Avalon Within: Inner Sovereignty and Personal Transformation Through the Avalonian Mysteries

by Jhenah Telyndru

"Avalon Within" presents a practical foundation in the Avalonian Tradition, drawing upon the vibrant powers of Glastonbury's Sacred Landscape and the rich heritage of Celtic British mythology. Focusing on the Avalonian Cycle of Healing and accessing the Sacred Landscape of the Holy Isle, "Avalon Within" provides the seeker with powerful tools for awakening the transformational energies of Avalon in their lives -- empowering them to affect lasting inner change and to facilitate true healing.

Genres: Paganism, Spirituality, Nonfiction

299 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2005

About the author

Jhenah Telyndru has always felt called to dance with joy in that liminal space which straddles the realms of history and myth, of individuality and collectivity, of the seen and the unseen. A creative mystic who loves science and values fact, Jhenah embraces the conscious co-creation of the future, while immersing herself in an impassioned study of the past. The path between, she believes, is where the mysteries are revealed and where true magic happens.

Jhenah is an author, educator, and priestess who has devoted her life to exploring the spiritual and mythic traditions of Wales and the Iron Age Celtic tribes of Britain and Gaul. A formally trained Celticist, Jhenah holds an MA in Celtic Studies from the University of Wales, as well as a BA in Archaeology from Stony Brook University. She founded the Sisterhood of Avalon  in 1995, and serves as Academic Dean of the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary. Jhenah hosts residential training retreats around North America and the UK, presents internationally at conferences and festivals, teaches online workshops and immersion programs, and facilitates pilgrimages to sacred sites in the British Isles and Ireland through Mythic Seeker Tours.

Her published works include  Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery, and Inner Wisdom (Llewellyn, 2010), The Avalonian Oracle: Spiritual Wisdom from the Holy Isle (Schiffer, 2016), Rhiannon: Divine Queen of the Celtic Britons (Moon Books, 2018), The Mythic Moons of Avalon: Lunar and Herbal Wisdom From the Island of Healing (Llewellyn, 2019), Pagan Portals – Blodeuwedd: Welsh Goddess of Seasonal Sovereignty (Moon Books, 2021), and The Ninefold Way of Avalon: Walking the Path of the Priestess (Llewellyn 2023).

Her writing has been featured in fiction and non-fiction anthologies; has appeared in a variety of magazines, literary journals, and periodicals including PanGaia, SageWoman, The Beltane Papers, Circle Magazine, Watkins Body, Mind, and Spirit, and The Tor Stone; as well as various annuals and datebooks from Llewellyn Worldwide and Ninth Wave Press.

A priestess in the Avalonian Tradition for over 35 years, Jhenah has been following a Pagan path since 1986.She is an Awenydd Druid of the Anglesey Druid Order (ADO), and is a certified Amicus Mortis (Friend of Death) through the Order. As a member of clergy, Jhenah performs rites of passage in her community, has trained in herbalism and a variety of alternative healing modalities, and is in service as a Transpersonal Tarot Counselor and teacher.

To find out more about her and her work, she invites you to visit www.ynysafallon.com.or https://linktr.ee/YnysAfallon.

Reviews

[Angie Curtis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is truly amazing and will help you reconnect with the Goddess, help you find your inner Goddess and will take you on a journey to Avalon. It goes beyond the myth and magic and helps you understand the cycle of nature and women, the connect between land, sky and sea, conscious and unconscious, help you understand your shadow self and what the isle of Avalon is and the divine herself. If you want to know Avalon read this book and you will find the isle beyond the mist, the divine and most importantly you will find yourself!!

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is just a self-help book for women thinly veiled in Celtic religion. For those of us who already worship the Welsh Goddesses of the Mabinogi based on the actual source itself, this will be very disappointing. The author takes the great Goddesses we honor and turns them into archetypes for our personal growth with the spiritual power stripped from them. I did Dianic Witchcraft in the early 80s - Z Budapest certainly has more to offer women as far as sisterhood and women's mysteries go than this junk. The assumption that Avalon is Glastonbury always ruffled my feathers because I believe it an Otherworldly place, but the author here expects us to believe that there was a sisterhood of Druid-like women living in Glastonbury in an ancient feminist commune. I really wanted this to give me new historical information I didn't have about Celtic/Briton priestesses and their ways, a real Welsh women's mysteries study, or ways for me to pathwork with the Goddesses and priestesses we know about, but this really was like a Wicca 101 book mixed with self-pride exercises, sadly for women only. The author also hits the reader over the head repeatedly with the belief that self growth is never finished and is a hard, painful journey, which any smart person already knows, ALONG with the blissful joy of breakthroughs, of which she barely mentions. I need to find some college student girl with low self esteem just getting into Paganism to give this to and then hope she doesn't think the religion is just a self-help kick instead of a meaningful, beautiful relationship with Nature, Deities, etc. If you really want to learn - and have powerful meditations - about the women of Avalon, get Caitlin Matthew's Ladies of the Lake.

[NormaCenva · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first edition, which I personally favour. It goes in to much depth about the history and the traditions surrounding the Avalonian Path, and makes empathise on Jungian Psychology specially in regards of the visualisation presented. Would recommend it to a person who is interested in the modern movement of reconstructing the old Ways on a solid foundation.

[Kimrey Levy-Mickelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book to be amazingly helpful on my path to self-discovery and transformation. If you resonate with the Celtic path, the path of the Goddess, or Avalon in general, you may enjoy this book very much.