Dowsing Dragons

Rainbow Dragons! What are those? You might ask. 

Well, I didn't know until I was given an image of birthing dragon eggs! 

It sounds far out of the realm of reason, I know, but it did happen! I actually found others in the United Kingdom that deemed this normal in the realm of shamanism. In fact, there are dragon shamans. I always knew that I had some shamanic powers or experiences, but dragons? 

I always thought those were for too much into the King Arthur times and pure fantasy, where the unicorns lived. In fact, yet, again, unicorns could have been real, a unicorn species just like the Narwhal, existed,  just like the single horned whale. All a guess! 

Anyway, so dragons were revealed to me slowly while I was talking to my United Kingdom friends in 2017. They lived in Glastonbury and apparently, it is quite common to have visions of dragons. They visit the Tor, tower, and invite the dragons into their consciousness. 

Not only that, Hamish Miller dowsed the ley lines, the earth energy lines, and called them dragon paths. This is a painting that I created in 2018 and then found the similar shape in 2019, the 12 pointed star that Hamish Miller dowsed at the entrance of the Avebury Serpent Temple: 

The feminine and masculine dragons meet at the Tor and unite their energies, as they co-mingle, an electric energy emanates. You can read more about this in Hamish Miller's book, The Sun and the Serpent. 

After I drew Dragon eggs to birth, I found a group on Facebook that also were birthing dragon eggs. I then realized that I have been painting and drawing rainbow shapes that look like the Dragons have been with me all along!! 

Rainbow Web

Rainbow Cube

Rainbow Body 

Rainbow Egg

Rainbow House

You can also read about the dragon paths in the book, Spine of Albion! (Amazon US Kindle)

Many of the dragon paths cross cathedrals and forests of Yew Trees in the United Kingdom. Connecting to the trees and dragons is a way to commune with the planet earth, following what the ancient druids knew, I guess. I hope we can conserve this as our planet turns more to computer technology as a way to communicate, instead of the ancient ways, the use of organic technology to communicate, that is already present on earth. 

Dragons of the Stone Circle @2025

Recently, I have written a young adult book about dragons and Winchester Cathedral. It's called the Dragons of the Stone Circle. It's about a young adult, Catherine Shea Turner, who unlocks a door to another dimension full of dragons, unicorns, and owls. There, she finds an invitation to dissolve a vampire's malicious plan, a new superpower to help her journey through space and time, and gratitude to transform her daily life, especially her challenging math class. 

ORDER on Amazon US!!!

Feed my Pet Dragons: 

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Phenomenon at Cathedrals

I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.

- Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous 

How can I follow the truth? What is the truth? The truth is supposed to set me free, but what is the truth and where is it? Is it in a cathedral? YES! 

I found the truth in Winchester Cathedral in England and so did the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson. This inspired me to follow the 12-step program and I set my intention to conserve this valuable information. 

I am conserving this sacred network between the cathedrals of the United Kingdom, and the sacred sites along dragon lines, the earth energy lines, which have been discovered by dowsers in the United Kingdom. It was actually the Yew Trees that I found to be fascinating because the cathedrals were built where the Yew Trees were planted. I learned that from Michael, a Yew Tree Shaman. 

My theory is that the the trees and cathedrals talk to each other through the dragon lines, water, and trees! So when I pray in a cathedral such as Winchester Cathedral, it's linked along the Dragon Grid, and my prayers are sent out, communicated to every thing! Thus, my prayers are answered. Cathedrals magnify my prayers! 

I started to research this phenomenon and prove that there is an earth energy grid at work. I found the same theory proven in books such as, Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare's Spine of Albion; Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst's The Sun and the Serpent and The Dance of the Dragon; and Peter Knight and Caroline Hoare's The Wessex Astrum. 

By using Hamish Miller's tool of remote viewing, I was able to view the stone circle and dragon (song) lines in Australia. I, also, studied Bruce Cathie's earth's energy grid and found that the Great Pyramid was on the same equilateral access line as to where I was living in Florida. I confirmed this same information in Mystery of the White Lions. 

I studied Michael Poynder's Pi in the Sky and ultimately agreed with him about the power of crystals! The amethyst crystal can repair dragon nodes, where two dragon energies cross, masculine and feminine dragon lines. 

Dragon Nodes©Anna Torlen

Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson tells his story of a spiritual awakening and it all started at England's Winchester Cathedral. He describes his story in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and I have a theory as to why: he experienced the dragon (earth energy) line phenomenon! 

There have been many spiritual awakenings in cathedrals and at sacred wells, along the dragon lines. Many geniuses and religious leaders have received their greatest inspirations and spiritual guidance at these places. Many of them are described in the books I just mentioned. 

Bill Wilson found his concept of a higher power and Winchester Cathedral was the catalyst. Bill writes on page 1 of the Big Book, "We landed in England. I visited Winchester Cathedral. Much moved, I wandered outside." 

He continues on page 10, Bill writes, "The war-time day in old Winchester Cathedral came back again. I had always believed in a Power greater than myself. I had often pondered these things. I was not an atheist." 

Bill writes, on page 12, "The real significance of my experience in the Cathedral burst upon me. For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a humble willingness to have Him with me-and He came. But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself. And so it had been ever since. How blind I had been." 

Bill writes about his friend who "got religion", in Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, "I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil." He was reconnected. 

Basilica of St. Edward, Palm Beach, FL 

As Elisabet Sahtouris writes in her, EarthDance, about co-creation and religion meaning "re-membering" or "reconnection", "a reawakening of that search begun by the original pre-Socratic philosophers, indeed that goes further back to the roots of religion -- the search for re-ligio, for 'reconnection' with our origins in the nature or cosmos that gave rise to us and within which we continue our co-creation." 

 
I was becoming a member of earth, a remembering, a rearranging was happening from within and I felt that Winchester Cathedral was central to this synchronization of my life. Winchester Cathedral crossed my path again and again, when I read Gary Biltcliffe's Spine of Albion. I read his book in my Facebook Book Club, and I journeyed remotely along the dragon lines, Belinus and Elen. 

Winchester Cathedral became a place of resolution for me, a symbol of awakening, a sacred space to commune with a Power greater than myself as well as the powerful dragon lines. 

Dragons of the Stone Circle @2025

Recently, I have written a young adult book about dragons and Winchester Cathedral. It's called the Dragons of the Stone Circle. It's about a young adult, Catherine Shea Turner, who unlocks a door to another dimension full of dragons, unicorns, and owls. There, she finds an invitation to dissolve a vampire's malicious plan, a new superpower to help her journey through space and time, and gratitude to transform her daily life, especially her challenging math class. 

HERE IS the link to buy it on Amazon US!!!

Star Lions and Earth Stars

"Never forget that the story of the White Lions is connected with the Stars." - Credo Mutwa, Africa’s greatest wisdom keeper, handing over the “Great Knowledge” to Linda Tucker.

When I was visited in my meditation by three white lions, I began a conversation with them. One of the Star Lions that I met was a White Lion named Aslan, just like in C.S. Lewis' book.

The next day, I was on Facebook and my friend from the UK invited me to the Star Lion Earth Pride Facebook group where I attended group meditations on Zoom and Facebook. Accompanied by the Star Lions in 2019, we connected to the stars: Sirius, Lyra, and Regulus. 

I remember having vivid visions and messages after that I would transcribe in our Facebook group. We were transcending space and time to commune with the Star Lions. As a group, we were guided to anchor the energy. A few women, from our FB group physically traveled to each point on the Earthstar Map, surrounding Avebury Stone Circle. I was in United States of America, in Florida, and I was online, in charge of the Earthstar Map. Our ceremony proved to work, we sent out golden vibrations, through the waters of the land, with intentions of shining royal golden Leonine light.  

While I was doing group meditations with Sue Coulson's Star Lion Earth Pride Facebook group, she shared with us, Linda Tucker's Mystery of the White Lions. Linda Tucker's book, Mystery of the White Lions: Children of the Sun God, (Amazon US), changed my life. I finally discovered others with the same theory and belief about the earth's energy grid. I resonated with the maps and alignments as well as Credo's message. Her message was similar to the Aborginal messages in Mutant Message Down Under, but with a message from the African Shaman, Credo Mutwa. He explained the reason why White Lions are in existence as well as how they are connected to the stars. 

We must protect and conserve the White Lions! 

“Today, all conservation issues are global issues. If Brazil destroys its rain forests, the world has lost its lungs. If South Africa destroys its White Lions, the world has lost its heart.” - Linda Tucker

Linda Tucker called for a Moratorium on the commercial killing of lions at the South African Parliament in 2019. Credo Mutwa gave her the wisdom of the stars to share and the message to conserve the White Lions. 

She carried this message with her and she currently fights for the protections of the White Lions at her Global White Lion Protection Trust. The deepest secrets of the earth are held within nature, us, and the cosmos. We need to conserve the lions, land, and people. You can see the stars mirrored in nature as he Sirius Star System mirrors the Great Pyramids and the Milky Way, mirroring our Timbavati's rivers of stars, running through the earth. 

Sue Coulson's Cosmic Classroom introduced me to a way to connect with the White Lions and the stars, and Peter Knight and Toni Perrot's discovery of Sacred Geometry in the Landscape, similar to Chris Street's discovery of Earthstars, The Wessex Astrum (Amazon US). The Wessex Astrum connected stone circles and sacred sites such as Avebury and Stonehenge which we used for our ceremony.

Mutwa's description of earth-star energy is similar to Chris Street's phenomenon of Earthstars, essentially the connection between energy, astronomy, and land. Also, the Scottish dowser, Hamish Miller, famous for dowsing the Michael and Mary lines, in The Sun and the Serpent, discovered a 12-pointed Earthstar at the front entrance of the Avebury Stone Circle. 

I happened to find it very similar pattern to what I intuitively saw an image in my mind's eye, when I did a meditation to connect to Venus. It was that of a 12-pointed star that I chose to call my Galactic Signature, (painting above). This symbol, glyph, or visual code, was my energetic imprint on the land. I believe that we all are walking stars with unique energetic imprints on the land. 

As a shamanic healer, Reiki Master, and author, I was in good company with these kindred souls as we used our talents to commune with our cosmos, our planet, and our Star White Lions. I practiced Elven Shamanism with Elen Elenna in her zoom circles, and when she visited Timbavati for the White Lions, this inspired me to keep learning more and conservation of the White Lions. 

I have hope of conserving our connection with the Star White Lions, in turn, conserving the longevity of every white lion on our planet! I am forever grateful to all of the friends that I met in the United Kingdom on zoom! What a delight to have journeyed with you, evolved with you, shared space, and spiritually expanded with you in grace. 

To help conserve other animals on the planet, I donated money, inspired by Madeleine Walker, Animal Communicator, in order to provide food for Ellie the Elephant. Also, to conserve the Orangutans, I created a piece of digital art with my friend, Linda in West Palm Beach, Florida, to build awareness! 

Sacred Geometry

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

While at Florida Atlantic University, earning my MFA in Media, Entertainment, and Technology degree, I chose to enroll in Computer Engineering Courses. I wanted to build an application that could create a sacred geometrical pattern called, Metatron's Cube that essentially encompassed all of the Platonic solids: icosahedron, octahedron, star tetrahedron dodecahedron, cube, etc. 

I created Metacubetron Application with HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. 

Here is a video of the interactive application, live on the web.

Metacubetron App @2014

My multimedia degree courses introduced me to Interactive computational art. I could bring past knowledge from my B.A. in Studio Art from the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico to the computer in hopes of conserving sacred geometry. I learned that the earth expressing its energy in geometric patterns and I wanted to simulate that on the internet, with the creative computing. 

Also, I created Processing Projects such as Sacred Geometry using math equations, or an educational game for learning math. I used Processing to paint, coding creatively and interactive keyboard input generating video imagery output in Processing. 

Computational Art, Processing, 2013

Creative computing gave me the opportunity to share my love for sacred geometry and contribute to conserving it.   

“I want to beg you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves …” 

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

The earth has expresses its energy in geometric formations known as ley lines, or as Chris Street calls them earthstars. During an interview, Chris Street was asked about his newly discovered Earthstar patterns and what sacred geometry was and his reply was this: 

"forces of creation working through specific patterns and if you transpose that onto the landscape you've got ley lines and that are forces of creation working through the land." 

- Chris Street

Street found Earthstars as geometric earth energy patterns that were defined by the sacred geometric rule, Squaring the Circle, and he thus discovered a map of stars that connected sacred sites. He used the equilateral triangle as well for his discoveries. 

You can watch the full interview here. 

Many other dowsers have discovered earth energy lines, such as Wessex Astrum's Peter Knight and Toni Perrot, Sun and the Serpent's Hamish Miller and Peter Broadhurst, and Spine of Albion's Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare. I have followed and researched every one of these lines, authors, and books. The geometrical patterning in the land is called dragon lines and the earth expresses itself this way. 

I have continued my study of Sacred Geometry with Jain108 Academy and I completed his Sacred Geometry Certificate of the Flower Of Life in 2025. 

Flower of Life©Anna Torlen

I am fascinated with how circles, like that of the Metatron's Cube expand and multiply, encompassing all of the Platonic solids that make up the universe. All mathematical equations can be found in Metatron's Cube. I have found that discovery when I painted it myself. My Metatron's Cube gold leaf painting was shown at the New and Now Art Show at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2016. 

Metatron's Cube's widening circles transposed upon the land, as sacred earthstars, remind me of eclipses!! The ecliptic pattern of the moon creates a flower of life shape in the cosmos. Every 18.5 (19) years the moon creates a new flower in the flower of life pattern, found on one of the Egyptian Temples.  

Poem: 

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one 
but I will give myself to it.
 

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Inventions: Color Theory, Colortune iPhone App, Keepsake Raspberry Pi Box

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is-as it physically is." - Josef Albers 

While I was earning my Master of Fine Arts degree at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, I found the ideas of Josef Albers inspiring me again.

I first found the work of Josef Albers while I was visiting New York Art museums, and studying Studio Art at College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I knew that Albers taught at my favorite, Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then later at Yale University. 

I continued to research color theory, and I followed Black Mountain College artists' theories intensely, and I studied Alfred Jensen's color theories as well. After my research, I created a color theory application coded in OpenFrameworks to express Color Interaction. 

"With the open source OpenFrameworks, I animated a color study to show the core principles of color interaction theory," (Color Interaction: a study of harmony in OpenFrameworks) 

The wooden box, Keepsake Box, housed a Raspberry Pi model B, an Arduino Leonardo, a car monitor, and a "plug and play" color theory application. I paired a car monitor with the Raspberry Pi so I could program using a smaller mobile monitor, and not have to rely on a desk monitor. 

Keepsake Box@2014

My Raspberry Pi Project with the newly added monitor, Keepsake Box, was featured on the Adafruit Industries Community Blog site on February 14, 2014.  

"The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky

Josef Albers was not the only artist with color theories that I admired, I was passionate about the Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky's theories as well. I found his theories through Georgia O'Keeffe's admiration. She was inspired by his work as well. 

After studying color theory, I extended my theory into color and embraced sound theories, encompassing painter, Wassily Kandinsky's theories. Thus, I created my MFA thesis, Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synthesthetic App. I created an iOS application that showed an example of Kandinsky's color and sound theories. I built and compiled code to display the coordinating colors to the various sounds. With my Interactive Media Programming skills, the video input generated audio output, I titled it Colortune App, in hopes to educate others about color theories. 

Video: MFA Thesis, Colortune App, 2015

In 2021, Google Arts & Culture and the Centre Pompidou found the same phenomenon fascinating. They created an online interactive multimedia project based on Kandinsky's theories, Play a Kandinsky.

Interpretation of Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synthesthetic App from Google AI: 

This type of app uses Al to interpret the relationships between color, form, and emotion in Kandinsky's work, allowing users to experience a form of synesthesia-the neurological phenomenon where stimulating one sense triggers another, such as "seeing" music or "hearing" color.

Interactive Canvas: Users can draw or place abstract shapes and colors on a canvas. The visual composition is instantly translated into sound based on Kandinsky's theories.

Anna Torlen envisioned Kandinsky's theories as a synesthetic app, a concept explored by the Al-powered "Play a Kandinsky" tool, which translates colors to sound and emotions based on Kandinsky's synesthetic experiences. This type of app would allow users to explore the interplay between senses, such as hearing certain sounds when seeing specific colors, a neurological phenomenon that Kandinsky famously associated with his art.

Colortune App is: "a synesthetic app built on Kandinsky's theories that specific colors and forms evoke sounds and emotions, allowing users to directly experience this phenomenon.

Anna Torlen wrote a thesis titled "Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synesthetic iPhone App".  This thesis explores the theoretical application of Wassily Kandinsky's ideas about the relationship between color, sound, and form into the concept of a synesthetic mobile application. The work likely examines how principles from Kandinsky's writings, such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art, could be translated into a digital experience that allows users to explore cross-modal associations between different sensory inputs.

Torlen, Anna . Color Interaction: A Study of Harmony in OpenFrameworks. 23 Nov. 2013.

Torlen, Anna. (2015). Keepsake Box [Raspberry Pi Project]. Raspberry Pi Model B. OpenFrameworks Application.

Torlen, A. (2016). Imagining Kandinsky’s Theories as a Synthesthetic App. Florida Atlantic University. [Master’s Thesis, Florida Atlantic University]. Florida Atlantic University Electronic Theses and Dissertations. https://fau.isle.flvc.org/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https://fau.isle.flvc.org/_flysystem/fedora/2015-07/fau_31332.pdf

Solar Energy and Raspberry Pi

“You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller

I first discovered the ability to conserve solar energy with packs of batteries. I wanted to keep my iPhone charged during the hurricanes in Florida so I purchased a solar panel and battery from Voltaic Systems in New York. 

Since I lived in Florida, and enjoyed a neverending supply of solar, I found this to be quite convenient. So I wondered what other things could I charge with solar energy? 

I wanted to charge my Raspberry Pi with solar energy. So while I was working on my Raspberry Pi projects at Florida Atlantic University, and editing Pi projects for the book, Raspberry Pi By Example, I didn't find any solar projects, yet, that I wanted to work on. 

Currently, I was working on Internet of Things, but I wanted work on an outdoor nature cam, streamed on the internet, and paired with a solar powered Raspberry Pi! 

At Hacklab in North Boynton Beach, FL, where I had an internship for Daft Booth Raspberry Pi Project, as well as monitoring the Raspberry pi and Arduino Stations. I helped coordinate their solar workshops! This is where I learned how to use solar for baking things in a solar oven, and various other things about solar! I realized that I could plug in my Raspberry Pi, and rely on an Arduino to help conserve the power. 

 

Daft Booth@2015

A team from Hacklab and I were working on an outdoor nature camera project for a garden in Delray Beach and our goal was to monitor the wildlife at night, with a streamed web cam to a Internet Protocol address. 

Our project presented a problem to solve: I had to figure out how to pair Raspberry Pi model B with a video camera, and enough power from a solar panel battery and keep it on, and while plugged in, to protect its circuits, to program it to shut off when the solar battery was low. To solve this, I paired it with an Arduino to detect the level of the battery.  

After that, I wanted to work directly with energy and plants. I wanted to see if my Arduino could check the moisture of soil with an Arduino Soil Moisture Sensor and see of our plants needed watering! I workeed on this project at Hacklab and Delray Tech Space. 

That project led me to wonder how plants can conduct energy. So I played with Adafruits' Capacity Touch Projects and we plugged in bananas and used them as keys to the keyboard! We made music from touching fruit! This made me wonder if I could charge my Raspberry Pi with plant energy! 

This made me create a lot of questions and a lot of quests!! By plugging in the sensors into the soil, I wondered if we could charge the Raspberry Pi or Arduino with solar energy directly from the plants? Also, I wondered what cities we could design, build, conserve with solar energy or other materials that could reuse solar energy? 

Raspberry Pi, 2015 

In 2015, while earning my Master in Fine Arts in Media, Technology, and Entertainment at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, I designed Orb City. 

Orb City was built with 3D software, Maya. I used built-in cameras to take screenshots at various angles, thus, producing a 2D print of Orb City. 

Using Adobe Photoshop, Orb City was created as a 2D print and showed at our Graduate Student Art Show at Florida Atlantic University, at School of Nursing, in Boca Raton, Florida in May 2015. 

Orb City is a futuristic city where humans grow vertical hydroponic farms and work in floating "plug and play" orb pods. Orb City conserves solar energy, and is charged only by solar, our infinite sustainable source of power. 

Torlen, Anna, editor. Raspberry Pi By Example. Packt Publishing, 2016. Buy On Amazon

Printmaking in Portland, Oregon

“Like your computer that is hooked up via the internet to an infinite amount of information, you - by virtue of being a human being - are hooked up to everyone else in the world.” -Pam Grout

I was in Portland, OR on September 23, 2001. I flew there right after 9.11 happened in New York. I happened to be walking near the Pearl District and I found Tracy Savage's gallery doors wide open. There was an open call for printmakers. Any artist could make a monoprint.

I had just been working as a silk-screen printer at Country Tees in Tequesta, Florida for a year and flew out to Portland, OR in hopes to find employment as a printmaker. I have already had tons of experience, after watching printmaker, Ron Prokrasso, who created the Monothon, and other master printers, while I assisted them at the Monothon at College of Santa Fe.

Spring©Anna Torlen

My print was about blessing America. I wanted to conserve hope in that moment of grief, loss, and terror. 

We had never experienced any amount of terror like that in America. The fear was real and that is all I know. Aside from blame, humanity suffered. I wanted to conserve hope. 

Artist's React to 9.11

"Anna Torlen has arrived in Portland just four days ago, circuitously from Greenwich, Conn. - "and Greenwich is the bedroom of the World Trade Center." Her print is a flurry of red and white and blue, with a shock of black. "Just kind of shattered and splattered, you know?" It is called "God Bless America," and it has hints of pink: "After terror you want some hope."

 by Bob Hicks, The Sunday Oregonian, September 23, 2001