Becoming a Dowser

I spent many weeks and weekends in Cornwall between 1990 and 1999, exploring the landscape, the coves and the beaches.  Once I moved to Bristol in 99, I still managed to make it back there once a year but then I had kids and it was a tad too far to drive.

I lived in Bristol for 18 years and although I was mostly 'switched off' I experienced the amazing energy at Glastonbury, the Peace Gardens and also Averbury.

During my time in Plymouth, I was doing the hippy thing and going to esoteric fairs and workshops.  Of all of the workshops I attended during those 9 years, the one that had the biggest impact on me was dowsing. Despite having the most amazing experience, I never followed it up, didn't own any dowsing rods and never did any dowsing afterwards, which frankly now, I find utterly confusing.

Jump forward 23 years and I'm now living in Moseley in Birmingham.  I grew up in Birmingham, left when I was 20 years old, never to return.  I loved living in Bristol and never thought I would leave and then it all went tits up for my husband and I.  Our closest friendships vanished, we had baby twins and a very energetic nearly 4 year old, our next door neighbours hated us and made our life miserable and then the cherry on the cake, my husband was made redundant.

So kicking and screaming, in 2017 the universe directed us to move to Birmingham and in the January my husband started his new job in Solihull.

It took a couple of years to find our feet, but by 2019 we had discovered that this was the best thing that could have happened for us.  We actually had community, friends, family, social lives and were happy.

In this time, I explored the local area and found an utterly magical place called Moseley Bog, which in fact is not a bog but a fen.  It is also an ancient monument, the site of a burnt mound.  

My daughter had made friends with someone in the home education group that we attended and we arranged to meet up at Moseley Bog.  As soon as we got there, we began talking about the special feeling of the place and she told me that there was an energy line that ran through the bog called Belinus.

After returning home, I looked it up online and found very little written information.  I did however find a YouTube video of a talk by Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare, where they talked about the line coming through Moseley Village.  I immediately bought some dowsing rods and the book written by Gary and Caroline, The Spine of Albion.

The book arrived one afternoon and I already had the rods.  So after the kids went to bed, I "popped out" to see if I could find Elen, the feminine/yin element of the Belinus line on Oxford Rd, thinking I would be 20 minutes.  Three hours later I returned in the dark, exhausted and energised.

That was the beginning of my dowsing adventure, which continues with twists and turns like a more mundane Harrison Ford film, not in Egypt but in the suburbs of Birmingham and occasionally somewhere exotic like Derbyshire or Devon.