About Ley Lines Literary Review

Ley Lines Literary Review is an online website-based literary magazine committed to publishing meaningful contemporary writing and offering it to the wider reading public. We publish annually, each spring, in March or April of the year.

What are ley lines? Ley lines are invisible lines in the Earth—similar to latitudinal and longitudinal lines—but crisscrossing at various places, creating intersections that have powerful energies.

The concept of ley lines remains controversial since Alfred Watkins first proposed it to Western audiences in his 1925 book The Old Straight Track. While skeptics doubt their existence, believers assert that these energies are real.

Many cultural traditions offer their own version of ley lines. For instance, the Chinese notion of geomantic energy lines, called “lung mei” (sometimes translated as “dragon veins“), has been around for millennia. Similar to Watkins’s idea, the Chinese version asserts that underground channels of energy run through mountain ranges, travel through the Earth, and often end in rivers or lakes. Believers warn that ignoring these energies may have negative consequences.

Additionally, some American indigenous people believe that ley lines provide a link to the spiritual world. For indigenous tribes like the Cherokee, ley lines have been associated with tribal rituals, spirituality, and hunting. In North Carolina, the ancient Cherokee believed that ley lines intersected throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains—home to Ley Lines Literary Review and to the Cherokee who lived here before the Trail of Tears.

It’s interesting to note that ley lines are also thought to exist beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza and Stonehenge, as well as beneath sacred monuments, buildings, and natural geophysical formations around the world.

Whether or not you believe in ley lines is up to you. But it’s reassuring to think that the Earth offers invisible energy-paths that connect us to the land and to our own creative-spiritual energies.

Please feel free to contact the journal’s editor, Robin Greene, if you have any suggestions for LLLR or wish to offer your comments. You can reach her at leylinesliteraryreview@gmail.com