Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmonds is on the Michael and Mary leyline and although it is not near us we were offered a chance to spend the day there and we thought it might be interesting so we took up the offer. Our aim was to dowse the leyline in the Abbey to see if we agreed with the findings in the famous book The Sun and The Serpent by Miller and Broadhurst, who dowsed the leyline, many years ago.

It was a cold but bright sunny day and we walked under the main gate and through some beautiful gardens to get to the ruins of the medieval Abbey where Broadhurst and Miller said the leylines ran.  We had difficulty picking up the energies, probably due to it being extremely busy with children on a school trip running around. We made our way to the main ruins and that at that point we were able to tune into the leylines. The pic shows that the new Cathedral has been built in direct line with the old Abbey on the usual East-West line.

The Sun and the Serpent said that the Mary and Michael line almost touch by the choir in the North-South transept and we found the Michael line and followed it to a small pillar, where strangely, instead of going onwards it went in a circle round this pillar!

We picked up the Mary line in the South transept and it followed an old wall round the abbey and took a winding course through the ruins, going past the choir to another ruined pillar, which it circled as the Michael line had done. The two pillars are close to one another but are not in "kissing" distance as stated in The Sun and Serpent!

We went back to the Michael line which we followed out of the ruins by St. Martins Chapel and then through the grounds to the Mostow gate which took us out into the town. We returned to the gardens where we sat and re-attuned into the Mary line, which we followed out through the main gate.

We followed Mary line across the square and up into Abbeygate Road where the energies were so strong we didn't need to use our dowsing rods. We finished our day here as we just wanted to dowse within the ruins.

In conclusion to our mission to compare our experience with that of Miller and Broadhurst, we agree that the Mary line goes up Abbeygate Road and that the Michael line runs through the Norman tower opposite the Mason's temple. An interesting detail of the tower are the two dragons on either side. (see pic below). However, we disagree with the two lines meeting within the ruins, we reckoned they were about 20-30 feet apart, although experience has taught us that leylines flow and so can move.