LOCH NESS, Scotland
At nearly 800ft deep, and formed by a displacement of the Great Glen fault-line which slices across the land of Scotland, Loch Ness is an energetic abyss. A place of myth and legend, I was transfixed throughout my visit.
I took the Jacobite cruise trip from Inverness transferring to the boat at the beginning of the Caledonian Canal - which is 60 miles long in total, running from Inverness in the east to Fort William in the west. The canal leads into the loch (Inverness means ‘mouth of the River Ness’) and runs the length of the fault-line - what I consider an energy line. Loch Ness, at nearly 23 miles in length (and 1.7 miles wide) forms a significant section of this natural parting of lands - and of what was once, millions of years ago, two different continents. (As the continents drifted together the Caledonian mountains were formed. It is suggested that once upon a time, the Caledonian mountains would have been comparable to the Alps or Himalayas).
Though not the longest or deepest loch in Scotland, Ness contains the most water: more than all the lakes, rivers and reservoirs of England and Wales combined. It is immense and omnipresent. Deep and forbidden. It speaks, yet reveals very little; a language beyond the comprehensible, I found. Mythical and strange. Powerful, yet with a level of considered care for itself. The energy felt boundaried and full…and potently inexplainable. 7,452 million cubic metres of liquid myth, with reports of underlying caves and connections to other lochs and lands. Never freezing, roughly 6 degrees all year round.
Travelling across the dark and creamy waters I felt suspended and other-worldly. The weather was overcast, adding to the atmosphere. Peering down to a magical black-ness: not deep green, not midnight blue, not black - but as if the earth itself breathes up through it and the magic incubates in it. I felt unable to ground. I was surreally traversing across a vastness of ‘something’.
The water is black because of the peat from the trees and wood rotting into the loch (the tour guide was a handy, and very friendly, source of information). But colours have energy…a vibration. There is more to this lake than meets the eye - it is like a mirror, reflecting what little we need to know, while below, worlds of magic and mystery.
I noticed the hills and mountains surrounding the waters edge. They had ‘a light’ to them, which was most noticeable around the mountains with no trees upon them. “The loch is also the land,” said my channel. “And the trees and the woods, the mountains and the visioning.” (a clue there, I think :)) As we head further out, the surrounding greenery adds richness to the energy. And still, I cannot get ‘in’ to the information. My angel nudges me: “Look at the sign in the energy,” she says. My sense: it is ancient land, mythical love, a portal; that we can come to Ness to retrieve wisdom…if we are willing to time-travel. If we are willing to traverse more than just water.
Loch Ness is old…in the true sense of what it means to pre-date what we yet know. Timeless and exciting…hypnotising. Could there be a Loch Ness mythical ‘monster’? Absolutely. Are we ready for such a world to reveal itself to us? Maybe, not yet. Should you visit? Most definitely - though most will just see ‘a lake’, so you may choose to visit alone, as I did.
Love,
Delilah
PS. According to our guide, there have been 1153 ‘officially’ reported sightings of Nessie to-date (with 7 in 2023, as of 5th October) and the first sighting was in the River Ness which flows swiftly through Inverness city centre - and which I found just as enigmatic in its own way.
[visit: 5th October 2023]
Read my upcoming report on Urquhart Castle for the second part of this trip.