Lake District Stone Circles and Rainbow Waterfalls.

We had such a gorgeous adventure last week in the lake district in the UK, we thought we would share it with you!   We visited perhaps one of the most majestically placed Stone circles and the 3^rd largest in the UK an incredibly friendly and warm stone circle. We also visited the amazing Aria Force who shone rainbows for us the whole time!  So we thought we would share the magic!

CastleRigg Stone Circle, (5000 Year old – one of the earliest British Circles)

First up on our sacred location visits was Castle Rigg Stone Circle. It has a unique vantage point through the hills and mountain ranges of the Lake District and does indeed feel like the meeting place of the gods.   When we arrived at the circle, I was guided to one specific stone that seemed to be speaking and letting me know that it was through it that we could ‘meet’ the energy of the circle, (vs simply being a visitor and in awe of its majesty).  I introduced myself to the stone, anointed it with a sacred oil and simply listened and breathed with the stone.  Spontaneously Justin and I both circled the circle in opposite directions, meeting at the more obvious entrance to the circle that now felt activated and ready to enter for ceremony and honouring of the energies.

Dancing with the energies:

I share a little of our experience here because, ‘meeting’ a stone circle is a dance of energy between you and it.  Its an intuitive, sensitive and flowing journey that opens your receptivity to the stone circle, and the stone circles receptivity to you.    Many stone circles ask that we as sacred visitors spend a little time attuning to the circle in order to enter into the mystery of the place.   When you arrive at sacred sites, maybe consider that for yourself:

• Is there a place you feel drawn to start?
• How might you introduce yourself to the circle and share your sacred intent?
• How might you listen to the sacred space and hear its guidance?

Aria Force – Rainbow Magic!

Aria Force rainbow magic #sacredplaces #rainbowmagic #joyrituals so magical to be here with J

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Well the video says its all!  We stood and watched the rainbow in the waterfall for a good 30 minutes!  The late afternoon light falls perfectly on the waterfall and illuminated this very vibrant rainbow!

Waterfalls (as well as giving off tonnes of negative Ions leaving you feeling energised) are gateways between worlds.  They are doorways into a deeper wisdom of nature, of fairy, of the other realms.  Simply meditating with a waterfall is a powerful experience, listening to the water, feeling its power and purity.  You can take that a step deeper, by asking to be aware of the guardians of the waterfall, and opening an intuitive conversation with the guardian.  Each waterfall doorway is slightly different, a different river flowing, different codes in the land and water. Be curious as to how you experience it.

To also receive the rainbow light at the waterfall is like a doorway through the doorway of the doorway!  The ‘rainbow bridge’ is in many cultures the symbol of connecting the higher and lower mind, of transcending the old and creating the new earth.  The beauty of a rainbow can in itself takes us to that joy filled awareness that opens up new possibilities, awe at life and realising the gift of living.

So next time you are at a magical waterfall and/or see a rainbow, maybe ask: What is the doorway of consciousness I’m invited to go through?  And then give space to absorb the magic and beauty of the space!

Long Meg and Her Daughters (Neolithic Bronze Age circle)

Finally the gorgeous warmth of Long Meg and her Daughters – the 3^rd largest stone circle in the UK and incredibly friendly!   We were called first to the gorgeous Long Meg with her sacred spirals and circle markings of the sun cycles and of the feminine womb space.  We listened to the energy of her and then followed her direction to circle and greet each stone in turn, before coming into the centre for the completion of ceremony.    For this circle, I was working with a private intention for myself that had perfectly fallen on this day and this place!  If you arrive at a sacred space unexpectedly, do consider, why have I landed here today? What is the synchronicity and opportunity that is arising?

Maybe you will be inspired and sneak away for half a day, a day or longer and immerse yourself in the magic of the land around you.  We’re planning many more of these mini adventures this year and encourage you to do the same – in fact we would love to hear about your local sacred places and what’s special about them for you.

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Ireland Goddess tour 2014 – Full Circle

We began the Ireland Goddess tour 2014 on the day of the largest meteor shower in 10 years (e.g with the ‘fire letters of Heaven’), at the Fire Temple of St Brigit in Kildare,  with the heart opening blessing of the Sisters of Brigit who keep an eternal flame of Brigit and welcome all traditions to learn more about Brigid/Bride/St Brigit and the many faces of this ancient triple Goddess who has stayed with the people through many traditions. To read more about this year’s Goddess tour to Ireland, go here.

Initiated with sacred fire, we went to the sacred waters of Brighid to offer our blessings to the land; at Brighid’s Well Head. In the energy of these sacred sites, and within the holding of sacred ceremony, we tap into the Souls purpose that perhaps might have been glimpsed before the journey, but now becomes felt, known and honoured.   Those who were strangers 3 hrs ago are now connecting with a deep sense of past knowing and heartful resonance of shared understanding of a greater force of love drawing us here….the magic begins and we open our eyes and hearts for the deeper journey to unfold…

Knowth ancient Goddess site

The next day, with deepening trust, we arrive at Knowth – a sacred Cairn sites that holds much astrological wisdom.  1 central huge cairn – ( circular temple with ceremony chamber at its centre symbolic of the womb, the passageway from life to death to life) 19 satellite cairns creating the solar temple, based on the number 20, (ancient cycles counting of the Sun).  Carved symbols in the stones of the cairns showing the serpents, sun, spirals, crescent moons that represent the tracking of the creative force. Outside the front of the main cairn are 33 wooden posts with half moon niches in them tracking the moons in the 13, (luna number – 13 moons for a solar year of 365 days) + the 20 solar codes, becoming the unity of Sun and Moon…

Knowth energies run strong

Knowth ancient Goddess site

Knowth serpent wisdom

Yet a ‘cosmic clock’ is just the surface of what these temples are, entering this beautiful sites, the group had a sense of returning home to the family of ancestors who worked with the stars and earth as priests and priestesses of the ‘old religions’.  There is a welcoming of remembrance of our rightful relations to the earth and cosmos, including those magical realms of devas, fairies, the animal spirits.  As I guided the group to open their intuitive antenna to the land, to whisper with the stones and ancestors, a natural harmony emerges, becoming both settled and deeply alive in our bodies, with the land, (not as innate matter but as alive consciousness) and with each other.  Spontaneous gathering of blessings with much joy and gratitude emerged.

Opening the way for New Grange – the great quartz star temple cairn and healing chamber.  We called on the great wisdom of this place to guide us, invoking remembrance of lost wisdom, not only for ourselves but for all.  That we might be a catalyst of greater remembering and reclaiming of insight that brings peace and harmony.

At the Hill of Tara, the location for king and queen making of the land, we walked to the Stone of Destiny,  looking out onto the watercolour of patchwork fields that is 40% of Ireland visible on a clear day.  As we prepared for ceremony thunder rolled around the hillside.  As we began our declaration of appreciation, gratitude and healing for the ancestors the rains came, monsoon like with the paths becoming rivers within 10 minutes.  With much laughter we descended the hill, the rains stopping on our descent, confirming that indeed we have done our work to release the old and open the flood gates for the new.

After a good sleep and with dry clothes, we entered the land of mystery – Usineach, where myth says Merlin took the magic to make stonehenge, the spiritual umbilical cord of Ireland and the place of first fires lit at Beltane to announce the coming of summer.    Here with a Fire blessing instantly the sun came out and stayed with us for tour, we were awed by the sculpture created of Danu – the goddess of the Tuatha de Danan – the first people of Ireland who legend say now are the faerie people.

As our journey continued we arrived at  possibly the friendliest, loveliest Castle that became our royal home for 2 nights.  Contemplation, journaling and delicious food ensued as some of the tour chose to stay within its welcoming arms, whilst others of us climbed queen Maebh’s cairn for ceremonies and initiations.   Queen Maebh is the original kingmaker of the land – her Cairn a beacon of light through the realms – the air feels thick with an unseen yet tangible golden light of wisdom and power.  Located at the opening of a river to the sea, the view west over the great ocean feeds the vastness of the Soul.

And all of these sites were preparation for our most sacred temple – that of Mother Earth in the green lands of Limerick, Kerry and Cork.  Emerald Isle of lakes, mountains, waterfalls that hold intimate stone circles – vortexes to work with the lands energy.

Synchronicities increased 10 fold –  impossible yet magical signs along the way confirm our Soulful pilgrimage was on track.   We visit the ancient grace of a 400+ year old Yew tree of Life in the Muckross monastery, we cleansed and open the way at the waterfall doorway – the legend holds this is the last place of the Tuatha De Danan before they went fully into the fairy realms.   We drive a road to find its closed at the most beautiful, ‘ladies view’, with just 1 sign containing the coat of arms and surname of one couple on the tour, for whom this day had been their special day so far.

As the tour comes into its last day, we have been preparing to meet the most ancient one – the Caileach – the ancient grandmother who ate the apples in the beginning, (her traditional greeting).  And as we do, a peacock feather is given, (by a peacock himself!), to one of our tour group.  This is the ancient symbol of the immortal, the all seeing eye – the royal lineages of the Goddess.   As the day progresses, an ornate altar cloth of a peacock presents itself in the church opposite our hotel.  

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Then visiting perhaps the most sacred and intimate Stone circle of our tour – Uragh stone circle – nestled between two lakes, surrounded by mountains after ceremony with this ancient mother – in total bliss for all that has ensured, we go to the nearest, (and only) place selling snacks – ‘Peacock Camping’ and a roomful of beautiful Indonesian peacock batiks greet us.

Uragh Stone Circle

As we reach our final location – the place of the Caileach Beara stone, we are resonating in trust, joy, bliss, grace that can only be known when death is no longer a finale but passage into greatest light of spirit – not seen from the small view of 1 human life but from the greatest wisdom of LIFE.

We come full circle, the return of the Goddess, the land, the ancient one that was always here, now residing in our hearts to guide our journeys ongoing.   This tour resonated with such bliss, joy and heart connecting.  We Remember the Circle of Life with all of lIfe.  We end the mirage of separation, and dive into the flow of soulful living.

August 2015 we are will be returning to the Ireland Sacred Lands –  join our monthly Newsletter to hear more about the 2015 Sacred Ireland Tour

Bosnian Pyramids tour 2013 Solstice Awakening!

My 3rd consecutive year going back to the Bosnian Pyramids – what a joyful adventure into this majestic and mystical landscape and sacred site.  One thing that’s so special about this sacred site is that its coming alive, the live dig, with Dr Semir’s welcome invitation to get involved, allows you to be part of the birthing of an ancient place of significance into the modern world.

The pyramids are being unveiled, the now at least 24,600 year old Pyramid of the Sun is revealing more of its secrets every year in the caring hands of Dr Sam and his core team, along with the enthusiasm and curiosity of an ever expanding community of volunteers.

The pyramids are attracting international groups, interested in the archeology, but also those who know and sense the high vibration vortex of energy centred here.   This year our group,  with participants from 8 countries, came because they felt drawn to explore the spiritual and energetic aspects of the pyramids.  Our tour focused on connecting deeply with the landscape and spending time in meditation at these key sites, allowing the rich insights and mystical journey to open before us, whilst also letting joy and celebration be our guide.   Here are some of my golden moments for our 2013 adventure

And to read about our 2014 Bosnian Pyramids tour visit here

To see more photos from our 2013 Bosnian Pyramids tour visit here

Waters of cleansing and renewal, receiving the codes of the Land

Bosnia has many natural springs, thermal and healing waters.  We began our tour with a visit to the Bosna river headwaters, a beautiful tranquil place, where the water is so pure you can drink it directly from the headwaters.    The waters of the land have permeated through all the layers of the earth, containing all the minerals and codes of the landscape, so to offer blessings and thanks to the waters is a wonderful entrance into a sacred landscape.  We enjoyed an opening ceremony of cleansing, renewal and inner awakening, leading our group in beginning the inner journey that had been awaiting them at this sacred site.  

Through the tour my appreciation of the waters continued – the hidden streams next to different pyramid sites were delicious, we could almost feeling the cellular renewal as we sipped the crystal clear water!    We also closed our time at the pyramids with the healing essence at their heart – the sacred pool in the labyrinth healing tunnels that has 20 times the level of negative ions vs the outside stream water.  A very precious and sacred experience indeed.

Sunset light – the circle opens

Yantara and my favorite spot for opening our connection to the pyramids is the Vratnica Tumulus, a hollow mound similar to Sillbury hill.  From here we watched the last rays of sun go down and deepen our personal resonance with the hidden aspects of the landscape.  Our guide shared more with us about how the pyramids were built, questions  arose such as how were such large blocks of stone moved and how were carved into the exquisite ripples and texturing of the huge circa 3ft deep blocks?  Was there a quantum technology used to liquify and solidify the stones?   We then entered into meditation through sound, toning and light language.  Bathed in beautiful harmonies from Yantara our group joined in resonant song, connecting to the grids of light radiating through the site and us.

Stone Spheres, Sacred Geometry and Elemental Spirit Rising

Around the world, Stone spheres are regularly found near pyramid sites.  There is much speculation on their purpose and also on how they were created so perfectly spherical.  Detailed research of these sites by Nenard Djurdevic offers some interesting discoveries.  Most interesting to me is that for each group I have taken to the Pyramids, everyone falls in love with the valley of stone spheres.   Repeatedly people share just how special it was to be there, mystical experiences with the elemental spirits of the land, and the profound cellular and energetic realignment that happens through the activations that Yantara and I have led there.  For me, this is the land of dragons, of unity, void and oneness of the sphere, and the passageway into the stillness point at the centre of all that is.   No wonder its so difficult to get people to leave this space!

Pyramid Activations – Dr Semir on fire

Somewhere along the way, those of us from Europe have got the message that, yes OK, we have mounds, and stone circles and henges, but pyramids – their really just found on the far shores of Egypt and Central America, aren’t they?  Even our participants, who have researched the Bosnian pyramids, watched the videos, read the facts, got past the misinformation, still have that lingering thought – is it really possible? Pyramids here?

So, in the heat of the Bosnian summer, we begin the hike up the stairway of wooden/dirt steps to the archeological site on the north face of the Pyramid of the Sun.  Dr Semir leads the way, we come around the final bushes and open out onto the now quite large excavation site of huge cement panels that are the side of the pyramid.  As Samir talks, it starts to sink in.   Samir shares the extensive research and discoveries from the site including the scientific testing to age the panels, (12,000-30,000 years old) and in 2012  the aging of a still intact leaf found on the surface of the panels that dates the pyramid at at least 24,600 years old.  

Then you see people really getting it, this is for real, we are standing on the most ancient building and monument in history, the largest, oldest most accurately alignment pyramid in the world.  Something about hearing Samir share the information, whilst also standing on the pyramid allows it to drop in.  History is not as we think it to be, great intelligence existed before ‘our civilization’ had been born.  Excitement bubbles and quiet contemplation takes in the hugeness of this information.

Labyrinth Tunnels: healing and star lineages

Each year when we go back , its the labyrinth tunnels which become a key point for connecting to the whole pyramid site.  The high energy of the tunnels, with a greater Bovis rating than a Tibetan monastery’s is a special place indeed.  At the key vortex points, we led meditation to activate our lightbodies, star lineages and cellular healing.  Through sound and light language the healing and awakening took place, tears and laughter arrived with us, masculine and feminine lineages were brought into balance.   We wound our way through the tunnels, meeting the energetic pull of the megaliths, the tunnels mini lake and the key vortex points through the passage ways.  We sang our thanks and gratitude to the guardians of the tunnels for our experience of connect with them.  We left carrying a lightness of being and an aura of peace.

Summer Solstice Ceremonies – Venus Doorways of Love Opening

Before the Summer Solstice, our group were experiencing the energetic preparations and intuitive knowings that this was a time of alchemy through fire.  Specifically, of welcoming in the Divine Feminine influence into our lives and bringing harmony with the Divine Masculine.  In the day, we visited the Dragon Pyramid, with a ritual of fire cleansing at the apex, offering mantra and gifts to the fire.  Late afternoon we made our way to the apex of the Pyramid of the Sun. 

Our group was leading the ceremony for the event.  350+ people had gathered from all over the world to mark this occasion, the peak solar energy of 2013, the apex of the first cycle of the Divine Feminine rising.   With the moon in the sky in the east, and with the setting sun in the west, Yantara & I, along with Gil Agilera, Sundancer and Spiritual Guide and wise woman Dr. Christiane May-Ropers opened ceremony with lighting of sage and cedar, offering our prayers to the ancestors, to the directions and guardians of the place. 

We started to tone and sing in harmony, with the whole gathering joining in for rounds of ‘Love, Harmony, Blessings, Colours & Rainbows’.   Salutations and prayers to the sun came forth from our hearts.  As the sun went down on the horizon, so it entered our hearts for safe keeping, to honor the earth, to honor each other and to honor ourselves.

Joyous blessings unfolded, dancing at the foot of the pyramids, dancing on the bus home, laughter and joy being the sounds that continued to flow from our travels.  What a wonderful tour!  THANK YOU to Yantara for co-creating love, beauty and grace.  THANK YOU to our WONDERFUL GROUP, friendship rippling out across the world from what we created.  I Love you All

Yantara and I will be facilitating the Bosnian Pyramids Summer Solstice Tour 2014 – stay tuned!

Avalon Rising Goddess Tour

The journey of returning, returning to the ancients lands of Bath, Avebury, Stonehenge, Glastonbury.  A calling to gather, to reunite with each other and the land.  This journey felt like the completion of the first spiral of the Goddess codes that entered at the March equinox, which we experienced in the land of first light,  New Zealand.  In March, we experienced the star codes and Magdalene energies birthing through sacred ceremony, which from New Zealand we brought to the  Goddesslands of Ireland before returning them to the Heart Chakra of the planet, Avalon, through the sacred waters, leylines and ancient star portals of Stonehenge and Avebury.   

Walking this journey was to embody the Hologram of Being; living and acting from the knowing that each one of us is the coming together of many light streams.  Individual light streams might be referred to as past lives, parallel lives, mythic being, star lineages, Gods and Goddesses.   In this journey, I witnessed our group of sacred travellers shimmering with the remembrance and embodiment of their unique and vast hologram of light containing many rays of light.  Each person sharing the wisdom of each life/light stream at the perfect time and creating magic through living the multi-dimensional, timeless Beings we all are.  So although at any one time, we might have been a group of 15 or so, it felt like the Great Council of the Cosmos was permanently in session!

Our first stop, the Roman Baths – Healing Waters, Temple Cleansing

The Royal Bath Spa is known for its healing thermal and mineral waters, the epicentre of which is the Roman Baths.  Perhaps not so well known is that the Goddess of the waters worshiped here – Minerva, (Roman) and Sulis, (British water goddess of Bath) was called upon by ‘followers’ to give power to curses for large and small offenses deemed to have been done to the individual who then threw a metallic ‘votive’  into the waters.     For those of us who know the power of conscious intent, this is not an energetic resonance that one wants to bring to sacred healing waters, and can cause an overlay of disturbance in a place that otherwise brings healing and blessings.  

Our group prayerfully gathered outside of the waters, aligning to the purity of divine justice and honor of the sacred feminine in her true presence of Minerva Sulis.  With the sunrays falling into the main bath, we watched the stars dance on the water.  Scrying in the great pool we received the shapes of beautiful guardians forming in the light. Moving through the complex we became priests and priestesses of the place, carried purposefully on our own journeys through the temple, anointing here, blessing there.  I found myself by the main bath, settled by the waters, loosing all time and entering into a calling back of soul fragments.  After a time, our group spontaneously gathered, surrounding the inner baths in silence, presence and sureness of intent that these Baths are sacred, pure, healing waters.

Part of our spiritual journey is holding space through love and acceptance of the polarities of life in order to bring unity and harmony – a big first few hours of the journey!  Our group had experience deep energetic healing and initiations leading to elation, excitement and readiness to go back to our beautiful boutique hotel for delicious food and a much earned rest before entering the Avalon landscape.

Avebury Awakening

On our tours, we often visits stone circles, henges, quoits, cairns, pyramids, temples and standing stones.  In all these places, we remember that we are ‘meeting’ the stones.  Stones hold resonances and information of the place and people that have been there, as well as having their own unique energetic signature.  In Avebury, Ive often watch a wonderful sweetness unfold as individuals connect with the stones, as if greeting a great grandmother.  The stones here hold a beautiful softness with their wisdom and power.  

Passing around the Universal Tongue, we share our visions and presence.  The council again in session we drop into deep meditation with the vibrational alchemy of Aurora Alchemy Oils connecting us to the Goddess and the essential qualities of the divine feminine expressed through us.   Since working with Yvette’s hand mixed oils, I’ve experienced how they lift me to a profound experience of the Goddess, (the powerhouse of pure potential existent in the form of the feminine that quickly goes beyond words and is expressed in the divine reverence of the Goddess in all cultures).  I’ve found that working with them reveals insights and understanding of who I am, my purpose, as well as healing and opening me to experiences of deep peace, joy, freedom and abundance.   So when we gather together in a sacred place working with the  oils, our experience goes even deeper.   Our circle of meditation became a perfect preparation for a second ceremony of healing and releasing on the ridge of Avebury circle. We anointed each other and offered energy healing, letting go even deeper into who we are, shedding our limiting surface beliefs and opening to the vibrancy of Being underneath.

Completing our day we went to the white horse of Cherhill,  calling in our lineages from the eye of the horse, we ignited and celebrated the fire within.  Dance, song, chanting accompanied quite reflection and clear intention to anchor the highest vibration of Golden Light through us and in this sacred landscape.  A beautiful sunset completed our day.

Stonehenge Sings

Private ceremony for sunrise in Stonehenge is a special occasion, the stones vibrate with wisdom, love, peace and star awakening.  Gathered in the centre of the stones, Yvette, Barney & Isis, spun us in circles of light whilst calling to the ancient ones.   My part was to be leading the group in making tones and sounds of the heart, and as I did, I heard how harmonic we were.  As we continued I heard the sonic reverberation from the stones as they audibly connected to us.  Stonehenge is known to be a sound chamber, however without all the stones standing, its rare to hear them sing, an experience that I will treasure always.   Our ceremony of blessings continued with Rainbow Eagle igniting the Fire within us and Goddess activations from Yvette whilst we sung ancient prayers to the land and ancestors.

The Gateway to Avalon Soul Awakening

Glastonbury Abbey is for me the place of balance and centering in the alchemy of the greater area of Glastonbury.  Although on the outside we see the ruins of an old Abbey, many people experience it as a place of pilgrimage, retreat and prayerful connection alive with high vibration energies.

Our group entered and gravitated to King Arthur’s grave as we remembered the royal lineages of all peoples.  Spontaneous ceremony awoke from the heart with a rainbow bridge of Care Bears created, healing the karmic pain of separation and conflict into service and love.  Our group was deeply moved as two individuals were willing to express this healing through their own lineages; healing pain between the masculine and feminine and different races. It  was an honor to be a witness.

Continuing we entered a small chapel where a powerful mural of Mary Magdalene is painted.  Toning and singing moved through us, and more tears were offered up with the power of connecting to the mysteries of the Goddess. We then visited the most ancient part of the Abbey, the Lady Chapel.  We entered referentially, with candles lit on the altar.  Naturally the singing of ‘Mary, Maria’ began and we journeyed inwards, centering in the stillness within.    We received the silence, full with soul riches before emerging back into the Abbey.

Following the energetic current that had been building, three of our group, encircled by soul midwives and guardians entered into a soul rebirthing.   With a willingness to allow the star energies to pass through them in the protective space of the group, tears and laughter erupted into a celebration of spirit before an evening of sharing our stories and experiences together with new soul friends.

As with all our journeys, the end is just the beginning.  In our Goddesslands sacred tour of Ireland and Avalon, I feel many of our group have felt that the journey opened a new vista to their Giant, Avatar self and established a foundation for greatness that is now manifesting through them into the world. Go Goddess!

Ireland: the Journey of the Goddess, Queen and Fairy lineages

On 31st May, we departed on our Goddesslands Ireland sacred tour – 8 days of visiting sacred sites of the ancient mother goddess of the landscape, reconnecting with our sovereign lineages and opening to the magic of the Fairy realms. To find out more about this year’s Ireland Goddess Tour, go here.

Landing into Dublin with the arrival of our small band of sacred travelers, Yvette Sitten and I shared again how we felt the calling of the land in a very special and intimate way. Having moved through the watershed of 2012, we enter into the vibration of 13, always the mystic doorway to the next level, as many of you have been feeling this year is the emergence of the feminine as the leader of the new cycle, not to topple the masculine, but to become the strength, light and inspiration so that the true masculine can arise in harmonious unity with the feminine bringing forth the victory of peace and love.

To  read the itinerary of the Ireland Goddess Tour 2015 visit here

To see more photos from Ireland tour 2013 visit here

Coming to Ireland, we knew we had come to a stronghold of the divine feminine, some of the most ancient art work of the Goddess religions found in the Boyne Valley, the ancient triple Goddess of Brigid still much alive in the St Brigit churches everywhere. And of course the Virgin Mary venerated across Ireland at shines, wells and sacred sites expressing the miraculous innocents and purity that has never been lost.

So straight off the plane, we went to the fire temple of St Brigit’s Cathedral in Kildare. We arrived and almost immediately our group came together in effortless ceremony. Within the Fire Temple still honored at the site, we sang and shared our visions and offerings for our journey ahead, we anointed each other and the site with the Goddess oils, feeling the fire of awakening in us.

Curious of our ceremony, two children were introduced to us by a local woman. The children enjoyed anointing the land with us, the grandmother and grandfather of the children arrived. We felt the lineages of past and future coming to welcome us. Friendship and synchronicity created a bond with the lovely local woman who introduced them. She showed us the secret symbolism of the goddess in the Cathedral, including a Sheela na gig, Seed of Life and Dragons. She became our guide through the land, giving us a priestess entrance to the Holy Wells of St Brigid, including a ceremony of spirals we will never forget, introducing us to the Sisters of St. Brigid, sitting with the eternal flame of St Brigid and a communal dinner at her home that opened our hearts even more.

From the first day, this no longer felt like a tour, but a soul family reunion on sacred soil.

The next day, we visited the the ancient site of in Boyne valley, the great cairns of New grange and Knowth. As I traced the great serpents of the Knowth with a Black Crows feather, I felt the landscape opening. This site feels like the home of sisterhoods and fairies. If one allows, an effortless magical realm is entered. The beauty of the stone carvings, the lush green cairns tops hiding the exquisite sacred geometric form of stone used to create these passageway to the centre of the cairn. Layers and layers of the landscape start to speak with us and down the rabbit hole we go.

New Grange with its majestic white quartz rock sides brings a different energy. Diamonds join the spirals in the rock art. Used in modern technology and healing the properties of crystal are the same; to be a transmitter, receiver, high volume information storage device and bringer of crystal clear resonance. Now imagine, walking into an ancient crystal rock sacred geometric ceremonial chamber , New Grange is a powerful portal for receiving celestial information, cosmic attunement and energetic alignment. As we walked down the passage engraved with Diamonds, (a sacred geometric form of our energy body recognized across traditions) and spirals, (the cosmos, creation, spirit), we reached the central chamber that is so light, aligned energetically fine that joy, happiness, peace, love, gratitude well up all at once.

A perfect preparation for the Hill of Tara, where we shared our songs and blessings with the fairy tree and ceremony at the Stone of Destiny as the golden light of the sunset reminds us of the god/goddess self in all of us.

Wow…and only day 2!

Our journey through the landscape took us to unexpected sites of power such as this Oracle stone, largely unknown and forgotten yet holding immense remembrance of prophecy for all the true oracles awakening on the planet. A stone could not have called more to our hearts.

We traveled on to Lough Crew Cairns and Alice in Wonderland gardens. We met another member of our soul family traveling with her young child. Atop the great Queen’s seat and cairn, spontaneous ceremony arose honoring the queen lineages of past and future with much love and tears shared.

There were many places we visited that were incredible intimate, special places. These places just called our hearts and when we arrived clearly guided our journey. Once such place, was a sacred cave known as the ‘cave of cats’. If you asked me before hand if I would climb down through a hole no bigger than the average kitchen cupboard, caked in wet, slippery clay like mud, take a group and willingly stay down there for 2 hours, my answer would have been no way. However held in the celtic lineages of warrior queens, we all entered into the sound chamber and womb of the earth. I sensed how we were One, willing to be our primal self, willing to own our majestic self, willing to say YES to who we are and what we bring to the world. All doubt, all fear, gone. Surrender manifest. Soul Power initiated.

Emerging into the world of light with deep love for the darkness. We proceeded directly to the Cairn of Queen Maeve, the highest physical point of our journey. Queen Maeve is the real and mythic queen of the nation, a maker of 9 kings, a fair and just ruler of the lands and holder of the royal blood lines that connect us to the ancient people of the Tuatha De Dannan. Reaching the top of the carin the majesty of this place is tangible. We are surrounded on 3 sides by water and watch the play of the last golden light of the day on the surrounding valleys and mountains. Spontaneously we dropped into silent meditation, it felt to me as if light were raining down on us. We allowed our own visions, rediscovering the mystic in us who has always been guiding us. As a sisterhood, we anointed, crowned and celebrated each other, reclaiming our sovereign soul of dignity, presence and beauty. Tears, laughter, song, celebration continued with the sunset of all sunset, creating a glorious light over the waters.

It felt that surely our journey had reached it climatic completion and yet the journey of the sovereign soul was just beginning. Next we visited the Knock Shrine of the Virgin Mary, a pilgrimage site for many from all over the world, honoring the sacred and the miraculous created through strength of love and purity of heart. Here we encountered some resistance to our way of dressing and the language of our prayers for peace. Individually and collectively as a group, our peaceful yet assertive choice of Being further awakened our Soul Power. We exist in a multi-dimensional reality with many layers and aspects acting at one time. At Knock I was aware of how patterns of the past, (be it this life, past lives, ancestral), continue to play, until they are met with peace and love. To respond instead of reacting, (re-act = to re do a past action = Karma) means we create from freedom, (= to be sovereign) gifting our present the seeds of peace and love. The Sisterhood of the Rose landed – and thank you Patti for gifting Rose badges to us that day!

Directly from here we headed to the south west of Cork, Kerry and Limerick where magic is tangible and renowned. We arrived to a recently renovated, beautiful hotel in the countryside. Met by the owner we felt indeed treated like queens as we explored perhaps the best spa I have ever visited! Integration, relaxation, sensuality were the clear messages coming to us.

All in preparation to meet the fairy circles, the hidden valleys, and waterfalls gateways. This is where the journey deepens again because we had prepared ourselves sufficiently to listen to nature as it is, the landscape now can speak directly. The guardians are physically visible in the rocks and soil, whispers from the spirit of the land are a normal part of conversation with the aliveness of life.

And we simply play our role. Which is to Be Alive. We see and know all is Alive. We experience our existence in a living temple. Natures Temple built and maintained by the aliveness of the land, whether you feel and sense that as universal energy or include a diversity of devic, faerie & elemental consciousness. Like all temples, nature is a place to give blessings, gratitude and appreciation. As we offer our love and blessing to the individual trees, rocks, waterfalls, mountains, valleys, flowers, streams and animals, nature reciprocates with the joyous abundance that she’s known for. The Cygnus Swan maidens manifest themselves as a real, beautiful low flying swan across the centre of a stone circle at the end of our ceremony. Sunsets leave us charged with lifeforce. Cat guardians of sacred waterfalls make themselves visible.

With naturalness and humble awakening, our journey into the Goddesslands completes through returning us to our connection with all life in equality and harmony. A return to the Garden of Eden that has always been here. The veils are lifted from our own consciousness, innocence is reinstated and the quiet revolution that returns all to the throne of their Being has begun. 

Thank you to Yvette for envisioning this tour and birthing it into being, thank you to all the beautiful Goddesses who co-created this very special tour with us. 

Diamond Light of the Heart Audio Activation

Becoming the Cosmic Humans that we are means opening to the wisdom of love.  We are learning to become a vehicle for the flow of pure chi, prana, light through all dimensions of our Being.  Activating the Diamond Light of your Heart is a profound and beautiful way of opening to your greater Cosmic Self.   Clare shares this free audio download to support you in activating the codes of the Cosmic Human

Click on this text, to be taken to Clare Russell’s Diamond Light of the Heart Audio Activation.  Clare speaks briefly about what is the Diamond Lightbody and then you will enter a 30 minute Activation.   

The beautiful image of the Diamond light body is by Yantara Jiro,  international vocalist, sound healer and facilitator of our Bosnian Pyramids Summer Solstice 2013 Sacred Tour

On May 11th Clare begins her Codes of the Cosmic Human  program with The Vortexes of Creation 1 day in-depth initiation: May 11th 2013: Places still available, location Bath UK – follow this link for more information

Let your soul shine through receiving the flow of universal energy into your life. Dynamically manage your inner and outer transformation by learning the subtle laws of creation embodied in the vortex.

• Deep dive into the vortex of the heart
• Bridge heaven & earth through your transpersonal chakra system
• Maintain a healthy & balanced energy body  *Align to the cosmic order

The Diamond Lightbody, Diamond light codes, Diamond Light of the Heart exist in many traditions from Buddhist, Egyptian, indigenous peoples through to a lot of the recent spiritual writings.   The diamond is showing us the path to our crystalline form.  When you compress carbon, (our form pre crystalline) to the highest levels, a transformation process is created where the clearest, purest and strongest gem, the Diamond is created.  The Diamond is a multi-prismed reflection of all light, thus allowing us to access with clarity, purity and fullness the great spectrum of light aspects that we are.   On a spiritual level it is the cleaning process of the heart to arrive at unconditional love, compassion, stillness, presence and unity consciousness.

Diamond light of the heart audio Activation link

Spring Energy shifts, awakening of Gaia Consciousness

Ive recently got back from travels to New Zealand where I met with the ancient Waitaha people of the land. It was a phenomenal adventure in consciousness and a huge opening of the doorways into our greater cosmic self.  

In fact, I believe this is something that has happened across the planet, (and maybe universes – who knows!), that on the equinox a new wave of energy came in, preceding the birthing of the Avatar or Cosmic Human over the Easter Full Moon. That from this anchoring of the Cosmic Self, we are opening to our awareness and oneness with Gaia, the living being of which we are part.

Experiences before the Equinox: letting go and flowing with change

Some of you may have experienced emotional, physical and other challenges or disturbances before the equinox, (March 20th/21st), I heard from quite a few people going through clearings, cleansing, some feeling old emotions coming up and some experiencing circumstances in their lives that invited old reactions to come up for clearing.

Perhaps for others of you before the equinox you noticed a loosening of old structures, an increasing of flow and lessons in living in abundance, these could include increased flexibility in planning, prioritizing of what you really want based on soul purpose and core values, becoming more aware of the power of your breath in moving energy and receiving abundance, enhancement of your natural intuitive knowing and sensing of your subtle self’s response to situations or choices.

In my experience the Equinox represented a dissolution of the old matrix in the subtle realms -thus the passageway of the 21st Dec 2012 solstice, (marking the shift between one age to another) reached another important marker.  The period from Dec to March 20th has been one of reinvention, creation, releasing, letting go, forgiveness, and inner time of exploration and growth that has been a potent preparation for new beginnings.

Energetic Shifts post the Equinox: Awakening Cosmic Consciousness
As of March 21st, we entered into the next stage of evolutionary development – the anchoring of the Avatar self into physical form.  My experience of this time has been quite astounding, the total cosmic and multidimensional nature of who we are is coming into form.  I have experienced how real and tangible the ‘other’ realities are becoming, our soul purpose is having a much greater influence on how our lives unfold day to day.  The beautiful part is how naturally this is happening – everyday situations are now very obviously becoming sacred ceremony in action.  We are calling upon our total authority as divine sovereign beings to act for the greatest good of all, with peace, harmony, love and truth, oneness our goal.

You may have noticed this in your own life through increased synchronicity, heightened direct guidance coming from your inner voice, dreamtime becoming more active as you work consciously across realms. You might be meeting new and interesting people with wisdom to share with you about the soul and subtle realms.  You might experience connections with other dimensions, (for example, nature spirits, elementals, angelics, ET’s, your guides, power animals) in new clearer, beautiful ways.

Anchoring the Avatar/Cosmic Self

The key now is that this great experience and knowing of who you are is anchoring in you.  This is beautiful and exciting.  To support yourself with this,  I recommend simple sitting, reflection, breathing and meditations.  This supports you through creating stillness in your 3d/ego/personality levels so that the higher dimensions can become conscious.  The stillness you discover is also the place from which your highest guidance will come.  A simple intention is to affirm, ‘I am light’ or ‘I am Divine Light’. As you say this to yourself out loud or through your inner voice, see a beautiful golden light coming down to you from source.  See it coming down through your crown chakra and through your whole chakra  system, with special awareness of it in the heart chakra.  See all levels of your being filled with golden light.  Especially know that your physical body becomes and is golden light – this will help in physically anchoring your cosmic, avatar self.

I have also written an article on Awakening the Cosmic Self and a short video on what is the Cosmic Self. I recommend reading and watching these and then going into reflective meditation to hear your own direct guidance on the evolutionary process as it unfolds in you.

Finally, on May the 11th,  the first 1 day in-depth initiation into the Cosmic Human: Vortexes of Creation is happening near Bath.  I welcome you to come to this adventure into the true cosmic purpose of our lives.

Since mid April:  A growing connection to Gaia Consciousness.

The more we become our cosmic self, the more we feel our oneness with the earth, and its my experience that in the last couple of weeks there have been opportunities to harmonise, align and remember our oneness with Gaia.   The paradigm of the inert lifeless matter of earth that is used for humans to create industry has been dissolving over recent years.  We can see the damage that has occurred from the false belief that our contact with earth is a oneway relationship of humans doing and taking.  We understand now that Gaia works in cycles and currents; that through a balance of giving and receiving Gaia maintains health and stability in our ecosystems and biosphere.   Our awakened concern for the rain forests, the bees, the waters show the gradual mass ‘getting’ of these truths. 

From a spiritual perspective, we are also undergoing a new level of awakening in our oneness with Gaia.  You might feel this as a renewed love for nature, an increased sensitivity to the energies of trees, special areas in nature to you, a desire to be in and around water.   You might also feel currents of energy coming up from the earth, awareness of the kundalini energy activating within you, a sense of wanting and needing to feel and know Gaia on a spiritual level, (for ultimately spiritual grounding is just as necessary as physical grounding).  However, because we can have fear associated with being embodied on the earth, you might also feel a desire to escape.  There has been a spiritual disconnection with Gaia for many that as a collective we are healing.   In the Codes of the Cosmic Human Vortexes of Creation 1 day event we explore in depth and activate our  energetic and spiritual connection to Gaia  through working with the Earth Star and earth vortexes.   A simple and profound way for you to strengthen your spiritual connection with Gaia is the ancient and global meditation of connecting with your heart, then sending love to and connecting with the heart of mother earth, and feeling her love returned to you.   Monday 22nd April is international Earth Day – a celebration of the earth and bringing awareness to how we can come back into balance and harmony with Gaia cycles.   I will be joining an international ‘singing to trees’ event, perhaps you might also find a way to celebrate and awaken Gaia consciousness for you.

Sacred Sites: why are you called?

Visiting sacred sites has been such a transformational experience for me and all the participants on our tours.  I thought I’d share a little about why we are called to these sites and why so much magic unfolds when we are there.  Love Clare