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Easter Aquorthies Recumbent Stone Circle
'Field of Dreams'

The interior design of the stones in front of the shaped Recumbent (horizontal stone) all make this
circle a powerful place of universal Goddess presence. This circle is very loved and used by many
in the present day for celebration and personal ceremonies.
To the west lies the brooding Mither Tap of Bennachie.
The circle has acoustic properties when singing in it and many different types and colours of stone were used in creating it. You can just see peeping around the forefront left hand stone the beautiful and unique reddish/pink stone of Jasper that lies in the circle.

In his book 'Places of Power' page 70 (ISBN 0713727659), Paul Devereux tells
of the radiation monitoring experiment done here during a lunar standstill with very interesting results.Personally I have witnessed many people receive spontaneous insights and healings here.

Originally the Mither Tap of Bennachie was called the Mither 'Pap' or Mothers Breast. The story goes that the 'Victorians' decided to change it to Tap meaning top. This sacred mountain lies to the West of the circle, and one of the tops of the circle stones lines up and matches the Mither Taps outline on the horizon. A lot of stone work has been done to the massive Recumbent stone with its veins of quartz running through it. Looking head on one can see the crescent moon shape or maybe setting sun visually joining the two inner circle stones that it rests against. Again these two inner stones are very different. One is pink and flat topped (LHS) while the other is almost black with large white pieces of quartz and in a V shape on its top.

In the centre on the ground we find a thin slip of a stone also protruding into the circle. Many women on my tours when looking at this 5000 year old sacred site immediately connect this configuration or design of stones with fertility and the womb. We do not find this design around the recumbent in any other remaining circles in Aberdeenshire to my knowledge. No surprise that so many are effected on many levels by this image in the subconscious mind as did our ancestors who created it.

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