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.

2nd Visit to Grove

On Monday 19 April we once again set out to dowse the area around Grove. Although it was slightly hazy from the Icelandic Volcano ash cloud, the sun was getting through and we felt warm as we walked along the canal path. We climbed over the stile and went across the field, full of sheep with their lambs and it really felt like spring at last!

We crossed the footbridge and were soon on the site of the old monastery fish ponds. We had been here before (please see entry 1st July 2008 for the details). We both felt our chests tighten as the energies of the area flowed around us. We dowsed for ley lines and picked up three but only two were important. We were interested in finding out if we were near a node point. Unfortunately, because this field is enclosed with fencing and barbed wire, we were unable to follow the main leyline directly, instead, guided by our rods, followed a marked path across the field, over another very small bridge, continued along the path about 200yds and came out by the quarry.

Last year this ground had been churned up by the heavy plant vehicles and was very muddy but today it was now dry and covered with the seedy heads of coltsfoot and other ground plants and a Skylark was singing above us, and, to make it perfect, ahead of us was our beautiful old Oak tree. It was lovely to see it again and we were very pleased when we discovered that Jackie’s crystal offering that we had made last year was still there. Although old and many branches now dead there were still signs of this year's new growth.

The energies in this area are, literally, breathtaking. Reading the history of Grove (Jackie’s specialist subject!) this area was well known for its meeting point of several ley lines. These 'node' points hold the energies of all the crossing ley lines. Sian did a “helicopter” dowsing and the rods pointed to Ivinghoe Beacon, Billington Church, St Michael’s Church Grove and All Saints’ Church. We again picked up our two major ley lines. One ran across from All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon and resonated to the colour Yellow; the other ran from Billington Church to St Michaels Church at Grove and resonated to blue. The latter possibly went on to the tree circle (See our entry dated 5th Nov 2008). Jackie was rather disappointed to find that the All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon resonated to yellow as this signified it was part of the Mary Line as she felt this was part of the St Michael Line, as this has resonated to Red in the past. (But do the ley lines resonant with different colours on different days depending on weather, strength of the energy etc. Something we may need to check each time we go dowsing.) We felt this meeting point (node point might have been very near the site of the old hamlet of Grovebury and Grovebury Priory.

Sian took a panoramic photo from where we stood.She started facing the magnificent spire of All Saints, in Leighton. She moved around across thenew buildings of the housing estates and up to Billington, where we could see St Michaels Church on the top of the hill. Then on to see the outline of the Downs in the distance, on to the Beacon, with the tower of St Mary's Church at Edlesborough in the fore ground. Then round to St Michael's church Grove and in the distance Wing Hill, then back to All Saints. The hills surrounded us and we were standing in the flat valley bottom that covers several miles. The ancient energies of Ivinghoe Beacon seem to sweep down and wash the whole area. What a special area this is, and we wondered what the magnificent oak tree had seen over the years. Perhaps Nuns and monks had sat under its branches.

We plan to visit Billington, Edlesborough, Ivinghoe, Stanbridge, Tilsworth and Eggington churches to see if the blue leyline and also the other we picked up flow through them and confirm what we had found today. We were now starting to feel hungry and decided to go back for lunch. This however was delayed as Sian, AGAIN, lost her rods (again please see entry for 5th November 2008). Rather wearily, we made our way back to the oak tree, and Jackie's rods once again came to the rescue and found Sian’s rods on the ground. I do wish she would look after her things!! Sian here – I’m soo sorry Jackie – What a complete idiot I am. But at least it shows how utterly brilliant you are finding lost things with your dowsers. Is that enough grovelling?!!!

2nd Visit to Dunstable Priory

Our second visit was quite different. We wanted to follow the leyline through the grounds and to photograph things we missed last time. (And to buy some brochures which we were too mean to pay for last time!) We also wanted to check once and for all our result as to whether it was a Mary or Michael line. We also wanted to check further the two modern (1972) interesting stained glass windows over the west door.

To our surprise the atmosphere was much lighter on this visit. There had obviously been a wedding because there were beautiful flowers everywhere. Had these two things had an effect on the energies in the church? This is an interesting thought. Can we change vibrations with emotions? Does happiness affect the leys? Can such a simple thing as flowers raise vibrations? All interesting questions.

The 1972 stained glass west windows showed two figures. The man in the red window is King Henry I who founded the Priory. We were most amused to see that he was sitting directly on top of an Eleanor Cross (his wife). this must be most uncomfortable!!! The 'H' on the yellow window no doubt stands for Henry but we have no idea about the 'C'. Could Thomas Cranmer be the man carrying his head? He annulled Henry VIII’s marriage at Dunstable but later he lost favour and was executed. Just a thought.

We read the brochure about the stained glass window, and we were amazed to find the red window has green lines behind Henry representing the crossing of the Icknield Way and Watling Street. (You can just see it at the bottom of the window in pic above). This, of course, is the path of the MM line. Amazing to think that leylines are represented in a church. Perhaps proof that they exert some sort of pull or energy even if you are not aware of it.

Checking the leyline again, it was very strong going up the centre aisle again, but was stranded at the edges, particularly near the altar.
　
We made our way outside to explore the grounds. By the East end of the church we found the leyline to be even wider than inside. It seemed to stretch the whole width of the church and was again very stranded. However, the energies seemed exceedingly strong and we both felt tightness in our chests, A sign we both feel when energies are strong. Jackie then made an amazing discovery that in fact the leyline encompassed most of the grounds behind the church. Later on that day looking at a map, much to our amazement (and we certainly didn’t know it at the time,) we found the Icknield Way actually runs along through the grounds and along the side of the church. We high fived!

Returning to the front west door we dowsed the line and followed it through the archway leading to the priory grounds and it made a right turn to Priory House (see pic). Priory House (for those that are interested in symbology it is interesting to note that it is No 33!) was a travellers resting inn right on the crossroads of Icknield Way and Watling Street. Yes – them again. It is worth a visit to see the beautiful stone vaulted ceilings, Then the line went across Watling Street and up the side of the Methodist church. This path leads directly to Friars Field. We will pick the leyline up next time.
　

Dunstable First Visit

Dunstable First Visit

Our apologies for not posting for a while. This is mostly due to the awful snowy weather we have been having. We haven’t been idle though. We have been researching and also taking orb photos. Please watch this space as we are working towards an orb website and we are even hoping to offer photos and cards for sale. Here is a sneak preview of one or rather two.
We have decided to take our dowsing a bit further afield and paid a couple of visits in January, (in the extreme cold and sleet) to Dunstable, mostly to the church there called Dunstable Priory.
We had read in the Sun and the Serpent that the famous Michael and Mary leyline runs through the main door of Dunstable Priory, so thought we would dowse it ourselves and see what we thought. The Priory has a very wide West door with multiple arches. The carvings have eroded away so we were unable to establish whether were any anomalous sculptures of gargoyles and skulls such as Leighton Buzzard or Notre Dame in Paris. There weren’t any gargoyles at all on the entire building as far as we could see. On our first we found the inside to be dark and gloomy. It didn’t seem to have nice vibrations. This is probably due to its history and the original front door, with its bullet marks from when the Royalists attacked the Priory in 1644, is testimony to this. Those of you who are interested I am sure you can find further information on the Internet.

Back to the dowsing. We dowsed inside the church and we both found there was a definite leyline going East to West, and out through the church through the main west gate and through the altar. We both, separately, found the leyline to be very wide and was the width of the archway, not just the door. Jackie found a faint one going North to South by the choir stalls but Sian couldn’t pick that up at all. We checked this wide, strong energy line against our colour vibration chart, again separately, and we both dowsed it as yellow, which means it was a Mary line. This was not what we were expecting as The Sun and the Serpent Book says the priory was built on a Michael line! I’m afraid we beg to differ at this point.

Prebendal House

We set out to dowse All Saints churchyard to pick up the St Michael and St Mary (MM) line from our last visit and follow it into town. But as were walking to the church, something ‘called’ to us for no good reason and we suddenly found ourselves walking along Judge’s Lane instead! Well, okay then, lets go with the flow.

We came to the end where the gate leads into The Cedars School and we couldn’t help noticing two extremely tall, elegant gate pillars which Jackie mused might have belonged to the Prebendal House which had been knocked down a long time ago. We walked back along Judges Lane and noticed an old ivy-covered wall in the car park behind the beautiful Georgian offices. We dowsed and it was confirmed that it was part of the wall to the aforementioned Prebendal House. Ah Ha! Perhaps this was what we were meant to do instead.

Jackie said that Prebendal House had had a terraced Pleasure Garden and Sian vaguely remembered that the grounds belonging to Pulford School, behind the church, might have been terraced. We walked to the gate leading into the grounds, and sure enough there were definite terraces adjoining the boundary with the churchyard. So, next stop, to actually go inside the churchyard, where we followed the boundary wall above these terraces to the far corner. We looked over the wall to see a beautiful Cedar of Lebanon tree (see top) with box hedges and pathways round it. This must have been part of the Pleasure Gardens as well. We could just imagine ladies with full skirts and parasols strolling under the tree and along the paths and terraces.

Jackie dowsed to see if the Prebendal House had been part of the churchyard and yes, it had been. We were staggered to see the size of the gardens which seemed to stretch right down to the river, along past the church, and right up to Riverside.

We thought we had finished with Prebendal House and so decided to carry on with what we first came here to do; namely the MM line and we were able to pick the line up again very easily. It took us out of the churchyard through the front gate, past the Georgian Terrace and into (believe it or not) the Riverside car park! Riverside is by the Cedars School, which was built on the site of the Prebendal House. We now feel certain that the MM line runs through the gardens of the Prebendal House to the river.

And then, yet another of the amazing coincidences that the universe sends us, we met Ron, the site manager of Cedars school, who has extensive knowledge about the school, the grounds and its history. He knew about Prebendal House and told us that there is going to be an archaeology dig there shortly. He said that there was a temple, an ancient well and a dove house in the grounds and invited us to visit the grounds and dowse there. How exciting! We will most certainly take up his kind offer. Watch this blog!

All Saints Church

We have dowsed the churchyard before looking for the entrance to the underground tunnels without much success but we think we may have found where the victims of the plague were buried.

Each time we have been in the churchyard we have picked up extremely strong energies along the outer boundary wall path with Pulfords School. This path leads to a gate in the wall, which is locked. If you were able to walk this short, narrow tree lined path you would come to another locked gate, which comes out at the corner of Parsons Close. We came to the conclusion that this might be the private entrance for the Rothschild’s to come to church. (see previous blog for Leighton House).

Sian took photos of this path from both entrances and thought nothing of them until we looked at them on the computer. For some strange reason on the photo taken from the churchyard end the far gate had completely disappeared! Had we gone back in time to see this area as it was in Cistercian/Rothschild time???!!!! Of course, this might be fanciful thinking and that some may say it is burnout from sunlight, but please note that the sun is shining from the right and not straight ahead. This is an area that MUST be photographed for orbs.

While Sian was busy photographing, and she had forgotten her rods anyway (- that is usually Jackie's trick!), Jackie dowsed for leylines round the church. The normal East to West leyline was present, but interestingly there was a very strong wide leyline running through the church North to South. She was really taken aback and then without telling Sian what it was, she asked her to dowse round the church to see if she could find any leylines. And guess what! She found exactly the same wide strong leyline. Sian was compelled to ask if it was part of the MM line and the answer from the rods was "Yes". We need to investigate further as it seemed to flow in the direction of Grove and Ivinghoe Beacon, which is one of the most important points on the MM line.

Is this a Mary line, breaking off from the main Michael line to visit All Saints Church, which the Mary line often does? We are beginning to think that the MM line is all one flow but it seems to us, that the Mary line is like a tributary, visiting special sites, off the main river of Michael. Another intriguing thought is - does she continue on to St. Mary’s church and the Holy Well at Old Linslade?