The Hedge Druid

When we started dowsing Kal and I both followed Sig Lonegren’s beginners method of attuning the rods for reactions to energy phenomena: we trained a ‘YES’ response to be the rods crossing in an ‘X’ shape, and a ‘NO’ to be no reaction at all, with the rods pointing straight out away from you.

As time moved on we found we needed to program a new response: rods pointing 90 degree outwards left and right meant a boundary’s edge had been found. This was useful for finding the edges of the fields of influence from standing stones, stone circles, and of trees.

Once confident with the reactions you have programmed it is possible to extend the vocabulary as you interpret the speed and strength of the movements of the rods. You also begin to recognise that there is not always a Yes or No answer to a question. If you have asked a question in such a way as the answer cannot be given apprehended, then you may get no reaction. If the answer is emphatically Yes or No then the rods swing outwards or inwards strongly. Inwards and spiralling slowly round means “Absolutely, definitely. ‘yes’.” Or you have found a very strong energy lineThe direction energy takes when moving. It may be straight or curved, in several dimensions and be composed of one or more different types of energies, i.e. negative, positive or neutral. Energy lines can be found at standing stones and ancient sites but are a general feature in all energy fields.. Rods that splay outwards in reaction to a Yes/No question mean “a most definite ‘no’.”

“Hold on! Your sign for ‘definitely no’ is the same as the one for ‘show me a boundary’! Ha – inconsistent!”

Well spotted, my eagle-eyed friend, but not quite an inconsistency. It depends on the questions you’re asking. When you’re asking for a boundary, you get the boundary reaction if there is one, or you get no reaction at all. If you are asking a ‘Yes or No’ question then that same reaction means ‘definitely no’. Different types of questions, see? The answers don’t get confused. Sure, we could re-program it if we needed to, but really we’re quite comfortable with the difference. Anyway.

Sometimes the rods move together slowly, barely crossing. This is a tentative positive reaction which we intepret as, “Maybe, but try a more specific question.” or “Along the right lines.” These responses, whilst initially doubtful and puzzling often yield great results which can then be confirmed by simple dowsing techniques. They invite you on and make the investigation interesting.

Moel-Ty-Uchaf

That, we felt, was enough to work with to achieve a great amount of information from any site we visited. Then we went back to Llandrillo, armed with our new toolkit for dowsing, all fired up and confident in our abilities, but also always ready to be surprised by the unexpected responses.

Nothing had prepared us for one of the responses though. Kal had been walking towards the circle asking “can we use the power centers for spiritual transformation?” , as this was what he had dowsed as one of the purposes of the circle and its energies.

As he walked forwards he got a reaction from the rods that he hadn’t had before: the left rod swivelled right to point inwards at 90 degree, whilst the right rods stayed rigidly forwards-facing and straight, unmoving. He repeated this effect many times before stopping, then calling me over to ask the same question. I hadn’t been watching Kal, as I was intently pre-occupied with my own questioning of the circle’s perimeter. I repeated the question and walked forwards towards the circle too. I got the same odd reaction! However, I felt that there was more to it, because the left-hand rod began to curl beyond its right-angled position as I swayed forwards. I walked forwards again – the left-hand rod continued to move towards me, stopping as it was pointing at me. Very un-nerving.

Lucy Pringle

I recently read one of Lucy Pringle’s dowsing experiences in a crop circle in Wiltshire with her friend Keith Wakelam. They were dowsing in a field near Avebury Trusloe when this happened to Keith, a experienced dowser:-

Going out and coming back the rods performed in a way he had never previously experienced; they pointed straight at him and he felt very uncomfortable as though he was “being drained of his essential life force”.
I then took his rods and walked down and back along the same tramline. My rods also behaved in a novel way (to be repeated in certain other formations during the season), the rod in my left hand pointing towards the lane and the right hand rod spinning violently first clockwise, stopping and reversing its direction. It continued to do this until I came back to the centre. Keith remarked that I looked like some sort of mini helicopter about to take off! My compass, when placed in the centre, had oscillated wildly for some considerable time, but eventually it came to rest. I then stood in the centre whilst Keith walked around the first spiral; every 45 degrees his rods changed polarity. It seemed to indicate that there was some sort of dynamo effect; alternating negative\positive energy, such as the ancients introduced when building their complex stone structures in bygone days, thereby generating their own energy source.

Swings and Roundabouts: Lucy Pringle (1997)

I can sympathise with how they felt at that moment. You had written a dictionary, and someone came along with a new word that you didn’t recognise, and you have to guess its meaning from the context of the word. How can you reverse-engineer a code like that? An endless ‘Yes/No’ questioning session? Educated guesses? Do you seek more correlations? How can you make it happen again? Does it mean anything at all?

As we dowse more sites, and draw their energy maps as best we can, elaborating with each visit, we are starting to generate another vocabulary which adds a new dimension to our store of knowledge with which to make better guesses. The positive and negative polarity changes that Lucy and Keith experienced at the crop circle are reminiscent of Kal’s findings at Bryn Celli Ddu on Anglesey island. Kal found alternating sections of male and female energy bands that circled the inner mound.

It’s a wide leap to make from correlating such a finding to determining the purpose of this sort of configuration of energies. A dynamo effect, possibly, but how is it activated or used? And what relation does that energetic formation have to the energies that exist at those sites irrespective of whether a crop circle forms there or not? Sadly, we have no readings for a before and after case where crop circles are concerned, but we do have our own experiences at Moel-Ty-Uchaf circle to go on. When we sat on our respective power centres we were able to get the energy reacting to us, and we managed to make the energies spin in a clockwise direction. Is that how these energies are ‘fired up’. How do they work from then on? To what purpose? Soon, I feel, we may learn.

I read recently that someone had tried successfully to manifest a crop circle in the grass of their garden. Well now. There’s a challenge! I’ll give it a go and report back over the next week. Saves waiting until Summer 2009!

Gwas.

Follow a circling path.

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