Are You Ready To Be a Ley Hunter?
How To Find Ley Lines
What follows is my understanding which is therefore certain to be incomplete. You may have other ideas and more experience so by all means start a new post with that information. I’m no expert. I’m just pointing the way. Whether you tread the path and what happens to you upon it will depend on you, your attitude, your application to the task, and your fate.
- Ley lines, or leys, are alignments of sites and markers. They are by definition straight lines that extend of several miles, sometimes hundreds, and just occasionally thousands.
- Earth energy meridians are the curving lines that are prevalent in and around sacred sites, and sometimes follow the path of a ley line, weaving around the path of the alignment.
- Sometimes people use the two terms interchangeably and this can confuse the newcomer to the subject.
How to find potential ley lines in your local area
You may have been lead to this group in order that you become the person who plots the leys in your local area and thereby creates the first map of leys in that area. If the cap fits, wear it, but how does one start?
Here are some suggestions
Find some flat, unrolled small scale maps of your local area e.g. 1:10,000 or 1:25,000. The scale figures mean that, for example, one inch or centimetre on the map equals 10,000 or 25,000 inches or centimetres in the landscape.
Study the map and get to the know the various symbols and meanings. Use the map legend and try to memorise as many of the symbols as possibls so that you can read the map without constantly referring to the legend. With practice you will get faster at this until it becomes easy.
Pay close attention to place names, not just the towns, villages, and hamlets, but also the roads, streets, hills, woods, streams etc. They are all clues to origins and history.
Spread your map out on a large flat surface and using a long, clear plastic ruler try to find alignments of three or more sites or markers of particularly interest. These might be burial mounds (tumuli), long barrows, stone circles, solitary standing stones, cairns, old churches, cathedrals, holy wells, ancient hillforts, and many more. The list will vary according to your landscape and the cultural remnants within it.
At this point the cynics might say, “You might as well choose phone booths or movie theatres!“.
The ley hunter’s answer to this is that the markers, structures, or buildings were placed at various times in history by people moved, consciously or unconsciously, by the same motivating force, or that the more recent structures were placed upon older sites. An example of this is early Christian churches built on the site of stone circles or standing stones, or cathedrals built upon blind springs that had been there for thousands of years.
If you can find three markers that are in alignment it’s a suggestion, nothing more. Four or five is much more promising but it’s still not enough to say it’s a ley. This is just the first stage in your detective work.
The next stages is to look for clues in the place names and the folklore and myths associated with them. You can start with the map itself, but you’ll also need to check books, and sources on the web. You can even use AI, but check the answers for accuracy.
Are there any mentions of dragons, giant worms, or serpents? Are the churches dedicated to one of the dragon ‘slayers’, St Michael or St George? Or are there any churches named after the christianised versions of old goddesses like Bride/Brigit, or Helen/Elen? There are many more clues that may exist.
Again, none of these things alone are definitive proof. What you’re trying to do is amass a body of evidence to prove a case.
Next it’s time to get out and into the field. Online armchair ley hunting is a fun hobby but the real work is out in the field, visiting the sites and immersing yourself in the atmosphere in each. Who knows, a visit may trigger an experience or response in you that could only occur with a visit to the site.
Also, apart from any transformative experience that may occur, the landscape contains many clues that you won’t see on a map and won’t be referenced in books. Is there a notch in that hill on the horizon? Are there clumps of Scots Pine trees or an ancient Yew tree waiting for you to visit?
Visiting Sacred Sites
When we walk into churches, cathedrals, or any other type of religious temple there is a natural inclination to speak quietly and slow our movements down (well, for most of us anyway). We instinctively respond to the sanctity of the space.
I think it’s incumbent upon us to approach all sites of this nature in the same way, starting with the approach to the site. It’s my opinion that it will help you in your quest to say a silent prayer before entering a stone circle or lonely old church, and to offer thanks as you leave.
This isn’t out of supersition, po-faced faux reverence, or pointless new age ritual. The intent here is to attune you to the site. To do so will require a change in consciousness. It has been suggested that the ley line system and the earth energy meridians are part of our collective consciousness, and that the Akashic Records are held within the network.
So tune in correctly by selecting the right frequency and you might just get a download from the cloud or some idea of the best way to communicate.
Don’t go marching in, banging drums, ringing bells, and waving burning sage about. You’re not here to cleanse the space. Let the site tell you what’s appropriate, and what is not. It may be that all you need to do is be still, centred, and receptive.
Another reason for doing this might be to obtain permission to enter from the site guardian, if there is one on duty. It’s best to stay on-side when it comes to astral beings tasked with protecting holy sites.
At the very least, be courteous, adhere to the Country Code, and pick up any litter you see on the site.
Dowsing The Energy Paths
So, you’ve found a possible alignment on a map, it passes through a barrow called “The Dragon’s Lair”, the valley or hilltop is associated with legends of the ‘wee people’, and you’re a mile away from a St Michael church. What next?
Well, now you can dowse for energy meridians and draw out the patterns that appear, if any. You may be pleasantly surprised to find geometric shapes or you might find meadering and weaving flows like snakes emanating from a central point.
Again, dowsing requires a certain frame of mind, a particular level of consciousness, so the attunement mentioned earlier will make the transition from visitor to dowser so much easier.
The Aftermath
Let’s assume you found an alignment of four more sites or markers, the folklore supports the suggestion that these sites are connected, there are other clues in the landscape, and dowsing has verified the presence of earth energy meridians.
Congratulations! You’ve found your first ley line.
Is that the end of the ley hunting? Not quite. Keep a dream diary and note down any dreams you have in the days and weeks that follow. You might pick up still more clues that you’re on the old straight track.
Write up your findings and all the evidence you’ve collected. You can store this for future publication or start a blog to store it.
Having done all this for one ley, can you see why a map of all the leys in your state or country is unlikely to exist? It would require several years of research and fieldwork to document them all, even in one county.
More Information
Ley Line Online Course: https://benlovegrove.com/…/unlocking-the-mysteries-of…/
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Earth Energy Healing Technques
Organisations that do practical work directly or indirectly through the Earth’s energy meridians:
These groups share the vision that focused collective meditations, often using the imagery of light, can contribute to global healing and well-being. Their methods can be used in combination with a focal point in the landscape or an urban setting.
The Gaia Method Earthways™ – A method that will probably resonate with many in this group.
https://gaiamethod.com/
Gatekeeper Trust: Focuses on earth healing, using meditative gatherings to visualise healing light descending into sacred landscapes and ley lines, enhancing energy in specific focal points. https://gatekeeper.org.uk/
British Pilgrimage Trust: Promotes pilgrimages to sacred sites with meditative practices that involve visualising healing light for the land and communities. https://www.britishpilgrimage.org/
Lightworkers’ Global Network: Informal groups that use guided meditations to send healing light to areas needing spiritual support. https://lightworkers.org/
Transcendental Meditation (TM) Groups: Organises collective meditations visualising positive energy spreading globally. https://t-m.org.uk/…/NewDailyOnlineGroupMeditation_TZ.html
White Eagle Lodge: Conducts healing meditations focusing on spiritual light descending for earth and individual healing. https://www.white-eagle.org.uk/
The Great Invocation (Lucis Trust): Holds global meditations, visualising light and love directed towards specific earth focal points. https://www.lucistrust.org/…/the_use_and_significance…
Global Coherence Initiative: Uses synchronised heart-focused meditations to visualise light impacting the earth’s energetic grid. https://www.heartmath.org/gci/
