The Wishing Tree, Avebury, Wiltshire

            This majestic creature overlooks the neolitihic Avebury stone circles in Wiltshire. People come and tie ribbons etc to the branches with their wishes written on them. The long-held Pagan / magical belief is that the spirit of the tree will hear those wishes. 

In the centre, the "heart" of the tree,  someone had laid a floral offering.

People have also carved words and symbols into the bark over the years.

I would love to know if anyone has ever made a wish here and with what success. (I didn't make a wish).

Side note: Our ancestors have long revered the Earth. Perhaps, at times they were overly superstitious about it (or perhaps not), but I am incredulous that in modern times, we accept our Earth being trashed. Our rivers and seas in particular being polluted is utter madness. 

Feargal Sharkey (once lead singer of the 1970s punk band The Undertones) currently campaigns about this water madness. He famously went solo with "A Good heart is hard to find." A good brain is apparently also hard to find. Not just among the Company bosses and their shareholders but we the people, we just sit there and take it?! The revolting peasants need to be a lot more revolting. Otherwise it will take a lot more than tying ribbons to the trees. (And why should they hear us then if we don't hear Earth now?)

I didn't make a wish at Avebury but my wish now is people will wake up and see sense. Greedy companies will never see sense until they are made to,

Taken in: UK / England / Avebury / Avebury (show map)

Taken on: March 16, 2024

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