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The Teachings of Gildas - in Oxfordshire
9 January 2005

Greetings and warmly welcome, as always, to this opportunity to be here and to be with this group. Also to the opportunity that extends to our levels in one sense when you are starting a new year in your time. Because although we interact with your time dimension - of course it doesn’t mean exactly the same to us - but energetically something happens at this beginning of a new year in your time. I’ve said at other new years that it is a time for honouring the energy of Janus – the two-faced god who looks both forwards and backwards at one and the same time, so enabling the present and the future to be informed by the experience and vision of the past. But also to some extent enabling the past to be seen from a new perspective as present and future are embraced – or as present and that which is forever unfolding is embraced, or are embraced. As you come to this point, or as you’re at this point, of course the dramatic events of tsunami are very present with you.

There have been several requests to me to try to do something of a perspective on these events, or on this happening and I would like to use a part of this time, this opportunity, to do that – but also to blend in the message that Janus brings. And that is an important message, not only for the year but for every portal of every minute, every day and night, every sense of renewal, which is of great importance to hold as an energy and as a key word in your times. Now in speaking about an event such as tsunami and of course in order to endeavour to see the fuller understanding of some of its implications, to therefore move into the symbolism of that event, is something that it’s not always easy to do at the same time as having a sensitivity to the devastation, the pain, the desperation and the powerlessness that is experienced at collective and very personal levels.

So before I even attempt to speak in more general terms let it be known that all the angelic forces that can be mustered are around to endeavour to help the healing process, to lessen the levels of human pain and shock - or to enable them to be coped with so that there can be a movement out of and from this disaster and not a stasis. I want to give an assurance that of course on one level we recognise disaster even though we may also speak of a different context, a different meaning.

There are so many things to be learned from tsunami and of course, which are in the process of being learned. If you allow yourselves to stand aside from the shockwave which has hit you all, then you can see that that heart energy that is there within humanity, and that has been growing - which has had in some senses a new initiation, a new budding for some period now in your time - that this has enabled an even greater blossoming of that heart energy, an even greater sense that there must be caring, there must be re-enabling of human beings who have been shattered and whose lives have been shattered by other human beings who have the resources to be able to do that enabling. Of course I’m deliberately using the word ‘enabling’ because as many of you will be familiar with, the trap, even in such extreme circumstances, is for the rescuer rather than the enabler to be over constellated. If the enabler is there then the healing process will be as the healing process should – a movement forward into a new level of health that has never previously been known – so an enormous opportunity indeed. And that encompasses not just those who have been so struck down and had everything ripped away from them, but the whole of humanity in its consciousness that something needs to be different.

So the enabler needs to constellate and the rescuer may need to be there on a purely practical level, but not as an energetic way of coping with the disaster. Enabling through, healing through to a new level of health and a recognition that that healing needs to be absorbed by the whole of humanity and that it’s not just a question of the healer healing the shattered, but of the healer sharing in the shattering and so also being healed into that new place. Then humanity goes forward in a greater togetherness, in a greater way able to manifest a truly collective heart energy and heart interaction and relationship.

Another danger that I sense has come into being because of tsunami is the opportunity that some have taken to be able to say that this event comes from waves, shockwaves from the earth itself passing into the water is a way of the divine punishing humanity, that in some ways it’s a repetition of the whole symbolic story of the flood and the way in which that flood was understood as a cleansing for human sin, or is understood in some versions of it. So this in many ways, negative opportunity, the surge that it can give to the power of some to preach to humanity about humanity’s sins and to re-constellate the images of a punishing God who will step in and devastate his own creation in order to bring punishment on that which he has created.

There’s a whole tautology here that human beings all too easily enter and become vulnerable to and so I go again to the archetypes and in some ways perhaps what I have to say about tsunami is a revision of some of the things that I’ve already looked at with you – so the face of Janus looking back as well being in the present, as well as looking forward. But the archetypes that can grab you here are of course again the Victim and the Tyrant – so making that well known triangle present again, rescuer, victim, tyrant. And if you see it clearly, then the events give you an opportunity to break out of it or to achieve another level of breaking out of that triangle – particularly that triangle, or those sides of the triangle that are about God the Tyrant, the Judge punishing imperfect humanity by the causation of an uncontrollable event surging through the natural worlds.

This is no punishment given by another authority, this is no warning even, given by another authority, this is no wake-up call planned by another authority – it may if you use it positively, become a wake-up call, but it’s not been imposed on you by some other authority by either God or by Gaia. This is a cyclical event, it’s an event that happens every so often, it’s part of the mystery of the earth itself and at certain phases, at certain times it’s what the elements do. It’s not even caused by human misuse of the earth – another aspect of tyrant/victim or place where you can slide into guilt about your own misjudgements, misdoings, unconsciousness – it’s not about that, it’s not exacerbated by that, it’s a natural rhythm of the earth.

It doesn’t happen all that often, so it’s not something like the seasons that you can prepare for or be in a regular rhythm of expectation about and last time that I was here we spoke about the alter major chakra - so the importance of the alter major chakra and bringing it back into the consciousness within your aura of the faculties that you have is even more pointed-up here. The signs and signals were there, but because those signs and signals are part of a longer rhythm and because the collective, and often the individual, alter major chakra function is at present inhibited in humanity, it didn’t pick up on it, it was even scientifically known that it was going to happen but the warning offered by the scientific systems had also been turned down.

So there’s a lesson here about consciousness, about needing to know – now some of you will know that I may have said to individuals ‘loose the need to know’ - another paradox. It is sometimes important to loose the need to know the ins and outs of a situation too intimately, or too exactly, because there are areas of the need to know that then limit the experience you can have. But it is concerning when this level of needing to know – the self preservation level – is manifesting as one of the lessons of this disaster as being so very impaired.

There are those who escaped from the effects of this cyclical happening of the elements because their observation and their connection to their alter major chakra was more acute. Observation told certain sections of people who were more in touch with the rhythms of nature to retreat, to watch the signs in nature and in animals and to follow their example, to resonate - which is one of the key words for the alter major chakra – to those signs and signals and therefore to self preserve, to take care, to go to a place of safety and a place of observation of what the earth, or the elements, the combination of the elements, was up to.

Unusual things that happened were not observed, to some extent because of the pleasure principle that existed in that area – the addiction to the pleasure principle, to the sensual overcoming the instinctual. Now there’s nothing wrong with the pleasure principle, there’s nothing wrong with the sensual, but when things are out of balance then the unexpected disastrousness occurs. And these are the things that you need to learn, to take from this to determine to become more aware of.

The heart energy is being well generated. I feel concerned that perhaps the lessons of regaining instinctual perception are not being learned and the lessons of not attributing a retributive will to natural events are not being learned. Therefore the interaction of humanity with the earth needs reassessing so that there is an interaction and a self-respect and a mutual respect. The natural rhythms with which the earth conducts herself cannot give respect to humanity when humanity is losing touch with instinctual self-respect, not reading the signals - you must read the signals and not rely on science and rescuing and other things to warn or attempt to warn or attempt to measure. You’ve got all that apparatus within your own sensitivity fields and the more the individual determines to hone that then the more available will it be to the collective.

So with that Janus face that is looking backwards, the Janus face that’s standing in the present or the Janus itself that’s standing in the present and looking towards the future, there needs to be a revisiting of the tendency of humanity to so easily identify with the victim. How are you going to find a way at a personal level to contribute to the annihilation of the victim archetype so that the tyrant archetype dies a natural death? That victim consciousness immediately lowers you, scatters you, fills you with guilt and undermines your personal and collective purposiveness, depresses you, devastates you, empties you, stops you from being centred within the enormous energetic powers that each one of you could command and that the collective of humanity could certainly command more and more.

So the message is claim your own power, you don’t have to be at the mercy of the elements completely if you know them and respect them in their cycles and their strengths and their weaknesses. You don’t have to identify with the consciousness that tells you that you need punishing because your sins can never be redeemed. You’re in a place of learning, you’re in incarnation to learn, you’re in relationship to the earth to learn and the more you learn about rhythms and cycles the more can you then be in relationship to your own cosmos, your personal cosmos, and eventually to those much more grandiose rhythms that exist within the universe as you know it and within your galaxy as you know it – and eventually with the other intelligences within that galaxy so that your comprehension of rhythms and interaction moves forward.

And there’s a big warning here in tsunami, which has not occurred for a warning, or as a warning, but holds that lesson within the reaction or lack of reaction that humanity showed at this time. So relationship to your own intrinsic centre of wholeness so that you can feel whole and be whole and use all your resources from an established and aggregated central place of balance and again respect other rhythms and therefore live in a better harmony with other rhythms and a better respect for other rhythms – leaving behind the tendency to want to control everything or to feel that when things are out of control they somehow have to be attributed as a fault somewhere – or seemingly out of control. Because if you can really sense the rhythm of the elements here nothing was out of control here – everything was in cycle. As you can see the aspects of this are widespread, deep, enormous.

I have to mention, even though there’s not time to totally speak of, the symbolism of the wave, the sea, the swamping. The sea is a symbol of the unconscious – the feminine unconscious – swamping, needing to swamp, needing to show her power from time to time, to test out her own power, to cleanse, to bring things up from the depths and to take away things that are on the surface that actually need cleansing and recycling. Another symbolism for the sea is of course the Mother, the Great Mother, and that has within it so many different aspects – the terrible mother as well as the nurturing mother, but the deep understanding that eventually in her terribleness the mother does not stop being the nurturing, renewing, rebirthing mother. And that mothering is a complex process and the mother energy is a complex process – it needs to destroy as well as to nurture and the two can’t be separated. In the nurturing lies destruction and in the destruction lies nurturing. The depths need to come up, the waters need to be disturbed – violently sometimes – in order to make sure that that process of healing and cleansing and the journey into a state of health that has never been known before continues without stasis.

So the Janus that stands at this place experiences all this, needs to look back to see the lessons that can be learned, the old patterns, in order to take those forward into a place of new knowledge and transformation – not leave them behind, but bring them on into the new to feed and nurture and compost the new.

So do your grieving, that’s important, remember that those who have been taken by the wave are safe and well and in places of healing and of opportunity for renewal and in their honour don’t let the living be the living dead, but the living renewers finding true power, strength and energy within the journey of the wave.

I’ll leave you with that and no doubt there will be other questions – with my love and blessing.

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Questions

Greetings, I’m ready for your questions.

Greetings Gildas it’s Jane.
Greetings Jane.
I’ve got a couple and Jill will give you a couple, the first one is: I understand that within destruction there is nurture. Could you explain what you mean by there being destruction within nurture please?
Yes, thank you for this question. I suppose what I’m saying is that destruction/nurture are a continuum. Also if something is in a process of growth, moving on is inevitable and though in one sense you can’t lose what has been experienced, or what has been experienced can never be destroyed, in another sense you can’t possibly hold it all, especially at physical levels, together. So as you nurture there’s also a process of letting go, wasting away, destruction and it’s all part of it. In some ways of course destruction is too final a word because it’s usually composting, recycling that happens on whatever rhythm or scale. Does that help?
Yes it does thank you. The next question is: Other material that’s been channelled since the tsunami has stated that there are further major earth changes that will occur in a knock-on way in other parts of the world. Could you comment on what they say please, and also on the fact that they say this as I can’t imagine you coming forth with such predictions?
No I wouldn’t come forth with predictions that have perhaps the overtones that these predictions have. Whenever something enormous and major happens of course there’s a knock-on effect because this is within that whole principle of action/reaction and interaction – so reaction and interaction has to result as a part of a happening that can be described as a knock-on effect. Also when there is a big blow like this then it sets other things into motion so that if we see part of the symbolism as something needing to come out of the depths into consciousness as well as there being a symbolic need for somethings that are in the too high conscious position to be swept away and taken into a different position of consciousness, then that’s part of what the whole cycle is about. So things need to be knocked into consciousness, they knock against each other, there are productions of things like similar energies to electricity that cause sparks, that cause light, that cause reaction again, that cause interaction – but they’re all part of the same cycle and I think those predictions are sometimes saying ‘this is a manufactured wake-up call’ and what I’m trying to lead you away from is the idea that it is a manufactured, and pre-empted by another mind, wake-up call aimed at humanity. It’s not, in my view. It’s a cyclical happening to which of course humanity is going to react. The shockwaves will to some extent have a knock-on effect, but that is part of the phenomenon itself, it’s not a demonstration of ‘well if you don’t learn enough from this then there’ll be another go at it’. Does that answer your question?
If you knew of an event that was to occur would you pass it on or would you keep it to yourself?
Yes that’s a challenging question I suppose. If I felt the need to warn you then I would do so. If there was some, for example say, some imminent danger effecting the group and I sensed it and saw it of course I would warn you. But sometimes warnings go awry depending on who was likely to listen to a prediction of a disaster then things go out of balance due to a warning. And also part of the lesson as I pointed out this morning is that humans have to learn this important level of observation and interaction with the natural signals. But sometimes there have been warnings that have achieved an impact and then everybody rushes up to the mountain and then nothing happens and it just causes too much confusion. So in imminence of the direct environment, yes, but otherwise maybe I’m not into that sort of prediction – especially putting it into your time.
Yes I see thank you. About when you mentioned the mystery of the earth itself and the cycles of the elements being a part of that, is the mystery known only to the earth herself or are there insights that you could give into it?
The mystery is known to the earth itself, but it can also be known and perceived by those who live on the earth and understand that she in dialogue with the other elements and the other elements in dialogue with the earth have a life of their own and respect that life. So there are times when she needs to throw off, just as there are times when you need to throw things off – so great homoeopathic reactions in some senses for her own health. And of course the confusion at that point can be, or the temptation for you can be to say ‘well we have not contributed to the earths health, therefore if this is a homoeopathic eruption from the earth it’s our fault’ and of course that’s the very cycle that I’m warning you against. It would have needed to happen for the health and cyclical energy of the earth anyway.
It made me think of when I asked about the fire at the core of the earth and you referred to either it’s one of the great mysteries or secrets like the secret of perpetual motion and I was wondering if you were aware of things that scientists haven’t discovered that you don’t pass on or they have to - we have to discover them ourselves.
You have to experience them yourselves. Yes, to some extent we are aware of these longer rhythms and cycles of the earth, but as to predicting them and putting them into your time – that’s a difficult one. But we can tend to say that there are energies around that are going to be part of the complex pattern of change. And I think we have been saying that – as to specifying exactly what form they will take and in what form they will be received and what effect they will have, we can only be very general. And my tendency is to stand back because I don’t want to be alarmist and create something that is a false reaction.
Thank you.
Greetings Jill.
I’ve got two other questions. Could you please give us a symbol for ourselves and for others that would help to integrate the events of the tsunami – to steer us away from this dualistic approach towards a new perception?
I think the symbol that I would remind you of is the sacred spiral and the shape of a tsunami is very connected to the spiral and all that went around in it. And radical trust in the sacred spiral.
Thank you. The second question we have is: presumably such a major event has impacted on all our bodies. How is it likely to have manifested physically and psychically in individuals?
In a somewhat similar way in that also reflecting back to what I said about the journey of healing being to reach a place of health that has not been known before and therefore during this present phase of human development the process and the wisdom of disease is still necessary to bring about that movement, and to prevent a stasis until there is a different understanding within the collective of humanity and therefore a collective place of a health that goes beyond what has been known before – and even then there will have to be movement in it, those factors that create the movement. So there’s an increase in ailments and anything that you have a natural tendency towards will perhaps be exacerbated – your immune systems will be challenged. Everybody’s got something I believe, or so I’m getting reflected back at the moment – everyone’s got something, or caught something or is fighting something and that’s part of this happening, part of the wider and more personal picture of this happening. But if you hold the trust that out of the disease process you come to a greater wholeness, then you can be with it, work through it, keep moving through it and not be in a place of stasis on the night sea journey. So yes, each one of you is helping to contain the shockwaves and in some part of your beings experiencing a tidal wave of consciousness.
And presumably Gildas that’s literally on the water level, I mean we’re made up of such a large proportion of water.
Oh yes.
That water in our bodies in some ways.....
Swirling around.
So now with us being conscious of the event having happened, the water nature in our bodies changed more or less synonymously with the event?
Yes and the fire energy remember too.
And the fire energy.
Yes because it’s the interaction of water with a volcanic eruption.
Of course, thank you.
And on one level of course beyond all the suffering, what a wondrous, magnificent dance that is – if only you hadn’t been caught unawares or caught up in it. But to some extent you can then welcome it in your own beings as a wondrous, magnificent dance – if you don’t fall into the victim.
(Hajah) – I’ve been trying to formulate the questions. One of the things that was going through my mind with this, not from an Old Testament blame situation, but the quotation that baptism through fire and water brings us into a more purified consciousness, which seems to be very relevant for this with the energy that has been affecting us all for quite a period of time. Yes. The question I have that we talked about in the group was when we sit at the beginning of the group and we ask the angels of love, light and healing to send their help to whatever is in our heart, there seems to be a coherence about doing that, but I find when I’m by myself that with people I can hold them in my heart and ask the angels of love, light and healing and with certain, more contained situations, but with this it’s too large, I can’t focus on it and I wondered whether you would give us a meditation or a focus that we could bring ourselves into when these large things happen that would put what we can in front of that healing and enablement.
Yes I think the coherence comes from the sense that the group sits in a circle and you put into the heart of the circle the things that you’re holding in your own hearts and therefore there’s a vessel or a chalice that receives and contains those things and there’s a group collective foetal heart energy if you like at the centre of the chalice and the chalice is energised by the angels of light and love and healing and what the chalice then produces is useful to them in their mission of taking healing thoughts which have been thus grounded as a more grounded substance than they could give alone to their source. So the symbol that you need I think, when you’re on your own is a chalice that you use in a similar way and the sense that at any given moment there are others everywhere contributing to the energy of that chalice – so there’s a network of chalices because all around the hours of your clock healers are working and you join the chalice network and put what you want to be held in heart energy in the centre of the chalice that is being sustained by far more than you.
Thank you. (Kathy) – In the past there have been dangers like the atomic bomb and the threat of atomic war and there’s been a great deal of prayer and these things now seem to have been averted. We’re asking how we can reactivate our responsibility to our alter major chakra and how we can boost our awareness to our chakra and boost our sensitivity.
Yes I think that the meditation that I gave you last time for the alter major chakra is the answer to that and of course by activating the alter major chakra you’re activating an early warning system so that you can let the elements be themselves in their cycles, but also protect yourselves – so not sacrifice yourselves to them, and I mean humanity – it doesn’t have to make this sort of mass sacrifice to the elements if the alter major chakra is working alright. But with things like nuclear bombs there’s a slight difference and it’s more connected to the sacral chakra in that nuclear bombs become possible because of power you’ve understood, harnessed or created and so you have to become ultra responsible for that which you’ve created or discovered - allowed into consciousness. And instead of being drawn into the potentially destructive ways in which such discoveries can be used, be much more drawn into the potentially creative ways in which such discoveries can be used. Once you’ve acquired some knowledge, you can’t disacquire it. So then choices have to be made about how it’s used, so that’s humanity working much more with the sacral chakra which is about power and creativity and relationship. And there your colours are – the colour of the sacral chakra is orange, but the colours you need to help forward the responsibility that is taken for that which is created are amber and a pearlised golden colour which you sometimes see in nature when you get moonlight on water – you get the pearlised silver of course, but you also get the pearlised gold in that moonlight on water. And you need to feed the sacral chakra of individuals and of the collective of humanity with those sort of colours to ensure that responsibility is taken for that which is created – because you can’t create monsters and then shove them back into the womb of creation. You have to then deal with them, relate to them, interact with them, take responsibility for them, transform them and those colours help in that sort of transformation. And you can also turn to things like music because for instance a piece of music like the Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven, will help the sacral chakra to take responsibility for what has been created and also to have a clearer vision of what is being created so that there’s less tendency to create the monster or the monstrous. Does that answer your question or help?
Yes very much so. The other question we had was that if our prayer and meditation can have such a strong effect, is it not surprising that our larger actions like concreting the world and building skyscrapers, that kind of thing, can be having long term ecological consequences?
They’re having ecological consequences because it’s this same thing – that what you create you have to take responsibility for. So in the moment they’re having ecological consequences but you have to look at the sort of subtle directions that this sort of thinking can take when you’re talking about long term ecological consequences because if you’re not careful you’re back to that treadmill of ‘look what we’ve done, now we’re going to get punished for it’ or ‘now we’re going to escalate punishment on ourselves because of it’. You’re escalating reaction, but you don’t have to be victims of that reaction and it can be turned into proper interaction and the earth is capable of healing itself. The immune system of the earth is enormously strong and you really don’t have the collective power to totally violate it or destroy it and when you realise that, then you redress an important duality or polarity and move from action and reaction and the cycle of reaction to the reaction into this all-important place of interaction and a greater freedom within that interaction than is sometimes envisioned by the whole field of conservation. The field of conservation of course is on a high level of vision and taking responsibility for ones actions and creations but in another sense there are certain aspects of that that are limiting and binding and not freedom giving.
Can I ask a question about this? I noticed and I’m sure everybody noticed how with the tsunami nobody was blaming. With previous earthquakes and so forth in Turkey the journalists were in there almost immediately saying ‘aren’t you angry with the government?’. There doesn’t seem to have been any of that, nor with the flood in Carlisle yesterday did I hear anybody saying ‘they should have’ and blame. So is this maybe a sign of something moving forward away from reaction?
Yes, yes very much so.
Hurray.
And from moving the blame onto a ‘they’ – who exist very strongly in one sense, but who actually are non-existant – another paradox for you. Are there more questions?
No that covers our points.
Then my blessing, we’ll take a slight pause before work and gifts.

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Gifts

Yes, so I’m now ready to give words, gifts, work - if you ask for what you want clearly and specifically.

Susie Geddes – I offer Susie the gift of sunlight on untroubled waters.

Debra – I offer the gift of a golden staff to lean on whenever required.

Freya – I offer a rainbow bubble to bounce in.

Erica – I offer a beautiful rainbow shell in which she can hear the sound of the sea.

Maryrose – For work I offer a spiral walking meditation – filling yourself - walking it seven times, so not necessarily all at once – don’t make yourself dizzy. And when you’ve walked inwards, walk outwards as well, but walk it seven times with the colours of the spectrum beginning with the violet and working down to the red.

Paulette – I offer you the work of creating a deeper spiral in your heart chakra, so meditatively entering the centre of the rose of your heart after opening the petals, going through the golden gateway at the rose of the heart, and following a spiral that you’ve consciously deepened beyond its initial stopping point until you touch crystal so that you’ve deepened the heart energy to a new level and then coming out of that spiral very gently and remembering to close the heart chakra petals – not tightly, just so that you’re not open and vulnerable and I offer you the gift of a tranquil bed on which to float wherever you wish – in air, have a floating sensation when it’s on earth, in water and even in fire – of course protected.

Jane – I offer you the gift of a two-fold spiral – so you’re at the middle of it at its widest point. It spirals up to a small point. When you spiral up there you touch the flame of your spirit and the light of your soul. Then you spiral down from the wide point and from the wide point down, down where you touch the firmness of a crystal within the earth.
Then make sure that you’re well balanced and in your cloak of light after you’ve finished playing with that.

Marigold – I’d like to ask for a gift and some help which would help me – I see a very, very distressed woman each week and her pain and agony is just almost too much for me. I’d just like to have some sort of protection so that I may go on seeing her without being completely depleted at the end of our sessions.
Is it physical or mental?
Her anguish is basically mental.
And do you remember to make an energetic separation when you leave?
I don’t always, I think I need something formal that I will really remember to do. Yes because your protection in some ways depends also upon your ability to encapsulate her. It sounds as though she’s keeping an energetic connection to you – partly because she finds what you’re being able to give so helpful. So as you’re leaving then, before you leave encapsulate her in an egg of electric blue light and leaving inside that egg everything that you reasonably feel able to give her energetically. And then encapsulate yourself in a silver egg of light and make sure that these eggs are by no means interconnecting and take away the energy that you need for yourself so you’ve given what you want to give, but not beyond the point of giving.
Thank you that’s very helpful.

Claire – I offer her the gift of a star mantle for inspiration and support and comfort.

Hajah – I offer you the gift of being able to attune to the heartbeat of the earth, and to learn to attune to the heartbeat of the earth. And the work of weaving the new cloak of the archetypes that you want to take on. So weaving them together in a beautiful pattern.

Cathy – I offer you the gift of a jewel, an amethyst multi-faceted jewel that you can cup in your hands and use to absorb any negativity, absorb and transform any negativity that you’d like it to absorb and transform, either that you feel rising up within yourself, or that you feel coming towards you from the world. And I offer you the work of paying attention to doing that so that you can make yourself a clear, bright space.

Emma – I offer you the gift of a pool of tranquillity in which to gaze and sense its depths. So it’s not a reflective pool in the sense that it gives you back reflections, but a pool that gives you a sense of depth and deepening. And as work I offer you a walking meditation – walk straight, either indoors or outdoors for a number of steps. Of course indoors it will be boundaried by the length of space, but walk an even number of steps (and I recommend twelve, so they might be longer steps if you’re in an open space or small steps if you’re in a contained space) along and get a sense of twelve stages of movement forward, being very conscious of your feet on the earth. And then turn and revisit those stages and come back to the starting point. And do that outward and return journey up to three times at a time, but not more, until you have named all twelve steps. So they give you a resonance of a name – it might be colours, it might be words.

Jill – I recommend that you have the tape of the meditation for the alter major chakra and work with that – I don’t think I can give you anything that will answer what you’re asking for there better. And I offer you the gift of a brush that has gold dust on it, and that you can dust any part of yourself with when you feel the need for energy or protection. So a brush for your spiritual cosmetic box. And as symbol and key word for your work I offer you a key and a key word of ‘enter’.

Leon – I offer the gift of a strong connection from his heart and solar plexus – a strong ray of light connection from his heart and solar plexus to his guiding star.

Robin – I offer a well used key phrase, which is ‘trust in the process’.

Sue - I offer you the key phrase of ‘freedom to choose’.

And my love and blessing to each one of you.