Ley Lines

Introduction

This is a short series of stories based on stories shared with me by Vocal friends. The first one is from Natasja Rose and is called Holding Ground - Prologue and is for the Vocal Fantasy Prologue Challenge.

I wasn’t sure where I was going with this one, because I need to take something in the story to kick off my imagination, or something that I want to write about, and then I saw Ley Lines. They are mentioned in the lines of one of the greatest songs about Liverpool which you can read about here, and the documentary about it is very interesting.

I also did my own version of the song which you can watch on my YouTube channel and the line is in the opening verse:

“Mckenzie's soul lies above the ground

In that pyramid near Maryland

Easyjet is hanging in the air

Taking everyone to everywhere

...Whoa

See slave ships sailing into port

The blood of Africa's on every wall

Now there's a ley line runs down Mathew Street

It's giving energy to all it meets

...Whoa”

So A Little About Ley Lines - My Impressions

I first was made aware of Ley Lines (or is it Leylines?) as a teenager from listening to the likes of Hawkwind, Gong/Steve Hillage and other cosmic space rockers.

I loved the concept of lines of power running throughout the land and being visible in a landscape or photograph of that landscape as an imaginary connection between objects and places. As I have grown I started to feel this was a nice mystical concept but I have never seen a practical use for it. I would love to be able to tap into this “power” but imagine it is just a way of using the concept to make you feel more able to do things and energised in a similar way.

A little like real magic, in my 64 years I have yet to see any evidence that this exists, it is more about improving your self-belief and therefore making you more able to deal with life.

Ley Line Views From Others

Many people see Ley Lines as ancient lines of power but they are a twentieth-century concept so hardly archaic.

Ley Lines are straight alignments drawn between various historic structures and prominent landmarks.

The idea was developed in early 20th-century Europe, with ley line believers arguing that these alignments were recognised by ancient societies that deliberately erected structures along them.

Even though the term 'Ley-line’ was originally conceived by Alfred Watkins. By 1929, he had discarded the name 'ley' and referred to alignments only as 'old straight tracks' or 'archaic tracks'

Natural and man-made features were suggested by Alfred Watkins to be reliable ‘ley-markers’:

Mounds, Long-barrows, Cairns, Cursus, Dolmens, Standing stones, mark-stones, Stone circles, Henges, Water-markers (moats, ponds, springs, fords, wells), Castle, Beacon-hills, Churches, Cross-roads, Notches in hills, Camps (Hill-forts),

Any true Watkinsian ley requires it to have a start (or finish) point in the shape of a hill.

This is taken from the Ancient Wisdom site.

There is a hell of a lot of information, examples and theories about Ley Line on the Internet. Try this Google Search to open up a cornucopia of Ley Information which brings back close to fifty million results, so it’s hardly a niche subject.

My Conclusion On Ley Lines

I find it a lovely mystical concept and the people who plot the lines must love their results. I have drawn my own ley lines but, for me, that is as far as it went.

I am sure that other people may disagree with me, but you know where I stand.