The Crab Wood Tree Network.

July 22, 2025July 16, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

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.

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!

Hawthorn Essence. Magdalene Down. May 2025

June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

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.

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.

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.

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

June 12, 2025May 26, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

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.

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.

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.

May 29, 2025May 16, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 6 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mayday on Magdalene Down, Winchester.2025

May 8, 2025May 1, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

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.

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.

The Southern Magnolia. Winchester.

April 28, 2025April 29, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I introduced Chris to the Southern Magnolia which Nadia and I had visited the previous week. He brought his dowsing rods with him, for the first time in ages. We did the energywork first before he did the dowsing and also made an essence, invited to do so by the tree.

When we got tot h tree, Chris was picking up that there was a link, somehow, between the tree and the eastern end of the Cathedral. That link became clear later. He also picked up on the clergyman who had guided me and Nadia to the place we needed to work when we anchored the masculine energy in the green. So he seems to be very present here and connected to an important book.

I was feeling energy coming up my legs and moving into my sacral centre. From there, it flowed out into the energy around me. A bit like a tree bringing energy up through the roots and expressing it creatively through its leaves. Moving energy creatively, as this tree does.

I then received the message: Let destiny unfold. This was very much to do with the energy of this tree and how it simply allows life to unfold. It doesn’t push to make things happen, but flows instead. It allows its energy to flow gently. Letting things flow through it, like the rain, the wind. Accepting, trusting and allowing. There are no blockages, no restrictions. There was also a sense of sharing, there is no need to worry about lack of energy. It is limitless.

From the leaves, through a gentle breeze, energy flowed in through my upper fields and flowed down through my heart and into my sacral centre. It flowed, in the same way as the energy from the roots had, out through my sacral and into the world. The energy comes in from the earth, through the roots, and down from the branches, simultaneously, but emerging creatively through our creative centre.

At this point, I was told to do an energy connection with the tree. Chris was told to make the initial connection by physically touching the tree trunk and connecting his heart to the heart of the tree. Next, he was to visualise the yellow line moving up to the sun and the black line moving down to the Obsidian dragon at the centre of the earth. We were then joined in a Triangle, just as Nadia and I had experienced when we first made the connection to this tree.

Chris began to sway towards the tree trunk, feeling the serpentine earth energy as it moved into his body. (When doing healing with the Gaia Method the body responds to the earth energy by moving, like a hypnotised cobra). But Chris felt the tree was pushing him back when he swayed too close to it. ‘Stand on your own two feet’, it seemed to be saying, ‘Don’t lean on me. Trust in your own ability to hold this energy.’

Next, I anchored the white cone in Chris’s body. Followed by the black one. The white cone came from above, a vortex of spiralling energy. The black cone came up from the earth, a spiralling black vortex. They met in the solar plexus. The white spun clockwise. The black spun anticlockwise.

We then had to thank everything we had, being in a state of gratitude. Grateful to all the Elemental Beings who help us, and the Earth beings who help us. To all our guides, people, everything. Just holding that sense of trusted flow and gratitude.

The black dragon then moved into the black vortex; the white dragon into the white one, meeting in the centre. But this time it was about Will. Moving into the Divine Will of Heaven and Earth. Holding the balance of earth power, via the black dragon, and the divine inspiration from above, through the white. The black dragon is the deep unknown, the potential, holding deep power. We have, as healers, to hold that balance within us. To be able to wield a portion of the earth’s power while being divinely inspired, using both these energies to create a new life, both for ourselves and for the planet. Both these dragon energies work within the same creative earth energies but with very different foci. But they are perfect together.

In the tree, there now appeared a gold key, and it unlocked that point where the two cones/vortices meet. Another line of energy then ascended through the body, and descended at the same time. This was about giving the ability to absorb all the energies, both vertically and horizontally, of tree beingness. How they are all connected to each other, from the smallest shrub to the tallest tree. Working at that level. Where that point meets is where the trees are. Between heaven and earth.

The key then became blue and it opened another energy sending this blue into the outer edge of the cones, like a layering. The black and white are the polarity, the blue brings peace and holds it in balance. Then the key became yellow, opening, again, another frequency. Gold coins were part of this yellow. A pink key then was given by the tree again, to open the meeting point. Bands of light then moved up and down the cones like pulsing bands of energy. A Divine frequency.

The three colours, yellow/gold, blue and pink are the three colours we work with. These colours work with the dragon frequencies, and the flames.

I then was shown a crossbow, but it was dragon energy and the arrow was wooden. This had something to do with being able to send dragon energy to make the connection between one tree and other. It is also about being able to send that energy put as an attunement. The connection would be fast, having that velocity behind it. The trees have always been my teachers, and shared with me many of the Gaia Method energies.

We then made the essence, placing the bottle between the branching trunks. A lovely feminine Being stood behind me as I did this. All the colours that we were given in this attunement was placed in the water, to assist with assimilation of these energies. The lovely Elemental Being put an elemental light in there too. She also dropped in a clear fluid, like sap. But it was also light.

We gave some of the essence back to the tree by dropping some of it on the ground by its trunks.

Chris then took out his dowsing rods and began to dowse across the field where the tree grew. The rods showed that the tree was on a wide energy line that flowed towards the Pilgrim’s Hall (dated to 1308), underground. We followed it, did a couple of short videos and ended up on the other side of the hall, in the street. Chris dowsed here as well only to find that the channel had widened and continued on through the grey building (in the video) and proceeded along under the left side of College Street. We decided it must be one of the underground rivers, part of the river Itchen, which branched into several smaller rivers. Fortuitously, at that point, a bearded man passed us and said ‘It’s the Itchen.’ Turns out he studied archaeology two years after I left Winchester College (now University of Winchester) and had studied Winchester.

So. the roots of our lovely Magnolia lie above the river as it runs beneath this part of the cathedral. This also explained the initial feeling of Chris’s that the tree was connected with the east end of Winchester Cathedral. It is connected – via the water.

The following week, on another Tuesday, and another breakfast in Kneaded, Nadia and I went back to the gorgeous tree, this time with one of my granddaughters. twelve year old Niamh. I was surprised to see the double cones still there, at the base of the tree. As if in receiving the energies they had also anchored there permanently. She stood where the twin cones were and was given the heartwood symbol, while she was standing with her back to the tree. Then the tree suggested Niamh receive it too, so I guided her through that process as well. She was given a little gift on her heartwood symbol, like a present on a Christmas tree. Between the three of us, we had a lovely heart connection triangle going.

Then I focused on Nadia again, and she connected her upper yellow line and her lower black line, as we had done together at the Mother Tree. I walked her through the double cone exercise. And for her the dragons did something different. as they came from their respective cones the dragons entwined around her heartwood tree, spiralling around each other. Like snakes they wound around her tree branches, filling her tree-ness with black and white balanced energy.

Next the blue came in, the water, which moved into the base cone. The white cone then became yellow, energised by the solar light. The blending of the yellow and the blue became green where the cones met, like watercolour paint merging. Often, when doing flame work, the three base colours, pink, blue and yellow, merge to become green. This happens by itself. So for everyone, this is an individual thing.

Niamh didn’t mention anything about the heart wood tree experience, stuck on her phone as she was, until, on the drive home, she asked: ‘So Grandma, when will I get the gift on the tree?’ I told her I had no idea. She’d have to wait. Yep, I thought. Typical twelve-year- old. But she is patient.

Tree Connections in Crab Wood, Winchester

March 21, 2025May 16, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I’ve been seeing a chiropractor for a few weeks now, fixing a twisted pelvis and a curve in my spine, which I’ve had for a number of years but did not realise. My sessions are twice a week, in Winchester, so it gives me the perfect opportunity to not only have my breakfast in Kneaded, a great cafe with chef-cooked food, and delicious hot chocolate, but also to meet up with friends and do some energy work around Winchester.

Today, ( 28th Feb 25) Chris and I went to Crab Wood, in Sparsholt, Hampshire, to visit a tree. One of the trees I wanted to show Chris, we could not find, but we connected to some others instead. One of them, I wanted to specifically visit on behalf of a friend in Ireland, but to connect with this one, I first had to touch base with the Mother tree deeper in the woods.

As usual, when we meet a tree, we walk around it anti-clockwise. Once we had completed one circuit, we stood facing it, and Chris felt his heart connect with the heart of the tree. (He had received the heartwood symbol which Malia (a friend form California) and I had been gifted by a pine tree in Micheldever woods last October). Chris received his from the lovely old tree in Winchester Cathedral grounds last week, which I will write about too, as they are all connected.
Once Chris had connected to the heart of the tree, he saw bands of colour around the tree, half a meter above the ground and about a meter out from the tree itself. The colours were light brown, brown and orange.
I had the idea to walk around the tree again, to see if more were added, but instead, the rings moved with me. Chris then walked around it again, and the same things happened. The bands of colour moved with them. So it was our connection to the tree that was creating them. This was a new experience.

I stood with my back against the tree, feeling a pull to do that and Chris saw the tree reaching towards me as if it was giving me a hug. With my back against the trunk I became aware of my spine being as straight as the tree trunk, as though I was part of the trunk. Sap rose up my spinal column and into my head and from my head I was aware that the sap was rising into the branches that emerged from my head, as though I was the tree. The sap fed the leaves and branches in a delicious way and I felt very connected to the vitality of the tree itself, and to the sun, to which my branches were reaching.

Chris, with his back against the trunk felt the energy rising from the earth up through his feet and into this veins, spreading out through his body, to the heart, which was important because his heart was now connected to the trees. From there, it went to his shoulders, down his arms and out through his hands. Finally, it spread through his head, meeting at a point at the top. He felt the impulse to spread his arms out and then his fingers, so he too became a tree.

My biggest feeling then came from the tree to share her energy with others. The consciousness of the tree needed to be sent out to other people so they could connect with the trees in this way. She said that Mother trees did not differentiate between fir trees, oak trees, beech trees or larch, etc. The energy was shared, sent out to all, so every tree could benefit. She did not make the decision that one group of trees were privileged to receive her knowledge and energy while others had to stand in want, but that every tree would be given it. (later I understood what this meant when I received channelling about writing a book about the connection between Runes and Trees; not something I understand, but which I’m sure will become clear!)

As I stood with my back against the tree, I began to see a gold disc forming at the level of my lower Tan Tien, on the Hara line, its centre at my centre and expanding horizontally a metre out from my body. As I later discovered, this was an information disc, for the project of the tree book.

Chris was drawn to two oak trees a little distance away so we headed over to them. I had brought water from the two springs at Glastonbury, the red spring and the white spring and shortly thereafter, I found why I was told to bring it. As we wandered over to these oak trees, Chris was suddenly told that they were called Arthur and Guinevere, which completely surprised him. Then he was told that the Mother tree we had connected to was called Albion. He found this hilarious, and strange. But, I’m guessing this is symbolic of something the trees were trying to show us around the masculine and feminine energies of Albion.

Once we got to the trees, I was told to walk an infinity symbol around them, connecting them together, like I had done before here but on the other side of the woods. Once we had walked one round of the symbol, which is all they needed, I anchored the centre of the symbol where the lines cross over, with a sapphire, which relates to the sapphire level of the crystalline energy-field around the earth.

Focusing on the sapphire, I then saw a small white flame with a yellow centre grow from the ground beneath the sapphire. The white flame is a flame of renewal. I have anchored a white flame, much larger than this, in Coldridge woods in Wiltshire, which was my very first flame experience, but this flame had a tiny yellow centre. Not sure what that means but it reminded me of a Frangipani flower which I saw a lot of in Egypt.

Once this was done, it was time to visit the beech tree down by the road, which holds the sapphire energy around it. However, as we walked back towards the Mother Tree, I spotted a piece of iron, part of a plough which had been discarded. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the plough (also called a Hoe) is not only a letter, Mer, but also a ritual object. In the Gaia Method Earthways, we use it as part of the creation of foundations of ‘temples’. In the past, this was part of the sacred building process of building physical temples, but in our work it signifies building energetic landscape temples. So, it felt like a little reminder that we were building foundations.

Although saying that, it could just have been part of a plough. 😁

We continued on our way to the other beech tree, saying a mental thank you as we passed the Mother Tree.

At the beech, by the road through Crab Wood, we connected to the amethyst sphere around the tree which I had anchored there last year. I had been ‘told’ to bring a bottle of water to make an essence here so, after pouring some of the Glastonbury water at the roots, connecting it, again, to the other trees. I took it out and waited for what to do. Immediately, an energetic, hand, that looked cartoon-ish, formed from the sapphire energy and plunged itself into the bottle of water in my hands. It remained there, infusing the water with its energy and then it changed frequency and became yellow topaz. This felt like crystalline sunlight.

With both of those energies now in the water, the last energy that appeared was the sapphire, which formed a sphere around the bottle just as the amethyst sphere contains this tree. This sphere not only contains the bottle, with its two energies inside, but also adds its sapphire energy to the whole. This is the first time this has happened so it was very interesting. I understand that the essence is for those who work with trees in this way, connecting them energetically to other trees and connecting an energetic tree-field.

It was interesting that the Arthur and Guinevere infinity connection was on this side of the woods. I had done the same thing at the other side last year (and which Chris did not know about) and two trees were also connected to each other with the infinity symbol, One was feminine and the other masculine. But it was a Mother and a Brother tree that had to be connected. Again, holding some symbolic meaning that the trees understood.

So that was the end of that, until I got home and channelling came through telling me about a connection between runes and trees. I’m still trying to work that out, but they did say it would take time…

Tree Heartwood Meditation

March 13, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 3 Comments

This is a meditation of the connection gifted to us by the Memory Tree in Winchester Cathedral Grounds. It is an attunement meditation and offered to everyone who works with the energy of trees. It is also a gift to help you understand the world in the way trees do. It was given to help us all ground deeply into the earth, to stabilise our energy connection to earth for the coming times when events become even more interesting. We need to be fully able to remain stable in the face of changes and to work with the elemental beings who are trying to accommodate these changes too. It connects us to the necessary inner peace we need to navigate the coming times and to understand that all will be well. Now, more than ever, we need to be like the trees. Stable, solid and well connected. In connecting to one tree in this way, we are connected to all trees.

Here is a presentation explaining a little about the crystalline energy fields that we work with and which the obsidian dragon at the core of the earth resides in. (Click on each image to move it forward.)

This is what your connection will look and feel like.

Here is the video. Watch it through first (it will redirect to canva) before doing the meditation. It has the crystal layout so you can absorb the crystal energies. This was the gift from the Mother Tree, otherwise known as the Memory Tree, in Winchester Cathedral Grounds.

Below is a downloadable meditation without any visual imagery. You can also use this when you connect to a physical Mother tree that you know, or are drawn to and may have already forged a connection to.

There are three essences which have been gifted by the trees in the last month (February 2024) which will be available on the Tree essences page.

Tree Essences.

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Elven Starlight.

This is a gift from two trees; one a Memory Tree, which holds the memories of both humans, and all the trees of the world, and the other a tree which holds the Amethyst and Yellow topaz energies of the upper crystalline layers of the planetary field. Amethyst is the layer related to the Mother’s higher thoughts for her planet and the Yellow Topaz is the light of the sun, in crystal form. The essences are held within a sapphire sphere. The combination of these energies connects you to the heart of trees everywhere and gives you access to the events of the past, and those of the future. It holds you within the energy consciousness of all trees, so you can work with them more closely and be rooted solidly in their energy and stability. The essence was gifted by the Elven dryad of an old beech tree which grows in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral and she wishes to share her energy with all who desire to work with the dryads and trees everywhere.

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Pine Tree Wisdom.

A gift from an ancient Pine tree, which was planted in a church in Northam estate by Capability Lancelot Brown. To the trees he was ‘kin’, because he not only understood them as Beings but also worked with the Spirit of Place. He listened to the trees and planted accordingly. The essence is for those who wish to work with trees on a physical level: planting them, caring for them and/or working energetically with them. It helps you to listen to them and to see them as Beings in their own right. It also connects us to Pine trees all over the world and to connect one pine to other pines in other places. Pine trees are more conencted to the world around us, unlike deciduous trees that work on higher levels. Pines are aware of every little thing in the world around them and teach you to be sensitive to all around you. This is their gift.

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A Mother Tree in Winchester Cathedral Grounds.

March 7, 2025April 7, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I have been visiting Winchester Cathedral for over thirty years but only now has this tree made itself known to us. Chris and I were walking through the Cathedral grounds, having done some flame work in the Cathedral, when we decided to walk straight up the tree-covered walk instead of going into the centre of town, through what was once the original market street. As we came to the halfway mark along this stone-paved walkway, we noticed an old and very large beech tree, with gorgeous roots, growing near the railings that separated the grounds from the street outside it. The Cathedral grounds is a grassy area where people sit and chat but it was once the graveyard of the Cathedral, evidenced by the remaining gravestones.

It was the roots we noticed more than anything because they were so beautiful. spreading out around the bottom of the tree (as they do), but looking like cooled molten lava. An artist sat by the path, sketching the tree, so we tried not to get in his way. Immediately, I became aware of a large golden chalice within the trunk and I was told that this tree holds the energy of the Cathedral. It holds the history, like a memory tree. ‘I have seen a thousand bishops come and go.’ I heard her say.

When I was in my father’s house, the previous week, my guides mentioned a memory tree, but as usual, I had no idea what they were talking about. This then was the memory tree. I was aware of it knowing the entire history of the place because its roots went deep into the soil, probably fed by the many bodies buried there over the years.

She did not give any further information on that visit, but we had made the connection.

The following week, Chris and I felt called to her again, and this time we were told to bring a bottle of water to make an essence. As usual, we went to Kneaded cafe for breakfast but felt the tree pulling in my heart centre. This feels like a magnetic pull which also has an emotional feel to it. Once I feel that, it is like being in a pleasant tractor-beam that pulls me towards that which wants to make the connection. This is often how we can find sites that call to us. We are pulled by it, initially in consciousness, but then through the magnetic pull. Sometimes the magnetic pull is felt and I have to open my mind to see where the pull is coming from. I feel the pull and then travel along the line of that pull to see where its origin is. This more often happens when I am close to the place. It doesn’t happen if I am miles away. In that situation, my guides will tell me, or they will tell whoever I am going with. We each pick up the information is slightly different ways.

So, back to the tree. Once we had finished breakfast, we left the cafe and walked over to the cathedral grounds via the tree-lined flagstone path. It had been raining a lot so we had to pick our way carefully across the muddy ground. Arriving at the tree, we saw that it was full of life. Chris saw a beautiful silver-haired, large-eyed, elvish woman wearing a pink, floaty, dress, standing at the base of the tree. I was aware of many elvish beings, scampering among the branches. It was like something from LOTR. This energy of Lord of the Rings was how our consciousness’ were showing us symbolic information.

The Elvish woman began to communicate with Chris and she mentioned The Silmarillion, but it had something to do with crystals. Silmarils, as it turns out, are three crystals made from the essence of two trees in Valinor. The light of the heart of those two trees were inside the crystals. This is all Tolkien stuff but she was telling us of the connection between trees and crystals through book The Silmarillion, which I read when I was a teenager but remember absolutely nothing about. Chris has never read it.

She was using the book Tolkien wrote to help us understand some of what this tree-crystal connection meant. I know it all sounds like fantasy, but our Souls/guides use symbols that we understand to help explain the nature of things, using stories as symbols and metaphors. It is how our inner consciousness relays information to the personality-mind. So many books are written by our higher guidance without many realising their origin. (The three crystals, as a matter of interest, were cast into three places: One ended up in the sky, the Star of Earendil, another went into the ocean, and the last one went into a chasm in the earth).

The elvish woman then went on to show Chris a crystal layout with specific crystals, which I recorded. There was a connection to an ancient shield and something about stone circles. But it was not clear.

Next she spoke about Brittany and the sea people. She spoke of the coast people of France, Brittany and sea energy, pointing out the connection to the Beings of the sea. (Like the Silmarils, one went to the sea). Chris was reminded of St. Brendan travelling in a coracle, which was the energy we worked with in Ireland when we travelled by sea and went to Iceland; and the work we did in the Aran Islands with the old saints and the Sea Beings. We were being reminded of the energies of each of the places we worked with and how each place added to our understanding.

Then it was time to make the essence. But it felt like Chris had to make it. He held it in his hands and a blue and green plied energy spiraled into the bottle. He was getting something about a tree in the sky and was feeling the energy of a small child laying at the base of the tree. I saw this elvish lady place a pearl and a Herkimer diamond in the bottle of water, followed by a sapphire, a ruby and an emerald (which turned out to be the three main energy points in the main aisle of the cathedral. They are also layers of the crystalline energy field of the planet. Each energy point in the cathedral connects to one of those layers of the earth’s field).

Once the essence was made, we had to turn our backs to the tree and Chris was attuned to the heartwood symbol, which was yellow, and which connects him to the heart of all trees. An energetic gold chain also went into the essence. We turned to face the tree again and the lady appeared and gave us both a Christmas present. Mine was a cube, like a box, and Chris’s was a sphere, wrapped in paper with a bow. The cube felt earthy and masculine, and his was spherical and feminine. There is something about the Heartwood symbol that represents the gifts from the trees, like Christmas presents hanging from a Christmas tree.

The following week, I met my friend Nadia, another Gaia Method healer. We have been friends with since 2001 (actually most of my friends are those I met back in the Speaking Tree days 2000-2001). We have a past life history (as I do with Nef (short for Nepthys) and Chris). We meet up every few weeks to have breakfast in Kneaded and then go for a walk, doing energywork when called to do so. This time, I felt called to the tree, so we ambled over to the cathedral grounds. The heart-pull was so strong and it became stronger the closer we got there, nearly taking my breath away. The Elven lady of the tree, the Dryad, instructed me to anchor our hearts to the heartwood of the tree, so we followed what she told us to do.

She instructed us both to consciously make that connection by extending a line from our hearts to the heart of the tree. Once that heart-to-heart connection was made, I sent a line of light towards the sun via the crown centre from the heart connection. Then a line was extended down through the base chakra and deep into the core of the earth, again from the heart These were both separate lines, but connected through the heart. The earth line connected to an obsidian dragon, a deep black crystalline energy. This was a strong connection and needed to be strong. It felt like the necessary grounding for the times to come, when huge changes would need us to remain calm and to understand the purpose of the changes.

Once this connection was solidified, I became aware of the water layer that the lines also travel through, the one closest to our surface level of earth. Next, I was aware of the lava layer. In that order, core, water, fire. While connected to these energies, I had to make the essence. I had already placed it on the roots before we started. (Crows are acting as messengers for this tree work. Keep an eye, and ear, open for them to guide you).

The pink lady placed the light of Venus, as starlight, into the water, then a spring-green beech leaf, gold coins, a red rose, and a black obsidian energy. Then I saw a squirrel (spirit) placing hazelnuts in the bottle and lastly the pink lady placed her pink energy there too, but the most important part was the starlight which shone out of the water like a sun.

So the essence contains all the energies needed to connect to both sun, tree and black dragon.

Now, our connection with her was finished, for that day. I will see when she calls to us next.

Here is the meditation. This will be the first phase of the energetic connection you will make to the trees.

Connecting Trees with Crystalline Energy.

September 1, 2023August 22, 2023 / Ann Murphy / 2 Comments

A few months ago, I was driving through Crab Wood, (on the outskirts of Winchester, in Hampshsire) and received a message from the trees which, at the time, I completely misinterpreted. Crab Wood is an older woodland on the outskirts of Winchester, in hampshire. It is covered in bluebells in late Spring and has been coppiced since at least the sixteenth century. It also contains beech trees, some large old oak, birch and ash and lies within the boundaries of Farley Mount Woods, which has its own elemental energy guardian.

View of Sparsholt from the edge of Woods.

I was feeling particularly tired, over-extended and emotionally drained on that day, and I needed the green of early spring leaves to make me feel normal again. The one-track road snakes through the woods, surrounded on each side by beech trees planted to create a boundary line, and as I drove along I suddenly felt like I was a tree and had four large branches, each extending, like arms, in four directions. At the time, I interpreted this to mean I was being supported by the tree, and that it existed somewhere in these woods. It felt very nurturing, as though the tree was reminding me that I was not alone; my tree-family were with me. At that point, it was exactly what I needed, and so feeling soothed, I continued on to my father’s home.

Three weeks ago, (July 13th) I drove that way again, but I was early and decided to stop off in a layby to go for a walk. I had passed a path through the trees many times but never stopped to explore it. Today was the day for exploration. I followed the path until I saw a huge old beech tree, which on approaching, I could feel its energy. It extended out about twenty feet from the trunk.

For this tree, I had to walk around it anti-clockwise and when I did, I placed my hand on its trunk and allowed my consciousness to travel upwards into its branches. There, I experienced a mind-to-mind connection, like a melding of consciousness, and I was told I needed to walk back the way I had come because there was another tree I needed to connect to. As I walked away, following the instructions, I felt a gold line connect to my crown centre from the upper branches which I knew was to do with the other tree.

When I came to the road, there was the tree I had passed on my way into the woods. I had noticed it at the time but, because I felt no energy from it, continued along the path. But I had needed to notice it because it turned out to be important. That often happens. You notice something but it doesn’t feel ‘quite right’. Yet!

I tuned into the tree and saw an amethyst above its branches. At first, I thought I was imagining it. Why would a tree be connecting to an upper, crystalline layer? But then, I saw energy from the amethyst layer flow into the branches, filling them up. But the energy didn’t stop where the branches did, it continued to flow out the end of each tip creating a giant amethyst sphere all around the tree.

The tree was the conduit, and anchor, for the amethyst energy which spread out well beyond it. I had the idea that every person who drove by, or walked that path, would receive some of this energy and the thoughtforms it contained. The amethyst level of the earth’s crystalline field is a higher frequency layer akin to the spiritual mind of Earth, if you imagine that earth has its own energy field, just as we do. That Mind contains ideas and thoughts that can benefit the world, like a computer database which we can download mentally, if we are given access. I wondered what those thoughts and ideas might be. Perhaps ways of caring for the woodland and the surrounding countryside, or more in line with what nature wants, rather than what we think it needs? Or, perhaps, they could be spiritual ideas, ways of staying healthy or ways to connect with trees. I don’t know. But I will be keeping an eye on what happens in the area.

I didn’t have time to do more, although I knew that on the other side of the road, and up the path through that part of the woods, there was another tree I needed to find. But it would have to wait until next time.

On the seventeenth of July, having time to spare, I followed the path through the other woods. I had no idea where to find this tree but I knew it was there somewhere. I walked through the woodland, took photos of fungi, and felt the trees I came to along the way. Feeling is about opening awareness and feeling for the vibration of consciousness. The right tree would make itself known. Having wandered for over half an hour, following little paths that meandered through the woods, I found myself in a clearing. There was the tree I was looking for.

There were two trees in this clearing and I knew both were significant. One was a Mother Tree, the other, a Brother. That is how they came to me. They didn’t feel ‘awake’, but I acknowledged them both and went to the older Mother Tree to tune in. I sat at the base of the tree but felt the need to walk anti-clockwise around it. However, when I had finished the first circuit, I continued to walk clockwise around the Brother Tree, thereby creating a lemniscate pattern of golden light. I did this three times. Something made me feel this was not simply about the trees but also about a situation in ‘real life’, that this joining was about joining a mother with a son. Yet this figure of eight pattern not only joined, energetically, it also created a boundaried separation, as though it was saying: you are energetically connected, but exist independently with your own purpose, and within your own space. And that is as it should be.

I was impulsed to stand on the cross-over point of the pattern of eight and as I did, I saw a gold line going from this point along the way I had come, then another going off in the opposite direction. I knew I had to follow this second line.

This gold-line direction was showing me the path to another tree, and I had to completely trust my intuition, because I was in the woods after all, and the paths are not straight, as the gold line was. But the next tree was so obvious. It was huge, very old and the energy emanating from it was unmistakable.

I walked towards her and her energy was strong. She invited me to connect with her, so I walked around her once, and then leaned my back against her wide trunk. Then I heard her say: I am an old woman, guardian of these woods for many years. I hold the elemental energies of this place, ensuring all is kept in balance. She felt so old, like a grandmother, and all the trees were her children. Much like the tree in the woods beside Lainston house on a previous visit.

Then she went on to give me advice on how to work with the elemental energies of France and Spain, which is the next part of my journey, once I am complete here in the UK. As she spoke, I had that familiar feeling of wanting to curl up in her roots and sleep like a baby. This is a common experience when connecting with a Mother tree. They have such a nurturing energy that you feel you want to lie down in the safety and love they provide. In the photo just above, you can see how children have created a couple of rope swings to swing from her branches, which is lovely.

Before I left, she gave me an etheric bottle of her essence, to fill me when I needed extra energetic help. These etheric energies kick in when needed and most times I don’t know I am using them. Much of it happens in the astral layer of the energy field.

That earlier connection, through one tree, as I drove through Crab Wood, was a download I would be using at some later point, but which I didn’t recognise at the time. And that is often how it works. You could be given an energy that might come into play months, even years, after the initial download. But as soon as you ‘see’ it, while working, you will recognise it and remember. In effect, you are like a living computer with installed software in the different layers of your energy field which you only use when called to do so. Which is reassuring because then, nothing is wasted. Even if you have to take breaks between the times you work and the times you cannot, you can be safe knowing that the energies will be used at some point. Sometimes too, it is not the right time and other things need to happen first, or you need further development before you are ready for that particular job.

But rest assured, it will happen, because once the download is installed, it is only a matter of time.

What was most interesting to me about this particular tree-work was the connection with the crystalline Amethyst sphere. I had not been aware that trees could channel these energies, or that they were compatible with the very different crystalline energies and were able to hold them. But I suppose, if we, as healers, can hold the energies of trees perhaps I should not be so surprised that trees can hold the energies of crystals. The tree was an anchor for those energies, like bringing heaven to earth, making those higher thoughts available to us here on the ground.

If you want to visit, the tree is on the left side just before you leave the woods on the way to Sparsholt Village. It lies next to the path which leads up along the wood boundary.

You can’t miss it.

Arthur’s Gate and the Mother Tree.

May 15, 2023September 10, 2023 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

I recently had a spontaneous initiation on the grounds of Lainston House, near Winchester, in Hampshire. Many years ago, in 1999, I made a connection with an old Yew tree which grows close to the road that bisects the old Lainston House avenue. This tree is one I have visited many times and every time I visited, she gave me many gifts, such as energy, a cloak of bark and tree wisdom. I had only arrived in the UK in 1991 and within a couple of years had begun training in mediumship, counselling and Reiki. I didn’t know then that I would be working with earth energies. That wouldn’t happen for another ten years. Or that I was beginning a spiritual training that would result in the Gaia Method Earthways. I wouldn’t have believed anyone even if they had told me. I remember my first experience of spiritual communication. It was in the Winchester Spiritualist church, back in 1994. I had been training as a tarot reader with the wonderful Rosemary Prince, which lead to her running a development circle. I went to the church a few times and one night the medium gave me messages, telling me I was a healer. I remember thinking she must be mistaking me for the woman who was sitting next to me as I was certainly no healer. Now, of course, I know she was right, but back then I felt too damaged to be anything, let alone a healer.

My first experience with this beautiful old Yew tree was when I discovered it, having gone for a walk through the woods, close to where I lived. She was such a huge presence there and I immediately felt drawn to go and stand with my back against her. This proved to be an electrifying experience and I felt the energies of every tree in the locality sending information to her through the ground, which she transmitted into the surrounding countryside. (This was before they discovered how trees communicate with each other through mycelium). She was like a mother tree to all the other trees, which she saw as her children, even though they were not of the same tree-species. She had such immense power which spread out for quite a distance across the land. I didn’t realise it at the time, but I was becoming one of her children too.

In that first estatic and powerful experience with her, she opened me up to a world of nature-energies and elementals. Each time I visited her, she gave me something, shared knowledge with me or asked me to share my energy with her. I absolutely loved this tree and visited her when I felt the impulse. And that was another thing, she never needed my constant attention. But when something of importance needed to be shared, I felt the urge to visit her and each time I went, something significant happened.

Lately, I’d passed her every day on my way to my father’s house, projecting ‘Hello’ to her as I went by. But one day, I felt the impulse to stop and visit. I had time to spare, so I parked up, and as I walked down the path towards her the words ‘Arthur’s Gate’ came into my head. My first experience of Arthur’s Gate was in Tintagel. I knew it was an initiation but thought the Gateway initiation was only at Tintagel; that it was a place rather than an event. I didn’t realise it was something that could happen anywhere.

I continued to the Tree and when I reached her, I touched her rough bark to connect with her. Then I was told to walk once around her anticlockwise, to open the energies between us. When I reached my original position I laid back against her again, and felt a line go from my heart to her heartwood; a sharing of heart energy. Then, I felt the need to walk forward and walked a couple of meters away from her. I experienced this as though I was a child being pushed gently into the world, able to stand on my own two feet. She was communicating to me that it was time I was out on my own, that I didn’t need her anymore.

This was a surprise because I hadn’t realised that she had been my Mother-tree for all these years, teaching me how to become a tree-person. But when I looked back at all I learned, I realise it was true. If it wasn’t for her, and the generosity of her indwelling spirit, the Gaia Method Earthways would never have been developed. She opened a tree-door for me and gave me access to a whole elemental world.

So, feeling a little weird about it, but knowing it was the right thing, I walked away, saying goodbye to her in my head, feeling sad and grateful.

I walked through the woods looking for the Lainston house avenue. This too, I had passed every day, promising myself I would stop and walk it. It was only a short distance away from the tree and in all the times I had been in that little stretch of woods I had never known it was so accessible. I began to walk along the avenue, feeling a little nervous and not sure if I was allowed to be on it at all. Was it private property? My old fear of authority.

I turned to walk down along the avenue and as I did I saw a huge arch of light stretching over the trees. This was the Arthur’s Gate. It was the biggest initiatic gateway I’ve ever had to move through. Gateways can be of any size, and they can appear anywhere. The size corresponds to the importance of the initiation and how much change has to be experienced in order to achieve it. They also take time to actualise, in physical reality. The place, and the emotions experienced while going through them, are also messages giving clues about the nature of the initiation.

I took my time to walk through this huge arch, reflecting on what it meant. It was arched over the longest avenue of Lime trees in England and connected to a house that was built for Charles II so he could live there with his mistress. He had already commissioned a palace in Winchester which was never finished, but which was going to be based on Versailles. It is a house of abundance and history. I have always rejected wealth and stability having grown up with a father who put money first. I decided, early on, that love was more important. Needless to say, poverty isn’t very noble, as I learned when I lived in Luxor, so I have been slowly healing these beliefs around abundance. Now it would seem that it is time to put my new beliefs to the test.

As I walked through the arch, I was also aware of a prayer mat under my feet. This was connected to the initiation and it felt like both Spanish and Egyptian energies. A Moorish/Islamic element. The two countries were connected, energetically.

The Arthurian Gate is an initiation. It is about moving into an area of development which involves connecting to male energies of abundance and power. The ability to accept wealth, fearlessly. It is a particularly masculine gateway energy, so it connects to the layer of Divine masculine energy flow which looks like a river flowing above your head. When I first went through an Arthurian gate, it was in Tintagel looking from the castle out to sea. I was always independent and hated accepting abundance through men. But I was being asked to. I didn’t like the games around money, the way there were so many ‘conditions’ around generosity. So rather than deal with these difficulties, I chose to remain poor. Going through the first gateway changed that and I had to learn how to deal with those issues.

I had expanded into a new level of abundance, and all the lessons and healing, that went with it. Now, those lessons are expanding into something greater – which might also take twenty years to accomplish. I am guessing about the time here because that is how long it has taken me to get to the second Arthur’s Gate!

The place the gateways take place is significant. There are clues everywhere. I wondered if it was significant that I had to leave the nurturing and support of the Mother-tree, which is only meters away from this avenue, to step onto this road of abundance and the things that abundance could help me to establish. It’s like leaving home, and moving into independence with all the learning and tools I need to succeed.

Ultimately, it is now up to me.

Going through ‘gates’ means facing fears, and my initial fear of whether I was breaking some rule by walking along the avenue, was highlighting my fear of ‘needing permission’ to walk the path of empowerment and abundance. Was I allowed to walk this path?

I was walking it, so I guess the answer was YES.So let’s see where the gateway leads.

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An Elemental Invitation.

August 26, 2022August 18, 2024 / Ann Murphy / 2 Comments

“Down through the centuries, man has attempted to outwit the forces of nature. Now, it falls to them to be the custodians of those same forces. It is no longer enough to live on the world; now it is necessary to live in it.

The time has come for all men (we include women here but it is more expedient to use one term only) to unite against the destructive beliefs of those who seek to destroy the natural world. It is time to unite against the forces of humankind who would seek to eliminate the wealth of the natural world in order to line their own pockets.

But how can we accomplish such a task, we hear you ask?

From your perspective, it appears to be an insurmountable task, but from ours, it is relatively simple. Those of you who work with the natural forces, i.e., the trees; the elemental spirits, the Ancient Ones, the dragons, etc., already have it within your means to help stem the tide of destruction.

All you have to do, and we will assist all those willing to give of their time and skills, is to focus daily on the energies that surround you, your gardens, your parks, your woodlands. Focus on your own area, then contact, mentally, the elementals of that area. Commune with them. Concentrate on their essence, see their forms, and hear their songs.

Once you have accomplished this, create centres of learning so that others can go there and learn to commune with them. Create your own Nature Elemental Universities, where students can visit when they feel called, to connect with the Elemental energies that wish to work with them.

There is still time to change the tides, but you must not tarry.”

I received this a couple of weeks ago and wondered how to connect with the Elementals as they suggested. It usually takes me a few weeks to process what they have given me but then I remembered something that happened at my friend’s house a few months ago. She lives just a few miles outside Winchester, surrounded by fields, ancient trackways and woodland. Having a cup of tea, and looking out her window at apple trees, roses, and the pheasant who comes for feeding daily, I saw images of a thin, gaunt giant striding slowly across the landscape in the field opposite her house. He was the Elemental energy of the area, the one who took care of what used to be the old estate. He is the one who maintains the balance and looks after all the other energies who live there, both seen and unseen. I hadn’t called him, but he came of his own volition, inviting my friend to connect with him.

He was not what I expected from an Elemental, but his energy was calm, slow and peaceful. He exuded love and care which was a joy to feel. My friend saw a different image of him, one that had meaning to her. (We all see the Elementals according to our beliefs so however they appear to you is the right way for you).

I remember too, at another friend’s house in Dorset, seeing another Elemental. At the time I didn’t quite understand what he was doing as he was peering at me, rather grumpily I thought, through a triangular portal I had anchored there. He looked like a Sulamith Wulfing illustration. (She could see the elementals clearly). I knew the triangle allowed communication between humans and the Elementals but didn’t quite realise why they were created there. The channelling above explains why.

A few weeks back, I created a triangle portal on the site of an old Roman villa, in Sparsholt. When I opened the portal, I didn’t understand why they placed it there. The roman villa was not a sacred place, I thought. But my thinking was limited. I was only seeing what used to be there, not what is there now. I was thinking of the past, not the present.

When anchoring the triangle at that place, I did not know its purpose, but on a return trip, after receiving this channelling, we went back up, passing the bronze age burial mound on the way, to connect with the elemental energy there. As soon as we entered the woods, the wind started rising, moving through the branches of the beech trees. We walked around the edge of the woods, listening to the wind rise and fall. I had the impression that the elemental communicated like that, through wind in the trees and I remembered a similar experience many years ago after trying and failing to find the villa site.

Hopelessly lost, after half a day of searching the woods, I gave in and asked the energies of the woods to please help me. Almost as soon as I uttered the words, a wind moved through the trees on my left as if they were saying, ‘follow me’. So, I followed what seemed like a wave of wind as it moved the tree branches. I followed this wave of softly moving branches, walking in a straight line through brambles and undergrowth, until five minutes later, I found myself in a square clearing. A feeling settled in my stomach as I heard the energies, through the wind and trees, say ‘Welcome.’ The voice was low and airy and I was both amazed, and overjoyed at having finally found the place. I was also fascinated by how the energies there communicated with me and how they had helped me locate what I had spent ten years trying to find.

That was my first experience. I didn’t know it at the time but I had connected with the elemental guardian there but on this last visit I understood more. Because I knew it was there. Placing the triangle of energy told me that. After walking the old paths, we came to the site of the villa and the winds stopped, completely. There was a stark difference between this clear space and the surrounding trees. Outside the space, the wind moved strongly, rustling the branches, but inside the space, there was no movement, at all. It was completely still, peaceful, like the eye of a storm.

Sitting on the wooden bench, I mentally called to the elemental telling him(?) of my intention and I waited. I noticed a wind come up again, to my left, and saw a man taller than the trees, striding through them, moving the branches aside as if they were tall grass. To my mind, he looked like the BFG. Gentle and caring. But he did not enter the villa site. He moved in the trees surrounding it. I was curious about this so as we walked back I asked him how we could help, based on what the channelling had suggested. I also wanted to know more about him.

This is his area. It even looks like an elemental.

I heard, as words in my head, ‘This is my kingdom.’ And he showed me the entire woodland and a red line drawn around the boundaries. As the elemental ‘King’ he strode around these boundaries, holding within them his trees, as though he was a tree-shepherd. This sounded familiar and I remembered Tolkien talking about Tree-shepherds. But Tolkien’s shepherds were trees. This elemental was not. He was distinct from them. A being in his own right. Trees are rooted. They cannot move. But he can, and does, caring for and protecting everything within his red line. Looking at the map of over 130 years, I can see that he has done a pretty good job as the woods are still there and have been added to, not diminished.

We passed an old beech tree that had been planted as a boundary tree to separate arable land from woodland. I looked up into its branches and was reminded of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree with its ‘lands’ at the top that changed all the time so you never knew what land was going to be there next time you climbed it. This reminded me of what my guides had said about how to access inspiration, by moving along the branch of a tree and connecting with the story/poem/painting there; an interdimensional tree.

That, it seemed, was the answer. Write stories. Let the stories be about them. At least for me. For you it might be different, based on your life’s work.

During the previous week, while anchoring a red dragon line on the south coast which will eventually stretch from Worthing to Portland Bill, I opened a triangle portal at Littlehampton. Once it was open, I contacted the most beautiful sea elemental I have ever connected to. The triangle goes from Littlehampton to Arundel, making it a water portal as it follows the river, Arun. I had never opened a water portal before, not like this anyway.

And I have also never experienced such loving elemental energy. I wanted to stay in this place forever. Usually, when I do energy work, once I have completed the work, I have no more desire to be there, but this place was different. I didn’t want to leave! The elemental appeared as a large brown boulder covered with barnacles and mussels, like a rock you would see beside the sea when the tide has gone out. It looked bulbous, rounded and swollen, with a wide, round nose and large, large lips that stretched around its face, like a cleft in the rock. Its eyes were closed and its face turned towards the surface, absorbing the sunlight that filtered through the water. He didn’t move around, this elemental, but remained in this place doing his job as elemental balancer. But he did give me a gift that would allow me to share his energy as an attunement.

I am not a beachy person; I don’t enjoy lying on a beach all day but prefer to be walking, picking up fossils and stones and feathers and taking photos. But I could quite happily have stayed on this beach, within his loving, nurturing energy.

Putting all these things together, I assume that triangle portals open up places to be used as Elemental Universities. Visiting these places and having the intention to learn from these elementals will teach you what they want you to learn. Perhaps too, a human will be a guardian of a particular portal. Someone who feels drawn to being there. Each place has one. Someone who can communicate with the Elemental guardians and help keep the balance, and can share the knowledge of these wonderful guardians, passing on their teachings through the written word, music or art.

For now, I will share the places where portals exist, which is also the reason for this post, so you can go yourself and connect to them and see what they want you to do.

There is still time, as they say. But do not tarry…

If you wish to work with the Elementals in this way, you can receive the Elemental Portal Attunement. which will attune you to their energies and which will allow you to install the portals where you are guided to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparsholt_Roman_Villa

https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/walks/walk-around-farley-mount-7246968

Tree information from Seth.

August 30, 2016February 3, 2020 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I have been attuned to trees since I was a young child and as a Gaia Method healer, trees play a huge part. One of the things that happens, as you move forward on this particular training path is that you become, energetically, a tree, or at least part of your energy does. Sometimes during meditation or earthwork you see yourself as a tree, sometimes with fruit hanging from your branches. Now apart from the obvious analogy of the fruit representing our gifts, our nourishment and seeds of information that we give back to the world, I have never really been clear about why we become trees specifically. Why not grapevines or daffodils? So I have been asking ‘upstairs’ for more information, and, as often happens, I find it in a Seth book! So this is from The Early Session, Book 1. Which I am reading now for the first time. I love the Seth material. It has been the foundation stone of my own personal journey for many years. This is some of what Seth says about trees. While you’re reading it, connect to your ‘tree-ness’ and see how it applies.

Seth, The Early Sessions. Trees.

The tree is of course dissociated in one manner. In some ways, its living forces and consciousness are kept to a minimum. It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand, and on the other hand, it focuses its usable portion of energy into a being a tree. The state of consciousness involved here is dull as compared to the highly differentiated human ability in many ways.

However, in some other manners, the experiences of the tree are extremely deep, dealing with the inner senses which are, and properly, also properties of freedom. The inner senses of the tree have strong affinities with the properties of earth itself. They feel their growing. They listen to their growing as you listen to your own heartbeat. They experience this oneness with their own growth, and they also experience pain. The pain, however, while definite, unpleasant and sometimes agonising, is not of an emotional nature in the same way as you might experience pain.

In some ways, it is an even deeper thing. The analogy may not be a perfect one, far from it, but it is as if your breath were to be suddenly cut off. In a manner, this somewhat approximates pain to a tree. The tree makes adjustments as you make adjustments, the tree listens to its growth up from the earth and listens also to the murmur of the growth of its roots beneath. It adjusts each root ending according to whatever impediments might lie in its way. Without the so-called mind of man, it nevertheless retains its inner consciousness of all its parts above and below the ground and adjusts them constantly.

The tree is also aware of its innerly environment to an astonishing degree. It maintains contact awareness and the ability to manipulate itself in two completely different worlds, so to speak, one in which it meets with little resistance growing upward and one which composed of much heavier elements, into which it must grow downward. Man needs artificial methods, for example, to operate effectively on land or in water, but the so-called unconscious tree manages very well in two worlds as diverse say as land and water, and makes itself part of each.

As far as motion is concerned he moves both upwards and downward, it is quite unfair so say that it cannot transport itself since it does so to an amazing degree, the roots and limbs moving in all directions.

The inner senses of all plant life are well attuned, alert and very important. All of these fragments (of a soul) have consciousness to a rather high degree, considering that man holds them in such ill repute.

If you remember what it is to be in a light trance state, you are able to maintain an awareness of yourself, your environment and your place in it. You simply behave somewhat differently, not bestirring yourself in any direction unless the suggestion to do so has been given. The awareness of plant life lies somewhat along these lines. In a deep trance, there is oblivion afterwards; that is the subject, though fully aware of what is going on while in trance, can remember nothing of it afterwards. The awareness of plant life is also like the awareness of a subject in deep trance. Except for the suggestion and stimulus received by regular natural forces on your plane, the plant life does not stir itself in other directions. But like the subject in trance, our plant is aware. Its other abilities lie unused for the time and latent, but are present.

The awareness is focused along certain lines. The energy is likewise focussed. Much of the ability again is suspended, as for a subject in trance, but consciousness is present.

There is consciousness in everything, visible to you, or invisible, every fragment of the Universe has a consciousness of its own. Pain and pleasure, the strongest aspects of all consciousness, are experienced strongly by every fragment, according to its degree. In some fragments, such as much plant life and vegetative life, there is strong use of certain inner senses. Rocks are vegetative and far from lifeless. Other types of life, including your own, rely on recognised, outer senses. The ideal, of course, is a consciousness that is adept at using both the inner and outer senses fully.

Your tree lives through its inner senses, experiencing many sensations and reacting to many stimuli of which you are unaware. Minute earth tremors, and even the motion of small ants about its lower trunk are recognised and experienced by tree consciousness. Such invisibilities such as humidity, radioactivity, and all electrical earthly values, are felt as quite real things by your tree and recognised as being separate from the tree itself. A tree knows a human being also. Not only, for example, by the weight of a child upon its branches, but by the vibrations in the air as adults pass, which hit the tree’s trunk at various distances but even by such things as voices.

In drawing up his list of so-called natural laws, I have said that man decided that what appeared to be cause and effect to him was therefore, a natural law of the universe. Not only do these so-called laws, which are not laws, vary depending on where you are in the Universe, they also vary depending on what you are in the Universe. Therefore, your tree recognises a human being, though it does not see the human being in your terms. To a tree, the laws are simply different. And if a tree wrote its laws of the Universe, then you would know how different they are.

A tree does not even build up an image of a man, it builds up a composite sensation which represents say an individual man. And the same tree will recognise the same man as it passes by it each day. They deal with finer distinctions than you know now, being somewhat of the nature of your body’s ability to sense another person’s aggression. As your body senses temperature changes, so it also senses the psychic charge not only of other human beings, but believe it or not, of animals, and to a lesser extent, it senses the psychic charge of plants and vegetative matter.

Your tree builds up a composite of sensations of this sort, sensing not the physical dimensions of the material object, whatever it is, but the vital psychic information in and around it. Size, however, is sensed by a tree, perhaps because of its inherent concern with height. The abilities in the tree are latent in man as are the abilities latent in the tree.

Man’s ego causes him to interpret everything else in light of himself. He loses very much in this manner. The ego is definitely an advancement, but it can be compared to the bark of a tree, in many ways. The bark of a tree is extremely vibrant and flexible, and grows with the growth beneath. It is a tree’s contact with the outer world, the tree’s interpreter and to some degree the tree’s companion.

So should man’s ego be. When man’s ego turns instead into a shell, when instead of interpreting outside conditions, it reacts too violently against them, then it hardens, becomes an imprisoning form that begins to snuff out important data and to keep enlarging information from the inner self. The purpose of the ego is protective. It is also a device to enable the inner self to inhabit the physical plane. It is the physical manifestation of the inner self, but it is not meant to snuff out the inner self.

If, for example, our tree bark grew fearful of the stormy weather and began to harden itself against the elements, in a well-meaning bur distorted spirit, then the tree would die. The sunlight, and so forth, could never penetrate. The sap could not move upward for the tree would solidify through and through, trying all the while to protect, and killing the tree with its obsessive kindness. This is what the ego does when it reacts too violently to purely physical data on your plane. As a result, it stiffens, and you have the cold detachment with which you face the world.

The idea of dissociation could be likened to the slight distance between the bark and the inside of the tree. Here we do not have a rigid bark as you should not have a rigid ego. We have instead a flexible bark changing with the elements, protecting the inner tree or inner self, but flexible, opening up or closing in rhythmic motion. The bark is, so to speak, outside our tree; and there is a small space between the inner tree and the bark. This small space is our dissociation.

The inner tree continues to grow because the bark is flexible. Man lets his ego face the outer world, as does the tree bark, and this is its purpose. Nevertheless, the inner self, like the inner tree, must have room to expand. The tree bark makes allowances for good weather, though bad weather is repulsive to the bark. Nevertheless, the bark makes whatever adjustments are necessary, and is flexible. It bends with the wind. It does not bend when there is no wind. Nor does it solidify, stopping the flow of sap to the treetop for fear the dumb tree, not knowing what it was up to, would bump its head against the sky.

Neither should the ego react so violently that it remembers and reacts to past storms whilst in the midst of clear and sunny weather. You know that such a tree bark would be death to a tree. It is equally ridiculous to act as if it is a summer’s day when in fact the snow is falling. The tree has enough sense not to show blossoms in the middle of a blizzard.

When you are overly concerned with physical matters, and even vital physical matters, you pull yourself in. And more ridiculous, you pull up your roots. A tree would never pull up its roots. I am not speaking now of pulling up your roots and moving from one location to another. I am speaking of something akin to cutting off your roots from any nourishment whatsoever. The inner self is nourished by many springs. To cut off one is a danger, but to cut off many is disastrous, and prevents any sort of practicality since half of your abilities will not be used.

Topmost photo credit: by Chris Bishop in St. Cross Hospital, Winchester.

Tree-work 8/9 July 2015.

July 9, 2015July 17, 2024 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I went to a lovely woods last night for a walk. I wanted to visit the first tree I had ever connected to, so I went in search of it. The woods were magical and as soon as I walked into them the energy blanketted me. The Dryad there, an ancient, spreads its energy-field over the entire area. You can feel it within 10 metres of walking along the path into the woods.

It had been sixteen years since I had first seen it, so when I caught sight of it again I felt so excited! It was still here! It felt the same as finding a long lost treasure. But its branches were bare and ivy grew up all around it. (You can just about see Cheryl hugging the trunk on the left of the tree!) I walked up to it and could feel its energy. It made my skin tingle. I felt it welcome me as a sister. I stood with my back to its trunk and I felt very energised. Initially all I could see was light around my vision, then I saw images of the Aran Islands and a gold key like a small arrow. I felt like the tree was telling me to go back there.

Then the energy shifted and I felt the familiar pulling in my Hara/lower tan Tien centre. I was feeling the tree’s massive energy. My whole body felt electrified. Then I saw, and felt, the tree place a cloak of its bark around my shoulders, like a cloak. It felt like protection and the essence of its ‘tree-ness’. Then I saw myself writing, and the tree said ‘write about us’. They wanted me to share my experiences of them with others.

On the way back, I watched a large hawk trying to steal the eggs and babies of blackbirds in their nest. The hawk was making a huge screeching racket and the blackbirds were trying to get rid of it, loudly. Each time the hawk stopped on a branch, the blackbirds would chase it off. They preceded me almost down the entire path! What was the message there, I wonder? I love Blackbirds and their songs. Every-time I hear them singing, it resonates inside of me and I feel comforted by it. My whole energy softens and I feel safe. It always felt as though they were very healing birds. So what/or who, is this predator, come to steal their creations, their babies? Something I need to work on resolving obviously! Although I think I might have a good idea…

I went up to the woods again today, this time with my friend Cheryl. She followed her ‘gut’ until we came to the tree. The energy today was very different, perhaps because I had already connected to it, although its energy was just as palpable as we entered the woods. This tree has a huge energy-field. This time its messages were different. The only growth visible was the ivy climbing up around it. The rest of the tree seemed to be dying; only tiny outgrowths were visible, quite high up. The tree communicated that although it was coming to the end of its life, it was time for its work to be passed to the younger trees. As she died, they grew, and this felt perfectly alright. It was just the way of tree-things. But we were struck by the way the ivy was obscuring the tree itself. We could not see the bark because it was covered in ivy. It was like our true selves being obscured by clinging people and issues. They grew and thrived while we died. Food for thought, to be sure.

Once we were finished here, we walked back along the path and came to a lovely old Pine. We stayed under this tree for a little while and it felt so nurturing. It looked like it had been grown for wood, but never used, so it has just kept on growing. It was a very peaceful place and a lovely place to come and meditate.

Walking further along, we came to three more old yew trees, growing in a row. We tuned into the larger of the three and I received the message “ Give to the Givers.” Of course, in giving to the givers they will then give to more givers and so on. There is no point in giving to the takers, they will not share it, but will hoard it and use it selfishly. So simple really…

We received a lot of very subtle messages in these woods, and some not so subtle. I will definitely be going up again. If you want to go up yourself, the woods lie alongside Lainston House Hotel. It’s probably part of its lands. There is a pathway on the left of the main Stockbridge road from Winchester, which is where we start from, just across from where the road from Littleton joins the Stockbridge Road. There is a little parking space there too, across from Apley House, the last house on the Littleton road.

There is also a ruin of a 12th/13th century chapel in the hotel grounds so the Lime tree is probably that old, if not older. Cheryl and I are going to go for afternoon tea there, sometime, so we can check it out. (Any excuse for a treat!).

Communicating with Trees.

July 8, 2015July 7, 2024 / Ann Murphy / 2 Comments

Communicating with Trees is very simple. You just sit, or stand, with your back against the tree trunk and you intend that your energy-field blends with the energy-field of the tree. You imagine that both your ‘fields’ are One. Then you wait! If you are with a Dryad, and this will be pretty clear already because you will feel something different about the tree, then you just keep your inner senses open and watch to see what happens. The tree might need your help, to clear it or to change its field, or something entirely unexpected. Or it might share with you, its energy. It might send impressions into your mind telling you what it needs. You just have to be open to whatever you receive.

It does take some trust, and sensitivity to energy communication, but once you have done it you will always recognise the energy. Sometimes, even just passing a Dryad, it will make it’s presence felt. As you walk through its huge energy-field you may ‘imagine’ that the tree is an old man, or an old woman. Don’t dismiss this feeling as you are picking up the age of the Dryad. You will ‘know’ which of the trees is the Dryad.

Dryads are easy to recognise as they seem to ‘pull’ your awareness of their energy to them, through love and appreciation. You might be out walking and suddenly feel how beautiful a tree is. Your heart feelings are triggered. No matter how old, or young a Dryad is, you will feel a heart connection.

Trees which are close to human habitation are often ‘memory-holders, especially ones near churches or old human settlements! So they might choose to share with you the history of where they grow. That can be fascinating. Some of these trees, especially yew trees, grow to a very old age, so they can hold vast amounts of memory-energy.

Trees that are about to be felled, for one reason or another, might need other assistance, such as requesting that you hold the energy until either a new tree is planted, or another tree can be found to hold the energy elsewhere.

Some trees will communicate with you that they need to be cleared of negative energy, or healed, on some level. Just follow your impulses and do what the tree requests, just as you would a person. Sometimes trees are so filled with negative energy, such as toxic fumes from human existence, that there is nothing you can do for them. In those instances you just have to honour the experience of the tree, recognising their sacrifice to the environment. You could send those trees your appreciation of its work.

The more time you spend around Dryad’s, and within their energy-field, the more you will pick up the energy that they are picking up from the Earth’s consciousness. They know more about the world, and it’s future, than we do!

Sometimes when a tree wishes to communicate with you you will feel a ‘pulling’ sensation in your belly. It is literally ‘pulling’ your awareness to itself so that you stop and ‘talk’. Once you have stopped, with the intention of listening, you will know what to do, or the tree will show you what it is doing.

Trees always remind me of elephants! I think it must be because they are so huge and the fact that they hold memory. They also know what is coming for the world. After my last experience with the young beech tree in Farley Mount Woods I received this channelling. That made me realise that the tree’s connection to the earth means a lot more than I originally understood. They not only connect us to the past they also give us information about the future!

So when you blend your energy with a tree, be aware that anything could happen. Thankfully trees are way smarter than us and only give us what we are energetically able to manage. Another lesson we can learn from them.

I lately received a book I had been wanting for a long time, by Dorothy Maclean, one of the founders of Findhorn. Call of the Trees. Well worth buying if you want to work with tree consciousness. One of the most important messages which trees impart is the need for old, large trees. In cutting down our ancient trees we are cutting ourselves off from their important work. Not only do they do what we already know but they also transmit forces of energy into their surroundings, as I’ve already experienced. As the tree devas say:

We would emphasise the absolute necessity to have large trees for the well-being of the land. The control of such things as rainfall is often in our hands, but as well we draw forth inner radiances, which are as necessary to the land as rain.”

They say that mature trees are the skin of this world; take them away and the whole creature can no longer function, but dries up and dies. We need to be working with trees.

In the words of the Deva (overall consciousness) of the trees:

“Just tune into nature until you feel the love flow. That is your arrow into the Deva world. It does not matter if there is a message or not, it is the state which counts. Always it is your state which nature responds to, not what you say, not what you do, but who you are.”

From the Beech tree:

“When you are receptive to us, it is as if you are part of our forces; you blend in and you like it, and we like it. When you are not so tuned in, you are cut off and there is no contact between us. We send a blessing in this rare contact. We bless all who come within our influence, but generally it falls on barren ground. Still, we pour our blessing down in everlasting benediction, unmoved, as you come and go your various ways. Your reception repays us a hundred-fold and we give thanks to our creator.”

Reconnection.

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

I’ve been back in Winchester for a week and I still feel overwhelmed! As I drove to the woods, the only place that I feel secure in, I was aware of myself being in a glass bubble. I could see outside the glass, but I could not feel anything. I felt completely disconnected from everything.

I drove to the first place where I ever connected to earth energies, and which seems to be my entrance-point to the English energy-grid. Every-time I spend time away, it seems to be this place I start off with again.

This was the only place I didn’t feel ‘bubble-wrapped’ in, so that was really good. I stood on the round barrow, where the Dryad that gave me the tree wisdom symbol grows, and tuned in, but felt nothing but a slight soft energy in my legs. I wandered down a path I have never seen before and ended up in a wide open space, a lovely grassy plain. It felt wonderful; like ‘home’. I wandered down the path a bit and then felt the need to stop. As I stood still I felt like I was facing the wrong direction, so I shifted, and then all of the energy I had brought from Egypt began to flow into the earth. What a relief that was. I stood until my belly felt completely empty and then I walked back up the hill, enjoying being under the green, leafy branches once again.

As I came closer to the round barrow again, I felt my heart energy move out of my body. It looked, and felt, like my heart was a metre out in front of me. I could feel the stretch of it. I didn’t initially know why it was doing that, but I followed it as it pulled me forward, and then I found myself standing just in front of a young Beech tree that was growing at the base of the Barrow. My heart energy disappeared into the tree, even while it was still connected to me by a cord of energy. I stood waiting to see what would happen next. After a few minutes I felt my umbilical cord activate and it too moved into the tree, at the same level, then it changed direction and moved up the trunk to connect to my heart! Once it had connected, I could release it. It seemed strange to anchor myself in a tree, but it was obviously what I needed. I’ll have to wait and see why it was necessary.

I continued on up to stand on the barrow, but, again I was facing the wrong direction, so I turned a faced the same direction as earlier. That was where I needed to go next. I wondered if it was the Roman Site I used to spend a lot of time in. The mosaic from the site is in Winchester Museum.

The following day I went back up to Farleigh Mount and took the scenic route up to the villa site. It was very pretty! I had really missed all of the trees while I had been in Luxor, and am going to make the best of them while I am here! When I got to the site I sat and breathed, but did not feel the need to do anything. But then I heard what sounded like bird cries. I thought it was an owl, or a buzzard and it sounded like it was in distress. It turned out to be a faun, which had wandered away from its mother and was calling for her. It had gotten a little lost in the lost in the undergrowth. But I knew that it mother was around calling for it, so I sat back down and waited. She came and took her baby and all was well.

This little lesson, from Mother Nature, is one I have been learning in Egypt. “Mother knows best, so stop rescuing”! Seems I needed to be reminded of that here.

Tree Attunements.

May 26, 2015May 14, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

A tree attunement is an attunement to the essence of tree consciousness. You do not literally become a tree, although that would be nice, but you do become the energy of Trees.

It began with a Dryad, in Coldridge Woods, in Wiltshire, in May 2006, where I had been doing an archaeological survey on an Iron Age Banjo enclosure. The tree grew in a bluebell woodland which had grown up around the abandoned settlement. I had taken a friend up there as I was training her in Reiki.

About a couple of hundred meters beyond the settlement-site, lay the remains of a Roman Villa, which I was also surveying, with a colleague from Winchester University. We often field-walked this site, picking up bits of pottery and other Roman remains. Having taken my friend to the Banjo enclosure, and introducing her to the energies there, we went to do some field-walking on the Villa Site. On the way, we passed a large old beech tree. Its energy ‘felt’ different and to me it felt like an old, wise man. We sat at the base of the tree and tuned in, but nothing happened, so we got on with our plan to field-walk.

Returning from the field we passed the tree again and this time we sat at the roots and tuned in again, just in case. My personal guide appeared and I felt his energy move into mine, blending like ink in water. Then I ‘saw’ a tube of energy, an umbilical cord, move from my Tan Tien into the centre of the Tree; into its heartwood. My guide told me it might feel a little uncomfortable for a while. I always hate when he says that , it’s usually an understatement!

The liquid tree energy, the sap, flowed through this umbilical cord and into my centre, feeding me. I remained sitting in place until this stopped. When it was finished, the tube retracted, pulling back into my body, and I could leave.

This experience made me think more like a tree. Being able to stand still, when I needed to, rather than feeling I had to do something all the time. Which I always did. I could never sit still. Trees help by simply being there. They don’t go uprooting themselves when someone else screams for help. It’s not the tree’s responsibility to heal everyone, but it heals with its energy just by being itself, sharing that energy with others. They are rooted in the earth, but their branches stretch high into the sky. They are also capable of reaching deep into the earth for nourishment. Energetically this means that you can access the deep Earth layers and the upper vibrational layers of the Earth’s magnetic field, and higher dimensions. You can access the higher dimensional energies and bring them deep into the Earth.

But that is not as easy as it seems. It takes emotional work to be a tree. As a tree, we learn to witness, knowing that the work we do, when not jumping in to fix or rescue, is just as valuable. When others do not understand what we are doing, they may see our witnessing as an ‘abandoning’ behaviour, or that we don’t care. But we care very much. We witness it all, knowing that our standing still is doing more good than saving. We are allowing others to grow into their strengths, through their hard choices and difficulties. It is not everyone’s path to be a tree, as others have their own tasks with humanity, but for a person aligned with the energies of nature, that is often the way.

We use our ‘roots’ to hold human emotional energy and then root it someplace else, so that healing may happen. We are using our energy to heal, to create connections between other sites and other trees, to bring healing and balance to different areas, just like in my first experience with an ancient Yew tree. And it all happens through the earth.

Years after the initial experiences, I was given an attunement by a large pine tree, who spoke of the Tree-man, a man whom it saw as ‘kin’. The tree was part of a group of pine trees planted in an open park and they expressed such love for this man, telling me about him and how he was not simply a gardener. This man truly loved trees and understood them. He communicated with them as one of them. I could see this man clearly and saw him walking around the vast park, feeling everything. The tree then gave me an attunement, which they told me to share with those people who also felt like kin to trees, and who felt a strong urge to work with them both physically and energetically. The attunement would create an energy in the person’s field effectively making them like a tree, which other trees would recognise, and which would help them communicate with the trees, as a consciousness. Tree energy would become part of the person who received the attunement, which they saw as an energy-sharing.

When I got home, I looked up this park, and it turned out to be part of a large estate and parkland designed by Lancelot Capability Brown. The park was North Stoneham Park. “Brown is regarded as one of the greatest landscape designers of all time. Few people can have made such an important and lasting contribution to the English landscape. Gardens at Longleat, Petworth, Chatsworth, Bowood and Blenheim are among his most significant achievements.” A tree-man to be sure. A couple of weeks after this, we found another tree he had planted, which still grows in the little churchyard of St. Nicolas. There were some beautiful trees in this graveyard. But the huge pine tree was planted by Brown. Tuning into this tree, it shared its essence with me, to create an essence for those who work with trees on the physical plane.

My guides explained our Treeness like this:

The Tree.
When you began this journey you were but a speck in the ocean, a seed of creation, full of potentials yet unformed.
Today you stand as a tree, your potential grown and blossoming for all to see. You now bear the fruit of other’s potential in your branches. The fruit of your tree contains the seeds, which will one day mature into other trees and they, in their turn, will bear fruit which contain seeds of potential.
In this life you have grown and matured. You have moved through obstacles, as you tried to root yourself in stony ground, that became your foundation. As you grew, you grew in strength, your roots trying to find the fertile soil of experience, which lay between the rocks and stones of your surroundings. Your branches ever sought the light of the sun, and the nurturing rain, which fell on your leaves. You expanded ever upwards, trying hard to grow no matter what the odds.

And here today, you stand connected. Your branches nourished by the soil/earth and stones. You have grown into a mighty oak, strong and tall, aware of the mighty currents which sweep through your branches. You stand solid and rooted, straight and true.
We ask you now to provide the fertile soil for the seeds which will fall from your tree, seeds which will need to develop the qualities of strength, love, joy and abundance.
Let nothing sway you from this task. Allow it to fill you, lighting every facet of your life until all that you do radiates life. Let the cells of your body become the repository of joy, not pain, love rather than hate. Let your life radiate the qualities of the tree, steadfast, nourishing and bountiful.
This is our wish for you today. Seek not without for the answers but within, for there you will find the seeds of creation which you will sow, and there too the light with which to nourish them.
Stand tall and be seen.

To receive a tree attunement :

Foundation Level Attunements.

Trees and Dryads. Introduction.

May 25, 2015July 17, 2024 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

Trees play a very important role in the maintenance of balance on the earth, not only physically, but also energetically. Some of them also have a consciousness, which we call Dryads. It was no accident that the first Gaia Method symbols were given to me by a Dryad, as they hold the elemental wisdom of the trees. But not all trees have a Dryad energy. Dryads are tree spirits and they connect to all other trees within a given area. The Dryad is not a woodland sprite, who runs around the branches and skips amongst the leaves; it is the living spirit within a tree, a spirit which you can communicate with if you choose to. Communicating with Dryads is simply a matter of trust and recognition.

There are thousands of Dryads in the world. Most of the Dryads I have worked with were in woods, or forests, or on Earth energy-lines. They can be of any age and you can usually ‘feel’ their age, but usually the older the tree, the older the Dryad. They can also inhabit any species of tree. I have worked with Ash, Olive, Fig, Ficus Benjamina, Beech, Larch, Pine, Hawthorn, and Oak, amongst others. The ones that feel to me to have the most ‘human-like’ personality are the Beech trees. You can have whole conversations with the Beech Dryads! They seem to be very easy to access and are very ‘giving’ with their energy. Other species are doing definite jobs, which you can help with, but they do not communicate in quite the same way as Beech trees.

Dryads also hold an energetic space around themselves. They can have huge energy-fields that cover a large area. They are not limited by their physicality, just as we are not. We think we are; the trees know they are not! When working with a Dryad, we are within its energy-field, even though we need to be in physical contact with the tree’s physical self. We are all in a physical body but we all have an energy-field. Often, when in the presence of a Dryad energy it feels like wind in the branches, which suddenly whips up and fills the air. Sometimes it feels like the entire area is filled with this ‘wind’, and there is a definite sensing of energy in it that communicates with you. It is a whole body, mind and emotional experience, so there is no mistaking it when you feel it.

The roots of trees can anchor the energy-lines which run throughout the earth, transmitting the energy from those lines into the atmosphere, keeping it clear. However, these trees can also become very clogged, energetically, by human negativity and destruction. These trees then transmit all of that energy into their surroundings, because they will transmit whatever runs through the lines. They don’t have any judgement about whether it is good or bad, they just channel it from the earth and into the air, affecting the energy around it. If the energy flow is denser or filled with negative human energy then, over time it effects the tree, leading ultimately to its death. I have used the roots of trees to anchor the red lines, the ones which come from deep beneath the earth. When they need to be brought closer to the surface, or even created, then a tree is usually what holds them in place. Once it does this, then the tree is effected by it and holds the energy for its surroundings. The energy from the line energises the tree.

Dryads often have a definite feeling of gender. They can be perceived as male or female, young or old. Some of them are so old it is as if they are just ‘present’ within the tree and their wisdom is all around them, but they do not communicate, so much as radiate; just being. But you know they are there because they ‘feel’ different.

When I first started working with Dryads, I thought that all trees held this type of consciousness. But then I tried to communicate with some trees and discovered that they felt like Trees, but had no Dryad energy. When I tried to blend my energy with a non-conscious tree, the feelings were incredibly subtle and initially, I thought I was feeling nothing. But then I began to experience the tree’s experience of Time, and how the seasons changed around it. There was this constant awareness of movement within the seasons and cycles of change, which went on forever. At first, I couldn’t understand why this was all I was picking up, but then realised that not all trees had a Dryad energy within them.

My very first Tree contact was with an ancient Yew tree, close to Lainston House Hotel, near Winchester, in the 90’s. I had gone rambling through the woods, as I love exploring new paths, and I had found myself beside a huge old Yew tree which I felt an impulse to stand against. As soon as I leaned my back against the tree, I became aware of it being connected to all the trees around it, through the earth. It was as though it was communicating with the other trees and somehow ‘broadcasting’ to them and into the environment. It felt amazing. In many ways it acted like a satellite dish, but there was something in the communication which was about keeping the balance within the area. The Yew tree felt like the Elder and the rest of the trees in the woods felt like its children!

That experience awakened something in me, which, at the time, I didn’t fully understand until many years later. But ever since that experience, I was able to sense the energy in and around the Dryads.

Many trees live on the cross-over points of energy-lines, and they hold the energy which runs through the lines, acting as both anchor and transmitter. I remember one Ancient Ash tree, which lived on a boundary ditch that had once been part of a village deserted during the plague years. It had grown in the garden of one of the cottages, and even though the village was no longer there, the tree remained. When I was around this tree, it felt like I was in a cathedral, the energies were so light and spiritual. I was new to working with energy-lines and nature energies back then, but this tree’s energy was palpable. It felt like a Grail site, but I had no idea what that meant. I loved this tree, and its wonderful energy, and took a lot of friends to visit it over the years. (Years later, I discovered that this ash tree grew in the grounds of the village church, now no longer there. The building itself was long gone, but the tree remained, harnessing the church’s wonderful sacred energy).

Dryads can often be found living on, or near sacred sites, even if that site is no longer there. The energy, however, is, and the memories live on. Trees living around the energy of old churches, which were often built on pre-existing sacred sites, act like elephants and have a very long memory. You can tap into this energy by tuning into the tree. It is a little like psychometry!

One of the most important things I learned with trees is that they do not judge what we humans do, they just continue with their ‘function’ without becoming ‘upset’ about it. Many people working with trees tend to ‘project’ their own emotions and beliefs about the tree, onto the tree itself. The tree can have a very different idea of what it finds ‘acceptable’. To give you an example: Once I went to Swallowhead Spring, at West Kennet Long Barrow. There, people had left lots of ribbons and crystals and ‘stuff’, which to my human mind seemed more like littering. But as I was thinking this and feeling quite pee’d off about the lack of respect people seemed to have for the site, the tree that grew beside the spring put her feeling of gratitude into my consciousness. I was quite surprised. She said she was really happy the site was being honoured by humans again, as it had once been, and she didn’t mind their offerings. It brought love to a neglected place which once honoured the Mother. I had to completely shift my perspective about what was acceptable and what was not after that. My human mind had simply projected my personal beliefs onto the site, and the Tree; I have never done it since. Although I do think that the stuff needs cleaning up now and again, so that it does not end up clogging the area.

If you want to know what a tree really feels, then ask it. If you feel a negative emotional response, such as anger, sadness etc. then those are probably your feelings getting in the way. Trees don’t feel like we do, they are far more accepting of our failings than we are. I have never met an angry or sad tree. They are far closer to the Source, or God, or whatever you want to call it than we are. When you are in communication with trees, you are in communication with the Divine. Experientially it feels exactly the same. It feels joyful, accepting, loving and giving. Even when they are holding human negative energy, they still do not judge it. It just IS! To me, they feel far closer to our Soul’s experience, than to our human one… and our human perspective can be very limited.

I will post some of my experiences with trees, so that you can get an idea of just how to work with them and how they operate; then, if you have similar experiences you will know what they might mean. I would also love to hear some of your stories and communications, no matter how crazy your experiences might seem to be.

There are Tree energies available as an attunement within the Gaia Method Earthways System: symbols which give you the ability to access the Dryad energy.

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