Winter Solstice at Stonehenge. 2023

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 / Ann Murphy / 3 Comments

Although we are now in Brigit’s time, I am completing the Winter Solstice Journey we did back in December 2023. Sometimes it takes time to integrate energies and to be ready for the new. This seems to be one of those times. It also seems to fit the energy of the Solstice, when after that day, when the seeds in the earth are energised by the solar light, they then need time to germinate in the darkness before poking through into the light…

The Solstice journey began before we even got to Stonehenge. Having decided to drive via Stockbridge, instead of the A303, we were being energetically prepared while we travelled there from Winchester. Past Woolbury Hillfort, just outside Stockbridge, I was aware that we were driving through ancestral/Tribal land, the energy being awake and accessible which it isn’t always.

On the other side of Stockbridge, we turned off the main road to go past Danebury, but this time, the gold disc we had noticed last time we were here, just before the Solstice, was now larger, reaching almost to where we had turned into the road. Because Danebury is an active fertility site, a place like Stonehenge, where the sun is brought into the womb of the earth to fertilise the land and all upon it, its golden solar energy radiates out all around it. The disc indicates the extent of the radiance around the Hillfort, the land that is influenced by the solar energy. Today it was wider than it had been last time when we brought down the gold ray in the centre of the Hillfort and met the local elemental guardian of the place.

As we passed through this gold energetic disc I felt my consciousness raised to a higher level of awareness. I was reminded of a meditation a couple of weeks ago, when my Turkish guide came in and gave me a large gold key, then showed me how he would lift me to a higher level, like jumping onto a platform. At the time I did not know where it referred to but it soon became clear, literally. A Bronze Age king appeared in my vision and told me he was waiting for us at the King’s Barrows and then my chakras opened and activated. I received the understanding that I had to plug myself into the Stonehenge energies by connecting with each barrow in turn until seven chakras were plugged into the seven barrows. It has been many years since we first activated these barrows, nearly twenty years, in fact, but we knew them to be an integral part of the Salisbury plain circuitry. Perhaps more than I previously thought…

We parked in Larkhill because English Heritage had blocked all the usual parking places closer to Woodhenge in preparation for the people due to visit for the following day’s sunrise. After a long, interesting walk, where we met a couple of deer and some lovely sheep, we reached the end of the cursus. The energy was stronger than I have ever felt there and I could feel the back of my heart heating up making me feel nauseous. There was originally a Longbarrow at this at the cursus which has been ploughed out, but the energy obviously still remains.

It has been a long time since a site has made me feel physically sick, although, as soon as we moved off the site of the Longbarrow the nausea left.

We made our way to the King’s Barrows, but there are two groups of King’s Barrows, the Old, and the New. Which ones were we supposed to go to? The only way to know was to trust our intuition and check each one energetically. It was rainy and blustery on the Plain and areas were cordoned off, but we got to one which was not. Four large beech trees grew on it and as I walked towards it, the wind suddenly blew up strongly. Too strongly. I could see a branch had already broken off and now lay on the middle of the burial mound. I wondered if I should risk it, and continued towards it. The wind blew up even stronger so I decided not to. As I made my decision and walked away, the wind died down. Perhaps the trees were warning me…

The next barrow we came to was ‘a’wake’, so the first thing I did was walk around it once, anti-clockwise, to open its energies. But as I finished I was instructed to continue walking in a spiral until I reached the top of the mound. I have never had to do that before. I stood on the top waiting for the next part but that became Chris’s job. He walked onto the mound and stood facing the stone circle. He was then ‘told’ to raise his arms. He saw himself holding the golden orb of the sun in his hands, like a beach ball, which he slowly brought down. When he had finished he said, with some amazement, that he had anchored it in the stone circle. The force had been so powerful, he said, that he was pulled physically towards the circle and thought, at one point, that he was going to lose his balance.

We got to the New King’s barrows and, beginning with the first in the row, climbed to the top and tuned in. Immediately, I felt the red energy of my base chakra extend to connect deeply with the barrow. I waited until the right time to proceed to the next mound.

I did the same for each of the burial mounds, connecting each corresponding chakra, from base to crown. But at the heart level barrow, something different happened. Often, before we visit a site to do energy-work, we are instructed to bring a bottle of water. When this occurs, we know an essence will be made. Standing on the Heart Barrow, I opened the bottle, held it in my hands and waited. I immediately saw the energies of all the burial mounds and the people buried/cremated within them pouring into the bottle. This was all the knowledge of our ancestors from across time and space.

A white-robed priest appeared in front of me and placed a wand in the bottle. He used it to stir its energy into the essence. This magical object was made of wood and had crystals along it, like chakras, and he gave me the information that the essence would also energise the chakra system, aligning it with the energies of Stonehenge and the people who built it. The experience of using the essence is like having a line of light plugged into the back of each chakra, connecting you to each of the barrows.

As it turned out, it does a lot more.

We continued to the other barrows, connecting and aligning until we had completed them all. The last one, the crown, was a little tricky because it was part of the garden belonging to some local authority but we discovered we could access it from the road. When we did, it felt like it was like a cap on a bottle, completing the seven-barrow circuit.

The essence, as well as connecting the seven chakras to the seven barrows also has the effect of pulling in the energy-field, so that personal energy is contained and focused. This was a surprising effect, but I imagine that if we are scattered in our energy, then we are unable to manifest well, or focus on what is important. Somehow, the essence creates an energetic boundary in our field. I have been using it every day since the solstice and I am managing to write the second draft of the book every day, without fail, as if I now have a boundary I never really had before. The Stonehenge plug-ins are specifically connected to the back of the chakras and to the crown and base chakras. When fully plugged in, it feels like I am lying down on the barrows, like they are a bed of energy beneath me.

I used the essence the following day, the 22nd December and this is what I recorded:

Standing at my landing window with the sun coming up, I am Stonehenge. I feel myself as the stones and the sun is filling me up. I draw the solar light into my body of stones, the womb of the earth, and absorb the golden radiance. When I feel full, I allow it to simply be. The stones hold the light there, even when the sun has gone down, and rises and falls every day. It holds the energy of the people, like a light in the henge, suspended and available.

Next, I saw Cerrunos in the circle, dancing around the centre. Then I see the Was sceptre in the circle, and it anchors the sun to the water layer beneath the stones as though the sun is fertilising the waters around the circle too. The horned man is very much the stag energy of winter and fertility, dancing the male fertility into being.

A male priest then appears in the circle, wearing a holly/yew headdress. He is the energy of vegetation, ensuring that the tribes are fed with nature’s abundance too. Both he and the stag king are bringing in their intent for the following year, ensuring these two energies of abundance are manifested for the year. This is the time to manifest the years coming needs.

Lastly, I see a frilled dragon, multicoloured, but it is held within the circle, and only ‘allowed out’ at certain times of the year, Such as like Mayday, etc. This reminds me of the Quetzal serpent at Chitzen Itza which also descends to the land during the Winter solstice. Then I am told that the ceremonies happened over three days, but the festival feasting lasted a week, so that people could bond and connect with each other, tying the tribes together as one People. Sounds like a powerful and very enjoyable festival and the modern gatherings at stonehenge certainly reflect the desire to reconnect with the old ways.

The algiz rune appeared, connecting Iceland, Norway, and Orkney to the south of England. At the top of the line, which we have already anchored, there is a white flame and the Orkney dragon, orange and yellow, comes spiralling down the line to the south, but it’s tail is still in Orkney. This, I imagine,represents both the present, and the past, as People from Orkney built stonehenge and we are now rebuilding those connections energetically. But importantly, the dragon, connects both South and North, the North being the origin of that particular vibration of dragon energy.

Two months later, I am still holding my energy open and using the essence every day, and every day I am plugged into the Stonehenge people and their earth wisdom, earth wisdom which is far older than Stonehenge itself. I continue to hold myself open to its energy and on MayDay will return to see what happens then, as instructed.

The Outer Hebrides.

April 13, 2023July 7, 2024 / Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

As I said on the page, Tribal Gatherings, the main line of the Algiz symbol has been established. This line is the main stem of the work; the two lines emerging from it going to Iceland, via the Outer Hebrides, and Norway.

The plan is to travel to the island and stay there for a week. There are many sites connected to the main site, which we will also visit if we are called to that. That happens many times because sites are connected to each other and deliberately built that way, so we follow either intuition, impulse or guidance from the ancestors as to which ones need visiting.

Picture by Lucie Loane. The Stones of Callanish.

I have never been to the Outer Hebrides, but my guides have been telling me to go for years. It just never felt like the right time. But, as I said in Tribal Gatherings, it appears to be part of a project that is connected to other places. I never know what will happen at a site, but often the preparatory ‘downloads’ happen years, months or weeks before we get there. The days leading up to the work often involve receiving information, or gathering energies from other places locally – if they are to be connected. It’s as if the energies rise, preparing the energy-body for what is to come. This can give a feeling of fullness or excitement as we move into the necessary energies.

Another thing that happens, is that we connect to a ‘guide’ who helps us and keeps our energies focussed on the task at hand. They are ‘Gatekeepers’ assisting us in holding a particular frequency on the layers of energy we need to be working in. These guides are not always ancient however but are usually the souls of inhabitants who once resided on the Island, or who lived in the house; someone who knew the place well. When we were in Orkney, we had an old woman who had died on the island. She was the main gatekeeper. But there was also a soul who, when he was alive, was called Peterson. He told me, over the course of a week, that he had been sent to Canada for accidentally killing another man in Kirkwall, after a drunken brawl. His love of Orkney draws him here and his service, his paying off of the incurred debt, was to assist us in carrying out our work. He was very nice, really, and his love for the island was palpable. (I wrote it all down but the notebook is in my flat in Luxor!). He also seemed interested in channelled art/writing and even when I returned to Winchester he would pop in every now and then and suggest I visit a particular art gallery. he pushed me in the direction of channelling art, which I did for a while, but my focus is on writing at the moment. (For those of you wondering whether I had picked up a spirit attachment, I also do spirit-release, helping souls who are unable to move on but who are ready to get back ‘Home’. He definitely wasn’t one of those). My friend Chris, who was not with us when we visited Orkney works with me doing spirit release and earthwork. He’s played a huge part in the Gaia Method Earthways. One of his amazing talents, apart from dowsing, is his ability to speak to spirits and to see them as if he was back in time with them. We have gotten some terrific information about people who lived at these sites in the past through his gift. He will naturally be there too!

Once we have connected to the Hebrides, we will return to Orkney, because there is still work to be done there, and information to be accessed. But the next focus is on the Outer Hebrides. It may be too, that the energies on the Isle of Lewis will be connected in another way to Orkney, but again, I won’t know until we get there. I also tend not to research the history of the place too much either, as this tends to get in my way. I want to be able to go in without any preconceived ideas so that the information I receive from the site is clear. Doing the research afterwards is often a good confirmation of what we perceived when we were there. Plus, we discover information which is not known yet by the archaeological world. That’s always fun!

Apart from the main Callanish circle, there are other satellite circles which I also want to visit. The following video explains these very well. Often the smaller sites are important in their own right.

What I find interesting about this video is that it shows clearly that the satellites were just as important as the main site. When I was working with Coldridge Banjo enclosure, we discovered that it was the ‘Child’ of the Mother site: Fosbury Camp, an iron-age hillfort. The camp held the Mother energy and this then flowed to the smaller enclosure, like an umbilical cord, feeding the site. This is a common occurrence in energy sites, the larger one feeding and maintaining the smaller, keeping it connected, abundant and sanctified. It didn’t make it impervious to human interference but it did provide shelter and abundant food for the people who lived there, for as long as the site energies were maintained. I imagine that the same holds true for the smaller circles at Callanish too. What is also interesting is that these sites are on islands off the mainland. Orkney to the north and the Isle of Lewis to the west. There must be some reason for these placements. Hopefully, we’ll find out some information about why this might be.

Watching this video shows that there are so many sites on these islands that there might be some very early mornings – and some late nights! If you want to see more, there are lots of really good ones by the guy who made the video. He is well worth the watch.

I have been debating whether to fly to Stornoway or to drive there. Driving, even though it is an 18-hour drive, means that I gradually move into the energies, gathering connections as I go. I remember while Eartha and I were driving to Orkney, as we drove through Scotland, which has a distinctly different feel to England, primal and definitely older, the difference between a child and an adult, I began to feel strange sensations. It was as if my body was picking up separate but similar energies involving two feminine energies in the landscape, both mountain ranges of volcanic origin. These felt like mountains that represented breasts, as though they were places to feed people, or the landscape. Thinking about it, volcanoes feed the earth, literally creating them, so it was interesting that she equated lava with a form of breast milk, ‘growing’ the planet.

I was in communication with one of these female energies who told me that her ‘sister’ lay far to the north. Far to the north turned out to be Iceland. But I didn’t realise that at the time. The female energy I was connecting to was a black wild goddess, like the winds, but she was from the depths of the earth. She was the mountain ranges of Scotland, a landscape Goddess who was important in Orkney, which we saw when we stood with our backs to the Stones of Stenness watching the sun go down. From that perspective, we were seeing the sun returning into the womb of the Mother, to be reborn the following morning, We were there in mid-November, close to the Winter solstice, which is a powerful time of the year anyway, so maybe this had something to do with her visit.

Although this coming trip is not to Iceland, the line goes through the Outer Hebrides on its way to Iceland and is probably preparatory work, so I am interested to see what happens there. I have booked the trip in June 2025, for the Summer Solstice. If you want to join in, I would love to see you there.

Do remember to contact me for the P2 details (A Gaia Method Earthways Workspace), and I can add you as a team member. It’s a great way to keep in contact and share information that others can use too.