The Heart Breath.

At two-thirty am on Wednesday morning, I awoke to a download and activation. It was happening while I slept, which is unusual, and I saw it clearly. I tried to ignore it – I hate disrupted sleep – but I knew that I would never remember it in the morning. I grabbed my phone, made a quick sketch, wrote a small description, then tried to get back to sleep … to no avail. The energy continued flowing. Then it became something more, and I eventually got back to sleep sometime after three-thirty.

This is the exercise:

  1. Focus on the Hara line, which is a slim gold line that connects to the top of the energy field, and the base. The Hara line is at the level of intention, from where you manifest from your highest intentions. It holds your life’s purpose. When you work from this level, you only manifest what is within divine purpose.
  2. Once your connection to the Hara line has been established, focus on your Solar Plexus. Breathe in and imagine you are drawing energy from your solar plexus up to your heart where it changes to heart energy.
  3. Exhale that changed energy from the heart into your energy field. This changes your Will energy to a more Heart-centred energy.
  4. Repeat this, breathing energy from the solar plexus, into the heart, and then out into your field for as long as you feel you want to.

When they gave me this technique, they explained that it would ‘Allow what is – to be.’ I thought, half asleep as I was, that it would help us change our desires for certain outcomes, to accept what is happening in the world. Seeing through the lens of the heart rather than the personal will.They told me to try the technique and record what I experienced. Today, two days later, I had time to do that.

I dowsed to see what aura soma essences, and my own, would be of benefit – as I do every morning – and applied them as usual. I should have considered that before doing the exercise … because it was not what I expected. I’ll try it again without using any essences.

This is a recording of the exercise. I recorded it, as I always do, with no intention of sharing it, but I thought it might be useful. (Ignore the washing machine in the background!). Below it, is the written up version.

I first become aware of the energies are the Artemis, the stag, antlered energy, the Woodland consciousnesses. So, I start by breathing in and imagine breathing in and pulling up energy from the solar plexus to the heart, which I then breathe out. The SP energy anchors in the heart then flows out through the heart. And I breathe out, the energy is pink light. But I feel like I’m pushing or breathing out that love into the woodlands.  Blowing out pink energy into nature feels as though I am working with one layer of nature.

From the solar plexus energy now arises a golden energy. I breathe it into the heart and, it becomes a magenta energy and that light, as I blow it out, fills what looks like a deeper layer of energy, like the dinosaurs, back into ancient times, places that are exposed, layers of stratigraphy and rock formations that go back to those times. It’s as if those layers still exist in time and consciousness, times of volcanic upheaval and huge change. It feels related to the earth changes that are happening in the present time, weather changes: flooding, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. Especially the storms. Things out of balance.

Now, I see a sword, standing with its point embedded in the soil in the woods. But there’s light around the sword, like Excalibur, yet it’s not Excalibur, it’s just a sword that has to do with the energies of winter. The Abundance King of winter. And he’s smiling. And I’m still breathing up that gold of the solar plexus and exhaling that magenta that it becomes as it moves through the heart. I’m sending that light to those images. And the energy is moving up to the sky.

I’m still aware of the Hara line, and the gold breath becoming the pink breath from the Heart that’s then blown into the air, into the sky, to the clouds.  I’m aware of a balancing between the layer with the sword in the ground, and the sky so the two of them are in balance.

Continuing that breath of gold into magenta, as I continue to breathe, I see a woman of light, a fairy woman. She’s all light. Long hair, long gown and she’s holding something out to me, like a gown of some kind, a cloak of light. It’s like the sovereignty symbol, but it’s more fairy, more light, like a nature lightbeing, a guardian of the woods, a guardian of the lights, guardian of the elementals, the nature elementals.

She puts this cloak around my shoulders which is white shiny velvet with a white brocade around the edges with tiny diamonds embedded in them and I become one with the Sidhe. All their knowledge and wisdom is embedded in the little crystals in the cloak, and it shines brightly in the woods, like if I’m walking through the woods. I’m aware that I’m like a beacon, and that other creatures in the woods will recognize that light and see it as kin, as fairy kin, as Sidhe kin, as an elemental worker holding that fairy light. (this feels like something that can be passed on attunement).

Again, I blow the energy out into my auric field, but now it is no longer magenta as it emerges, but snow. I’m blowing snow, covering the land in snow as I walk through the woods. It’s like a protection of sorts. The snow is a blanket that gets laid on the earth. The soil needs the snow; it needs that cold, and I see St. Catherine’s Hill covered in a blanket of snow again and there’s a quiet joy in the earth, the promise of spring  in the soil, when it’s covered with this blanket.

Snowbringer. The white snow dragon sits on top of the hill. The green and the blue dragons are asleep inside St. Catherine’s Hill, and now the white dragon is in the ascendancy, like a blanket holding it all together in this quiet hibernation. It holds everything in a form of stasis. It feels gentle, as though everything is asleep under this blanket. Everything is simply resting.

Next, I see the goddess with the stag antlers on her head, Artemis, which feels like me, but is also not me. It’s that woodland energy, connected to the trees on top of St. Catherine’s Hill. She’s holding it all in balance, but it feels like me holding these weather patterns for the area in a balance, or that part of me that works with her energy. She’ll know when to remove the blanket of snow. She’ll know when it’s time for the green dragon to come to its ascendancy, when the green plants start to grow again. But the green and the blue wake up together. The blue dragon is slower than the green dragon. The green is the snow drops that start to emerge first, and the crocuses.

The blue water dragon is still. It’s present, but it’s quiet. Then my breath becomes more fiery and it starts to melt the snows and the crystals of the snow start to melt away and become the water of the blue dragon. It’s adding that layer of elemental energy to the green.  They work together. The golden dragon of the sun appears above, warming the soil; warming the plants, so now other things begin to grow. Some things grow in the cold and other things need the warmth. The green dragon starts to become more alive now, and  the white dragon has faded away, melted with the snow.  The blue is becoming more vibrant and alive, and the rain comes, the sun shines, and it’s spring.

Everything in a balanced cycle. The dragons, blue and green, become more vibrant, more alive. They send their energy out through the hill, through the countryside, travelling through the energy lines, travelling through the soil. Filling the environment, meeting Winchester cathedral (on the blue waterline that runs beneath it). It’s more powerful now and everything is really enlivening. Everything is in full flow, and full growth, and it feels alive and it’s summer and everything is colour. The gold dragon/sun is above. St. Catherine’s hill, shining down.

St. Cross is also covered. All the local energy points are covered, solar-energized. The green dragon has spread its energy as if it’s expanded out into the environment, like the gold disc at Danebury. And the blue is invigorating the water of the Itchen river, both water and soil, and everything is working in perfect harmony. Perfect seasons, as they should be. The birds are singing, the rabbits are out on the grass, people are walking on the hill, the weather’s warm, beautiful, peaceful, gentle.

It’s wet sometimes, as it is supposed to be. The seasons, back in their natural order, until the dragons, the blue and the green, start to become sleepy again and move into their position in the hill, getting ready for their winter hibernation. Preparing for the ice, the snow, the cold blanket to be laid above them, and around them, bringing that cold, quiet, hibernation energy.

Harmony restored.

Update on 1st December 2024:

I was impulsed to use this breath this morning and did it for about ten minutes, intending that my breath continue to move from my solar plexus and out through my heart. An hour later, and I had a discussion with someone around an issue that had always been present but that I had never voiced. I had noticed it over the years, and decided to ‘work around it’, changing my own behaviour so that it would no longer have the effect it had always had, the usual result being feelings of anger and determination that I would take back my power.

However, this morning, this issue arose again, and without even thinking about it, I immediately went back into that same pattern of listening, following his communication, and then realising that the same dynamic was taking place again. This time, however, instead of sitting on it and vowing I would change my behaviour, again, so I would not be so affected by it in the future, I found myself telling him about my experience. He was completely unaware that his actions were creating that dynamic and because I was able to talk about it, it changed the energy. I had succeeded in taking back my power of choice-making without having to plan a strategy of future management of the situation.

I have always, since recognising that my energy/communication creates many of my situations, taken the responsibility to make the changes myself. It was always a way of to observe what was happening, which meant I could then change my own behaviour. This is what I was taught. And that is still a good thing to do. If there is a crocodile in the water and I go for a swim, knowing it is in there, and if that crocodile then eats me, then I am responsible for the choice I made to go into the water in the first place.

This breathing technique, however, allows me to talk about it, without blaming, taking the energy from my solar plexus and flowing it through the heart. The energy does not get stuck in the solar plexus and therefore does not build up causing physical issues. The communicating of the issue changes the dynamic in a different way. Nothing unusual in that. However, the outcome of this was that my friend was able to explore the issue for himself, recognise his own childhood issues around why he does that, and then made changes that benefited him too. So not only was it a healing for me but also for him.

Such a simple technique, but how simply wonderful.

Dragon Essences.

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White Dragon/Mother Oak. Protection, Sanctuary and Abundance.

The Mother Oak gives strong stability and wisdom and teaches you to recognise damaging behaviour, teaching you to trust yourself when something does not ‘feel right’. The White Dragon gives energetic protection from external energies building a forcefield around your auric field which provides protection and strength. (You can read more about this dragon in the blog post: The white Dragon as protector energy and The Dragon of Burley). This essence can be used in your home when you want to feel a sense of sanctuary. It creates a safe space for others. It is very good to use if you are a healer working with vulnerable clients because it imparts to them a sense of safety and trust. They internally recognise that you are a safe container for them. Included in this essence is the energy of gratitude and the gift of abundance. The gratitude comes from the Goddess of Water, and she teaches us to be grateful to the rivers and waters of the world and skies, to be grateful for the abundance bestowed on us through them. Water is a gift and the abundance in the waters of the earth is to be valued, not taken for granted. We will always be taken care of when we recognise, truly, the value of water and its myriad creatures.

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Black Dragon. Deep Healing

This essence allows you to get in touch with both your own shadow and that of the planet’s. For those of you who work with the black dragon, bringing the darkness to light, this essence assists you in that endeavour. It is helpful when working at sites, clearing layers of stuck energy and when working with clients. It is also good when you are in your own personal healing process and finding it difficult to get unstuck. It imparts to you the energy and strength of the black dragon as you battle your demons and helps you get to the root of things.

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Green Dragon of St. Nectan’s Kieve. Tintagel.

This essence is made with water from the waterfall and contains the energies of St. Nectan and his gifts and intentions. It also contains the Green Dragon energies of the Valley and the fertility created by the waters of the Kieve. According to tradition, ‘St Nectan placed in the little bell-tower of his secluded chapel, a silver bell, the notes of which were so clear and penetrating they could be heard far off at sea. St Nectan was on the bed of death. There was strife in the land. A severe struggle was going on between the Churchmen, and endeavours were being made to introduce a new faith.’ (The Roman Catholic church). ‘The sunset of life gave to the saint the spirit of prophecy, and he told his weeping followers that the light of their religion would grow dim in the land; but that a spark would for ever live amidst the ashes, and that in due time it would kindle into a flame, and burn more brightly than ever. His silver bell, he said, should never ring for others than the true believer. He would enclose it in the rock of the Kieve; but when again the true faith revived, it should be recovered, and rung, to cheer once more the land.’ And that time is now, for we are rediscovering the older Celtic Christian traditons which venerate the land and the Goddess and which serves humanity. Using this essence allows you to access those older ways of working with the Divine power of nature, and the Green dragon of all growing things as it travels through the water. It calls you to create places of sanctuary, and to be a voice in the wilderness calling others to safety. To be a guide for others while they navigate the stormy waters of change. In short, it calls to all those whose roles are to be the guardians of sanctuary who create places of succor and wisdom. Those of you who feel a deep calling to preserve the old ways and renew them for the future benefit of humankind.

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Red Dragon. Freedom.

Dragon people are the bringers of change. They are the rebels of the world, fighting an old order that no longer works. They break things up, they challenge society’s thinking and beliefs, but often, they have to fight their own way to freedom first. This essence was made in the Great hall in Winchester. Although centuries old, this place was, until recently, a court of law where justice was meted out. Sometimes, the red dragons can get trapped by society’s expectations. They can be dependent on people and situations, having had their power and freedom taken away from them by others who seem to be more powerful than they. But it is an illusion. Freedom comes when they begin to see through the illusion and they start to change the beliefs/chains that bind them and they break through into freedom. They let of their fears and with courage, change their route.

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green dragon essence

Green and Black Dragon Essence. (Flowerdown Disc barrow)

Made in Flowerdown Disc Barrow. This is a healing essence made of solar and lunar light, and the tears of a green crystalline dragon, and an obsidian dragon. It helps, in a gentle way, to bring old traumas to the surface so they can be healed. The green dragon energy allows a gentle flow of nurturing energy to move into the denser levels, facilitating their healing. Like loosening a stain on a piece of fabric before the wash cycle.

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Vibrational essence Sprays. Egypt.

These essences were made in Egypt, both in Luxor and in Hurghada, by the Red Sea.

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Red Sea Creation

This essence was made in Sahl Hasheesh on the Red Sea. This is a truly healing place to be and brings artistic inspiration and deep nourishment. Creating is often a solitary activity, happening in the depths of ourselves. Like a shellfish, our pearls travel through us, channelled, nurtured then birthed onto the beach of our lives, for all to see. It may stay hidden inside our protective shell for a while but eventually the shell will open, gently, and our creation will then be open and available. This essence provides the protective space we need in order to heal and develop our creative gifts and then gives us the courage to birth them into the world.

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Maternal Ancestry

This was created in Sahl Hasheesh, by the Red Sea in Hurghada in a place connected to Neptune, a Northern Sea energy. The essence itself is the energy of a joined Sisterhood of women, flowing from the past and into the future, through the present. The knowledge of our female ancestors is helping us to create new relationships where the creative energy of both male and female are equally honoured; where men recognise the role that women play in creation and where women recognise the gifts that men bring. We all have male and female within us so this helps us to work with both sides of our creative nature, acknowledging the value in both.

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Red Sea Healing

This was the first essence I made when I first arrived in Sahl Hasheesh. I put my feet in the water on the beach and was invited to make an essence. I had not expected to make one so soon after arriving from Luxor, but I obviously needed healing. The essence was gifted by the Goddess of the Bay. A gentle, nurturing Soul, yet highly creative, her essence is balm to the Soul and provides a healing space after challenging times. It brings Peace to Body and Soul and allows for a nurturing of Self, on all levels. This is a gentle essence which slowly brings peace and healing to the body and to the emotions. Trauma, and PTSD, are greatly helped by this essence, especially in conjunction with therapy and healing from other qualified healers.

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Solar Lioness Hatshepsut

This essence was made in the Solar Court of Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple in Luxor. This was the place where ceremonies were carried out and offerings given to the Lord of the Sun. The Sun conferred life to all that grew and was the masculine principle of creation. Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh, could channel this solar light through her body to confer the blessings of the Lord of the Sun onto the fields, thus bringing fertility to all that grew, so no-on went hungry. This essence allows you to harness the masculine energy of creation in order to bring abundance into your life. In using this essence you stand tall as you rule over your life. You are your own authority, capable of creating your own abundance especially in areas previously thought of as purely masculine. Your masculine side gains in strength, self-assurance and forward movement bringing growth, healing and creativity.

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St. Catherine’s Hill May Celebration

We were finally given our instructions to go to St. Catherine’s Hill to conclude the lessons of the Spring rites. I wondered why that day had been chosen, a week into the month of May, especially as the 1st of May has always been the traditional day for celebrating the Spring ritual. Perhaps it was because the sun was shining, or maybe it lay in the influence of the stars, or… who knows? I don’t question the instructions. I am simply the witness, the learner, the student.

On the drive there, having picked up a Freecycled chicken coop, I received messages about Mary Wollstonecraft, and the rise of Feminine power. I could feel this power. It was not the rise of women who used male power models as their own, but a true feminine power. However, I didn’t quite understand what this had to do with the Rites of May. I was still no clearer by the end of the day!

We parked along Five-Bridges Road and walked towards the River Itchen. It was important that we came from this direction, rather than the canal end, which was not only full of parked cars but also because the canal was man-made. But I knew, before we came, that we had to be close to the river. When we got to the bridge over the Itchen, it made sense. I had already been told to bring a bottle of water, for an essence, so when prompted, I opened the bottle.

As I stood watching the river flowing towards me, the clouds and blue skies reflected in the water, the fish symbol flowed into my centre (behind my navel). I saw a hand popping a young fish into the bottle I held in my hands. The fish is the symbol of male fertility as it flows through the water and on a previous earth-working with the river, Chris, Eartha and I had anchored that energy to the river from the Brooks centre in Winchester.

So, with bottle in hand, infused with the male energy of the river, we followed the path to St. Catherine’s Hill. It was a lovely sunny day and as we walked, I could smell nettles, Angelica, and May blossom. My sense of smell seemed more sensitive than usual, making the walk so much more pleasant. We stopped briefly at the canal lock where the water was rushing through it like a waterfall, creating a mist of cool moist air, then we made our way up the steps to St. Catherine’s Hill.

Chris had the remnants of a cold so he stayed beside the river while I headed upward to the summit. It isn’t a mountain, but it felt like one! My thigh muscles burned and my hip complained mightily, but I knew this had to be done if I wanted to understand the significance of the hill to our ancestors. I need to walk up hills more often!

As I reached the innermost bank, I saw the creative energy in the center of the hill, in the form of a dragon. I heard myself call the dragon awake and watched as it emerged from the ground beneath where the remains of St. Catherine’s Church lay. As the dragon pulled itself from the earth, it shook the soil from its great wings, surfacing eventually and taking flight above the hill. Its colour was a combination of gold and red, making it look nearly orange. I haven’t seen one this colour before, two colours combined in this way. It was beautiful. Once again, I heard myself call the dragons to awaken, to take flight, to soar in the air. This felt like a resurrection of sorts.

I walked towards the top of the hill, and into the beech tree copse which now had new Spring leaves open, creating shifting patterns on the floor below. I had an impulse to pour some of the Itchen water in my bottle onto the rise in the centre, bringing the fertile river, energetically, to the hill, connecting them both. I was told to infuse the water in my bottle with the energies of the hill and so I tuned in and watched to see the energies move into the water. Now, along with the fertility of the water, it also contained the heart of St, Catherine’s Hill.

An energy band came from the left of me, then another one came from the east. The western one was masculine and the eastern one, female. They flowed into me and then rose in twin columns high into the air, through my head, where they coiled upwards together like a candy-cane. I waited until that was stable and wandered around the top of the hill, but saw no more. Until, walking out of the clearing, I heard a woman’s voice say: ‘Join with us, sister.’

I turned to look back into the trees, and saw a circle of young women holding hands, and dancing in an anticlockwise direction around the centre of the hill. They were dressed in while linen and all had a circlet of May flowers around their heads.

Inside their circle, dancing in a clockwise direction, were the young men. Circles within circles, sunwise and widdershins. The pair who had been chosen to hold the creative energies for the year, and who represented the male and female energies of creation, appeared in the centre of the dancing circles. They did not participate in the dance but appeared to be ‘holding’ the energies that the dancers were building.  

When they had completed their dance, both groups of dancers moved in a line and took their place behind each of the pair, the girls in one line, the boys in another. Then they moved forwards, following their leader in a procession, separating once they had reached the outer limit of the hilltop. The girls moved east, and the boys west, still in a line, moving to the eastern and western bottom of the hill where they encircled the base of the hill and re-joined, taking the energy down to the flood-plain.

The rites were complete and they would spend the night feasting and celebrating.

Once I had witnessed this, I walked back towards the outer boundary, but glanced back towards the summit and saw a huge flame burning, the same colour as the dragon, red and gold. I heard the words: ‘the flame burns for another year’.

Reaching the inner bank of the hill, the dragon appeared again. It was only visible from the bank, for some reason, as I had not been aware of it while I was inside the trees. But now, it was large and alive, and I was told to open the essence bottle. This large dragon then popped a miniature version of itself into the water and once it was inside, I replaced the cap.

I returned to the river, where Chris was waiting, and we walked back the way we had come. When we were crossing the river again, I was instructed to pour some of this essence back into the water, completing the circle of fertility.

The most important aspect of this entire season’s learning, from February through to May was the marriage of water and earth. The Hill, the pregnant mound of the Mother, marries the water energies of the River to maintain the fertility of the land, so that food was assured for the coming season. In the past, the Itchen overflowed at certain of the years, bringing fertile silt from up-river. This reminds me of the Nile flooding, when rituals like this were also carried out at the Temple below the great pyramid. Many sacred Mother sites, to do with fertility, were connected to a river. Stonehenge, Stanton Drew, and of course, Winchester, etc.

The observance of these rites kept the energy flowing, each element dancing together. There was no sense of male energy, or female energy, being more important than the other, but a recognition of the necessary interplay between the two. To our detriment, we have lost this understanding but perhaps it is time we resurrected it, like the dragon.

Healing Essences.

I first began to make essences in 2006. At the time it came as a surprise and definitely a learning curve, but as you progress through the Gaia Method Earthways, you reach a point where you will be called to make essences as sacred sites yourself.

I have been making these essences for nearly twenty years and have built up quite a stock. They are used to access the ancestral wisdom of a site, or for healing issues that get in the way of your becoming your true self. They can raise your vibration, connect you to healing energies or to different elemental gifts, they can also be used to bring in the energies of ancient cultures and their ways of sacred living. Their uses are many and varied.

All the essences are made at sacred sites around the British Isles, Ireland, Iceland and Egypt and are infused by the knowledge, wisdom and healing of the Elemental Guardians of those places. They gift these energies to us in return for the service we give them in. There is a faery rule that nothing is given without there being something given in return. In helping the elementals of nature, we are given in return, their gifts of energy and insight.

I always carry a bottle of water with me because I never know when I am going to be invited to make an essence. At a sacred site, usually while doing energy-work, the site guardian will prompt me to take out the water and place it, either in my hands with the lid open, or on the ground or in the crook of a tree. Then I watch as the spirit of the place puts energies into the water. These can be their nature wisdom, dragon energies, solar fertility, or other energies that bring healing and knowledge. Sometimes too, portions of elemental energies also place their energy in the water and I have come to know these essences as a Genie in a Bottle.

I have built up quite a significant collection of these essences, which, like wine, grow in potency over time. Use them for personal use, or during healing sessions. They are particularly effective in sound healing. When you use them in a healing, such as Reiki, or meditation practice, they bring up issues around the energies of the essences. I am often prompted to use one, or two, during a healing or crystal reading session.

Spray yourself before going to a sacred site. I often dowse to see what energies I need or sometimes I hear the name of an essence pop into my head and I know I need that one.

There are a number of ways you can buy the essences. You can buy a 10ml spray bottle of stock essence, which is the most cost effective way and is also much cheaper in postage. Buying a couple at a time is even cheaper as you are only paying once for postage. If you buy them this way, you can buy your own bottles on Amazon and make the essences yourself. All you have to do is add a few drops from the stock bottle to another spray bottle and then add filtered or distilled water and some floral water, or even no scent at all. The stock bottles can last for quite some time so if you work with other people as a healer, and you want to give them an essence to help their healing process, you can do this easily.

If you want one bottle of essence already made up then they come in 30ml bottles, either glass, or plastic for travelling. As much as I did not want to use plastic, I could not find any bottles light enough to have in your pocket. But, they are recyclable. You can also reuse these bottles because I do not put the name of the essence on the bottle itself, so you can use it for any essence you want once it is empty.

Each spray bottle costs £10.99 each. (Postage within UK included)

10ml stock bottles are £7.00 each.

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