The Power of the Sun
in the Palm of your Hand

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Solar eclipses are awesome.  Anyone who has ever seen one – and I mean a real one, not something poking through the clouds – will tell you that it really is ‘something to see before you die’.

 

Solar eclipses happen when the sun, the earth and the moon line up.  The moon gets between the earth and the sun and cuts off the light, heat and all the other types of energy it sends out for a few seconds – or, if you really lucky, a few minutes.  However, the drama that you can see with your eyes and feel on your skin is just part of an even more exciting piece of cosmic theatre.    

 

Put any three objects in a line and you can dowse the pull they have on one another.  Put three mega-objects in a line and the effect is much, much greater.  On the surface of the earth dowsers can detect various types of energy - for example, water lines, ‘ley’ lines and earth energy lines.  Just about anyone reading these words can sense these energies, with a little practice, using a couple of bits of bent wire.  It’s simple, straightforward, science.  

 

During an eclipse, some of these energy lines change - and some of the change dramatically - while others don’t seem to be affected at all.  The inter-action between the three planets pulls the energies into new patterns that can be sensed by the dowser and marked out on the ground.  If a person ever doubted that these energies exist - or that dowsing works - then dowsing at an eclipse should convince them once and for all.  

 

Dowsing is a new field of discovery, and so far not a great deal of dowsing has been done at eclipses.  Even less of it has been written down.  To date, a brief summary of what people have found is that earth energy lines (which may be caused by the energy of the rocks of the earth herself) completely change; water lines (which seem to be connected with underground streams) are affected to some extent; lines of thought (perhaps put in place deliberately by someone, or accidentally by concentrating on a distant object) do not seem to be affected by the massive alignment of the planets.

 

We are just starting on a quest to understand how these are affected during an eclipse.  If you are in the right place to see an eclipse (even one when the planets are not fully in line where you are standing - known as a partial eclipse) get out your rods or a pendulum and check the width of an energy line in your house or your garden, before during and after the event.  You may be very surprised at what you find - and you will never take the sun for granted again.

 

Nigel Twinn

 

Information on when eclipses will be coming up is freely available on the NASA website and elsewhere.  Eclipses of the moon (where the earth gets between the sun and the moon also have smaller but similar effects to those described above – but you can dowse them in the dark – and indoors!)

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