Whipsnade Tree Cathedral

On arrival, we looked at one of the notice boards to see that cathedral was almost circular, unlike, the one at MK. We had a job to orientate ourselves. We found the main aisle and as per usual the energies went east to west. We dowsed for the mm line and there it was, but very weak. It resonated to yellow so confirming it was the Mary line we were in. The cathedral was divided into various chapels containing benches with appropriate carvings, e.g. Easter chapel contained bunny rabbits.

In the centre of the cathedral was a circular open area, in the centre of which was a circular dew pond. Also in this area were 2 benches, 1 carved with acorns (symbol of National Trust) and one with Eagles.

 The latter was decorated with sticks, flowers and leaves laid out in a crude picture.   

Then we noticed there were several of these pictures laid out on the grass. Some were of faces and people, others we had no idea what they were.

Most strange of all was an arrangement of 4 branches, 2 over 4 feet tall, 2 smaller bare ones.The 2 taller branches had leaves impaled on them.

 

 

It was all very strange.  Had we inadvertently found a ritual site or had some children just been playing around?

 



We made our way across the main road to St Mary Magdalene's church. This was described in The Sun and The Serpent as being dismal. It was anything but. It is true it has no stained glass windows and no gold leaf glitter, but it is open, light and airy with a truly peaceful atmosphere. The church yard is also tranquil, with lovely views and two very impressive yew trees.

 

 

 

 

 

We dowsed inside the church and found the usual east/west energy line and going diagonally through the church we found the Mary line. It came in through one window and out of another window diagonally opposite following a footpath through the churchyard. We dowsed outside and found the Mary leyline resonated to yellow and was so wide it encompassed the entire width of the church. What was so intriguing is that in the tree cathedral the energies were weak but in this church and churchyard they were so strong. We were wondering if atmosphere has a bearing on the energies eg. Dark and dank in cathedral, warm and sunny in church.

Please email me at sianlake@onetel.com if you want to see more of the leaf and stone pictures we found in the tree cathedral.

Hulcott

In the book The Sun and the Serpent, it mentions that the MM line runs through the tiny church in the tiny hamlet of Hulcott so we thought we would take a look.

The weather wasn’t so good; it was spitting and showery, overcast and cloudy. But that didn’t matter as All Saints, Hulcott is set in a very picturesque setting on the village green. In fact, it is one of the prettiest churches we have seen in our dowsing travels.

We found a very wide, strong, leyline, running east to west, which ran the complete width of the church. Rather interestingly, when we dowsed against the colour chart, I picked up yellow (Mary) and Jackie red (Michael). Whatever the reason for this, and we rarely differ on our findings, it confirms that this church is definitely part of the MM line

Edlesborough

On the same beautiful spring day as we visited Billington church (see blog post dated 17th May 2010) we also went to St Mary the Virgin Church at Edlesborough. It is a beautiful church, set up high on a hill and with yet another panoramic view over Dunstable Downs and Ivinghoe Beacon.

As we looked out over Ivinghoe Beacon we could see an old footpath going straight from the side of the church to the top of the Beacon, but the authorities have built a electricity pylon right on this path. (See 1st pic above) This raises the question – does this lower the energies on the leyline and did someone “in the know” do this deliberately? Anyone who has read the book “PowerPoints” by Robin Heath might be suspicious! Whatever the reason, it really spoils the view, unfortunately.

Back to the dowsing. We found 2 leylines, one going east to west, which is the normal one we find in a church and the other South West to North East and is direct line with the Beacon. The latter resonated mostly yellow, on our colour chart, with a lot of blue and Jackie also picked up a bit of red. Yellow and red being MM line and blue is our local leyline which we found at Grove and Billington. So these places are all connected.

We also found a narrow leyline going down the side of the church, which resonated gray on our colour chart and is particular to that church but has no bearing on our research, but is still of interest if you wanted to dowse there yourselves.

Standing in the grounds looking towards Billington which we had visited earlier in the day, it is interesting to note that Leighton Buzzard’s spire is right behind it although hidden. This is extremely interesting because this means that you could draw a straight line through all 3 churches. Fascinating.

A couple of observations: Although we found 2 main leylines here the energies at this church are nowhere near as strong as at Billington and the lines were stranded today. Perhaps, as it was a really warm day, the lines metaphorically took off their winter coats and spread themselves out to sunbathe in the warmth! Perhaps when it is cold, the strands huddle together to keep warm! A whimsical thought, but we feel it needs more research all the same. We intend to keep a weather/stranding note in future.

Billington

It was a lovely sunny day when we arrived at St. Michaels Church, Billington. Please see pics at top of post We first of all stopped to look at the stunning view by the gate overlooking the valley and towards Grove.

Please see the movie above to get an idea of what it looked like.

In the far distance you can make out the spire of

All Saints Church in Leighton Buzzard

and the

lock-keepers cottage at Grove.

We moved into the churchyard and started to dowse by the east-west end of the church looking towards Grove, where we picked up a leyline, which was stranded at the edges, but the main bulk of it was the exact width of the church. We dowsed the line to the colour chart independently of each other and we both found the line resonated to blue and yellow. We were really pleased because that meant it was definitely connected to the ‘blue’ leyline we had found at Grove (please see blog dated May 1st 2010) – and also proving they were both part of the Mary (MM) line. This leyline also physically pointed towards Grove.

We moved to the main church door overlooking Dunstable Downs and our rods pointed exactly straight to Ivinghoe Beacon which is the main Michael Mary line.

Our conclusions: Billington Church is connected directly to Ivinghoe and Grove. So, we have a local leyline which resonates to blue and we think it is a tributary coming off the MM line (yellow) and paying us a visit from Ivinghoe Beacon.