Stonehenge

r3nu4l

I visited Stonehenge at Easter time last year (oh, the delicious irony:D).

I'm a Christian but have always been interested in Pagansim and view it as a legitimate religion. Anyway, I 've always had an interest in Stonehenge and visited many other ancient sites from our own Newgrange and Tara to Pompeii and the temples at the Roman Forum.

I was bitterly disappointed by Stonehenge and am now ashamed in part of my partaking in the commercialisation of the site.

For anyone who has never been, when you arrive you come to a large car-park filled with tourist buses and cars. When you pass through the turnstiles you can get an audioguide. The information on the guide is quite good and informative but the site itself is awful.

Visitors then cross under the road from the car-park and onto a walkway in the field where the site is located. You are only allowed to walk on the walkway and not enter the stone circle site itself. I agree with this because I feel that the site should be preserved.

It's impossible to get any sense of mystique or spiritual blending with the site as there are literally hundreds of people walking all along the walkway with you, laughing, joking, taking photos (<--guilty as charged!). It appears to be like this from the moment the site opens in the morning to the moment it closes. There does not appear to be a quiet time.

I imagine for any pagans out there who have an interest in the site (and I know its original uses are debated) to gain anything from a visit there.

Have any of you, as Pagans, visited the site and di you feel the same or do you feel you got something from it?

Surion

I totally agree with you! If you look at map/photo, the walkway around the site actually cuts into the outer henge/circle, in essence the tarmac walkway is driven through the site. It is already destroyed really - such a shame.

But, if you remove these things from public sight, then you loose a part of their energy. And I'm confused which should be more appropriate? What would spur the likes of you to become interested or to keep mine going everytime I see it? A friend once said, the energy of the place accepts where it is placed - otherwise it would not allow it.

Is this one of those things we must accept the universe is unfolding as it should?