Stone Circles & Ley Lines – Summer Solstice 2023

So, I’m going to dive straight in to some of my deepest spirtual work as the timing feels pertinent!

Last week, in the lead up to Summer Solstice, or ‘soulstice’ as it became for us, I joined up with some dear Reiki Master friends to provide a United Kingdom Heart Chakra Distance Healing and Activation series.

It truly was evidence that beautiful things can manifest from unfortunate events, as on those dates, I had been due to complete the ultimate level of reiki training, the Karuna Reiki Master with a world renowned Reiki Master at Glastonbury, along with my dear friend Nichole Olsen, whom I met at the Reiki Retreat in Sedona last September (more on that story later).

However, the class sadly had to be cancelled last minute due to a severe injury from the instructor. Nichole was unable to cancel her flights, so we decided to still go ahead anyway and create our own healing adventure!!

So, we set off to camp across the United Kingdom with Nichole Olsen and another woman, Hilda Chen, similarly in Uk for our cancelled training. We followed the rainbow serpent ley lines and visited all major sacred sites as well as soaked up the energy of the land.

As we toured we provided a live stream (when possible) activation online group healing for donations https://www.facebook.com/events/2493395750836208/?ref=newsfeed and we shared meditations and channeled energy from the sacred sites for healing and heart activations!!

The earth has major energetic points just like our body. The HEART CHAKRA energetic world point is Glastonbury (https://www.torstourofthetor.com/) and so as predestined… this is where our journey began.

Our journey began there with visiting the Chalice Wells (where the holy grail is supposedly buried). Here is the red chalice well – the sacred water of divine feminine energy. You can see the redness in colour from the iron content. Red to represent the blood that connects all women (and the internal femine/yin aspects of both male & females) through their menstrual cycle, fertility and creative potential.

We enjoyed drinking this water directly from the spring source further up the hill, blessing it before savouring its sweet iron taste. We chatted a lot about its relationship to blood and the ancient ritual of women drinking their own menstrual blood to provide themselves with nutrients and bless themselves with greater fertility, creative potential and intuitive abilities. Blood was also poured on the land to aid crops and to bless sites. Women & men would both partake in the drinking of this blood too. It was a sacred and much celebrated ritual. It caused us to reflect on the myths surrounding vampirism and the wild woman and we shared stories about past lives we have each been shown during medtation that resonate with this ritual.

From the top of Glastonbury Tor we shared an activation while connecting to the energy of the leylines. Glastonbury is the site where the masculine and feminine ley lines cross, creating a powerfully energetic spot for healing the heart chakra with unconditonal love and inner strength as the two sides of yin and yang energy restore balance to our energetic bodies.

This activation felt deeply healing on so many levels on this site as 3 light workers from 3 different places around the world joined together from the East, West & ancient West. The activation brought land clearing, love and unity back to some dark places. The healing message here was an unlocking of hearts – we all store so much magical healing in our hearts yet we have tended to keep that part of ourselves locked up, this healing assisted in opening up those spaces and allowing the magic to flow.

The next day we visited the Abbey. Nichole and I were both drawn to specific spaces within the site and our intuition led us to King Arthur’s resting place and the Lady’s chapel of St.Mary. At King Arthur’s grave we each felt competely overwhelmed with a sense of deep sadness to the point of being moved to tears. It was overwhelming and bizarre. I was shown to move to the great altar and here I witnessed marriages, coronations and was shown the place where the dead would be layed out before thier memorial. Amusingly, Nichole and I later visited this spot together and without thinking both had an overwhelming desire to lay down, whic we did. I then remembered the significance of what the spot had been used for and this made us both laugh!

The Lady’s Chapel was built by Joseph of Aramathea & Mary Magdalene on the site where they returned the holy grail. Joseph also lies entombed there. It was one of the most divinely spiritual places we visited throughout our tour. Joseph used to conduct healings in the crypt and as we sat one eac side of his tomb, I was shown to raise my hands and a figure slashed the imaginary chains from my wrists. Ths felt very liberating if a little unusual. It was a sif I was being released from a past imprisonment of some sort. I accepted this with gratitude.

We then went to the cavernous, white (for masculine energy) chalice well – the masculine representation of the two ley lines which meet here in Glastonbury. It was a divine pleasure to strip off and bathe here, completely submerging ourselves in its icy waters as for a baptism. It proved a magical experience which words fail me to express. The ability to spend time among men and women in an exposed fashion whilst feeling completely safe gave us each a strong sense of the energetic archetype of the divine masculine. The space held such a sacred energy, certainly we sensed this during the time we were within its candle lit, cavernous walls, with its masculine & feminine pagan shrines and the lilting music of a male singer and his companions on guitar and drum. The worship we witnessed was deeply moving.

From there, feeling refreshed, we headed off to meet two ancient trees recommended to us by an old friend of mine who came to visit us. Gog & Magog, as they’re known, have over 1000 years each in lifespan. They stand proud as the only remnants of the original avenue of oaks that provided the gateway to Glastonbury Tor from the South. The tales they could tell…

Finally on this day, we headed off to watch the sunset at Stonehenge and to do another activation. The energies there were all manner of things but overall had a playful and celebratory feel. We could really feel the energies hotting up for solstice. Interestingly both Nichole and I witnessed ocean animals, a ship and a boat on the site during ur meditation. This caused us to wonder if the site had once been under water. Certainly, there is evidence that nearby Glastonbury Tor had been an island at one point.

The site is only accessible 4 times a year, on each of the 4 quarters – the two solstices and the two equinoxes. At these points it is free to enter. Meanwhile visitors either pay to take part in a tour to visit the rocks themselves or can pay to enter the site and walk its circumference. It was closed during our quiet evening visit, creating a deeply peaceful and restorative feeling. After our meditation we were visited by a Great Busted, an almost extinct bird which was reintroduced to the Salisbury planes in 2004 and now there are around 40 of them!

The next day it was time to head to Dartmoor! We went via Widecombe -in-the-moor (https://www.widecombe-in-the-moor.com/) and the ancient clapper bridge of Postbridge (https://www.postbridge.com/), where I grew up, before pulling up at Soussons Stone Circle (http://www.saintsandstones.net/stones-soussons-journey.htm) for another activation. This was the first time that we experienced any major interference with the internet. Our signal was strong and yet as soon as we entered the cirle to begin the meditation, it would seem that the electromagnetic forces of the iphone were competing with the electromagnetic forces of the circle and the ancients – with the ancients winning!

Nichole saw many peole watching us through the trees from Mediaeval ladies right through to bronze age warriors, often very scantily clad. I was shown that we are the flesh and blood of our ancestors. They are part of us and we them. On this day, we gave them the spiritual equivalent of a clean shave. Through connecting with them they experienced a fresh new perspective, seeing things from our heightened vibration. In turn we received the wisdom and spiritual gifts of our past from them. I also saw that we each healed on a deep soul level today and our souls will sing as we are drawn more clearly to new parts of our soul. It will sing as we connect more deeply with native energy.

So many people have walked this local path and connected with this circle in so many ways. It felt divine to connect to its highst ibrations and bear witness to those who showed up.

From here it was time for a quick pasty (a Dartmoor special) then another short but hot hike up to the ancient woodland of Whistman’s wood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistman%27s_Wood) with its 800 year old oak trees, for another activation. The energies in this shrunken forest were magical and the forest felt enchanting. We were shown images of Merlin and there were many elementals present. The trees remain small as they are so high up on the skirts of Dartmoor. It makes for a cosy, mossy setting with tree beard everywhere and a strong feeling of Lord of the Rings! For me, the energy was deeply reminiscent of the sensations I experienced from Kii Katsuura waterfall & pilgrims trail in, Japan. I get the sense that in these spaces the trees still hold the energy of bygone times and can communicate the essence of peacefulness on a very pure, hgh frequency. It was quite a wrench for each of us to leave this heavenly space.

We just about had time then for a cream tea stop at the famous Two Bridges Inn, before buying snacks and heading off to make camp up at Ditsworthy Waren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditsworthy_Warren_House.

Today was pure magic!! We woke up from sleeping under the stars and jumped into the river to refresh which totally did the trick! Then we hiked up Ditsworthy Warren where we saw what appeared to be a physical representation of the rainbow serpent dragon ley line (https://dragondreaming.wordpress.com/ley-lines-dragon-lines/) coming out of the ground. (As you can see from the photo) We tried to go live but service was spotty. Any of our fellow reiki practitioners, please tap into this photo and send to the ley lines and world chakra points through the stones! It was quite a powerful activation.

Next we backpacked out and headed to Tintagel Castle and Merlin’s Cave (make sure to watch the video on our activation site – https://www.facebook.com/events/2493395750836208/?ref=newsfeed). Tintagel is the farthest you can reach as the ley lines go into the ocean and connect at sacral chakra point Lake Titticaca in Peru. This area felt incredibly peaceful and serene. As we looked out across the Celtic sea, there were golden sparkles of light reflecting back like channels to higher dimensions. It was very much like sitting beside the ocean of Holy Love. We each independently saw visions of Arthur & Guinevere here. It seems the cliffs also provided a useful way of disposing of people too, when deemed necessary. Althuogh, Nichole felt the sense that Arthur was valiant and fair in his leadership style. Guinevere seemed to hold herself remotely from all the chaos and watch on. Whether these two actually existed is much debated but certainly their energetic footprint was powerfully resonant at all the legendary sites.

From here it there wasa natural rest tim created by the tide times where we could go to the local pub for a fantastic fresh fish supper. We all ate so much!!

Then we were finally able to head to Merlin’s cave. Such an interesting experience. We were in complete darkness in a cave where you can hear the ocean rumbling. It actually felt in a way like a womb and felt safe. But at the same time was frightening as we moved forward in (birthing new) as we literally had no idea what was ahead of us because of the darkness. Such a great reminder in life that you may keep treading, stumbling, praying, and hoping for that light to reappear and show you the way. Nichole and I were consatntly feeding back abut our sensations and experiences and we felt hat Merlin’s alcemy lay in his ability to sit in the sweet spot between fear of certain death and a healing, safe, craetive space. He would have needed to be deeply tuned in to nature cycles to sense the tides changing in order to avoid drowning.

It was a very late finish and we arrived at our last minute airbnb booking at 11pm, falling into our beds at around 1am after hot showers to warm up from the chilly sea swim… however, the magical energies that had been guiding us all trip were not to let us rest. Nichole and I were awakened in shocked unison, at 6am by a loud tapping on the window, performed 3 times, by a crow, which was cawing loudly at us! It was a powerful sign to get moving fast…which we managed…slowly at first.

We headed straight to another place of Arthurian legend… St.Nectan’s waterfall (https://www.st-nectansglen.co.uk/), for our final activation in the south. This is where the knights would allegedly bathe before and after battle to heal thei wounds, emotinal or otherwise, in the cleansing feminine waters. AS can be seen from the rocks, the blood of the divine feminine was clearly represented. As felt natural by this point, we stripped off and got wet again, enjoying the cleansing vibrtions of the cascading water all over us. It was the sound here that felt the most healing. Once again i sensed much magic and embers of Merlin’s presence around us.

In the shop, we each felt drawn to purchase the oracle cards of the glen (https://www.giftsofstnectan.co.uk/product/spirit-of-nature-affirmations/). Then as we wandered the site were fortunate enough to meet the lady who, together with her husband, created th deck. This truly felt like a blessing!

From here, it was time to get back on the motorway and head North to our final destination for this trip, Arbor Lowe (https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/arbor-low-stone-circle-and-gib-hill-barrow/). Here we would sit in the centre of another vortex of intersecting ley lines provided by this ancient neolithic site. Arbor Lowe Henge has its own very powerful vibration. The stones are much smaller and less impressive than Stonehenge, yet its energetic significance felt beyond measure. As we sat for our final activation we were aain surrounded by ancients from all time lines. At one point I felt a powerful connection with Mount Shasta, the root chakra of the Earth – it really helped me to recognise how similarly healing the earth can be to that of a human body in the way that the ley lines are similar to meridians and all interconnect. The ground energy was wrm and despite the faling temperature, a warmth constantly ran throguh us. Again, it felt as though we received solar plexus and throat healing and in turn provided this to the earth.

Sadly, this was the end. We had a wonderful supper of cheese and wine beside the circle befor eheading to my home to rest ahead of the following days sad departures of Nichole & Hilda.

Always, with the intent that it was merely farewell!

Nichole’s feedback…life doesn’t always go as planned but you have to make the best of it and sometimes letting go and surrendering is exactly what needs to happen!! Being in these earth energies directly makes my heart sing and camping/hiking is my way of travel!!! I have never doubted that the universe will give me (and anyone who wants to join in on the healing adventure) exactly what is needed vs what I think I need. And so it is!!!