The Grail Land of Europe is associated with western Europe and has a geomantic spine (the Grail Line) that stretches from the Golfe du Lion in the south to the Assynt/Cape Wrath area of northern Scotland. Because it passes through the focus of Europe's throat chakra (Bourges), it could also be referred to as the Throat Line of Europe.

This Grail or Throat Line is also the main axis of the central pentagonal geometry of the Taurean face of the Planetary Dodecahedron—the geometric matrix of the Planetary Light Body. The circumscribing circle and pentagon of this central area more or less defines that part of Europe most involved with the Grail legends, hence we refer to it as the Grail Land of Europe.

The root chakra of the Grail Line and Grail Land lies in the Golfe du Lion. Its nearest land focus is at Les-Saintes-Maries de-la-Mer, which clearly marks and acknowledges the chakric function. Le Puy de Dome near Clermont Ferrand marks the sacral, Chartres the solar plexus, London (Kingston) the heart, Great Whernside the throat, Edinburgh the brow and Ben More Assynt the crown chakra.

The ‘hara’ of the Grail Land is Bourges, the heart of France and centre of the Taurean face of the Planetary Dodecahedron. The English Channel occurs at the etheric ‘veil’ between the solar plexus and heart chakras (manifested in the human physical body as the diaphragm between abdomen and chest), such that the ‘abdomen’ of the Grail Land is clearly defined by the inner pentagon of the Grail Land pentagram, and the ‘head’ of the Grail Land by the northernmost triangle of the Grail Land pentagram. This archetypal geometry works so strongly in the landscape that the very shape of France is defined by the inner pentagon and that of Great Britain (i.e. Britain and Scotland) by the northern triangle.

The Grail is particularly associated with the heart, head and womb, each of which play their own specific roles. Therefore it is perhaps not by chance that the original source of the Grail legends is in Britain and constitutes the chief part of the British (Celtic) mythology, whilst a later association of the Holy Grail and outpouring of Grail legends is connected with France and Northern Spain.

© Peter Dawkins