May 2005

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AGM

The May meeting will start with the AGM. Here are the accounts for the year for your information.

Notes:

Stonehenge 04 lost £80.00 due to insufficient take-up

Portman account balance at 31.3.05 is £3110.05 Petty cash in tin is £119.44

Compared with year ending 31.3.04:¬

Membership income is up by £94.00

Speaker costs are up by £329.35 - almost double, in fact, due to several prestigious speakers.

Newsletter costs are down £ 141. 10

Raffle profits down by £63.20 Guests down by 11, meaning £33.00 less income

Once again, pretty sound. Shame about the Stonehenge outing!

What Bea's workshop figures above don't show are the quite healthy sundry sales we made over the weekend - £43.00.

Patrick Macmanaway’s workshop figures are, of course, still ongoing.

Membership (count family membership as 2) is 67.

This and That

We’ve had one or two enquiries about a special permit trip to Stonehenge this year. As we had trouble filling the places last year we thought we would have a break this year. Next year perhaps if enough people show an interest.

Peter Knight has contacted us about a convention he is running later in the year. The list of speakers is very impressive and would seem to offer good value for money. Check his web site for speakers and details of location.

2005 Convention of Alternative Archaeology and Earth Mysteries

Sunday October 16th (10.00am - 9.30pm)

Sherborne in Dorset.

Cost: only £25 advance booking; £28 on the door. This covers the whole day and evening.

Bookings to: Peter Knight, 34 Badgers Way, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1DW. Cheques payable to P Knight.

Tel: 01258 472722 e-mail: stoneseeker@waitrose.com

Website: www.stoneseeker.net

May Field Trip – Stoney Littleton Long barrow and Hardington Church.

May 22nd. – meet at Hardington Church at 10.45a.m. [map ref. SU743526] We will be visiting the barrow after lunch as it is a spectacular place and not to be rushed. The chambered barrow is reckoned to be one of the finest in Britain and in a superb location, in very remote and unspoiled country above the Wellow Brook. The main passage of the barrow is 48 feet long and only four feet high in some places, with three pairs of chambers leading off it.

Torches would be useful, as unlike West Kennet, there are no glass panels in the roof. In about 1760 a local farmer took some of the stones for building, leaving a hole which gave access for an excavation in 1816, but the barrow was sensitively restored in 1858. Human bones were found in the barrow during the excavation, some burned.

There is a steepish uphill walk [approx. half-mile], across a couple of fields to reach the barrow so stout footwear is essential. S.C.

The Hawthorn Tree

This tree is truly a gift from the Gods. Known as the May tree, it is bounteous from the first shooting leaves, which can be eaten and is called "the bread and cheese plant" by children. It's laden with white flowers in May which can be eaten or used in winemaking or medicines. Its tree was relieved to mark the meeting places of the fairies and spirits.

A crown of Hawthorn flowers is a very pretty sight alone or mixed with other flowers. The flowers signify female mystery and fertility and are known as "moon flowers" and are sacred to the Mother Goddess, Hecate. As such, it is very bad luck to bring may blossom indoors except on the eve of Beltane.

To make the nectar of the Gods:

Take a cheap bottle of plonk, a Lambrusco or Lambrini or similar.

Carefully pour half into a glass jug and tightly stop the bottle.

Pick enough may flowers to fall into the wine about 2 inches deep, these will float upon the surface as they are quite waxy.

Leave in the sunlight until the petals sink into the wine about I", or a couple of hours. This is an integral part of the operation as it needs the energy and goodness of the sunlight to work.

Strain and carefully pour back into the bottle and stopper tightly.

Will keep for several months and retain its fizz.

Dried may flowers work just as well, thankfully!

In flower language, the Hawthorn means Hope, so I hope you enjoy your May¬flower wine on a lovely balmy May eve.

Wish-hound

CUP and RING MARKS on STONES.

When Michael COOK talked to the EEG members on the 16th April 2005, he spoke about the cup and ring marks with a line radiating from the centre being directions guides to other sites. Michael said if one puts a stave in the cup mark and lined it up with the line and stood behind the staff and looked along the stall and the line to the landscape there would be another site on that line or a feature on the horizon.

I looked to the Long Man of Wilmington to give an indication of the length of a stave. And then I went to Avebury, only 25 miles away, for stones with holes in. But the only ones I could find were the holes made by the roots of the palm trees when the stones were being made during the Eocene period, (50 million, years ago). There are no known stones in the Avebury landscape with cup and ring marks.

Whilst talking to the Curator at Avebury, I leafed through a book published by the Royal Commission for Historic Monuments and Sites for Scotland about Kilmartin with lots pictures. There seems to be at least three sorts of cup and ring marks. The spiral ones as at New Grange. The ones with a direction line coming from centre that Michael spoke of. And the third type of just the cup and ring markings.

I live on the chalk downlands. We have no stone or rock suitable for ring and cup markings, except the random sarson stone same as those at Avebury.

In The Old Roads of England by v Sir William Addison (Batsford 1980) there is only the Ridgeway and one other track south of the Ridgeway shown as pre-Roman. Perhaps the chalk downlands of pre-historic times were already showing signs of wear and did not need marker stones just dew ponds along the way.

Nora

Some Common Dowsing Errors

The glade suddenly became very much warmer. I suppose that when you have a visitation from another dimension, it drains most of the available energy out of the surrounding air, which is why it goes cold when a ghost appears.

These things are all energy transfers. There's going to be some heat loss.

Now that the elf had trudged off to his proper time and place; or been re¬absorbed by the landscape, or by the collective unconscious, energy was released from the engine of his presence, and a balmy breeze was freed to waft over us delightfully.

Some might say it was just a change in the flow of the night air, bringing with it the smell of earth and vegetation, but a major error in all dowsing enterprises is to listen to common sense.

If we put everything down to the weather or observable phenomena within the landscape, where will we be?

It is damnably true that practical explanations often seem to hand, simultaneous with the mystic, but this is merely the Universe's way of protecting those who cannot get their brain to a higher level.

One man's cloud nine is another man's three-card trick. One woman's blinding revelation is another woman's blinding headache.

One man's seven-coiled aquastat is another man's bump in the turf. One man's Culpeper remedy is another man's trip to the casualty department.

The innocent must be protected.

Yet we, as dowsers, must find a way of protecting ourselves from the common safeguards which are meant to protect ordinary people. We must stay awake when others are living in dreams. We must avoid the obvious at all costs.

Every major thinker from Einstein to Icke and back again has found that it's a capital error to listen to other people. Sod them all, that's my advice.

I went and relieved myself against a tree, and shook my fur.

The group of die-hards behind me on the slope were like a bee-hive wakening groggily in springtime.

The Geiger counters were out and acting up badly; true North could not be ascertained. The sensitives were de-gaussing as fast as they could go.

All the usual checks were being run. Orientation, symmetry, acidity, optics, resistivity, harmonics, sine responses, whether there was any tea left in the flask.

Sound technicians, you know, rather than men of genius. But then, in that clinging red soil, perhaps we all had feet of clay.

Everyone was talking loudly and being very professional. One had to admire it, at two o'clock in the morning, but was it not another error, to be so official and businesslike?

For the anomaly specialists in the group it was a puzzle that the elf, who had seemed in many respects to be of the medieval, should have been carrying an aqualung and evidently been party to some kind of modern-day insurance policy.

And then, why had the Fairy Queen been playing wumpa wumpa wumpa music at her revel in the hill, rather than a bergamasque or, at the very least, a Beethoven pastorale or a spoonful of delicious Vaughan Wilhanis?

Some interrogatives had to be posed, concerning the authenticity of our recent encounter.

Had we really been one step away from an encounter with a Fairy Queen, or had we merely encountered brigands, purporting to sail under her colours?

At one level, of course, heaven help them if they were elvish wide-boys and chavs. They had Henmania for company now, and she had taken her clip-board along. She would be isolating the ring-leaders and cutting their grog ration until she got some answers.

All she had left behind in the glade were her daughter's apple pips, trodden in, a ring of candles, and a few small branches of sage, intended for smudging.

If you go down in the woods today, be sure of a big surprise. Well, good riddance. Another common dowsing error is to take along people who are on an ego trip.

This no-claims bonus situation, that the elf had mentioned.

My initial reaction had been, that it concerned the obvious - his broken shrimping net. Yet who would insure a shrimping net?

Was it not, on second thoughts, a reference to some broader undertaking?

Did the Fairy Queen have a claim against him for failing to deliver the goods (the mortal child) to her on time? And was the elf covered with some kind of fall-back insurance policy with a third party?

I tell you who would know: my old adversary and occasional ally, space cadet, Jane Austen fan & vanity-stricken trollop, Dr Dresdener Beauregard of the University of Milwaukee.

Dr Beauregard was a renowned author, psychic counsellor, and some-time purveyor of alien abduction insurance. He was also head of the Department of Strange Happenings.

Dr Beauregard was the man to get on the phone.

Unfortunately nobody could tell me exactly what time it was in America. I suspected it might be the middle of the evening, and I began to go off the idea of making the call, as there seemed absolutely no point in phoning the old tart if I couldn't do it at a time that would inconvenience him.

Then we discovered that no-one's mobile was working anyway.

Within the microcosm of the day, Time runs in a looping continuous line, otherwise it couldn't be two in the morning here, and early evening in the USA. The spinning Earth unites these points, creating time out of her movement through space.

Yet somehow, because we age, we perceive days and years always being added to a long straight line of Time, which is not renewable, but stretches to infinity.

Events from further up the line, the future, may ripple back along the line, reaching earlier denizens; granting premonitions in some cases, causing anachronisms in others, as with an elf who has diving gear.

The backwash down the line of Time may also grant, to men of genius, access to "futuristic" concepts, putting them ahead of their time.

We see this with the way that Leonardo da Vinci developed plans for a helicopter, a submarine and an espresso machine.

Leonardo could not travel forward to an era when technology would allow him to materialise his concepts, any more than I could have travelled back to early evening in Milwaukee to have a word with old Dresdener.

Yet these practical impossibilities - the limitations of the human body - cannot gainsay the simultaneous existence of rush-hour in Tokyo, night-time in England, and the cocktail hour in America.

And so, in the macrocosm of universal time, all points of time may exist simultaneously. If there is a material which connects them, it may be only an aspect of consciousness.

Similarly, there may be a material which connects all places, revealing hidden water to the dowser's trembling rod.

Elves and fairies and ghosts may be riding up and down in this material. Cyril mentioned it earlier. Dark Matter.

Grey Wolf

Madge passed us the following article that had been previously published in the Journal of the British Society of Dowsers. They have kindly given us permission to reprint it. We have split it into several parts as it is longer than our usual articles.

ASPECTS OF DOWSING Part 1

by Sir Geofroy Tory

How It Started

A year or two after I had retired to Ireland, a neighbour and friend, formerly a Colonel in the Royal Marines, not I should have thought, a fanciful type, pressed me to read a book called "Henry Gross and his Divining Rod". He explained to me that it recorded the location of underground water in Bermuda by Gross, dowsing, whilst in the USA, over an ordnance map. Until that time all the drinking water in Bermuda had been collected in rainwater tanks or had been imported in tankers. The Bermudans had scoffed at Gross's claim, so a wealthy friend of Gross, the successful American author of the book, had personally financed a drilling operation in Bermuda, which had sunk satisfactory wells there. I was totally incredulous, but was urged to read the story and to keep an open mind.

It emerged from the book that Gross had asked a famous lady dowser in British Columbia for a second opinion. She had confirmed his findings, using the same remote dowsing technique. I still did not believe any of it. So I started at the bottom, so to speak, with a forked twig over the pipe bringing water into my house, holding the rod as my friend had taught me to do. To create perfect conditions I turned on the water tap in the kitchen. The downward pull of the rod was so sudden and so powerful that my hair stood on end. Having established that I had the faculty of dowsing in its simplest form, I tried using a pendulum over the ordnance map. The result was spectacular.

How Does It Work

French Catholic priests have been the principal pioneers in the field of dowsing. As one would expect, they have as a breed a strong aversion to occultism of any kind, and have always maintained that dowsing is a natural force, although they have never made a serious attempt to explain it. They have received assurances from the Vatican that it is not inconsistent with Catholic doctrine and the Vatican has occasionally employed dowsers for archaeological research.

The most famous of the French dowsers was the Abbe Mermet, known as "the King of Dowsers". His "Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia" (as the French call it) is still the Bible of dowsing. He starts with this paragraph. "The human mind, lost in a labyrinth of facts, needs for its guidance an Ariadne's thread. Here then, to serve as a basis for our studies, is a broad hypothesis which seems to fit the facts.

Everything takes place as if:

A. All bodies without exception are constantly emitting undulations or radiations.

B. The human body enters these fields of influence and becomes the seat of nervous reactions, of some kind of current, which flows through the hands.

C. If an appropriate object, such as a rod or pendulum, is held in the hand, the invisible flux is made manifest in the movements given to this object, which acts as a kind of indicator."

Since Mermet's day, dowsing researchers have reminded us that not only is every element in creation composed of atoms comprising particles whizzing round a nucleus at unimaginable speeds, but the Earth and all the other parts of the Universe are also spinning, going round each other and receding from each other at a rate almost beyond our comprehension. All this is bound to have released vast quantities of energy. They say that the Earth is accordingly covered with a grid of energy, and that sites like Stonehenge and the Pyramids arc important markers in this network.

Many people have tried to find a scientific explanation of the dowsing phenomenon, but have not really got any further than Abbe Mermet. One thing is quite clear. The rod or the pendulum does not move of its own accord. It moves in a mysterious way because it is actuated by the mind, which recognises harmony between the idea of water and the detected water source.

Dowsing Force

What is the nature of the force which is received by the mind and how does the mind give its instructions to the inanimate dowsing instrument'? The initiating impulse comes from the underground water source as a form of radiation which sensitive minds can register, as geiger counters register nuclear radiation. I have come to believe that anything which interrupts or interferes with a magnetic field throws up radiations of this kind; and if the target is moving through a medium different from itself the impulse will be all the stronger. The pendulum will even gyrate over a pencil line drawn on a sheet of paper. It gets quite excited over circles and triangles!

Before I had an operation on my right hand to correct a "Dupuytron Contracturc", I could literally feel underground water. With my hand stretched out, face down, I felt tingling in my palm, like pins and needles. One reads of dowsers being thrown on to their backs when dowsing near to standing stones. Some are made ill by whatever it is. I myself was persuaded to give up intensive map-dowsing because I seemed to be losing weight alarmingly. Some kinds of hydro-radiation have been shown to injure the health of people working or sleeping habitually over their source, and means have been found by dowsers to counteract this kind of harm, by diverting the radiation. So the ray picked up by the dowser is something very significant. The experts say that it is not electric and not magnetic. It is a kind of energy not yet recognised by science.

Having accepted that the mind can react to this impulse, how do we explain the pull of the rod or the gyration of the pendulum? We are told that these are actuated by involuntary movements of the finger-tips or of the hands in obedience to signals from the brain. The right and left hands have opposite polarities, the left causing the pendulum to gyrate in an anti¬clockwise direction and the right clockwise. Some say that the mind receives negative impulses from one side of the body, and positive from the other, so that a twisting effect is created. We have seen how delicately the rod is balanced, and how the slightest movement of either hand will send it down or up. But once the rod starts to dip there is no way of stopping it.

I have discovered that if a person with no dowsing faculty holds the left end of a dowsing twig, and I hold the right end, the rod will dip uncontrollably over a water source. This works even when I do not grip my end, but rest it on my palm, with the fingers open. I do this experiment regularly with what I call "dedicated unbelievers". My elder son was such an unbeliever until we did this little experiment and the rod snapped, leaving him only with the bit gripped in his hand. I had a similar experience with an American surgeon friend. He said: "Look! I stopped it going down." But he was quivering with effort, his knuckles white, and the tip of the rod was vibrating. There is a tremendous amount of power there. With an effort, and given some convincing demonstration, most people can bring themselves to accept this.

But the unanswered question is, how does this power get to the rod when the dowser's end is not tightly held and when the wrist of the hand holding the pendulum is rested on something solid, like the back of a chair? I have held a very heavy pendulum over a cardboard scale model of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and experienced difficulty holding the pendulum at all, with it spinning parallel to the ground, as if it wanted to fly off into space. (Thereby hangs a tale, which we shall come to, later.) It is difficult to believe that such a violent reaction can be created by the nerves or muscles in the tips of the finger and thumb, in which the closest observer can detect no sign of movement or tension. There is something there which cannot convincingly be explained in terms of the physics and science with which we are familiar.

Depthing

Having found underground water, how does the dowser know how deep the well has to be? The Bishop of Grenoble, some time during the last century, was credited with discovering that underground "streams" (geologists tell us that there are no such things, incidentally) throw up radiations vertically and at forty-five degrees. There are other detectable radiations to complicate the picture, but the dowser can concentrate on the three strongest ones. He stands over the target, establishes the line of the stream by dowsing left and right, walks away from it at right angles until he gets another strong pull. He marks this point with a stone or a stick. Then he goes back to the line of the stream and goes off in the other direction until he gets another strong reaction. This point is also marked. If he is lucky he finds that the distance from the stream to each of these marked points is the same, and he knows by simple geometry that this is the depth of the stream. This is the normal result. If there is a lot of clay in the soil, the answer may be incorrect.

The latest doctrine is that the impulse from the underground water is thrown up vertically and at 45 degrees, but to a circle centred on the point where the dowser is standing. In other words, the dowser can find the secondary reaction if he walks in any direction. I feel personally attached to the Bishop's less complicated technique, but I admit the newer one would be useful if there were a farm, say, standing between me and the secondary target!

It may be more difficult for the reader to accept, but the fact is that an experienced dowser can ask the rod or pendulum to tell him the depth without all the footwork involved in using "the Bishop's rule", as it is called. The dowser stands over the target and asks the dowsing tool whether the water is below a certain depth and he gets either a positive or a negative answer. He goes on doing this, with successively deeper depths until he gets the right figure.

When seriously looking for water for a well the dowser will try to find a place where two or more streams intersect, that is, where water is moving through the same vertical line at different depths, presumably because of a geological fault of some kind. Then the well receives water from more than one source. It is quite common to find four or five such streams at depths down to a hundred or more feet.

Testing for Purity

The next thing is to find out whether the water is good to drink, before well-drilling begins. The dowser knows that pure water harmonises with the colour violet. If it matches the colour yellow or, at the worst, black, the water will be contaminated and another source must be found. In practice, the dowser walks across the line of the stream thinking of violet, or holding something violet, such as an appropriately coloured poker chip, or he will use Mager's Rosette. Mager, a priest and a French classical authority on dowsing, devised this rosette, consisting of a disc of, say, plastic, divided into eight segments, with violet at the top, followed clockwise by blue, then green, yellow, red, grey, black, white, then back to violet again. The right hand half of this represents the spectrum, violet, indigo on the dividing line between violet and blue, blue, green, yellow, orange on the dividing line between yellow and red, and finally red. If the water is pure, the rod will dip in response to violet. If the response is negative the rod will not dip, or the Pendulum will gyrate anti-clockwise. Dowsers also know that the spectrum from violet to red harmonises with the notes of the tonic-sol-fah scale in the key of C, violet being do, indigo te, blue la, green so, yellow fa, orange me, red re and then do, or violet again. You could test the purity of water by dowsing over the target while someone struck the C note with the loud pedal pressed. I have a small coil of copper wire made to harmonise with do, and have used this often to check for purity. Every individual note, whatever the key, has its own matching colour. This cannot be a coincidence; it is obviously part of the mathematical plan of the universe. In this plan the number seven constantly recurs.

I have had a graphic illustration of the effect of "black" streams on two occasions. I used to keep bees. I had five hives and two colonies in boxes, so I was assured of plenty of swarms for replacements or for new hives. I made a new hive one Winter, and in the Spring I put a very healthy ¬looking swarm into it.

The next day I saw bees going in and out and thought all was well. But on the following day there was no activity at all. I found the hive to be empty: no comb, no bees. I put another swarm in a month later, and the same thing happened. I thought perhaps they were objecting to the smell of fresh paint, so I left the hive empty until the next Spring. Then the same thing happened again, a third time. I had an inspiration. I dowsed over the hive entrance and found no less than four streams were crossing under it, one of them "black". I pushed the stone base of the hive back six inches only, because there was no more space. The black stream and the others then crossed six inches in front of the hive entrance board. I put in a swarm and it stayed, and so far as I know, it has been there ever since. I was now quite sure that the black stream had been the trouble.

I traced the black stream back to the house, and found that it passed through the site of the original well, which I knew had been abandoned long ago because of pollution.

I came across another black stream when dowsing a friend's bedroom to see whether his arthritis was caused by harmful hydro-radiation, as it is called. I detected four streams, one black, crossing under his bed. Using a technique practiced by dowsers who specialise in healing, I drove three¬ foot length iron rods (which had previously held up an electric fence) into the ground over each of the streams, up-stream from the house. These had the effect of diverting the radiation coming up from the water so that it went round the house. I then got no reaction from my pendulum anywhere in the bedroom. My friend's condition improved, and has not worsened, so I like to think that I had helped him. I will come back to the subject of healing by dowsers.

Part 2 next month.

April Meeting and Workshop.

April saw the long awaited return of Dr. Patrick Macmanaway, who conducted a two-day workshop on the 16th and 17th, and gave the monthly talk on the 18th.

The workshop was well attended, and Patrick’s expert teaching, sincerity and approachability certainly hit the spot with those who participated, judging by the number of favourable comments at the tea bar. Both days saw decent weather, so part of the first afternoon was spent in a session at the nearby West Wood, and on the second day we were able to do some practical work outside at the back of the hall, which is in a very peaceful rural location.

The Monday talk was based on several case-histories of actual work that Patrick has done at people’s homes, where they have been troubled by things such as poltergeists, ghosts, illness or misfortune caused by the house being located over black streams or damaging aerial energies, etc. Some of the tales were quite funny in parts, although I don’t suppose the sufferers thought so at the time!

Thanks to Patrick who gave such a rewarding and instructive weekend, also to Shaun and Mary who had him to stay at their home for the weekend.

Field Trip to Knowlton Henge and Church.

Again we were lucky with the weather – not always the case at Knowlton! There is always plenty to dowse at this site, particularly when it is not so windy that the L rods get blown off course. The ruined church inside the henge has strong underground streams, aerial energy flows, and it is believed that several standing stones once surrounded the site where it stands. The henge around the church was heavily adorned by cowslips, making it worth the visit for that in itself.

The opposite side to the henge entrance is home to what looks at first like twin Yew trees, but many believe it to be originally just one tree that split. Our dowsing seemed to confirm this, and several members sensed the presence of “tree spirits” at the base of the Yew.

After lunch we visited the church at Cranbourne, an interesting place to dowse, although parts of it, [a couple of very cluttered corners], seem to act as a magnet for stagnant energies, causing discomfort for a couple of the members. A ”grounding” visit to an ancient Yew tree in the churchyard soon put them on an even keel again, which is a tip worth remembering when in a similar situation.

A Stitch in Time.

Psychic protection is a subject that has been dealt with in the journal previously, but since then we have had a number of new members who may not be aware of the methods that can be used to deal with the occasional problems that are sometimes encountered at certain sites.

One question that a member recently asked me was “-why do I sometimes get a feeling of disorientation at some parts of old churches and prehistoric sites, when I never used to have this type of problem at all?”

I believe that as we learn to dowse or use other divination techniques, we gradually become more attuned to the subtle reactions of our own bodies and minds, and therefore become aware of feelings and sensations that we may have previously dismissed, or perhaps not even have noticed.

One member asked if it would be better to avoid such places in future, rather than risk feeling so peculiar again. I suggested that if she did this she would then lose out by missing a lot of fascinating places and suggested taking protective precautions in advance of such activities in future, rather that waiting to see if she became disorientated, if the attacks were frequent.

Connecting with the spirit of a tree can be very effective, both as prevention and cure, as mentioned in the write-up about the trip to Cranbourne Church. Yews are excellent for this, although other trees work very well.

Certain energies are aligned with specific trees:-

Aspen calms anxieties.

Beech aids contact to higher self

Cedar is protective and heals astral imbalances.

Cherry promotes insights and openness.

Elder is protective, healing and is associated with all burial rites.

Eucalyptus is beneficial to the aura at times of psychic growth.

Fig releases past –life blockages and is the sacred tree of Buddha.

Holly is associated with protection and overcomes hate.

Honeysuckle sharpens intuition and helps learning from the past.

Lemon is cleansing to the aura and draws protective spirits.

Lilac aids mental clarity.

Maple balances yin and yang and grounds psychic energies.

Orange balances astral energy.

Palm is the tree of peace.

Peach calms emotions.

Pine awakens occult salvation and calms emotions.

Walnut frees the spirit and gives hidden wisdom.

Willow heals, also clarifies links between thoughts and external events.

Yews are magical trees that can do all the above and moreover, they are often conveniently sited just where they are most needed! S.C.