Spring Equinox 2013 – Day of the Crow Part 5

In this final part of my Spring Equinox 2013 story I reveal the reasons why I had been linking the four elemental sites around Llangollen. I am also shown why this link was important, and how it relates to my work with the energy form of Galahad this year.

Ffynon Sara

Only a few miles from the edges of Clocaenog Forest is the beautiful secluded site of Sara’s Spring. The Sara in question may well be the Patron Saint of Laughter that Kal talked about after he visited the site. This day I wasn’t interested in discovering more about the energy form at the site, only to come with questions that needed urgent answers.

I began by offering an energetic gift. I placed incense all around the spring’s rectangular wall and then offered all of the story of my day and my quest for this part of the year. This was offered through my heart chakra, freely and with love. I hoped that this energy would be sufficient as an exchange for what I was about to ask.

I used the dowsing rods to confirm whether I could, should and may ask these questions here. Luckily the answers were all a positive and the feeling generally was that I should finally get some answers to my puzzling quest after such hard work this day.

Q. What was the purpose of linking the four sacred sites around Corwen?

In answer I was shown the white shield in the stone that I had energised in Valle Crucis Abbey. With that image came the following explanation:

The White Shield of Galahad is emblazoned by a red cross. The shield shape is formed by the four sites. The cross shape is formed by drawing links between them. I needed to have that symbol in my head as an elemental cross so that I could emblazon it on the shield that I had acquired from Valle Crucis. Without that emblem the shield would not be at full strength.

“…at full strength”. That was an unusual phrase that I would try to deconstruct later. For now, I wanted to know more about the rituals at the four sites.

Q. Why did I need to take possession of the sites?

The shield is the protection that I work with when healing the land. It’s the shield of energy that I put around a site to protect the energy from dissipating and to prevent other energy from influencing the healing work – like a plaster prevents other infection and prevents knocks to open cuts and grazes while the skin heals.

Taking possession of the sites forms an energetic shield for as long as I am worthy and respectful of the sites. Consider it less like “taking possession” and more like “adopting” the sites for their magickal properties.

I understood the shield concept now. I was told at Imbolc this year that I would be working with the Shield and the Sword. The next questions seemed to suggest itself:

Q. What is the purpose of working with the Sword?

The Sword that accompanies The Shield is an expression of will power. The Sword can create the energy (or call it in, such as when I called in the Spirit of Place) when needed to heal a site.

What I learned from the spirit of Sara was that I would be working with sword and shield to heal sites in this way for the rest of this year. I would be providing the sites with energy (sword/force) and protecting them while they heal (shield/form).

Now all was clear. The Shield of Galahad, along with a Sword that I had yet to find, would be my “weapons”, my magickal symbols, my channels through which I could create and harness, direct and form the energy required to heal the various sites that needed it. Of course, this leads me to wonder why it is my job to go around healing sites, and secondly, am I supposed to go around finding “broken” ones to “mend”? Ahhh. The Doubtful Path!

Hmmm… not what I had in mind for this year, really. Let’s see what happens! At least I had some definite answers to why I had spent a freezing cold day climbing hills in the Llangollen and Corwen area. At least it made sense now. [Er…Really?]