After several weeks of inactivity (due to the stronger pull of other duties), the Wilmington Project got a shot in the arm this past week. I’d been vowing to “learn something about dowsing or find someone who knows how or . . .” Given the lack of resolution of this thought, imagine my relief to discover that the universe was taking action on this for me. Behold! — at the Pagan Spirit Gathering in Ohio that we’d long been planning to attend, there would be a class on Dowsing and Geomancy.
At the gathering (this past week), I marked my schedule carefully to make sure that no volunteer duties, etc. would interfere with the class time. As the time approached, word went around that a major storm with 60 MPH winds and big hail was headed our way. Ugrh. We battened down the camp as best we could and I set off for “The Yurt” where the class was to be held. (the storm never materialized, BTW. I suspect strong weather magick 😉
Kathleen and Breighton Dawe (see: [url]http://www.stonecirclealternatives.com[/url]) were the presenters for the class. Their enthusiasm for the subject was abundantly clear and, even the most jaded or skeptical among the attendees was caught up in their excitement by the end of the hour and a half. As you might imagine, there was far more material to be covered than the time permitted but the upshot is that I now have first-hand experience of dowsing (the little rods moved “by themselves” as I walked over the buried water pipe and I said “Holy EXPLETIVE!!”).
In addition to speaking about and demonstrating dowsing at a place where you are physically present, the Dawes spoke about map dowsing, the technique I was hoping to use to find most of the ley lines in Wilmington. In aid of this, I have purchased four copies of the folding map of the city and suggest that we distribute these to whomever wants to try their hand at finding the lines (it involves using a pendulum over the map — more to follow). After doing so, we’ll compare results and see where they converge and diverge from one another. When we’re confident that we’ve found at least one “real” line by the map dowsing technique, I’ll organize a trip to check it out in the field.