The Rose Line – power points on the lunation triangle

Rose Line

Length: 307 miles

A long while ago (this post was originally written in 2015) I traced a ley line route which I called “The Rose Line“. This is not the same more famous Paris-based line which Dan Brown mentioned in The Da Vinci Code, but one which I have traced across the UK. It begins in the political centre of Scotland – Holyrood – and finishes at the political centre of Wales – the Welsh National Assembly site.

The creation of this line was some dowsing I did at two of the sites near to the start of the line: Arthur’s Seat and Rosslyn Chapel (from whose name my Rose Line derives). These two places are both famous “ley line” connections in their own right, but I thought to extend it throughout the countries involved and see what features were on this “power line” (quite literally a line which connects sites of power and influence). This was a direct cull from Robin Heath‘s excellent “Powerpoints” book, which plotted what Heath calls a “lunation triangle” of lines across the country leading from England to Scotland and Wales, and crucially linked all their political power centres, thus explaining why they are located in such positions.

For this Rose Line we are concerned with the vertical one which goes from Scotland to South Wales.

It was initially an intellectual exercise and an experiment to see whether there was anything more to Heath’s lines than just their powerful terminus points. However, soon it became quite obvious that there were a series of place names that contained derivatives of the word “red” or “rose”. Strictly speaking “rhos” in the welsh language means “moor”, but it is also an old word for “roses”. “Goch” is welsh for “red”.

Here is a list of some of them:-

1. Rosslyn
2. Red Dial
3. Rosthwaite
4. Rossett Pike
5. Rosthwaite (another one)
6. Roosecote
7. Roa Island
8. Rhosesmor
9. Rhos Fiddle
10. Rhosgoch
11. Goch pwll ddu

More interesting to me, and more related to the concept of power, was the proximity of so many hillforts, castles and strongholds which all fell directly on or very close to the line! So, simply for your own intellectual curiosity, here is a list of the strongholds I discovered on The Rose Line.

1. Holyrood, Scottish National Parliament [info]
2. Arthur’s Seat [info]
3. Rosslyn Chapel [info]
4. Dryhope Tower [info]
5. Northshield Rings fort [info]
6. Clerk Hill roman fort [info]
7. Castle O’Er [info]
8. Bailiehill Fort [info]
9. Drumburgh roman fort [info]
10. Hardknott Fort [info]
11. Dalton In Furness castle [info]
12. Piel Castle, Piel Island [info]
13. Bagillt Castle (Flint) [info]
14. Moel Y Gaer hillfort [info]
15. Mold Castle [info]
16. Dinas Bran [info]
17. Llansantffraid ym Mechain roman fort [info]
18. Powis Castle [info]
19. Montgomery Castle [info]
20. Tretower Castle [info]
21. Bleddfa motte and bailey [info]
22. New Radnor castle [info]
23. Castle Kinsey [info]
24. Clyro Castle [info]
25. Castell Dinas, Pengenffordd [info]
26. Hen Castell [info]
27. Senedd, Welsh National Assembly, Cardiff [info]

If you choose to search this blog for some of those names you will see that we “inadvertently” visited a lot of these places of power without being aware of the connection. The tales from those visits are stuffed with stories of powerful incidents and energetic moments. Of course, it’s all a giant, countrywide, coincidence.

Chris.