This past
weekend, I had the privilege to visit America’s Stonehenge in southern New
Hampshire, about 45 minutes north of Boston.
I was attending a dowsing workshop on site taught by Maria Wheatley, a
master dowser from England. I actually
briefly met her at Avebury almost a year ago.
Our group of students was there to learn how to dowse ley lines, geospirals,
and the energy of megalithic standing stones, among other earth energies. Maria uses a single copper dowsing rod. I have used a pendulum with success for
almost 30 years, but not a rod. I was looking
forward to learning a new technique!
America’s
Stonehenge does not resemble Stonehenge in the UK much at all. It consists of a central area with
structures, walls, chambers and a propped up alter stone. In the surrounding area can be found
serpentine walls, some with windows in them, and a series of monoliths marking
the important solstice and equinox sunrises and sunsets. There are also lunar alignments marked as
well. The whole property is about 110
acres, but the public only has access to about 20 acres in the center of the property.
It is amazing
that there is anything there to see at all, as this ancient and sacred area had
been used and abused up until the Stone family took possession in 1958. Many years
before that, the locals used the site as an easy way to quarry the granite
stones, thus carrying off much of what made up the structures. There was also extensive vandalism before the site was adequately secured. So what you see here now has been
reconstructed to its original form, although there is no way of knowing what
has been permanently removed. The granite contains quartz, which makes it highly energized.
What intrigued
me the most were the astronomical alignments at the site, which one could
relate to the field of archeoastronomy.
Fortunately most of the very large monoliths marking the important solar
alignments were intact in their original positions, with a few lying on the
ground. Who created this and why, no one
knows. Radio carbon dating puts the ruin’s
age as early as 2000 BC, with the alignments fixed at about 1500 BC. This is not a style of construction that any Native
Americans would have used, so who was there to create this fascinating site
perhaps 4000 years ago if not further back?
This is an issue at most megalithic sites around the world, as there
were no written records, and one cannot carbon date stone.
Through research in recent years, it was found that there are at least 18 solar and lunar alignments and 24 stellar alignments on the property. A fallen 14 foot monolith was also discovered. 4000 years ago, the site consisted of bare granite with very little top soil. The builders had an easy time determining where all of the alignments were, as there was a clear view out to the horizon in every direction.
Even though I found
the dowsing training interesting, I also used my pendulum in conjunction with
that. On Sunday afternoon after everyone
left at the end of the training, I went back out to do some wandering around on
my own. I was particularly interested in
the huge standing stones marking the solar alignments. Pendulum testing indicated that each one of
them was highly energized with a vortex of positive energy spiraling up from
the ground where they were anchored and out the top of the stone. Each one had some sort of point at the top,
thus focusing the energy. Also, through
the procession of the equinoxes, each point is now a bit off of alignment to the
solar event from when they were originally placed.
Even though
there was a lot of higher vibrational energy to be found there, the whole site
was not highly energized, not like what you find at Stonehenge in the UK. Here, it was a patchwork of heavy and light
energy. So, I concentrated my wandering
at the end with the megaliths where I knew the beneficial energy was.
Below are photos
of America’s Stonehenge. If you would
like more information on this fascinating place you can go to their website
here.
Here are some
of the chambers.
If you look into this chamber, you can see the lighter stone, which is quartzite. It lights up when the equinox sun rises and shines into the chamber.
There were very
few straight walls. Most were wavy, and
called serpent walls. Maria said that
they followed the undulating earth currents there.Note the head of the serpent in the first 2 photos.

Here is the
Altar Stone. It is not known what kind
of ceremony could have been done there.
My favorites
were the highly energized monoliths that marked the solar alignments. They also marked the leylines on the site,
which were perfectly straight.
Winter Solstice sunset stone.
Summer Solstice sunset stone.
True north stone.
Summer Solstice sunrise stone.
You will notice that all of the trees have been cleared past the stones so that the sunrises and sunsets can be seen at the horizon.
The ley line
that connected the Winter Solstice sunset stone and the Summer Solstice sunrise
stone goes all the way to Stonehenge in the UK via a straight line. Amazing!
I spent that last afternoon getting energized by the monoliths. To put the frosting
on my cake, I discovered a pink lady slipper orchid there.
So I had a very quick and intense weekend, which included flying into Boston and negotiating the traffic there. Totally worth it. If any of you live on the east coast, I highly recommend a visit to America's Stonehenge.