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This is a brief and largely unexciting account of a recent visit to Arbor Low. Unless you’re specifically interested in this site I’d skip it because it doesn’t reveal much of interest outside of those who would visit the site. I’m posting it for completeness’ sake, and for those who have an unhealthy interest in Arbor Low.

It was a damp and windy September day when I arrived at my friend Michael’s house. The usual crew of our psychic friends were there, plus a new addition whom Michael had been wanting to introduce me to for ages. I was introduced to Janet and immediately I liked her. She was robust, earthy, plain-speaking and no-nonsense. Being a Yorkshire lad I felt right at home with that. We chatted for a while and Janet offered to let me read a copy of “The Eye of Fire” by Graham Philips – the sequel to the astonishing book “The Green Stone“. I had read The Green Stone recently and had been fascinated by it. I was going to buy the book and its sequel second-hand but prices were starting at £20 each and rising quickly to ridiculous figures! Luckily, Janet had a copy and was willing to lend it to me. I devoured its contents the next weekend! Now I am busy working my way through Andrew Collins‘ account of the same events in his book ”The Seventh Sword“.

The Eye of Fire

We didn’t hold out much hope for a break in the rain as we wended our way past some of the places mentioned in the Green Stone book, particularly Biddulph Grange. The discussions about the books passed the time on the way to Arbor Low. I was liking Janet even more, her ready smile, her chuckle, and her immediate warmth.

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Near to the village of Dorstone in the Golden Valley of Herefordshire is a wonderfully preserved ancient monument called “Arthur’s Stone“. The monument is on the borderlands of England and Wales, and as the map below shows there is a congregation of settlements and an alignmentAlignment relates to the concept that humans have their own energy fields that are oriented or formed in a specific way such that the person is either suited better to one energy source of another. Some people have their energy fields empowered by the direct subtle energy force of The Sun, whilst others are empowered by the indirect subtle energy of The Moon. Due to the historical associations and symbolisation of The Sun with masculinity and The Moon with femininity we designate these alignments as either being ‘male’ or ‘female’ alignments accordingly. We interchangeable refer to people as being ‘sun-aligned’ or ‘male-aligned’ and similarly with the female alignment. of sites along the ridges between the rivers Wye and Dore (“of gold”). Before I go on to explain my findings at Arthur’s Stone I want to discuss a little bit about my current concepts of what Arthur is, or who he was.

My current concept of Arthur

This Arthur fellow – he got about a bit, eh? These days I prefer the interpretation I read recently that “Arthur” is a title adopted or given to many kings, several of whom may have contributed to the myth and legend, the story and history surrounding the King Arthur that we have been remnanted. I like Paul Broadhurst’s idea that the Arthur figure was associated with the fixed constellation of the Great Bear, the guardian of the Pole Star. In my own additional interpretation, Arthur is aligned with and gets energy from the Great Bear’s stars. In particular I think this is the asterism of The Plough, or The Big Dipper as it is also known.

Plan of the sites surrounding Dorstone

My wife, M, entered the site straight away and went to sit on a small man-sized mound next to the monument. There she settled in for what she expected would be a long dowse. I wasn’t about to go against expectations. I got my dowsing rods out and began to explore, but first I had to find an entrance suitable for me and my energy at that time. I entered the site after asking silently for permission from the spirit of the site. I would be allowed in today – no pushing away or dive-bombing birds, or claps of thunder or anything like that.

As I entered the gate in the fence surrounding the monument I saw two other couples reading the information board provided by English Heritage. I turned my attention away from them, not wanting to overhear anything they might say about the site. I would stay out of earshot until they got bored and wandered away, as most people do at these places after ten minutes. I began by asking to be shown a ritual path that I could follow that would lead me to a power centreA place where a person of a particular alignment (see ‘Alignment’) feels particularly comfortable and empowered. The place is an energetic centre where a particularly beneficial combination and formation of energies is formed into a pattern that is harmonic with the person for whom it can be called a power centre. that was most suitable for me. I was taken from where I stood in a path that snaked in front of the “false entrance” stone, and then wound its way into the monument from the right-hand side of the covering front stone (seen slanting in the picture below). My path ended in the shadows at the back of the chamber on the left-hand side. I repeated the exercise from three other locations chosen at random and soon I was walking the same snaking path to the front of the dolmen, and then into the right-hand side of the chamber and to the back left corner again and again. By the fourth time I was realising this was a pretty certain dowsing result.

Looking into the initiation chamber

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Being on a long-term quest to discover energy healing I sometimes spend a bit of time using divination techniques to bring more knowledge to light. This was the case recently after I had worked with my friend Michael. When we had been doing some earth energy healing work I had seen some pink light around him and he had likewise seen different colours around me too including pink. In his healing work he had used white light, and I had used turquoise. Then, as such things go, I happened to read about another healer’s experience where he used pink and green energies to heal a person.

It seemed to me that it was time to find out which colours I had available to me, and to try to get more information about the purpose to which these colours could be put. I had already decided that my healing work would be primarily with the earth and her sacred places, but that if necessary I would do healing work with people too. A Hedge Druid reserves the option. Earth healing feels the right choice at the moment. Perhaps I could work with animals as well? We will see what opportunities present themselves in the near future as the learning process continues. For now, I needed more information about each of the colours I could work with.

In order to work out what the colours were that I could work with I firstly went through a list of the obvious ones that I knew of – the rainbow colours. This was derived form experience of working with colours at sacred sites before, so I presumed that at least one of the colours I might be looking for would be in that spectrum. Well, I was wrong! So, over to Plan B – I got a colour chart from the internet and began to move my finger over the various colours waiting for a dowsing response. I got a response for five times and so wrote the colours down.

Next, I took out my latest tarot pack – the Wildwood Tarot – and I simply cut the pack when it felt right to do so. I held the colour in mind and then cut the pack for each colour. From the cards that were revealed I obtained information about the type of healing that the colour could be used for. I do believe that these colours are personal to my healing work, and that the uses I can put them to are also probably personal, but if you recognise any of the meanings then please let me know your thoughts on this.

1. PINK (or MAGENTA) – attraction e.g. to establish a person or place with attractive energy so that healing is drawn in from the surroundings.
2. WHITE – physical strength, e.g. to imbue someone or somewhere that is weak with strength, possibly the strength to heal themselves.
3. TURQUOISE – divine or universal energy, and love energy. This is my most important healing source, I feel. It comes from a connection with the Divine itself. Other healers seem to see this as white energy. For me it is turquoise.
4. BLACK – destructive, especially of the land. This is an energy whose healing qualities and properties must be mastered before being able to be used as a healing energy. One to be careful with, I feel.
5. LIGHT RED – fertility, boundless energy. Possibly to be used for energising, and providing an endless source of continued healing perhaps.

Gwas.

After going to East Kennet it would have been rude of me not to visit another of my favourite sites in that area, so I went to Avebury. Even though the “official” car park was closing, I was able to park for free in the car park right next to the Red Lion pub in the centre of the village. I’m glad I didn’t park at the pub itself because soon hundreds of motorcycles appeared and began to congregate which would have made an escape quite tricky! Not that I dislike motorcycles – I ride one myself – so I got the chance to eyeball a few tasty specimens of chrominess before I departed later.

But I’m getting side-tracked! Back to the action, because I have a strange tale to recount. I began to walk around Avebury’s massive ring of stones. As you know by now, I have to have an intention – a motivation – for such trips so in the car I had been determining one. My intention would be to charge myself up and consolidate the energies I had gained from the work done at the East Kennet Barrow. A bit flimsy, I know, but it was all I could come up with in the ten-minute drive.

I put up some good amounts of protection (Avebury is visited by all types of people – some have good energies, some not) and then sat down by one of the stones that the dowsing rods said would be beneficial. Note: back to using rods here, not intuition. Hmmm..tiredness? Right, so I needed an intake of energy to re-invigorate me, and where better than the grandest stone circle of them all? I calmed down and tuned in. Nothing! Right. Change of tack – I would hand back over to intuition and see what happened. I picked up my three lit incense sticks and began to walk around the circle clockwise (the energy-making direction).

View along the ditch surrounding Avebury

Don’t walk there – walk here!

I stopped to gawp at all the big stones as I passed them. It’s not really “the done thing” to insist on walking all around the edge of the circle these days. There are paths and fences which lead the casual visitor through the stones in a quite definite way so that you can’t actually walk around the edge of the circle any more and are instead guided into the heart of the circle once you have crossed the road which cuts through the heart of the complex. Which is both a good and a bad thing. At nearby Stonehenge, for example, Kal and I were nearly sick with the bad energy of everyone being funneled around the stones in one direction only. But in this case I wanted to generate some energy so where possible I stuck to the outside edge and thought about subtle energyA form of energy that has so far eluded scientific definition. It is neither electric, magenetic, nor electro-magnetic, so far as our current technical equipment can measure. It does, however, exhibit many of the characteristics of magnetism and electricity in terms of its effects and properties. It may be a form of either or both of those energies that we have not yet identified. generation.

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Just for fun I dowsed the energies of the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton as it was happening live on 29th April.

Dowsing with your hands over your ears

Here is what I found:-

• No earth energies were involved in the ceremony at all (a surprising result)
• Human Male energy input was 4/10
• Human Female energy input was 7/10
• Prince Charles and Lady Diana’s wedding was rated 8/10 but Prince William and Catherine’s was only a 6/10
• The trees lining Westminster Cathedral’s main aisle added to the energies of the ceremony
• Westminster Cathedral will be imbued with lasting energy from this day.

I wonder if the lesser energy rating for this day’s wedding is at all related to the amount of observer energy that was being put into the ceremony. Certainly, if opinion were canvassed, it would seem that the general public’s opinion of the royal family is less powerful than it was when Charles and Diana got married. Just a speculative observation, and all this is just a bit of fun, to demonstrate what you can do with dowsing, and how it can pick up on observed events without you having to be physically present.

Gwas.

Kirksanton stone circles - bird's eye view

We dowsed that these stones in this highly-disrupted set of circles no longer had any energetic qualities to them, and were disappointed. We both noticed that there were more stones in the distance, some few hundred yards further on from the outer rim of this circle. I dowsed to see if they had energy in them and found that they did. Kal had already felt the pull of these stones and was already jogging over to them as I dowsed this answer.

The Second Circle

As I got to the second circle I could already see that this megalithic sites was ALSO a double circle. This was highly unusual – two stone circles side by side with each other was strange enough (The Hurlers in Cornwall is three side-by-side) but the idea that they were also both double circles was right out there on the ‘unusuality’ scale! I began to take an interest in the central stones of this second circle, and from a close examination in good light I could see that there were some interesting cup-marks.

The cup-marks int he stone suddenly hit me like a bolt of inspiration. Three circular marks at an angle and in a row, and then a fourth circular mark further down the line and off to the left….seemed very familiar to me. I knew this alignmentAlignment relates to the concept that humans have their own energy fields that are oriented or formed in a specific way such that the person is either suited better to one energy source of another. Some people have their energy fields empowered by the direct subtle energy force of The Sun, whilst others are empowered by the indirect subtle energy of The Moon. Due to the historical associations and symbolisation of The Sun with masculinity and The Moon with femininity we designate these alignments as either being ‘male’ or ‘female’ alignments accordingly. We interchangeable refer to people as being ‘sun-aligned’ or ‘male-aligned’ and similarly with the female alignment. to be one of the alignments I study most – Orion’s Belt pointing to Sirius! Unmistakeably, that was what I was seeing. So, did this site have a particular link to either Orion or Sirius? I dowsed that it linked to Orion’s Belt, and that the first circle we had visited was the circle that was linked to Sirius. Interesting to me as I had once found that I energise my crystals best by orienting a formation towards Sirius, so it had particular significance for me.

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To coincide with St.George’s Day Gawsworth Hall are running their annual dowsing day, and I will be hosting the day along with my good friend Michael Clowes. This stunning old Cheshire hall and gardens provides the perfect setting for a day’s discussion and practical dowsing sessions interspersed with Gawsworth’s famous catering in the form of teas, coffees, cakes and sandwiches. Perfect for the beginner or intermediate dowser the course will go through a history of dowsing, its practical uses, techniques for getting started, and discussions about the many avenues in which dowsing can take the practitioner. Beginners get to learn their new skills in practical sessions in the Gawsworth rose gardens, and intermediate dowsers can hone their skills with a variety of different dowsing implements to test their skills.

Gawsworth Hall in Cheshire

In the afternoon there is discussion of the more esoteric aspects of dowsing including topics such as colour dowsing, spirit forms, divination and earth acupuncture. This is followed by another practical session in the grounds where a series of fun tasks are set to test your skills suitable to you level of ability. For booking, prices and general information please visit the web site at:

http://www.gawsworthhall.com or ring 01260 223456.

Come enjoy a lovely day out in the countryside and learn something fun, intruiging and exciting – it may change your life!

Gwas.