creatures. 

When I returned to those words in my prayer book and looked at the image it was no longer my heart on the altar but Gwyn’s and I received the gnosis that if I succeed in founding a physical monastery He wants an altar to His heart.

This happened after I finished my ‘Mystics of the Sacred Heart’ series. It seems that an exchange of hearts of sorts has happened between us after all.