Elyn and I spent most of the day yesterday at a friend’s house in the mountains above Pecos, NM helping to plan and site a labyrinth. (We are trained as labyrinth facilitators and have built several labyrinths over the years.) We arrived in mid morning and spent the time before lunch finding the right place on their land. This involved much walking of their land with dowsing rods in hand until we came to the right place. Elyn did most of the dowsing, but she taught our friends the basic technique and they also tried their hand. I mostly looked at potential sites from a practical perspective. How level is the site? How free is it of obstructions? Before noon we had chosen a site that was to everyone’s liking. It had the advantage of looking out over a high bluff at the forest and mountains across the Pecos Valley.
After lunch I showed our friends the booklet we had created many years ago with detailed plans for construction and we set to work. The tools needed are quite simple: a long length of rope or cord, a central stake to tie the cord to, and surveyor’s flags to mark the paths. Their finished labyrinth will look like the illustration above. It will be 24 feet across with paths that will be about 12 inches wide. They will build the labyrinth using small stones that are abundant on the site.
We had a fun time and were very satisfied with our efforts. Our friends will finish the construction and we will plan on going up to see the labyrinth when it is ready to walk.
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