Between the myth and the man himself, between the true historical facts and literary fabrications, between superstition and truth of life in 5th cent. A.D. Britain there is still a very important tale to be told. That of Arthur’s knights and the search they embarked on.

All men need a goal, it’s in our nature. And in addition to defending and fighting, the goal of the legend of King Arthur was very much the searching as well. For what? The Holy Grail. The object itself is intertwined with the Christian narrative (the chalice Jesus drank from at the last supper or the bowl his blood was collected in while he was bleeding on the cross). What the grail itself represents on a deeper level is much more important than this random object the knights fixated on. The Grail is a symbol of that which needs to be found and you have no clue how to even begin to look for it – it stands for all our searches all the time and is equally applicable to searching for peace, meaning, a cause, an emotion while rummaging through your own emotional and intellectual landscapes in order to find something valuable.

So how do you go about starting your search? Well, since there are no clues, any place you start is just as good and equally void, but the thing is that the choice is personal – each and every knight begins the search by entering the woods at the part that seems darkest – to him. There are no one universal roads and one can argue that the process of searching in itself IS the Grail. The process becomes the thing you needed to learn, the dark you faced is what you needed to overcome. The things you need to find, resolve, handle, deal with and accept are at the darkest parts of you you don’t want to look at. It is scary, it will burst the bubble, it will be disillusioning and traumatizing, but your Grail is there, in all the lessons from the pitch dark inner forest, the things you blocked while you were too weak to deal with them, the things you suppressed. You’re stronger now, you’ve been trained and knighted by life. The shape of the table you sit at is irrelevant, your willingness to pick up your sword is crucial. The dark is a medium for light to live in. They need each other if you want to live your truth.