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Any event organised by TD member, Anne Hughes, is invariably enjoyable and uplifting - this year's summer solstice sunrise gathering being no exception.
As on previous such occasions, I arrived on site at the Hurlers on Bodmin Moor a little ahead of the festive celebrants, to try to catch the major earth energy lines 'at rest' - not that they ever really nod off. Having flagged up the width of the Michael and Mary currents, and established the initial expansion resulting from my own interaction with the landscape matrix, in a break with tradition, I accompanied Anne's entourage of singers, dancers and processors a little further north to Rillaton Barrow.
At the suggestion of TD Pete Bousfield, I dowsed and marked
the outer rings of the upwelling spiral - of energy that emerges from the sacred site. To my surprise, I found that although I had expected to find seven elements to the coils, there were, in fact, rather more than that. It is possible that the spiral has fourteen bands - or maybe 2x7.
Apart from the seven that I had flagged, there were others closer to the centre of the feature, which
were temporarily lost to my access by the presence of our considerable gathering of attendees, plus a group of bikers, miscellaneous dog walkers and a sizeable water-filled pit that is presumably the collapsed residue of a previous 'archaeological' dig.
Some of these people had travelled even further than us - and we'd had to get up at 03.00am! It was actually quite reassuring to find that we were not the craziest people on site that day.
The upshot of the dowsing at Rillaton Barrow was that the outer edge of the spiral expanded considerably during the singing and the sun rising - and that the coil unfurled in proportion.
On a perfect day, the sun can be seen rising twice - once at Rillaton and again at the Hurlers themselves, if you get a move on. Today, we had to be happy with a brief red glimmer and a host of radiant sunbeams. But it was dry and not cold - and the company was convivial.
Back at the Hurlers, the Michael and Mary lines had also increased in width, albeit rather less prominently than in previous years - perhaps because more of our attention had been directed elsewhere.
It was notable that Michael expanded
to a greater extent than Mary this time. This is not a common occurrence and may reflect the wild outpouring of
male energy around the globe at the moment, as it is being reflected in the earth energy matrix which links us all.
The expansion of Michael was heavily weighted towards the west with the eastern side barely half as big as the western section. It is not unusual to get some asymmetric expansion, but this scale of differential seemed exceptional.
Many thanks, as ever, to Anne for organising and running the event, especially in the absence of some of her closest assistants - and of course to the staff at the Minions Cafe, who also arose at some ungodly hour to provide a goodly number of us with a much welcome cooked breakfast.
Nigel Twinn
Tamar Dowsers
June 21st 2025
Images courtesy of Ros Twinn
