Elen in Moseley - Part 1
During the January 21 Lockdown, I spent most of my time at home, coercing the kids to complete their "home learning", which frankly nearly broke me. When you have two neurodivergent 9 year old boys are equally distractible, or distracting, it was an absolute nightmare trying to coax them to stay focused. We resorted to having to separate them and have one complete online learning in the morning, the other in the afternoon. My husband was working from home and I felt like my life had been colonised by the kids primary school and my husband's work. No thought or consideration for those of us stuck at home, having lost our support network and with the pressures of "THE SYSTEM" curled up by the fire in your home, whilst you slowly lost the plot.
Anyways, that wasn't the point of this....
During this hell, the only time I could escape the house was in the evening after we had all had dinner. So I started going out wandering the streets with my dowsing rods, in the cold, quiet nights. It was bliss! There were hardly any people about, it was quiet, so quiet and I basically had the place to myself.
On one trip, I picked up Elen from St Mary's Church and through the church yard behind the shops, I picked her up coming out of the beer garden at the Fighting Cocks, which I thought was quite funny. She must have stopped off for Gin and Tonic or maybe she's a pint of Ale kinda gal. She crossed the road and behind the shops again, so I walked along the main road in front of Sainsbury's and the COOP.
In between these 2 shops there's a doorway. As I passed the doorway, my rods swung around. I walked back and forth to check and then again on the other side Alcester Rd. There was indeed an energy crossing the road there, so I followed, believing that it was Elen heading towards Moseley Park and Pool.
As Moseley Park and Pool, has a.......pool, yes indeed it does, I thought that Elen would probably come out at the other end of the park. It was 10pm at night, it was dark, cold and the park gates are locked at sunset. I was however, to be incorrect....which is par for the course when dowsing to be fair and always interesting.
Instead I walked down Chantry road, tracking her located to my left in the park, when suddenly my rods shot together, telling me that I had crossed an earth energy. I always check, so did a little back and forth like a forgetful person, who can't locate their keys, but then finds them. It was a strong energy and it crossed the road and disappeared behind number 30. At this point I knew where she was heading!
Before my dowsing rods had arrived and before I had bought a copy of The Spine of Albion, I had been doing night time wanderings, just for the hell of it. For the peace and the quiet, for the cold breath in the air and the fuzzy street lamps in the foggy air. On one of these trips, I discovered St Anne's Church on Park Hill. I'm not Christian, I don't believe in "God", but felt drawn to this place and would walk around the church, which has small grounds, with a circular path around the building and a few trees. I always found it SO peaceful.
So, on this particular dowsing trip, once "Elen" had crossed over Chantry Road I had a little rush of excitement because I knew where she was heading. When I arrived at St Anne's, she was there, arriving through a wall and some bushes at the other end, going through the church and exiting here, under the bell tower.
From here, she heads through the carpark of the supported housing next door, via a small plot of unused land, back across the dogleg part of Chantry road and over into the school grounds of St Johns and St Monicas. A friend recently told me that this school used to a Monks Abbey.
I walked around onto Sailsbury Rd and found her crossing the road around number 100. By this point I was totally bushed and headed back home.
The thing with dowsing is it's like a fractal, the more you look, the exponentially more you find, if that's how you say it. Fractals....we'll come back to that also.
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