The Rainbow Vortex of the Air Elementals.

April 19, 2026April 30, 2026 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

This is a sixth dimensional tool that lifts you out of the emotional body to connect to the higher mental body, or Celestian body of you and the Earth. It connects you to the blueprint of your own life and that of the Earth’s. The sixth level is the level of the Divine Mind, the archetypal level. It is the level from where inspiration, vision, and higher knowing originate. In this layer you can experience: Divine love, Spiritual ecstasy and bliss and your connection to universal consciousness.

Working in this layer teaches you how to clear what you no longer need so you can operate more from this level than your own human mind.

I recently flew to Spain for my monthly visit to my elderly mother. Thousands of feet in the air, I felt my channel open and strong waves of energy move into my field. Earlier in the day, I had felt an internal vibration so strong I thought I was coming down with the Covid virus again. I nearly cancelled the trip, but the Ryanair website refused to open. I took it as confirmation that I should continue with my plans.

Sitting on the plane, the energy increased until I saw an air elemental appear in a sphere in front of me. It is not the first time that air elementals have communicated with me while I am flying somewhere, but they never appeared in a sphere. There was a reason for this, as it emerged. My own field, with the Arcturian medallion, expanded to merge with it. I was aware of my Lemurian guide standing to one side, overseeing and guiding this process.

The elemental being was a male energy with a colourful, whirling energy that looked like a tornado. Through our joined fields, he pulled me into this whirling energy of his and then he wrapped me up in it. Once it was around me, it took the form of a cloak of rainbow energy, which he closed up in the front. I was completely sealed inside this cloak.

Once this part was complete, I was aware of myself as separate from him again, yet still in the combined spheres. Sitting in my seat, he handed me a book to help me understand what this energy is and how it is to be used. Books often contain information which is shortly afterwards intuited and experienced.

Telepathically, he communicated that the cloak was an air elemental cloak. A higher elemental energy from layers way above the Earth. The colours represent the different energy layers within the atmosphere, more like the human energy field, but completely of the air. He then suggested that I meditate on each layer from red to violet, keeping my focus on the mental body of the earth.

Each colour of the rainbow vortex, and therefore the air, has its own vibration which affects the human mental body. He shared a way to change the vibration of thoughts, so we can choose thoughts of a higher vibration. These thoughts affect the layers within both the personal mind and the collective mind, along with the beliefs we hold in them.

Then I received the impression that he came in the sphere because it allowed him to merge with me in a more focused way. This merging of fields was directly connected to the Arcturian medallion. Overall, the energies of this being was beautiful, if not a little intense, but then I began to experience feelings of great sadness about pollution in the air. This was followed by the hope that mankind could find ways to travel and create things that don’t add a lower, denser vibration to what should be pure and clear.

I was reminded of the difference between Cader Idris, in Wales, with its beautiful crystal clear energy. Humanity would greatly benefit from this clearer air, and our physical bodies would feel energised. His hope was that greener ways of living would increase and also that we would recognise more the absolute importance of trees, especially those at high altitudes and those of great height. We need to recognise the job they do in creating a clearer air and energy. He also said that more trees were needed.

He went on then, to give me the exciting feelings for the relationship between trees and the colour layers of the air elementals, which felt like a joyful communication and cooperation.

He also showed me how the green, and blue, dragons work within the trees and above them. They’re in a level between the trees and the air, clearing the air of black particles, like manta rays scooping up plankton, or bats eating mosquitoes and midges, on the wing. These dragons are intermediate energies. More subtle than the trees, but more physical than the air. As wind and rain, they keep the energies clear above the earth, which feels really exciting. Moving between the trees, in the air and on the ground, around mountains and over lakes, they enlivened, cleared and charged the mental body of the earth. This is how the dragons work in the atmosphere to clear mental noise created by us.

The mental body of the earth is like the mental body in the human energy field. It is where our beliefs are held, energetically. The mental body of the earth is where our collective beliefs are stored, and it also needs clearing. Not all beliefs are negative, however. We keep the useful ones and discard the rest. The Rainbow Vortex helps us to do the work of clearing the mental body of Earth with the help of the air elementals and the dragons, who also work within these layers. But it also helps us to clear our negative beliefs and learn how to work with our own thoughts. If our thinking gets in the way of achieving anything, this vortex energy spins whatever is getting in our way out of our field.

I was shown how the red dragon – the lava – focuses its attention on energy. It felt powerful as it moved through the earth, a surging power that was both flowing and explosive. The red dragon people carry that energy and are energised by volcanic places and igneous rock. They are highly creative people and in sync with the red coloured layer in the airy mental body of the earth. The other colour layers affect this energy, symbolised by the creative energy of lava flowing as pyroclastic flow, and how it is calmed and cooled by the air, and the sea, the blue energies. The blue energy calms an overactive mind.

The blue water dragon flows. It moves around obstacles in its path and is connected to the blue layer. Through storms, it moves in a layer that appears as a blue/lilac colour, bringing new energy and fast-moving particles. It devours the build-up of human fear and emotional thinking. It returns life to balance. The red and blue dragons are close companions in this work. They dance together, one creating, the other maintaining balance, but both with the same intention: creating harmony through venting and letting off steam, a glorious dance of creation.

“We anchor this in you now, with joy and life, and the love of survival. All is harmony, followed by moments of chaos, but all swings back to balance once more. Watch us as we work through trees, through fires and floods, tornadoes and hurricanes, through volcanic activity and earthquakes. Do not fear these changes, for they are all necessary to the earth. Just as you humans need to let off steam and run off excess energy, so too does the Earth. All is in divine order, and all will be well.

“As the earth goes through this rebalancing, so too do you, collectively. For those of you who are sensitive to these energies, we say this. Do not fear the power of the Earth to mould and reshape herself. It has happened many times, (Atlantis and Lemuria were given as examples), and will continue to do so as she expands. You are all part of this expansion, whether you know it or not, and are privileged indeed to witness it. You chose to be here – now. You chose to be a witness to these exciting changes and events. Do not fear, but rather rejoice in Earth’s transformations and growth.

“She is shedding a skin, rising in vibration, and you will all benefit one way or another. End of transmission. We will return many times to bring you more information. Do not be sad about the loss of this energy, but rather think about what we have said and forge a greater alliance with the Being of the Earth. Witness her transformation, for it helps to transform you too. Farewell.”

And I did experience the lessening of this beautiful energy as the elemental being’s sphere separated from mine, with the help of the Lemurian guide.

A day later, I was told to use the vortex. I was shown how each of my guides, from the stars, the ancestors here on earth, and the elemental dimensions of nature, adds their colour to this rainbow vortex. It is as though I were surrounded by the telepathic vibration of my guides on each layer. If you are one of those people who connect to star beings and to the elemental intelligences on earth, this tornado is your connection. It keeps your feet firmly planted on the earth plane while your consciousness can be elevated to work with the higher atmosphere of earth, which is the meeting place of earth intelligence and the star beings. They are the frequencies you work with and who help you on your journey.

Another aspect of this tornado is to pull out beliefs generated in past lives. When it does that, it looks like a candy floss maker, pulling out the coloured floss of each belief and adding those colours to the tornado – just as a tornado uncreates things on the physical planet. You may be shown your past life and how it has negatively affected your life. When you work with the rainbow vortex, you are cleared for further work.

God/Goddess Attunements and Activations.

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

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

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

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

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Divine Feminine Attunement.

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

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Divine Masculine Attunement.

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Leave it to the Gods and Goddesses.

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

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The Blue Flame of Peace Attunement.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

My guides gave me this message a couple of weeks ago (16th January 25):

“We recommend starting with hope, hope for the future; hope for humanity; hope for the living. We see all, and we see how humanity is holding a torch for peace. But the torch is small. When enough of you add your flame of peace to the flame of hope then, and only then, will peace prevail.”

Until I channelled the blue flame meditation this morning, (10 feb 25) I did not realise they were speaking literally, in an energetic sense of course. To help us to remain energetically steady in the face of so much distortion and destruction in the world, they have given me a meditation to use during times of fear. Especially when we find it difficult to separate ourselves from the traumas of world events. At these times it is important that we remain focused on the Soul, remembering that everything that is happening has been chosen by each incarnated soul, on all sides, for their growth and development. However, because, once we are born into this world, we forget that we are only inhabiting our physical bodies, we get caught up in the world dramas, feeling the fear and pain of all involved. To help us remain focused on the higher awareness of our reality, where we can do something that helps the world, my guides gave me this meditation. This does not mean that we blissfully trip off into a meadow of sunny daisies, but it does give us the frequency of peace and hope so that we can transmit that awareness and energy into the world around us. It also helps us to focus on what we can do to help. As I was channelling the meditation it soon became clear that their earlier words meant something in particular.

They have given a meditation that blends both the flame of peace with the flame of hope.

This flame belongs to a trio of flames, each one of a different frequency. The three flames are the Blue, the pink and the yellow. In Winchester cathedral, we have over the years, anchored the triple flame on an energy point, as well as portions of those flames in the smaller chapels. The portions are anchored as individual portions of the triple flame, depending on the purpose of the chapel. (We only learn that once we have anchored the flame). The same thing applied when we were working in Egypt. One large flame was anchored in the main temple, and smaller flames were anchored in the smaller chapels, depending on which chapel needed it.

Recently, here in the UK, the flames have taken on a Divine Feminine Goddess archetype energy, which tells us the function of the flame. For instance, in the lady chapel of the cathedral, we anchored a gold flame of Demeter. In St. Lawrence’s Church, which stands on the site of the original church of William the conqueror’s palace, we anchored a flame which holds the frequency of Mary, the Cosmic Mother, in the Christian tradition.

The main triple-flame lies between the Lady Chapel and the St. Swithin’s monument and holds the energy of Divine Love, Divine Peace and Divine Joy. Its masculine energies, because balance is required, are love, power and wisdom. The frequency of the these flames changes depending on what energy is needed.

For this meditation, it is the energy of both Peace, with a smidgen of Hope, that we are attuning to.

Below, I am sharing some of the images you will need for the visualisations in the meditation. Have a look first so you can see what everything is supposed to look like. There will be variations, naturally, based on your own soul images, but this will give you an idea of what you need to create, energetically. Try to feel them, as well, because these energies are very tangible and it is a great way of gaining more sensitivity to them.

You can watch the video meditation or you can listen to the audio by itself.

To access the video click here.

Or you can listen to the audio on its own or download it for later use. It is a useful one to do on a regular basis especially as events in the world heat up and peace within is needed.

(Music from Chantress Seba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK1s9PnilX8&t=2679s )

Third Level Attunements

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

There are levels within levels at this final stage too, (I say final, although it never feels truly final. There is always more to learn). The basic attunement anchors the Blue Sphere and the Trident of Poseidon. The Blue Sphere is the Sphere of development where you fully align your will, with the Will of the Mother, or Gaia, the Soul of our earth. It takes you into the realms of universal consciousness, as it is actualised through the consciousness and Will of the Universal Mother, or Cosmic Mother. This is the Mother who sees all from a higher, more unconditional, Soul awareness level. She is aware of the many changes on earth and sees where and when changes need to be brought into play.

She watches the earth, and all upon it, just as a good-enough mother watches her children growing. She knows what her growing children need to experience if they are to survive into adulthood. She watches with compassion when humanity act from hate and she projects great love to them, hoping they will feel her love and grow into that love. She is aware that each soul on earth is on a path of growth and development and that they will make mistakes. But she does not judge. She sees from a higher perspective and knows they will find their way.

The physical earth is also observed. The Cosmic Mother knows when planetary changes are needed. She sees the wildfires raging through the forests and sees the necessary clearings they create. She watches the forces of nature rampage across the land in floods and tsunamis, volcanic upheaval and storms and knows too that these are necessary ‘restructurings’ of the earth’s landmass and that they have been happening for millions of years in their own cycles. (As traumatic as it is for us to experience them!)

At this level, you learn to see, objectively, through the eyes of the Mother. Just as in the second level, you are anchored into the Venus Matrix – the pink sphere – and learn the lessons of love, in the third level you learn the lessons of objective compassion contained in the Blue Sphere. You have learned to follow your guidance, even when your personality wants to jump in and fix things; to rescue people. With those skills under your belt, you learn to be a watcher, seeing the social currents and how they move in the world.

You may not see the outcome of the events on earth, or understand why they are happening, but you understand they are happening for a reason, and that all those involved understand that too – on a Soul level. You learn to stand back and follow what your guidance wants you to do, and what your Soul wants you to do. It is not easy to do this, especially when you see terrible things happening in the world, yet you are asked to stand back and be a watcher, and do what you are called to do. This can be challenging where there is so much pain and destruction in the world and this is why the Venus matrix sphere comes before this one; because we have to learn to love all inhabitants of earth and see them through the heart of love – as difficult as that can sometimes be.

You may be asked to focus on what will and can help in real terms. Humanity needs to change, to grow, to expand in consciousness. Each one of us that heals the beliefs that create our current reality, is needed. In healing ourselves, and learning about our own beliefs, we learn how others do the same. All of us, collectively, create the physical reality we live in. Imagine if enough of us changed those beliefs. What would reality look like then? And what vision does the Cosmic Mother hold for humanity? Can we help her manifest those visions – through us?

The Blue sphere holds tools to help us heal old beliefs, both individual and collective, and creates in us the desire to recreate the world. The thoughts that flow through us, from the Cosmic Mother, are the thoughts we need to align to – because they are the ones she knows we need to manifest with. She is always, and ever, filled with compassion for us here on earth, no matter what the winds of change bring.

Within this sphere, there are other energies available but the primary one, to start with, is the Trident of Neptune. Because your will is now aligned with the Will of the Mother, the energies of this trident flow out from you and into the world. These are your Soul-filled and Angelic creations. They emerge from your will, your solar plexus, as streams, or currents of energy. Each stream is a creative endeavour which helps the world, through what you do. Each stream, or current, has a particular focus. One stream could be writing, another, healing. Yet another could be temple building, or even raising a family. It all depends on which stream wants to work through you. These streams use your learned skills, and creative gifts, even if you think you haven’t got any!

This is a deep level of creation and creativity. Sometimes, depending on where you are in your emotional development (Your soul knows what you need) The angelic aspect is that part which works in service to humanity’s development and future. We may never see the outcome of our work in the present, but it heals the past and creates the future. Because, at this level, we are manifesting on behalf of humanity, we are guided to create what is needed. But they move through us, using our natural gifts and learned skills. We are the conduits for new creation.

There is a balance here around the creations of the Cosmic Mother and the masculine Poseidon, and what those creations are manifesting in terms of humanity’s need to move forward. The masculine frequencies come in through the Poseidon energy. Poseidon is master of the emotions and deep creative impulses and therefore utilises what the trident brings into his consciousness. The thoughts and desires the cosmic Mother has for humanity are brought into being, and anchored, by the Poseidon energies, the master of the collective seas of creation.

As with all the Gaia Method Earthways attunements, these energies become active when you are ready for them, so you never have to worry about taking in too much energy or being overwhelmed by them. Your Soul is like a gatekeeper, opening the way for you when it knows you are ready. Although it took me fifteen years to bring in this level, I recognise how the necessary energies activate in their own time, which is reassuring! I have been holding most of these energies for years and yet, even now, they activate within me when they are good and ready. The energies of the previous attunements continue to work through your psyche, expanding your gifts, and your ability to work with the earth, and all its inhabitants.

Level Three Main Attunement.

Anchoring you deeper into the collective psyche of humanity and into Divine Will and Power. From here, everything you do is for the good of the whole. Working with Angelic intelligence: the guides and healers of humanity’s future, you begin to manifest, on behalf of humanity, and under their guidance. Along with this attunement there is a practice that will help you discover what streams of energy flow into manifestation through you.

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Level Three Open Attunements

Trusting your Soul, and your guides, and opening to whatever comes in, shows a level of trust necessary when working with the Soul of Mother Earth. In allowing yourself to open, in whatever way is necessary for your development, means you receive energies you may not have expected and which may come from the other levels. This happens because your soul, and your guides, know what you need to continue your work. This might be different to what your personality thinks you need. These attunements add to the energies you hold and help your continued development. You can have as many of these as you want because the energies will always be different and will be exactly what you need.

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Short Meditation Video. A Helping Hand.

April 20, 2023 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

Here is a short meditation on a symbol I recently received when I was obviously in need of some ‘Upstairs’ help. I have been going through some issues with my father, who I look after every day and had been doing some Hara Line healing at the same time. I really should have known what the outcome would be.

It was explosive, to say the least.

But I was given the symbol to help me to stay connected to my guidance and not get too stuck in old energies. I have added more information below the video which I hope you find useful.

I received this symbol when I was struggling with a relationship issue that had its roots in a past life. Deep in the emotional layers of this old dynamic, which had been playing itself out for most of my current life, my guides obviously knew I needed some help.

While doing a meditation to connect with my Soul and the upper levels of my energy-field, intending to gain more understanding of how the dynamic needed to be healed, I was given this symbol. The image appeared above my head, and I recognised it as one I had received before but had not understood its meaning so promptly forgot all about it. This time, however, my guides wanted me to understand the meaning so it could be used intentionally.

The inverted triangle represents the upper levels of consciousness, the levels of guides/angels/spirit/your Higher Self, etc. It is inverted because the energies are reaching down to the physical layers from a more expanded state of consciousness. This expanded state is the energy of Soul-love and higher understanding. It removes the energy of powerlessness in the situation and reminds us of the higher purpose of the relationship, even if that is not a conscious remembrance. The image that came with the symbol was of a father reaching down to hold the hand of his child. (Symbols usually have a visual component which explains the use of the symbol. It could equally have been a woman’s hand, but as my guide is male, I imagine this is why it came in this way).

Sometimes old emotional energies need to be moved through, rather than held onto. You can get stuck in the old dynamic, rather than moving through the releasing of it. The symbol can help you maintain unconditional love for the person while still releasing the stuck and painful energies of the past. This works well if there is a deep bond with the person, such as a family member, or close personal relationship, etc. However, as with all healing, there must be a readiness to see another person with unconditional love. If you are in a damaging relationship, it is more difficult to see with unconditional love and survival may be more important. Often, the ability to see the other person as a co-creator comes later and after much healing and therapy. But when you have healed, or let go of someone, or you are in healing dynamic and old issues come up, then is a good time to use this energy.

If you find yourself in an emotional situation and need to stay centred or you want to become unstuck, then meditate on this symbol. It helps if you visualise, or intend, both the symbol and the image of the adult’s hand reaching down to you, offering its help and pulling you out of old dense energies.

Another use of the symbol is for when you need to raise your consciousness to a higher level while moving through healing. If you do healing, or any other kind of energetic work, such as readings, etc., and you are experiencing a release of emotional energies yourself, it can be a challenge to rise above the denser emotional energies to connect with your guides or Soul. But by using this symbol, you are given a helping hand so you can work and heal at the same time, something I was never able to do in the past. In fact, I really could have used this back then when I found it nearly impossible to do anything ‘normal’ while going through deep healing.

After creating this short meditation, my guides then shared another use for the symbol, this time using it for white dragon inspiration.

The addition of the white dragon vortex is to get you unstuck and out of a creative rut. If you need inspiration, especially when involved in a creative endeavour that is inspired by higher consciousness, then try meditating with this version. It should get the creative juices flowing again. This also works when, just as in the healing process, you have to work when you are feeling emotionally blocked.

Try using the energy and see what happens. And remember to keep a record. You might need it one day.

You can download this mini-manual below.

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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.