23rd August , 2010 – Tal-y-Fan mountain, Conwy, North Wales.
In this first part of my day visit to Tal-y-Fan I discovered some new aspects to dowsing. I will describe my return to Cerrig Pryfaid stone circle, and then in part two I will talk about the two standing stones nearby, along with the interesting dolmen alongside them.
The Colourful Doris Frankish
Amazingly I somehow managed to have a whole day to myself unexpectedly. Don’t ask me how that happened, because I am still too shocked to remember, although I should because it is such a rarity. I decided that I would return to a site that I had almost forgotten about – Cerrig Pryfaid, the ‘Stones of the Flies’. I had discovered that there was a dolmen and standing stone nearby which neither Kal nor I had ever managed to find before, often due to either time pressure or more usually rain and hail pressure! Today, I would find it – the skies were only overcast, and although most of the the country was wet. I was sure I would somehow be fortunate and miss the inevitable rain.
I had been listening to a talk by a Radionics practitioner Doris Frankish on the British Society of Dowser’s regular podcast “Adventures in Dowsing” [handout PDF here], and she had prompted me to think again about colour dowsing. Colour dowsing was something that Kal and I had played with at Runcorn Hill, where we had dowsed rainbow colours within an energetic aura, but we hadn’t taken it further. Now Doris had offered the possibility that the energies I dowse in the landscape might have particular colour frequencies too. It seemed so obvious I wondered why we had never pursued that line of enquiry before, but we hadn’t made such a thing part of our regular dowsing list of questions when we investigated sites, so I wanted to test it out.
Cerrig Pryfaid re-visited
My first port of call was Cerrig Pryfaid stone circle. Finally, I had both time and reasonable weather (although a band of rain was closing in over the southern hills). My first question was to find a ritual entrance pathway, and I was taken by the dowsing rods to the first standing stone, a blade-like male rock some thirty or more feet away from the edge of the circle of stones. I was then led inwards, over the top of a recumbent stone (female) and off to the lower side of the circle, to a place where three rocks lay together, set in the grass fifteen feet south of the stone circle. This was a power centre. I recognised it … I had done all my energy work at these three stones the last time I was here. The central stone is the power centre that the dowsing rods indicated as being a focal point for a twisted pair of energy lines. [see my map]. However, that was my last visit. This time, that same stone was now a focal point for energies that were formed in a slightly different configuration.
I had a new paradigm to work with – colour dowsing. I didn’t have a colour wheel to refer to, but I could at least run through a series of colours in my mind, the colours of the rainbow, and then some additional ones that I thought might be relevant based on experience, namely white, silver and gold. What I discovered amazed me. I only found three lines that registered as having colour values. The first line was green, it was neutral and it ran fairly straight up from the valley below and went through the stone circle. I tried to find out more about this green line:-
- Is the source of this green line natural or man-made? Natural.
- Is the source based upon energy from earth, air, fire, water or a combination? Water (it was a lake in the valley, after a few more questions).
- Was the line in existence before I visited the site (ever)? Yes.
Two other lines could be found. A violet line extended along the south-eastern side of the circle, skirting the stones, and then just before it reached the place where the green line cut across the circle the violet line curled into the circle and formed an anti-clockwise spiral, then another, and finally one more. Three female spirals in all. I needed to ask more questions:-
- Is the source of this violet line natural or man-made? Both. Hmm, more questions required.
- Is the source based upon energy from earth, air, fire, water or a combination? Earth.
- Was the line in existence before I visited the site (ever)? No.
- Was I involved in its creation? Yes.
So, I was involved in its creation somehow. I asked some more questions and found that the line had healing properties, and that it had been created by my last visit when I had done some healing work on the circle, work to balance the energies. This violet energy line was created as a result of that. It emerged from the stone that I had sat on to do that work, and from which there emerged a powerful earth energy source. So, what was the other line?
One final line came out of the same stone. It took me until the last colour choice to find out which one it was: it was a gold line. This emerged from the stone and snaked along the south-western side of the circle, again moving in and around the stones, sometimes coming inside the circle and sometimes staying outside. This line didn’t terminate as I had expected. As it moved towards where the green line cut across the circle the gold line veered westward, connecting with the several outliers that lay in that direction – two male stones and a female recumbent stone. I decided to shortcut the questioning here – were the properties of this gold line similar to the violet line, except for its polarity? Yes. Well, that made things easier. I think I understood this male golden line in relation to its opposite, the female violet line.
Attracting attention
I wondered whether there was currently any energetic entity present at the site. When I had dowsed last there was nothing, but since I had found that I had successfully managed to balance and heal the site, I wondered if this had had any impact by making the place more inviting to nature spirits and the like. I asked a few questions along that basis:-
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Was there any Genius Loci at the circle? YES. It was a male spirit, and it had not been here long.
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Were there any nature spirits here? YES, air and water spirits now visited the circle regularly and agan , this had only happened since my last visit.
I turned my attention t some new questions that I have been trying to include about sacred sites recently:-
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Was the circle’s design based upon any particular sacred number? YES, 4.
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Was the circle aligned to any celestial body? THE SUN.
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When was the site most energetically active? SUMMER SOLSTICE.
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Are the energies here influenced by any celestial body? SATURN.
The violet and gold lines, if they matched the qualities spoken of by Doris Frankish, would be a permanent feature of the circle, leaving it balanced again until the energies were interfered with. Were these balanced energy lines permanently in place until disturbed? YES. Having contented myself that my previous work was still valid and that there was nothing to do here, I decided that I should try to find the other two sites – a standing stone and a cromlech – supposedly further down the valley. While the weather held this seemed like a good time to do it.
Gwas.
“Were these balanced energy lines permanently in place until disturbed? YES. ”
This is really interesting Gwas, have you determined who or what can disturb the equilibrium? Is it the natural fluctuations of nature, some sort of cycle or people? If people, is this deliberately done or is it a consequence of the general abuse of the environment (non-eco living scenario)?
Hi Rune,
Relevant and insightful questioning as always. I have raised the same questions in my own mind once I dowsed that the lines were configured that way. I have been slowly but surely beginning to gather some more information from other sites. For instance, I was at a stone circle today whose energies had been disturbed by some quarrying work that had been done at a place that intersected a ley line that passed through the circle.
So, it seems as though the fragile network of inter-linked sites (what I am loosely and presumptuously going to call The Earth Energy Grid) is like a spider’s web. Any energy line feeding into a site – whether ley line or sourced from elsewhere – could potentially pass on a disturbance to other connection points, i suppose. For example, if a lake supplied a natural energy feed into a site and the lake got polluted, I suspect that bad energy would get passed along the interconnections to affect a nearby site. If a tree that fed into a stone circle got cut down, I am sure this would have an effect on the energies of the site. At Penmaenmawr we once found some negative influences affecting sites around due to magical meddling from a group intent on forming such energies.
Only more dowsing evidence form different places will begin to properly form the bigger picture, because there are always some things that go against any rational expectation of how these things work! That’s the mystery in the Mystery Tradition! 😉
Gwas.