by Shez

Shez was one of the most active voices in alt.religion.wicca.moderated throughout the group's peak years. A British practitioner, she wrote from practical experience rather than theory — this post was offered in direct response to community members asking how to find their own ley lines. She describes them not as abstract concepts but as living energy she has touched, felt, and worked with for years.

As several people seem to want to find their own ley lines, I thought if I put a post up about ley lines it might help.

I suspect everyone in this group has touched, used and felt ley line energy. Ley lines are like rivers, and in fact often flow near or in, or across rivers; they seem to come to the surface more readily near water. And go deep underground in desert conditions. Unlike rivers, they are straight — they go through rather than round, and sometimes a house built on a major ley line crossing will get a reputation for being haunted. Though you often find ley lines near rivers, they don't follow the river's curves and bends; they simply go straight and usually pick up the river again further on.

Ley energy is being produced all the time all over the world. It comes from the things that grow in the earth, the water, rivers, and oceans. If you have hugged a tree and felt better, it's because you have touched ley line energy. All plants produce that energy, but obviously a tree is going to produce much more than a blade of grass.

If you sit beneath a tree, put your hands on the earth and just wait, you will often feel the beat of the ley energy — it's a slow whirlpool that comes out from the tree to feed into ley lines. The healthier the tree the more likely you are to feel it, and in spring it's far more obvious; as the trees wake into life, in fact for a couple of days there is a blast of ley line energy. In winter the energy is slower and you can't feel it very well.

If you, like me, get spring fever and want to clean and polish and put things to right after the dark of winter, it might be that you're feeling that huge pulse of energy coming from plants into ley lines, rejuvenating them — and you.

Ley line energy can be dowsed for, and learning to dowse is not hard. If you learn to dowse well, you end up not needing a dowsing rod; you simply feel it in your body. In places like America where the lines are so huge, you can simply pick them up by letting your body tell you where they are. Unfortunately the really strong lines and crossing points where many lines meet can cause headaches and nausea, if you're sensitive to such energy. You learn to walk the edges of such lines.

Many myths and legends are written about the old straight paths, in this country, that were once trodden by our remote ancestors — that they were safe places from evil. They became processional paths, and you can still walk some of them: from Stonehenge to Avebury, from the old Ridgeway to Peddars Way in Norfolk, to the wood henge that was found in the sea. There are paths that reach from each sacred site to the next and the next, right across the country. Where there were ancient sacred sites, temples and circles of stone or wood, churches were built — the vast majority of these sites is a major crossing point for ley lines.

If you use magic on a ley line, it can boost it very successfully, and if the magic is something to do with nature — like the weather, growth, fertility, and such — then the results can, if the ley line is strong enough, be quite spectacular.

Colophon

Written by Shez and posted to alt.religion.wicca.moderated, 28 February 2004. Original Message-ID: <[email protected]>.

Preserved from the Usenet archive for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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