Author: Ann Murphy

Gaia’s Energy Field: The Nine Crystalline Bands Explained.

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As a Gaia Method Earthways Healer, you learn to work within layers of the earth’s crystalline field. Three are below ground: the deep iron core; the liquid outer core, and the water that runs in the earth’s crust as rivers, aquifers, etc. These three layers are the energies that form quartz.

Most quartz forms in either igneous rock (formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava) or in environments with geothermal waters. It contains the creative energy of the Earth. It also has a consciousness, a collective field of awareness, an elemental energy. Moving to the surface of the Earth, the energies of the Mother become more crystalline in energy, as if she is using the creative energies of lava and water in their crystalline form and extending them around herself in a body of crystalline light.

The following is a channelling I received last year about crystal energy:

Crystals are encoded with the energy of creation. Used as transmitters, modifiers, harmonisers, and balancers, they regulate the crystalline energy of Human consciousness, especially when we, as humans, are aligned with the Earth’s purpose and Being. Crystals allow a certain vibration, or information frequency, to be transmitted through the airwaves to the receiver. Crystals formed as the Earth formed over millions of years and therefore hold the energetic memory of Earth’s creation. They are the perfect transmitters of that frequency.

Because we, too, are all made from the Earth, crystals help us anchor our higher awareness into the physical body, keeping us fully anchored in space and time, just as stone circles do in certain locations. If you were to imagine that you were a crystal, that inside you are crystalline. You could pick up the energy vibrations of the Earth, translating them into other frequencies which the mind, body and emotional bodies could receive. As a crystal, you would be in constant contact with every other crystal in the world and could petition your crystal family for extra help when needed, such as when you needed more clarity of purpose. Your crystal family would help and support your endeavours, especially when you are working deep in the layers of humanity and the Earth. The crystals keep us clearly focused on what we must do, and therefore, as long as we maintain that connection, all will be well. 

The Crystalline layers.

The first three layers, which are beneath the surface of the earth, are:

1) The Black Core of the Earth. This often appears as dense black and is the magnetic centre of the planet. In terms of the dragon dimension, this is represented by the Black Dragon and the black dragon lines, and is the domain of the red and black spider.

2) The Red Lava layer. This is the layer of fire energies, the liquid layer of the planet. The Red Dragon and the red energy lines are part of this layer and are also part of the red and black spider energies. Each layer works within other dimensions, each of which affects the other. The red and black energy lines are the red and black spider and form her lines of silken web. The twin energies of Earth’s creation, the twin dragons, are the creative energies of the lava and the core. Those energies can move to the surface of the Earth, like lava flowing from a volcano.

3) The Blue Water layer. This is the water that comes from above, and that has seeped deep into the earth, creating underground lakes and rivers. In the dragon dimension, the blue dragon is active here. It comes to the world as rain and soaks through the soil and rock, creating underground lakes and streams. It is a primal creative energy, but one that comes from the Earth’s atmosphere rather than from within the Earth itself. Like the infinity symbol, the blue dragon flows from the skies to the Earth and back again in a cycle. As underground water, the blue layer is also a creative energy. The combination of lava and water creates land.

Those are the primal, physical creation energies of the planet, from which all that we know is born. Once we arrive on the surface of the Earth, the frequencies change to crystalline frequencies. The physical manifestations of Earth’s creative forces.

4) The fourth band is Emerald (the Green Dragon in the Dragon dimension) and contains the surface of the earth and all its vegetation, including trees. It is the energy of growth, of life and all growing things. This is the band that still contains the creative energy of the lower three layers, but where it shifts to crystalline. It is as if the crystalline bands support the earth. The inner level energy expands into the outer levels. These higher frequencies are the energetic forces of the higher aspects of Mother Earth.

5) The Ruby layer. The layer of the Mother’s Divine Love is akin to her emotional body. The ruby band provides access to the crystalline love of Mother Earth, bringing it to earth in certain locations that serve as receptacles for this energy. The ruby/magenta energy then travels through the earth grid, connecting to other sites. It is a higher level of love that feeds and nurtures the world reminding us of the Mother’s Love.

6) At the upper edge of the ruby band, there is a thinner sapphire layer. This is the masculine energy of the Mother’s heart. It is an active principle with a more focused masculine intent. It provides a bridge between the Ruby and the next band, the Diamond.

7) The Diamond band. This is the layer of pure thought. It is a fifth-dimensional energy. It is the realm of NOW; of the present moment, where all things come into being. At this level, you exist outside time and space. Your thoughts are now in the fifth dimension where you have access to the seed thoughts for humanity. The soul of humanity can anchor the new thought-forms from this diamond layer into the collective when it’s time for more extensive development, such as now.

8) The Amethyst Layer. This energetic layer is of a soft lilac light. Its frequency is of a much finer vibration, like a sparkling clear gem. It is above the Diamond layer and contains the highest thought-forms for humanity’s spiritual development. The spiritual thoughts of Mother Earth. Compassion, caring, gentleness.

9) Yellow Topaz. This is the solar realm, the energy of solar radiation, which affects the vibration of the Earth. It is the highest level of the Earth’s crystalline body and the overlighting energy of the Source, bathing the Earth and all humanity in divine energy, helping them to grow into their divine Beingness. It is joy and abundance, and feeds the earth and all living things with its light.

When you work at sacred sites, you may see a band energetically represented by the crystal of that band. It will hover above the site you are working on. When I worked with the burial mounds near the cursus at Stonehenge, I remember seeing this for the first time. Above one of the larger mounds, an amethyst crystal appeared, which told me that whatever we were doing energetically brought that level of energy into our 3rd-dimensional realm. The energy present in the barrow also showed me its connection to that layer.

Sometimes, especially with the ruby layer, which begins just above the level of the trees, you may see it as a wide magenta band above the site. Or, such as at Uffington, you might find yourself in the band. There is a reason many sacred sites were constructed in high places. They were accessing those frequencies, accessing the thoughts of the Mother and sending those thoughts out through the ether to affect mankind’s thinking. Balance is always the way, and without these places and the people who live and work within them, things might be very different.

One thing we discovered when working in Banjo enclosures (Iron Age settlement sites) is that at the end of the avenue of each one, there is an energy vortex which connects directly to the magenta/Ruby layer. That energy then feeds up the avenue to fill the circular settlement. They are little sites of Mother Love. Some sites, such as hillforts, were often created within that band. Living in such a place, there was no sense of lack. This can still be experienced if you travel to sites that are within this Ruby band.

This can also happen in waterways. Certain crystalline frequencies can be anchored above them. The energy is then transmitted through the water.

One of the lovely things we discovered was that trees, in the emerald layer, often act as anchors for these crystalline bands. They hold the energy of that layer in a sphere and then transmit the energy into the surrounding countryside. They work together like telegraph poles, transmitting the information and crystalline frequencies in a joined network.

These bands can also be anchored in a Merkaba above the area they want to influence. Again, they will simply appear in your mind’s eye in that area. I remember, while still living in Luxor, seeing a diamond Merkaba hovering above the canal by the bridge in Qurna, on the West Bank. I thought it was an odd place for one to appear until I learned that the bridge was built above one of the ancient pylons from the Temple of Seti the First. When the builders of the bridge discovered the stone blocks, they quickly covered them up! But the energy was still there, and it knew exactly where things needed to be anchored.

Another way you might find yourself anchoring different layers is with the Was sceptre, if you have been attuned to it.

The head of this power object moves into one of the crystalline layers, often to anchor a flame of a particular colour. It moves down from that layer, through the flame, and then into the ground beneath it, acting as an anchor to one of the earth levels: core, lava or water. The flames are also creation energies, and all dimensions intermingle; they all work together.

Trees often act as anchors for these crystalline layers and communicate energetically with each other, transmitting information like telegraph poles. You may find that when working with trees that you find yourself bringing down a crystalline sphere which the tree will hold and channel into the atmosphere around it. This can happen with any of the crystalline bands. You may also find that more than more than one band is anchored.

There are so many ways that these crystalline bands can be brought to earth and so many ways they influence our thinking. In working with the crystalline field in this way you are effectively influencing the future development of humanity and of the planet. Stay open to the call, that urge you get to go visit a place. There might be a very good reason and it may be that there is work to do in the layers of the earth’s field. Learning to trust yourself is the biggest lesson. But the earth will teach you everything you need to know.

The Swan Initiation: Aligning with Gaia’s Feminine Currents of Transformation

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This is an attunement I received while living in Ireland from my guides which led to many site-activations with swan energy. At the time, I did not realise that it was also to be used for personal transformation, and although I received the energies all at once, as a small gold headband with three swans arranged around it, I only became familiar with each one over time.

In Celtic lore, especially in Ireland, the swan is seen as a messenger between the worlds—a creature that moves between the realms of spirit, water, land and sky. It is often associated with transformation and with purity. In the Otherworld, swans appear in Irish tales as beings who carry divine messages, or guide seekers across magical thresholds. In stories such as the Children of Lir, the swan symbolises endurance and serves as a bridge to deeper spiritual truths.

My favourite childhood story was one told by Hans Christian Anderson called The Wild Swans. It tells the story of a girl who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast on them by their new stepmother, who is also a witch. Naturally! Having had a step-mother, I can concur, which is probably why this story resonated so much. (To her credit, my step mother, who was also Danish, did apologise many years later).

The Wild Swans.

The part of the story that felt powerful to me was where the girl had to weave eleven tunics from nettles before a certain time, and place one on each of her brothers. If she did this, they would return to human form. No matter how much the nettles stung her, and they did, she continued her weaving until, when the time was nearly up, she had completed ten and a half tunics. She managed to dress her brothers, but the youngest, with his half-finished tunic, was left with one swan’s wing when time ran out.

As usual, I did not recognise how much this story would become part of my future life. Yet, swans were always present during my childhood, swimming on the River Barrow beside which I grew up – my father took many films of them sitting on the eel weir or swimming gracefully through the arches of the bridge.

Now, in my ‘present’, they have become so much more. For over half my life I have been healing my emotions, my beliefs. I just never understood that on this path of an earth healer who works with serpent energies that that healing was so vital to the task.

Because our thoughts and emotions affect the collective consciousness we need to understand ourselves and how we relate to the world and to other people around us. The changes we make in ourselves, as we continue to heal, affect that field of the collective. The more people who heal themselves, the more others can heal. This is especially important when we are working with the field of the Mother/ Gaia. We work to bring through, and to anchor her thoughtforms. If we cannot tell the difference between what is hers and what is ours then how are we do that?

The swans, as energies, represent both the feminine, and the masculine, plus the deeper healing that comes when both are fully anchored in our being. Positioned on the left side of the crown, the female swan anchors energetically into the base chakra. She swims in the emotional waters there, plucking the nutritious green food that grows on the river bottom. This food represents the nourishment that is available within your emotional body.

This lesson was brought home to me recently when I was having a conversation with someone about not getting stuck in the negative stuff of our past. She said that it was better not to focus too much on the negative but instead to work on the positive. And she was right. But sometimes we need to understand what is fueling the present before we can change it.

I found myself telling her that when we are healing our baggage we often need to talk it out. As we do that the higher part of our consciousness, symbolised by the female swan, listens to what we say and is able to then pick up the patterns in the unconscious that are perpetuating the emotional/mental situation we find ourselves in. She sees it from a higher perspective, and like plucking the river weed from the watery unconscious, she pulls it from the psyche recognising what needs to be changed.

To give a personal example of this process and how the female swan works, I was talking to my friend about an issue I am currently experiencing, an issue I am trying to heal. While I was trying to verbalise what I was experiencing, I saw it from the higher part of myself, and recognised how the flow of the original experience and all its resultant emotions and beliefs, were holding me back. The flows in my unconscious were easy to see, flowing, like river weed, from that old experience into my present. I had created my current reality based on those old experiences.

The female swan is the part that recognises those flows. She is the higher self swimming on the water, not submerged in it. She does not drown in the negativity but can pull the issues up to look at them without being in them. In this process, we are actively working, not drowning in victimhood. This process of healing is important when you understand that we create our own reality. We do not always see that, however. It is difficult to accept that our current challenges are based on past events. But once we do, it changes everything.

Seeing how our current behaviour stems from beliefs we formed in the past, the cob, the male swan energy, makes his appearance. His protective masculine mind (not male, just masculine in energy), sees what needs to change, it sees solutions. If we are behaving in a way that is based on old experiences, and if we want to change our reality so that it is more in line with what we truly want, then we have to change our actions. We have to recognise that we don’t have to stay experiencing the same. We can create new actions that will change how we react.

It takes courage to make these changes. It is not easy to step into new ways of doing things, and often we have to take things step by step. We make small changes, changes we can manage. We do them in a way that protects our newfound understanding. That gives us back our power without disempowering the other person or people but that begins the process of creating our new reality. We don’t make them as a reaction or as an impulse, but in a measured way. We think ahead, we decide what steps we need to take that will allow us to make the changes we need.

All along the way, the female swan of our higher understanding helps us to ‘see’ what is holding us back. And the cob helps us to move forward, protecting the changes we are making but giving us the self-determination to keep going.

The male swan, anchored in the solar plexus, is the protective energy of the psyche up to the astral layer of the energy-field. Have you ever seen a swan busking? He fluffs up his feathers and opens his wings wide to make himself bigger. He charges across the water towards a threat to his mate, and his cygnets, hissing and threatening. He allows no other creatures to harm his babies. In a human sense, these cygnets represent the newly anchored self-beliefs, which may still be fragile. You have done so much work on building yourself up that you also need to protect those creations and beliefs from others who might want you to stay the same as you were. He protects what is important to you.

Energetically, he swims around you in the astral layer of your field to protect you from the projections of others or from their emotional manipulations. He teaches you to recognise when someone is ‘hooking’ into you, energetically. It takes time to learn to work with both energies, but it is a lifelong skill because you will continue to work with them as long as you are alive. They are part of you, and part of your healing journey.

The third swan, which is seen flying straight down into your field, means the psyche is now strong enough to deal with issues you may not been ready to deal with before. These may be traumas from this life, or a previous life, ones you decided before birth that you were finally ready to clear. These are issues that cause dissociation, a panic reaction to strong emotional issues that are too painful to face. The descending swan softens the impact of such issues and allows the energies that you have kept in safer parts of the psyche to enter in such a way that you can deal with them. You are ready for such work now. You have learned the process of working with two previous swan energies and have made space in your psyche for the new material; the male and female swan energies have prepared the way. You understand the process of emotional healing and you have learned to protect your energetic boundaries, and now this swan can guide you into deeper healing.

Once you receive this attunement the swans activate when you need them to. Not when you ‘think’ you need them to, but because they are now part of your energetic matrix they know when you need certain aspects of them to be present. In the meantime, they work in your energy-field, like software running in the background, helping to heal you.

If you are a healer, of any kind, you can also use the symbols to heal others. They are very useful for people at any stage of their healing journey. And as with all healing, receiving healing/therapy is invaluable when you are working at any level of your emotional journey.

The Feminine and Masculine Swan Attunement.

In this attunement, you will receive the first two swan energies. These are the foundational attunements for building self-esteem and postive self-regard and the ability to protect yourself energetically.

£50.00

The Descending Swan Attunement.

In this attunement, you will receive the final swan energy. You will know when you are ready for this one. If you are a healer/therapist and very familiar with deep healing you can take this at any point. It is a very useful energy whilst helping others access deep trauma, whether past life or present life.

£40.00

The Triple Swan Attunement.

In this attunement, you will receive all three swan energies. But it is important that you understand how to support someone in their journey through the deepest waters and that you yourself are ready too. You will know if you are.

£65.00

Unmanifesting the Web: A Lesson in Letting Go of Old Realities

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The following is a meditation my guides told me to do. They often tell me to tune in to accept what needs to come in.

When I closed my eyes, I see a red energy all around me and light codes streamed into my consciousness. The Reiki Master symbol, the Dai Ko Myo, expanded my energy field so I knew that what was to follow would be an attunement. I became aware of the red and black spider beneath my feet. She was clinging to her web, upside-down, wrapping silken threads around the eggs she had just laid. I was reminded of the fogou Chris I visited many years ago in Cornwall with its birthing chair and stone womb. There were many spider’s eggs sacs suspended from the ceiling, hanging from the damp walls.

This is what I wrote during that visit in 2006:

“The energy on entering the fogou was powerful. Just inside, on the left side was the creep. The doorway to the creep was narrow and low and we really had to squeeze through it to get inside. It was difficult to imagine just why it was there. I would have been much more careful if I had known how many large spiders there were hanging about. Egg sacs hung suspended from the ceiling everywhere.

The creep itself turned out to be ‘L’ shaped, and we were in complete darkness here, so we needed the torch. In the first part of the creep, before it turned left, we had to move past a boulder on the ground. It looked like a reclining woman. Moving past it and turned the corner to the end of the creep, we were greeted by a rounded stone blocking the entrance. It reminded me of a cervix, an entrance from the outside world to the inner womb.

I went back to the stone that lay on the ground. It looked like a seat and I felt an immediate urge to sit on it. It was like sitting in the lap of the Mother and I began to feel like I was in labour. I wanted to sit on this reclining stone to have my baby, as this is why I was in here and this was its purpose. When I said it to Chris, he told me, with surprise, that he felt this was a woman’s place for having babies, but he had ignored it thinking he was making it up. He felt uncomfortable being in there, so he squeezed back out through the narrow doorway.

I had a strong sense that the pregnant woman would have been helped into the chamber from outside, through where the big stone now blocks the entrance. Then she would have sat on the stone chair to have her baby, in the womb of the Mother. It was as if her baby was not only being birthed from the physical mother, but also from the Great Mother. When the child was born, it would then have been handed to those waiting outside the small doorway, as though the baby had been born twice. It would then be welcomed into the physical world of humanity and the tribe. A gift from two Mothers. This baby was emerging into the physical world of the Mother from the Mother’s other worlds.”

So, back to the present. I had the thought that this meant I was creating new ‘babies’, birthing new ideas and realities. With that thought, my energy opened from my creative centre, looking and feeling like an inverted cone, moving upwards into another dimension. Next, a spider, from a grid above me appeared. It felt more masculine. It had a brown body and it moved down from this upper web into my body, becoming part of me. I had the impression that it was some kind of desert spider, yet I could still see the black and red spider beneath my feet with her eggs.

I was now this large brown spider, becoming this energy, its legs extending out to each side of me. My guides then said: ‘Camel Spider’. They explained that it could go the distance. It had something to do with creativity, but not the same kind of creativity as the black and red spider. It was more like a creative energy on a level that isn’t the deep earth, but is more in physical reality. I was aware of it pulling in the silken threads of a web. Not weaving them, but pulling them in, threads of a web that have already been woven. It pulled them into my centre, (Hara), as it was recycling them. The threads were all potentials, old creative ideas. I could see some of them above and behind me, moving from some point in the past to a point in the future.


I pulled some of them in like pulling a rope, gathering them all up inside me, undoing creations, pulling them in so they can be rewoven. It was as though the web that I had created, at least some of those threads needed to be dismantled, to be recreated. I was unweaving the future. Letting go of visions of the future so that new ones could be created. I had created these threads of reality in the past and they were no longer necessary. They were built on old beliefs, formed during times in my past that would have manifested in the future. Old ideas of what I thought would be. But new threads are needed. My female spider is laying new eggs which grow, new ideas, new thought creations.

This masculine spider dismantles. It destroys the threads of the web, but he does it with intention. Un-spinning them. It changes my future, disconnecting me, my soul, from other places, other people who will no longer be part of my reality. This feels empowering because those threads I pulled back into myself then travelled up through my body and emerged from my crown centre. Long vibrant threads of rainbow web connected to my higher reality leaving me feeling empowered and steady. I knew I could completely trust in the creation ideas that I received from ‘Upstairs’, not those ones that I receive from outside of me, from other people. But completely trusting my ability, my own knowledge, myself, not the beliefs I get from others about what I can and I can’t do, feeling sure in my creative expression, knowing who I am.


The male camel spider, pulls back the threads of the ideas other people have for me, rather than ones I feel for myself. I don’t need to manifest a reality based on who other people have told me I am. And the female spider in the earth is busy creating new ‘babies’ for me, but old creations and connections need to be dismantled first to make room for them.


So, for those of you have received a brown spider in readings or attunements from me, this will help explain that the masculine spider energy is an uncreator, and unmanifestor. Yet the threads pulled in from the old web also feed you on some level. Each thread is a different possibility that needs to be uncreated, or recreated. The camel spider pulls in energy from old beliefs, and futures you no longer need to manifest. Each thread is a future that you’ve envisioned, or a possibility that exists outside of you. But it’s now pulling those all back iso that you manifest new realities based on who you are, not what other people in your past have told you you are.

The Camel Spider Attunement.

If you would like to explore the possibilities of the unmanifesting powers of the Camel spider, this attunement will anchor this energy into your body and auric field allowing your higher self to unmanifest the old webs you no longer need. These old webs also affect the collective unconscious but in uncreating them you allow room for new threads to be woven. The new threads are ones the world needs.

£45.00

The Female Creation Spider Attunement.

As a spider woman (male or female), you are helping to maintain the webs of creation, both those of your own life and that of humanity’s. As my guides explain: The spider energies are lines of force, the lines of light lie alongside them. When we say lines of force we mean they are like electricity lines, lines which allow a force to move through them. Lines of light are vibrational frequencies akin to sound and colour. These are healing frequencies. Lines of force bring change, a change in the surroundings through which they move. The lines of light bring healing to the consequences of those changes. Things are shifted when the force moves through them, light heals what is released/revealed. You can read more about these webs and the spider on the page ‘Web of Life’.

£45.00

Cloaks of Light.

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When my guides first began to teach me the Gaia Method Earthways, they often mentioned ‘The Cloak of Many Colours’. My only reference for this was the story of Joseph in the Bible. Jacob, his father, gave Joseph a coat of many colours which made his brothers jealous and they threw him down a pit, telling Jacob his favoured son had died. When my guides told me about the ‘coat’, I thought it was a message about energy and that Jacob (who was also called Israel, a name ‘God’ gave him) was a man who did sacred work and who was teaching Joseph those same skills.

I still believe that. However, that is not what they meant. Although that particular story has been a personal template in my own life, the Coat of many Colours meant something completely different. It took me years to understand it.

It was only after I had received some cloak energies, such as the Mantle of Brigit and the Madonna Mantle, that I realised that the more cloak energies one received the more The Coat of Many Colours was built. Each cloak holds it own frequency in the auric field,allowing you access to their particular energies. Each cloak has a different use. The cloak you receive in the Sidhe attunement, or the Star Brother attunement, gives you access to the dimensions of the Sidhe, or to the Planetary Beings who help us here on earth. Therefore the cloaks act as gateways and channels.

When I am about to do healing, or a reading, I usually open my energies to the information. If I am doing a Sidhe healing/attunement, I open my cloak and step physically into their realm. This is a simple action. I tune in and then with my hands at my heart, as if I was about to open a physical cloak, I gently bring my hands out, opening my energetic cloak and therefore that level of my auric field. This gives me access to the energies of that dimension, or to that channel. It is a purely intuitive action in that sometimes I intentionally open the cloak, but at other times I am impulsed to open one, but I don’t actually know why, or which one. So I keep an eye on what I do for a while afterwards and its usually an action I take, or understanding something about my self or my behaviour, relationships, etc. Each time you open a cloak, you are opening to a frequency or energy in your auric field.

As I said, each cloak has a different energy and opens you to its information.

With the Star Brother’s cloak, you are opening a channel to the energies you have been attuned to, such as the Pleiadians, the Arcturians, the Sirians, the Lyrans, or any other consciousness currently assisting earth’s evolution. Needless to say, it’s not the first time they have done this. These star brothers have been around for a long time, involved in their own evolution. When they anchor the cloak around you, they are giving you the ability to be a channel for them but it also provides protection, keeping that light within your field.

The Madonna mantle/cloak is much more specific. It bridges the Soul and the personality. When the Soul knows it is about to undergo a challenging time, a period of Soul growth, the Madonna Mantle is activated. This softens the impact on the personality. It is a reassuring energy, because you know that when it activates, your guides ‘have your back’. What you are going through is an important part of your soul growth, where you might be letting go of old beliefs and a way of life. This cloak has nothing to do with religion, it is simply a symbol of the Divine Mother’s love being anchored in the auric field and giving the soul, and personality, the love, support and encouragement, to go through a significant process.

The Brigit Cloak is a green cloak that represents the fertility of the land. In wearing this cloak you are claiming land for the Goddess, for the Divine Feminine. It is ‘reclaiming’ it, so it becomes part of the Goddess’s realm once more. It is also your work space. Your land. In that it becomes the place you work with, energetically. This could be miles of land, but each place will bear your energetic stamp and the land itself will recognise what you do, and the layer of energy you anchor there.

There is also the Cloak of Sovereignty which is received at the first Gaia Method Earthways attunement. This cloak is particular to you, your expression of the connection with the Goddess of the land, Sovereignty. Through that cloak you become your sovereign self, knowing who you are in the world, and how your gifts represent the Divine Feminine on earth. This does not happen overnight, it is a long process of development.

During other attunements, you might be gifted a cloak of bark from a tree energy, or an animal skin from a particular animal, conferring on you both the protective energies of that animal, or tree, plus its gifts. It could equally be a feather cloak, from a particular type of bird, just as the shamans of old would have worn.

There are also mantles of energy which anchor an ascended master’s energy in the auric field, again so that you resonate with that master and have a direct connection to them.

The cloaks are not symbol energies, but are layers of energy placed within the auric field, and through which the associated energies are accessed. If you have been given a cloak, or two, or you have been attuned to a number of cloak energies, try opening them, as described above and sitting in the energy. See what comes in when you do that, and how it affects your thinking or feeling.

Each attunement takes approx one hour and is recorded so that when you listen to the recording the energies are anchored into your auric field.

There are other cloaks which I have only recently received, the Cloak of Anubis and the Swan Cloak. Once they feel ready for release, I will add them here. The Cloak of Anubis is about receiving the ability to go through ego-deaths with courage. It is initiatic and also service-oriented. The swan cloak is a healing energy for both personal and collective healing and connected to the three swan symbols of healing which I am currently working on and which again, I received in Ireland in a castle connected to the Knight’s Templar.

Sometimes too, cloaks represent moving into a new stage of development. Chris recently received a Crusader’s cloak as a first level Initiate. As he moves through his development, and he will only know that because his guides will tell him, he will receive another cloak of another colour. This process is about opening to the Divine Feminine qualities which, for a man serving the Divine Feminine, need to be experienced and awoken. It is like the stages of awakening to his true power and purpose.

I am interested to see what happens with that.

When you receive an attunement into the Gaia Method Earthways, or even if having a reading, if your guides feel you need a cloak they will add it to the session. Cloaks can also be given multiple times, which upgrades them, so if you have already received one and you find yourself receiving the same one again, it is because you need the extra voltage to do a particular job. Much like getting regular Reiju in Reiki, the frequency of the cloak is increased each time.

The Star Brother Cloak Attunement.

This is the attunement where you receive the cloak energies and through which you can channel specific healing energies. Each planetary body, and its Beings, has its own vibration and skill set. This attunement activates your channel to that frequency, to the frequency you already know so well. It connects you to your own starseed nature and makes the initial connection to your extra-planetary guide. This is someone you already have a connection with from previous lifetimes, and from your life between lives. This guide will reawaken your memories and may give you guidance on how these memories can help you with the current evolution of earth.

£45.00

Attunement to the Elemental/Sidhe Cloak.

This attunes you the elemental realms of light. It adds a vibrational cloak to your energy field so that you can step into this healing space at will and when you are connecting to nature and the Sidhe/Elemental realms etc. It also gives you the ability to share this cloak with others, if you feel inspired to do that.

£45.00

Attunement to the Madonna Light Mantle.

Anchors the blue-lilac frequency cloak into your energy field.

£45.00

Attunement to the Brigit Cloak.

Anchors the green frequency cloak of the Goddess of Spring fertility into your energy field.

£45.00

The Brigit Cloak.

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I first received the emerald green Brigit cloak while living in Ireland in 2008. At the time, I was living in an old Protestant church in Ullard, (this link takes you to a talk given by my great grandfather in the early 1900’s) a site famous for another church dedicated to St. Fiacre. Our church home was once called The First Fruits Church of Ireland, and was built c.1800. We lived close to St. Fiacre’s where there were three bullaun stones (used for grinding wheat) and a well, which the locals dressed once a year, walking around it seven times, sunwise.

St Fiacre’s.
Our Home
The Tower
Bullaun Stone
Bullaun stone and Hawthorn
St Fiacre’s

I suppose I had to receive it in the land which conceived it, to take the energy of the land of the Goddess Brigit with me. Two months later we were back in the UK. When I received the cloak I did not know we would be leaving. But when I was given the cloak, I also experienced something which explains a little more about it Here is the journal entry I wrote on the 5th April 2008:

“I felt a feeling in my stomach and knew I needed to do some work, somewhere! I went into the writing room in the tower and tuned in. The connection ran up and down through me and my feet grew roots which went deeply into the earth. A new template moved through me and a Brigit energy came down and was placed around my shoulders. The cloak was green. Then I was told I needed a new staff and I found myself holding one of silver birch. I called in the Lords of Light and found myself reaching up and pulling down a gold cord. I continued to pull it down. It went through me and coiled up behind my navel.

“After a few minutes, I felt the urge to hold my hands in front of my belly and as I did a womb came out of my navel which I supported in my hands. It was still attached to me, as though it were mine. Then I saw hands appear in front of me and they opened up the womb. Out of it slithered many baby snakes and one very large one, like a fully grown python. The baby snakes were all wriggling around each other and they began to separate and go off into the serpent channels in the earth, leaving the large one. It then began to move, down through the church, and into the ground way below the tower. First, it created a resting place for itself and then continued into the sandy layers of the ancient lands which lie beneath us. There was an underground water channel which the snake began to follow by swimming along it. It seems to move within a certain ‘territory’ but has its resting place, or lair, beneath the church tower. My ‘womb’ was then sewn up and placed back behind my navel. The symbol of protection, the cross in the circle, was once again placed over it.

Then I became aware of myself again, standing in my green cloak, and holding my silver-birch staff. I was instructed to strike the ground three times and when I had, it had the effect of ‘opening’ up the stones of the church. Musical notes began to emerge from the stones and fill the church with the sounds of creation and healing.”

That particular energy transmission gave me the cloak of Brigit, and facilitated the rebirth of the snakes which had traditionally been banished by St. Patrick. The snakes are the ancient ways, the serpent knowledge and the ‘pagan’ rituals connected to the fertility of the earth. Brigit’s energetic cloak is that part of the ancient knowledge of the Goddess and her connection to the land.

It is not confined to Ireland, however. The serpent knowledge, known and worked with in sacred rites around the world for many centuries, is returning. Those people who feel the call of the land and of the goddess are also returning.

Over time, the Goddess Brigit became Saint Bridget and there is a story about her and her ‘Brat’, or cloak. In Irish it is called Brat Bhride (brat Breed).

“St. Brigid’s Cloak: St. Brigid went to the King of Leinster to ask for land to build a convent. She told the king that the place where she stood was the perfect place for a convent. It was beside a forest where they could collect firewood. There was also a lake nearby that would provide water and the land was fertile. The king laughed at her and refused to give her any land. Brigid prayed to God and asked him to soften the king’s heart. Then she smiled at the king and said “will you give me as much land as my cloak will cover?” The king thought that she was joking and because Brigid’s cloak was so small he knew that it would only cover a very small piece of land. The king agreed and Brigid spread her cloak on the ground. She asked her four friends to hold a corner of the cloak and walk in opposite directions. The four friends walked north, south, east and west. The cloak grew immediately and began to cover many acres of land. The king was astonished and he realized that she had been blessed by God. The king fell to the ground and knelt before Brigid and promised her and her friends money, food and supplies. Soon afterwards, the king became a Christian and also started to help the poor. Brigid’s miracle of the cloak was the first of many miracles that she worked for the people of Ireland.” (https://www.stbrigid.ie/story-of-st-brigid.html)

Having the cloak of Brigit in your auric field gives you the ability to claim land for the Goddess. To return the awareness of the serpents and their fertility to the collective conscious of whatever country you live in. The land you work with is your sacred territory and where you do your own layering of energy. This can be in multiple places, in any place in the world but where they need the rebuilding of the sacred feminine energies. It acts like a carpet of green grass, fertile and lush, a land nurtured by you.

Once it is anchored in your auric field it guides you itself. You may not know it is doing it, but you will find certain territories opening up, places you return to again and again, to activate over time. You can spend many years, sometimes with gaps of time in between where you do nothing to the site, but when an activation is necessary you will feel the call to return there.

Sometimes too, you will be very aware that the cloak is being used and you will see it being laid over a sacred site, like a blanket. We recently did this on Flowerdown Barrow in Littleton, Winchester, UK. The frequencies of this cloak offer you the same protection as it does the land. And the awareness that the land is the source of fertility and life.

When you receive the cloak, you may also receive other energies, such as the Brigit cross, or any other energy your guides feel would be useful to you on your journey. As with all attunements, I record the session, which is usually about an hour long and when you listen to it the energies are anchored in your auric field.

Attunement to the Brigit Cloak.

Anchors the green frequency cloak into your energy field.

£45.00

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The Cloak Of the Star Brothers Attunement.

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This is a very different attunement and yet the consciousness of the Star brothers/Sisters works through the many dimensions of nature. As they put it themselves, they come through us to help us make humanity better. Many of us, on this evolutionary path, are connected to other planetary systems. We may have incarnated on those systems, to train, as Souls, in certain healing modalities, or to prepare for this ongoing evolution of humanity, and nature. Helping us to make this ‘step up’ into a new frequency.

Nature is also stepping up, which is why the Gaia Method Earthways was created, so that we could be the helpers of this evolution, working in harmony with the many Beings of Light from all dimensions, but especially those of planet earth.

I recently received this cloak which I thought was for personal use, until I was pushed to share it with two people who were receiving readings. Initially, I ignored the prompt but my guides kept pushing in with it, until I could no longer ignore it and so went ahead. It took a lot of trust to pass this one on, as if felt so ‘out there’, even though I do work with Beings from other planetary dimensions.

It is a cloak which opens your consciousness to working with these dimensions but also holds your physical body in resonance with the physical world, and nature. It provides protection, acting a barometer, measuring the amount of protection you need. The barometer measures what is happening in the world, energetically, and gives your physical and etheric body the shielding it needs.

The upper part of this cloak encircles the head, and connects you to universal intelligence and/or the angelic realms. The lower part encapsulates your body so that you can translate the light languages and codes from these planetary beings into knowledge the world needs. It provides the channel frequency you need to allow these guides through and to help with your work as a planetary healer. It sets up a resonant field where Guides from other planetary dimensions can come in and work through you, especially in a healing capacity.

A few months ago, I gave one of my daughters healing. This is something we have been doing for years and she was grappling with anxiety. Always had. Part of her anxiety stemmed from abandonment issues, much of it around me. As she was growing up, I was in my own healing process and was not able to give her what she needed. Part of my process was working through my own abandonment issues which, unwittingly, I passed down to her.

On one of our sessions, a guide came in that I knew was not an earthy guide, but one from another planetary dimension. I had worked with these energies many years ago, but when my guides were teaching me the Gaia Method Earthways, guides from other planets were not on my radar. But while I was removing a rather large emotional cord from the back of her energy-field, I felt this guide’s energy come in. He brought a Violet energy with him and as I stood with my hands on my daughter’s heart, front and back, he poured the Violet light into her body. I had never felt anything quite like it, and the power was intense.

Rather miraculously, her anxiety disappeared, nearly overnight. It took her a while to get used to not feeling anxious about everything, however as she had had it her whole life. I was amazed! But that guide’s energy was very focused and he made sure my daughter participated in her own healing by getting her to visualise what he was doing.

Months later, that anxiety has still not returned.

I have to say, I was pretty impressed, and very glad that this guide stepped in to help her. It was obviously time.

Since then, he has given me this cloak to share with others. Apart from the protective aspects, it also provides a channel for these guides to work through you, bringing healing to yourself, and others. Once you have received this attunement you can also share it with others as they provide the necessary attunement process for you to do that. They are eager to help!

The Star Brother Cloak Attunement.

This is the attunement where you receive the cloak energies and through which you can channel specific healing energies. Each planetary body, and its Beings, has its own vibration and skill set. This attunement activates your channel to that frequency, to the frequency you already know so well. It connects you to your own starseed nature and makes the initial connection to your extra-planetary guide. This is someone you already have a connection with from previous lifetimes, and from your life between lives. This guide will reawaken your memories and may give you guidance on how these memories can help you with the current evolution of earth.

£45.00

Attunement to the Dragon Dimensions.

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This attunement is a dragon transmission that attunes you to the dragon energy you need to be connected to at this time. You can choose the dragon energy you wish to work with, or you can leave it open to see which dragon energy wishes to work with you. Often the dragons themselves have been training you for a long time, without you knowing it, until it is time.

There are specific energies connected to the elemental realms, but also dragons of crystalline consciousness. Dragons are the creative energy of the planet but also part of your own consciousness. When dragons start appearing in your meditations or in your visions, your own dragon consciousness, that part of you that creates new worlds, is waking up.

Each dragon energy, whether elemental or crystalline, takes time to emerge. They do not come into your consciousness until you have developed along certain lines and can hold their energy in your auric field. When you are ready to wield dragon energy, they awaken. They are an extension of your energy, but able to work in the outer world, bringing change to what needs changing. When they first appear, it can seem that they are separate to you, but they are part of you, the part that can work within the Dragon dimensions of the earth.

The dragon dimensions are highly creative realms, full of potential, and the dragon energies you hold can be sent into these dimensions. This is how you work within them. Without having your own dragon body you could not access these realms. This is what makes working with the dragons so exciting. It takes time to develop your dragon body, just as it takes time to learn any new skill. Working with dragons means you are affecting the outer world, therefore you must master self-trust and also the ability to say ‘Not my will, but yours’. This is your Higher Will, not your personality will, in action.

Because your dragon-self works within the dragon dimension it knows what it needs to do, so your task is to hold that energy and allow it to do its work. You become both the holder and the watcher.

The dragon attunements allow you to awaken dragon energies within your field and they will train you to work with them. The dragon energies of crystalline frequencies are the easiest to work with, initially. So if you are drawn to crystals, you can learn to work with their creative energy consciousness too.

Working with the bigger dragon energies of nature takes time, and skill. You have to be able to maintain the dragon energy in your auric field and to hold it steady. But again the attunements are channelled by the dragons so that you receive the energies you need to awaken your own dragon consciousness in the best way possible and for your purpose on earth. For people who work with nature, these dragon energies are hugely valuable because they teach you about the cycles of nature and how you can work within their greater cycles of growth to affect change in human consciousness, especially around nature.

To receive an attunement to a dragon energy, you can choose to work with the crystalline dragons, or the dragons of nature. You can also allow the dragons to choose you. Which dragon energy are you ready to work with?

If you want to work with a specific dragon just let me know. Send me a photo so I can connect with you. You don’t have to be attuned to the Gaia Method Earthways to receive this attunement.

Dragon Attunement.

Choose which dragon you want to deepen your relationship with, or that you wish to awaken.

£35.00

Crystalline Dragon Attunement.

Receive an attunement to the creative dragon energy of the crystalline world that wishes to work with you. Or one that you feel a certain afinity to. Or allow it to choose you. This is a beautiful attunement to receive.

£35.00

Elven Attunement and Healing.

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I know the Elven Realm as the Sidhe ( because I’m Irish). For me, they are the consciousnesses of the early peoples, the ancestors of this part of the world. However, these Elemental energies exist all over the world. They are not known as the Sidhe in other places, because each culture has its own history and its own ancestral wisdom. You might connect with them as elvish beings, spirit beings connected to nature, and nature energies themselves. They appear in whatever cultural ‘clothes’ you recognise. Yet, they are the guardians of Nature, those entities that guide the land and take care of its growth.

Recently, they have been prodding me to to offer an attunement to them which you can do whether you do the Gaia Method Earthways or not. They want people to work with them, to attune themselves to the fairy realm, or the realms of the Elementals, so we can take care of the world and work in harmony with their consciousness.

They also offer healing, which is a magical experience, to help your body resonate with the energies of nature. Taking care of the physical body, and becoming aware of its needs, is the natural outcome of this healing. Our body is made of the same ‘stuff’ as nature and so receiving healing in this way helps our bodies adjust to the frequency of nature.

We all have an elemental body, which is the energy consciousness of the physical body, and when you receive healing or an attunement from them, this is what is attuned. It is a fascinating process. I guide you to their realm and, within a beautiful place, my Elemental guide attunes your elemental body to their frequency. Your animal helpers might participate, or if you work with crystalline consciousness, they too may turn up. For everyone it is different.

You may also receive guidance about your particular work with the Nature spirits and receive gifts that will help you in that work.

As usual you will receive a recording and the crystal layout I use to connect with them. Other energies may come in along with these sessions so I will send on the information with the recording if that happens.

Healing from the Elemental Realm.

£35.00

Attunement to the Elemental realm.

£44.00

Healing from the Angelic Realm.

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This is healing I love to do because it moves my consciousness into the celestial body, the sixth layer of my auric field, or higher-emotional body. This is the layer of the field where we experience spiritual ecstasy, and where we feel our connection to the spirit world and unconditional, or Universal, Love.

In a distance session, using a crystal layout, Aura Soma and music channelled from the Angelic realm specifically for healing, I accompany you, in your spirit-body, to the spirit world which is our true home. You are then given healing by a team of dedicated spirit healers who themselves channel the frequency of the Angelic realm to you. Sometimes, these healers know you very well and sometimes they are a group of Souls whose service it is to give healing to any soul who requests it.

They work in the layers of your energy-field, channelling healing energy into whatever issue is holding you back, to whatever is stopping you from creating the life you want. They work with love and dedication, removing old thoughtforms, old traumas, etc. Once they have achieved this, they then transform the energy into its positive opposite, giving you a new freedom.

From my place in the spirit world, where I wait, I watch what they do, so that you know what is happening. I see what they do, and they communicate it to me, and i record it, so you have an intellectual understanding of the issues involved. This helps, because as your energy shifts, you can see the result of the shift and experience your life changing.

As with all my work, I record the session. Your guides will usually suggest, once you know the issues they have worked on, that you listen to the latter half of the recording to reinforce the positive shifts anchored by the angelic healers. They may also give you exercises or advice, whatever they feel you need.

You can experience this healing as often as you feel necessary and there is no limit to which issues you want to deal with. It could be emotional, creative, relational, work etc. Or, if you want to find out what holds you back but you cannot put your finger on what the issue is, but it has been a block for years, then this is a good way to find without having to go into it all again. Some things you do not need to re-experience. The belief that was anchored at the time, is what is shifted during a session.

Angelic Healing

Receive healing through your Spiritual Healers and the Angelic realm.

£45.00

Three Sessions of Angelic Healing

Receive sessions of healing. Monthly is good, or every two months.

£120.00

The Crab Wood Tree Network.

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Part One. 4th June 25.

I had some time spare in early June so I went for a walk in Crab Wood outside Winchester. I wasn’t expecting to do any work, and I was only out of the car two minutes, having taken some photos of the ripening corn, when I felt a tree calling. Right at the corner of the woods beside the road. Great. Now. I’d have to pretend to be taking photos so I don’t look like a crazy person battling my way three times around a random, and not all that impressive, oak tree.

Once I had walked around it three times, and then stood against it, I made the heartwood connection. My consciousness connected to the branches, which feels like my mind is moving upwards so I am in the branches. Next, I moved away from the trunk, looked up, and with my hand on the bark, keeping that physical connection, I was instructed to make contact with two other trees close by. One was a fir tree and the other a beech. This was tricky because there was so much undergrowth.

I made the connection with the fir tree, then the beech, joining them together with a golden thread. This created a triangle, which was to become the foundation energy for something else. The something else, however, was at the other side of the woods.

I crossed the road and followed the path, not sure where I was supposed to be going. But I passed through a cloud of flying creatures that looked like fairies. They weren’t fairies, they were moths, as it turned out, but they are called Fairy Moths.

I continued along the path, still not sure where I was supposed to be going, but aware of the gold thread I was energetically carrying in my auric field. I followed my sense of direction, making choices at each junction on the path, feeling my way forward.

I spotted a young oak tree, some way along the path, and headed to that. Again, I had to walk around this tree three times and each time I saw the gold thread, or cord, wrapping around the trunk. This was followed by making the heartwood connection, front and back, and then touching my forehead to the bark, as I’d learned to do with the oaks on the Itchen Drove.

Once this tree was connected, I had to take it to another tree. I knew it was on the other side of the path I was walking but ended up going too far. I turned back and then saw the tree, nearly opposite the one I had just worked with. Before I found it, I felt the energy petering out as I wandered up the path, an indication I was moving further away from the tree I needed to get to. Like when you play that game ‘hot or cold’.

This oak I also had to walk around, but only once, again wrapping the gold cord around it to take somewhere else.

These are all young trees, and so far, all oak, except for the triad of trees on the other side of the woods. The next tree was further up the path, but I managed to pick some wild garlic on the way, which would shortly not be good enough to eat. The last tree was the anchor for this network, the end point. I walked around it three times, wrapping the gold cord around it as I went. This was the end of this circuit, and I still had no idea what it was about, or why I was doing it. But there was a definite start to the network, and a finish. The final tree stood beside a hazel copse which was still being harvested.

Fairy Longhorn Moth
Bud from the Bark
Robin Redbreast.

Once I had completed this circuit, I wandered down a different path and came to a beautiful, big ,old beech tree. This one had an energy but I knew the connection with it was not for today. So I wandered down another path making my way out of the woods.

I reached one part of the woods and felt an energy, then heard the familiar ‘welcome, daughter.’ This part of the woods felt alive in a different way, more alive, as though I had walked into another dimension. There was a guardian here who looked like a druid and who wore a crown of oak leaves. He was gentle, yet mischievous, and I felt like he knew me and that I knew him. The whole area he stood in was like a sphere of green, holding this space, and he told me to return here the next time.

Part two. 6th June 25.

The following week, Chris and I went back to Crab Wood to make that connection with him, but found ourselves connecting another tree network. We walked up the path within the green sphere, and I was aware of the druid person, but he was not communicating with us this time but watching us.

We passed a tree and immediately, we were at the start of a new network. This connected two oaks with an infinity symbol . We walked this infinity symbol three times around the trees, joining them together, one in each loop of the symbol. I was aware, at this stage, of the overall tree consciousness. How the trees communicated with each other, their collective energy.

Again, we preceded to the next tree, taking the energy of the initial connection with us but also taking that sense of tree-consciousness. They were all living in different parts of the woods but not connected energetically. They needed to be aware of each other, to be aware of themselves as part of a network of Living Trees.

We came to the next one and this time there were, again, three young oaks. We did the usual walk around. I began to feel that we were connecting these trees together in a particular way, like a telephone communications system. A network. But this network was not connected to the one I had done a few days earlier. Each one seemed to be separate, like a group. It also felt like a network of tree-people, the humans who work with tree consciousness. A living network. And yet each small grouping was anchored by one larger tree. Each network also had a different beginning point, a geometry, and an ending, with an anchor tree.

This network we were currently working on, was held within the sphere of the oak druid. I also knew, at this point, that the anchor tree for this network was to be the Mother Tree at Lainston House. My Mother Tree. An old Yew. We continued connecting the gold cord energy until we came to the perimeter of the green sphere and decided to have a potter before going to Lainston House. First, though, we had to go back to the anchor tree of my last visit. Nothing happened. So instead, we found our way to the lovely old beech of my last visit and this time the energy was big!

We made the connection with the heartwood symbol, standing with our backs against the trunk. My consciousness rose into the branches again and to the Diamond layer of the earth’s field. It was as though this diamond energy came down through the tree trunk and then flowed out through the heartwood symbol we had just activated. This allowed us to access that layer of the earth’s field and the ideas contained within it, These are the seed-thoughts from the mind of the Mother.

Next, we faced the tree, and the heartwood symbol came out the back of our heart centre. The energy was an orange-yellow. More dragony and coming from the lava layer beneath the earth, moving up into the tree as if this symbol was an aerial, accessing this fiery, creative energy. With our back to the tree, we accessed the diamond mind and its clear, precise inspired ideas for the world. With our back to the tree, we accessed the powerful creative energy of the earth. This gives form to the ideas coming in from the diamond layer. Without this creative, fiery energy, the ideas would remain in the mind and never be birthed into physical reality. We did not know it at the time, but we were being given an attunement that would make sense when we created another network in Andover, a few weeks later.

Once again, we made the third eye connection to the tree, the third part of the process shared with us by the oak. This connected us to the entity that resided within the tree, which reminded me of the Enid Blyton books, which comes up a lot when doing this work! He looked like a Brian Froud gnome, the elemental energy of the tree consciousness.

‘Take our stories’. The tree then communicated to us. ‘Spread them far and wide, like seeds.’ We had received this message before, in Farleigh Mount when we first met the guardian there. Instead of a gold cord around this tree, however, there was a gold chain to take with us.

Back up at the original oak-anchor, we facde the sun and filled our auric fields with its energy, through our solar column, the channel through which we bring in solar light. This column is an energy column specifically for bringing in solar light. The sun filled it up and also filled the carnelian crystal I’d been wearing and which I had activated with solar light, and a dragon energy, earlier in the month. The solar light was white so the whole body was infused with it.

I then saw a fairy trumpet. Long and thin with a wide open end. The sounds that came out of this trumpet came as colour which then bounced off the plants and trees, creating an orchestra of sound and colour. Because the trees had been coppiced, they needed light and energy again, so they could grow back whole. It renewed them energetically, like a message to tell them they were OK, and to keep going. A little plant support for trees which had been cut back nearly to the ground, leaving only stools behind.

Coppiced stools.

The musical notes, as colour, were to reassure the trees that they were OK. It energetically, infusing them with the will to live, to grow back. Healing the trauma. This fairy trumpet was a gift indeed!

As we walked back to the car, I touched a few trees we had not worked with on our way up to the old beech tree, but as I did, I saw the gnome energy in them again. This kept happening until I understood that the gnome energy was travelling in the trees, watching us as we walked down the woodland paths. They moved their consciousness within the consciousness of each tree, able shift their energy from one to another without being seen. Very secretive. Because we had connected to the one in the Beech tree, we could now see them. Each culture would see these energies their own way. I see them as Froudian, because I love his art and his portrayals always felt more real to me.

Now, when we re-entered the green sphere, we picked up all the gold cords from the trees we had worked with. It was like holding a bunch of balloons, the cords of which needed to be brought to the Lainston yew tree.

We drove the couple of miles, to the other side of Sparsholt village to where the Yew grows.

At the woodland, that runs alongside the Lime-tree avenue to Lainston House, I was still aware of the gold cords from Crab Wood. I walked around the Tree, which was always my Mother Tree (We all have one) and wrapped the gold cords around her trunk, three times, so she was the mother to them. When I first connected to her, over twenty years ago, she had told me that she was the mother to all the trees around her -she was hundreds of years older than them – and that she fed each one energetically. This was years before the idea of mycelium came into the public mind. She was way ahead of us. This wonderful old yew was the main transmitting station, she said, for all the trees around her and now for the ones in Crab Wood as well.

But now she wanted us to make an essence, so we placed the bottle at her roots. She then extended her energy, out from her trunk, to bring us into her field, so we were within her etheric body. We also touched her trunk so that we were aware of her solidity, her physical presence. This was important. She was making us aware of the physical body and the etheric body together. She said that although she has an energetic presence, just as we do, her physical presence is what makes her accessible to us. Taking care of the physical body therefore, was really important. Without this physical body we could not affect the physical world.

I saw her pour drops of sap into the bottle and this was like thick nectar. It was about nutrition, about nurturing ourselves through natural substances, not processed foods, allowing the energies of nature to sustain us, physically. When we eat these natural foods, healthy and clean foods, we too will become healthy and clean. We are what we eat. Pulling up the nutrition from the soil, as the tree does, we become the healthy tree-people. She also suggested using tree sugars and honey (raw) as our sweeteners. She reiterated, allow nature to sustain us physically.

In her etheric field, we were being changed too – to become more sensitive to the foods that are not good for us. Instead, going to foods which are gentler, kinder. Man-made produce is harsh and rough to the system, she said, but eating foods that are not processed resonates with our bodies. So her gift to us, through her etheric field and the essence, was the ability to tell which foods were good for us and which made us ill. Eating the right foods would make us strong like her and well able to live to a ripe old age, just as she was doing.

We were to take the essence orally, every day, to make us think like trees and only take in what is good for us. The Gift of nutrition, so we would resonate with tree energy and and know what was good for us. Well, after all this, the inevitable happened. I had to give my orange carnelian crystal point, that I had activated with the crystal dragon weeks before, to her, burying it in her roots. A gift for a gift. But she was not finished. Little diamonds were placed in the essence, once I had given her the gift, and they represented a trickle of her ideas. I looked forward to using that one!

God/Goddess Attunements and Activations.

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Is there a God or Goddess that you particularly resonate with and would love to be able to work with directly? There is no limit to what you can access when it comes to Divine Feminine or Divine Masculine energy. The Gods and Goddesses, as we know them, are only too happy to share their energy and wisdom with us and for us to be the embodiment of their joys, their power and their love. You are Divine, and they want you to know that. They want you to feel your own Divinity, to truly know yourself as Divine, and so they share their divinity in the hope that it will help your access your own. As you are meant to.

When you receive an attunement to a God or Goddess energy, it is directly channelled for you. You don’t have to be attuned to the Gaia Method Earthways for this attunement, it is available to everyone regardless. Once I pass the attunement, I send on the recording so you can directly connect with the energies. And along with the crystal layout which I intuitively create for you, I also send on any other instructions or processes that come in.

All I ask is that you send me your name, email address and a photo (it helps me focus on you).

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This Goddess attunement can be from whatever Goddess energy you want to work with, either for your own personal development, or as an addition to your healing practice. You will receive whatever that Goddess gifts you. Each attunement is personal to you and is for you to work with. It may also include a personal excerise, a process for you to share with others, or to help heal the planet.

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Divine Masculine Attunement.

This Goddess attunement can be from whatever Goddess energy you want to work with, either for your own personal development, or as an addition to your healing practice. You will receive whatever that Goddess gifts you. Each attunement is personal to you and is for you to work with. It may also include a personal excerise, a process for you to share with others, or to help heal the planet.

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Leave it to the Gods and Goddesses.

This in an open attunement where you allow your guides, and Higher Self, to choose which Divine Feminine consciousness or Divine Masculine consciousness you would benefit from working with.

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Avebury and Silbury Hill Activation May 2025.

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We drove to Avebury very early so I could be back in time to look after my father. It’s amazing what time you can find for the things that really matter! It had been so long since I had been there that I had forgotten the route so let myself be guided by the GPS. However, I missed the suggested turn off. I remembered that stretch of road but never remembered turning off there so I did not much care. We were headed in the right direction anyway.

This route took us past Silbury hill and as we drove past I was floored by the wall of energy that we moved through. I’ve never experienced anything so powerful. It left me breathless and I decided that we would stop by on our way back home to investigate. But when we got to Avebury, my guides said, ‘do not waste time here’. I wish they’d told me that before we’d gotten out of the car and walked all the way to the Barn.

We drove back to Silbury, parked up, and went as close as we could.

We stood facing the hill and and as we did I saw a group of men standing on the top. They looked like Druid-type men, all dressed in long white linen robes. they stood in a circle, but they were the priests of the past. Standing on the top of the mound, together they were activating, and pulling in, a wide, white channel of energy. Their collective energy was bringing it through, into the top of the hill from the sun and into the mound. But I was aware that there were different templates within the mound and the light channel was activating one particular template. This template was a stag-energy as though the masculine stag energy was what was needed at this time. And yet, the stag energy was like a living energy, a conscious template.

Watching this happen we were conscious of participating in this light activation, the light coming through our hearts as it came down the white channel and into our hearts. On the drive up, we were told to activate our crystal light body, which looks like a crystal pyramid, around the physical body, anchoring us deeply into both earth and sky. Now we understood why. This often happens prior to an energy working but the why of it only becomes apparent later.

Around the entire area around the mound, a ring of red roses appeared, and within the ring of flowers, and around the base of the mound, there was water. The mound was like the Mound of Creation. The Zep Tepi of ancient Egyptian belief. The water around the mound acted as the womb while the mound itself was the masculine energy. This allowed the masculine energy to be brought into the waiting womb, a joined male and female energy of creation and fertility.

While we were connected to this energy as it came into the mound we were told to make the essence. The energies we were connected to, via the mound and with our crystal pyramid light body activated, created the holding energies for the making of this essence. Sunlight, along with the red rose energy of the mother, entered the water in the bottle as I held it in my hands. The water absorbed the atmospheric energies of all that was happening in this ancient ritual, sucking it in like a genie returning to his magic lamp. This was a gift to us. That stag energy, the fertile masculine power of this place , was also absorbed by the water.

The importance of this stag energy was huge. I received the understanding that the people who built these places used buck shoulder blades specifically, because in doing so they were adding that energy to places connected with this masculine virility. Adding that energy to places of fertility.

Next, to my surprise, over the boundary of this site, a bronze age man appeared. He had a big smile on his face and was eager to make contact. ‘Let me give my gift,’ he said, and proceed to place a small stone arrowhead into the essence. He said it as a connection tot he stone and then he places three hawthorn berries and three mistletoe berries, which became the infinity symbol. This was connected to cycles to time, to Autumn and winter.

The essence was to help people accommodate moving deeper into the earth energies if they have previously only been connected to the higher energies. I wish I’d had this when I first plunged from my lovely Ascension journey energies back down to Earth.

At the finish of this transmission, I heard ‘Go in peace’ and then felt a beautiful wave of enveloping love. The love of all the ancestors who kept this place alive, and those who did it in the present.

Chris received information on how the South American cultures did much the same thing as the ancestors here, but they did it with their pyramids. So too did the Egyptians. Cultures around the world bringing the light down to the earth. This was one of the functions in Deir el Bahry, at Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple. It was not simply a place to be buried but where the light was brought in from the upper levels of the three-tiered temple, and then ‘stepped down, by the serpent whose head is the Horus bird – Horus is the medium between heaven and earth – to the lower level of the physical earth. The solar light, as the serpent, is anchored by Horus.

The same process happened at Chichen Itza where the solar serpent descended down the steps to bring light, and fertility, to the land and its people. These activations, and descensions, have been happening for centuries.

We returned to Avebury and stood in the smaller stone circle within the larger one. I remained aware of the crystalline pyramid and the layers that had been anchored. It was as though it was a balancing act between Silbury and Avebury, one feeds the other. When they do the energetic rites at Silbury, the energy is then transported to Avebury by the people who carried out the ritual. Although the two sites are separate and distinct, by the same token, they are a partnership in energy and purpose.

We faced into the sun and then I ran us through a solar activation I had experienced the previous week. This was bringing down a sphere of solar energy that then was anchored in specific chakras, like a row of solar spheres of differing sizes. Once the sphere at the feet was anchored, the light then travelled up behind us to connect with a sphere above the head,at the Soul Star. This charged the chakras with solar light to create solar centres in the body. The beautiful, feminine solar elemental that we had met at the Hospital of St. Cross appeared during this process, tweaking the centres as they activated within us. This felt like a charging of the solar body. I was aware of the Goddess Hathor and then remembered the three energetic chambers in the pyramid activation of last Winter Solstice. Hers was the innermost chamber and we were standing right in it.

Once the flow of energy was established, from the sun to the feet and back up to the Soul Star, the sphere at the feet acted as the sun at our feet so when we walked we walked the sun into the earth, bringing that solar light to the ground. We were given a list of places where we would be bringing this solar light and also the people who would also be doing it, people who had done the third level of the Gaia Method Earthways and who could hold that energy.

We were then gifted with a crystalline energy. A ruby rose was placed in my third eye and a sapphire in Chris’s. This connected us both the same crystalline layer of the Earth’s crystalline body, the Ruby with its sapphire edge. Each person who receives this attunement would receive their own crystalline third eye activation.

Next, we had to marry the Silbury energy with Avebury. A blending of energy between the two sites. Following that, we anchored the crystalline template of Silbury to the pyramid energy we had activated at the Winter solstice here, so now there was a crystal pyramid around the energetic great pyramid. Two levels of energy. The base layer is stone and the crystalline layer was around it.

The energy then changed and I saw a triangle with three interlocked circles on it. This symbol was laid, energetically , on the floor of the pyramid. It was a template and filled the floor space within the energetic pyramid. This was more a Sidhe (fairy) energy. The foundation of the pyramid. It was such a soft subtle feeling. I saw the harp being placed on this symbol and it filled the space sending out sound frequencies into the landscape. The harp was on the Sidhe template because it was their instrument. The sounds transmitted are governed by those elemental ancestral beings. The sounds are also colour frequencies and the Sidhe sounds are transmitted by the harp, out through the pyramid to other places in resonance with it.

The harp began to look like a sun with beams of light and sound being sent out through the pyramid.

Then another instrument was activated. This time the musical pipe, another Sidhe instrument, within the geodesic dome. All within the pyramid. The drum then anchored, like a heartbeat, into the earth. The harp was on the earth, the pipe in the air and the drum beneath the earth, signifying the levels these instruments are used. These Sidhe energies were so gentle, so subtle, we really had to focus on them to perceive them. The template was clear. The triangle portal with the three instruments, or musical spheres. “This is where you can access these instruments.”

Chris was aware of a mirror reflection of the pyramid, beneath the pyramid, creating a diamond Merkaba. The drum was within that mirror reflection, the earth level. I understood then what this work meant. We were, effectively, creating an initiatic space for others to receive the gifts and activations of the Gaia Method Earthways.

The Spirit of the Oaks: Receiving an Activation from Two Guardian Trees.

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Another trip to Itchen woods but this time we wanted to walk the old drove route that runs to Alresford, an ancient trackway and which allowed farmers to bring their stock to market. The images below show a walking route around these old droves. Some drove roads were Romano-British and some medieval. I know that the Dongas, the holloways coming into Winchester behind St. Catherine’s hill were ancient droves, but I don’t know how old this Alresford drove is.

It was a sunny-ish day, with a chill wind when the sun went in, but we began the walk not intending to do any energy work at all. We were simply going for a walk.

Or so we thought.

It wasn’t long before we passed, on our left, an old oak tree. Chris told me that on his previous walk here, he had noticed this tree too. That’s often how they call you. You notice them. They stand out from the crowd. You see the wood for the trees.

Naturally, we went to check it out.

Almost immediately, I had the impulse to walk around it anti-clockwise. A tree, or a site, will invite you to walk around it. It’s like a pull you can’t ignore. It does not come from your head but from your feeling. So, I walked around it three times. There was a dark sense here, a deeper energy, like we had stepped into some other space which was not as bright as the one we had just left. This was not familiar.

We then received the invitation to connect with the Heartwood symbol, a symbol both Malia and I received from a pine tree in Micheldever woods last October (2024). This symbol connects you to the heartwood of a tree, a heart to heart connection. I felt the impulse to raise my arms, as if I was a tree with branches. Chris followed suit. This brought our energy into the upper branches of the tree, as though we too were trees with our branches raised to the sky. The consciousness of a tree is in its branches and leaves, the crown of the tree. Raising our arms felt like we were greeting the tree on its level.

I often find this with trees. The energy shoots upwards to connect with it. The trunk of a tree is like our body but we think with our heads. The tree does too. It communicates through its branches and leaves. The wind moving in them is their way of telling us what they want us to know. But equally, we can sense their energy, once we become sensitive to them. They can feed us through through their trunks, as energetic sap, sharing their vitality with us.

This tree was like an sleepy man. (I’m surrounded by them). Chris received his customary tree-hug from the tree. I was given the instruction that now was time to make an essence. This was our first oak essence! I placed it on the ground between the roots.

The energy came down from the leaves and branches, through the trunk and flowed like a mini-waterfall into the bottle. It was sap but was the energy of the oak funneling down into the water in the bottle through the heartwood. It felt like an Enid Blyton story, and the Magic Faraway Tree story. The branches reach into other dimensions, or spheres, of reality and wisdom, and bring information from those dimensions down to our physical reality. Pulling it into this dimension, yet, still solidly rooted, solidly anchored in those dimensions.

Then, to our surprise, we were instructed to leave the essence bottle where it was, and to prepare for an attunement. So much energy came in, then I was given a symbol. This was to do with the oak tree and its interdimensionality and the ability to connect with the spheres. We held our arms up again, becoming the tree, our arms becoming branches, our bodies becoming tree trunks, heads and shoulders linking with the leaves and upper branches. Our fingers were the tiny twigs on the end of the smaller branches. When the wind blew, our arms waved like the branches, flowing with the flows of the wind. Then, when the wind stopped, the branches and leaves, our arms were still.

The energy flowed down from the branches until we were aware of our body as a tree-trunk and we brought our attention to the body/trunk where all the information from the crown of the tree flowed through the heart of the tree, to our hearts. Giving our hearts strength, being solidly anchored an rooted in tree-ness. I became aware that the entire tree was one energy, yet each part of the tree, its roots, its trunk, its branches and leaves play a different part. This energy of interconnectedness was the energy being anchored into our consciousness.

The strength of the tree was now our strength. We now had the ability to connect to the consciousness of the tree at its branches, its trunk and its roots, each part having a different function yet being part of the whole. Upper, middle and lower worlds. There is wisdom in each layer. (This became evident a few weeks later when we connected to the lower world). This is not the same as the three worlds of shamanic wisdom but about the energetic dimensions of trees. Although I think it is another aspect of it, too. This attunement gives you access to these three levels energetically.

The body played the same roles. The feet stand firmly on the earth; the body holds you strong, and holds, and supports the upper levels of the branches and the leaves. The upper branches filter knowledge and awareness from the collective unconscious, the thinking mind of the earth, bringing it down to earth where it then is anchored as memory. Like seaweed in the sea, it filters out what is not needed. Only bringing what is necessary down into physical life, so the darker aspects of the collective are not brought into being. All the rage and anger and denser emotions are filtered out. Only the useful information will be brought to earth and manifested.

All of this information and energy flowed into the essence, just as it flowed into us.

The energy spoke of taking time, allowing things to flow through, like the tree does. It doesn’t rush out to meet anything, but allows things to come to it, just as we did when we found it. The energy of flow was like harnessing the wind and rooting it in the earth, and no matter how much wind there was, it was always manageable. The oak has the strength to hold itself. Holding the balance. Allowing itself, and by extension us, to let that energy flow through.

Next, after all this, a gold crown was placed around Chris’s head, one around mine and one around the neck of the essence bottle. All three of us received these energy activations. It connected us to hold the power and communication from the crown of the tree and to being a channel for this power, but not holding onto it in the way humans hold onto it, but allowing it to move through us so we can do what is needed in the moment. With the wisdom of the Oak.

I then had to gift something to the tree, so I had some hazelnuts in my camera bag, (because that’s where you keep them, right?) and when I took the essence bottle up, I planted the hazelnut in its place. Just as Chris had been told, but we’d forgotten, by the Hawthorn on Magdalene Down. The entities of the trees know way more than we do. He had also been shown the crown in the royal oak. But we had no idea that we were about to meet one.

We walked on and came to another oak that felt like a very old lady. And she was old, but so wise. Once again, we were invited to make the heartwood connection with her, so we did as we were bid. Once we had made this connection, she told us to change position and face her, just as the Pines at Fleming Park had taught us to do, so the symbol came out the back of the heart chakra. And, just as the other oak had taught us only moments before, we were instructed to replicate what we had experienced with it. We raised our arms and became the energy of the trees, feeling the energy as wind in our branches and leaves. This moving air energy then flowed down through our fingers, our arms and into our body and into our roots.

Again, I had to put the essence bottle at her roots, and the feminine oak wisdom flowed down through this beautiful, old feminine oak tree and into the essence, filling the bottle with her wise solidity. There was something about Spring in this energy, specifically April and May, which is when we did this (26th May 2025). Her wisdom was the wisdom of age, old, still, knowing, trusting, having the experience of age. And she then placed her feminine crown of hawthorn and blackthorn around the neck of the bottle.

I felt an impulse to place my forehead against her bark, making a third eye connection. The third act in the sequence of this tree-connection. Chris was receiving info about the tree and how it never really dies because the acorns she sheds are part of her. They continue her life in another form. Then I had to wrap my arms around the tree, which is not my thing at all! I did check to make sure there was no-one else about it first. But this was a third eye attunement, a surrender somehow to not worrying about what she looks like. Her branches are bare, she is a haggard old lady, but she is still strong, majestic alive.

A beam of light came from the heartwood and entered our third eye where she then planted an acorn. Was this part of what Chris meant? All our chakras were attuned to her, through the third eye, and then out through the base into the earth. She did the same with the essence. Each tree gave its own activation, but there was a definite sequence to them. I gifted a hazelnut to this tree, burying it beneath where I had removed the essence bottle.

This activation was to the male wisdom of the oak and to the female wisdom. Each was distinct and yet they were paired. Part of each other. It was a very lovely activation and one I am looking forward to sharing.

The Living Meadow: A Channeled Vision of Unity in Nature.

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This was channelled material I received a few days ago, while I was trying not to feel such despair over human behaviour and world events. It was my guide’s way of giving me a potentially more helpful outlook, much as they do during readings. They spend more time focusing on what we can do rather than dwelling on what we cannot. This equally applies to individuals we are in relationship with, whether family members, friends or partners. This view, that our guides want us to cultivate, is how they view us, and how we view those on earth, when we are not physically incarnated. Bringing heaven to earth is about bringing Soul love and compassion to those who are struggling here. We come to earth with a view to helping humanity, and so our guides give us some help when we forget!

“Long have we recognised man’s need for more. Long have watched how each individual strives, in their own way, to acquire what they believe to be ‘their right’.

“But we are here to tell you, man has no more rights than the birds in the trees, the ants that move through the grass or the fish that swim in the water. All are created equal. All living things on earth are created from the same soul, the same rocks, the same elements. No one of Gaia’s creations is more, or less, worthy than the other.

“For this reason, we come to you this day to instill in you a profound sense of connection to all living things. To every bee that lands on a flower, every blade of grass, every human being. And especially, to those you do not think deserve it.

“To you we say now: Love every aspect of creation. For as you love creation, so you learn to love yourself. For those who struggle to love, or understand, their fellow humans we say especially this: extend your love to those who act out, for their pain is the motivator. Heal the pain; heal the shame. Heal the trauma that perpetrates more trauma. Those who hate need more love, not more hate. Try to see them as creatures of the earth who do not recognise that they are part of creation, with an equal right to exist. See them as needing more love, not less.

“See each human being as a blade of grass in a beautiful meadow, each one standing proud and free. Visualise how the world might look if everyone understood that each had the right to a place in this meadow. That, through their roots, they were joined in a common endeavour; to expand, to show their beauty, to scatter their seeds.

“Try this and see what comes of it, what ideas come to mind. See yourself as a blade of grass in this meadow and allow yourself to feel part of this wonderful creation. It is your collective creation. Your desire for a better world.

“Do this for nine days and see what changes, See how you change. Document it and witness the miracles.”

Try this and let me know how you get on. With love.

Opening a portal of Light, Winchester Cathedral Grounds.

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This was an unexpected activation in the grounds of Winchester cathedral. We had been doing so much here over the past year and thought we were done, but no, turns out we weren’t.

We had gone to Kneaded, as usual, and decided to potter for a bit in the Cathedral Grounds. We were not feeling pulled to do anything in particular – until – just as we began to walk towards the Cathedral on the path from the Square, I saw a beam of solar light come in. I saw another one, a blue, like a column that needed to be anchored further along and then the pink column on the other side of the green. We were being instructed to create a triangle between the three. A portal energy.

From the solar/yellow pillar we walked a yellow line to the next blue pillar. From there, we walked a blue line to the pink column, and then returned to the yellow one, creating a pink line. The portal was now made up of three frequencies. Looking at the photo above, I see that the portal is over the cross-roads of the paths. That must mean something.

Once the triangle was complete, we were instructed to stand in the centre of it, which is where the paths cross. A large white feather appeared in the triangle, nearly filling the shape. The triangle was now three-dimensional, like a low pyramid. (We had created a pyramid energy recently in Avebury too).

In the same space as the white feather, a white column descended and a white flame ignited where it stood, in the centre of the pyramid, held by the three-fold energies of the pink, blue and gold/yellow pillars. Each of these energies work on different levels, but exist in the same space.

I reached up and brought down another energy. To my surprise it was a ladder! Like Jacob’s Ladder. It was about moving up levels, like an initiatic portal. An Ascension energy. In doing this, we had opened a channel of energy which anyone can access. Standing in the centre of this triangle, for anyone visiting Winchester, will move your frequency into ascension levels.

The space within the pyramid was now filled with a huge harp, whose sound frequencies were connected to the cathedral itself. It was connected to the sounds of nature; Elemental sounds. We were then shown a clear wine bottle. Both of us saw that. We realised, after a while, that it was one of the essences we had made and we needed to bring that here. Which would have to be on another day. We were told to bring a libation to this point. It was the White Dragon of Burley essence we had made in the New Forest.

As we didn’t have that essence with us we had to come back the following week.

Back in the grounds, with the essence, and holding the energy of the previous working, we continued. A Hathor energy came in. Chris was aware of a spiral energy, like a gold vortex. I poured some of the Burly Essence on the ground at the centre of the triangle/pyramid and we were then instructed to go into the Cathedral. The triangle needed to be connected to a point within it.

At the back of the Cathedral, where the Triple flame is anchored, we connected the white flame of the triangle/pyramid along with the white column, the white feather and the White Dragon. This acted as a balance between both points. When Nadia and I did the yellow column-anchoring on the south side of the cathedral, we were creating a balance between the masculine energies and the feminine. Now, with this white portal, the balance was creating a triad of energies between the DF (Divine Feminine) and DM (Divine Masculine) the Light of Ascension, the upper spiritual levels. Anybody who goes and stands in this pyramid and asks for the energies they need will be given exactly that.

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Where the Water Rises.

We were told to go to the crypt next and call the serpent energies. The crypt holds the water energies, symbolised by the blue serpent. Here, the Hathor energies came in. Back in October 24, during a visit by Malia (who went through a week of initiations) we had also stood in the crypt. On that visit, the crypt was filled with the energy of a large blue female serpent who filled the space. She came right up to us and planted a mass of tiny serpents in our Centres (behind the navel). This was my first up-close experience of the blue serpent in this way; she usually lives in the water layer below the cathedral and I only ever see in her in the well in the crypt. It had been raining all year and the water table was high, so I Imagine this is why she had come.

I have been holding the baby serpents in my belly for months, knowing they would be used at some point, but not knowing when. Some of Malia’s ended up at the White Spring in Glastonbury. Shortly after this there was a big storm and we wondered if that is why this serpent mother had appeared when she did, so huge and powerful. Now, back in the crypt, some of these baby serpents were going back in. We have had little rain since winter, (this work was carried out after two months of little rain) so I imagine this is why they were going back. But not all of them, only two or three. The rest remain with me, held in my body as energy of a particular frequency. The serpent babies were both blue and green, water and vegetation. Returning the balance.

I then became aware of the pond at St Cross and it was saying to me about the balance of water and growing things. The green Dragon – that is the Cathedral – made its presence felt too. The green dragon is the energy of all living green things and because it resides, energetically within the cathedral, it changes the frequency of the stone building to make it resonate with nature’s energy. There is crystal in the stone of the cathedral, and crystal holds the memory of creation, along with the forces which originally formed the stone, so it is important that the building itself is in resonance with nature so that what is outside is also inside. Often, in buildings which do not resonate, there is a distinct difference in the feeling of being inside a building and being outside. The building materials cut off the connection to nature. It has something to do with the effect on the earth’s magnetic field. Human habitation sites become more magnetic over time, weirdly.

When I was doing archaeological field surveys we used a magnetometer. Before doing the survey we had to calibrate the instrument with the earth’s magnetic field. Then, with that as its baseline, any underground pits, buildings, ditches etc would show up as different to the magnetic field. Fired brick was often more magnetic due to iron inclusions in the fabric of the pot. Since knowing that, it explained why coming back into an urban area after being in nature for a while was so disorienting. When working with the natural forces, we are aligned to the earth’s magnetic field. But urban areas are not. Working with the green dragons seems to change that, naturalising the building materials, but so far I have only seen that happen with natural stone.

The things we don’t realise…

I have added an image from Google Earth to show you where the sites are, should you want to visit. Looking at the sites from an aerial perspective shows an alignment between the activated sites (if you ignore the green dragon icon which takes in the whole cathedral). On either end of that alignment there is a tree. Make of that what you will.

Hawthorn Essence. Magdalene Down. May 2025

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On our previous visit to Magdalene Down, we felt we needed to make an essence but had not brought a bottle of water – making another visit a necessity. The following week, we headed back up to the barrows, this time with a small bottle.

Before we entered the area we needed to ask permission to enter that space, which is not something we have had to do before. There was a male entity wearing a crown of hawthorn leaves and a woman who reminded me of Galadriel. He was like the Green Man energy and she was more like an elemental/ancestral guardian of the round barrows. Although they worked on different levels, they were aware of each other and the role each played at the site.

Lemurian Crystal Gift.
Essence First Tree.
Hawthorn Tree

When we reached the hawthorn tree, Chris was told he had to give his crystal too, just as I had done on our last visit. His was a Lemurian crystal too and we had bought them at the same time. It’s all about letting go. But then he was given a hazelnut (Etheric) This had to be taken to Danebury Hill and other places. It was about planting the seed somewhere, especially places connected to water. Bath, Swallowhead Spring, etc. Like the Bishop used to travel to each of his churches, we had to do the same. But then he was shown an oak tree with a crown in it, the Royal Oak (this became significant later and also shows how easy it is to think we know what these gifts are for). As it turned out, a few weeks later, I gifted a (physical) hazelnut to an oak tree in return for an essence, placing in at the roots as a thank you. The oak showed us the crown in its branches). The tree was simply showing us what work we would do later with an oak tree. Work we did not know we would do.

I placed the bottle for the essence in the crook of the tree when prompted and surrounded it with blossoms of hawthorn. Then, we had to infuse the essence, through our breath, and through the hawthorn tree, as though the breath (masc and fem) moved through the hawthorn energy and into the essence as it sat between the branches. The Elemental feminine energy of the Hawthorn showed us the stained glass windows of Winchester cathedral, and then she placed some of the energy of the tree, as drops, three of them, into the essence … along with a thermometer. It was to keep the body in balance with nature and to help with metabolism and hot flushes, which people also experience when energy is moving through them.

Next, she placed three red drops in the bottle. These represented the haws and felt more physical. A gold band then went in too, and this was to hold the frequency in the water, holding the different energies represented by the white drops and the red drops. They would regulate the body, replenishing it, both energetically and physically, bringing it into harmony with nature.

And that was that for the essence … we thought.

Male Tree
Essence Infused with Solar Light
One of the Barrows.

A few minutes later, we were told to go to the other tree, just as we had been told the last time. It seemed there was some balancing needed to be done with the essence. This time, we had to walk four times around the tree, anti-clockwise. This happens when we are joining a feminine and masculine energy together. It does not happen very often. But there is something about the three and the four, (making seven) that seems to be significant. But I have not yet worked out what it is. The other me knows, of course!

I was told to drop some of the essence at the roots of this tree to make the connection between the two trees, on a physical level. But this time too, the energy for the essence was not from the tree trunk but had to be held towards it branches. It had to be held up to the sun. This connected to Solar time and the sun as it moved through the branches and flowers of this more masculine-energy Hawthorn. It creates a balance with the energy of the other tree, creating harmony.

Then, tiny little hawthorn fairies, small like the flowers, moved into the water of the essence. This was such a surprise! The other tree tree elemental mentioned making a tincture and then adding the essence to that tincture too, so it works on all levels. (I had already started one after last week’s visit here).

I expected these little hawthorn elementals to come back out, but they stayed there, playing in the water of the essence. This tree was in an overgrown patch and its branches had to reach for the sun to get its solar energy and this was the energy that moved into the essence. A striving for the sun. The other Hawthorn energy was more present in the tree itself, and accessible. This one was quieter, however. If he had been human, we would have called him shy. But that is quite the usual way for these elemental energies. They stay in the quiet, hidden, until they choose to open to you.

Walking past the feminine hawthorn tree as we left, she added that the essence was like a rescue remedy, acting to balance the physical body with the energy body so neither is depleted after doing energywork. It can be taken after doing a lot of work so the internal body battery does not get run down. Which is pretty good, as lately I have been experiencing exactly that. My guides come and say ‘You are running on empty’, just to warn me to replenish. Now, I turn to the essence and I can manage more.

A beetle that Crossed our Path.

We will return to Magdalene Down to collect some of the berries for another tincture. We’ll see what happens then. I will plant a couple of them too, in my garden, so we have the babies of that tree, inviting them in, as they said.

Keys and Gateways. Micheldever. 2025

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The bluebells are out and it was time to join the hordes of people going to see them in Micheldever woods. (Outside Winchester). Although, we weren’t going just to see the bluebells. We were going to visit the Banjo enclosure we had only recently discovered. Well, we did not discover it. It was discovered during an archaeological survey of the woods, but we only learned of it recently.

To get to that Banjo enclosure you have to go through the big one that is protected and as soon as we reached it, we were impulsed to go to the entrance of the banjo, down its ‘avenue’, to the energy point. All Banjos we have worked with have this point, either at the centre of the opening to the avenue or just below.

Ditch of the Banjo.
Bluebell Ditch
Avenue of Banjo

The point at the end of this avenue connects up to the Magenta layer. This is the Ruby, in the crystalline layer of the planet, and Love pours down into this point, and then into the Banjo which holds the rose energy of Feminine Love. Standing here, an image of the banjo came into my mind in its entirety, but I was shown that it was a key. The entire Banjo is a key in the landscape, opening up to another level. For this Banjo it opens up to the Ruby layer of Gaia’s emotional body, her love for humanity.

Each Banjo enclosure, or landscape key, opens to another dimension. And I don’t think that it is only these enclosures that are landscape keys, because I remember walking the mizmaze on St. Catherine’s Hill many years ago, and as I did the energy of the hill opened up. I had been ‘instructed’ to walk the maze and it was only as I came to the end of the walk, that I understood it was a key to the energy of the site. We have been working with that hill ever since.

So here we were with another key and this time we were making an essence of that energy. The ‘key’ created a reciprocal flow of energy. It opens to the other dimension but also allows the flow from that dimension into the Banjo and hence into the landscape. The banjo then acts as a womb, just like many hill-forts, holding energies. The essence of the Key also opens the user to being able to open other closed sites so they can then function as they were designed to. It puts the user in resonance, and the energy body then is the key too. So it works on multiple levels.

When I first began to work with Banjo Enclosures, Coldridge Banjo Enclosure was my key-opener. I was doing an archaeological survey of the Banjo and of the Roman villa site nearby (you’ll often find them close to each other) Once I had worked with that sacred site/settlement, I was able to work with all of them. Chris saw this key as a gold key, which indicated the frequency of gold. He also saw this key as a sound frequency, a note, which I was shown as a piano keyboard. Multiple sounds. The notes were also colours. Each ‘key’ on the piano corresponding to a colour.

For this Banjo, it was the Ruby Red. But also gold. Which are the two frequencies we have been seeing a lot lately! But there was also a blue energy present.

We left his point then and proceeded to the other Banjo. Every time we visit one of these places, we open to their energy more, and learn more each time. As we walked the trackway that cuts through the banjo I looked to my left and saw two tall trees within it. I immediately saw it was a gateway. But we were on the wrong side of it. We walked around to the other side of the trees. I was aware that as we walked we were walking from a small sphere of activity to a much larger one as though we were going to be expanding in some way. Moving into another reality. Moving out of the fish bowl, but we needed to pause before going through the gateway, taking a breather, so that when we stepped through we stepped through with awareness, with intention.

This is often how moving through an energetic gateway works. Often the gateway is formed of two trees. But not always. Once we become aware of them, and it only happens in the moment, we walk between them. We paused, then moved forward with intention. There is a sense of importance in that pause, that moment of knowing that when we walk through the energetic gateway, our vibration will be different and we will have initiated new events.

Chris felt that we would be expanding into Europe, into a bigger sphere of work, and travel. We have already done work in France, the U.S. and in Spain, and in Iceland, but this expansion was more than that. As if we would be working bigger, with more energy. There was also the sense of less, clearing everything unnecessary, honing things down. On the other side of the gateway, there was the impression of a castle, a place we would visit. It looked like the remains of one of its corner turrets. We would be going back into time. There was a crusader element to this, and a King Richard energy.

Stepping through we had to stop as we had moved through and into the bigger bubble. Yet, there was still a time of unsurety before we found our way to the right road. It might take us time, but we would find our way in this new terrain. A whole new path. It felt medieval to Chris.

Once back ‘on track’ we headed towards the smaller, more obscure Banjo enclosure further down the trackway (the track cuts right through it). From a distance, we were aware of two beings waiting for us. To my mind’s eye, they looked like an old bearded man, and a younger teenage girl but dressed in clothes like people in Lord of the Rings. We often see them like this. It’s how the unconscious mind clothes them, so that we recognise their origin.

Looking back along the Track
Inside the Banjo.
Unfurling Fern

As we approached, they were giving us the impression of a letter, a communication. This letter was something we needed to take to someone else, or someplace else. France/Spain came in. The Bronze age settlements there. Getting to the site the energy filled us, like an umbilical connection, drawing us deeper into its sphere of energy. This was like the site’s influence but it was contained. As you walk through the outer membrane, and into the sphere, you resonate with the site’s energy and can access the knowledge there. This was a new experience. Maybe because it was a small Banjo enclosure.

We stepped into the trees to the left which felt Elven and beautiful, as though we had stepped into a fairy realm. The energy of this Banjo was the same as the one in Itchen woods. But it was only when we were in the trees that it felt so fairy-ish. Now it was time to communicate with the two spirit people who had drawn us there. The man instructed me to open the essence we had made in the avenue of the big banjo and when I did he dipped a letter into it. A written letter. This was to infuse the letter, which was sealed, with the energy keys of the big Banjo. It reminded me of people in the past infusing their letter with perfume to remind the recipient of the writer’s essence. When we, or anyone else who uses the essence, visits another site the energies there will recognise it.

There is some kind of communication then between both sites. It felt like Carnac, in France. Some correspondence between the two places. Next, the young girl placed some Herkimer diamonds in the bottle. These Herkimer diamonds were filled with her light, her soft supportive, gentle energy, so that we move into these ancient spaces with a gentleness and respect for both the site, and the beings who inhabit them. The Man then gave us his staff, so that we go with his authority. We are working on behalf of these ancestral people so we go with his energy. The staff is also used to open energy and to send pulses out into the landscape. It will ensure that our work is accepted in these foreign places. It gives us access to these places. Like envoys.

Then, the man showed us our transport. Ponies with side packs for travelling. But it was telling us to take what we need, to be prepared for a long journey. We will need the transport to be able to visit many places. He then gave us a very big smoky quartz crystal point to take and he put it in the side pack of one horse. In another pack, on a second horse, he placed a gold disc. A CD with information on it. One of us will carry the crystal energy and one will carry the information. A road-trip, he called it.

Chris then noticed that the Banjo was bordered by a few oak trees, (which became important a few weeks later). We were then drawn to a tree in the centre of the clearing and we had to activate it by walking around it once anti-clockwise and then standing with our backs to it and activating the Heartwood symbol. We’ve been using this symbol a lot! We received a wonderful infusion of love, appreciation and gratitude; the tree acknowledging our connection to it and gifting us with lovely heart-felt energies.

The Pines of Fleming Park.

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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.

Monk’s Brook
Approach
Pines

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.

Pine
Looking Up
Seams of Gold Sap

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!

St. Cross Hospital.

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St Cross Hospital in Winchester was founded by Bishop Henry du Blois and is one of our other favourite places to do energy work. Lately, we have been called there more frequently. A number of people have worked with this site over the years, but for those of us who do the Gaia Method, we are anchoring energetic templates for future generations, and clearing out older ones that are no longer needed. Ones that were set out to suit an earlier energetic need for change.

This series of activations is connected to the ones at Winchester Cathedral. Again, over the years we were called to do adjustments, anchorings of specific energy, as though we were preparing for a more focused energywork. And this Spring it has certainly been focused. There are timings here too. The activations happen when they are supposed to, although we don’t know their purpose, or how the timing is important. But each of us is drawn to the sites to do the necessary work.

This Spring has been particularly busy. From the Winter Solstice to around May the first, is my busiest time of the year. But this year has been very different, and activations have been happening every week. It feels like there is some important reason for this. Things hotting up; things opening; the time is NOW, sort of feeling. There is a sense of urgency, of getting in there because the energies are opening in a way they have not up until now. The next few years will show us why, I have no doubt.

This Spring, we were drawn to St Cross again because their cafe in the Men’s Hall is now open every day. Homemade cakes, yes please! And gluten-free. While we were in the cafe, I was told that we needed to do some work with the energy at the central green where we had anchored a pillar before, during one of their wonderful summer fetes. This time, we had to bring in another energy.

Magnolia
Sun Dial
Central Green

At the central green, I saw the flame we needed to anchor. It was the yellow flame. We were impulsed to walk around the green once, anti-clockwise, and as we did the flame grew, as if the walking was turning it up. This seems to be theme as Nadia and I did the same with the green on the south-side of Winchester cathedral.

Reaching our starting point again, there was nothing else to do, so next we were drawn to the garden with its beautiful tree and large pond – which is what we had to activate. So around we went, anti-clockwise, after a brief conversation with the many carp swimming around and hoping for a feed.

Walking around the pond, I was aware of it being a counterbalance to the flame in the green, joining them together like two spheres. Fire and water in balance. The flame is on one template, one layer, and the water is on another. Each has their own energetic purpose within creation.

Once again, having reached our starting point, we were instructed to throw something metallic into the water. The only metal we had was a coin each, so standing at the pond’s edge, together we threw the coins in, not feeling entirely comfortable. Next, I saw a string of pearls being draped from the left side of the pond to the right, the central pearls dipping into the water.

And that was all we needed to do, that day.

The following week, we sat in Kneaded having our breakfast and I was aware that we needed to go back to St. Cross but this time we needed to make an essence. As we sat there, feeling that what we needed to do in St, Cross was the same as what we had done at Winchester cathedral, I became aware of a disc being anchored around my body, horizontally, like a CD. Two more then anchored, one above this, at my heart, and one below, at my hips. I saw that Chris was being anchored with his three discs, which felt like templates of information. The discs were transparent and had silver and gold light language etched on them. This was the information needed.

The lower disc on my body was about water, the top one was about the trees, and the middle one was about flames, dragons and energy lines. Three tiers of energy information.

Hundred Men’s Hall.
St. Catherine’s Hill.
Itchen Stream.

When we got to St. Cross, before we entered, we were drawn to the gate leading into the water meadows. St. Catherine’s Hill stood prominently in the distance, looking down over us. This was where we had to make our essence. Just prior to this, walking towards the gate, I felt a solar ray activate around me. At the gate, facing the hill, I held the bottle between us, aware that the three discs of information we each held were joined, like a Vesica Piscis. The bottle was in the space between, so that it received all six templates of information. It is an essence of how to work with sacred Christian sites.

The essence was also taking in the beautiful solar light and as we stood there, the sky was filled with an immensely beautiful female energy-being in the atmosphere, shining down like the sun. A solar elemental. She held the solar energy rays in her field and it was the energy of ‘presence’ and deep peace, and connection. The message was to stop, and tune into the Now. That feminine energy flowed down into my lower chakra, to centre and ground me, yet it felt beautiful and peaceful. It brought me back to an appreciation of the present, being present to all that was around me. All the sounds, the calm, the sun, the water, the birds. It all went into the essence. I could have stayed there all day, but we had other work to do. A Mary energy then appeared and she put a tuning fork into the water of the essence. This made sense later.

Chris had a visit from a man in black who gave him a bunch of keys. But as often happens, when you are given keys, you don’t necessarily know what they are for. They give you the ability to open energies in other places, places the Beings that give the keys know you will visit, even if you don’t!

In the hospital grounds, this time we had to work within the chapel. There are three little chapels within this building, and in each one there is a flame, or two. Each person anchors the energy they are told to anchor. In the first chapel, there was a flame of blue, which I had seen last week. I stood in the flame and it was a flame of Michael. I was expecting it to be feminine! Even though we had put there a few years previously but at the time did not know what it was.

We moved into the central chapel with its yellow-gold flame, larger than the blue. I already knew there was a Magenta flame in the lady chapel to the left as we had put it there years before. (Eartha also anchored a pink and gold flame during her work there. Another layer of energy). I stood within the yellow flame, holding the bottle open, and a string of diamonds descended into the center of it., down through the flame. I could see no end to this string. Then the bells of the church tolled eleven times, sending its energy into the bottle. This was the tuning fork sounds we had seen Mary putting in. We stayed, focusing on the sounds as if they were coming from tuning forks, letting their resonance be anchored in the bottle and in our bodies, until they faded away.

Heading next to the Lady chapel, I heard The gospel of st Mary. The saint being the significant word. To people in the Church of England, Mary is known as a saint, but in the Catholic church she is known as the Mother of God. So to whom were they referring? Perhaps, as Chris suggested, it is Mary Magdalene? She is known for having written a gospel.

In the third chapel, it didn’t feel like I had to add energy here, but then another energy came. It was about silence.  The energy here was one of pure peace. A sense of retreat and quiet. This is the energy that was placed in the essence. Stillness, retreat from the cares of the world. A connection to the Divine-self. Again, I could have stayed all day in this lovely, monastic, retreat energy.

We burned some candles, as we always do. Me, for all the parents around the world, Chris, for all those people who could not burn one of their own. I felt myself raising the essence bottle, as if I was blessing the wine at mass, holding it up to the divine energy.

And that was that. Another lovely morning and another useful essence.

Mayday on Magdalene Down, Winchester.2025

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We had the idea to go to Magdalene Down Nature reserve for Mayday this year. A few years previously, we had done some work there, which indicated that we needed to be at St Catherine’s Hill for Mayday of the same year. There we learned from the Spirits of the people who had been buried in the round barrows, what celebrations they carried out at the time.

This time, we had a very different experience. We were not really sure if anything had to be done because we could not feel anything. But, we thought we’d just enjoy the nice day and the sunshine. However, that did not last for long. We walked along the path to the barrows and my attention was drawn to a lovely old hawthorn tree. The air was warm and the scent of the hawthorn blossoms carried on the wind, like a gentle balm, nurturing and gorgeous.

I stood close to the tree and felt the impulse to walk around it, anti-clockwise. I did it once and then was told ‘three times.’ This often happens. You feel ONE, and then are told how many more you have to do. After the first round, I became aware of a beautiful feminine energy connected to the tree. It felt like, what in Ireland we would call, a fairy woman. She was part of the tree and yet separate, completely herself. She appeared wispy, not as solid as other fairy beings we have seen with trees, and I could feel her more than see her. Chris stayed outside her energy-field, which was like a bubble around the tree. He said he felt like an ‘outlier stone’.

The fairy woman told me to take a small part of her tree, so I chose a sprig with some flowers on it. She then told me to make tea with it. She also suggested I bring it into the house, to bring the fairies back in. This goes back to an Irish belief that you should never take hawthorn into the house because the hawthorn is a fairy tree. When I was a teenager in the seventies, I brought some flowering hawthorn into my mother’s flat and she immediately ordered me to take it out again. It was bad luck and brought the fairies in. This was the influence of the Catholic church and their demonisation of the Old Ways. Now, this fairy woman was telling me that they wanted me to bring them in. Absolutely yes! I would like nothing better.

That seemed to be the end of the connection so I went outside her energy field and both Chris and I stood, feeling roots growing out of our feet and into the earth. We stayed for a while and then I suggested we move, but it was like we were Ents, pulling our roots up and moving through the forest. We did not get very far because now Chris had to walk around the tree threes times, anticlockwise.

As I stood there, I had the message that in return for the gift of the flowers I was given, I should give something in return. The only thing I had was my Lemurian crystal necklace. So off it came and I hung it on a branch, with gratitude. When the fairies give you a gift there is always something to be given in return. This is not a payment, in the way we humans think of it, but a sharing of something we hold precious. A gift for a gift. Her blossoms, and leaves, and the gift of health it brings , as well as the gift of the communication between us, is precious to them.

We made our way to the burial mounds but I was not feeling that I needed to stand on any of them. Chris, on the other hand, did. So up he went. His task was to bring down the sun, just as he had done when on the barrow near Stonehenge a few years ago. I felt I needed to be at the edge of the barrow. As he brought the sun down I saw it move into the earth and from there I guided it into its womb-like space beneath the barrow. Chris’s job was to bring the solar energy down from the sky and mine was to guide it to the Mother’s womb. Chris saw the energy flow out from its space in the earth and flow in lines out into the landscape. One of those lines went to St. Cross Hospital which we could see in the distance, rising above the trees. Chris was told that I had to bring a rose quartz crystal to St Cross Hospital. So that will be on our list too.

We thought we were finished here, so we followed the path and continued the walk. I remembered the last time I had been here and had made an essence on the barrows, and in a little hawthorn grove, so I wanted to find it again. I didn’t have a plan, I was simply enjoying the sun, but when we entered the grove there was a large hawthorn right in the middle. There was a masculine energy here with this tree, and like the first one, I had to walk three times around it anti-clockwise. This deepens the connection with the elemental, and the tree, and opens the communication. It’s a feeling you get, not something you think you should do. If you are supposed to do it, it will come into your mind, and you will know.

Having done the opening circuits, I was given the thought to connect the two trees, a masculine and feminine balance. I had to place another crystal in this tree to make the connection. This is where I feel glad that I am a stone-picker-upper! One of the quartz stones I had picked up along the walk here had to be placed in its branches. This put it on the same crystalline level as the first tree and a line of gold light connected them. It was like connecting a telephone line between them. (They are at either end of the line of Barrows). This was the knot-tying Chris had done earlier. It was showing him what had to be done.

The crystal energy was important because it connected them to the crystalline layers of the planet. Whoever passes through their energy fields, if they are open to receiving them, would feel the gifts the trees had to offer. These gifts felt like information, ideas, etc.

The connection with these fairy beings was very different to other connections we have made. Maybe it was because they were hawthorn Beings, I don’t know. But their communication was very subtle. So subtle that we were following their pull without even realising it. This is very different to other tree connections we have made, which seemed nearly physical by comparison. This hawthorn communication was as gentle as the air. We had to really focus to receive it and to perceive the Beings connected to them. They were, in the old tradition, hidden from sight.

Kestrel
Hawthorn Gift
Hawthorn Tea

On the walk back Chris spotted a kestrel sitting in a tree above the site and, when I got to my father’s house, I made some tea with the leaves and the blossoms. Very pleasant. I’ll have to pick some more to keep for the rest of the year then mix it with the berries when they come out. Apparently, after harvesting, it is a good idea to freeze them in a brown paper bag for a couple of weeks, to remove the insects. Well, although I washed the leaves and blossoms, I imagine a few insects went into the tea with them. I’ll freeze them next time.