I was asked recently if my dowsing rods were somehow ‘tuned’ to me or could anyone use them. I lent them to the enquirer for a few minutes to show that they weren’t.
A few weeks later I was showing someone else how to dowse and the movements were a bit weak, so they asked if it would get more positive as the rods got used to the person. I replied that it was more likely the other way round. As you get more used to using the rods you become more familiar with them (and also dowsing in general) and as you become more comfortable you start to feel more at ease . Think of it like riding a bike or driving a car, at first a new vehicle feels a little bit different but you get used to it.
As I have said, the dowsing implements are inanimate objects, it is the dowser who dowses, not the rods or pendulum.
I started out in my dowsing experience looking at Roman Roads as they permeated the country, and so there was a network of them. The Mansio in what is now Havant Park was actually in the middle of our local network so it is reasonable to expect to find several roads lost to time in the area.
I knew that the old Roman road from Chichester changed direction by a few degrees at Havant, and identified the point at which it did. In the churchyard, by the tree just opposite the Robin Hood pub.
At this point we now have Homewell, a short N/S road. I dowsed if this had been a Roman Road, and yes, it ran through Costa coffee shop, and the Meridian centre (which of course wasn’t there then) and changed direction slightly to get to the Mansio in Havant park, and then off through the park.
We know that the Romans were famous for their arrow straight roads so I wondered why this road had so many changes of directions until it left Havant park.
The Roman army built the major roads as part of their invasion and control of the Brits (that’s us) but retiring soldiers were given a pension in the form of a plot of land on which to build a home and a farm. I suspect that any minor connecting roads may have had to avoid cutting through these estates, and in the case of Havant park a slight detour to get to the previously established Mansio before heading off North.
North of what is now the railway it went through the Job Centre, across the police car park, under the Horizon Leisure centre, and across the Petersfield Road.
(Any reference to buildings and modern street names is, of course, not implying that those buildings existed 2000 years ago)
Dowseman