We Are the Landscape: Walking with Dragons
After visiting The Sanctuary at Avebury, I began to sense dragon energy very differently. On two ordinary walks with the dogs, the landscape seemed to come alive with a powerful feeling of light, oneness and ancient presence. These reflections explore what came through, and what it might mean to experience dragons not as creatures separate from the land, but as part of the land itself.
Following the Dragon’s Back
What happens when we spend long enough with a landscape that we begin to see it differently? Artist and dowser Pete Bousfield has spent more than twenty years exploring the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor, following geology, water, ancient sites, earth energies and, eventually, the shape of a dragon.
Ad-Jaar: The Dragon in the Hedge
Driving home from Bodmin Moor one evening, I felt a powerful energy rising as I crossed the landscape. By the time I reached a hollow lane near home, I sensed a portal deep within a Cornish hedge, and with it came a name: Ad-Jaar. What followed felt feminine, ancient, immense, and utterly beyond words.
The Hidden Labyrinth at The Sanctuary
Some places are dramatic the moment you arrive. Others are much quieter and seem to reveal themselves slowly.
The Sanctuary at Avebury was like that for me.
It sits within an extraordinary landscape, close to Avebury, Silbury Hill and the West Kennet Avenue, but compared with the great stones at Avebury it can seem quite understated. Today, what you see are markers showing where circles of timber posts and stones once stood.
I had been there before, but on this particular visit I went in with my dowsing rods and asked a very simple question:
“Please show me what I need to know.”
Dragon Energy in the Earth
There are some moments that seem small when they happen, but later you realise they changed the direction of everything.
For me, one of those moments happened in a labyrinth in the woods at the end of my garden.
I had received what felt like a clear inner instruction to build a labyrinth there.
It was a simple three-circuit path made from leaves, held within a little temple of trees.
I had already been exploring labyrinths, sacred geometry, dowsing and the subtle relationship between people and place.
But dragons were not yet part of that story.