Gaia’s Energy Field: The Nine Crystalline Bands Explained.

December 30, 2025December 29, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

As a Gaia Method Earthways Healer, you learn to work within layers of the earth’s crystalline field. Three are below ground: the deep iron core; the liquid outer core, and the water that runs in the earth’s crust as rivers, aquifers, etc. These three layers are the energies that form quartz.

Most quartz forms in either igneous rock (formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava) or in environments with geothermal waters. It contains the creative energy of the Earth. It also has a consciousness, a collective field of awareness, an elemental energy. Moving to the surface of the Earth, the energies of the Mother become more crystalline in energy, as if she is using the creative energies of lava and water in their crystalline form and extending them around herself in a body of crystalline light.

The following is a channelling I received last year about crystal energy:

Crystals are encoded with the energy of creation. Used as transmitters, modifiers, harmonisers, and balancers, they regulate the crystalline energy of Human consciousness, especially when we, as humans, are aligned with the Earth’s purpose and Being. Crystals allow a certain vibration, or information frequency, to be transmitted through the airwaves to the receiver. Crystals formed as the Earth formed over millions of years and therefore hold the energetic memory of Earth’s creation. They are the perfect transmitters of that frequency.

Because we, too, are all made from the Earth, crystals help us anchor our higher awareness into the physical body, keeping us fully anchored in space and time, just as stone circles do in certain locations. If you were to imagine that you were a crystal, that inside you are crystalline. You could pick up the energy vibrations of the Earth, translating them into other frequencies which the mind, body and emotional bodies could receive. As a crystal, you would be in constant contact with every other crystal in the world and could petition your crystal family for extra help when needed, such as when you needed more clarity of purpose. Your crystal family would help and support your endeavours, especially when you are working deep in the layers of humanity and the Earth. The crystals keep us clearly focused on what we must do, and therefore, as long as we maintain that connection, all will be well.

The Crystalline layers.

The first three layers, which are beneath the surface of the earth, are:

1) The Black Core of the Earth. This often appears as dense black and is the magnetic centre of the planet. In terms of the dragon dimension, this is represented by the Black Dragon and the black dragon lines, and is the domain of the red and black spider.

2) The Red Lava layer. This is the layer of fire energies, the liquid layer of the planet. The Red Dragon and the red energy lines are part of this layer and are also part of the red and black spider energies. Each layer works within other dimensions, each of which affects the other. The red and black energy lines are the red and black spider and form her lines of silken web. The twin energies of Earth’s creation, the twin dragons, are the creative energies of the lava and the core. Those energies can move to the surface of the Earth, like lava flowing from a volcano.

3) The Blue Water layer. This is the water that comes from above, and that has seeped deep into the earth, creating underground lakes and rivers. In the dragon dimension, the blue dragon is active here. It comes to the world as rain and soaks through the soil and rock, creating underground lakes and streams. It is a primal creative energy, but one that comes from the Earth’s atmosphere rather than from within the Earth itself. Like the infinity symbol, the blue dragon flows from the skies to the Earth and back again in a cycle. As underground water, the blue layer is also a creative energy. The combination of lava and water creates land.

Those are the primal, physical creation energies of the planet, from which all that we know is born. Once we arrive on the surface of the Earth, the frequencies change to crystalline frequencies. The physical manifestations of Earth’s creative forces.

4) The fourth band is Emerald (the Green Dragon in the Dragon dimension) and contains the surface of the earth and all its vegetation, including trees. It is the energy of growth, of life and all growing things. This is the band that still contains the creative energy of the lower three layers, but where it shifts to crystalline. It is as if the crystalline bands support the earth. The inner level energy expands into the outer levels. These higher frequencies are the energetic forces of the higher aspects of Mother Earth.

5) The Ruby layer. The layer of the Mother’s Divine Love is akin to her emotional body. The ruby band provides access to the crystalline love of Mother Earth, bringing it to earth in certain locations that serve as receptacles for this energy. The ruby/magenta energy then travels through the earth grid, connecting to other sites. It is a higher level of love that feeds and nurtures the world reminding us of the Mother’s Love.

6) At the upper edge of the ruby band, there is a thinner sapphire layer. This is the masculine energy of the Mother’s heart. It is an active principle with a more focused masculine intent. It provides a bridge between the Ruby and the next band, the Diamond.

7) The Diamond band. This is the layer of pure thought. It is a fifth-dimensional energy. It is the realm of NOW; of the present moment, where all things come into being. At this level, you exist outside time and space. Your thoughts are now in the fifth dimension where you have access to the seed thoughts for humanity. The soul of humanity can anchor the new thought-forms from this diamond layer into the collective when it’s time for more extensive development, such as now.

8) The Amethyst Layer. This energetic layer is of a soft lilac light. Its frequency is of a much finer vibration, like a sparkling clear gem. It is above the Diamond layer and contains the highest thought-forms for humanity’s spiritual development. The spiritual thoughts of Mother Earth. Compassion, caring, gentleness.

9) Yellow Topaz. This is the solar realm, the energy of solar radiation, which affects the vibration of the Earth. It is the highest level of the Earth’s crystalline body and the overlighting energy of the Source, bathing the Earth and all humanity in divine energy, helping them to grow into their divine Beingness. It is joy and abundance, and feeds the earth and all living things with its light.

When you work at sacred sites, you may see a band energetically represented by the crystal of that band. It will hover above the site you are working on. When I worked with the burial mounds near the cursus at Stonehenge, I remember seeing this for the first time. Above one of the larger mounds, an amethyst crystal appeared, which told me that whatever we were doing energetically brought that level of energy into our 3rd-dimensional realm. The energy present in the barrow also showed me its connection to that layer.

Sometimes, especially with the ruby layer, which begins just above the level of the trees, you may see it as a wide magenta band above the site. Or, such as at Uffington, you might find yourself in the band. There is a reason many sacred sites were constructed in high places. They were accessing those frequencies, accessing the thoughts of the Mother and sending those thoughts out through the ether to affect mankind’s thinking. Balance is always the way, and without these places and the people who live and work within them, things might be very different.

One thing we discovered when working in Banjo enclosures (Iron Age settlement sites) is that at the end of the avenue of each one, there is an energy vortex which connects directly to the magenta/Ruby layer. That energy then feeds up the avenue to fill the circular settlement. They are little sites of Mother Love. Some sites, such as hillforts, were often created within that band. Living in such a place, there was no sense of lack. This can still be experienced if you travel to sites that are within this Ruby band.

This can also happen in waterways. Certain crystalline frequencies can be anchored above them. The energy is then transmitted through the water.

One of the lovely things we discovered was that trees, in the emerald layer, often act as anchors for these crystalline bands. They hold the energy of that layer in a sphere and then transmit the energy into the surrounding countryside. They work together like telegraph poles, transmitting the information and crystalline frequencies in a joined network.

These bands can also be anchored in a Merkaba above the area they want to influence. Again, they will simply appear in your mind’s eye in that area. I remember, while still living in Luxor, seeing a diamond Merkaba hovering above the canal by the bridge in Qurna, on the West Bank. I thought it was an odd place for one to appear until I learned that the bridge was built above one of the ancient pylons from the Temple of Seti the First. When the builders of the bridge discovered the stone blocks, they quickly covered them up! But the energy was still there, and it knew exactly where things needed to be anchored.

Another way you might find yourself anchoring different layers is with the Was sceptre, if you have been attuned to it.

The head of this power object moves into one of the crystalline layers, often to anchor a flame of a particular colour. It moves down from that layer, through the flame, and then into the ground beneath it, acting as an anchor to one of the earth levels: core, lava or water. The flames are also creation energies, and all dimensions intermingle; they all work together.

Trees often act as anchors for these crystalline layers and communicate energetically with each other, transmitting information like telegraph poles. You may find that when working with trees that you find yourself bringing down a crystalline sphere which the tree will hold and channel into the atmosphere around it. This can happen with any of the crystalline bands. You may also find that more than more than one band is anchored.

There are so many ways that these crystalline bands can be brought to earth and so many ways they influence our thinking. In working with the crystalline field in this way you are effectively influencing the future development of humanity and of the planet. Stay open to the call, that urge you get to go visit a place. There might be a very good reason and it may be that there is work to do in the layers of the earth’s field. Learning to trust yourself is the biggest lesson. But the earth will teach you everything you need to know.

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.

I love this work!

If you are interested in the essence you can find it here.

Dragon Essences.

November 21, 2024March 30, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

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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.

£11.99

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.

£1.99

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 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.

£11.99