omphalos – The Hedge Druid

Delphi – The Apollo and Athena Ley Line

March 3, 2013March 3, 2013 Gwas 1 Comment

Ancient Sites, Dowsing, Energy grid, Telluric

In a book called “The Dance of the Dragon” Hamish Miller demarcated one of the very long ley lines that spans at least part of the way around the Earth, and possibly beyond (it’s hard to dowse in a sailing boat). He called the long ley line that he found The Apollo-Athena Line. He claimed it extended from Skellig St.Michael in Ireland to Armageddon in Turkey, and possibly beyond that. This stuck in my mind when I was a budding dowser, entranced by the notion of leys.

I never really imagined that I would actually find myself at one of the points along this Apollo-Athena line (I have a very limited imagination). Yet, after Kal had achieved everything he had wanted from the one sunny day we would get in Delphi we did find ourselves with a bit of spare time before the last rays disappeared. I turned my attentions to the secondary aspects of my visit – to see whether this fabled line actually existed at this site, and if so, what its qualities might be. I didn’t intend to trace the line as Miller had done, just to sample it and see if he was talking rot or not. Everything, no matter how holy, is open to testing.

It didn’t take long for me to use the dowsing rods to locate the approximate position of the fabled ley. I was led up the concrete ramp, back towards Museum of Delphi. Further down the path towards the entrance to the temple complex the rods began to splay apart indicating they had reached a boundary point – the outer edge of an energy line. Seeing as I had asked for the Apollo-Athena Line I checked to see if that was indeed what I had found.

I used the rods to get a direction of flow – South East, pointing down the valley away from the temple complex. Judging by where I was standing it looked like the line actually missed most of the important sites on the hillside above, possibly just clipping the western edges of the stadium above. Odd.Where I picked it up it was going through a stone bowl artefact full of water, which I thought was a nice touch.

Bearing of the Apollo-Athena ley line at Delphi

The ley was pretty standard when measured. It was 22 steps wide – a measurement I have made at many national and international ley sites. Remembering the drawing of the rough direction of the ley I imagined that it confirmed pretty closely to the North-West to South-East direction of flow.

So much for its standardisation. There was, however, a curious anomaly associated with this famous ley line. A curious distortion.

Delphi – Pan’s Tour

February 26, 2013February 26, 2013 Gwas No Comments

Ancient Sites

I was only at Delphi because Kal wanted to be there. You may have read already about his Dragon’s Soul quest and the book of its lives that needed unlocking. Delphi was the place he was hoping to do that. On this quest, I as the sidekick. However, I did have a few ideas about what I might like to do here – to find Hamish Miller‘s Athena/Apollo ley line, and to meet The Oracle, or whatever remnants of that idea might remain at such an ancient site. Here, in three parts, is how I got on.

We started on the wrong foot. That seems to be the de facto starting point for quests these days. We had hired a car for our trip to Delphi and they warned us that the petrol levels might be full, half way or empty. Ours was empty, and it was late in the evening, and we had no idea where a petrol station might be. When we found one it was temporarily closed – “Ten minutes” said the man strolling leisurely about the forecourt. Yeah, ten Greek minutes….. Time passed until almost an hour later our fuel hostage ended and we were able to fill up. Good start!

The way to Delphi was not without incident either. It encompassed several wrong turnings, a near miss, and a number of difficult overtakes. I was used to a more powerful and better-handling car. We arrived alive in the depths of Friday night. All I knew was that we had climbed substantially, and that I was now very tired. Time for sleep. The next day we would have all day to see a number of sacred sites all in one hillside complex.

The Cave of Impassibility

The next morning the day dawned with a bright blue background as the sun rose. Once outside of the beautiful tourist town of Delphi we got our first glimpse of the surrounding hills in their full glory. Oh…my…word….it was stunning! The ancient Greeks couldn’t have picked a more beautiful place to site their most sacred buildings. The view down to the sea was incredible through the mountains, and the green slopes formed a perfect foil to the sheer salmon-pink cliffs that rose impossibly steep above the tree line, only to be capped with a sprinkling of snow at their summits. Amazing!

One of the reasons why I drive a four-wheel drive car is so that I can get to sacred sites. As we climbed high into the Parnassian range of mountains it rapidly became clear that February was not the ideal time to go sightseeing! The car complained about the climb, and then debated whether to grip the un-gritted roads by the ski centres. We flinched at every corner concentrating on keeping the car in line with what we could see of the road.
After several miles we realised that we had not seen our marker points for the Corycian Cave. We were debating where it might be safe to turn around when the car made the decision for us by parking itself sideways into a pile of snow on a corner composed of sheer ice.

We turned back and found the entry point to the tiny track we had missed on the way up. There was nowhere to park that we could expect to get back out of, and the track was piled high with snow and slush. A three-mile walk to the cave did not sound inviting. Kal made me get out and dowse whether we needed to go to the cave or not. Turns out it wasn’t necessary. Was that the case before we set out or had things changed just now?

1. Before the Agora

We are led to several stones lying on the ground. We are following the same energetic trail. We began to query this situation. Kal went straight to the heart of the situation – “Were we being led by something?” YES. He thought about and tested some possibilities before hitting the right question? “Was it Pan?” YES.

The Nature god Pan - another representation of The Horned One — The Nature god Pan – another representation of The Horned One

I dowsed similar questions and got to the same answers as Kal by a different route. We were both being led a ‘merry dance’ around energy power centres by what can only be described as the energy form of the god Pan.

Seemingly random stones, but very energetic

Well, as a Trickster spirit we may be in for some fun here. We’d have to be careful not to get led astray from our purpose. Oh wait! I didn’t have one. Well, I was OK then. Lead on, Pan!

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Ionian Equinox 7 – The Giant, the Glaistig and the Omphalos

October 17, 2012 Gwas No Comments

Ancient Sites, Dowsing, Wheel of the Year

At the end of the preceding post I had been tainted by a dark energy whilst attempting to dissipate it from a ring of granite stones placed on a promontory of the western shores of Iona. Now I was acting intuitively, allowing myself to be guided towards the steps I needed to take to cure myself of this dark energy ‘poison’.

Kal had taken immediate action. He had protected himself from being similarly affected, and then had begun a process of feeding energy into my area so that I could use it to heal. The first action I took was to staff to assist with making an energetic shield that I could use to shelter from the imposing “gaze” of the forces that I had alerted and whose attentions I had attracted by messing with the dark circle. I felt a searching, a scouring, malevolent stare that was scanning the area around the stones from high above. I felt like a giant face was in the clouds looking down trying to find out who had triggered an alarm on the ground below. The shield went up but I wasn’t sure how long it would last. More action was needed and quickly, or I would be either located or pass out with this nauseating sickness I felt!

Overlooking Iona's best beach — The neutralising waters of the sea around Iona

A voice came into my head offering me advice…

“Get the staff to the shore“, and then “You will be alright when you reach The Stone.”

It was in my voice, of course, which always raises the question of the source of such information, yet in these circumstances, and with my recent encounters with helpful force, I wasn’t questioning the sagacity of the advice so long as it sounded reasonable. I half-stumbled, half-ran in a dizzy fuzzy state towards the nearby sound of the waves lapping on the shoreline. I knew which stone was being referred to – my next intended destination for the day – Clach na Glaistig. For now, my priority was to rescue the staff.

As I reached the shore I walked the edges where the water touched the sand. With each gentle wave touching my shoes and surrounding the ash staff things began to alleviate – the dizziness began to wear off a little so that my vision cleared up. I could also feel the staff “neutralise”. This is a difficult thing to explain. Holding the staff I can often feel it get energised when working at sacred sites. At this moment I felt whatever charge it held was being drained away – as thought it was a battery being discharged by the salt water. As I reached the end of the cove’s shoreline the staff felt balanced again – neutral. A long sigh emerged from me. It was safe. Now there was only me to worry about.

Kal still kept his distance, recognising that I was still tainted with dark energy, yet with each step across the island towards the stone I felt better, clearer, and more in control again. I re-doubled my protection from being discovered, and then we began to walk over the short-cropped wind-swept grassy chalkland towards the distant hills that led to the southern end of the island. On the way I kept seeing white feathers in my path. Being still in an “angelic” mindset I picked them up. They only seemed to be in my path, not Kal’s, and they often blew towards me as I picked them up. Soon I was carrying about five small white feathers which I then put into my bag. They would come in useful at the stone, I felt.

Finding my spiritual centre in England

July 21, 2012 Gwas 1 Comment

Dowsing, Quests

There are many ways that people have devised to find the centre of lands. From the beginnings of recorded history and probably much before then humans have established centres of land masses in order to establish a “pole” – a symbolic tree whose roots are planted in the core of the planet and whose branches … Read More “Finding my spiritual centre in England” »

Star Carr: Our Past, Their Clutter

August 13, 2010September 10, 2026 Gwas No Comments

News article

I see that a combined team of Manchester and York University archaeologists have uncovered Britain’s oldest house to date in the ever-more-fascinating Star Carr site near the seaside town of Scarborough in the North East of England. Julian Cope was referring to Star Carr many years ago, long before many people were even aware of its significance (check out … Read More “Star Carr: Our Past, Their Clutter” »

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