The Orkney Wisdom path is a specific pathway of development within the Gaia Method and needs an entire book written about it. This is the story of how this came about and what is yet to come. We will organise workshops to Orkney yearly, as of 2021, to train those who resonate with this pathway.

A year and a half ago, I went to Orkney with Eartha Luck, and what an incredible place.

From the minute we set foot on the island, I felt myself being connected to it. As we drove around, exploring, we decided that Orkney should be named the Island of Rainbows, as there were so many of them.

Our first port of call, on a freezing wet November day, was the Stones of Stenness. The energy was palpable as we walked through the huge stones and into the centre of the circle. Having done some energy-work there, anchoring the rainbow rays to each of the stones, including the ones that were no longer there, we proceeded to the Ring of Brodgar, but the small road that bridged the two stone circles was an energetic gateway, which we first had to open.

The gateway itself was in the water, a few meters out, and once it was open we could continue to the larger circle. In opening the gateway we had also opened the connection beneath the work we had been doing in Southern England to this more northerly site. As the Guardian of the Gateway said: The Orkney Isles are now blessed with the Light of the South.’

 

 

We wandered around the large circle and were told to connect to Neptune’s Lair. So, a few days later we found ourselves at Birsay, fighting against the wind and the rain. It was a stormy week, but storms and giant waves are irresistible, and while we were there, trying to stay upright, Neptune appeared. I was told to ‘write the words that I was given’. But it was 18 months later before I understood what he meant.

We did a lot of work in Orkney, at both circles, and at Maes Howe; a beautiful, women’s wisdom sacred place. We were given many gifts and much information, including a very large, leather-bound book by the guardian energies of Brodgar.

This book of information began to come through in May last year and It is called: ‘The Shamanic Wisdom of the Orkney Isles.’

This is what they had to say about it:

Liken it to a rose, opening to accept the rays of the sun. Little by little the petals unfold, revealing the beauty within. That is Orkney, the Rose Soul of Britain.

The Shamanic wisdom of the Orkney Isles is a documentary-style book, containing elements of prose, fiction and exercises for people to absorb these energies, no matter where they are in the world. 

The Orkney energies are part of the Gaia Method system but can be taught separately after the first Gaia method Attunement.  The Gaia Method System is like a be-jewelled spider, sitting in the centre of the web. Lines of silk extend out from the centre, each one connected to the others, but all going in a different direction. All are connected but are separate paths of development. There are multiple paths available, depending on which path the student chooses. 

That cleared up the confusion about how the Gaia Method had so many potential paths!

The first chapter then followed:

“Take a trip with us, back to the past; a past of life and of gaiety, of joy and travail, of death and of rebirth. Join us, around the circle of Time so that when you read these words you are transported back, back and back – to where our world began. Take the first step now, as we guide you along long-forgotten roads, through swamp and desert, dune and sand. Trip with us on the wild shores where people of the past still live, unseen by you, the forgotten people of Skara Brae.

Watch us, as we sit beside our fires, roasting our pigs, skinning our sheep and tanning their hides. Join us, as we celebrate the fire festivals, the marriages, the ceremonies of Light and Life. Sit with us while we watch the dawns rise through our circles of stones, as we watch our children grow and our animals thrive. Watch us as we watch you, floundering through lack of connection.

The fires burn brightly in our lives, and in our lands and so we come to you now, to offer our wisdom and our knowledge, so you can connect to our hearths and to our lives. Sit quietly as we gather our spirits together and blend them with yours.

Soften your eyes and move inwards, into your inner consciousness, your inner world. You are sitting beside a large central fire in a building made of stone and clods of soil. The only light is the warm light of the flames as they dance on the walls and ceiling of the sacred hut. The Elders are there too, seated around the fire. They are the Elder Women of the tribes, the Mothers. Today you join with them in celebration of life. See their faces, the fire-light glowing on their faces, their hands and their ivory and shell jewellery.

A low hum begins as the women begin to ‘sound’ the sacred notes of harmony and peace. You hear them as they blend and weave, growing softer, then louder, then softer again, until your own energy joins with the sounds. Like a sea current, it flows, moving ever onwards and through.

Outside, you can see, through the open doorway, the sun rising. You feel filled with the love that the Father has for the mother. Her heart-song fills you as you sway gently from side-to-side, your entire body filled with light and the joy of sacred union. The Father caresses the body of the Mother with his body of light until she is filled with his vitality and essence.

The humming stops and all is still, peaceful. The light has arisen. Feel the energies of this Union as it fills you with light. Feel yourself inspired, connected, enlivened. Stay with these feelings until you are ready to open your eyes.

You have begun the sacred journey of Divine Union and the Path of Rainbow light. We are all children in this world, the children of Mother Earth and Father Sun, and so we spend each morning absorbing their gifts so we may go out amongst the people and share it with them.

With gratitude in our hearts, that you have gifted us with your permission to become a participant in this sacred journey of re-connection, we bid you farewell.”

 

 

 

 

What happens when you have a gold dragon in your field?  Although I work with them in the landscape, I also noticed them popping up in odd places. But why? I knew it was about money and power, but after a visit from Chris for a couple of weeks, when I was living in Egypt, this became clearer.

The Gold Dragon is a representation of our ability to manifest wealth. It is an power that flows through the body, and outer self, or ego, to manifest itself in the world. Once we have balanced our ability to both give, and receive finance and support, we are then more able to utilise, sensibly, the power of the Gold Dragon. Before we reach the point of being able to work with money in this way, however, we may progress through different frequencies of the dragon energy of wealth.

Omar had a Bronze Dragon energy in his field. which I didn’t understand at the time, because I didn’t know they were a possibility. But once I understood the power of the Gold, I understood the Bronze. I saw this Bronze dragon ‘holding’ Omar in its arms, with its tail wrapped around him too; totally ‘held and protected’. He hadn’t yet mastered his money issues, so he was working with the energy that he could work with. He was learning how to manifest finance in a balanced and heart-centred way, for the good of all. This made sense, becasue when you think of coinage, you have copper, bronze, silver and gold, traditionally.

Having a future leadership role, even if only on a local level, but still leading a community, you have to learn to use money and power in a balanced way, so the future good of the entire community is maintained. Money is not to be used selfishly, but for the good of the whole, so we have to learn to use it well, therefore our dragon energy will reflect this.

Just before my friend Chris arrived, my own Gold Dragon energy suddenly started ‘blowing’. When this happens, I feel an energy awakening in my belly and the feel the impulse to ‘blow’ air out, like a healing air stream. I was aware of my dragon energy, and she was blowing gold coins into the air around me and filling the apartment. It feels like I am the dragon, and my fiery breath is used through my breath.

I knew this was to do with Chris’s impending arrival, but I didn’t quite understand why. I soon discovered why. During his stay, money flowed into the flat and into the house, through his generosity. Although sometimes it felt overwhelming, as I am not used to such a sudden free-flow, he shared the gold with the entire house, making the lives of all of Omar’s family more abundant for a time and putting into motion certain actions which would bring abundance to them in the future. Through his dragon energy, he opened hte way towards future stability for them.

At one point, he himself began to feel anxious about going back to work in the UK, but suddenly I could see his gold dragon wrap itself around his body, holding him in his arms, and the feeling was that there was nothing to worry about. That he was financially, and emotionally safe … because he was working on behalf of humanity, and not selfishly hoarding his money. That is the power of the Golden Dragon. This wealth is for our Purpose, for the benefit of humanity and our work in that area. To do this, of course, many of our conscious, and unconscious, fears are worked through, so we can do that. We are channels for the abundance of creation to flow into the physical world, and therefore our lives become enriched as a result.

It is not our money’; it is for the good of the whole. Which is why many people who work with the Golden Dragons are natural givers, often to the point of self-sacrifice. But that too is a lesson. Balanced giving, and receiving, is the way. Money is supposed to flow, it is not supposed to be dammed up and hoarded so that it benefits no-body but the hoarder. Unless, you are saving for a particular purpose which allows you do even more work. Letting go of our fear of lack, and learning how to give giving responsibly and not out of personal interest, is one of the important lessons we learn. Thankfully, the gold dragons train us in the use of their energy.

If you have one of these dragons, know it is your energy they are working through to benefit the Whole, and that they will train you to work with them. Be watchful, let go of your fears around money and be generous when you see the need for it. Not pointless giving, but intentional, and guided. The Dragons will tell you how, and when to give, and when not to. Their consciousness, which is really ours, knows things that our personalities do not, so learning to listen, watch and trust is important. We are harnessing the creative powers of the Universe, so we will learn how to do it wisely and hopefully, one day, all power and wealth will be distributed through the Dragons, for the benefit of all.

In 2006 I had a vision just as I was falling asleep, (which meant I then had to wake up properly and write it down). In the vision, I was a gold dragon and as I breathed, in my human body, I was also breathing as the dragon. I focussed on this feeling and the image of a deer-like creature standing alone in a meadow appeared in my mind’s eye. It was a sacrifice for me, the dragon. Then, the image shifted and I was in an active volcano. A priest was doing ceremony for me, sacrificing a maiden to me. There was something about women being sacrificed for the greater good.

This is not really how gold dragons work, but I was being shown how the myth of the maurauding golden dragon became part of our myths and stories. They were portrayed as something to be afraid of, something to sacrifice something else to, maintaining our safety at the expense of others. This is so the opposite of how the Gold dragons work, but it is interesting that the stories were created this way.

But, those are just thoughts. My experience of the gold dragon is one of creating and attracting abundance, especially money. But, whenever, I have observed the gold dragon, it was outside of my control. I remember, in Egypt, standing outside Fatima’s kitchen (Fatima was married to Mohammed), and suddenly I became aware of myself as the gold dragon. In this vision, I saw myself taking off some of my gold bracelets and giving it away. When an Egyptian woman marries, she is given gold as a dowry. This is her safety account just in case the marriage does not work out the way they anticipated. At the time, I did not understand what this meant, until a few days later, Omar told me that Fatima had given some of her gold to her husband to buy a cow, an expensive purchase at the time (now even more expensive). So, the vision was showing me how Fatima was giving her gold to her husband for the good of the family. She was sacrificing her own future safety for the good of the whole. A typical Gold dragon action.

Maybe that is what the myth of sacrificing the maiden is about.

Another gold dragon experience we had in 2016 was in Glastonbury. Chris, Eartha and myself had gone there for the day and visited the Chalice Well. A small gold dragon attached itself to my ankles, having emerged from the Well, and it was only when we got to the crypt beneath Winchester Cathedral, that it let go and swam into the well beneath the Great Altar.I thought I was imagining it, until I told the others, and discovered they had seen it too. I’d had a similar experiecne with a green dragon.

The gold dragon energies have also appeared in places I would not have expected them to appear. Government places, my local city council offices in Winchester, the tower of London, where they keep the Crown Jewels. Chris anchored the same energy in a place that makes controllers for tanks and planes and I anchored one in Luxor, in the family home. And of course, there was the little gold dragon energy we brought back from Glastonbury.

Interestingly, last June, (2024) Chris and I were in Winchester cathedral and I was making an essence. Along with the essence came information about a dragon from Avalon having been anchored in Winchester cathedral. I had completely forgotten about the little gold dragon. The size of the little dragon is really indicative of it being a portion of that greater energy. It is often carried at the feet or lower legs. In this way we become carriers of their elemental force and can transport ‘seeds’ of their energy to plant elsewhere. What is again interesting to me is that this gold dragon emerged from the Chalice Well waters, just like the green dragon had emerged from the source of the River Test. Glastonbury Abbey was a great centre in the past and that wealth has energetically remained there, to be picked up by others, who can then move it other parts of the country and the world. Water holds memory, which is why we can make essences, and therefore the water holds the memory of the place it runs through, held by the surrounding geology.

More recently, the gold dragon has been showing up for me more often. Probably because I have been healing my beliefs around money, and have learned to accept it, rather than reject it. I had made the decision, when I was a teenager, that love was more important than money, which of course it is. But we live in a world where money is how we live, now more than ever. The dragon was not only showing me I had healed those big beliefs, but that I could now attract more abundance, but also learn to be responsible with it. Lessons which continue.

Poverty has its lessons, but so does wealth. The Gold dragon helps us to learn that.

One of the things we learned over the years of doing Earth energy work was how our pre-Celtic ancestors worked with the Earth and how they really knew that they lived on the body of the Mother. They were part of the Mother, they were her children.

Their sacred places, small settlements, massive hillforts and stone circles were all representative of the Balance of male and female. They lived that reality of Balance. Through working with these places I recognised that many of them are built to represent the female body. Sites that were significant places for maintaining the balance of the surrounding countryside, or places of power where people went to learn how to be a guardian of a sacred place, all were created to replicate the body of a woman.

Through working with these places I recognised that many of them are built to represent the female body. Sites that were significant places for maintaining the balance of the surrounding countryside, or places of power where people went to learn how to be a guardian of a sacred place, all were created to replicate the body of a woman.

Banjo Enclosures, such as that at Itchen wood and Micheldever Wood, Coldridge Woods, Danebury Hillfort, Fosbury Hillfort, Woolbury Camp and Maiden castle. Stone circles such as Stonehenge, Avebury, etc, all represent the body of the Great Mother. At different points in the year, these places were fertilised, by priests and priestesses, who knew how to channel the energy/light of the male fertilising principle, the Solar energy, through their bodies and into the earth. This was like a great sexual joining of male and female, designed to ensure that the crops would grow every year and feed their people, and that the balance of the Earth’s energies would be maintained.

 This was not an empty ritual, but a real energy-working of the serpent-lines that ran between sacred places and rivers, human settlements and burial sites.

When I first began to work with Danebury Hillfort with Chris, we found ourselves, at the beginning of February a few years ago, standing on the highest point in the middle of the settlement. I became aware of two giant hands pulling open a split in the earth beneath my feet. Inside the resulting diamond-shaped space there was darkness. Then the solar light poured down through us, as we stood above this empty dark space, and it filled the space with solar light. Then I saw the Sheelagh-na-gig, and I understood what it meant!

The Sheelagh was the image of the Great Mother at the end of winter, and the beginning of spring, opening herself up to the fertilising energy of the sun, where she would, in nine months time, produce the crops that fed the people. She would be re-energised. Think of all the fairy tales where the ‘ugly old witch’ takes the energy of youth to make herself young again. This is an echo of an ancient ritual of life-bringing solar energy, re-energising the old winter season and bringing the new energies of spring and new growth.

When we had finished we walked around the outside bank and all I could feel was the storage of corn! I took a photo on my way out, of the information board. I realised that I was looking at the body of a pregnant woman. The ‘Defensive’ ditches are her vulva! The people lived within the body of the Mother. The same applies to many other settlement sites around the country.

These places were significant fertility sites, which not only fed the surrounding areas energetically but also physically. Storing corn in large pits in the chalk kept the corn safe for Winter, but also kept it energised.

Sites, where the stone carved Sheelagh-na-gigs were found, were earlier fertility sites, and the early Christians, without their rigid fear of sexuality, probably knew that, so they incorporated the Sheelaghs into the stone-work of their chapels, just as they used the stones from stone-circles as the corner-stones for new churches on older, sacred sites. They were not destroying these sites, in their eyes, but re-dedicating them. It was only later, after the Synod of Whitby, that this knowledge was slowly destroyed.

The smaller Banjo enclosures were like smaller womb-like places, that also fed the surrounding countryside and brought fertility to the local inhabitants, but these smaller enclosures seemed to be an introduction from a foreign peoples, from Northern parts of Europe. They brought their knowledge of working with the earth with them when they came. I don’t know who these people are, but every time we have worked with a Banjo enclosure we have picked up the energy of immigrants from Northen countries, Saxon/Scandinavian? People who married into the communities or settled by themselves.

The Banjos, were often smaller satellite communities of larger Mother sites, and energetically connected to the larger sites. All of these places were connected. The big sites fed the smaller sites. But what is also significant about these banjos is the ‘Access point’. These points are always at the entrance to the avenue of the enclosure and the energy which enters the enclosure is regulated from here.

Looking at the diagram it seems apparent that the access point is the seat of female creative energy. It is the energy of creation. This point, in a Banjo enclosure, is where the energy comes in from the earth or from the sky. It feeds the Banjo enclosure with the right amount of energy, which comes in from different energy sources.

Our ancestors knew exactly what they were doing when they created these power places and they understood how to keep the balance of the male and Female in every level of society. Sometimes, in larger hillfort sites, the energy point is in the spring-fed pond within the communal space. Springs have always been seen as emerging from the body of the Mother, and therefore filled with her life-giving essence. Everything these people did was done in a sacred way, in their sacred spaces of the Mother.

Different Mother sites are aligned with either Spring or Summer. Winter vortices tend to be smaller, and sometimes small spring vortices can be close to the Winter ones.  Fosbury Hillfort, in Wiltshire is a wonderful, Summer Hillfort. Just being there is a nurturing experience.

I was introduced to Fosbury, a 26 acre site, by a fellow Archaeology student named Matt Nichol and he felt incredibly protective of the site, without really realising why! The first time he took me there I was blown away by the love I felt from the site. I knew, without a doubt, that the people who had lived in this settlement had known abundance and safety. Even going there in Winter, with snow all around, you don’t feel the cold. You feel completely nurtured and secure and you know that all of your needs will be met. The feeling at the site is of a fecund mother, full of all the good things that nature can provide. A place of security and love.

Every time I went to do work at this site, re-connecting it to the smaller Banjo enclosure of Coldridge, a few miles away, I was always greeted by the great loving energy there. Fosbury ‘fed’ the smaller Banjo enclosure with red energy, which wrapped itself around the small enclosure, feeding it with its life energy, like a child connected by an umbilical cord. This was a common occurrence, with larger Hillforts connecting to smaller banjo Enclosures.

At the bottom of the Coldridge Banjo, there are two vortices, side by side, a Spring Vortex and a Winter Vortex, each active at that time and all connected to Fosbury. Nothing works in isolation All are connected. And all play a different role within the larger network of energies.