Keys and Gateways. Micheldever. 2025

June 12, 2025May 26, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

The bluebells are out and it was time to join the hordes of people going to see them in Micheldever woods. (Outside Winchester). Although, we weren’t going just to see the bluebells. We were going to visit the Banjo enclosure we had only recently discovered. Well, we did not discover it. It was discovered during an archaeological survey of the woods, but we only learned of it recently.

To get to that Banjo enclosure you have to go through the big one that is protected and as soon as we reached it, we were impulsed to go to the entrance of the banjo, down its ‘avenue’, to the energy point. All Banjos we have worked with have this point, either at the centre of the opening to the avenue or just below.

The point at the end of this avenue connects up to the Magenta layer. This is the Ruby, in the crystalline layer of the planet, and Love pours down into this point, and then into the Banjo which holds the rose energy of Feminine Love. Standing here, an image of the banjo came into my mind in its entirety, but I was shown that it was a key. The entire Banjo is a key in the landscape, opening up to another level. For this Banjo it opens up to the Ruby layer of Gaia’s emotional body, her love for humanity.

Each Banjo enclosure, or landscape key, opens to another dimension. And I don’t think that it is only these enclosures that are landscape keys, because I remember walking the mizmaze on St. Catherine’s Hill many years ago, and as I did the energy of the hill opened up. I had been ‘instructed’ to walk the maze and it was only as I came to the end of the walk, that I understood it was a key to the energy of the site. We have been working with that hill ever since.

So here we were with another key and this time we were making an essence of that energy. The ‘key’ created a reciprocal flow of energy. It opens to the other dimension but also allows the flow from that dimension into the Banjo and hence into the landscape. The banjo then acts as a womb, just like many hill-forts, holding energies. The essence of the Key also opens the user to being able to open other closed sites so they can then function as they were designed to. It puts the user in resonance, and the energy body then is the key too. So it works on multiple levels.

When I first began to work with Banjo Enclosures, Coldridge Banjo Enclosure was my key-opener. I was doing an archaeological survey of the Banjo and of the Roman villa site nearby (you’ll often find them close to each other) Once I had worked with that sacred site/settlement, I was able to work with all of them. Chris saw this key as a gold key, which indicated the frequency of gold. He also saw this key as a sound frequency, a note, which I was shown as a piano keyboard. Multiple sounds. The notes were also colours. Each ‘key’ on the piano corresponding to a colour.

For this Banjo, it was the Ruby Red. But also gold. Which are the two frequencies we have been seeing a lot lately! But there was also a blue energy present.

We left his point then and proceeded to the other Banjo. Every time we visit one of these places, we open to their energy more, and learn more each time. As we walked the trackway that cuts through the banjo I looked to my left and saw two tall trees within it. I immediately saw it was a gateway. But we were on the wrong side of it. We walked around to the other side of the trees. I was aware that as we walked we were walking from a small sphere of activity to a much larger one as though we were going to be expanding in some way. Moving into another reality. Moving out of the fish bowl, but we needed to pause before going through the gateway, taking a breather, so that when we stepped through we stepped through with awareness, with intention.

This is often how moving through an energetic gateway works. Often the gateway is formed of two trees. But not always. Once we become aware of them, and it only happens in the moment, we walk between them. We paused, then moved forward with intention. There is a sense of importance in that pause, that moment of knowing that when we walk through the energetic gateway, our vibration will be different and we will have initiated new events.

Chris felt that we would be expanding into Europe, into a bigger sphere of work, and travel. We have already done work in France, the U.S. and in Spain, and in Iceland, but this expansion was more than that. As if we would be working bigger, with more energy. There was also the sense of less, clearing everything unnecessary, honing things down. On the other side of the gateway, there was the impression of a castle, a place we would visit. It looked like the remains of one of its corner turrets. We would be going back into time. There was a crusader element to this, and a King Richard energy.

Stepping through we had to stop as we had moved through and into the bigger bubble. Yet, there was still a time of unsurety before we found our way to the right road. It might take us time, but we would find our way in this new terrain. A whole new path. It felt medieval to Chris.

Once back ‘on track’ we headed towards the smaller, more obscure Banjo enclosure further down the trackway (the track cuts right through it). From a distance, we were aware of two beings waiting for us. To my mind’s eye, they looked like an old bearded man, and a younger teenage girl but dressed in clothes like people in Lord of the Rings. We often see them like this. It’s how the unconscious mind clothes them, so that we recognise their origin.

As we approached, they were giving us the impression of a letter, a communication. This letter was something we needed to take to someone else, or someplace else. France/Spain came in. The Bronze age settlements there. Getting to the site the energy filled us, like an umbilical connection, drawing us deeper into its sphere of energy. This was like the site’s influence but it was contained. As you walk through the outer membrane, and into the sphere, you resonate with the site’s energy and can access the knowledge there. This was a new experience. Maybe because it was a small Banjo enclosure.

We stepped into the trees to the left which felt Elven and beautiful, as though we had stepped into a fairy realm. The energy of this Banjo was the same as the one in Itchen woods. But it was only when we were in the trees that it felt so fairy-ish. Now it was time to communicate with the two spirit people who had drawn us there. The man instructed me to open the essence we had made in the avenue of the big banjo and when I did he dipped a letter into it. A written letter. This was to infuse the letter, which was sealed, with the energy keys of the big Banjo. It reminded me of people in the past infusing their letter with perfume to remind the recipient of the writer’s essence. When we, or anyone else who uses the essence, visits another site the energies there will recognise it.

There is some kind of communication then between both sites. It felt like Carnac, in France. Some correspondence between the two places. Next, the young girl placed some Herkimer diamonds in the bottle. These Herkimer diamonds were filled with her light, her soft supportive, gentle energy, so that we move into these ancient spaces with a gentleness and respect for both the site, and the beings who inhabit them. The Man then gave us his staff, so that we go with his authority. We are working on behalf of these ancestral people so we go with his energy. The staff is also used to open energy and to send pulses out into the landscape. It will ensure that our work is accepted in these foreign places. It gives us access to these places. Like envoys.

Then, the man showed us our transport. Ponies with side packs for travelling. But it was telling us to take what we need, to be prepared for a long journey. We will need the transport to be able to visit many places. He then gave us a very big smoky quartz crystal point to take and he put it in the side pack of one horse. In another pack, on a second horse, he placed a gold disc. A CD with information on it. One of us will carry the crystal energy and one will carry the information. A road-trip, he called it.

Chris then noticed that the Banjo was bordered by a few oak trees, (which became important a few weeks later). We were then drawn to a tree in the centre of the clearing and we had to activate it by walking around it once anti-clockwise and then standing with our backs to it and activating the Heartwood symbol. We’ve been using this symbol a lot! We received a wonderful infusion of love, appreciation and gratitude; the tree acknowledging our connection to it and gifting us with lovely heart-felt energies.

Energetic development of a Stone Circle.

October 2, 2019December 19, 2023 / Ann Murphy / 7 Comments

Sacred sites have very humble beginnings, often as far back as the Mesolithic. From small henges to settled sites, hillforts, henges and stone circles, they all have one thing in common: they were created to bring fertility to the land so that those who lived on it, could thrive.

In much the same way as current practices of prayer and ceremony create energy where they are held, the energies of ancient ritual would also have built over time, allowing the energy to grow steadily and to expand. The people who worked them chose sites that we now call Chakra sites; points where the energy of the Universe, the sun, moon and stars, could enter, and feed, the body of the Mother/Earth. These points are still intuitively found, and I imagine that the ancient peoples coming back into Britain after the Ice Age would have discovered these sites easily and known what they were.

Food would have been a primary concern and so working with the forces of creation: water, sun, light etc., would have been their main focus. They were moving from a hunter-gatherer nomadic culture to a settled, agricultural culture and bringing their knowledge with them. The landscape was very different then. The last vestiges of the ice had pulled back, the landscape regrown, and it must have been a very fertile time. But, as nomads, they must have needed to know where these sites were, earmarking them for future habitation. They would have returned to these sites, year after year, their connection to the forces of nature petitioned, just as we pray/manifest now. Although the predominant energy I have always picked up at these places has been one of gratitude. They honoured the land. They honoured what it gave them. They took nothing for granted. And it is this energy that is readily available at working and active sites.

Over time, the energies they built expanded into the surrounding landscape and were eventually joined to other sites. A uniting of the tribes. Then new cultures came in, adding their knowledge and life evolved.

Henges and Stone circles.

Henges are circular banked enclosures with a focus on yearly celebrations and fertility rituals. These eventually evolved to become stone circles, often built on underground sources of water, or as a focus for solar rituals.

Hillforts.

Hillforts, before they became fortified settlements, were large fertility sites and would have housed an entire village. Their focus too was on grain, both growing and storing. They were experienced as sites of the Great Mother, and until the horse people came from the Steppes, were places of abundance and safety. Nearly every hillfort we have visited had an earlier Bronze Age settlement site beneath it which was enlarged over time, so these sites were ancient, even to the people who lived there.

Banjo Enclosures.

Often energetically connected to Hillforts are the smaller Banjo enclosures. These are small farms, but with a focus on energy and of ‘holding’ sacred energies. A small group of people worked these farms, either a family or a small tribal group. Some are quite large, but not as large as the bigger hillforts.

Burial Mounds.

Burial mounds come in different sizes, and designs, but so far, we have found that every one of them is a place of ceremony and sacredness, often built on and marking a ‘point’ in the sacred landscape, such as a cross-over of energy lines kept alive by the rituals carried out there.

All of these places are places where you can contact both the energy of the people who created them, and where you can connect with the knowledge held in them. The information is held as a template, each one layered on top of another, like a stacks of CDs, and is layered over time, changing the atmosphere around them. The knowledge is both a historical record and a record of the energies they guard. These records are designed to re-balance and nurture the landscape, influencing future generations of people.

Everything of a sacred nature, buildings, stone circles, burials mounds, etc, has an energetic blueprint, a plan of its energies and intention. It starts out as a point in time and space and gradually evolves into a large site of power and connection. Much like Christian sacred sites grow from their humble wooden chapels to become great edifices of stone. The place begins as a thoughtform, created by those who hold it sacred, and eventually that energy becomes physicalised by successive generations as they follow the intuitive promptings of the previously anchored energies.

Some sites are destined to remain small, and unobtrusive, while others become huge, affecting whole areas of the landscape. But all are connected, and all are part of an overall Motherboard, ensuring the fertility of the land and the balance of nature.

At specific points of high energy in the cycle of the year, often marked by astrological observations, the sites were collectively energised, thereby reinforcing the original intention for the site: to ensure the people’s survival. The planet’s energy body needs to be kept flowing and healthy, and both sacred ceremony and intention, through collective imagining does that. A healthy energy body is a healthy body and the ancestors knew that well.

The earth was perceived to be a Mother, a giver of abundance and in those terms, each site had its own particular function in the landscape. Some sites were celebrated in Spring, when the sun energises the seeds and makes the Winter Goddess, young again.

Other sites, such as Uffington, celebrated the Mayday energies, a time for human fertility, ensuring a good harvest; ‘Mother’ sites, such as Fosbury Hillfort, the Itchen Banjo and Danebury, etc., hold the energies of the Fecund Mother, holding her human children in her sacred womb.

Other sites, Long Barrows, celebrate the ancestors and the journey into the void, the Crone. Returning to the void of creation. They are the burial place of the sacred families, whose bones anchor the energies of death and rebirth.

Every site has its function and celebrations, not one of empty ritual, but that of energy-work, renewing the land for the future stability of the tribes.

Other energy points were created and ‘held’ by a person who, in life, had been a wielder of Spiritual power. That power was in her bones, in her physical body, and it was this energy that was placed in sacred burial places or Barrow burials. As long as the barrow and its inhabitant were honoured the energy flowed. Barrows too were part of the overall blueprint, each barrow fulfilling its own function and guarded by the energy of the person buried inside it.

You can also see this belief in early Christianity as ‘relics’. The bones, or possessions of the ‘Saint’ still hold its original owner’s saintly energy. Every church or chapel had its own relics, even if, in later years, they were not actually the real saint’s bones, but people still believed in them.

Some sites were destined to be lived in, to be holders of sacred life, but others, such as stone circles, were designed to be places of power, ritual and creation. The circles were gateways, allowing energy to flow in or flow out, places considered to be the Divine Womb, where the sun fertilised the seeds of the Mother.

They had other uses too, of course, but in terms of energy work in the landscape, I am focusing on this purpose. Circles like Avebury were used as a clearer of local energies. They acted like giant demanifesters, clearing old energies and allowing them to be renewed. Energies, thoughtforms no longer valid, negative human emotions, are all pulled into the void to be transformed and birthed anew. A good place for ‘letting go’ if you tune into that aspect of the circle. It makes me think of giant snakes eating and destroying, with its body, the negative or outmoded creations of others.

Avebury started life in much the same way as other sacred circles: as a home, a simple wooden structure. Perhaps the person who inhabited the house created the initial energies which ultimately, over hundreds of years, became the Avebury Complex. This is how many of them began. The person creates the necessary thoughtforms, anchors the layers of energy over years, and the people who come after him or her, continue the creation of the anchored blueprint. Even today, this is how sites evolve. You only have to look at how Findhorn began, to get an idea of what I mean. Who knows what Findhorn will become in a few hundred years.

So you see how these massive complexes can have had very humble beginnings. A small family of people who have brought their sacred knowldege with them and who anchor the foundations of very important sites for generations of people into the future. Thousands of years later, and we are learning how to access this energy and renew the sacred work that our ancestors did. Bringing back the balance, anchoring the new seed ideas and changing our ways of life so that future generations can survive and thrive.

This is a very brief explanation, as there are probably books worth of information needed to explain all of this, but I hope it gives you a flavour of how sites began, so that when you tune into one, you carry this knowledge with you.