Fairy Isles in the Fields—An Exploration in Spirit Dowsing

If you have been following my earlier posts from last Fall of 2019 (Skuruberget, Tomtberget, Kasberget, Skurubacken [this last one is still being written]), you will have seen that I have been spending a good deal of time finding and exploring the many ancient cairn sites here in the Fiskars and Pohja area of southern Finland. In fact, the possibility of doing this cairn work here was one of the primary factors influencing us to settle in Raasepori this past summer in our move from the United States to Finland.

While people who are not yet acquainted with their own intuitive abilities might find the following statement curious if not outright specious, I must declare here—and this is the point of this entire post—that even while still living back in the U.S. I was able to SEE these hundreds of different ancient sites in Finland in what could be called my mind’s eye. In other words, I could literally see these sites glowing on the online maps I was using to engage in my initial explorations of the spirit field of the area. And since the time of these initial experiences of operating in what I refer to as Etheric Vision in my investigations into southern Finland (which I engaged in during the months leading up to our move here from the U.S.), I have now confirmed the existence and locations of these Finnish spirit sites on online maps and in physical hikes through this spirit terrain.

I have had almost a decade of active, conscious experience in dowsing, following a month-long apprenticeship I had with the gifted dowser David Yarrow in November of 2011. It was during this apprenticeship that I first became conscious of my intuitive dowsing faculties, finding that I didn’t need to use diving rods or pendulums or any other instruments to locate these power zones. My dowsing activities do not involve the search for potable water or ley line configurations, although I do often gain a general overview of these physical energetic dimensions of landscape. What I DO find in my dowsing is the continuing active presence of the spirit power of ancient sacred sites, sites that still exert an influence on the beings of a given terrain. So what I have been seeking since then is a proper name for the actual dowsing activity that I engage in, and, as I have said, I currently use the term “spirit dowsing.”

Now such experiences might seem to make perfect sense in relation to famous sites such as England’s Stonehenge or Ireland’s Newgrange or Illinois’s Cahokia—obviously ancient sacred sites that persist in relative isolation within their historically-transformed local environments. But the ability I’m pursuing here is the capacity for recognizing the existence of often unrecognized sacred sites in the current landscape. Moreover, I am also trying to glimpse the ways in which these unrecognized sites continue to attract and have an impact on people today, whether conscious or unconconscious.

What telluric spirit forces led, for instance, to the erection of the Uspenski Cathedral on that rocky hilltop in what is now the center of Helsinki? What led the U.S. government to convert the ancient Chillicothe mounds in Ohio to a temporary military base, only to build a state prison beside it years later (which at one point housed prisoner Charles Manson)? How exactly were the more recent inhabitants of Marietta, Ohio led to build the public library directly inside of one of the city’s powerful ancient mounds, a fact that certainly colors the knowledge-seeking activities that go on there? In other words, how do people since the days when these ancient sites were first constructed (which in many cases I believe vastly predate the official archaeological assumptions) find themselves attracted to such spots in their own creation of contemporary sites of power, whether schools, churches, military bases, hospitals, libraries, prisons, etc.?

Fairy Isles in the Fields

As a way to begin my official attempt to write out my growing understanding of these things, I will focus here on what I refer to as Fairy Isles, those apparently random and isolated piles of stones and/or trees and shrubs dotting the landcape in farmers’ fields. Except, perhaps, for fields owned and run by massive corporate agricultural interests—who have industrial-scale earth-moving machinery at hand—most agricultural fields I have seen contain these little unplowed and relatively undisturbed islands.

In the photo above you see one such Fairy Isle just about a half kilometer from our house. This isle is located in the centerpoint between two nearby farmed pastures in Fiskars known as Storkärr and Vedakärr (see map below).

Now one “logical” explanation for the existence of such islands is that these spots are often located on top of larger boulders or perhaps wet spots that are more resistant to the leveling process of field digging. The farmers simply might choose to leave these more difficult spots as they are and cultivate their crops around them. But if so, why are there so often piles of large stones on these isles? Again, this might simply be the result of moving the stones to unplowed spots while clearing the fields.

I am confident that this accounts for some of the stones on these islands at least. But what I am also confident of is that these spots are not simple accidents of the farming process. I refer to such spots as Fairy Isles because I have often encountered fairy presences in these spots and have seen the impact of their presence—the etheric light emanating from them—in the midst of otherwise everyday farming activities and locations. I frequently enter into dialogue with these fairy presences or nature spirits, if you prefer, learning a good deal about the activities of ancient peoples and other entities throughout the ages. In many instances, these spots are reserved by the fairies themselves as sacred preserves that maintain their moderating influence on the human and nonhuman environment. The farming activities benefit from these spirit influences that emanate from the isles.

Now let’s go back to that map locating this particular Fairy Isle and pay attention to its surroundings. Here is a zoomed version:

Note the red circles and stars laid over the criss-cross red lines on the map. These are the ancient sites officially recognized by Museovirasto (the Finnish Heritage Society). This shows that the Fairy Isle I have pointed out here sits in the midst of a vast center of ancient sacred sites marked by cairns and other stone sites. Some of them are identified as muinaishaudat, Finnish for ancient graves (“forngravar” in Swedish).

My sense at the moment, which might change as I engage more with the spirits of this spirit landscape, is that this particular Fairy Isle in the field served as a ceremonial centering point for the other much larger sites surrounding it. (I will comment further on this as I discover more about it.) We have visited each of these sites and are in the process of going deeper into our education as it comes forth from the spirits of the place.

What I offer as a take-away right now is the suggestion that you keep your eyes open for these little islands in the middle of the fields as you drive or walk by. Once you activate your intuitive communicational faculties, you can use these as grounding points for future education and soul expansion. In a time when the planet is desperately trying to communicate to each and every one of us, such skills are crucial and play a key role in our planetary purpose as beings on this ball in space.