June 20th 2014 – Coom Wedge Tomb, Ballinskelligs, Iveragh Peninsula, Ireland
We drove about an hour around to a different headland to find Coom Wedge Tomb. It is difficult to spot from the road, but it can be found by going down a small lane which appears to lead to only a few distant farmhouses. In a field on the left you will see the tomb, but parking is also difficult. As I have come to expect whenever I want to abandon the car in a place where no-one else can pass, then you can guarantee that someone will turn up who wants to pass. They did. Twice! Come on! There are only two buildings in that part of the whole island! Yet, at that moment I needed to park two residents needed to pass. I ended up parking almost in the field!
My preliminary dowsing indicates that there is something here for me, and that it is related to my ancestors. I am beginning to use dowsing as a means to confirm or refine the intuitive response that I am developing related to sacred places now. I would say that I feel it is an ancestral place for me first, and then the dowsing allows me to dig a little deeper and get re-assurance of these ideas.
I need to climb inside, so I find the only gap that will feasibly fit me and I wriggle into it, much to Kal’s amusement. Inside I lie down and despite the hard stony floor it is incredibly comfortable. Perhaps it is, relative to hours of driving on bumpy, twisty roads!
Inside the chamber I close my eyes and get connected. I feel like there isn’t the usual type of Spirit of Place here. Instead the spirit of place is an echo, a remnant of my own ancestors and their energies. Somehow, this is my chamber, it has housed people connected to me at some time. It knows about me already. Is this what happens when one is bearing the Black Dragon’s protective wings?
The Deep Dive
I begin to delve deep into the earth. The whole site feels like an earth connection point, so I worm my way down deeper into the planet. As I go deeper I find a resonance coming back at me. It is an earth echo. That’s the only way I can explain it. Think of it as though your ancestors made a call out deep into the earth, and when you come along later you get to hear that sound played back at you, like a recording which has been waiting for you to press the Play button.
I begin to make my own deep resonance sound – a sympathetic sound, but with my own tones. This sound gets amplified in harmony with the ancestral sound and soon the amplitude wave of that sound has increased to such a size that it emerges from underground and resounds all over the hills around. The wave spreads outwards, covering all the places where my ancestors have been and still are. It is a call to my clan, I feel. For what purpose, I don’t know yet, but the call has been made!
As I think these thoughts I am brought back to consciousness by the sound of cattle bellowing around me. My deep wave – my clan call – has started all the cows off with their own bellows! Their calls join my inaudible sound wave and together we flood the hills with noise!
There is one last surprise. I decide to ask if there is anything that I need to know about my ancestors. A response comes back from the spirit of place with a simple instruction:
“Visit Ballincrea to get an energetic gift from your ancestors”
Later research tells me that there is a Ballincrea near Waterford in County Kilkenny. I wonder what the gift might be, and whether I will be able to look for it on this particular trip? Still, exiting stuff. Strange clan calls and the promise of an ancestral gift.
Again, when Kal and I confer afterwards he tells me that he has had a similar experience! My work was all about plumbing the depths of the earth to find the ancestral resonance. Kal was also diving deep in his quest too. Coincidence, but the second synchronistic event in this day. However, it was not going to be the last.
