I've always been interested in the occult and was especially drawn towards Wicca back in the 1990s - I was in search of a coven of wiccans in order to undergo training and when the time arose for me to make a decision on whether to put myself forward for initiation - several weird occurences took place... Unusually for the first degree I seemed to have the horned god come through to me in the guise of Herne and Pan a lot of the time. This would often result in me finding images of deers everywhere, on cars, pub signs, and my dreams took the form of a horned being in the woods... to name just a few weird visitations.

Anyway, still unsure whether to take the plunge into joinging the coven - I went in the nearby park, along a rather deserted pathway in Crane Park, Twickenham - it was about 8pm and I sat down close to the river edge and started to meditate and asked for a sign of whether all this stuff was just a figment of my imagination or real - I immediately looked up and the tree hovering above was strangely shaped in the guise of a horned god with arms outstretched high I took as a sign of embracement...

I rushed home to grab my camera and snapped the image below...

Needless to say I began my training...

Years later I'm now a solo wiccan as my coven (in Clapham) disbanded at the end of the 90s and then reformed... I went my own way... but this image of the Horned God formed in the trees still gives me lots to think about.