No-one else was in the caves so I asked permission of the earth spirit, the genius lociGenius Loci means 'spirit of the place' and refers to the geological/gaian spirit of place. It is transfixed to a place – being an embodiment of the collective intelligence of the place. of the cave, to allow me entry undisturbed. It was granted, so I stood for a moment on a power centreA place where a person of a particular 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. (see ‘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.’) 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 I had identified previously to offer love and gratitude in thanks for this ingression. I moved gingerly deep into the caves because I knew the ground was usually littered with cow dung. I picked my way past it all, carrying three incense sticks with me to clear a way, spiritually. A meagre small torch allowed me not to bump my head as I went deeper and darker in.

Suddenly a hare ran at me from out of the darkness and I jolted upright narrowly missing a rocky outcrop. I laughed a little. That made me perk up! I began to follow a dowsing rods, asking it to lead me to the perfect place for this sonic experiment. It led me to a place that I had already identified on a previous visit as the best place acoustically in the whole set of caves. Well, that proved nothing! Still, I made myself comfortable in amidst the broken glass bottles and crunched cans left by revelling raucous rebels of recent times past by sitting on a sharp-topped sandstone nodule that invited my seat. I faced the back of the chamber, some fifty feet into the cave system and only a foot away from the end wall I now faced.

Humming isn’t just for bees

I began trying to find a low sound that I could make comfortably and which felt as though it did something. I tried out several different types of sound, from whistles to singing but eventually, for the root chakra, I found a deep low hum that made my head and everything around me vibrate. This was it! Unfortunately, due to a condition I have developed in recent years the amount of phlegm in my throat prevented me from sustaining that note for very long. In fact, I noticed that this was a particular problem on this day – bad timing on my part, I guess.

I managed to get about 20 seconds of low continuous hum going. As I did so I began to feel my voice reverberating off the walls around me. Then the vibration went through me, from the rock upon which I was sitting, through my body and back into my head. A flow, a vibrational flow, was emerging from the base of my spine! It was like an experience I had had at the chamber of Fourknocks in Ireland where I had sat inside a similar enclosed space that had these acoustic properties of reflecting back my own sound. There too I had managed to achieve the same result and make my root chakra vibrate. It felt wonderful. Then my voice croaked and the whole experience disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. I could see that I had to get just the right note, and sustain it for a time, and then this would happen. I was happy with that.

I began experimenting with higher levels of sound to see if I could find any of the other vibrational points for other chakras. I was just thinking that I had found one when my “spider senses started tingling” and I got a rush of adrenalin that meant that I should be wary. All my usual senses went onto high alert – was someone in the cave? Was something happening outside? Was there “something” in the cave with me already? My rational brain was somersaulting but another part of me was calm and I packed away my things and left quickly. There was no-one in the cave, so it wasn’t that.

Goodbye Venus – Hello Jupiter and Uranus

Jupiter and Uranus playing pool

Outside the cave things were all “wrong”. In the darkening clear star-littered sky I could still make out the ground as the sun had only just set leaving enough light to see. Birds were twittering…nervously. A rabbit on the hilltop ran for its life, but not away from me, away from something else. There was a noise like a person walking down the hillside next to the cave, but as I watched for their arrival out of the bushes they never emerged. Strange. All very strange.

I ambled quietly along the side of the hill, leaving by a different path to the one I had come in on (which was quite muddy). As I arrived at the crest of a slope the Moon was framed perfectly for me to stare at, so I did. Beside it I saw a symbol created by some heavenly body that looked familiar -it was the Venus Symbol that I had seen a few years ago at Bryn Celli Ddu at about this time of year! I was stunned. However, now I had the means to identify what the objects were that made this symbol. Was it Venus? No – it was the near conjunction of two planets - Jupiter and Uranus. Well, that clears that up – but nevertheless the symbol did look exactly as I had drawn it those few years ago.

The Jupiter-Uranus Conjunctions

Here’s a hint at what the forces of Jupiter and Uranus could mean when together:

“The themes of freedom and independence are especially prominent during Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions.  These conjunctions portend discovery, invention, and innovation (Uranus) combined with expansion, experimentation, and exploration (Jupiter).  The force of change (Uranus) is very strong (Jupiter) when these planets congress, which can lead to protests and political change.” (source: Gary Brand Astrology)

“The conjunction in Aries is asking us to expand our awareness towards what we need to do for our selves as unique and independent individuals. Aries is the warrior; the individual who faces their fear and is willing to forge ahead into uncharted territories. When Jupiter is in Aries the expansion of fearlessness can take on a reckless quality. However reckless in whose mind? The resistance will be in part against conservative concepts that promote the previous paths that are slow, steady and safe. When Uranus is in Aries it demands rebellion against the established conservative and control based thinking. The two together forge a union that can break through fear and grid lock in life to push the limits of what others say is impossible or can not be done.” (source: Donna Page)

At the second that I had identified this planetary image my car alarm went off! The car was a few fields walk away still. This was the third time it has done this when I have visited the caves so I was not too disturbed by it, but still I hurried along. Even though no-one lived nearby I didn’t want to attract too much attention (ha! too late!). As I approached my parking place I found a policeman sitting in a squad car making notes alongside my car. I tapped his window and asked if everything was OK? Yes, just checking because there had been an undisclosed incident nearby and policemen are naturally suspicious about unattended vehicles. With my best magickal work I gave off an air of “Nothing to see here“. He scanned me and only asked if I had been “walking”. I told him I was at the caves, and he wished me a good evening. The hint was taken.

I left, thinking about the “nudge” I had got, and when I would next get to try my other chakra sounds in such a helpful environment.

Gwas.

Many months ago Kal and I had decided that we would choose the nearest full moon to Samhain as the time to go out and celebrate this important festival. For us, Samhainmeant an opening between worlds, a chance to interact withthe world of other intelligences, the Spirit World for want of a more specific phrase. Going out in the full glare of the moon gave us the best opportunity to utilise both female and male energies to get out work done.

So,w hat was this “work” that needed to be done at Samhain? My work had been given to me at the Autumn Equinox this year. I was told by the yew tree at Llangernyw (subsequently embellished and reinforced by the energetic form of Bran The Blessed at Dinas Bran in Llangollen) that I should awaken the Spirit of Merlin. I was given a riddle that contained what I initially thought were the actual words that I should use to awaken Merlin, but subsequently realised that they were actual instructions or directions for me to use to guide me on the day itself. The riddle was:-

Strong Red,

Lower Merlin’s rowan,

Second Landdeiniol/stone church.

Riddle-Me-Ree

One thing I knew about the agenda for the day: we would be visiting Dinas Emrys near to Snowdon. Kal added that we should also visit the Llangernyw Yew tree, and I realised that this would be the perfect place to obtain guidance on the next task for the final part of the year. Good, we had two places so far.

In preparation for our day out I had dowsed for some answers to these riddling lines. What was the “red” part? The answer I found eventually as that this was my root chakra. Quite how it needed to be strong I didn’t know yet but I would soon find out.

I thought I understood the line “Lower Merlin’s rowan“. That sounded like I needed to perform some sort of ritual with a wand of rowan wood. I cut a branch of a local rowan tree some weeks before in preparation for this work and left it to dry. The day before we were to go out I remembered it thanks to a podcast I was listening to which happened, by pure chance, to mention the preparation of wands! That evening I stripped, sanded and carved an appropriate symbol onto the wand and it was ready for us after a brief consecration to the spirit of Merlin.

Finally, I needed a starting point for the day. I had found a church in the village of Llanddeiniol, which is close to Pembrokeshire, used to be an old Welsh word for “stone”, and had a stone church re-built – a second stone church therefore. Could this be the “second stone church” in the riddle? The dowsing rods suggested that would be a good place to start, but it was geographically a long way away from where we needed to be….Was there another village called the same or similar that would suit out purposes? It turned out there was – the village of Llanddeiniolen near to…Caernarvon, only minutes away from Dinas Emrys. This seemed like more than coincidence, but I didn’t have time to do any more research, we would just have to chance it and see what happened.

Llanddeiniolen’s second stone church

The day began in dramatic fashion as we drove through downpour after downpour while we traversed the welsh seaboard. As is usual I ribbed Kal about him not having any appropriate clothing for the weather, and he laughed, offering his usual rebuttal “I have faith that everything will be fine.” I admired his strengthof will, but faced with the evidence by the bucket-load being thrown at the car I couldn’t see this one working out for him. As we drove through the village of Llanberis the sun broke through the cloud layers and the sky began to clear. Impossible!!! But true. Yet again, Kal had cheated the gods of weather This was a positive sign for the day.

We almost missed the village of Llanddeiniolen because it’s neither large nor well signposted. By some fluke I decided to turn into a road to park up and check directions when Kal pointed to the sign nearby indicating the village church and cemetery. Well, that was lucky! Moments later we passed a new-looking church made of brick and stone with cars parked outside of it. Didn’t look like what we were looking for. Then, on the right hand side appeared a graveyard and in the midst of some huge yew trees we could make out a small stone church with an iron entrance gate. This was more like it! We smiled – the second stone church! There were two churches right next to each other. What are the chances of that in such a small village?

Llanddeiniol's Second Stone Church

We heard someone cutting grass on the far side of the church so we walked quietly so as not to attract attention. Spending time in a churchyard when not on “church business” or visiting a grave was likely to incur some questions at a minimum. Nevertheless something felt good about this and we split up, Kal wandering off to the back of the churchyard, whilst I got the rods out in order to get to work immediately. “Is this a suitable place to do some energy work?” I asked. YES. “Is it alright for me to do some work today?”. Again, YES. “Take me to the best place to do energy work!” I asked and began to walk.

I was led by the rods off to the right in a large circle, around and then up to one of the old yew trees in the grounds. At first I stopped the rods taking me further because they seemed to want me to go through some young saplings and I couldn’t be bothered withthat – besides I didn’t want to damage them. I stood for a moment and felt a tug towards the tree like it was pulling me in. I edged closer. Another tug. Alright! I said. I got the rods out again, “Show me the EXACT point where I need to be!” The rods continued through the saplings and undergrowth, and I brushed them aside gently as I passed. I was not almost inside the yew tree’s hollow and split trunk when the rods crossed. I looked down to see a stone embedded at the base of the tree – looking just like a dry and comfortable seat. How fabulous! I sat where I had been told to sit, and immediately could feel the tree’s energy throbbing through the stone. Wow!

The rooting yew

I stood under the soothing branches of the old yew tree, the sun glinting in my face through its branches, and the stone beneath me pulsing and throbbing with an unseen energy. “Strong red” was the directive. Now that I felt the forces below me I knew that my assumption about the chakras was correct – surely, I was meant to increase my root chakra energy here? I connected to the tree – “May I work with you, mighty yew?” I asked. A bird tweeted sweetly but suddenly in the lower branches of the yew and slightly startled me, making me chuckle. “I’ll take that as a ‘yes’, then!“  I understood the difference between being sung to and being squawked at, and birds are excellent messengers.

I began a meditation, connecting deeply to the tree’s roots and spreading my energy along them, far and wide underground. Each breath sent my energy to its furthest tips and back into me again. As the movement and flow became as routine as breathing for myself I switched my attention to the tingling beneath me. I imagined connecting to the farthest reaches of the earth’s core. Usually this is visualised as a double stream of energy spiralling downwards, but today it was different. Today the energy flowed as three streams braiding themselves in a complex inter-weaving pattern that my mind could barely follow. As the three streams of light reached the depths of the Earth they wove themselves around the core and a surge of tingling power rose along the column I had made, up through the ground and into my body. The feeling was…immense. Immense power. Something solid, steadfast, strongly stabilising and rooted. It had all these qualities, yet it tingled like being tickled at the core of your bone marrow.

After minutes of wallowing in this feeling I decided I had better store this energy for later use. I imagined the ‘red’ root energy being placed into my lower energy store (dan-tien) and I sealed it off there. I was reluctant to stop the flow, so erotic and enticing was its effects, but I knew that I had plenty of other work to do, and to play with this energy now would be a waste of an opportunity. So, I sealed it off and broke the connection, thanking the yew tree by placing my head on its lowest branch and wishing it love and gratitude in abundance. That was what I could spare.

I began to walk away from the tree with a smile on my face, but I couldn’t quite see th path properly. My eyesight was all hazy – it was like I was in a deep trance and my eyes couldn’t focus, as though I had just woken up from a deep long sleep. I noticed I felt empowered, powerful, strong, like I could do anything – physically or mentally. The same feeling you get from several pints of strong beer. Wow – I should do this more often!

Inside the bole of an old yew

As I emerged once more one the main path through the churchyard I realised I could hear the sound of the strimmer again. I had totally forgotten about that, yet I was sure it had probably been going the whole time I was meditating. Kal was now standing inside the yew tree on the other side of the path. He invited me to try this spot too, mentioning that it was a definite power centreA place where a person of a particular 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. (see ‘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.’) 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.. I stepped inside the tree – even more so than the one I had been standing in recently. Inside I felt good, but I knew I wasn’t here to indulge in any more (or different) energy forms, and not wanting to spoil my work I stepped out again soon after. Yes, it was good, but not what I needed right now.

We both dowsed as to whether we had finished our work here. Kal got yes, I got no. No? What else could there be to do? I asked to be taken to a place in the church where I could find out what I had to do to complete the work. The dowsing rods led me off the path towards a few recumbent gravestones lying near the front of the churchyard. Now I had to find out what the issue was!

a) Was it something to do with the spot where this grave is? NO.

b) Is it something to do with the person buried there? NO.

c) Is there something else on this spot that I need to work with? YES.

Not the person buried there, not the spot itself….

d) Is this connected to the yew tree I was working at? YES.

e) Is it something to do with grounding energy? YES.

Well , we know yew trees quieten down human death energies….

e) Is there an un-grounded energy here that is disturbing the graveyard? YES! Aha…

f) Should I use my new energy to ground the unquiet energy? YES!!

The responses got stronger and faster as I homed in on the correct answers. I did some more dowsing to find out what was needed – two crystals, both quartz, and they needed to be placed at either corner of the gravestone along a particular axis. Then, in my meditative state I threw some of my strong red grounding energy at the grave. In my mind’s eye I saw something FLASH quickly along the axis of the crystals and disappear into the aether of the bright morning sky.

Some songbirds began to tweet in the branches of the yews, and the strimmer stopped for a moment leaving a strange quietude across the graveyard. The rods helped us to decide that we were done, but we knew that anyway. As we got back into the car and drove away we chatted about our respective experiences, and made our way to our true destination for the day – Dinas Enrys. On the way out of the village I almost did an emergency stop! There was a huge stone sat at the entrance to some quarry or other, or some such business. I stopped and we photographed it and touched it. It felt nice and I felt sure The Megalithic Portal would identify it. Not on their lists! Yet it’s right by the roadside on a fairly major road! Odd.

Kal extracts gold from a stone

Still – the day was warming up in so many ways – time to go to Dinas Emrys.

Gwas.

On the morning of Saturday 29th May I roped Kal into one of my crazy ideas. We would spend the next two days on a modern pilgrimage, just like we had done at Glastonbury the year before. We would find a starting point and then let the dowsing rods direct us from site to site. For me, I would set my intention for this pilgrimage to be to work on each of the seven chakras and to see what came out of trying to do that. For Kal, he would just do what he does – see what happened at each place and go with it. So, with the help of the iMegalith iPhone application and my SatNav system we trekked off to the starting point, which I had determined would be a henge and mound close to Four Knocks.

We didn’t get very far trying to find the henge and mound. The mound was visible in a farmer’s field, but the supposed henge had been… well, let’s assume it was removed and ploughed out of existence! Not a good start. Was there anywhere else we could pick up the quest? Our dowsing showed that nearby Four Knocks would be suitable. As soon as we got the rods crossing we kind of knew that this had actually been the right place all along, but something had been preventing us from dowsing that from afar. We sort of had to be in the area to zoom in on it. Perhaps we had prevented ourselves from ‘finding’ Four Knocks prior to actually being there because we knew you had to obtain a key in order to get in? Who knows. We obtained the said key (by the way – the directions are not very clear – but we found the house eventually and got the key by leaving a small deposit with a nice lady) and went to discover this famous mound’s secrets and begin a quest.

Entrance to Four Knocks

We opened the iron door up (iron – aaargh!!) and began to settle in. I needed some stuff from the car that I had forgotten, and by the time I got back to the mound it was swarming with a minibus-load of tourists from various parts of the world – America, Japan, Australia….all over. Their guide had clearly gone off to get the key without realising that we already had it. Ten minutes later he was in the mound beginning his guided tour of the place, which I earwigged into, of course. Hey – it was free for me to listen!! And jolly interesting it was too, although I could see Kal twitch every now and again, and I was biting my tongue at some of the speculative leaps the guide was making to fill the gaps in the archaeology with fantasy and pure imagination. He was very careful to preface everything with “My guess would be...”, or “Perhaps they might have…”, and even in the dim light I occasionally caught Kal swinging his dowsing rods behind the guide, shaking his head as though to say, “Nope!” It’s funny how dowsing can sometimes make you feel quite confident about being able to find out hidden knowledge, and yet later in the day that confidence would be completely reversed, but we’ll come to that in a later tale.

I don’t know if this is the traditional position but at Four Knocks we have the female on top and the male underneath. Yes, on top of the rounded mound there was female energy all over it. All around the outside of the mound was a male 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., waving and running around in a sunwise direction. Kal was spending quite a time outside, pacing around and around, working something out, but I decided to get myself inside to take some pictures of the rock carvings and to try to work out what I might have to do to work on my Root Chakra – the first part of my modern pilgrimage. That was the intention, but instead Four Knocks had its own agenda for working my chakras!! I will explain in a moment.

Inside there was more than the usual amount of decoration. Many of the swirling circular shapes were familiar to us, but there was an abundance of zig-zag lines and lozenge shapes carved into the lintels of the recesses in the mound that seemed to be quite unique to this particular chamber, or at least rarely seen in such quantity elsewhere.

Zig-zag lintel decoration at Four Knocks

Three is the magic number

The inner chamber is slightly egg-shaped and has three recesses that are large enough to contain a seated person comfortably. I lit some candles around the chamber to brighten the natural light that comes in through three carefully oriented slots that highlight the three recesses. The United Nations of Tourism had gone off to be uninterested in the next site that was on their checklist, so we had the place to ourselves. In fact, I had the chamber to myself because Kal was still getting answers to life, the universe and everything outside.

Dowsing inside I had the feeling I should look for the symbol or formation of the spirit of the place. I began to trace this symbol and found that it was quite familiar. As I drew the path I had taken around the floor I recognised it as being a triple-headed spiral formation. It was intriguing. Was this an astrologically-aligned or in some way linked to some astrological body? It was! I asked “Take me to a spot that has an astrological 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.!” and I ended up spiralling on one of the three spiral heads. Which planet was it aligned to? The Moon. I repeated this questioning process for the other two spirals and they turned out to be aligned to The Sun and Uranus, which was a bit of a surprise. I don’t think I’ve ever dowsed anything as being aligned to Uranus before. Most unusual.

My next ploy was to find out whether any of these spirals was connected energetically to anything else. Each spiral head took me to one of the three alcoves.

The Fertility Ritual

The question now arose about how this chamber had been used by the people who had built it. It was obvious to me that it had a modern roof and that originally the mound may have been uncovered and open to the stars to which I had just found 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.. The dowsing rods were leading me into a train of thought that was beginning to get an inkling of what the conditions may have needed to be for this site to operate: a day in which the Sun, the Moon and Uranus were present in the sky at the same time? It was more specific than that, even. The only days during which this site was active, according to the dowsing rods, was the three day period when the Moon was at its fullest.

With the conditions established I decided to try the place out. After all, what was the worst that could happen? Nothing. So, I asked the rods to show me a chamber that was suitable for me to meditate in and it chose the Moon alcove for me. I wasn’t too surprised by that choice! I asked if I would be able to enact the original ritual – NO. I needed two people who understood how the place worked to be sitting int he Sun and Uranus positions in order to achieve that. OK. But could I find out more about the original workings of the place through meditating in the Moon alcove? The rods indicated that I could. So I did.

Some fool meditating at Four Knocks

After a long period of attunement and slowing my breathing pattern to match the heartbeat that I felt coming from the chamber itself – a long throbbing hum that Kal swears was not to be heard outside – then things began to happen. I firstly got some visions of two people sat alongside me in the Sun and Uranus alcoves and I knew that they were directing their intentions and collective energies towards me, I was The Initiate, in this Moon alcove.

I asked whether I was in the right place to work on my lower chakras. In response my mind dropped down inside my body to dwell in my abdomen and I felt like I was rooted to the chamber floor. As I raised my attention back up through my spine I felt a tingling – down below – in a place where I hadn’t expected to feel a tingling! What the…?  I wallowed in this most unusual and unexpected feeling. I felt like my testicles were throbbing and I knew that some kind of fertility energy was flowing through them. I felt like I was vibrating through my lower spine and the throbbing sound all around was getting louder and more inside my head….I returned back to consciousness. Suddenly I knew several things:-

1. This was a fertility site, designed to make the Initiate who sat in this chamber fertile, ready to breed.
2. The Initiate had to be Moon-aligned – the chamber would not work on a Sun-aligned person
3. This site was used by a particular tribe
4. The energy coming through my body was energy from the combination of Uranus and the Sun

I wonder whether there was a tribe in Ireland who were known to be related to Uranus? Here’s a site that mentions the possibility that this site was aligned to the stars (or one planet in particular):

“Because the passage of Fourknocks is oriented to approx. 20 degrees east of north, it does not point to a sunrise or indeed a moonrise, so an astronomical function would probably have involved the stars.” (source: Mythical Ireland)

I did find one interesting correlation between the elements involved in my meditation – my ash staff lay across me during the meditation, and this has a link with Uranus and with the deity Gwydion:

“For the Celts too, the ash functioned as an axis mundi tree. One of the five magic trees of Ireland, the Bile Uis-nech stood at the magical centre of Ireland in County Meath. In Celtic myth the ash connects the three circles of existence, Abred [the underworld or subconscious], Gwynedd [the earth plane or conscious] and Ceugant [the heavens or superconscious]”

“Robert Graves suggested that it describes the seizure of a shrine [possibly Avebury] by the ash cult of Gwydion from the alder cult of Bran. However, we have already seen that there is a mystical opposition or duality between the ash and the alder and not only in Celtic lore. In Norse myth ash is the father of mankind, while alder is the mother. In Greek myth the alder god Cronos overthrows the ash god Uranus, only to be overthrown in turn by another ash god, Poseidon.” (source: http://www.merciangathering.com/ash.htm)

Like other rituals we had encountered recently this one occurred during the three day Full Moon phase, involved multiple people focusing energy towards an Initiate who would be changed by the process. This particular ritual unified the energies of three chakra centres – the Third-Eye, The Solar Plexus and the Sacral chakras.

I was now looking forward to the next place we would visit to see what could happen there. Four Knocks had been an amazing experience.

Gwas.