Further to the four gifts of the Tuatha de Danann, there are three musical instruments. The Harp, the Pipe and the Drum. Later, once you become experienced working in the Sidhe sphere, you will be given a calling horn. The horn is a decorated cow’s horn that calls the Sidhe to you. This is only given after you have worked with the three musical instruments for some time and have enough experience working with the Sidhe and their sacred spaces.

The three gifts are associated with the three worlds, or levels of creations. The pipe relates to air (as noted by a gifted GME healer), and the sky. It is aligned to the mental body of the collective unconscious and how it relates to nature. The harp relates to the middle world of plants and vegetation, the world we live on and which we experience physically and emotionally; the drum relates to the earth beneath our feet, and which resounds deeply to the rhythms of the centre of the planet, and ourselves.

You can receive these gifts at any point, sometimes all together, and sometimes as a single instrument. Each instrument has its own energetic function, some more obvious than others. I will start with the one that had the biggest impact, for me, in terms of how it is used. This is the Flute/Pipe. I first received this gift at Wistman’s Wood, in Cornwall, and this is the communication I received while sitting on a moss-covered rock in the woods on the 23rd September 2005.

“We welcome you to our realm. We are the Faery host collectively known as the ‘Shining Ones’. We have brought you here today to partake of our energies and knowledge. The trees you sit beneath are our kin and they share their existence with you. Humanity does not acknowledge the gifts which the trees bring to your world. We offer you a potion, made of wild red berries and white, dipped in honey and made into a magical drink. Henceforth you will be known to us by the name of Deirdre, for you carry the knowledge of the wildwoods and the Faery places.

Bring only those who are attuned to our energies, as many do not understand our work, seeing us as merely a race of mythical beings. However, we do exist and it is through us that your world has continued to live, even though your people work against us. Bring back the awareness of this symbiotic relationship and do your best to accommodate our teachings and practices. This is achievable and workable. We leave you now to continue your heartfelt journey. Drink the potion and endeavour to live a good life, in harmony with nature.

 Farewell sister. We have a gift for you to take to humanity, the gift of the silver flute. You will know how and when to use it.

The Pipe is used to create to places of sanctuary, and nature and shortly after, I learned what it was for. I went to New York. My guides had told me to go and that I had work to do at the World Trade Centre site. This work turned out not to be what I expected. While I sat in the little church across from the site, I tuned in and immediately saw a geodesic dome form around the entire site. I saw the pipe and the symbols of musical notes floating towards it and as each note hit one of the polygonal facets it lit up and changed colour. Soon there was a pattern of coloured facets and I saw the inside of the dome becoming like a garden of Eden, filled with greenery; a healing place. At the time, I thought, ‘Well, that’s never going to happen’, because I thought they would simply rebuild over the site.

I forgot all about it. A few years later, my friend Cheryl told me, without realising, that they had created a memorial garden there. I could not believe it. It reminded me of the potency and power of these wonderful energies and what can be achieved when we carry these energies and allow them to work through us, doing what is needed. It also taught me that my mind does not always know and that sometimes miracles do happen.

The Harp is the one I use the most. Not out of conscious choice, but from the elemental needs of the moment. I have written about some of the uses of this instrument on another page so will cover its earthwork uses here. When there is a particular need for the frequencies of the harp, you will be asked to choose which coloured string you want to work with. The string will indicate the energies you are going to anchor in the landscape. Again, it is your higher consciousness that chooses because we, as personalities, have no clue what any of it means, half the time.

For the first four years of my time back in the UK, from 2020 to 2024, I have been working with the red string. This involved laying a line of red light, which looked like a red ribbon, along the South coast from Worthing to Bournemouth. Chris and I did this in increments, anchoring the first part of the line/cord in Worthing by attaching it to twin Hathor pillars and then on subsequent visits, anchoring another part, along the next part of the coast and on until we reached Bournemouth, which I did with my daughter Hana. Often the red strings/ribbons were anchored around a pillar, so that it looked like a barber’s pole. This symbolises healing. The surgeons of medieval England, in their tents beside a battlefield, wrapped a bloodied rag around a white pole as a sign to others that ‘in this tent there is a surgeon’. They were known as Barber-surgeons because they fulfilled both roles.

So on that stretch of the south coast there is an energetic signal that declares to a world in pain that healing is available here. Hathor is the Goddess of Love and her priestesses used sound as a way to connect to the Divine, so this makes sense when a string from the harp is used to heal others.

The pillars and poles along the coast were of varying height and width, each composed of a different energetic function. We don’t always know why we are doing what we are doing, but we trust the process, knowing that someone does.

In laying these lines we are creating healing sanctuaries along the coast, a place of safety for others. I did the same by the Red Sea from Makadi Bay to El Gouna. With what is happening now in the Middle East, this makes sense, providing protection and healing for the energy lines we anchored through Egypt and providing a barrier to those energies.

The harp also sends lines of light/sound through the lines of force which make up the spider energies, healing that which has been charged and released.

The drum has not shown up so often but when it does it is interesting. A Sidhe Being shows up with this and shows us how to beat the drum and how many times. It is energetic, but we see it happening. The resonance goes into the earth, deep into the layers of geological time, into caverns and caves. Back into a time when other evolutionary people lived. The sound travels into the past, to when grains of sand were once mighty mountains. Where memories of those ancient times can be retrieved for the benefit of us here – now. It reminds me of the LOTR and ‘drums in the deep’.

The drum helps us to communicate with the ancient past and the beings who lived in it. The earth has things to teach us about how those ancient people lived and how they stabilised their world after upheavals and earthquakes. Those memories remain in the earth, and can be shaken out by this instrument. Knowledge we can use in our present time is available when we know how to use the drum. In using it, we are utilising vibrational information, just as our human ancestors used drums to send messages and to tell stories.

In working with the drum, you are also working with the chakra points those ancient people once worked with, and which now lie buried deep in the earth. Sometimes, you can access these chakra points, or vortices, in caves or caverns and you will feel it as you pass through. But, often these vortices are deep in the rock and are inaccessible, but with the drum they become accessible. The drum allows to connect with the deep earth vortices and to work with them on that level. The instrument acts as a guide to those places so it is not something you are even conscious of. It simply happens.

The last gift is one that is given when you are ready to work with the Sidhe – at that level – and you will not know you are ready until they tell you. The reason for that is because the horn is the instrument that calls them, that gathers them together and which calls others to receive the attunements when they are ready to receive them.

Once you have received this gift, it is your consciousness that calls to them. It also shows the secretive Sidhe that you are one of them, and they will work closely with you, when you vist one of their places. They will know you have passed the tests they set for you, and that you are capable of working with them on behalf of both their consciousness, and that of the planet’s. They see into your heart, seeing your intention, and they gift their instruments when they see you are ready for them and that you have the necessary sense of service and trust to use them wisely.

Sometimes these gifts are given singly in an attunement, and at other times, they are all given together, especially if you are at a faery site. But when you have them all in your auric field, they work as and when they need to. You are the witness to it all and yet you have to be physically present for the gifts to be worked. They are in your field, and your Higher Self, (your faery self), will activate them when they are needed.