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The Spirit of the Oaks: Receiving an Activation from Two Guardian Trees.

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Another trip to Itchen woods but this time we wanted to walk the old drove route that runs to Alresford, an ancient trackway and which allowed farmers to bring their stock to market. The images below show a walking route around these old droves. Some drove roads were Romano-British and some medieval. I know that the Dongas, the holloways coming into Winchester behind St. Catherine’s hill were ancient droves, but I don’t know how old this Alresford drove is.

It was a sunny-ish day, with a chill wind when the sun went in, but we began the walk not intending to do any energy work at all. We were simply going for a walk.

Or so we thought.

It wasn’t long before we passed, on our left, an old oak tree. Chris told me that on his previous walk here, he had noticed this tree too. That’s often how they call you. You notice them. They stand out from the crowd. You see the wood for the trees.

Naturally, we went to check it out.

Almost immediately, I had the impulse to walk around it anti-clockwise. A tree, or a site, will invite you to walk around it. It’s like a pull you can’t ignore. It does not come from your head but from your feeling. So, I walked around it three times. There was a dark sense here, a deeper energy, like we had stepped into some other space which was not as bright as the one we had just left. This was not familiar.

We then received the invitation to connect with the Heartwood symbol, a symbol both Malia and I received from a pine tree in Micheldever woods last October (2024). This symbol connects you to the heartwood of a tree, a heart to heart connection. I felt the impulse to raise my arms, as if I was a tree with branches. Chris followed suit. This brought our energy into the upper branches of the tree, as though we too were trees with our branches raised to the sky. The consciousness of a tree is in its branches and leaves, the crown of the tree. Raising our arms felt like we were greeting the tree on its level.

I often find this with trees. The energy shoots upwards to connect with it. The trunk of a tree is like our body but we think with our heads. The tree does too. It communicates through its branches and leaves. The wind moving in them is their way of telling us what they want us to know. But equally, we can sense their energy, once we become sensitive to them. They can feed us through through their trunks, as energetic sap, sharing their vitality with us.

This tree was like an sleepy man. (I’m surrounded by them). Chris received his customary tree-hug from the tree. I was given the instruction that now was time to make an essence. This was our first oak essence! I placed it on the ground between the roots.

The energy came down from the leaves and branches, through the trunk and flowed like a mini-waterfall into the bottle. It was sap but was the energy of the oak funneling down into the water in the bottle through the heartwood. It felt like an Enid Blyton story, and the Magic Faraway Tree story. The branches reach into other dimensions, or spheres, of reality and wisdom, and bring information from those dimensions down to our physical reality. Pulling it into this dimension, yet, still solidly rooted, solidly anchored in those dimensions.

Then, to our surprise, we were instructed to leave the essence bottle where it was, and to prepare for an attunement. So much energy came in, then I was given a symbol. This was to do with the oak tree and its interdimensionality and the ability to connect with the spheres. We held our arms up again, becoming the tree, our arms becoming branches, our bodies becoming tree trunks, heads and shoulders linking with the leaves and upper branches. Our fingers were the tiny twigs on the end of the smaller branches. When the wind blew, our arms waved like the branches, flowing with the flows of the wind. Then, when the wind stopped, the branches and leaves, our arms were still.

The energy flowed down from the branches until we were aware of our body as a tree-trunk and we brought our attention to the body/trunk where all the information from the crown of the tree flowed through the heart of the tree, to our hearts. Giving our hearts strength, being solidly anchored an rooted in tree-ness. I became aware that the entire tree was one energy, yet each part of the tree, its roots, its trunk, its branches and leaves play a different part. This energy of interconnectedness was the energy being anchored into our consciousness.

The strength of the tree was now our strength. We now had the ability to connect to the consciousness of the tree at its branches, its trunk and its roots, each part having a different function yet being part of the whole. Upper, middle and lower worlds. There is wisdom in each layer. (This became evident a few weeks later when we connected to the lower world). This is not the same as the three worlds of shamanic wisdom but about the energetic dimensions of trees. Although I think it is another aspect of it, too. This attunement gives you access to these three levels energetically.

The body played the same roles. The feet stand firmly on the earth; the body holds you strong, and holds, and supports the upper levels of the branches and the leaves. The upper branches filter knowledge and awareness from the collective unconscious, the thinking mind of the earth, bringing it down to earth where it then is anchored as memory. Like seaweed in the sea, it filters out what is not needed. Only bringing what is necessary down into physical life, so the darker aspects of the collective are not brought into being. All the rage and anger and denser emotions are filtered out. Only the useful information will be brought to earth and manifested.

All of this information and energy flowed into the essence, just as it flowed into us.

The energy spoke of taking time, allowing things to flow through, like the tree does. It doesn’t rush out to meet anything, but allows things to come to it, just as we did when we found it. The energy of flow was like harnessing the wind and rooting it in the earth, and no matter how much wind there was, it was always manageable. The oak has the strength to hold itself. Holding the balance. Allowing itself, and by extension us, to let that energy flow through.

Next, after all this, a gold crown was placed around Chris’s head, one around mine and one around the neck of the essence bottle. All three of us received these energy activations. It connected us to hold the power and communication from the crown of the tree and to being a channel for this power, but not holding onto it in the way humans hold onto it, but allowing it to move through us so we can do what is needed in the moment. With the wisdom of the Oak.

I then had to gift something to the tree, so I had some hazelnuts in my camera bag, (because that’s where you keep them, right?) and when I took the essence bottle up, I planted the hazelnut in its place. Just as Chris had been told, but we’d forgotten, by the Hawthorn on Magdalene Down. The entities of the trees know way more than we do. He had also been shown the crown in the royal oak. But we had no idea that we were about to meet one.

We walked on and came to another oak that felt like a very old lady. And she was old, but so wise. Once again, we were invited to make the heartwood connection with her, so we did as we were bid. Once we had made this connection, she told us to change position and face her, just as the Pines at Fleming Park had taught us to do, so the symbol came out the back of the heart chakra. And, just as the other oak had taught us only moments before, we were instructed to replicate what we had experienced with it. We raised our arms and became the energy of the trees, feeling the energy as wind in our branches and leaves. This moving air energy then flowed down through our fingers, our arms and into our body and into our roots.

Again, I had to put the essence bottle at her roots, and the feminine oak wisdom flowed down through this beautiful, old feminine oak tree and into the essence, filling the bottle with her wise solidity. There was something about Spring in this energy, specifically April and May, which is when we did this (26th May 2025). Her wisdom was the wisdom of age, old, still, knowing, trusting, having the experience of age. And she then placed her feminine crown of hawthorn and blackthorn around the neck of the bottle.

I felt an impulse to place my forehead against her bark, making a third eye connection. The third act in the sequence of this tree-connection. Chris was receiving info about the tree and how it never really dies because the acorns she sheds are part of her. They continue her life in another form. Then I had to wrap my arms around the tree, which is not my thing at all! I did check to make sure there was no-one else about it first. But this was a third eye attunement, a surrender somehow to not worrying about what she looks like. Her branches are bare, she is a haggard old lady, but she is still strong, majestic alive.

A beam of light came from the heartwood and entered our third eye where she then planted an acorn. Was this part of what Chris meant? All our chakras were attuned to her, through the third eye, and then out through the base into the earth. She did the same with the essence. Each tree gave its own activation, but there was a definite sequence to them. I gifted a hazelnut to this tree, burying it beneath where I had removed the essence bottle.

This activation was to the male wisdom of the oak and to the female wisdom. Each was distinct and yet they were paired. Part of each other. It was a very lovely activation and one I am looking forward to sharing.

The Pines of Fleming Park.

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Fleming park is in Eastleigh, in Hampshire. It was originally owned by the Flemings, and its parkland was designed by Lancelot Capability Brown. The estate covered much of this part of Eastleigh, and was once called North Stoneham estate. Although much of the original estate has been built on, of course, some parts remain. A portion of the estate became a golf course and this protected the landscaped park from development. The same cannot be said for many other parts of this beautiful landscape, however. But at least parts of it are still accessible.

We first ventured into Fleming park when we had to visit the Honda dealer and had time to spare. On that first visit, we found a group of pines who spoke, with collective fondness, for the ‘tree-man’. We later discovered that the park had been landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown and he loved trees. Really loved trees. The trees themselves spoke of him as though he were a human-tree.

On that occasion, one large pine tree gifted us a tree attunement, so we could help people connect to trees in a tree-way.

On this occasion, in May 25, we were called back to the trees. Early one morning, we drove down and walked over the bridge that spanned Monk’s Brook and headed up the incline towards them. Once we had crossed that bridge, the energy was palpable. The tree’s energy reaches out to you as you approach them, once you have already made their acquaintance. You can feel the pull in your body, as though your aura is being draw towards them.

Monk’s Brook
Approach
Pines

At the top of the incline, we found the tree that gave us the attunement last time, and we made our way through the brambles to get to it. It was a tall, stately pine tree and its energy was palpable. Chris was picking up that this tree was the Arthur tree, the king tree who holds the other trees. Like the mother trees act as mothers to other, younger trees – including us humans as we learn to be trees too – it also acts as guardian of the area so it is aware of all the other trees.

We walked around the tree anticlockwise, three times in total, each time going deeper into its consciousness, then we both stood with our backs to the trunk and activated the heartwood symbol. Because we had gone deeply into the elemental realm we were now connected to the Elven realm. Once we had activated this symbol in our own heart centres, this then connected us to the heartwood of the tree, but this time there was the gold line of the tree we were connecting to. The gold line came from beneath the tree, ran up through the centre of the trunk and out through the branches. This was an energy we could tap into, so we were not simply connecting the heartwood but to the purpose of its tree-ness. Its intention for being alive.

The heartwood symbol was like a key, opening up to the vitality of the tree. It pulls this vitality from the sun and the earth. After a few minutes of this, I was instructed to change position and stand facing the tree with our palms on the trunk. Now, the heartwood key emerged out the back our heart centres. This was new! It shows that the symbol remains in place and as we change bodily direction, the key comes out the front of the chest, or the back, at the heart level.

Just as in the beautiful beech tree in Winchester Cathedral grounds, Chris was picking up a different level of elemental consciousness than I was. He saw the gnome energy-beings running through tunnels below the tree, working with the roots of plants and helping the energy to flow. I had worked with a similar energy on Stockbridge Down years ago when we had to ‘drop down’ into the earth and reconfigure the energy lines that ran below the ancient burial mounds there. Then too, I saw them as a gnome-type entity, looking somewhat like the dwarves from Snow White. My memory-banks chose this image to help me understand the nature of the beings who do this below-ground work with the land.

On this day, Chris was picking up one level of energy and I was picking up another. The tree then began to speak of the crown, and I could see a gold crown in its branches. The king Tree. Facing the tree, with our palms on the truck, there was a red cord running up through it, just as we had laid in Flowerdown. At the burial mound, we had walked the gold cord in one direction and on the way back walked the red cord. Now, facing the tree we were connecting a red line, whereas when we had our backs to the tree, we were working with the gold cord. The red cord only went through the trunk, however, whereas the gold line went all the way to the branches.

The gold line was the solar line, but the red was the vitality of the earth. There was also a faint blue line, which represents water. But it was not very visible. I became aware of a violet energy surrounding the area, a soft amethyst, so the tree was connecting to the amethyst layer of the crystalline field of the earth, just like the tree at crab wood. We anchored the amethyst sphere around the tree, just as we had at Crab Wood, and within the sphere a violet flame. The wind rose then in a beautiful way and it felt very druidy. The flame shines out like a beacon, cleansing the area. In the branches, a golden egg appeared. This collects the sunlight and sends new golden energy down through the branches to feed the tree, which then feeds us, energetically.

Pine
Looking Up
Seams of Gold Sap

When we had finished, we noticed seams of gold sap, some of it crystallised, in the creases of the bark. So we took some home to make an incense mix. Sap from a tree you’ve worked on emits an energetic aroma as well as its gorgeous fragrance, filling your space with the energy of the tree. We will collect more on our next visit. Apparently, you can also make tea with the sap, so I will be trying that!

Winchester Cathedral Activation.

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After my session at the chiropractors, I went to Kneaded cafe, as usual, to meet Nadia and have a hot chocolate. When I got to the first floor, where the flame is anchored, I had full body chills and I felt my energy rising which was not my normal reaction to energy. I sat down – tuning into the flame I had anchored there previously – to see what was going on. The flame was still there, having stabilised between yellow and magenta, but nothing significant was happening that could have made me react so strongly to the energy. Then I heard clairaudiently, ‘We require your assistance.’ Aha! I sent my consciousness to the origin of the WE who were communicating, and asked where they needed it. My attention was drawn to the cloisters of the Cathedral.

When Nadia and I were ready, we pottered over to the cloisters on the south side of the cathedral. I could feel the energy, and thought initially it was in the centre of the green, where they have the Christmas market, but we went to the little garden of the dean to make sure. The energy seemed to be everywhere and it was difficult to define its centre. It was also very cold and Nadia was really feeling it.

There was nothing in the garden, but I became aware of the energy of a man behind me. He was dressed in what seemed to be an old fashioned black cape, like the ones worn during the Tudor period. Yet, he came across as both a religious person and also somehow, political, as though he was person of some importance. He made me feel the direction leading back to the grassy area so we followed his instructions.

We stood with our backs to the cloister pillars, just at the edge of the newly seeded open area, and I saw a column of energy descend into the centre. We were told to walk clockwise around the area and to open up a yellow line around it which happened as we walked, like a trail of yellow. The line was about a foot wide and glowing a golden-yellow light. When we reached the other side of the green, at the midway point, we began to experience the familiar energies of opening. These feel like tingles on different parts of the head and a feeling not unlike mild anxiety or excitement. We both experienced the same sensations. Having completed the circuit, I was told to do two more circuits and this time to walk the pink and the blue lines. The pink one was the first line, and, again, at the opposite side of the green, we began to feel the same energies we had felt on the first round. But at the side where the south door was, at the three o’ Clock position – if you think of it like a clock-face – it suddenly felt like we had descended five steps into another layer.

The weird thing was it literally felt as though we had walked five steps which led downwards. We could see them clearly, made of stone, and old, like going down into a cellar. On this older level we once again reached our start point and began the blue line walk. It appeared that the yellow band of energy was separate to the blue and pink, so that as we were walking around we kept the pink and blue line in our minds, understanding that they worked together on the same level, but deeper than the yellow.

The Dean’s Garden
The Green
Cloister Pillars

Once we had completed the three rounds and had returned to the starting position, I saw a large gold chalice appear in the column of light, the same way the chalice appeared in the Memory tree a few weeks ago. Yet, I was aware that this area was more masculine, and this anchoring was to balance the feminine flames in the cathedral, holding it all in balance. Outdoors, this energy was masculine, and indoors, it was feminine.

That seemed to complete this work so we pottered around the Deanery to see if the bookshop was open. It wasn’t, but I began to feel a pull towards another patch of grass close to the Pilgrim’s School. We walked to the centre of that, and I put an etheric gold pin into the ground between my feet. These pins look like very big thumbtacks and they appear in the mind’s eyes when something needs to be anchored. We do not have control over this but it is the energy’s way of telling us that something needs to be anchored. I saw a line being held by this pin but had no idea where it was going to or coming form. I had not been aware of taking a line anywhere. So we left the pin in the ground and went over to the gorgeous tree growing against a brick wall.

It was a Southern Magnolia, as it turned out, like the one at the other side of the cathedral where the gorgeous garden is and the pond with the bust of Osiris. The branches of this tree hung over the ground and its leaves were large and deep green. We ducked to get under the canopy and as soon as we passed some kind of threshold, the energy came up through our feet like an electrical charge. It was coming from the roots. I have not experienced this before. We made our way over to the tree trunks and we each leaned against one of the five large trunks that seemed to grow from the one place. I was told to connect a triangle between my heart, Nadia’s heart and then to the heart of the tree so that we were all three connected, heart-wise.

The tree began to communicate with us about its leaves which it was using as an analogy, speaking of it as though they were equivalent to our idea of money. It spoke about how it did not worry when some of its leaves fell to the ground, or died, because it knew there were plenty more. The tree itself produced the leaves so it knew it could replace the dead ones that now lay on the floor beneath the canopy. The tree held complete trust in nature and its own ability to grow new leaves. It no sense of fear, no worry about never being able to produce any more leaves. It knew that leaves would die, but more would always grow. It was such a lovely learning and I was aware of feeling that same sense of trust. Letting go of fear and trusting that we could always grow more leaves. The tree told Nadia to take one of its leaves as an energetic connection to the tree and its belief in abundance and trust.

Carabiner

Afterwards, we walked towards town but as we approached the high street, I became aware of a solar line coming from St Giles’s Hill and running up the high street all the way to the top, through the West Gate. This is the first time I have seen a solar line like this running up the high street, just beneath the ground, running from east to West. When we reached it, I attached an energetic carabiner to it, which connected another gold line from the pin close to the Magnolia tree. So that’s what that was for! I have used these energetic carabiners before, but not for quite a few years. The last time I remember using one was when we were connecting Itchen banjo to St. Catherine’s Hill and other places. It simply connects one line to another. And just like a carabiner attaches to a rope or cable, it allows the connecting line to move up and down the main line. I’m not sure why, but that’s just what appears.

Again, I thought all the work was finished, so we wandered over to the Brooks centre where I was parked. As we approached, I saw a gold flame on the level of the kid’s play area on one of the floors which is on our current level. On the basement floor, which was so much older, historically, we anchored a blue flame, immediately beneath the yellow flame two stories up.

When we are anchoring flames, we are anchoring on older sacred places. They are not randomly placed. In our time frame, or dimension, we see physical buildings, shops, parks, supermarkets, etc. but when we are doing this work we are acting on other timelines, other ‘spaces’. We learn to trust the past and its layers. This Winter/Spring has been a different energy-working altogether. Things we have done in the past came back to be done again, tools we once used, re-emerged. It’s been an intense time.

InstaVolt Activation.

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Not all energywork is ancestral, or elemental. Sometimes we are called to work in places we never imagine would need energywork.

I pass this new EV charging powerhub at Three Maids Hill, in Winchester, everyday and have watched it being built over the past year. On one of my daily journeys to Barton Stacey, as I was passing the hub, which had only opened two days previously, I saw a large geodesic dome over the site. The last time I saw this was in New York over the World Trade centre site when my guides arranged for me to go and do energywork there. My guides suggested that Chris and I go and have a coffee there on our next free morning. It needed work.

This is often how they show me what to do. They show me an image of what is needed and then I go and anchor that energy. Although, in this case it turned out to be so much more.

On a free morning, we both went and got a coffee in the new Starbucks. We felt we needed to be sitting outside the coffee-shop, so we brought our drinks outside and sat at one of the round tables. Almost immediately, I was aware of the geodesic dome around the entire site, each hexagonal ‘window’ a different colour. This is the same as the colourful dome I anchored in New York and I wondered if the flute would be used again, to bring the necessary changes. Chris began to anchor a solar ray, much as he had done at Stonehenge at the solstice in 2023, seeing the solar ray come in and move into the ground, where it solarised the water beneath the site. He was aware of it being like a network of lines, a spider of energy. (We realised that, of course, this is probably what all the wiring underneath the charging stations looks like). It looked like a Catherine wheel, sending energy outwards in a circular motion.

Chris then became aware of Cernunnos, but the Horned God did not feel connected to this place, but to some other place. (As it turned out, he was waiting patiently for us to visit to finish what we were doing here). Cernunnos had his antler headdress on and he was carrying a staff which he banged on the ground three times, sending out pulses of energy.

Next, I became aware of golden lines of light coming from the earth and moving up as though they were fibres of spun yarn being plied. They flowed upwards looking like now like a tree trunk and then splitting off to create branches. A massive, powerful dragon then appeared as if it were part of this energy but it felt so huge, like a storm, and yet it was simply power. Suddenly, each branch ending suckered onto one of the hexagons and began charging the hexagon it was attached to. The solar energy Chris had anchored into the ground, from the sun, was now being sent out in a different form to connect with this dome, creating a circuit of solar light.

We were, of course, at a, EV station which was powered by solar light, solar panels lining the edge of the area. But it was as if what we were doing was charging the area with solar light, of an energetic nature, making it blend harmoniously with the physical energy. I then saw how this network of solar charging stations would be all over the country and that it was not a bad thing. (I had been on the fence about electric cars), because it was utilising a form of energy which would be better for the world, ultimately. These stations would be integrated harmoniously with nature.

After a few minutes, I saw the dome again, and this time all the hexagons had turned to gold, fed by the solar energy circuit. The entire dome was now made up of gold hexagonal cells. Solar cells. But then another energy began to move up my body from my belly. It was lunar this time and it took the form of a woman dressed in white lunar light. A small silver, lunar, tree appeared beside the solar one and it grew alongside it. (This was connected to the work we had done in Flowerdown the previous week). The tree did not do what the other tree did but it grew to a smaller height and then its silver-white leaves and branches grew between the golden branches. Yet, although it was intertwining with the gold tree, it remained itself, radiating lunar light into the branches of the golden tree. It was using its light to hold and support the functioning of the golden solar tree, softening the strong masculine energy of the solar light. The lunar tree, feminine, was connected to the water which the solar beam had moved through when Chris brought it in. It made such a beautiful image, the lunar light holding, and feeding, the branches of the solar tree.

Both of these trees, in their own ways, were holding the energy of this dome. Working together to hold the balance. It was only when we were getting ready to go that I realised that we were sitting beneath a lovely young tree. A Silver Birch. So I’m guessing, the trees will balance the solar energy here.

Once we were finished, we felt pulled to go to The Running Horse pub in Littleton, followed by Flowerdown Barrow again. This was the reverse of what we had done on our last visit there.

We had a tea in the pub and made our way to the Disc barrow, aware that we were doing, in reverse, what we had done last time. This time, it was my turn to walk around the standing stone. I walked around it, sunwise, three times, feeling dizzy at the same place as Chris had done, (on the left side of the stone). I imagine this was because I was at the right layer to be working on. As I walked, I was winding an [etheric] golden thread around the stone, so it was wound three times around it.

Next, we walked to the smaller barrow and stood in the centre. A large gold pin was embedded in the ground by my feet which anchored the gold thread.

We continued on to the main Disc Barrow, aware that I was bringing the thread with me. Standing in the centre of the barrow was the Horned God, Cernunnos, patiently waiting for us. I walked to the centre, and pinned the gold thread there too. We were very aware that the stone was not in its original position, but yet we could see and feel that connection-memory strongly, as if the stone was still connected to its original position. In connecting the stone to the barrow we were, effectively, repositioning it energetically into its current position, holding its newer connection to the barrow, as it had done for centuries in its prior position.

I also became aware of a red line, moving from the centre of the disc barrow towards the smaller barrow. (This happens the same way when I am doing a crystal reading in that I see what crystals, or other objects, need to go in the layout, and the pattern that needs to be created with them). The red line had not been anchored yet, but I was shown what needed to be.

Cernunnos was facing Chris and gave him a necklace made of antler, a small portion of his energy for Chris to work with. It felt like an attunement, for Chris, into the energy of Cernunnos. (And, as that is his energetic name, given to him when he received his first Gaia Method Attunement, it was very fitting. It indicated that he had come into his own, in terms of development and service to Mother Earth. Time to step more into his Cernunnos role).

Leaving the barrow, we walked over to the smaller Barrow where I brought the red line and pinned it to the centre. This red line was bringing the vitality of the main barrow to feed the smaller barrow, which is part of the over all grid. The gold line is solar. The sense was that it was also balancing nature and mankind.

On the barrow with us there was a woman dressed in a long flowing dress. They usually look either Elvish or mythical, because they represent a feminine energy connected to nature, the ancestors or elementals. She placed an apple in each of my hands, one silver, and one gold. The silver apple went into my right hand, where I would have expected the gold apple to be placed. The gold is a more masculine energy. The apples represent the knowledge and wisdom of the level in which she exists. In this case, the feminine knowledge of solar and lunar energy.

Next, she placed around my neck a small diamond-shaped bottle filled with diamond light. This was to be integrated when when I needed a boost of energy or information. The three energies created a triangle. This connects the gold, and silver, apples to the Diamond light of the earth’s energy field, that part of the crystalline field of Mother earth which is her higher mind.

I will soon find out what all this is about, but it feels like an understanding of both the masculine and feminine energies and how they work together to create the balance of Mother Earth. According to her designs. Not my will but thine.

Tree Connections in Crab Wood, Winchester

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I’ve been seeing a chiropractor for a few weeks now, fixing a twisted pelvis and a curve in my spine, which I’ve had for a number of years but did not realise. My sessions are twice a week, in Winchester, so it gives me the perfect opportunity to not only have my breakfast in Kneaded, a great cafe with chef-cooked food, and delicious hot chocolate, but also to meet up with friends and do some energy work around Winchester.

Today, ( 28th Feb 25) Chris and I went to Crab Wood, in Sparsholt, Hampshire, to visit a tree. One of the trees I wanted to show Chris, we could not find, but we connected to some others instead. One of them, I wanted to specifically visit on behalf of a friend in Ireland, but to connect with this one, I first had to touch base with the Mother tree deeper in the woods.

As usual, when we meet a tree, we walk around it anti-clockwise. Once we had completed one circuit, we stood facing it, and Chris felt his heart connect with the heart of the tree. (He had received the heartwood symbol which Malia (a friend form California) and I had been gifted by a pine tree in Micheldever woods last October). Chris received his from the lovely old tree in Winchester Cathedral grounds last week, which I will write about too, as they are all connected.
Once Chris had connected to the heart of the tree, he saw bands of colour around the tree, half a meter above the ground and about a meter out from the tree itself. The colours were light brown, brown and orange.
I had the idea to walk around the tree again, to see if more were added, but instead, the rings moved with me. Chris then walked around it again, and the same things happened. The bands of colour moved with them. So it was our connection to the tree that was creating them. This was a new experience.

I stood with my back against the tree, feeling a pull to do that and Chris saw the tree reaching towards me as if it was giving me a hug. With my back against the trunk I became aware of my spine being as straight as the tree trunk, as though I was part of the trunk. Sap rose up my spinal column and into my head and from my head I was aware that the sap was rising into the branches that emerged from my head, as though I was the tree. The sap fed the leaves and branches in a delicious way and I felt very connected to the vitality of the tree itself, and to the sun, to which my branches were reaching.

Chris, with his back against the trunk felt the energy rising from the earth up through his feet and into this veins, spreading out through his body, to the heart, which was important because his heart was now connected to the trees. From there, it went to his shoulders, down his arms and out through his hands. Finally, it spread through his head, meeting at a point at the top. He felt the impulse to spread his arms out and then his fingers, so he too became a tree.

My biggest feeling then came from the tree to share her energy with others. The consciousness of the tree needed to be sent out to other people so they could connect with the trees in this way. She said that Mother trees did not differentiate between fir trees, oak trees, beech trees or larch, etc. The energy was shared, sent out to all, so every tree could benefit. She did not make the decision that one group of trees were privileged to receive her knowledge and energy while others had to stand in want, but that every tree would be given it. (later I understood what this meant when I received channelling about writing a book about the connection between Runes and Trees; not something I understand, but which I’m sure will become clear!)

As I stood with my back against the tree, I began to see a gold disc forming at the level of my lower Tan Tien, on the Hara line, its centre at my centre and expanding horizontally a metre out from my body. As I later discovered, this was an information disc, for the project of the tree book.

Chris was drawn to two oak trees a little distance away so we headed over to them. I had brought water from the two springs at Glastonbury, the red spring and the white spring and shortly thereafter, I found why I was told to bring it. As we wandered over to these oak trees, Chris was suddenly told that they were called Arthur and Guinevere, which completely surprised him. Then he was told that the Mother tree we had connected to was called Albion. He found this hilarious, and strange. But, I’m guessing this is symbolic of something the trees were trying to show us around the masculine and feminine energies of Albion.

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Arthur top,
Guinevere.

Once we got to the trees, I was told to walk an infinity symbol around them, connecting them together, like I had done before here but on the other side of the woods. Once we had walked one round of the symbol, which is all they needed, I anchored the centre of the symbol where the lines cross over, with a sapphire, which relates to the sapphire level of the crystalline energy-field around the earth.

Focusing on the sapphire, I then saw a small white flame with a yellow centre grow from the ground beneath the sapphire. The white flame is a flame of renewal. I have anchored a white flame, much larger than this, in Coldridge woods in Wiltshire, which was my very first flame experience, but this flame had a tiny yellow centre. Not sure what that means but it reminded me of a Frangipani flower which I saw a lot of in Egypt.

Once this was done, it was time to visit the beech tree down by the road, which holds the sapphire energy around it. However, as we walked back towards the Mother Tree, I spotted a piece of iron, part of a plough which had been discarded. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the plough (also called a Hoe) is not only a letter, Mer, but also a ritual object. In the Gaia Method Earthways, we use it as part of the creation of foundations of ‘temples’. In the past, this was part of the sacred building process of building physical temples, but in our work it signifies building energetic landscape temples. So, it felt like a little reminder that we were building foundations.

Although saying that, it could just have been part of a plough. 😁

We continued on our way to the other beech tree, saying a mental thank you as we passed the Mother Tree.

At the beech, by the road through Crab Wood, we connected to the amethyst sphere around the tree which I had anchored there last year. I had been ‘told’ to bring a bottle of water to make an essence here so, after pouring some of the Glastonbury water at the roots, connecting it, again, to the other trees. I took it out and waited for what to do. Immediately, an energetic, hand, that looked cartoon-ish, formed from the sapphire energy and plunged itself into the bottle of water in my hands. It remained there, infusing the water with its energy and then it changed frequency and became yellow topaz. This felt like crystalline sunlight.

Amethyst Beech Tree
Chris standing opposite the tree.
Looking towards Winchester.

With both of those energies now in the water, the last energy that appeared was the sapphire, which formed a sphere around the bottle just as the amethyst sphere contains this tree. This sphere not only contains the bottle, with its two energies inside, but also adds its sapphire energy to the whole. This is the first time this has happened so it was very interesting. I understand that the essence is for those who work with trees in this way, connecting them energetically to other trees and connecting an energetic tree-field.

It was interesting that the Arthur and Guinevere infinity connection was on this side of the woods. I had done the same thing at the other side last year (and which Chris did not know about) and two trees were also connected to each other with the infinity symbol, One was feminine and the other masculine. But it was a Mother and a Brother tree that had to be connected. Again, holding some symbolic meaning that the trees understood.

So that was the end of that, until I got home and channelling came through telling me about a connection between runes and trees. I’m still trying to work that out, but they did say it would take time…

Tree Essences.

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Elven Starlight.

This is a gift from two trees; one a Memory Tree, which holds the memories of both humans, and all the trees of the world, and the other a tree which holds the Amethyst and Yellow topaz energies of the upper crystalline layers of the planetary field. Amethyst is the layer related to the Mother’s higher thoughts for her planet and the Yellow Topaz is the light of the sun, in crystal form. The essences are held within a sapphire sphere. The combination of these energies connects you to the heart of trees everywhere and gives you access to the events of the past, and those of the future. It holds you within the energy consciousness of all trees, so you can work with them more closely and be rooted solidly in their energy and stability. The essence was gifted by the Elven dryad of an old beech tree which grows in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral and she wishes to share her energy with all who desire to work with the dryads and trees everywhere.

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Pine Tree Wisdom.

A gift from an ancient Pine tree, which was planted in a church in Northam estate by Capability Lancelot Brown. To the trees he was ‘kin’, because he not only understood them as Beings but also worked with the Spirit of Place. He listened to the trees and planted accordingly. The essence is for those who wish to work with trees on a physical level: planting them, caring for them and/or working energetically with them. It helps you to listen to them and to see them as Beings in their own right. It also connects us to Pine trees all over the world and to connect one pine to other pines in other places. Pine trees are more conencted to the world around us, unlike deciduous trees that work on higher levels. Pines are aware of every little thing in the world around them and teach you to be sensitive to all around you. This is their gift.

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Connecting Trees with Crystalline Energy.

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A few months ago, I was driving through Crab Wood, (on the outskirts of Winchester, in Hampshsire) and received a message from the trees which, at the time, I completely misinterpreted. Crab Wood is an older woodland on the outskirts of Winchester, in hampshire. It is covered in bluebells in late Spring and has been coppiced since at least the sixteenth century. It also contains beech trees, some large old oak, birch and ash and lies within the boundaries of Farley Mount Woods, which has its own elemental energy guardian.

View of Sparsholt from the edge of Woods.

I was feeling particularly tired, over-extended and emotionally drained on that day, and I needed the green of early spring leaves to make me feel normal again. The one-track road snakes through the woods, surrounded on each side by beech trees planted to create a boundary line, and as I drove along I suddenly felt like I was a tree and had four large branches, each extending, like arms, in four directions. At the time, I interpreted this to mean I was being supported by the tree, and that it existed somewhere in these woods. It felt very nurturing, as though the tree was reminding me that I was not alone; my tree-family were with me. At that point, it was exactly what I needed, and so feeling soothed, I continued on to my father’s home.

Three weeks ago, (July 13th) I drove that way again, but I was early and decided to stop off in a layby to go for a walk. I had passed a path through the trees many times but never stopped to explore it. Today was the day for exploration. I followed the path until I saw a huge old beech tree, which on approaching, I could feel its energy. It extended out about twenty feet from the trunk.

First Beech Tree.

For this tree, I had to walk around it anti-clockwise and when I did, I placed my hand on its trunk and allowed my consciousness to travel upwards into its branches. There, I experienced a mind-to-mind connection, like a melding of consciousness, and I was told I needed to walk back the way I had come because there was another tree I needed to connect to. As I walked away, following the instructions, I felt a gold line connect to my crown centre from the upper branches which I knew was to do with the other tree.

When I came to the road, there was the tree I had passed on my way into the woods. I had noticed it at the time but, because I felt no energy from it, continued along the path. But I had needed to notice it because it turned out to be important. That often happens. You notice something but it doesn’t feel ‘quite right’. Yet!

I tuned into the tree and saw an amethyst above its branches. At first, I thought I was imagining it. Why would a tree be connecting to an upper, crystalline layer? But then, I saw energy from the amethyst layer flow into the branches, filling them up. But the energy didn’t stop where the branches did, it continued to flow out the end of each tip creating a giant amethyst sphere all around the tree.

Seocond Beech tree beside the road.

The tree was the conduit, and anchor, for the amethyst energy which spread out well beyond it. I had the idea that every person who drove by, or walked that path, would receive some of this energy and the thoughtforms it contained. The amethyst level of the earth’s crystalline field is a higher frequency layer akin to the spiritual mind of Earth, if you imagine that earth has its own energy field, just as we do. That Mind contains ideas and thoughts that can benefit the world, like a computer database which we can download mentally, if we are given access. I wondered what those thoughts and ideas might be. Perhaps ways of caring for the woodland and the surrounding countryside, or more in line with what nature wants, rather than what we think it needs? Or, perhaps, they could be spiritual ideas, ways of staying healthy or ways to connect with trees. I don’t know. But I will be keeping an eye on what happens in the area.

I didn’t have time to do more, although I knew that on the other side of the road, and up the path through that part of the woods, there was another tree I needed to find. But it would have to wait until next time.

On the seventeenth of July, having time to spare, I followed the path through the other woods. I had no idea where to find this tree but I knew it was there somewhere. I walked through the woodland, took photos of fungi, and felt the trees I came to along the way. Feeling is about opening awareness and feeling for the vibration of consciousness. The right tree would make itself known. Having wandered for over half an hour, following little paths that meandered through the woods, I found myself in a clearing. There was the tree I was looking for.

First Mother Tree

There were two trees in this clearing and I knew both were significant. One was a Mother Tree, the other, a Brother. That is how they came to me. They didn’t feel ‘awake’, but I acknowledged them both and went to the older Mother Tree to tune in. I sat at the base of the tree but felt the need to walk anti-clockwise around it. However, when I had finished the first circuit, I continued to walk clockwise around the Brother Tree, thereby creating a lemniscate pattern of golden light. I did this three times. Something made me feel this was not simply about the trees but also about a situation in ‘real life’, that this joining was about joining a mother with a son. Yet this figure of eight pattern not only joined, energetically, it also created a boundaried separation, as though it was saying: you are energetically connected, but exist independently with your own purpose, and within your own space. And that is as it should be.

The Brother Tree

I was impulsed to stand on the cross-over point of the pattern of eight and as I did, I saw a gold line going from this point along the way I had come, then another going off in the opposite direction. I knew I had to follow this second line.

This gold-line direction was showing me the path to another tree, and I had to completely trust my intuition, because I was in the woods after all, and the paths are not straight, as the gold line was. But the next tree was so obvious. It was huge, very old and the energy emanating from it was unmistakable.

The Guardian.

I walked towards her and her energy was strong. She invited me to connect with her, so I walked around her once, and then leaned my back against her wide trunk. Then I heard her say: I am an old woman, guardian of these woods for many years. I hold the elemental energies of this place, ensuring all is kept in balance. She felt so old, like a grandmother, and all the trees were her children. Much like the tree in the woods beside Lainston house on a previous visit.

Then she went on to give me advice on how to work with the elemental energies of France and Spain, which is the next part of my journey, once I am complete here in the UK. As she spoke, I had that familiar feeling of wanting to curl up in her roots and sleep like a baby. This is a common experience when connecting with a Mother tree. They have such a nurturing energy that you feel you want to lie down in the safety and love they provide. In the photo just above, you can see how children have created a couple of rope swings to swing from her branches, which is lovely.

Before I left, she gave me an etheric bottle of her essence, to fill me when I needed extra energetic help. These etheric energies kick in when needed and most times I don’t know I am using them. Much of it happens in the astral layer of the energy field.

That earlier connection, through one tree, as I drove through Crab Wood, was a download I would be using at some later point, but which I didn’t recognise at the time. And that is often how it works. You could be given an energy that might come into play months, even years, after the initial download. But as soon as you ‘see’ it, while working, you will recognise it and remember. In effect, you are like a living computer with installed software in the different layers of your energy field which you only use when called to do so. Which is reassuring because then, nothing is wasted. Even if you have to take breaks between the times you work and the times you cannot, you can be safe knowing that the energies will be used at some point. Sometimes too, it is not the right time and other things need to happen first, or you need further development before you are ready for that particular job.

But rest assured, it will happen, because once the download is installed, it is only a matter of time.

What was most interesting to me about this particular tree-work was the connection with the crystalline Amethyst sphere. I had not been aware that trees could channel these energies, or that they were compatible with the very different crystalline energies and were able to hold them. But I suppose, if we, as healers, can hold the energies of trees perhaps I should not be so surprised that trees can hold the energies of crystals. The tree was an anchor for those energies, like bringing heaven to earth, making those higher thoughts available to us here on the ground.

If you want to visit, the tree is on the left side just before you leave the woods on the way to Sparsholt Village. It lies next to the path which leads up along the wood boundary.

You can’t miss it.

An Elemental Surprise.

/ Ann Murphy / 1 Comment

On my way back from Andover last week, having taken the scenic route, I passed a crop of poppies that I thought I would return to when the seed pods were ready.

Today, having two hours to spare before visiting my father, I drove out to get them. While I was there, I went for a wander. I’d never been here before, except to drive through on my way between Winchester and Andover.

Since I was a child, I have always loved exploring, so I crossed the road and headed towards a gate. Beyond the gate, to my right, was a field of nearly ripe corn filled with bright red poppies and wild chicory. After admiring the view, and following a long path past an oil extractor and some other industrial area, (a sewage works; as I discovered when looking it up on the map later)I took a million photos until I spotted a way through the hedge and, on impulse, walked through into a small clearing.

When I entered the clearing, which was really only a space in a wooded boundary which may have been the original trackway through the fields leading down into the valley, (it’s still on the os maps from the late 1800s), I felt that familiar feeling of energy that makes me want to exhale forcibly. It’s nearly like I want to manage the energy I am feeling. Sometimes, it is also about transmitting energy, via the breath.

Initially, I didn’t know what I was picking up, or why, so I looked around trying to pinpoint the source. There was a large old beech tree that I had passed on my way through the hedge and I walked back to it. I stood beside the trunk and put my hand on the bark, tuning in. I felt my higher sense perception move upwards and my energy field expanded into a large sphere. At the edge of my field, I saw an elemental woman. She was nearly transparent she was so light and a very pale translucent watery green. Her simple dress was the same colour as she was.

Light, excited and very playful, she beckoned me to follow her, moving out of the clearing and onto the path. She moved along the track as if she was flying, or floating, but she had no wings. She was simply a lighter vibration than me. As light as air. I followed her over the crest of the slight hill and down the track beyond, wondering where we were going. Sometimes I could not see her at all but I could feel her around, pulling me onward.

As I got closer to the bottom, it began to feel very ‘busy’, as though there were lots of people there, but there were only trees and plants and insects. But I thought I heard the sound of rushing water. Then I decided it must only be the wind- in the willows. A sure sign of water. I discovered a plastic map of the area nailed to a post and discovered that there was a river: the River Anton.

The elemental had led me to a river. But why? I knew that I needed to connect with the river and that it had something to do with the tree, so I found a place where I could connect, not knowing exactly what was required of me. I faced the river, looking over the boundary hedge, and felt a cord move from my centre and into the water. My rational mind thought it was to draw the water’s essence in through the tube and into my body (which has happened many times) but instead, the tube went into the river-bed, and extracted something from the sandy floor beneath the water. It went down about two meters.

Next, I saw the elemental woman again, and part of the tube that was in my centre (Tan Tien) was now a three-pin plug. She beckoned me to follow her again and so I powered back up the hill until I came to the beech tree. Once again, I put my hand on the bark, thinking I had to plug the tube into the tree roots.

But nothing happened.

I remained standing and then saw the elemental woman move into my energy field, unplug the plug, and plug it beneath the roots. This was obviously not a job I could do, but her job! I could be a conduit, but she had the right energy to do the rest.

Once the job was complete, gave me a gift of a beech nut, placing it where the plug had been then she moved up into the branches again, waving in gratitude, happy that her tree had received whatever energy infusion it needed.

I think this might be the first time I have ever worked with an elemental of a tree that wasn’t a dryad, although I did once channel a story about a tree elemental who had to find another tree to live in because men were coming to cut his tree down to make way for a road…

Marko Pogacnik talks about the elementals of plants and trees in his book ‘Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings’. In it, he describes how he once did an elemental rescue for a woman in Ljubljana, who was concerned about a very old Linden tree that her family wanted to cut down. On a return visit, he saw that the tree had been pollarded and the tree’s energy was unable to spread out into the branches as it should have done and the faun was struggling to manage it. Marko was able to find another Linden tree to transplant the faun into.

I had been wondering about this as I had only ever worked with Dryads, not with elemental beings who lived in and around trees, but after this experience, I understood a little more. My guides will always give me an experience of something so I understand it, especially if it is to show me something that is the truth.

This lovely elemental spirit was so subtle that I often found myself doubting her existence. At other times when I have seen nature elementals, they have been very clear. But this one was as light as air, nearly invisible, yet her energy was wonderfully joyful and trusting. She could see that I could do exactly what she needed and she did not have any doubt in me at all… even though I was a human.

Another well-learned lesson.

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Arthur’s Gate and the Mother Tree.

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I recently had a spontaneous initiation on the grounds of Lainston House, near Winchester, in Hampshire. Many years ago, in 1999, I made a connection with an old Yew tree which grows close to the road that bisects the old Lainston House avenue. This tree is one I have visited many times and every time I visited, she gave me many gifts, such as energy, a cloak of bark and tree wisdom. I had only arrived in the UK in 1991 and within a couple of years had begun training in mediumship, counselling and Reiki. I didn’t know then that I would be working with earth energies. That wouldn’t happen for another ten years. Or that I was beginning a spiritual training that would result in the Gaia Method Earthways. I wouldn’t have believed anyone even if they had told me. I remember my first experience of spiritual communication. It was in the Winchester Spiritualist church, back in 1994. I had been training as a tarot reader with the wonderful Rosemary Prince, which lead to her running a development circle. I went to the church a few times and one night the medium gave me messages, telling me I was a healer. I remember thinking she must be mistaking me for the woman who was sitting next to me as I was certainly no healer. Now, of course, I know she was right, but back then I felt too damaged to be anything, let alone a healer.

My first experience with this beautiful old Yew tree was when I discovered it, having gone for a walk through the woods, close to where I lived. She was such a huge presence there and I immediately felt drawn to go and stand with my back against her. This proved to be an electrifying experience and I felt the energies of every tree in the locality sending information to her through the ground, which she transmitted into the surrounding countryside. (This was before they discovered how trees communicate with each other through mycelium). She was like a mother tree to all the other trees, which she saw as her children, even though they were not of the same tree-species. She had such immense power which spread out for quite a distance across the land. I didn’t realise it at the time, but I was becoming one of her children too.

In that first estatic and powerful experience with her, she opened me up to a world of nature-energies and elementals. Each time I visited her, she gave me something, shared knowledge with me or asked me to share my energy with her. I absolutely loved this tree and visited her when I felt the impulse. And that was another thing, she never needed my constant attention. But when something of importance needed to be shared, I felt the urge to visit her and each time I went, something significant happened.

Lately, I’d passed her every day on my way to my father’s house, projecting ‘Hello’ to her as I went by. But one day, I felt the impulse to stop and visit. I had time to spare, so I parked up, and as I walked down the path towards her the words ‘Arthur’s Gate’ came into my head. My first experience of Arthur’s Gate was in Tintagel. I knew it was an initiation but thought the Gateway initiation was only at Tintagel; that it was a place rather than an event. I didn’t realise it was something that could happen anywhere.

I continued to the Tree and when I reached her, I touched her rough bark to connect with her. Then I was told to walk once around her anticlockwise, to open the energies between us. When I reached my original position I laid back against her again, and felt a line go from my heart to her heartwood; a sharing of heart energy. Then, I felt the need to walk forward and walked a couple of meters away from her. I experienced this as though I was a child being pushed gently into the world, able to stand on my own two feet. She was communicating to me that it was time I was out on my own, that I didn’t need her anymore.

This was a surprise because I hadn’t realised that she had been my Mother-tree for all these years, teaching me how to become a tree-person. But when I looked back at all I learned, I realise it was true. If it wasn’t for her, and the generosity of her indwelling spirit, the Gaia Method Earthways would never have been developed. She opened a tree-door for me and gave me access to a whole elemental world.

So, feeling a little weird about it, but knowing it was the right thing, I walked away, saying goodbye to her in my head, feeling sad and grateful.

I walked through the woods looking for the Lainston house avenue. This too, I had passed every day, promising myself I would stop and walk it. It was only a short distance away from the tree and in all the times I had been in that little stretch of woods I had never known it was so accessible. I began to walk along the avenue, feeling a little nervous and not sure if I was allowed to be on it at all. Was it private property? My old fear of authority.

I turned to walk down along the avenue and as I did I saw a huge arch of light stretching over the trees. This was the Arthur’s Gate. It was the biggest initiatic gateway I’ve ever had to move through. Gateways can be of any size, and they can appear anywhere. The size corresponds to the importance of the initiation and how much change has to be experienced in order to achieve it. They also take time to actualise, in physical reality. The place, and the emotions experienced while going through them, are also messages giving clues about the nature of the initiation.

I took my time to walk through this huge arch, reflecting on what it meant. It was arched over the longest avenue of Lime trees in England and connected to a house that was built for Charles II so he could live there with his mistress. He had already commissioned a palace in Winchester which was never finished, but which was going to be based on Versailles. It is a house of abundance and history. I have always rejected wealth and stability having grown up with a father who put money first. I decided, early on, that love was more important. Needless to say, poverty isn’t very noble, as I learned when I lived in Luxor, so I have been slowly healing these beliefs around abundance. Now it would seem that it is time to put my new beliefs to the test.

As I walked through the arch, I was also aware of a prayer mat under my feet. This was connected to the initiation and it felt like both Spanish and Egyptian energies. A Moorish/Islamic element. The two countries were connected, energetically.

The Arthurian Gate is an initiation. It is about moving into an area of development which involves connecting to male energies of abundance and power. The ability to accept wealth, fearlessly. It is a particularly masculine gateway energy, so it connects to the layer of Divine masculine energy flow which looks like a river flowing above your head. When I first went through an Arthurian gate, it was in Tintagel looking from the castle out to sea. I was always independent and hated accepting abundance through men. But I was being asked to. I didn’t like the games around money, the way there were so many ‘conditions’ around generosity. So rather than deal with these difficulties, I chose to remain poor. Going through the first gateway changed that and I had to learn how to deal with those issues.

I had expanded into a new level of abundance, and all the lessons and healing, that went with it. Now, those lessons are expanding into something greater – which might also take twenty years to accomplish. I am guessing about the time here because that is how long it has taken me to get to the second Arthur’s Gate!

The place the gateways take place is significant. There are clues everywhere. I wondered if it was significant that I had to leave the nurturing and support of the Mother-tree, which is only meters away from this avenue, to step onto this road of abundance and the things that abundance could help me to establish. It’s like leaving home, and moving into independence with all the learning and tools I need to succeed.

Ultimately, it is now up to me.

Going through ‘gates’ means facing fears, and my initial fear of whether I was breaking some rule by walking along the avenue, was highlighting my fear of ‘needing permission’ to walk the path of empowerment and abundance. Was I allowed to walk this path?

I was walking it, so I guess the answer was YES.So let’s see where the gateway leads.

The Practice of Circumambulating.

/ Ann Murphy / 4 Comments

When I first began doing earthwork, I started working with Bronze Age burial mounds, also known as round barrows. I did not know then that it was the beginning of a remembering of ancient energy traditions that would take the rest of my life to learn. Every experience taught me something – it still does – but at that time it was new to me.

One of the things I found myself regularly doing, was circumambulation. That is: walking in a circle with sacred intention. My first experience was in the woods by the side of the road at Farley mount. Just inside the tree boundary is a large barrow with a couple of lovely Beech trees growing on top of it. I already had an interest in prehistory because I had been doing a degree in Practical Archaeology and loved reading the landscape, discovering ancient sites, and learning to see the world as the ancestors saw it.

Standing beside the barrow, I felt a strong impulse to walk around it three times anticlockwise, so I followed the impulse. Then, I stood on the Barrow and saw, with my inner sight, or higher sense perception, that it was built on top of a cross-over of two energy lines, except that it was no longer aligned properly. Over time, the earth’s magnetic field had shifted and so the lines were no longer in sync with that field. My job was to adjust them so they could do what they were designed to do – whatever that was. Through the power of my intention, and following instructions from ‘upstairs’, I mentally allowed the lines to vibrationally upgrade. I have no idea how that happened, it just did. Often I didn’t know why things happened but I learned to simply watch what my internal self was doing. (Round barrows are often built on energy lines and the people buried or cremated there act as energy guardians, as though part of their energy remained after death to take care of the place. You will find, if you are tuned in, that they will communicate with you so that you can carry out the work together, although this doesn’t always happen).

I remember the first time I got an inkling about some of the need for this anticlockwise walking. I had gone to two Bronze Age burial mounds that were beside each other, on Cheesefoot head, in Hampshire. At that time, twenty years ago, they were at the edge of a ploughed field and close to an ancient trackway that ran over the downs and into Winchester.

Standing at the barrows, I felt the impulse to walk around the first one three times anti-clockwise. But as I finished the final circuit, I was told to continue walking around the other one but in the opposite direction, sunwise, and this time to walk four times not three. There was a meaning to this. 3 +4 felt like feminine and masculine energies and they were joined in a figure of eight; the lemniscate, an energy I now associate with life-force, or dragon, energy.

As I walked around the twin mounds, I imagined the farmer and how annoyed he’d be that I was on his land. In my imaginary conversation with him, as he strode purposefully towards me, intent on telling me off, I joyfully informed him that I might be trespassing but at least his land would now be more fertile.

Ah, that was what I was doing! Although, I didn’t exactly know how. (At a recent visit to those barrows the field is now grassland and the barrows over-grown with vegetation and young trees. They are surrounded by a fence which gives them protection. No chance of them being ploughed out now).

After that, nearly every time I worked at a site, I had to walk around it first. I was usually told how many times to walk around, which at a large site took some time! Most times it is either one, or three times, depending on what work needs to be done. If it is simply to access the site, it is once, but if more energetic work is to be carried out, it is three times. The deeper into the energy layers you need to be in the more times you walk around. It is not often that I am instructed to walk four times around a site. In fact, I think that barrow at Cheesefoot was the only time I had to do it.

I never really thought of this as anything other than an earthwork practice until I started to recognise it in other places. It was a common practice in Ireland, for instance, which I didn’t discover until I returned there for a year in 2006. Although I had grown up in Ireland, I hadn’t taken much notice of old traditions, except for the yearly Pattern in St. Mullins. A pattern (from the french Patron) is a holy day dedicated to the saint who established a settlement, or church, there. In St. Mullin’s there is a holy well where people would go to pray and collect the holy water, which was reputed to have healing powers. The tradition was to walk around the entire settlement sunwise, but this gradually changed so only the well was walked around, usually following the Stations of the Cross (not a great energy to be anchoring!). Sunwise follows the sun.

When you walk clockwise around a site, it opens the Solar energies, the energy of male power, but anti-clockwise, or widdershins, opens the feminine energies of a site. Moving in an anti-clockwise direction was believed to have been the wrong way, the way of witches. No surprise there, especially when you think how the church lost the connection to the Divine Feminine early on, and therefore any reminders of the power of women, or Goddess, were to be suppressed at all costs. She could only be a saint because saints devoted themselves to a male god, but she should never get too big for her boots. It was especially important NOT to walk anticlockwise around a church. God forbid (excuse the pun) that the Divine Feminine should have a part to play in people’s spiritual beliefs unless she was in a lesser position. Such was the fear of Divine female power.

Video by Turlough O’Brien

But it wasn’t always that way. In early Celtic Christianity, the feminine was acknowledged and venerated, but over the centuries the recognition of feminine spiritual power was slowly transformed and energies from the earth were seen as dangerous. Hell was down there, after all, where Satan lived, and women who worked with the earth were in league with him. We all know how that went. To the church, everything good came from God, in heaven. The female power of the earth, and its mysteries, was suppressed, and the rituals associated with her, demonised.

In 2006, we lived for a few months in a converted methodist church, around the corner from St. Fiacre’s church, near Borris. There was a spring out in the field by the church, which is now in ruins. Every year, the people from the local town of Graiguenamanagh, where I grew up, went to the well to take care of it, just as they did in St. Mullins. Part of the tradition was to walk clockwise around the well, seven times. (They still make the annual pilgrimage, which incidentally is close to Imbolc). This walking seven times around reminds me of Mecca. But there, the devoted walk around the Kaaba seven times in an anti-clockwise direction, thereby unwittingly keeping the Feminine energy of the site alive and well. (Unfortunately, it is still controlled by patriarchy, much like the RC Church). There is a spring in Mecca, the ZamZam well which, according to the story, Allah opened for the rejected slave girl, Hajar, so she could keep her baby son, Ishmael, alive. Ismael was the son of Abraham. In reality, just as the ancient springs in the British isles were associated with female guardians, the Well Maidens, in the pre-Islamic world Mecca was originally dedicated to three goddesses, Al-llat (the Goddess), consort of Al-Lah (the God); Al-Uzzah (the powerful; and Manat (Destiny). (Virgin, Mother and Crone?).

Walking anticlockwise is the way of the Goddess, the way of the Divine Feminine, and when you walk around a site anticlockwise you are opening to the wisdom of the land. But often, this opening is also an anchoring. When I was doing archaeology at a site in Wiltshire on an Iron Age Banjo enclosure, I discovered that the circular site, with its bank and ditch avenue, was fed with red energy that came from a larger site a few miles away. I walked in the circular ditch, through the tangle of trees, and as I did, I laid the red energy from Fosbury Hillfort, encircling the enclosure with life-giving red serpent energy. I did the same thing a couple of days ago, when I returned to the round barrow in Farley mount, the one I had begun with all those years ago, and I was ‘told’ to walk around the site three times. I did the rounds twice but before beginning the third circuit I stopped. The sun had come out and I felt an impulse to raise my energy to its light. As I did, I was instructed to continue the walk but as I did the solar energy was coming with me, as if the barrow had a ditch (many of them do) and I was filling it with liquid solar light. The circuit was complete when I reached the point I had started from. In this instance, the masculine energy of the sun was anchored around the site. Why? I don’t know, but it was like an activation, of sorts. A feeding.

Once the rounds were complete, I stood on the barrow. My crown centre opened and information, in the form of light, flooded into my head. It lasted for a minute or so and then all was finished. I did not know what this light was about until the following day, when my daughter came around for some healing, which turned into an initiation. The energies she needed were given to me on the barrow. Because she was being initiated into a deeper connection with the earth, the energy had to be given by the earth. Another new experience for me. And for her.

So, when you are at a sacred site, and you feel the impulse to walk around, follow it. You are opening the energy of the place and therefore will be able to access its wisdom, and gifts. Your service to the planet is to utilise these gifts and to reawaken the Divine Feminine. The trick is to trust yourself. Trust the impulse, because it arises from a deeper part of you that knows what it is doing.

If you find yourself at a site but you do not feel the impulse, don’t do anything. The sites are not always accessible or don’t need you to do anything. When they are active, you will know it. When they are not, you will know that too. Don’t do it because you ‘think’ you ought to. That is the mind interfering with your higher sense perception. Tune into the site, if you feel you need to, and ask. You will soon learn what a positive or negative answer feels like.

There is so much work to be done to bring back the Goddess consciousness, but it is always important to remember that it is to bring the balance of life back into consciousness. Not for one to overpower the other, which has happened far too many times. It is time for Love to balance Will.

The link below was written by my great Grand Uncle, John O’Leary, from Graiguenamanagh, where I grew up. If he was around now he would have been a great blogger. Here is also a link to a book my uncle Philip wrote about the O’Leary’s who were artists, writers and antiquarians.

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/0954654382/

Click to access OKR1948-20-John-OLeary-Ullard.pdf

Some more information on ‘doing the rounds’ in Ireland.

Video: Doing the rounds at a number of sacred wells.

For more on pre-Islamic religions.

A very interesting site on sunwise walking lore.

https://rootedseedsproject.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/a-sunwise-journey-turas-dieseal/

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An Elemental Invitation.

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“Down through the centuries, man has attempted to outwit the forces of nature. Now, it falls to them to be the custodians of those same forces. It is no longer enough to live on the world; now it is necessary to live in it.

The time has come for all men (we include women here but it is more expedient to use one term only) to unite against the destructive beliefs of those who seek to destroy the natural world. It is time to unite against the forces of humankind who would seek to eliminate the wealth of the natural world in order to line their own pockets.

But how can we accomplish such a task, we hear you ask?

From your perspective, it appears to be an insurmountable task, but from ours, it is relatively simple. Those of you who work with the natural forces, i.e., the trees; the elemental spirits, the Ancient Ones, the dragons, etc., already have it within your means to help stem the tide of destruction.

All you have to do, and we will assist all those willing to give of their time and skills, is to focus daily on the energies that surround you, your gardens, your parks, your woodlands. Focus on your own area, then contact, mentally, the elementals of that area. Commune with them. Concentrate on their essence, see their forms, and hear their songs.

Once you have accomplished this, create centres of learning so that others can go there and learn to commune with them. Create your own Nature Elemental Universities, where students can visit when they feel called, to connect with the Elemental energies that wish to work with them.

There is still time to change the tides, but you must not tarry.”

I received this a couple of weeks ago and wondered how to connect with the Elementals as they suggested. It usually takes me a few weeks to process what they have given me but then I remembered something that happened at my friend’s house a few months ago. She lives just a few miles outside Winchester, surrounded by fields, ancient trackways and woodland. Having a cup of tea, and looking out her window at apple trees, roses, and the pheasant who comes for feeding daily, I saw images of a thin, gaunt giant striding slowly across the landscape in the field opposite her house. He was the Elemental energy of the area, the one who took care of what used to be the old estate. He is the one who maintains the balance and looks after all the other energies who live there, both seen and unseen. I hadn’t called him, but he came of his own volition, inviting my friend to connect with him.

Estate Elemental.

He was not what I expected from an Elemental, but his energy was calm, slow and peaceful. He exuded love and care which was a joy to feel. My friend saw a different image of him, one that had meaning to her. (We all see the Elementals according to our beliefs so however they appear to you is the right way for you).

I remember too, at another friend’s house in Dorset, seeing another Elemental. At the time I didn’t quite understand what he was doing as he was peering at me, rather grumpily I thought, through a triangular portal I had anchored there. He looked like a Sulamith Wulfing illustration. (She could see the elementals clearly). I knew the triangle allowed communication between humans and the Elementals but didn’t quite realise why they were created there. The channelling above explains why.

Elemental by Sulamith Wulfing

A few weeks back, I created a triangle portal on the site of an old Roman villa, in Sparsholt. When I opened the portal, I didn’t understand why they placed it there. The roman villa was not a sacred place, I thought. But my thinking was limited. I was only seeing what used to be there, not what is there now. I was thinking of the past, not the present.

Villa oak
Villa site from the air
Elemental triangle

When anchoring the triangle at that place, I did not know its purpose, but on a return trip, after receiving this channelling, we went back up, passing the bronze age burial mound on the way, to connect with the elemental energy there. As soon as we entered the woods, the wind started rising, moving through the branches of the beech trees. We walked around the edge of the woods, listening to the wind rise and fall. I had the impression that the elemental communicated like that, through wind in the trees and I remembered a similar experience many years ago after trying and failing to find the villa site.

Hopelessly lost, after half a day of searching the woods, I gave in and asked the energies of the woods to please help me. Almost as soon as I uttered the words, a wind moved through the trees on my left as if they were saying, ‘follow me’. So, I followed what seemed like a wave of wind as it moved the tree branches. I followed this wave of softly moving branches, walking in a straight line through brambles and undergrowth, until five minutes later, I found myself in a square clearing. A feeling settled in my stomach as I heard the energies, through the wind and trees, say ‘Welcome.’ The voice was low and airy and I was both amazed, and overjoyed at having finally found the place. I was also fascinated by how the energies there communicated with me and how they had helped me locate what I had spent ten years trying to find.

That was my first experience. I didn’t know it at the time but I had connected with the elemental guardian there but on this last visit I understood more. Because I knew it was there. Placing the triangle of energy told me that. After walking the old paths, we came to the site of the villa and the winds stopped, completely. There was a stark difference between this clear space and the surrounding trees. Outside the space, the wind moved strongly, rustling the branches, but inside the space, there was no movement, at all. It was completely still, peaceful, like the eye of a storm.

Sitting on the wooden bench, I mentally called to the elemental telling him(?) of my intention and I waited. I noticed a wind come up again, to my left, and saw a man taller than the trees, striding through them, moving the branches aside as if they were tall grass. To my mind, he looked like the BFG. Gentle and caring. But he did not enter the villa site. He moved in the trees surrounding it. I was curious about this so as we walked back I asked him how we could help, based on what the channelling had suggested. I also wanted to know more about him.

This is his area. It even looks like an elemental.

I heard, as words in my head, ‘This is my kingdom.’ And he showed me the entire woodland and a red line drawn around the boundaries. As the elemental ‘King’ he strode around these boundaries, holding within them his trees, as though he was a tree-shepherd. This sounded familiar and I remembered Tolkien talking about Tree-shepherds. But Tolkien’s shepherds were trees. This elemental was not. He was distinct from them. A being in his own right. Trees are rooted. They cannot move. But he can, and does, caring for and protecting everything within his red line. Looking at the map of over 130 years, I can see that he has done a pretty good job as the woods are still there and have been added to, not diminished.  

Farley Mount 1894-1910

We passed an old beech tree that had been planted as a boundary tree to separate arable land from woodland. I looked up into its branches and was reminded of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree with its ‘lands’ at the top that changed all the time so you never knew what land was going to be there next time you climbed it. This reminded me of what my guides had said about how to access inspiration, by moving along the branch of a tree and connecting with the story/poem/painting there; an interdimensional tree.

That, it seemed, was the answer. Write stories. Let the stories be about them. At least for me. For you it might be different, based on your life’s work.

During the previous week, while anchoring a red dragon line on the south coast which will eventually stretch from Worthing to Portland Bill, I opened a triangle portal at Littlehampton. Once it was open, I contacted the most beautiful sea elemental I have ever connected to. The triangle goes from Littlehampton to Arundel, making it a water portal as it follows the river, Arun. I had never opened a water portal before, not like this anyway.

Littlehampton site.

And I have also never experienced such loving elemental energy. I wanted to stay in this place forever. Usually, when I do energy work, once I have completed the work, I have no more desire to be there, but this place was different. I didn’t want to leave! The elemental appeared as a large brown boulder covered with barnacles and mussels, like a rock you would see beside the sea when the tide has gone out. It looked bulbous, rounded and swollen, with a wide, round nose and large, large lips that stretched around its face, like a cleft in the rock. Its eyes were closed and its face turned towards the surface, absorbing the sunlight that filtered through the water. He didn’t move around, this elemental, but remained in this place doing his job as elemental balancer. But he did give me a gift that would allow me to share his energy as an attunement.

I am not a beachy person; I don’t enjoy lying on a beach all day but prefer to be walking, picking up fossils and stones and feathers and taking photos. But I could quite happily have stayed on this beach, within his loving, nurturing energy.

Putting all these things together, I assume that triangle portals open up places to be used as Elemental Universities. Visiting these places and having the intention to learn from these elementals will teach you what they want you to learn.  Perhaps too, a human will be a guardian of a particular portal. Someone who feels drawn to being there. Each place has one. Someone who can communicate with the Elemental guardians and help keep the balance, and can share the knowledge of these wonderful guardians, passing on their teachings through the written word, music or art.

For now, I will share the places where portals exist, which is also the reason for this post, so you can go yourself and connect to them and see what they want you to do.

There is still time, as they say. But do not tarry…

If you wish to work with the Elementals in this way, you can receive the Elemental Portal Attunement. which will attune you to their energies and which will allow you to install the portals where you are guided to.

Header image: Copyright © Ted Nasmith Tree shepherd image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparsholt_Roman_Villa

https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/walks/walk-around-farley-mount-7246968

Shamanic Healing Essences.

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Free Postage and Packing within the UK. Prices for other countries email me and I can send you a request for payment from Paypal. OR, use the donations box on the side bar if you are on a PC or at the bottom of the page on your mobile. Just add the postage to the price of the bottles, and email me your snail mail address, and which bottles you want. You can find the prices for postage beneath the essences on this page.

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Cone of Nature

As described in the post ‘The Cone of nature’, this essence helps you to maintain your connection with the many layers of nature within the cone. It pulls in energy from each of the layers, thereby feeding your physical body with the streams of energy from those levels. The cone is a geometry with a specific function and in this case it operates like a holding container. Whatever layers of earth consciousness make up your cone are also the layers you help to keep the balance of. It also gives you access to working with the elemental consciousness of each layer, be it Solar, crystalline, water, etc.

The Cones-of-Nature Attunement.

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Essence of Pine

A gift from an ancient Pine tree, which was planted in a church in Northam estate by Capability Lancelot Brown. To the trees he was ‘kin’, because he not only understood them as Beings but also worked with the Spirit of Place. He listened to the trees and planted accordingly. The essence is for those who wish to work with trees on a physical level: planting them, caring for them and/or working energetically with them. It helps you to listen to them and to see them as Beings in their own right. It also connects us to Pine trees all over the world and to connect one pine to other pines in other places. Pine trees are more conencted to the world around us, unlike deciduous trees that work on higher levels. Pines are aware of every little thing in the world around them and teach you to be sensitive to all around you. This is their gift.

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The Raven’s Call

This essence was created at an Iron Age Hillfort in Dinton, Wiltshire. It was energised by an ancient Sweet Chestnut tree whose roots were anchored in centuries of history. The tree had many trunks emerging from one main trunk and as I watched the energies enter the bottle in the center of these arms, I saw the energy of raven settling in the water. I was told that the essence would help call the user of the essence to their Right Path. Through vision and knowing their feet would find the path they needed to be on, eliminating other unnecessary detours on the way. In the immortal words of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven: ‘Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.’ The Raven will appear in your life when the time for change is approaching.

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The Wisdom of the Ancients

Made in the remains of a Burial chamber named Spinster’s Rock, in south west England. As I stood beneath the great rock, which was supported by three stones, a native of three Elder traditions appeared. A Native American, an African and a First nations man from Australia. These three elders imparted their wisdom in the form of sacred drawings which I saw being drawn on the sand with a stick and then being added to the essence, in a sacred dance. Looking at the stories around the building of the dolmen, I can see that the three supporting stones have always represented three people, many stories being told about how they mysteriously erected the stones. The essence allows you to access the spiritual beliefs of the ancestors, and to reclaim the knowledge of the sacred land and its ways. They understood it in a way we are only now relearning. Let them be your guides now along the songlines, the serpent paths and the joy of connection to land and sky.

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Itchen Woods. Hampshire.

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This month of May has seen a shift in our work in Earth Healing.  Prior to this, the focus has been on accessing the Feminine Wisdom of ancient sites, but recently we have been able to access the Masculine Energy and information. This is exciting, as it heralds a whole new level of our understanding into the Male-centred fertility mysteries, as known by our ancestors in these lands.

Cowslips on the South Downs Way.

We have been given snippets before now, but over the past few weeks, since a walk along the South Downs Way, this fresh information has started to come through.  While doing that walk, to get out of the house, we started at Chilcomb village/hamlet and followed our impulses. As we ambled along, taking photos, we walked through a very icy-feeling area and in front of us appeared a huge, Celtic-looking man. He was tall and broad and wearing only leggings tied around with leather thongs. His very muscular arms and chest were naked, but he had a leather band tied around his left upper arm. His skin was red with the cold, but he seemed not to notice.

We stopped walking to communicate with him, and he handed me a faceted Ruby egg. Next, he gave Chris a golden sickle, like the ones portrayed in druid images with mistletoe. We continued walking after receiving our gifts, unsure why we randomly received them along an ancient trackway until we came to the tumulus on the top of the rise.  That explained the man! I was instructed to activate the burial-mound and then take a blue energy from it to two more barrows that I remembered working on fifteen years ago near Cheesefoot Head. The barrows were also on the ancient trackway and sit on a blue energy-line. The track seems to follow some of that line.

Crabapple tree inside Danebury Ring.

Since that day, all the energy-work we have done has been mainly done by Chris. His receiving the Golden Sickle was an initiation into the Male Sacred Mysteries. He has been learning the Feminine Mysteries for the past sixteen years and now it would seem he has reached a point where he can balance that learning with the Masculine Mysteries.

Last week we went to Danebury Hillfort and this week, we went to Itchen woods, where Chris received interesting information about the place. We are being instructed to revisit places we have worked on before. The following video is part of the information we received about the Itchen Woods Banjo enclosure.

The second part of audio:

When Chris mentions ‘Merlin’ he is referring to the collective energy of the Merlins, the male priests of the Old traditions, not to the fictional character who is an embodiment of the priesthood and masculine fertility energy.

The Lemurians…Clarified.

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2 October 2016.

 

0b29b2efc76c1a8219b48cb0caf8c0cc“Earlier, you guessed at our identities, and it served you at the time, and it served us too, but now you seek the truth of who we are, and rightly so.

We are not so old as to be forgotten, but not so young as you might imagine. Although ‘Lemuria’, as your present time defines it, did not exist in ‘reality’, our civilisation did exist within the time frame of that believed to be Lemurian.  We are an ancient race, older than the hills, literally, as your mountain ranges were beneath our seas and were our seabed.

We made up many races and many lifeforms, just as you do today, and some of us were wise and others not so wise, just as you also are today. But the wisdom we garnered, over many years of development, is what we share with you now.

There was not one name that applied to our races, for we were many, just as there is not one name for your human civilisation. Perhaps you will enter the collective psychic atmosphere and be known as “The Humans” to future races on earth, but that is not your ‘name’. You see how difficult it is?

We were a race of cultures, trying to develop qualities, in much the same way as your human race is doing. We were successful enough. The Abramic culture was a bleed-through from unresolved issues that we left behind us, and this is why we take this opportunity to help you with these challenges. We take a measure of responsibility for these beliefs and so we choose to resolve this issue by helping those souls to overcome the negative beliefs that we ourselves planted, albeit unwittingly!

Time will tell whether we can do this satisfactorily, for mankind has taken a different route to the one we took, and it is more difficult to break-through when such energy is being forced outwards. Your race is yet young and you have come so far but now it is time for change. It is time for mankind to change direction and so we help you to steer in that new direction.

You can continue to call us Lemurian, as that name helps you to identify our energy. But you know the truth, and we are glad that you asked for it. It is always better to face the truth, than to live a lie and so we say to you, never settle for something unless you feel it in your bones. Untruths can be scattered to the four winds, but the truth will always endure because it is the truth.

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Symbol to hold in your mind if you wish to connect to ‘Lemurian’ consciousness.

We are ‘rooted’ like a great tree, and although it may lose its leaves, and it may wither and die, the memory of it remains. And so it is with us. We remain in the Aethers, and you can tap into our memories at certain places where those energies remain. If you would like a symbol to connect to us then use this: a simple white feather in a sea of green and gold, will suffice. That is our energy signature and if you wish to connect with us, use this energy and we will enable communications.

Thank you and we wish you well in your endeavours.”

This information came about because of my own unease with the name lemurians, even though I had received both teachings and information from this ancient civilisation. But I have a need for the ‘real’ in my work, even though to others everything I do might not seem ‘real’.

When I first began to channel, or ‘listen’ I told the energies communicating with me not to give me any airy-fairy flowery language. I wanted the info to be clear and un-New Agey! I wanted it to be practical and usable, not wonderful sounding fantasies that got people no-where except more stuck in their heads!

I hadn’t really given the Lemurians much thought for many years, but as I was going through old, received information I posted some of it here. However, I still felt uneasy about the name, so I looked up where the name came from. It was a biologist named Philip Sclater who first began to use the name. So I asked the Elders who the Lemurians really were! And this was their answer.

great_tree_by_hazzard65-d5968avHaving studied Archaeology I knew that our ‘present’ spiritual belief about lost continents was not true. Studying archaeology really helped me to separate fact from fiction in my energy work. And receiving the info I needed from the horse’s mouth helps me to understand the truth of these ancient civilisations, even though archaeology does not hold with theories of previous civilisations on earth. But the earth does not lie and geology is geology, so I can accept the fact of the Lemurians knowing that they existed, just not necessarily in the way we think.

So I am grateful to them for clarifying this for me.

Communicating with Trees.

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treemanCommunicating with Trees is very simple. You just sit, or stand, with your back against the tree trunk and you intend that your energy-field blends with the energy-field of the tree. You imagine that both your ‘fields’ are One. Then you wait! If you are with a Dryad, and this will be pretty clear already because you will feel something different about the tree, then you just keep your inner senses open and watch to see what happens. The tree might need your help, to clear it or to change its field, or something entirely unexpected. Or it might share with you, its energy. It might send impressions into your mind telling you what it needs. You just have to be open to whatever  you receive.

It does take some trust, and sensitivity to energy communication, but once you have done it you will always recognise the energy. Sometimes, even just passing a Dryad, it will make it’s presence felt. As you walk through its huge energy-field you may ‘imagine’ that the tree is an old man, or an old woman. Don’t dismiss this feeling as you are picking up the age of the Dryad. You will ‘know’ which of the trees is the Dryad.

Dryads are easy to recognise as they seem to ‘pull’ your awareness of their energy to them, through love and appreciation. You might be out walking and suddenly feel how beautiful a tree is. Your heart feelings are triggered. No matter how old, or young a Dryad is, you will feel a heart connection. DSCN0315

Trees which are close to human habitation are often ‘memory-holders, especially ones near churches or old human settlements! So they might choose to share with you the history of where they grow. That can be fascinating. Some of these trees, especially yew trees, grow to a very old age, so they can hold vast amounts of memory-energy.

Trees that are about to be felled, for one reason or another, might need other assistance, such as requesting that you hold the energy until either a new tree is planted, or another tree can be found to hold the energy elsewhere.

Some trees will communicate with you that they need to be cleared of negative energy, or healed, on some level. Just follow your impulses and do what the tree requests, just as you would a person. Sometimes trees are so filled with negative energy, such as toxic fumes from human existence, that there is nothing you can do for them. In those instances you just have to honour the experience of the tree, recognising their sacrifice to the environment. You could send those trees your appreciation of its work.

The more time you spend around Dryad’s, and within their energy-field, the more you will pick up the energy that they are picking up from the Earth’s consciousness. They know more about the world, and it’s future, than we do!

B0004259Sometimes when a tree wishes to communicate with you you will feel a ‘pulling’ sensation in your belly. It is literally ‘pulling’ your awareness to itself so that you stop and ‘talk’. Once you have stopped, with the intention of listening, you will know what to do, or the tree will show you what it is doing.

Trees always remind me of elephants! I think it must be because they are so huge and the fact that they hold memory. They also know what is coming for the world. After my last experience with the young beech tree in Farley Mount Woods I received this channelling. That made me realise that the tree’s connection to the earth means a lot more than I originally understood. They not only connect us to the past they also give us information about the future!

So when you blend your energy with a tree, be aware that anything could happen. Thankfully trees are way smarter than us and only give us what we are energetically able to manage. Another lesson we can learn from them.

I lately received a book I had been wanting for a long time, by Dorothy Maclean, one of the founders of Findhorn. Call of the Trees. Well worth buying if you want to work with tree consciousness. One of the most important messages which trees impart is the need for old, large trees. In cutting down our ancient trees we are cutting ourselves off from their important work. Not only do they do what we already know but they also transmit forces of energy into their surroundings, as I’ve already experienced. As the tree devas say:

We would emphasise the absolute necessity to have large trees for the well-being of the land. The control of such things as rainfall is often in our hands, but as well we draw forth inner radiances, which are as necessary to the land as rain.”

They say that mature trees are the skin of this world; take them away and the whole creature can no longer function, but dries up and dies. We need to be working with trees.B0003840

In the words of the Deva (overall consciousness) of the trees:

“Just tune into nature until you feel the love flow. That is your arrow into the Deva world. It does not matter if there is a message or not, it is the state which counts. Always it is your state which nature responds to, not what you say, not what you do, but who you are.”

From the Beech tree:

“When you are receptive to us, it is as if you are part of our forces; you blend in and you like it, and we like it. When you are not so tuned in, you are cut off and there is no contact between us. We send a blessing in this rare contact. We bless all who come within our influence, but generally it falls on barren ground. Still, we pour our blessing down in everlasting benediction, unmoved, as you come and go your various ways. Your reception repays us a hundred-fold and we give thanks to our creator.”

Reconnection.

/ Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

DSCN0266I’ve been back in Winchester for a week and I still feel overwhelmed! As I drove to the woods, the only place that I feel secure in, I was aware of myself being in a glass bubble. I could see outside the glass, but I could not feel anything. I felt completely disconnected from everything.

I drove to the first place where I ever connected to earth energies, and which seems to be my entrance-point to the English energy-grid. Every-time I spend time away, it seems to be this tree wisdomplace I start off with again.

This was the only place I didn’t feel ‘bubble-wrapped’ in, so that was really good. I stood on the round barrow, where the Dryad  that gave me the tree wisdom symbol grows, and tuned in, but felt nothing but a slight soft energy in my legs. I wandered down a path I have never seen before and ended up in a wide open space, a lovely grassy plain. It felt wonderful; like ‘home’. I wandered down the path a bit and then felt the need to stop. As I stood still I felt like I was facing the wrong direction, so I shifted, and then all of the energy I had brought from Egypt began to flow into the earth. What a relief that was. I stood until my belly felt completely empty and then I walked back up the hill, enjoying being under the green, leafy branches once again.DSCN0269

As I came closer to the round barrow again, I felt my heart energy move out of my body. It looked, and felt, like my heart was a metre out in front of me. I could feel the stretch of it. I didn’t initially know why it was doing that, but I followed it as it pulled me forward, and then I found myself standing just in front of a young Beech tree that was growing at the base of the Barrow. My heart energy disappeared into the tree, even while it was still connected to me by a cord of energy. I stood waiting to see what would happen next. After a few minutes I felt my umbilical cord activate and it too moved into the tree, at the same level, then it changed direction and moved up the trunk to connect to my heart! Once it had connected, I could release it. It seemed strange to anchor myself in a tree, but it was obviously what I needed. I’ll have to wait and see why it was necessary.

I continued on up to stand on the barrow, but, again I was facing the wrong direction, so I turned a faced the same direction as earlier. That was where I needed to go next. I wondered if it was the Roman Site I used to spend a lot of time in. The mosaic from the site is in Winchester Museum.

DSCN0272The following day I went back up to Farleigh Mount and took the scenic route up to the villa site. It was very pretty! I had really missed all of the trees while I had been in Luxor, and am going to make the best of them while I am here! When I got to the site I sat and breathed, but did not feel the need to do anything. But then I heard what sounded like bird cries. I thought it was an owl, or a buzzard and it sounded like it was in distress. It turned out to be a faun, which had wandered away from its mother and was calling for her. It had gotten a little lost in the lost in the undergrowth. But I knew that it mother was around calling for it, so I sat back down and waited. She came and took her baby and all was well.

This little lesson, from Mother Nature, is one I have been learning in Egypt. “Mother knows best, so stop rescuing”! Seems I needed to be reminded of that here.

Eve’s Garden.

/ Ann Murphy / Leave a comment

Replying to a status update on Facebook I decided that my reply needed some expanding. The poster was describing her experience of spiritual expansion and she spoke about the Garden of Eden. Having been brought up as a Catholic in a convent we were taught the story of Adam and Eve and the tree in the Garden of Eden. Needless to say, when I was  6 years old I didn’t question the wisdom of the nuns. After all, they were closer to God than I was.

Eve in the Tree. John Coates.

…or maybe not! As I developed as a healer, and worked more and more on the meaning of myth, often I would awaken from sleep with ‘realisations’. One morning I awoke with the image of a naked Eve standing on the roots of a large tree, with an apple in her hand, and she had a serpent entwined around her body. But this was not the Christian Eve. This was the Mother Goddess, a far more ancient version than the Christian vision.  The ‘knowing’ that went with this picture was this: Eve represented the Mother of Creation, nature, that which fed us and sustained our physical bodies. The apple that she was offering to mankind/Adam, was her wisdom and knowledge of the Divine Feminine; The path of the Mother. Divine Love. The serpent was the energy which flowed through the earth, it brought fertility to the land, and fed the people and all that lived upon it. The tree was the Tree of Life. Not in the way the Jewish people understood it, but as the vehicle through which the apples of knowledge might be brought to humanity. The tree was life. It was only through living a physical life, experiencing the whole range of emotions, and life events, that we can truly grow.

Eve: the Primordial Mother. Adam: humanity.

We do not grow by forever being out of our bodies, and in our minds; that growth is limited. The wisdom of the Mother therefore is the Mystery of Life, birth, death and everything in between. Our sacredness is experienced through our bodies. It is in the experience of living that we face our greatest challenges and experience our greatest joys. Through the realm of emotion we learn to overcome fear and to rise into our soul awareness, instilling in ourselves the flow of Divine Providence. The Mother is Abundance.

Isis as a tree giving food and water to to a man and his wife.

In Ancient Egypt, the Mother Goddess Isis was represented by the Sycamore Tree which fed the Pharaoh and his family. But Isis, and Osiris, are said to have been born of Lusaaset, (The Great One who comes forth). She was the Grandmother of the Deities, and she too was an Acacia tree. She was the Goddess of Creation.

But why trees? Apart from the obvious link to the fact that they do provide life to humans in the form of food, syrup, water, and wood? Well, the answer to this also came in the shape of a ‘morning realisation’. I awoke, on another morning, with an image of the Kabbalah, the Jewish Tree of life superimposed on Egypt!

The Tree of Life.

While I was walking to work later that morning I had another image. The central ‘trunk’ of this tree was the Nile River, feeding the entire tree. The Branch containing the three spheres Hod, Gevurah and Binah were the Goddess Isis, the Divine Feminine. The opposite three, on the other branch was Osiris, the Divine Masculine. The Tree of life, in the Jewish tradition represented creation and the Divine Balance between the feminine and the masculine. But that wasn’t all. Each sphere represented a sacred place on the map of Egypt. The Isis spheres representing sites which were predominantly female and the Osiris spheres representing sites which were masculine in their nature. The spheres along the central trunk were sites where the energies were ‘balanced’ between male and female.

Map of Egypt.

The tree was not purely an esoteric idea but a real, workable map of energy sites where, when all these sites are functioning correctly, brings balance and abundance to the country. The lines on the tree show the connections between each site as all sites are connected via a matrix of energy lines which feed the landscape and its atmosphere with the energies of the site.  It functions a little like a Mother board in a computer. Remembering that the Hebrews came from Egypt with Moses, who was a priest, it is easy to see how the sacred knowledge went with them. But somewhere along the line the information was lost and it became a purely esoteric method of connecting to the Divine. The Mother aspect having been lost somehow.

Apples of the Goddess.

This brings us back to the garden of Eden. The Garden is the Realm of the Mother in Balance with the Father. For the tree cannot exist without the life-giving sun and rain. But the Hebrews who brought the knowledge of the Tree of Life and the Garden of Eden decided that they no longer needed the Mother. They could do it all themselves, even though to begin with they obviously brought the belief in Hathor, in the form of the Golden cow with them, along with the story of Isis and the tree. But the story of Divine Harmony and Balance was distorted so that now the Divine Feminine was reduced to a tempting harlot, weak and ignorant, bringing shame to mankind and forcing their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Somehow the Hebrew God became the fearful, avenging and angry God who hated the Mother and all women of the Earth.

So what part of ‘Honour thy Father AND thy Mother’ did they not understand?