Ireland

I first received the emerald green Brigit cloak while living in Ireland in 2008. At the time, I was living in an old Protestant church in Ullard, (this link takes you to a talk given by my great grandfather in the early 1900’s) a site famous for another church dedicated to St. Fiacre. Our church home was once called The First Fruits Church of Ireland, and was built c.1800. We lived close to St. Fiacre’s where there were three bullaun stones (used for grinding wheat) and a well, which the locals dressed once a year, walking around it seven times, sunwise.

I suppose I had to receive it in the land which conceived it, to take the energy of the land of the Goddess Brigit with me. Two months later we were back in the UK. When I received the cloak I did not know we would be leaving. But when I was given the cloak, I also experienced something which explains a little more about it Here is the journal entry I wrote on the 5th April 2008:

“I felt a feeling in my stomach and knew I needed to do some work, somewhere! I went into the writing room in the tower and tuned in. The connection ran up and down through me and my feet grew roots which went deeply into the earth. A new template moved through me and a Brigit energy came down and was placed around my shoulders. The cloak was green. Then I was told I needed a new staff and I found myself holding one of silver birch. I called in the Lords of Light and found myself reaching up and pulling down a gold cord. I continued to pull it down. It went through me and coiled up behind my navel.

“After a few minutes, I felt the urge to hold my hands in front of my belly and as I did a womb came out of my navel which I supported in my hands. It was still attached to me, as though it were mine. Then I saw hands appear in front of me and they opened up the womb. Out of it slithered many baby snakes and one very large one, like a fully grown python. The baby snakes were all wriggling around each other and they began to separate and go off into the serpent channels in the earth, leaving the large one. It then began to move, down through the church, and into the ground way below the tower. First, it created a resting place for itself and then continued into the sandy layers of the ancient lands which lie beneath us. There was an underground water channel which the snake began to follow by swimming along it. It seems to move within a certain ‘territory’ but has its resting place, or lair, beneath the church tower. My ‘womb’ was then sewn up and placed back behind my navel. The symbol of protection, the cross in the circle, was once again placed over it.

Then I became aware of myself again, standing in my green cloak, and holding my silver-birch staff. I was instructed to strike the ground three times and when I had, it had the effect of ‘opening’ up the stones of the church. Musical notes began to emerge from the stones and fill the church with the sounds of creation and healing.”

That particular energy transmission gave me the cloak of Brigit, and facilitated the rebirth of the snakes which had traditionally been banished by St. Patrick. The snakes are the ancient ways, the serpent knowledge and the ‘pagan’ rituals connected to the fertility of the earth. Brigit’s energetic cloak is that part of the ancient knowledge of the Goddess and her connection to the land.

It is not confined to Ireland, however. The serpent knowledge, known and worked with in sacred rites around the world for many centuries, is returning. Those people who feel the call of the land and of the goddess are also returning.

Over time, the Goddess Brigit became Saint Bridget and there is a story about her and her ‘Brat’, or cloak. In Irish it is called Brat Bhride (brat Breed).

“St. Brigid’s Cloak: St. Brigid went to the King of Leinster to ask for land to build a convent. She told the king that the place where she stood was the perfect place for a convent. It was beside a forest where they could collect firewood. There was also a lake nearby that would provide water and the land was fertile. The king laughed at her and refused to give her any land. Brigid prayed to God and asked him to soften the king’s heart. Then she smiled at the king and said “will you give me as much land as my cloak will cover?” The king thought that she was joking and because Brigid’s cloak was so small he knew that it would only cover a very small piece of land. The king agreed and Brigid spread her cloak on the ground. She asked her four friends to hold a corner of the cloak and walk in opposite directions. The four friends walked north, south, east and west. The cloak grew immediately and began to cover many acres of land. The king was astonished and he realized that she had been blessed by God. The king fell to the ground and knelt before Brigid and promised her and her friends money, food and supplies. Soon afterwards, the king became a Christian and also started to help the poor. Brigid’s miracle of the cloak was the first of many miracles that she worked for the people of Ireland.” (https://www.stbrigid.ie/story-of-st-brigid.html)

Having the cloak of Brigit in your auric field gives you the ability to claim land for the Goddess. To return the awareness of the serpents and their fertility to the collective conscious of whatever country you live in. The land you work with is your sacred territory and where you do your own layering of energy. This can be in multiple places, in any place in the world but where they need the rebuilding of the sacred feminine energies. It acts like a carpet of green grass, fertile and lush, a land nurtured by you.

Once it is anchored in your auric field it guides you itself. You may not know it is doing it, but you will find certain territories opening up, places you return to again and again, to activate over time. You can spend many years, sometimes with gaps of time in between where you do nothing to the site, but when an activation is necessary you will feel the call to return there.

Sometimes too, you will be very aware that the cloak is being used and you will see it being laid over a sacred site, like a blanket. We recently did this on Flowerdown Barrow in Littleton, Winchester, UK. The frequencies of this cloak offer you the same protection as it does the land. And the awareness that the land is the source of fertility and life.

When you receive the cloak, you may also receive other energies, such as the Brigit cross, or any other energy your guides feel would be useful to you on your journey. As with all attunements, I record the session, which is usually about an hour long and when you listen to it the energies are anchored in your auric field.

Attunement to the Brigit Cloak.

Anchors the green frequency cloak into your energy field.

£45.00

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The Tuatha De Danaan are a race of people traditionally known as the faery folk of Ireland. They are said to reside in burial mounds and long barrows, and deep under the earth; places which are both physical and liminal. The stories tell us that they came from islands north of Ireland and that when they came, they brought their skills and arts with them, including a belief in the Great Mother. They also brought a magical tool from each of the four great cities they had left behind and when they arrived on Ireland’s shores, they burned their boats ensuring there was no possibility of return to their own country. (see info below about Dorset Cursus).

When I first began to receive the Gaia Method Earthways system of healing my first elemental contact, after my tree experience, was with elemental Beings who called themselves the Tuatha De Danann. They appeared as very tall, slim beings who were fairylike but also human with pale skin and long hair. I think the best representation of them is in the art of Brian Froud.

At first, they watched me from a distance, staying behind trees and appearing out of the woods only to pop back in again when I tried to communicate with them. It was as if they were trying to determine whether I could be trusted, or not. Soon, however, I was assigned a guide from these beings, another gatekeeper, who gave me access into the world of the Elemental Beings, or Sidhe (pronounced shee).

The more I interacted with these beings, the more I learned. They live in a world of nature and yet our human history tells us that they were once human. My own understanding is that they were a race of beings who came to Ireland with their beliefs in the Great Mother. But with the coming of other races, namely the Celtic peoples from the Steppes, with their horses, iron weapons and warlike ways, the ways and beliefs of the people of the Goddess went ‘underground’, to preserve the knowledge of the earth and its energy grids.

Today we know them as the Sidhe. The old stories of how the Irish ‘fairy folk’ can not abide the dense vibration of Iron attests to this possibility. It is well known among the Irish that iron can kill a fairy being. The Celtic peoples brought iron-working with them, and a vastly different belief system, so for me, this story makes sense. The knowledge of Iron-working did indeed kill the softer beliefs of the Bronze Age inhabitants of Ireland and of the British Isles.

Yet, as collective energies, they still exist on other dimensional levels, at least their collective wisdom still exists. They, as the Sidhe, now choose to assist humanity, training them to use the land and its magic and to expand into other realms. They became the stuff of legend and myth, but their energies remain in the collective unconscious.

Slowly they gave me information about who they had once been.

One early piece of information was whilst working at the Dorset Cursus, an ancient Neolithic route that stretches for miles across the Dorset landscape. At one end of the cursus, there is a mound and when I stood on this mound, it felt like I was standing on an upturned boat. Then I began to receive images of people coming to Britain to escape a flood that had destroyed their homelands, thousands of years ago.

Travelling in boats, these people took their belief in the Great Mother with them, establishing an entire network of Mother-focussed settlements. I hear the ancestors clairaudiently and this is what they said: “We built them to stabilise the imbalance which had resulted from the catastrophe that caused the flooding.” As soon as I got home, I tried to find information about this flooding. It felt like it had happened somewhere in the Mediterranean. Seven thousand years ago, the Mediterranean did indeed flood. Before it was a sea it was a river delta but the melting of the ice, at the end of the ice age, broke through the land barrier between Spain and Africa creating the sea.

It had taken them time to come to England’s shores. It too was recovering after the retreating of the ice, and only hunter-gatherers, Mesolithic people, lived here, close to the sea’s edge. But these newcomers established their colonies, and their beliefs, using their knowledge to re-establish planetary balance. It took many years for the land to become workable and, thanks to their energetic assistance, England became fertile enough for the farmers to grow crops and keep animals, rather than existing off the produce of the sea, as the Mesolithic people had done.

They built Megalithic structures, just as they had around the Mediterranean; energetic complexes like giant Motherboards created on and in the landscape; a Motherboard that still exists and which we are now rediscovering.

When I was researching this event and the megalithic culture, I discovered that the people who built these structures carried the I2 haplogroup in their DNA and that they had displaced the earlier inhabitants who had a different genetic inheritance. This came as a surprise to me because the I2 haplogroup is also mine. But then I thought, perhaps that is why I can tap into this knowledge. Because they really are my ancestors. They could also be yours.

Bronze Age Round Barrow, Micheldever Woods, Winchester.

Later, that I2 haplogroup was displaced by another people of a different haplogroup: the Beaker People. Although genetic history has come to the conclusion that the beaker people ousted the megalithic builders, in my experience they also worked with the energetic network in the landscape, albeit in a slightly different way. Their beliefs were still Mother-focussed. For instance, they built burial mounds in many shapes and sizes; the person buried there becoming the guardian of that energy point. In Ireland, these places are still thought of today as places of the Sidhe (Shee). The portals, however, are in the older megalithic structures like Newgrange, Knowth and Stonehenge and the many henges around the British Isles. These remain portals into the Mother’s world, places where the forces of solar fertility meet the seed of the Mother’s creations.

In every culture, there are the Ancient Ones, the memories and knowledge held by the people who first worked with it. In Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the Tuatha De Danaan are the Wisdom Keepers, and you can access their knowledge by working with their ‘layer’ of history. It is a form of energetic archaeology.

The awareness of the earth as Mother existed for many years but with the coming of the more war-like ‘Celtic’ peoples from the Steppes, the beliefs were eroded and went underground, back into the mounds and sacred places The ‘knowledge’ of the Goddess people had to become secret, or at least less visible, to protect it. It was encoded in the myths, and stories they told each other preserving, in art and writing, the knowledge of how to keep the earth in balance.

Over time, the knowledge contained in the stories was lost, but now it is returning. All the stories and myths have a truth hidden in them, if you look hard enough. New stories are also being written; stories that hold the codes and keys to the knowledge of the ancestors and the Tuatha de Danann, the People of The Goddess. Many are remembering.

The world needs rebalancing once again which is why this knowledge is returning. Many people with ancestry in the British Isles and Ireland have this memory in their cells. It only needs reactivating to access it. Your guides are only too willing for you to ask them, and you will receive the knowledge if you really want it. It is the sincere desire to know something that opens the door to receiving.

Film of the round barrow in Micheldever Woods by Chris Bishop.