Beech Tree

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.

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 :