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Introduction to Power Centres and Sacred Space, continued.

Our time in the centre of Stonehenge ended, and we left the circle to go up to the Cursus and the round barrows that ran along side it.
One of the things we wanted to see was the difference between a ley (alignment of sites) and an energy ley. Sir Norman Lockyer has given us an excellent example in his Stonehenge/Old Sarum/Salisbury Cathedral ley:

Norman Lockyer's Stonehenge/Old Sarum/Salisbury Cathedral Ley.
No Dowsable Yang Energy Ley flows along this alignment.

The ley starts at the first round barrow we came to at the edge of the Cursus. we could dowse the builder’s intent to put it in alignment with the henge of Stonehenge, Old Sarum and Salisbury Cathedral, but there was not an energy ley (six to eight foot wide beam of yang energy with a direction of flow) flowing concurrently along this ley.

Some of the class takes a break on a round barrow at one end of the Cursus

After walking to one end of the Cursus, we went back to the hotel for breakfast and a review of our time at Stonehenge. Everyone thought that it was a truly magnificent experience.

Finding the Centre

Building a New Sacred Space.
We then went out on the back lawn of the hotel and dowsed the best place for a temporary new sacred space. After driving a wooden stake into centre, as it was daylight, and could not have an exercise of drawing down the North, we used a compass and corrected for magnetic deviation to find where to put the pole that would mark the North.

Finding North


Sue finds Magnetic North	Lining up the North Pole

The Four Directions

We then used string to find South, and a Druid’s Cord of thirteen knots to find East and West.

Temporary Sacred Space
The Four Directions
Looking from the North

After lunch, we looked at the BSD Code of Ethics as it pertains to dowsing in Sacred Space, took down the new sacred space we had just made, completed evaluation forms and passed out Course Completion Forms. It was a great weekend! With any luck, the BSD EEG will offer the same course in the same location again in early June 2006!

(Thanks to Sue Holmes and Sig Lonegren for the pictures.)

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