I have recently been reading the quite excellent and incredible revealing book by David Cowan and Anne Silk called “Ancient Energies of the Earth” (1999). Although I have only ventured a few chapters into the book so far I have been having to make notes as I go along due to the massive amount of information they somewhat randomly divulge.
I had found Cowan’s other book “Ley Lines and Earth Energies” somewhat difficult to stay with, either because it was beyond me at the time, or because his writing style assumed a great deal and stretched ideas across many chapters. “Ancient Energies..” is slightly better in that regard, and I have a greater understanding of the concepts being explored with the practical experience I have gained dowsing ancient sites this last year and more.
Now I am finding myself jumping at nearly every page saying: “That’s exactly what we’ve found!” in response to all these phenomena discussed in the book so far:-
- standing stone energy swirls
- double helix formations
- vertical columns of spiralling energies at blind springs (our power centres) that arc up into the air
- insects like gnats or midges swarm in columns of vertical earth energy
- passing through geomagnetic fields with increasing speed increases the voltage in the human body from 4 microvolts @ 1m/s to 400 microvolts @ 8m/s
- some plants grow better in faerie rings (which they call blind springs again)
The point I am at now in the book talks of the importance of cup marks and other petroglyphs (rock carvings) that seem to be maps of the energy formations in the local area. With that idea in mind I re-visited the pictures I had taken of the petroglyphs I had seen at a group of outlying stones near to the Nine Ladies circle.
I took a pencil and began to darken the dark spots on a print-out of the photo. Very soon a clearer picture of the patterns on the rocks emerged:
This picture, I believe, denotes the position and qualities of the energy points of the stone circle in a symbolic format. Here’s a picture of the circle taken last year for reference. The picture is taken from the SW view:
The Queen Stone
On the left of the picture, the flat-topped square stone is the Queen Stone, which I believe transforms the radiant energies from the sun, moon and stars and thus maintains the circle’s energy flows. This flow seems to be governed by the ebb and flow of the relative position of the moon (perigee/apogee, new moon/full moon) and of the sun’s strength through the year (the seasons).
In the petroglyph this correspond with the stone marked by an outlying square shape (right-hand side of diagram).
The Straight Alignment Ley
A quite distinct straight line is shown between two stones – from the small stone (centre left in photo), through the circular centre patch, and into the stone to the left of the oak tree (in the photo). This marks a NE-SW cardinal alignment.
Connected to the stone at the northern end of the glyph is what appears to be two pyramid-shaped hills with a sun either rising or setting on the right-hand side of them. Is this indicating that the NE-SW alignment ley shows where the sun rises or sets against some surrounding hills?
In the right-hand centre of the glyph photo, inside the circle, is a circle overlaying a long triangle. The point of the triangle is directed North East, in alignment with the straight ley. South-West of the site are two other stone circles – Eagle Tor and Nine Stones Close.
The Pyramid Shapes
As well as the small pyramid shapes that are linked to the alignment line are two much larger triangles inside the circle. These happen to correspond exactly with the location of the two major power centres within the circle that Kal and I have found on every visit. The larger of the two triangles denotes the stronger female power centre, whilst the other one on the right hand side of the glyph marks the place of the male power centre.
The male power centre appears to be linked in the diagram to the male stone that is northernmost in the circle. This is also the point where I believe energies flow out of the circle down into the valley below the nearby cliff’s edge.
The Wide Flat Female Stone
On the left hand side of the glyph you will see I have ringed a large raised area. I don’t think I’ve made it as large as it is in the actual carving though. This is the location of the flat stone that dowses as female that lies close to the main power centre (also female).
Oak Tree Link
At the very bottom edge of the glyph photo you can see an external energy coming directly up to the circle’s edge. This, I believe, is showing the energy link to the big oak tree that lies exactly in that direction, a mere fifteen feet away from the circle.
The Black and White serpent energies
In the top left corner, coming into the place that I designate as the ‘entrance’ to the site, are two snakes – one black and one white. They are intertwined in a polarised male and female form, and I believe they come in from the nemeton that encircles the stones. The nemeton energy is sourced from the King Stone that sits above the circle, some thirty or so yards away.
I believe this images suggests the spiralling, intertwining, alternating male and female energy forms that describe the flowing energies of this site.
There may also possibly be a recurrence of this image at the top edge, inside of the circle in the glyph photograph. There is some kind of moving, twin-headed snake head image almost distinguishable there, and this would correspond with the path of the nemeton energy as it’s male form coils around inside the circle.
Other glyphs at the site
There are the faint sketches on some outlying rocks:
This is a photograph that I have again embellished with a few pencil marks to trace the lines and to darken some patches, but I have not added anything that is not there.
In the sketch you can see a boy or girl who wears a tall or long hat with a woolly or furry brim looking astonished at the sight of a whale, whose tail turns into a fish. Just above and centre is the outline of a horse. Notice the drawing is centred around a dark spot.
Was this some dramatic vision that an artist visiting the site felt compelled to record?
And the following spiral glyph appears on a rock nearby:
I hope that this prompts a further visit to this wonderful site so that Kal and I can confirm these suspected correlations. If the map is as accurate as I think it is then we could have found a vital key to the decoding of energies at other sites too, much as David Cowan and Anne Silk have suggested.
Gwas.
Follow the maps.
