Song of the Earth - Our Visit to La Varde Dolmen
I know I’m biased, as I LOVE dolmens, but what a fabulous evening we just had in La Varde up on L’Ancresse common. The dolmen itself was very happy too, jubilant, to be shown such love and care, let alone all the Reiki and heart tuning!
La Varde was the first dolmen I really connected with. I had visited the Le Creux, the fairy cave, previously with my cousin, Yolande who was teaching my mum and I how to dowse and we had quite an experience the three of us and then life carried on.
Then for some reason I started finding myself at La Varde. I don’t know if it was because my friend, Sarah, had shared with me about the winter solstice sun rise alignment, or if I had started visiting before then. I do remember that first winter solstice visiting numerous times and meeting Hazel, the lovely lady who discovered this alignment. She shared with me various rock art in the dolmen and that gave me even more of a reason for visiting.
I love rock art. I was just looking through my photos from Carnac over the summer solstice and realising how many photos I have of the plethora of rock art in the dolmens there, let alone the many stones which have been shaped to loo like real living entities, whether animal or otherwise. I’ll have to post some next time I get the chance.
But anyway, Guernsey is rich in rock art. I was in the Dehus recently and was reminded of this, as it features the world famous ‘Le Gardien du Tombeau’ carving on the underside of one of the capstones. And then we have the two famous Goddess statues, one at St Martin’s Church and one at Castel Church. Which makes me wonder why more is not made of the fabulous Goddess carvings in La Varde, let alone the male member…
I showed the ladies this evening, so no doubt the dolmen will have a few extra for sunrise on the winter solstice this year. Mind you it’s gotten very busy in recent years. The first time I went and was fortunate to see it ‘going off’ there was only a handful of us. It was the same the year after. But then others heard about it, and last year it was standing room only with someone even live streaming from the dolmen around the world. This year I managed to get it to myself, because even though it might look cloudy, by some magic the sun sometimes just appears…that’s the thing with dolmens, they contain a magic, you just have to believe in it.
Tonight was magic for me and hopefully for some of the other ladies. Each lady used a rod to dowse her own stone to sit against, maybe sharing with another, because sometimes that stone has knowledge to impart to more than one and Reiki to receive from more than one too (not that you had to be Reiki attuned to attend, or give Reiki even if you are attuned, but the stones love receiving Reiki if you do have Reiki hands…).
We then practised some breathing exercises before sitting in silent mediation, absorbing the energy from the dolmen and listening to whatever it might like to share - not that you necessarily pick up on this in the moment, sometimes the information ‘downloads’ later. Then I got to share my crystal singing bowl which is attuned to the third eye, and various other sound instruments.
I was sat towards the back of the dolmen and by all accounts the sound reverberated around the dolmen. The rain stick was soothing and really did encourage that feeling of safety, because that is one of the feelings you get in dolmens - at least if you can get beyond the idea of them being burial chambers because while they may well have been used as burial chambers at some point in their lifetime but they were certainly not built just to bury the dead, they are wombs that shift consciousness and heal (and if you don’t believe me, go and sit in there for an hour or so and see how different you feel afterwards).
Sadly because of this connection with death, people often approach dolmens with some fear. Thus I am really grateful to you ladies who joined me this evening for having the curiosity and indeed the courage to set all that aside and come and experience the joy of sitting in a dolmen! Thank you also for leaving your phones outside - the stones have lots of quartz in them, helping them to amplify energy. Mobile phones carry lots of EMF, which is detrimental to our health and wellbeing so its best not to take them into dolmens or you are just amplifying that negative energy and causing yourself more harm than good.
I’m definitely feeling the boost from being in the dolmen and from the various practices we shared, and of course the singing bowl does always make me feel happy. I’d like to do another session again at some point so if it sounds like something you’d be keen to join then keep an eye out. The earth has a song to sing just for you and dolmens help you to hear it!
Love Emma x
