Wholistic Arts

Lapa de Gargantáns, Moraña We went out into the countryside between Santiago and Pontevedra in search of the menhir "Lapa de Gargantans" (meaning either Limpet of 'Gargantans' or possibly the Big-throated Limpet!). We got lost (as usual!) and decided to head to the nearest small town and see if we could find our way from there. We were amazed to see dozens of enormous signposts all over the place! "Wow!" - we said to each other, because signs are normally few and far between for these things. When we got to a shabby carpark, we saw a farmer and asked him were it was - "just over that ridge". We walked a couple of hundred metres and there it was - about half the size we'd been expecting! It was still a nice one - and a beautiful shape - but no more than 2m in height, where it had once been over 3 and a half. The photos we'd seen made it seem much bigger, and with it being so well signposted too, we left feeling a little disappointed. But it ...

Long Meg, Cumbria We went to see Long Meg and her daughters. This is the 3rd largest stone circle in England after Avebury and Stanton Drew. There is a large ring and several large outlying stones. The largest of these outliers is Long Meg, the "mother stone". Long Meg is about 12 ft high and looks very impressive. Close inspection showed spiral carvings on her face. The circle itself is composed of 59 large stones and a trackway runs through them, similar to Avebury. When I used my dowsing rods there were two specific areas of activity. These were two circles about 6ft diameter within the 'circle'. I realised that the circle was more like an ellipse and that the two "vortex's" were the ellipses centres. Amazing. Dave

Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cumbria The day before we viewed the Mabon Stone we decided to visit "Arthurs Round Table" an impressive earthwork less than half a mile from Mayburgh Henge which has one large stone in the centre remaining. We then went to Castlerigg Stone Circle in Cumbria, a site we had always wanted to go. The setting was unbelievable, all around there were mountains with the circle set in the centre, spectacular. I dowsed with rods and they crossed inside the inner ring. Using the rods I sensed a leyline passing through the top of the circle about 15ft wide. Viewing East and West it appeared as though the line went from one summit to another. Dave

Mabon Stone, Gretna, Scotland The Autumn Equinox or Harvest Home is also called Mabon, pronounced 'MAY-bon', after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, which means literally 'son of mother'. So we set off to Scotland to view the "Mabon Stone": The Mabon stone was named for Mabon, the Celtic God of fertility, corn harvest, equilibrium and equinox. The day of autumnal equinox we experience equal hours of light & darkness. The Northern hemisphere transcends into Autumn and Winter and the Southern hemisphere into Spring and Summer. It is where the Celtic culture celebrated and empathised with nature. After walking around for hours under bad weather conditions we found what we thought must be the stone but it was not what we expected. Later, climbing out of a farm enclosure into the farm drive, the owner explained that she had not seen the stone even though it was in the next farm, she had heard that it had 'fell over', checking it out again I am sure it is t...