The Journey Begins

In the Dec ‘94 Fountain magazine was an article written by Rosemary Barry called Fields of Vision. She said that if the pattern of the 1991 Barbary Castle crop formation was overlaid on a map of southern England and adjusted for size it corresponded with some im­portant sacred sites centred on Avebury. That particular crop pattern had always had a profound effect on me whenever I saw it, al­most like I recognised it on some subcon­scious energetic level. My work with Earth energies had led me to be living in Avebury at that time and Rosema­ry’s concept set all the bells ringing within me. A long phone call to her that evening set up a meeting at Silbury Hill which became the start of a year’s work for a group of us work­ing with this energetic pattern at key power places on the land. We felt moved to visit all the key locations iden­tified by this overlaying of the pattern on the landscape and to meditate at the sites and ground Light and Love energy at each place. By visiting each place in the landscape in this way we would create this pattern in the energy grid of England and fix it there by the placement of attuned crystals.

Spiritual Work

To be honest we didn’t really know why we felt we should do this, we didn’t know what we would be achieving except that because of our intent we would be doing no harm. Our strong intuitive response to the pattern and the idea of doing this work felt like clear spiritual guidance which we needed to follow in trust without hav­ing a logical explanation for our ac­tions. Some would call this gullible folly, others a dedicated and committed response to directly received spiritual guidance.

When we overlaid the formation on a map we placed the centre of the bottom left circle over Glastonbury and the centre of the top circular pattern over the Rollright Stones (near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds) as our two known points (a distance of approximately seventy five miles). We found that this led to the bottom right corner of the triangle being directly over Winchester and the ratchet spiral design overlying the Meon valley. The centre of the whole pattern, which is a circle of approximately fifteen miles diameter appeared to be the Avebury landscape temple. Many other well known ancient and sacred sites fall not only within the borders of this pattern but actually are marked out by the lines and intersection points.

Some of these are:­ Meon Hill, St. Catherines Hill, Butser Hill, Uffington White Horse, Wayland’s Smithy, Old Sarum, Stonehenge, Woodhenge, and Cadbury Castle, not to mention old towns like Bath, Salisbury, Devizes and Warminster.

Discoveries

The story of our work at each site would take more space than is available here so I will recount just a few examples and summarise the important points which came out of the work. Firstly it is necessary to mention the numerous syn­chronicities which accompanied our every visit. One very noticeable one was that for our first three visits, even though different people and different numbers of people turned up, and we never knew beforehand who would, there was always an equal number of men and women at the time of conducting our meditation. On our first visit to Silbury Hill there was an equal number of men and women, but one man felt ill in the midsummer sun and stayed in the shade of the car park. As we set up our meditation circle on the top of Silbury another man turned up to join us. When we visited the Rollrights on a cold February morning we started our meditation standing in a circle within the centre of the stone circle with one less man than women. As we finished the meditation and opened our eyes we saw a complete stranger, a man, had joined us and was standing with his hands open and facing the rest of the group to connect with the joint energy. On our visit to Winchester there was one more female than male who after meeting up with us initially got lost moving her car and we never saw her again!

We felt that when such things happened it was an indication that Spirit was working with us and that it was important to pay attention to what we were being shown. It became apparent that an equal sexual balance was required and that our spirit guides were making sure it happened. You will see further on in this story how the lesson of female/male balance was shown to us again and again.

Lost Stone Circles

On our initial visit to Winchester we were joined by an Australian woman who was travelling the world, without any money, grounding Light and Spiritual energy as she went. She said that there had been three stone circles where Winchester now stands, the largest of which was on the land occupied for the last one thousand years by the cathedral. This is highly likely as it is well known that the early Christian church was in the habit of placing its churches on venerated Pagan sites in order to suppress the ‘old beliefs’ and gain a captive congrega­tion. It is also more than likely because stone circles were always located on Earth energy power spots and a visit down into the crypts of the cathedral will leave you in no doubt that there are very strong currents of telluric force coursing through the earth at this point.

The other two circles, a Fire Circle and a Water Circle (she channelled) were somewhere associated with baths and water. The new Brooks shopping centre seemed a likely candidate as its name implies, and we knew that recent excavations for the foundations had revealed remains of Roman buildings which may well have included baths close to the water supply (the brook). The Romans were renowned for their love of bathing and obsession with cleanliness. As we headed across the town dowsing the energy currents we were led through the Abbey Gardens Park by the statue of King Alfred. There, almost hidden away in a corner by a stream, we came across three sarson stones. Sarson stone is not na­tive to Winchester area and was often used as the stone of choice by the stone circle builders. A little plaque in­formed us that they had been taken out of the foundations of St. Ruel’s church when it was demolished in the 1950s and the street name was given.

Unlikely Sacred Sites

Spurred on in our quest by this physical evidence and hot on the trail of the stone circles we were somewhat gobs­macked to find that the old site of St. Ruel’s church is now occupied by a modern building housing of all things McDonalds! Well, it’s one way to get youngsters to power spots I suppose. However, stand outside the front door and look across the street and there is the Brooks shopping centre twenty yards away. It seemed to us extremely probable that when St. Ruel’s was built in medieval times any stone circles would have been long since abandoned relics ideal as a quarry site for large stones for the new church foundations.

Excitedly scurrying across the busy road, half in the twentieth century and half in the third millenium BCE, we tracked the energy currents through tables of shoppers taking tea in a café area and down into the basement. We were led through the car park and into a service passageway where we found the energy imprint of one of the circles. The energy was awful. I experienced pains in my head and arms and a feeling of nausea in my solar plexus; others in the group felt similarly. Interestingly, as if in warning, there was a red line painted along the middle of the floor. Above our heads hung heating ducts, water pipes and electric cabling. This, added to the damage done to the natural energy flows by such deep excavations, had created an energetic nightmare. To think that this place had once been a revered place of spirituality standing by the banks of a beautiful babbling brook. The thought taxed the imagination to the limit and brought up a great sense of sadness for the harm we have inflicted on Gaia. We determined that we ought to try and improve matters, which we did through utilising healing techniques and our intent. We then went in search of the other circle which we found right by the door to the glass-sided This place. in contrast felt great, energetic but not chaotic disrupted energy; no, in fact it felt healing and in need of no assistance from us. It seemed sad though that it was in a deserted concrete basement.

All Change

What a surprise greeted us some months later when a couple of us returned to check it out. The Fire Circle in the service passageway was now out of bounds behind an alarmed door on which a sign declared “Fire Door”! We know it was alarmed because as we opened it the alarm bells rang thunderously throughout the cavernous concrete car park and a security guard came running suspecting that we were terrorist bombers. Unconsciously, the ‘authorities’ knew that the public needed to be kept away from this disrupted energy spot.

In stark contrast the Water Circle was now beautifully celebrated by a tiled floor mosaic containing images of fish, chalices and waves! It seemed also that a link had been made to the best of the Fire Circle energy by the use of a red and yellow flame pattern and a representation of the sun in the design which had been created by local primary school children under the age of 8! The basement had now been converted into ‘The Brooks Experience’ a tourist exhibition of life in Winchester in bygone times. Every visitor unknowingly steps into the past through this energetic and healing hot spot as they enter.