Part One. 4th June 25.

I had some time spare in early June so I went for a walk in Crab Wood outside Winchester. I wasn’t expecting to do any work, and I was only out of the car two minutes, having taken some photos of the ripening corn, when I felt a tree calling. Right at the corner of the woods beside the road. Great. Now. I’d have to pretend to be taking photos so I don’t look like a crazy person battling my way three times around a random, and not all that impressive, oak tree.

Once I had walked around it three times, and then stood against it, I made the heartwood connection. My consciousness connected to the branches, which feels like my mind is moving upwards so I am in the branches. Next, I moved away from the trunk, looked up, and with my hand on the bark, keeping that physical connection, I was instructed to make contact with two other trees close by. One was a fir tree and the other a beech. This was tricky because there was so much undergrowth.

I made the connection with the fir tree, then the beech, joining them together with a golden thread. This created a triangle, which was to become the foundation energy for something else. The something else, however, was at the other side of the woods.

I crossed the road and followed the path, not sure where I was supposed to be going. But I passed through a cloud of flying creatures that looked like fairies. They weren’t fairies, they were moths, as it turned out, but they are called Fairy Moths.

I continued along the path, still not sure where I was supposed to be going, but aware of the gold thread I was energetically carrying in my auric field. I followed my sense of direction, making choices at each junction on the path, feeling my way forward.

I spotted a young oak tree, some way along the path, and headed to that. Again, I had to walk around this tree three times and each time I saw the gold thread, or cord, wrapping around the trunk. This was followed by making the heartwood connection, front and back, and then touching my forehead to the bark, as I’d learned to do with the oaks on the Itchen Drove.

Once this tree was connected, I had to take it to another tree. I knew it was on the other side of the path I was walking but ended up going too far. I turned back and then saw the tree, nearly opposite the one I had just worked with. Before I found it, I felt the energy petering out as I wandered up the path, an indication I was moving further away from the tree I needed to get to. Like when you play that game ‘hot or cold’.

This oak I also had to walk around, but only once, again wrapping the gold cord around it to take somewhere else.

These are all young trees, and so far, all oak, except for the triad of trees on the other side of the woods. The next tree was further up the path, but I managed to pick some wild garlic on the way, which would shortly not be good enough to eat. The last tree was the anchor for this network, the end point. I walked around it three times, wrapping the gold cord around it as I went. This was the end of this circuit, and I still had no idea what it was about, or why I was doing it. But there was a definite start to the network, and a finish. The final tree stood beside a hazel copse which was still being harvested.

Once I had completed this circuit, I wandered down a different path and came to a beautiful, big ,old beech tree. This one had an energy but I knew the connection with it was not for today. So I wandered down another path making my way out of the woods.

I reached one part of the woods and felt an energy, then heard the familiar ‘welcome, daughter.’ This part of the woods felt alive in a different way, more alive, as though I had walked into another dimension. There was a guardian here who looked like a druid and who wore a crown of oak leaves. He was gentle, yet mischievous, and I felt like he knew me and that I knew him. The whole area he stood in was like a sphere of green, holding this space, and he told me to return here the next time.

Part two. 6th June 25.

The following week, Chris and I went back to Crab Wood to make that connection with him, but found ourselves connecting another tree network. We walked up the path within the green sphere, and I was aware of the druid person, but he was not communicating with us this time but watching us.

We passed a tree and immediately, we were at the start of a new network. This connected two oaks with an infinity symbol . We walked this infinity symbol three times around the trees, joining them together, one in each loop of the symbol. I was aware, at this stage, of the overall tree consciousness. How the trees communicated with each other, their collective energy.

Again, we preceded to the next tree, taking the energy of the initial connection with us but also taking that sense of tree-consciousness. They were all living in different parts of the woods but not connected energetically. They needed to be aware of each other, to be aware of themselves as part of a network of Living Trees.

We came to the next one and this time there were, again, three young oaks. We did the usual walk around. I began to feel that we were connecting these trees together in a particular way, like a telephone communications system. A network. But this network was not connected to the one I had done a few days earlier. Each one seemed to be separate, like a group. It also felt like a network of tree-people, the humans who work with tree consciousness. A living network. And yet each small grouping was anchored by one larger tree. Each network also had a different beginning point, a geometry, and an ending, with an anchor tree.

This network we were currently working on, was held within the sphere of the oak druid. I also knew, at this point, that the anchor tree for this network was to be the Mother Tree at Lainston House. My Mother Tree. An old Yew. We continued connecting the gold cord energy until we came to the perimeter of the green sphere and decided to have a potter before going to Lainston House. First, though, we had to go back to the anchor tree of my last visit. Nothing happened. So instead, we found our way to the lovely old beech of my last visit and this time the energy was big!

We made the connection with the heartwood symbol, standing with our backs against the trunk. My consciousness rose into the branches again and to the Diamond layer of the earth’s field. It was as though this diamond energy came down through the tree trunk and then flowed out through the heartwood symbol we had just activated. This allowed us to access that layer of the earth’s field and the ideas contained within it, These are the seed-thoughts from the mind of the Mother.

Next, we faced the tree, and the heartwood symbol came out the back of our heart centre. The energy was an orange-yellow. More dragony and coming from the lava layer beneath the earth, moving up into the tree as if this symbol was an aerial, accessing this fiery, creative energy. With our back to the tree, we accessed the diamond mind and its clear, precise inspired ideas for the world. With our back to the tree, we accessed the powerful creative energy of the earth. This gives form to the ideas coming in from the diamond layer. Without this creative, fiery energy, the ideas would remain in the mind and never be birthed into physical reality. We did not know it at the time, but we were being given an attunement that would make sense when we created another network in Andover, a few weeks later.

Once again, we made the third eye connection to the tree, the third part of the process shared with us by the oak. This connected us to the entity that resided within the tree, which reminded me of the Enid Blyton books, which comes up a lot when doing this work! He looked like a Brian Froud gnome, the elemental energy of the tree consciousness.

‘Take our stories’. The tree then communicated to us. ‘Spread them far and wide, like seeds.’ We had received this message before, in Farleigh Mount when we first met the guardian there. Instead of a gold cord around this tree, however, there was a gold chain to take with us.

Back up at the original oak-anchor, we facde the sun and filled our auric fields with its energy, through our solar column, the channel through which we bring in solar light. This column is an energy column specifically for bringing in solar light. The sun filled it up and also filled the carnelian crystal I’d been wearing and which I had activated with solar light, and a dragon energy, earlier in the month. The solar light was white so the whole body was infused with it.

I then saw a fairy trumpet. Long and thin with a wide open end. The sounds that came out of this trumpet came as colour which then bounced off the plants and trees, creating an orchestra of sound and colour. Because the trees had been coppiced, they needed light and energy again, so they could grow back whole. It renewed them energetically, like a message to tell them they were OK, and to keep going. A little plant support for trees which had been cut back nearly to the ground, leaving only stools behind.

The musical notes, as colour, were to reassure the trees that they were OK. It energetically, infusing them with the will to live, to grow back. Healing the trauma. This fairy trumpet was a gift indeed!

As we walked back to the car, I touched a few trees we had not worked with on our way up to the old beech tree, but as I did, I saw the gnome energy in them again. This kept happening until I understood that the gnome energy was travelling in the trees, watching us as we walked down the woodland paths. They moved their consciousness within the consciousness of each tree, able shift their energy from one to another without being seen. Very secretive. Because we had connected to the one in the Beech tree, we could now see them. Each culture would see these energies their own way. I see them as Froudian, because I love his art and his portrayals always felt more real to me.

Now, when we re-entered the green sphere, we picked up all the gold cords from the trees we had worked with. It was like holding a bunch of balloons, the cords of which needed to be brought to the Lainston yew tree.

We drove the couple of miles, to the other side of Sparsholt village to where the Yew grows.

At the woodland, that runs alongside the Lime-tree avenue to Lainston House, I was still aware of the gold cords from Crab Wood. I walked around the Tree, which was always my Mother Tree (We all have one) and wrapped the gold cords around her trunk, three times, so she was the mother to them. When I first connected to her, over twenty years ago, she had told me that she was the mother to all the trees around her -she was hundreds of years older than them – and that she fed each one energetically. This was years before the idea of mycelium came into the public mind. She was way ahead of us. This wonderful old yew was the main transmitting station, she said, for all the trees around her and now for the ones in Crab Wood as well.

But now she wanted us to make an essence, so we placed the bottle at her roots. She then extended her energy, out from her trunk, to bring us into her field, so we were within her etheric body. We also touched her trunk so that we were aware of her solidity, her physical presence. This was important. She was making us aware of the physical body and the etheric body together. She said that although she has an energetic presence, just as we do, her physical presence is what makes her accessible to us. Taking care of the physical body therefore, was really important. Without this physical body we could not affect the physical world.

I saw her pour drops of sap into the bottle and this was like thick nectar. It was about nutrition, about nurturing ourselves through natural substances, not processed foods, allowing the energies of nature to sustain us, physically. When we eat these natural foods, healthy and clean foods, we too will become healthy and clean. We are what we eat. Pulling up the nutrition from the soil, as the tree does, we become the healthy tree-people. She also suggested using tree sugars and honey (raw) as our sweeteners. She reiterated, allow nature to sustain us physically.

In her etheric field, we were being changed too – to become more sensitive to the foods that are not good for us. Instead, going to foods which are gentler, kinder. Man-made produce is harsh and rough to the system, she said, but eating foods that are not processed resonates with our bodies. So her gift to us, through her etheric field and the essence, was the ability to tell which foods were good for us and which made us ill. Eating the right foods would make us strong like her and well able to live to a ripe old age, just as she was doing.

We were to take the essence orally, every day, to make us think like trees and only take in what is good for us. The Gift of nutrition, so we would resonate with tree energy and and know what was good for us. Well, after all this, the inevitable happened. I had to give my orange carnelian crystal point, that I had activated with the crystal dragon weeks before, to her, burying it in her roots. A gift for a gift. But she was not finished. Little diamonds were placed in the essence, once I had given her the gift, and they represented a trickle of her ideas. I looked forward to using that one!