January 2015 – Page 3 – The Hedge Druid

Arrows point to Arthur – Solstice 3

January 7, 2015January 2, 2015 Chris No Comments

Ancient Sites, Arthurian, Celestial, Dowsing, Meditation, Quests, Spirit of Place, Wheel of the Year

If I had researched the geographical locations of the sites we were intending to visit I would have placed this one last.As it happens it was positioned in the middle of the day, but as you may have come to expect – it turns out we visited the site at exactly the right time. Here’s why.

The Devil Points North

There are three remaining tall standing stones close to the A1(M) road that passes by the town of Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. Collectively they are known as The Devil’s Arrows. There is the usual story about their placement – the devil threw down the ‘arrows’:

“The name stems from a legend traced back to 1721, where the Devil was supposed to have thrown the stones, aiming at the next town of Aldborough. He stood on Howe Hill and shouted,

Borobrigg keep out o’ way,

For Aldborough town

I will ding down!

But obviously his aim was not that good, and so they landed short of their mark.”

(source: Brigantes Nation)

Devils Arrows - Solstice 2014 (1) — The southern most Devil’s Arrow stone

Ooh – that angry old Devil! When will he learn that his aim is never that good when he’s hewing these menhirs around? Silly billy. Anyway – there they stand, up to 30 feet tall and in a not-so-straight alignment, said by Paul Devereux to link the southern-most moon setting with an ancient fording point across the nearby River Ure. There is an assumption that they formed a part of a larger complex that includes the three Thornborough Henges.

Research at the Valley of the Kings – Egypt 11

January 5, 2015January 2, 2015 kal No Comments

Energy work, Experiment, How To

Okay, I know, you must have heard of the Valley of the Kings, right? Well, not as exciting as I imagined. Let me retitle that for you…Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. Is a much more accurate and truer description of the place. About the only good – and rather funny – thing about it is that you’re not allowed to take pictures inside or outside the tombs. The few you see here were rather surreptitiously recorded. So from the outside this is what you see…

Nothing really to shout about. As I wandered around the place I pulled out my dowsing rods and asked them to take me to some place worthy of my attention. They agreed and started to take me up towards a tomb. As I walked up the slope I passed a sign saying that tomb was closed. It didn’t bother me, surely the rods (aka my intuition) had considered that?

I continued to walk up the slope and finally just as I thought the rods would take me to the fenced of entrance to a tomb, they twirled around and pointed me towards the valley that I had climbed from. This, apparently was the place to prepare myself for my excursion into the Valley of the Kings…

Problems for the Genius Loci – Egypt 10

January 3, 2015January 3, 2015 kal No Comments

Energy work, God or Goddess, Quests, Spirit of Place

It was my second day in Luxor and I was eager to go exploring. On this day I had Luxor Temple in mind. It is located in the center of Luxor and was just a 20 minute taxi ride from my hotel. The taxi driver said he would pick me up and asked me how long I would be. Learning from my lesson yesterday I left it open. Tourist time does not apply to me. It could be ten minutes or it could be three hours.

The ticket office is just by the square that sits before the temple gates. As you enter the temple is to your left, on the right there is a long path with sphinx statues on either side. The path is about a couple of hundred metres in length. I pulled out my dowsing rods and queried as to the place where I needed to be to prepare myself for entering the temple. The rods took me the full length of the path of the sphinx, in the mid-day sun.

I was taken to a smooth rock and told to place it at the starting point. The picture shows the rock and the distance from the temple, well sort of. This done, I was expecting to walk back to the temple, but the rods had other plans. The energy path that I had to take took me to each sphinx. One after the other. Left, right and left again. When you are following rods, you tend to walk slightly slower than normal and in that sun. It was hot and a long journey.

Also, actually, quite a lonely one, as no one else had even entered the path whilst I was working there. My left-right journey continued until I reached about half way. At this point another path from the right joins the main walk-way. Whether this path is ancient or modern I don’t know. But if I were to make an energetic guess, I would say modern. Because at that point, it is as if the energy (path) had been pushed to the left. Now before this point, I was walking from each sphinx to the other, across the central path you can see. Now, however, I had been pushed off the main central path and was walking between the sphinx on the left and the left edge of the path, in the sand.

Greeting the missing obelisik — Greeting the missing obelisk

Obelisk at Karnak – Egypt 9

January 2, 2015January 2, 2015 kal No Comments

Quickie, Signs and Synchronicity

I am not a restful soul I have to say. Barely had I arrived in Luxor than I was off out on an adventure. Walking up to the desk in the hotel, I asked the attendant, which is the nearest place to visit? It was 1pm in the afternoon and I didn’t want to go … Read More “Obelisk at Karnak – Egypt 9” »

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