Fleming park is in Eastleigh, in Hampshire. It was originally owned by the Flemings, and its parkland was designed by Lancelot Capability Brown. The estate covered much of this part of Eastleigh, and was once called North Stoneham estate. Although much of the original estate has been built on, of course, some parts remain. A portion of the estate became a golf course and this protected the landscaped park from development. The same cannot be said for many other parts of this beautiful landscape, however. But at least parts of it are still accessible.

We first ventured into Fleming park when we had to visit the Honda dealer and had time to spare. On that first visit, we found a group of pines who spoke, with collective fondness, for the ‘tree-man’. We later discovered that the park had been landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown and he loved trees. Really loved trees. The trees themselves spoke of him as though he were a human-tree.

On that occasion, one large pine tree gifted us a tree attunement, so we could help people connect to trees in a tree-way.

On this occasion, in May 25, we were called back to the trees. Early one morning, we drove down and walked over the bridge that spanned Monk’s Brook and headed up the incline towards them. Once we had crossed that bridge, the energy was palpable. The tree’s energy reaches out to you as you approach them, once you have already made their acquaintance. You can feel the pull in your body, as though your aura is being draw towards them.

At the top of the incline, we found the tree that gave us the attunement last time, and we made our way through the brambles to get to it. It was a tall, stately pine tree and its energy was palpable. Chris was picking up that this tree was the Arthur tree, the king tree who holds the other trees. Like the mother trees act as mothers to other, younger trees – including us humans as we learn to be trees too – it also acts as guardian of the area so it is aware of all the other trees.

We walked around the tree anticlockwise, three times in total, each time going deeper into its consciousness, then we both stood with our backs to the trunk and activated the heartwood symbol. Because we had gone deeply into the elemental realm we were now connected to the Elven realm. Once we had activated this symbol in our own heart centres, this then connected us to the heartwood of the tree, but this time there was the gold line of the tree we were connecting to. The gold line came from beneath the tree, ran up through the centre of the trunk and out through the branches. This was an energy we could tap into, so we were not simply connecting the heartwood but to the purpose of its tree-ness. Its intention for being alive.

The heartwood symbol was like a key, opening up to the vitality of the tree. It pulls this vitality from the sun and the earth. After a few minutes of this, I was instructed to change position and stand facing the tree with our palms on the trunk. Now, the heartwood key emerged out the back our heart centres. This was new! It shows that the symbol remains in place and as we change bodily direction, the key comes out the front of the chest, or the back, at the heart level.

Just as in the beautiful beech tree in Winchester Cathedral grounds, Chris was picking up a different level of elemental consciousness than I was. He saw the gnome energy-beings running through tunnels below the tree, working with the roots of plants and helping the energy to flow. I had worked with a similar energy on Stockbridge Down years ago when we had to ‘drop down’ into the earth and reconfigure the energy lines that ran below the ancient burial mounds there. Then too, I saw them as a gnome-type entity, looking somewhat like the dwarves from Snow White. My memory-banks chose this image to help me understand the nature of the beings who do this below-ground work with the land.

On this day, Chris was picking up one level of energy and I was picking up another. The tree then began to speak of the crown, and I could see a gold crown in its branches. The king Tree. Facing the tree, with our palms on the truck, there was a red cord running up through it, just as we had laid in Flowerdown. At the burial mound, we had walked the gold cord in one direction and on the way back walked the red cord. Now, facing the tree we were connecting a red line, whereas when we had our backs to the tree, we were working with the gold cord. The red cord only went through the trunk, however, whereas the gold line went all the way to the branches.

The gold line was the solar line, but the red was the vitality of the earth. There was also a faint blue line, which represents water. But it was not very visible. I became aware of a violet energy surrounding the area, a soft amethyst, so the tree was connecting to the amethyst layer of the crystalline field of the earth, just like the tree at crab wood. We anchored the amethyst sphere around the tree, just as we had at Crab Wood, and within the sphere a violet flame. The wind rose then in a beautiful way and it felt very druidy. The flame shines out like a beacon, cleansing the area. In the branches, a golden egg appeared. This collects the sunlight and sends new golden energy down through the branches to feed the tree, which then feeds us, energetically.

When we had finished, we noticed seams of gold sap, some of it crystallised, in the creases of the bark. So we took some home to make an incense mix. Sap from a tree you’ve worked on emits an energetic aroma as well as its gorgeous fragrance, filling your space with the energy of the tree. We will collect more on our next visit. Apparently, you can also make tea with the sap, so I will be trying that!