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.

Return to Flowerdown Disc Barrow

April 7, 2025April 21, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

Chris and I went up to Flowerdown Barrow, Littleton, today to do some energywork, and to make an essence. Chris brought his dowsing rods so we could check out the energies of the barrow once we were finished the work we had to do. As usual, we never know what it going to happen, but this visit was very interesting. Many years ago, on our first ever visit to this barrow, I received channelling that said this barrow was one of the most important sacred sites in the area, a place where people came, annually, to celebrate and hold sacred ceremony. It held the balance of the grid, providing much needed fertility to the area and distributing the cosmic energies into the energy-lines in the earth.

We stopped first at the remains of a large sarson menhir, which came originally for a field a kilometer away, in Dean Down Drove. Again this was originally part of the sacred landscape and would have been used as an anchor for the above-mentioned energies. It has some interesting features and sparkles with tiny crystals, which, it was impossible to capture.

I placed the bottle on the stone and Chris was ‘told’ to walk around the stone three times, in a sunwise direction. Yet, he felt that this stone was more lunar than solar and still it needed to be anticlockwise, in the direction of the sun’s movement, which is the masculine-opening direction. When he had finished, he saw that sparkles of lunar-light were rising up from the stone in a wave-like pattern, but again they were linked to the moon. He was aware of a lunar goddess, but with an Egyptian flavour, and she was dressed in a lilac-blue dress. She was related to the Full Moon. This is the preliminary energy that went into the essence bottle. More happened later in the main disc barrow.

(Side note: When we are doing earthwork, when doing it with other people, we can often see images of people, just as Chris did with this Egyptian lunar goddess. Sometimes, these ‘people’ represent real people and the energies they are bringing or working with. As soon as Chris mentioned the Lunar feminine, I knew he was seeing a part of me and the energy I am bringing to this work, in this moment. It became clearer when we began working on the disc barrow. Sometimes, people will appear to Chris and I know who they are because I have just given them a particular energy which Chris is picking up on, as will become clear in the next blog. Once, when we were working in Hook, in Co. Wexford, I was doing the energy work on the shore and Chris reported seeing a druid with his arms raised to the sea calling the energy, which is what I was doing. But I was not speaking, so Chris had no idea, thinking he was seeing a spirit person, or guardian, doing the work. The more you work with energy, in these dimensions, the more you begin to recognise another person’s energy as different to the true spirit guardian of a place. The guise you are seen in holds information however. In that case, I was working as the druids worked, calling in the elemental and the waves. At the barrow, I was obviously utilising energy from my Egyptian training with the moon, even though I have no conscious memory of that).

Back to today: When Chris walked around the stone, clockwise, on the third round he suddenly felt a shift that made him feel dizzy. (I had the same experience on our next visit, having done the same). He had shifted energetically to be in tune with the necessary energy level of the site. His feeling was that this stone was connected to lunar cycles and ceremony, which would explain why we never experienced energy from this stone before. it was active only at certain times, as if it released energy only at those times.

This lovely sparkly lunar energy went into the bottle, which I had placed on the stone and then an apple went in to. Apples represent the knowledge of the Divine Feminine. This part of the process was finished so we proceeded to the main barrow only having to walk once anticlockwise around the smaller one which lay between the Sarsen stone and the disc barrow. As we walked towards the smaller one, we were both aware of feeling the stone’s original position in the farm where it was taken from, half a kilometer away. It had been a satellite stone but removed by the farmer to the museum in Winchester and then placed here at the barrows. It was as if the stone had left an energy memory in its original position and was letting us connect to that.

Standing on the outer bank of the barrow, I was instructed to place the essence in the centre of the barrow itself. Next, we were told that Chris had to walk sunwise, the masculine solar direction, around the barrow bank. While I had to walk anticlockwise in the feminine direction. Three times we had to walk, Chris walking a sunline and me walking a lunar line. These looked like a band of yellow light, and a band of white light, each flowing in the opposite direction. We each did three rounds, at the same time, meeting at the same point each time. It reminded me of work I did at Castlerigg, in Cumbria with my friend Cheryl, five years ago. That was also to do with opening time, but I did not understand that at the time. (I’ll write about that if i ever find the time!)

Once we had done the three rounds, we stood in the centre of the barrow, where I had put the bottle. The energies of the energy lines we had walked went into the bottle. Chris said that the yellow solar line he was leaving behind him as he walked, looked like a wavy yellow curtain that was higher in come places than others. for him it was like sound waves. It was only when I was replaying the recording that I realised I had been singing quietly to myself as I did my rounds. Did that have an effect on the energies we anchored, I wonder?

Once this work had been completed it was time to focus on the essence. The bottle of water remained in the centre of the barrow while we had done all the walking, so it was already primed with whatever energies we were activating.

I saw a beam of sunlight move down and into the bottle of water and then saw the Brigit cloak laying over the site, following the contours like a layer of emerald green energy. Then I became completely distracted by somebody’s rather clever wind turbine. It was on their house and looked like some kind of vortex. I’m easily distracted! But the layering had happened anyway.

The emerald energy of the cloak acts as both a layering of that energy, holding the site at that frequency. The emerald green, of course is a clue too, as it is the crystalline energy of all growing things, that lovely emerald of trees and plants, the emerald layer of the Mother’s crystalline field. The cloak protects the area, keeping it flowing with energy and under the Goddess’s protection. (For those of you who hold the Brigit cloak/mantle in your energy-field, you too are under her protection and receive her emerald nurturing).

The solar beam was a thin golden thread and it made the sparkles from the stone’s energy, already in the water, even more vibrant, enlivening them. Chris was aware of a vortex-like cone drawing the energy into the bottle, concentrating it. Then we were told to walk around the bottle in a smaller circle, again Chris going in the sunwise direction, and me going in an anti-clockwise direction. It was while we were walking these smaller rounds that I realised we were working with cycles of time. The three larger rounds, around the outside of the barrow, related to the solar year, one round per year. The smaller rounds in the centre represented the moon cycles, lunar months. I still don’t actually know what that means, but to a part of me, it makes some kind of sense.

I was very aware of the significance of doing the rounds in sets of three, however. Six on the outside of the barrow, large circles, (years? Ages) and six inside, shorter ones, like phases of the moon. Three walked by Chris, and three walked by me. I kept thinking: 3.6.9.12. Cycles, years, days, weeks, months. The common denominator was obviously three. Did the three outer rings signify ages? And the smaller inner rings shorter periods of time? I don’t know. But it meant something.

Now the lunar light, from the smaller circles went into the bottle. Solar, and lunar, time. A huge green crystalline dragon appeared then, a translucent sea-green colour, and it put three of its crystalline tears in the essence, straight from his eyes. Crystal teardrops. It felt like a kind of dragon healing, healing sadness, and then Chris reminded me of the tears of the phoenix in Harry Potter and how they healed wounds created by the basilisk. (He loves Harry Potter).

Next three teardrops from the Obsidian dragon also went into the essence, but this time it was about healing really deep grief, things that are so deeply entrenched that they need particular help. Healing the depths, trauma, loss, etc. The harder-to-get-to stuff. Once again, we were struck by the significance of the number Three.

Chris had brought his dowsing rods to dowse how the energies looked in the barrow. They spiraled out from the centre, occasionally becoming smaller vortices, and then continuing. But they spiraled out in a serpentine fashion, the line wavy rather than straight. But this only happened the further out the spiral Chris walked so the serpent line really began close to the edge of the barrow, close to the ditch.

At one point, while I was still standing in the centre of the barrow, my guides suggested I focus on bringing in a stronger solar ray and then to watch what happened. I said nothing to Chris, but did what they suggested. I visualised the strong ray entering the centre of the barrow and saw it radiate out through the lines. Immediately, Chris began to pick up many more vortices in the line he had already dowsed and which had been just a wavy line before I sent the solar light out. It was as though the solar light created a change in the pattern of light travelling through the main spiral. It reminded me of the patterns carved into the stones of Newgrange and Knowth, in Ireland.

This was all we needed to do here, but last year, when my guides told me to bring Chris here they also said we should go to The Running Horse pub at the other end of Littleton. I felt there was something underneath the pub, an energy point or something. It had taken us a year to get to this so we followed last year’s instructions and went for a coffee, and a rather delicious raspberry and rose soft drink! We did not detect anything of an energetic nature but as we were leaving, walking across the carpark, Chris bent to pick something up. It was a large piece of a jigsaw puzzle. When he turned it over it had the number Three printed on it.