COVENTRY CATHEDRAL - Energy Reading

Visiting family in Coventry today, and I felt a calling…to visit the Cathedral. Wow – how impressed was I! What a wonderful mix of old and new, creative and traditional. No wonder it’s the 2021 UK City of Culture.

The site has been home to 3 cathedrals in 1000 years (so much history...do look it up) with destruction of the St Michael’s Cathedral on 14th Nov 1940 in WWII. I didn’t know this before my visit...but the words coming to me as I walked around the outside of the ruins were ‘ a gas chamber of Europe’. The links to Germany were very strong, and still in the ether and land memory. And yet…most noticeable was the air of calmness, a sense of contemplation, and a lot of ‘light’ energy. A quiet progressive attitude, reflected by the social event going on within the grounds of the ruins, the young people mingling, the University, galleries and cultural & building development.

I began my entry to the area in St Mary’s Street, picking up the words ‘ led to their death in this street’. Checking Google, and the location is home to hidden underground cells were prisoners awaited sentencing. But the energy of the overall ground felt firm, with an evenness and quiet power grid.

The new St Michael’s Cathedral beautifully complements the old – a stunning modernist design – both old and new: Grade 1 listed. There is a confidence to the land, and its’ hosting of today’s future…what feels exciting, whilst honouring the Benedictine monastic influence.

Other words I got were:
- planning of city and farming laws originated here.
- It is continuing the tradition of ‘open parliament’ of contemplative progress, and of reflection within the future of the landscape.
- It has an energy portal linked to coastal connections.
(obvs impossible to substantiate, but interesting to hear).

Coventry’s response to the intense bombing (the city was Hitler’s focus) led to the Ministry of Peace and Reconciliation with international impact...and I am struck by the energetic legacy this has created. The peace is tangible.

So much more I could say from my brief visit... Check it out if it calls you too.

PS. Don’t get me started on the ring road :)

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[30th May 2021]