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.

Spring Flames.

March 28, 2025March 6, 2025 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

January and February were very quiet months, an ebbing of my creative flow. But healing opportunities took me into Winchester twice a week and so I was able to do energywork on both those days. It was light, and very healing, and the only work I did for those two months. March has brought a renewal of energy which, as usual, feels like I have so much to share I don’t have enough time to do it all. But, I’m pacing myself. This is usually how it works for me, but this time there was something else going on, something in terms of the energies of the planet and the collective unconscious that I had to trust the shielding my guides were giving me. I could not access very much of anything of a higher vibration and it seemed as though my guides had gone on holiday. I was still able to work, and do readings, however, but earthwork suddenly became very narrow in its focus.

I had not expected to be doing anything except meeting friends for breakfast after my chiropractic sessions where I was recalibrating my physical body, and central nervous system. It has been a very physically shifting time, for many. There are huge shifts around what we put on and in our bodies. I finally managed to kick caffeine and have changed all my shampoos and face-creams to chemical-free. It felt important to get back to an as natural way of living as possible. I have also been having some wonderful healing sessions with Eve King, from Christchurch and Robin Landsong from Mt. Shasta. Both are ongoing. To move into the next level, as many of us are doing, I needed to clear some older, deeper wounds and patterns of belief. The flamework I ended up doing, was very much part of that clearing.

Old photo of the Buttercross, and site of the palace. The white building on the right is Kneaded.

All of this past two month’s work was carried out in Winchester, mainly in the Cathedral but also in Kneaded cafe, which is built on what used to be William the Conquerer’s palace. This included St Lawrence’s church, which is built on what used to be the chapel of the palace. The first flame was in Kneaded cafe. I had only gone for breakfast, choosing that cafe because my daughter’s boyfriend manages it and he too is a Gaia Method healer and has a lovely connection to the earth.

The bathroom in Kneaded is on the top floor and in the hall outside, I anchored a white flame. These flames are often on upper levels of a building and it could have been here because it was beside st Lawrence’s church. It also felt like the flame would cleanse that layer of energy.

Two weeks later, I met Nef for breakfast, and while I waited for her, I saw the Brigit Flame anchor in front of what was once an open fire. This flame was yellow and I saw the Was sceptre move through it and up through the white flame upstairs. The top of the sceptre held the energy, like a hook, the bottom then moved down to the floor beneath, through a modern manhole on the ground floor. It then continued moving through layers of time. I could see it move through Elizabethan England, through the filth of medieval Winchester, the old sewer systems, then roman layers, and so on, until the sceptre reached the time when Winchester was not inhabited, but was an open flood plain with small branches of the river Itchen flowing through it. The sceptre continued to the bedrock, but I was aware that the energy that remained was the beautiful, pristine flood plain. That was the energy level Winchester needed, once it had cleared the other historic layers and all the emotions that lie there.

When I told the manager what I had done, the following Friday, he looked surprised but also pleased. He told me that he had been standing downstairs, behind the counter, when he suddenly felt that he was standing in a beautifully clear space in nature and that this felt like the purity of nature without any human interference. It was lovely for me to hear too, and I realised that this is what anchoring into this part of the past was about. It would bring some of that pure nature back into present reality. But first it would have to clear the other layers that remained within the collective unconscious of Winchester. Anchoring into the bedrock has another meaning. Not only is it going back to the physical past, but also the healing could go no further. Hitting bedrock means that are no more layers to clear.

Because the flames are both cleansing, and energising, wherever they are anchored they are removing denser energies that still affect the thinking of those living there. They are not aware of it, of course. It moves society in particular directions and their souls are drawn to the place became they have matching frequencies. Much the same as when we are healing our own emotional layers, and associated beliefs, we need to heal our collective layers.

Back to the day with Nef however, (the 24th January 25) when she came, we had breakfast and we both felt a pulling sensation, and knew that we had to go into St. Lawrence’s church. This often happens, when we both get the same feeling. It is good confirmation when you are still learning to trust your senses, although she has been doing this for many years.

In St. Lawrence’s church we planted another flame, this time it was Blue and contained the frequency of the Mother of Heaven, the Cosmic Mary. This flame lies within a band of gold on the floor, which holds the frequency of it in place on that level. Gold bands are often seen around a flame, holding it at a certain level, like adjusting the flame on a gas cooker. The band holds that frequency so it remains giving out its energy at that level. It does not fluctuate.

Standing in the flame, I saw myself pushing a large gold pin into the ground and attaching a gold line of light. This is how we create lines of force between places. They are then connected on that layer and feed each other or are held in a certain focus, nearly as twin flames.

We then felt the pull to the cathedral, so we walked down the tree-lined flagstone pavement to the cathedral, aware that we were creating a connection between the church-flame and the Cathedral. Inside the cathedral felt full of sunlight. The art around the walls was yellow and orange and it felt warm and welcoming. We lit our candles, as usual, sending healing to all those places experiencing trauma and also to people we knew and then went to stand before the high altar.

We each did our own healing here, standing on the step. My attention was drawn to the well beneath the altar and my internal connection went down into the water and, like a hose, pulled up the water, which became blue serpents, filling my womb. This is my second experience of this happening, The first time it happened was in the crypt with Malia (of which I will write when the time is right). The blue serpents are connected to the waters of the earth and to the storms and rain. It has been raining so much this past year that I’m guessing this is why the water serpents are showing up.

Next, we went to the Lady Chapel, but I was feeling two points, so Nef went to the three-flame point, by St Swithin’s tomb, and I went into the chapel. There, I anchored a yellow flame which was a flame of wheat dedicated to the energy of Demeter. I was aware of a light-being standing behind me with her hands on my head. I planted the gold pin in the ground between my feet, anchoring the blue flame of Mary with this one of Demeter. Two goddesses, but each from a different culture and time.

Each of these flames are connected to the Triple flame, where Nef was standing. They are a portion of the triple-flame which burns brightly in the cathedral. But it was interesting that these two flames were of a completely different vibration, more specific in what they were bringing to the cathedral, and to St. Lawrence’s. The Kneaded flames were much more related to emotional and time-line clearing.

Each time I returned to the cafe, I could see the colour of the Brigit flame, which is yellow, changing. It was slowly becoming magenta. One day, it was completely magenta. Then, over the days it began to change to a teal green. Again, these are all flame colours I am familiar with, but I have never seen them change frequency like this. On following visits, the flame was changing back to magenta again, and now it has remained stable with a yellow centre and a magenta outline. This brings the energy of love and bright optimism.

The following visit I made with Nef, (24th January 25) not knowing what to expect as usual, we got to the cathedral to find it all different. Now it was not all sunny and warm but all watery. Three sperm whale models were suspended from the ceiling and blue hangings hung from the pillars on either side of the aisle. The song of the sperm whale filled the cathedral.

We wandered for a while, listening to the sounds of the whales clicking and singing. It felt amazing to be in the cathedral with this sound everywhere and the changing colours of blue and green. We went to the third chakra point along the central aisle and tuned into what was happening. The clicks of the whales were in my bones, each click touching something in my body, opening something. I was told that my body holds the thought that it is evil, that physicality is evil, and this comes from catholic beliefs I did not even know were there. They showed me the ‘Devil’ from the Church in Rennes le Chateau, who is really the energy of the physical world. The sound was clearing out pockets of these beliefs from my body, around the demonisation of physical life, lust, etc. The belief that physical life is wrong and that natural physical things are wrong too. The belief was in my bones. I wondered later why it was that particular image from Rennes le Chateau that was the image shown to me. Past life connection possibly? I was brought up a catholic so there are plenty of devil images my unconscious mind could have chosen to show me to represent this old religious belief. Why did it show that particular one? I was aware that the belief was not one of my own but one imposed on me. I am aware of one traumatic lifetime where this happened, but maybe it was not the first time.

This whole experience was beautiful. We both felt as though we were moving through the ocean, walking in the water with the whales, perfectly at home there. I was also aware that the stones on the floor of the cathedral are filled with shell fossils. So much of this building contains the energy of the historical sea.

My next earthwork visit to the cathedral was with Chris, although the previous visit was with Nadia where she was attuned to the energy matrix of the cathedral. We stood on the point of the triple flame, which is blue, pink and gold. The blue flame filled our energy fields and we received information about the spiritual understanding of what was happening in the Middle East. They said that what is happening in Palestine is the completion of a 2.000 year cycle and that all people were fully aware, before birth, of what they were being born into (My guides had already told me twenty five years ago that this conflict was going to come).

The Zionists were playing the part of the aggressor, giving the Palestinian people the opportunity to complete what they needed to complete, enmasse. Now, in the 3-d world, both sides are completely unaware that this is the drama they are playing out, and there are other levels involved too. But from their Soul perspective, they understand. (So many people, individually, are also clearing up old cycles in the last couple of years, and so we are doing the same, collectively). From our Soul level of understanding, we do things with full knowledge, and awareness, but from our personality level, we completely forget and naturally we identify with this physical reality and our survival. I have to constantly remind myself that the ‘reality’ we see is not the true reality.

But, the reason I have posted this particular article was that we were also told that what is happening in the Middle East would have a ripple effect on Christian beliefs too. Christianity was born in the Middle East and whatever happens there, affects everyone, from all three western faiths. But specifically, we were told, the Christian faith. All three religions have, historically, been both aggressor and victim and, at the point of a sword, all three religions have been persecuted for their faith – by one of the other faiths. They have all acted in ways which were completely ungodly and yet used God as their excuse, and so it continues. But all lessons learned are learned from a Soul level.

We are clearing up karmic/soul lessons, and what is happening is part of that. It doesn’t make it any easier, but the blue flame of Peace helps us to hold that soul level awareness that all is not as it seems. We are moving into a new level of development, collectively and individually. Naturally, the personality side of me struggles with what I see happening in the world, but the Soul part of me tells that all is simply a theatre, a drama we are enacting and that all we can do is share our peace, and our hope that humanity learns the lessons, and turns instead to to compassion and thoughts of healing. (I hesitated to share this message, because I am so aware that few people are aware of the nature and reality of the Soul, but, it also felt important. Because there is something we can do).

So it’s been a busy flame-time, and I’m not sure it is finished yet. But this part of the work laid the groundwork for the tree work that followed and the connection to the Obsidian dragon. Everything happens in divine timing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus

Tree Heartwood Meditation

March 13, 2025 / Ann Murphy / 3 Comments

This is a meditation of the connection gifted to us by the Memory Tree in Winchester Cathedral Grounds. It is an attunement meditation and offered to everyone who works with the energy of trees. It is also a gift to help you understand the world in the way trees do. It was given to help us all ground deeply into the earth, to stabilise our energy connection to earth for the coming times when events become even more interesting. We need to be fully able to remain stable in the face of changes and to work with the elemental beings who are trying to accommodate these changes too. It connects us to the necessary inner peace we need to navigate the coming times and to understand that all will be well. Now, more than ever, we need to be like the trees. Stable, solid and well connected. In connecting to one tree in this way, we are connected to all trees.

Here is a presentation explaining a little about the crystalline energy fields that we work with and which the obsidian dragon at the core of the earth resides in. (Click on each image to move it forward.)

This is what your connection will look and feel like.

Here is the video. Watch it through first (it will redirect to canva) before doing the meditation. It has the crystal layout so you can absorb the crystal energies. This was the gift from the Mother Tree, otherwise known as the Memory Tree, in Winchester Cathedral Grounds.

Below is a downloadable meditation without any visual imagery. You can also use this when you connect to a physical Mother tree that you know, or are drawn to and may have already forged a connection to.