Janetta Morton

I first took my daughter to the Festival in 1998 as she was rising 5. She is going to be 27 this year, her Birthday being 29th June it's like a huge party every year for her. Although the 29th fell on a very muddy Monday leaving day in 1998 and she remembers being carried by a stranger as we struggled out to my old converted ambulance. She opened her presents in a layby on the A303 on our way home. We came to live in the West country in 2001 and got smuggled into the festival under blankets in the back of an old fire truck belonging to the swing boat guy and my partner worked as a DJ in the bar solar in the Avalon field.

I started going as an astrologer with the wheel of Astrologers back in 2003/4 can’t quite remember! We are a collective of professional astrologers who offer readings and workshops in the green futures field. Some of us camp in Undle ground which used to be the old travellers field. It’s full of old timers and the crew that manage the traffic and steward the cross roads where the main drag through the green fields meets the railway line.

I adore Glastonbury festival, just up the road from the Town of the same name where I live. Most of my friends work the festival, the whole Tipi field is full of them. The astrologers are like family and our camp is luxury. With a communal fire and all our kids growing up year on year having adventures. I almost cannot separate one festival from another its one long memory stream of sunshine, heat, thunder storms, deluges, mud and wellies and dancing and outrageous outfits and music, theatre, comedy, high emotion, sometimes tears and fears, sometimes laughter and ecstatic highs. But always the fire, the tribe, family and love in the light of a rising Sun over the best most beloved festival in the World. I shall miss it and celebrating my girls 27th there this year.

14th May 2020, Glastonbury, UK