Hermits, Bananas and a Dark Angel – Spring Equinox 4

Hermits

The equinox was progressing nicely. We had left home around 6:30am and it was approaching 3 in the afternoon when we arrived at our last (or so we thought) stop of the day. The Hermits Cave is unsurprisingly in the Hermits Wood. It is about half a mile from the road and the walk is easy and pleasant. Upon arriving I asked whether there was anything for me to learn and/or do here. The answer to both questions was a yes.

First things first. Food! I put my bag down and searched it for food. At the same time I brought out the smokey quartz crystal to show Chris. It had been the one that I had connected to the health monitor energy at the Hemlock Stone earlier that day. I placed the crystal in the window of the cave whilst I ate lunch. Also, whilst eating lunch I lit an incense stick too. The cave is rock and it was nigh on impossible to find a place for the incense and so I went out to the front of the cave and placed it there.

Walking and eating isn’t a bad way to do things and so – probably for the first time – I walked over to the sign outside the cave and read of its formation. Apparently some person had seen a vision of Mary and was told to come here and give his life in prayer and service. Hmmm sounds familiar if you replace Mary for Caileach Would that work? Anyway, I returned to the cave to do something and learn something.

I opted for the “doing” first and the rods took me to the crystal I had placed on the window. Then they took me to the incense that I had placed outside of the window incidentally. It seems that this was the only “doing” that I needed to do. What about the learning? I asked the rods about this and they took me to the sign that I had been reading. Devotional Energies! I thought, of course, this was something quite recent in my energy explorations. See the Energy of Prayer series.

Before learning this, we understood that the Hermits Cave had some interesting energies. Now this addition devotional information added extra dimensions to that and to find this out at the time when my interest in that area was piqued. Of course! A coincidence.

Dark Angel

Still at the cave and ready to leave when Chris asked me over to the far side. He had his camera out and was showing me something utterly fascinating. On the camera screen there was a dark shadow and on the corresponding wall? Nothing! He took picture after picture from different angles and the darkened image remained.

I had rods in my hand so he asked me to dowse for what it might be, agreeing, I held up the rods and was about to move forward with a question, when I froze. I mean, quite literally, I froze. I couldn’t ask a question about the shadow. I tried again, nothing. Chris looked at me puzzled and I explained that I couldn’t ask any questions about the thing. Either it had frozen me or I had (unconsciously/energetically) froze myself. In either case, I was unable to even pose a question in my mind, let alone ask it.

I’ve never had such a feeling before. It wasn’t like something was physically stopping me moving, rather it felt like when you have an answer on the tip of your tongue but are unable to get it out. In this situation though, I had no questions either. Totally weird.

Now that I think back on the experience, what is even weirder is that we didn’t explore the phenomena deeper at the time. Was there an SEP field around it? In the car I speculated for about two-seconds as to whether it could have been something of a “Watcher” ilk? But even that speculation vanished and talk resumed on other matters…

Concerning a Banana

We left the cave and drove of in the direction of Sherwood Forest (see post on that). On the way we passed a sign for Annesley Church. Actually it caught Chris’s eye and I concurred. Let’s investigate. We did you U’ey as they say and parked up outside the ruins of the church. Was there anything to do here was the immediate question for me and the answer was yes (and to learn too).

I left Chris to his own devices and followed the rods into the church. They took me around the side of courtyard and to a set of arches. It seemed that I needed to do something here. What? A quick set of dowsing revealed that this place was ideal for doing a gratitude ceremony. So without further ado I did. Three incense sticks were in order, one to be placed in each of the arches. However that wasn’t sufficient. The rods said that there was something else in my bag that was needed. I searched through the bag, checking each item with the rods until I got to my final banana of the day. Was this what was needed? Yes. Where to place it?

In the picture on the far right is a carved basin. Apparently that was where the banana needed to go. Once done the ceremony was completed with a huge set of thank yous for the many blessings that had come my way over the past couple of months. I am utterly grateful and one day, I may even tell that tale. One day!