The Hedge Druid

Having finished a fantastic piece of work at Runcorn Hill, Gwas and I drove to a nearby Priory to see if our dowsing revealed anything. The priory in question was Norton Priory. We arrived to a packed car-park and plenty of visitors.

As we walked up the path towards the visitors center, I remarked to Gwas that I had been to the priory many times – since it has a really nice park to walk in – but had not been in the building itself because it was paid entry only. What a pleasant surprise it was when the nice assistant at the counter informed us that it was free to enter today!

Just before you get to the ruins there is a little building that lets you go up to the second floor and view the ruins from above. Gwas and I climbed the small spiral staircase and I looked over the ruins with the thought, ‘Nice! A fairly ancient site like this should have a energies all over the show.’

Whilst Gwas was occupied for a few minutes I went into the site on my own, and as is so common for us these days – the sun came out of the clouds and turned the day bright!

I dowsed around the ruins a little just to get my bearings and will be frank – they seemed energetically very un-interesting – or to put it more accurately perhaps – I was not interested in their energies.

Gwas began to dowse with his usual gusto and was off chasing a ley line here and there. I tried to be as helpful as I could – dowsing the odd spiral here and confirming the energetic properties of some energy centres there.

However as an hour or so wore on I became more and more un-interested in the site. It wasn’t that there was nothing to explore there – Gwas will relate the dowsing of the graves that we did – but it seemed to me now that I think on it – that I shouldn’t be dowsing there.

It wasn’t that it was bad for me or that it was a draining place – indeed with the sun out it was a really nice place to sit and contemplate.

After a while I decided to use the rods to determine what was going on, because I was missing not getting into the pace of my usual investigative steam!

After several questions that essentially confirmed that it wasn’t an energetic thing I finally came up with ‘an’ answer.

It was simply this: this was a cemetory and it was a bad state of affairs to be going around dowsing in it – as if I couldn’t find anywhere else to dowse? It wasn’t a case of ‘you shouldn’t dowse here’ - but more of a case that – ‘it’s nice (of you) not to dowse here’. If that makes sense?

I feel that Gwas too was picking up on this sentiment somewhat and we didn’t spend much time at the site.

It was an interesting place – because we did venture into another realm with our dowsing – see Gwas’s report – but also I (and we) got an interesting personal reflection

Kal

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