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Dowsing for Health

October 6, 2020

Definition: Dowsing is a technique used to search for underground water veins, fault lines, and other natural and artificial earth-based information.

photo credit: By Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1473743

Why Dowse?

The dowser’s intention is to determine if the land or structure being dowsed is healthy for living or working, and provide information to aid issue mitigation.

Dowsing Tools

Many people have experiences of seeing someone dousing. Some people use a forked branch of a tree with a water affinity, such as hazel, willow, ash, green peach, or rowan. The dowser holds the forked end with two hands, and the usual indicator is a downward movement by the extended long end. Pendulums (an object suspended on a cord) also are used; the dowser holds the pendulum as a fixed point and the indicators are movement to and from, and changes in direction.

Dowsing Rods can be used for finding water and fault lines. It is exciting when the rods in your hands turn, indicating their presence deep in the ground. The adventure is to search, find and mitigate. Rods are metal, and almost any metal works, even clothing hangers, but copper and brass are more finely tuned. One third of the length of the rod is folded at a 90o angle, and becomes the handle part of the rod. A loose bamboo or wooden sleeve around the metal handle can be added.

Why Dowsing Works

We are about 75% water, as is our earth. Beneath the surface of the earth water circulates everywhere, similar to blood in the human body. The dowser looks for water veins. Our bodies know when they walk across hidden water veins; the dowser’s throat may feel sore or thick.
Human bodies are created from and are part of the touchable material of the planet. At every moment we register and respond to our planet’s magnetism, rotations, and polarities. We live bathed in a natural electromagnetic field, and our bodies are participators in the energy fields that surround us. We can unconsciously ignore, or even actively repress, the information registered by our bodies. And, if we begin consciously to seek this information, our bodies provide it, and can inform us about the places where we are living and working.

Our bodies also register beneath the surface fault lines, which are slips and breakages in the strata of the earth. Faults are associated with fire. Dry faults have no water. Wet faults are particularly problematic. The experience of a wet fault is felt less in the lungs and more between the thyroid and the lungs, in the area by the collarbone.

How to Place the Rods for Dowsing

Hold the rods by the bamboo handles with the metal length extending in front of the body. Hold lightly, not in a choking grip. The dowser doesn’t turn the rods – the rods turn in the hands when the dowser crosses a water vein or fault.
With elbows bent and arms a body-width apart, hold the rods parallel to each other, and parallel to the ground.
For water veins, hold the rods slightly below your waist, near your bladder.
For fault lines, hold the rods near the lungs.

By Thomas Pennant – This image is available from the National Library of Wales, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46196771

Steps to Dowsing

Select the area you want to research. This might be open land, a property, or the

area around a structure (e.g. house, church, business, labyrinth). Note if there are any fences or other obstacles that prevent a simple circuit of the area. If so, plan how to access the information in the problem area.

Prepare your attitude. To be in tune with the energies of the place, your body, heart and mind need to be relaxed. Your mind might enter a meditative state, e.g., set aside distractive thoughts, cynicism, doubt, mistrust. Focus on what you are doing, either water or faults.
Rod placement: Go outside, and place the rods in the correct position for either water veins (bladder) or fault lines (lungs).
Say your intention aloud before beginning. Take deep breaths, and relax.
Walk around the perimeter of the chosen area at normal speed, holding the rods in position. Continue to relax and breathe evenly.
Observe the information the earth offers. The rods will indicate a water vein or fault line by moving strongly. It’s exciting when they give feedback – just breathe, relax. Water vein edges may feel cool, and the dowser experience a thickening in the throat or other indicators. Fault lines may feel warm, and the dowser experiences a reaction in the lungs.
Stop and mark the spot with pebbles, twigs, or pieces of cloth (lightweight so as not to change the energy reading). Select a different indicator for water veins than for faults.
Determine the width of the water vein or fault line by stepping forward until the rods move back to their original position. Mark both sides of the find.
Reset the intention and continue on at a normal pace, stopping to mark strong indications, and determining the width.
Return to the markers when you finish walking the perimeter. Having determined the two edges indicating the width, it is possible to trace length. Move a short distance away from the edge markings, and dowse again. Mark where the edges of the water vein or fault line are now. Repeat for whatever distance you desire to explore. It is also possible to determine the direction of flow (see below).

Remember to rest after searching for water veins before searching for fault lines.

If a group is dowsing, walk independently at a distance from each other. Compare when all have finished.

Finding Wells

Wells take special training. Begin by getting to know a nearby well – it’s depth, capacity, quality of the water, mineral content, who uses it, any contamination, etc. When well understood, locate a second well, then a third, and so on. When dowsing set an intention for wells, and seek definite water indications. Observe that the water doesn’t flow in a direction like a water vein does.

The earth has knowledge to give. When dowsing, a relationship forms as the dowser connects through the information being accessed to a specific place.

Maladies

There are waters that heal, like Holy Wells, and bring clarity and positive energy. There also are waters that bring disturbances to the body. Certain conditions in a place may create maladies for the living beings on or near it. Indicators form in a body living with a malady for a long time; for example, if a tree is near a fault line the trunk will bend away from it.

Human beings can develop illnesses related to living over water veins or fault lines.

The dowser’s knowledge includes how to mitigate the situation.

Mitigation

Generally, the plan is to mitigate the effect of any malady beneath a structure where people spend many hours or their days or nights. For example, a critical mitigation is the bedroom, especially where the bed is positioned. If the bed is over a water vein or fault, move it or change rooms.

When the structure is healed, the health of the people improves. It may be that the answer to the “Why?” question in forming your intention was “to find any malady and mitigate it” or “to create energetic conditions for the greatest health.”

Mitigation for Water Veins

After determining the edges of the water vein, the next task is to determine the direction of flow. Step into the center briefly, and ask the rods to point the way the water is flowing. Sometimes the body tips towards the direction naturally.

Mitigation can be as simple as planting a sizeable tree, or placing a very large rock on the

water vein before it enters the structure. The stone or tree redirects the energetic flow.

Potential Water Maladies:
The excess of adrenaline created by water veins can lead to heart diseases, weakness in the kidneys, rheumatism, hyperthyroid, rapid changes of mood, prostate or uterine problems, or dormant sexual glands.

Potential Fault Maladies:
Asthma, bronchitis, yeast infections, fungal problems, cancers, kidney, thymus and immune system problems. Manic depression can be related to a wet fault.

Mitigation for Fault Lines

There is one main process called vortex acupuncture: First, locate the strongest vortex point on each side of the fault line. Place an acupuncture stick in the center of the strongest vortex. Let the house settle a week. Check by dowsing again. Make the acupuncture stick permanent (e.g. dig in a plastic pipe and fill with cement).

General mitigation for structures:
One of the most critical mitigations for a structure is to be sure that the electricity is grounded. Check the main switch box, and see that there is a copper or other wire leading out of the structure and into the yard, hopefully attached to a grounding rod. If there is no grounding wire, the owners must install one immediately. If you do nothing more towards mitigation, do this.

Resources

Earth Alchemy: Aligning Your Home with Nature’s Energies. Parker, Anne and Susani, Dominique. This book is a primary resource.

Energetic Geometry (the site of the experts; questions answered!
Wikipedia on Dowsing (hunt around; lots of information here and there)
YouTube on Dowsing (a couple of the videos are quite funny)

By Lola Wilcox
https://lolawilcox.com

Earth Energies, Feet Chakras and Higher Consciousness

August 5, 2020

Can our feet be one of the beginning points for higher consciousness?

In this article, we will explore how our feet can be the starting point of spiritual development. There are clues in both Western and Eastern civilizations. For the Eastern civilizations, it is an easy leap because of their deep knowledge of chakras, meridians, and meditation. But in the West, the systems of chakras and meridians were not developed. But we have some clues.

Saint Michel en Grêve — St. Michael with his feet on the dragon in the Chapel of St. Michel-en-Grêve, France. It looks like he is impaling the dragon, but he is actually pinning it to the ground.

In churches across Europe dedicated to St Michael, there is a fascinating combination of earth energies that open the feet chakras and cleanse the energy system. It seems strange to think that in Catholic churches there can be such a thing. Especially since in Western civilization, including Western religions, we don’t traditionally explore chakras, let alone any energetic system equivalent to acupuncture, yoga, reiki, Tai Chi, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Fortunately, the Western world has become more open to these subjects in the last 20 or so years.

What does this have to do with feet chakras and earth energy?

Let’s look at the importance of the placement of Archangel Michael’s foot on top of the dragon. In the tradition of the European Master Builders, subterranean earth energies of water veins and geological faults are called the Vouivre energy of the earth. This Vouivre is depicted with horns and looks similar to a dragon. Churches and other sacred sites always use some type of earth energy to power the structure that has been built on the land. Subterranean faults and water veins are commonly used.

For a church to have earth energies that open the feet chakras is very surprising and, frankly, a strange concept to contemplate.

Most churches are dedicated to a specific saint or to Mary, and this person can be the focal point on the altar. In St. Michael churches, Archangel Michael is typically depicted standing with his foot or feet on top of a dragon or demon, with his sword held high in triumph or with the sword impaling the dragon through the mouth. According to the Christian church, he is victorious over the powers of Satan. However, if we look at this victory from the standpoint of personal development, he is a spiritual warrior in a war waged from within. He has cleansed and purified his body, mind, and spirit enough to be connected to the heavens above.

The sacred geometry design of the church is connected to the cosmos and needs the power of the earth to do its healing work. The imagery of St. Michael shows that he has controlled the dragon (fault) energy of the place and there is a reward for controlling this energy. The spiritual seeker can now benefit from the resulting purified and refined energies and use this in their quest of raising their vibration higher to reach a more enlightened state.

The Altar of Arcángel Miguel de Celada del Camino — The altar of the Church of Arcángel Miguel de Celada del Camino.

The earth energies found in most St. Michael churches are very specific types.

The main feature is a yellow fault with a water vein flowing over the top of it. For St. Michael churches this crossing is usually found at the altar, the main energetic point in churches. This characteristic combination of earth energies can also be found in other churches dedicated to different saints, but not at the altar. In these churches the St. Michael point can often be found in front of a side chapel that is dedicated to Archangel Michael.

This particular combination of energies is fantastic and is characterized by the primary quality of rising energy emanating from the fault. This energy travels upward through the earth until it reaches a water vein. The magic begins as energetic steam is formed from the hot bubbling fault and the water energy. This energetic steam is unique and has the possibility of cleansing the body and its energy systems.

First, it opens the feet chakras.

This can feel like little tickles on the bottom of the feet. Then the steam rises up the legs, opening and cleaning the meridians along the route. It reaches the perineum and moves up the central channel (imagine a small tube from the perineum to the crown) and then connects to the heavens. This typical St. Michael energy is golden yellow in color and cleanses the meridians and chakra system, is grounding, and connects you to the heavens.

It’s too bad most people don’t know about this energy because it can be used to raise your vibration and clean your energy system, which allows a fuller connection to your own spirituality. It’s either a secret or, more likely, this knowledge has been forgotten in the mists of time.

One of the St Michaels at St Michel en Grêve — One of the statues of St Michael at St Michel en Grêve, France.

Interestingly enough, this characteristic type of St. Michael energy is found in the East under the name of the ‘Bubbling Spring’.

It is an acupuncture point on the bottom of your feet from where the water energies of your body bubble up like a spring and circulate throughout your body. Like a spring on the earth, it is renewing, revitalizing, reinvigorating, and fresh. This Bubbling Spring point is a major energy vortex—also known, in this case, as a foot chakra—and it cleanses the waters of the body and revitalizes the mind, body, and spirit. This point is the same place where you can feel the tickles at the bottom of your feet when standing on a St. Michael point, and it reacts in similar ways.

The Bubbling Spring is an essential point in Traditional Chinese Medicine, called Yong Guan, the Kidney 1 point, and is the first acupuncture point on the Kidney meridian. The kidney meridian can be thought of as a passageway for energy to rise up from the earth, up our inner legs, through our reproductive, digestive, and urinary organs, ending at the lungs and heart. In qigong, Kidney 1 is significant as well. Because it is the lowest yin point of the body to touch the earth, it activates energy flow through the body. One way to use this point and energy flow is to visualize roots growing deep into the ground and receiving the healing energy from the earth.

Where is this spot?

It is on the bottom of the foot about 1/3 of the way down from the base of the second toe. Looking at the bottom of the foot and with the toes curled, there is a slight depression between the 2nd and 3rd metatarsals – that is the point.

Let’s explore in more depth exactly what this point does. The kidneys are essential for the health of our bodies. One of the well-known uses of Kidney 1 is to drain the excess energy from the upper part of the body, especially the head. As we know, sometimes we have too many thoughts going through our heads, especially at night. The Bubbling Spring point is very useful in dispersing this excess energy and helping with insomnia. A simple way to do this is to take a warm foot bath and then massage Kidney 1 for a couple minutes before going to bed.

This lowest point on our body seems to be very important to our health.

It calms our mind, revitalizes the body, and soothes the soul. It is said that when this point is open, the person radiates love freely. This is another clue that the feet are the beginning point of expanded spirituality.

If you look at Eastern traditions, you will notice the importance that Buddhists place on this chakra. Stone carvings of Buddha’s footprints are found all over Asia, and as you can see in the illustration, a Dharmachakra (an eight-spoked wheel representing the 8-fold path) is placed on the Bubbling Spring point. Could this be a clue to the priority the Buddhists placed on the life-enhancing qualities of Kidney 1? If this kidney meridian is kept in excellent condition, you have more energy, health, and ability to turn your mind to more spiritual pursuits.

The Bubbling Spring point is easily accessible to all of us and there are different ways to use it.

Since it is an acupuncture and acupressure point, you can use pressure on the point to help sleep and to open and balance the Kidney 1 meridian. You can also meditate with the intention of growing roots into the earth and then receive beneficial energy from below. Consciously walking on the earth while feeling the connection between this lowest point on your body and the earth is a great exercise to activate it.

Arcángel Miguel over the door at Arcángel Miguel de Celada del Camino, Spain.
When you stand below him, you can feel the characteristic St. Michael point energy bubbling up

Enjoying the St. Michael energy in churches can be more of a challenge. Although you will find his churches all over Europe, many times, the ability to go to the altar is forbidden. But there are some churches that allow this. Most churches have side chapels, and sometimes there is one dedicated to St. Michael. If this is the case, stand in front of the statue and see after a few minutes if you can feel a tickling at the bottom of your feet. Stay on this point as long as you like, and the energy will continue rising up your legs, through your central channel, and then out the top of your head to connect with the cosmos.

Have fun playing with this point.

Maybe you will sleep better or feel a deeper connection to the earth. Or perhaps it will help you revitalize your mind, body, and soul. And if you are lucky enough to find a St. Michael church, treat it like a treasure hunt. You never know what exactly you will find there and sometimes you will find gold—or in this case, the golden bubbling point of St. Michael.

By Karen Crowley-Susani
First published in Star Nations Magazine June 2018

Dolmens and Earth Energies

July 23, 2020

Immense megalithic structures called dolmens have captured the imagination of man for ages.

They inspire a sense of awe and wonder and are puzzling. Why were they built, and how were they used? How on earth did humans move such big stones?

Dolmens are found all over the world and come in many shapes and sizes.

Strangely enough for people in the West, Korea has the highest concentration of dolmens in the world! In Brittany, France, where Dominique and I live, there are many of these megaliths to explore. Some are dolmens can be small with just one room, and others are just a long passageway, and some have a long corridor and a room-like space at the end. The French use the words ‘Alleé Couverte’ to describe the stone covered passageways. In English, they are called passage tombs.

There are a lot of misconceptions about these ancient structures because of the label, tomb.

Most people assume that they are graves. I don’t support this belief at all. During my exploration of many megalithic sites, including dolmens and passage tombs in France, Spain, England, Ireland, I have concluded, they were not initially used as graves. Their energetic qualities are different from a place where the dead are buried.

The alleé couverte of La Roche aux Feés, France.

To gain a little understanding, let’s look at an example of a dolmen in Brittany, France, called La Roche aux Fées. It is the largest and most famous Neolithic alleé couverte in Brittany, dating back to around 3000 to 2500 BC. Made up of approximately 40 huge stones, the heaviest one weighs about 45 tons.

The name La Roche aux Fées translates to The Fairies Rock.

Legend has it that fairies built the structure because no one understood how mere humans could place such immense stones. Many folktales are connected to megalithic sites in Europe involve giants, gnomes, witches, and fairies. For example, the Germans believed that covered passageways were beds for the giants and called them ‘hunnenbett.’ In Russia’s Caucasus region, stories are told about how the gnomes by trickery made the giants build dolmen houses for them.

Dolmens, alleé couvertes, and passage tombs were built with care and attention to their orientation and placement on the land.

Not many people recognize the skill and precision the builders used in their constructions in regards to the solar rhythms and earth energies. One important aspect of this is orientation. Ancient man was obsessed with the sun and its travels through the year. They would orient the dolmen to one of the four most critical solar times of the year: winter or summer solstices or equinoxes. Our example of La Roche aux Feés is oriented to catch the light of the winter solstice sunrise.

Another aspect of Neolithic man’s skill is their ability to find and use powerful earth energies, and dolmens are no exception.

Usually, these energies are subterranean water veins or faults, or a combination of both. As you can see in the drawing of La Roche aux Feés, the orthostats were placed on the central water vein’s edges. Locating and using a water vein in this manner is typical for all dolmens, covered passageways, and passage tombs. As you can see, other water veins cross the main one and create vortexes of healing energy. The megalithic builders understood and used the best of these energies in their structures.

To discover what earth energies are present at a sacred site, Dominique and I use our bodies as dowsing instruments, mostly just like the shamans of ancient times did. Our bodies are incredibly sensitive to subtle energies and, once trained, can quickly pinpoint the exact earth energies present, such as water veins, faults and earth vortexes. For example, water veins can be felt in the water area of the body, such as the kidneys and bladder.

La Roche aux Fées, it turns out, is a potent fertility site.

The big water vein that runs the stones’ length is fertility water and lends this energy to the entire structure. To understand this better, you can imagine water flowing inside the earth like rivers. Each of these rivers has different qualities. Some water veins are healing; some can make you sick; others are connected to fertility, etc.

For example, there are hundreds of holy wells in Ireland and Brittany. They date back to pre-Christian times, and many are famous for the ability to heal diseases. There are sacred wells for eyesight, headaches, backaches, wounds, sprains, and fertility issues, to name a few. The point is that water can be a very powerful healing modality, and there are many different types of water.

Earth energy vortexes, found everywhere, are associated with the water veins and faults.

If you are gifted with ‘sight’ and can see them, you will see swirling vortexes of colors related to our chakra system. In sacred places, these vortexes are more potent and can be healing. They help open, balance, and align the chakra system. For example, at La Roche aux Feés, the violet vortex opens and aligns the entire chakra system. The orange one relates to the second chakra and fertility. It feels warm, soft, and juicy and has a distinctive sexy vibe.

When megalithic sites are explored from the standpoint of their energetic qualities, you realize that they are not tombs, but places of life and healing for the whole community. They were sacred places of ritual. Next time you come across a dolmen or other megalithic site, experiment and see if you can feel their healing qualities.

To feel the powerful healing energy in a dolmen,

stand in the back where you can imagine or, better yet, feel the crossing of two water veins. Spend a few minutes standing on this point, allowing the energy to rise through your central channel. Be in a neutral mind state and receptive to sense where you feel the energies in your body. By doing this exercise, you can receive clues about the healing qualities of the place.

By Karen Crowley-Susani
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The Sacred Legacy of the Ancient World

March 30, 2020

Many of the places we call sacred have their roots in the distant past.

These long-forgotten cultures who left traces of their existence on the earth. We discover them in stone structures all over the world, often they can be found incorporated in modern-day sacred places, and we frequently uncover them in local folklore.

Looking closely, we can detect several different types of sacred places.

A holy site can be a natural location. For example, Ayer’s Rock, called Uluru, is located in central Australia. This stone has been sacred to the Aboriginal people for an estimated 40,000 years.

Other examples of natural sites are ancient trees, such as oak trees, beloved by the Druids. Springs with crystal clear water bubbling from the earth and having healing powers. Then there are unusual stones in the environment that are regarded as extraordinary by the locals.

Buildings and structures are frequently built over a holy place. For example, a miraculous well can have a structure built over and around it. Or a church could be situated on top of a sacred mountain, next to a holy well or placed on top other powerful earth energies.

What qualities could a sacred site have?

In my tradition of the European Master Builders, these types of places known by Shamans have specific energetic healing attributes. These qualities were used to increase the health and well-being of the people and the abundance of surrounding land.

The elements that make up a sacred place come in the form of earth energies; subterranean water veins and faults, and vortexes of energy coming from the earth or cosmos. In the distant past, ancient people were able to sense these elements, used them, and even strengthen their healing qualities.

One obvious example is a spring.

Water can have many different healing qualities. You can find fertility water, or springs, for men and women. You can find miraculous water for healing the eyes, and a whole host of other ailments. These healing waters travel underground but can be perceived at the surface by sensitive or receptive people.

When structures are built over a water vein, the energetic healing powers of the waters are strengthened. Miraculous waters were among the first sacred places recognized and are part of the legacy left behind from ancient cultures who identified them and used them.

One super example of this is the Menhir of Kerloas in Brittany.

Erected over a fertility water vein, there are two carved bumps on either side of the menhir. One is for men and the other for women. The fertility cult still continues today for newlyweds. The happily married couple will visit the menhir on their wedding night and rub their naked bellies on the two stone bumps to ensure the conception of a child.

Menhir de Kerloas, Brittany — Menhir of Kerloas, Brittany

There is another legacy of standing stones, and it is fertility or abundance for the crops. There are stories of farmers who love having them in their fields because they know their plants grow better when there is a standing stone. It is common knowledge in the countryside of France that farmers who removed the standing stones were filled with regret after the stones were gone because their crops suffered.

Stones can be part of the landscape and have miraculous tales of their powers.

These unique stones can even have seats or more prolonged depressions that look like a bathtub carved in them. Many of these stones were the objects of fertility cults in the past.

An example of this is found in an important pilgrimage in Brittany called the Grande Troménie. On the path, there is a stone called the Chair of St. Ronan. The folk tales surrounding it are about fertility. Women who want a baby come to lie down on the big rock in hopes of conceiving a child.

Additionally, there is a seat carved into the side. I witnessed the legacy of this stone while walking on the pilgrimage path this past July. There was a woman who had just spent two hours on the St Ronan’s Chair! And as I sat on the stone, people passing by told me to be careful, I might get pregnant!

Another use of the sacred legacy left to us by ancient cultures is reusing the holy place.

Many cultures did this. One reason was that they were conquerors and wanted to show their power over the vanquished. The Romans were famous for taking the sacred sites of the conquered. They changed the names of the gods and goddesses and replaced them with their own.

A couple of examples of this type of sacred legacy was by the Spanish.

During their conquest of the Aztecs, they consolidated their power by building a church on one of the holiest places; the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan. Stones were used from the temple of Huitzilopochtli, the main deity of the Aztecs, in building the new church.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Spanish built San Miguel Church over an ancient kiva of the Analco Indians. The apse, the holiest part of the church, is placed directly on top of this structure. The Spanish recognized the sacred power of place and inputted their information into the area, via the kiva.

The Christians were not an invading force, but they repurposed the sacred healing energies of places for their own.

One reason was to encourage the pagan populations to worship their God. In Brittany, many stones and menhirs were either broken, removed, repurposed, or Christianized because of the fear of pagan worship.

Sometimes the healing and sacred energy was so strong, it was destroyed completely by the invaders. Two such examples can be found in the village of Le Vieux-Marché in Brittany. The little village had been full of megaliths.

Now only one dolmen remains and was incorporated into the design of the church. When you walk inside of it, the sacred energetic qualities of the dolmen were recognized and used. The statues on the wall above the dolmen correspond with points of specific healing energy.

Then in the same little town, there are a couple of crosses standing that were once menhirs. These crosses have surprisingly strong healing energy, which is the big clue that a menhir once stood in their stead. One cross has incredible lung healing energy, and the other balances the entire energetic system.

An example of Christianization can be found with the menhir of St. Uzec, Brittany.

Here the Christians went crazy with carving the stations of the cross on the stone, placing a stone cross on top and even painting a huge Christ on the front side of the menhir.

Christian painting on the Menhir of St Uzec — St Uzec Menhir from the past

Menhir of St Uzec today — St Uzec Menhir today

As we can see, the legacy of sacred places left behind by ancient cultures is still alive.

Sometimes the original structure remains, and sometimes it is morphed into something that fits into the culture that now occupies the land. But what is important is the sacred energy remains for us to explore and enjoy.

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The menhir of Kergornec and earth acupunture

Earth Acupuncture

March 30, 2020

Earth acupuncture is an ancient technique to harmonize the energies of the Earth.

It was used to create beneficial life-force energy for homes and other sacred spaces. In some countries such as China and India, it was used to control the “demons” of the place. In other regions, such as Brittany, France, standing stones helped entire areas avoid lightning strikes by discharging excess electrical energy from the site.

Our earth supports all life, and it has a life on the crust as well as a subterranean life. There is an exchange of energies between the two. The crust of the earth is in perpetual motion, moving vertically and horizontally. These movements produce cracks that are called faults. Inside faults are currents of air and gas that produce heat (or energy) that you can feel at the surface. These currents of heat disturb life on the crust.

You can see the effects of this disturbance on the life above. Look at plants, hedges, and trees, and you can see the drying effect. Hedges often have a break in their line, and you will see dryer branches over a fault. Trees have cracks or holes in their bark. Many animals avoid sleeping over faults. These types of earth energies disturb the places in our bodies that contain air, such as our lungs, intestines, and stomach.

This tree has both a hole and a crack on the
side where the fault is next to it.

The faults have different colors and affect different areas of the body.

Yellow faults disturb the stomach and the liver. Red faults disrupt the small intestines and the heart. Gray ones dry the lungs and black faults are very carcinogenic. These effects are the negative side of faults, but the positive is that they can be used at sacred sites to help produce changes in the body’s energy system and the consciousness of the person.

The second consideration is water.

For example, the water contained in clouds is charged with cosmic information from the sun, moon, and stars and then it falls to the ground, traveling deep inside the earth. Some of the water goes inside some of the faults, creating little streams of water. These can be thought of as the blood currents of the earth. There are small, medium and even big subterranean rivers flowing within the earth.

These waters also influence the surface of the earth.

They produce a depression in the magnetic field at the surface that disturbs vegetation, trees, animals, and people. You can see how trees are affected by water by noticing that some lean sideways or grow in strange twisted ways instead of straight up.

Example of trees on a water vein — In this photo, you can see where the water
vein flows in between the trees.
Trees try to escape being directly over
water veins and lean away from them

For people, water disturbs the endocrine glands of the body.

For example, sitting or sleeping over a water vein increases the hormone production of the thyroid by three times and shuts down and depresses the other endocrine organs such as the pineal, hypothalamus, thymus, adrenals, and the sexual glands. We can see these effects on the endocrine system in this study by German physicist Robert Ëndros.

Dr Endros study of endocrine system over a water vein

Faults and water veins influence the surface. This influence is like a breath going up and down. As the currents whirl up, they produce vortex-like energy on the surface.

In different traditions, these subterranean circulations of the elements of air and water were found and identified by sensitive people with skills to recognize them. These faults and water veins were given animal names, such as dragons and serpents or snakes.

Ancient authors, like Vitruvius, a Roman architect, offer some information about how to find these hidden elements. He wrote that to find water you must look at the earth at dawn. At this moment you can see lines of vapor, and these lines of mist are like the expression of the water veins on the surface. Others said that it is possible to see or identify the water veins by observing where the trees are leaning. But other people developed their ability to find these circulations of energy because their community needed water to survive. These people were called shamans, Zahoris or Sorcieres depending on where they lived.

As people developed skills with the body to sense water and faults, they also developed the awareness that some circulations of water and faults were good for health and others were terrible. Most of these circulations are bad for health, and if you spend too much time directly over them, you are going to feel sick because they disturb the functions of your body.

As the realization occurred that these circulations could be harmful, the next step was to figure out how to avoid them. Animals were the key because most of the time animals find an excellent place to sleep, free from the adverse effects of earth energies.

Boars, deer, horses, llamas, sheep, and dogs all find good places to recharge their energy and know how to choose a safe place to sleep. People like the Berbers in the desert only set their tents up after observing where the dogs were resting because they knew dogs lie down on the best places to recharge their energy. Before building a village, the ancient Romans, left a herd of sheep in the area for a year and then read their organs to see if any diseases manifested.

But of course, if you want to build a village, you are not going to find a considerable area free of all these circulating energies. You need to choose where the best places are versus where there is a concentration of water veins and faults.

For this reason, in some countries, they developed techniques that we call earth acupuncture.

Standing stones or menhirs were among some of the first megaliths to be erected by the Neolithic people. They realized they could avoid the lightning strikes by putting a standing stone on a significant crossing of water veins. These standing stones are one of the first examples of earth acupuncture.

Kerloas Menhir, the tallest menhir in France — This standing stone in Brittany, France is a
great example of an Earth
acupuncture point placed over a
crossing of water veins. Its harmonizing
effects can be felt at a distance
of at least a kilometer away

In some countries, such as China and India, they realized that they could balance magnetic fields with standing stones and stupas.

This procedure was also done to close doors (or portals) where the demon energies could pop up. It is well known that in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan many of the stupas were and still are built to control the demons or the evil energy of the earth. (Illus #6 Chendebji Stupa in Bhutan – Caption: An example of a Stupa built in Bhutan)

Chendebji Stupa in Bhutan – — Chendebji Stupa; an example of
a Stupa built in Bhutan

To build a stupa, first, a portal or vortex is found. This place is also a crossing of good quality water or even miraculous water. Next, a big stick is placed in the center of the intersection of the water veins. After you do this Earth acupuncture, the spot becomes a harmonic point and will have unique energetic qualities depending on the color of the point The colors range from crystalline, golden to violet. Now it will harmonize the area all around. Next, the stupa is built around this point and expands the energy of the acupuncture point further because of the solar and sacred geometry used in its design and construction.

This Earth acupuncture technique of putting a stone or a pole in the earth, located at a harmonic point of a crossing of two water veins, became a kind of standard for harmonizing places. It was also used by Vastu and Feng Shui experts to balance the energy of houses.

Earth Acupuncture has evolved and is no longer the domain of shamans, Zahoris, and Sorciers. Now everyone can learn these techniques of finding water veins, faults, and their crossings. You can learn to tune your body to dowse for these earth energies and how to make correct acupuncture points to harmonize homes, land, and the environment.

earth acupuncture point — This acupuncture point is harmonizing
a crossing of two water veins

Earth acupuncture training is primarily learning how to feel the different energies in your body.

Water, faults, and vortexes feel different and are experienced in different parts of your body. The ability to distinguish between how a place feels harmonized versus when it is not is an essential part of this method. Which why it was formerly something left to the skills of the shamans.

By Karen Crowley-Susani
First published in Star Nations Magazine, 2018

These techniques will be taught in the Secrets of Sacred Geometry Certification Course. Earth acupuncture is a small part of the training, but learning how to feel energies in the body continues throughout the entire certification and is the keystone for creating harmonious places to live and work.