Knights Templar, Masons, Alchemy, Crowley, Pessoa, the Quinta da Regaleira, tarot cards… we’ve discovered a lot of unexpected Magick in Portugal!
Yesterday we explored the gardens of the Quinta da Regaleira Palace in Sintra. Wow! Talk about an ideal location for mystical initiations… the gardens were designed for that purpose exactly.
This is the Well of Initiation. 9 landings. Gets darker, colder, wetter as you go deeper into the earth, away from the light into the underworld into a maze of underground tunnels and grottos.
I can imagine how frightening and powerful this experience of ritualistic death and rebirth would be be in the dark.
Behold the path of descent…
At last! We found the light again.
The path out of the darkness. Imagine this at night…
And the palace is pretty spectacular…
