‘Hey Little Sister, come closer. Lean your ear towards me.
I have words for you.’

As I stepped out today for a walk on a raw, cold December afternoon, the light was fading early. I was lamenting the loss of the light, as we move towards the shortest day on the Winter Solstice. I was also having a moment of feeling inadequate, feeling small and insignificant in the face of the enormity of the task to turn the ways of humanity round so that we can start moving towards the Golden Era of Peace, Love and Harmony that we are all longing for.

And as I trudged up the mud-slick track, I heard these words, ‘Hey Little Sister, come closer. I have words for you.’ I looked round.

‘Who was that?’ I wondered.

‘Lean your ear towards me. I have words for you,’ the voice said again, clear as day. It was coming from a magnificent oak tree, the kind that Herefordshire is famous for.

I have been mourning the impending loss of a beloved tree in whose lap I have sat for many years to do my daily meditations – the beautiful ancient crab apple, whose roots form a perfect seat for me to sit on. Yesterday, when I went to visit her for my daily dose of connection with Nature, she told me that it was the last time that it would be safe for me to sit under her branches. She is dying, and likely to fall with the next storm. Even though I have seen this coming over the last few months, watching the fungus grow on her beloved body, I cried tears of grief at the news.

My dear friend, under whose branches I have sat amongst the intoxicating scent of her pink blossoms, to the soundtrack of the humming of thousands of bees as they collected her nectar, would soon be gone. And in the autumn, the occasional plop of a falling apple, accompanied by the delicious scent of fruit released, as it hit the ground, would be no more. In her arms, I have learned so much wisdom to help carry me through difficult times, as I journeyed or meditated. She has been my place of solace during the lockdown. I couldn’t bear the thought that soon she won’t be here.

On that last day, mild and blustery with moisture on the wind, I placed my hand on her trunk as a gesture of goodbye. And then, carried to me on the December breeze, was the distinct smell of crab apple fragrance – as if she was giving me this last gift of her exquisite scent as her final farewell.

So, I was looking forlornly for a new place of comfort and connection, when I heard the deep and gruff voice of the Oak, so different to the chiming, sweet sound of Crab Apple. I asked, as I always do, if it was OK to come into his field of energy and his reply was, ‘Yes, it is imperative that you do.’ So I approached his gnarly, ridged trunk and lay my ear against his bark.

‘You are a Child of the Earth and your Soul is from the Stars.
In you, is blended the Beauty of the Cosmos.’

‘Greetings, Dear One,’ he said. ‘You are a child of the Earth and your soul is from the Stars. In you, is blended the Beauty of the Cosmos.’

‘Do not compare yourself to others. You are a golden thread in the rich tapestry of life. Without your golden lustre, the beauty of the whole would be diminished. You have your unique role to play, as do all the other beautiful souls in this dance of life. It is vital at this time that you remember this and keep your vibration high.’

‘Keep disconnecting yourself from the fear and chaos of the Collective. Do not get caught up in arguments, disagreements, conflicts of any sort, no matter how worthy the cause seems. Keep seeing the Bigger Picture.’

Keep grounding yourself. Keep soaking in the Love of the Creator. Keep filling the chalice of your heart with love and light until it overflows and radiate it out to the world.’

‘Know this – All is Well. All will be Well.’

‘Go now to your home. Warm yourself by the fire and bask in the love of your family.’

‘These are the words of the Tree People, coming to you from Brother Oak.’

It was a glorious day for an autumnal walk. Bright sun shone on gold and russet leaves, as we drove through country lanes towards the mountains. The intense blue of the sky above the bracken coloured hills was medicine for the senses.

Two ravens, Odin’s birds named Thought and Memory, greeted our arrival at Vagar Common, swooping low over the car and following us as we set out on the trackway that runs parallel to Cefn Hill and Hay Bluff. The bright sun shone on their iridescent feathers as they tumbled through the sky, surfing the strong wind as they joyfully rode towards the Bluff and back again, their croaking calls sounding like two pieces of wood being struck together.

After we’d had our fill of the bracing wind and mountain vistas, we returned to the car. As we drove away, six ravens landed in the field next to us – a magnificent sight with their glossy feathers shining, they bookended our wild experience.

Full to the brim with wild mountain energy, we drove to Hay for coffee and an ice cream in our favourite Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour. It was a delightful contrast to be back in civilisation amongst people and out of the strong wind. I am filled with gratitude and feel so blessed to live somewhere that I can enjoy such beauty near my home.

The meaning of Raven as Power Animal: Magic, Shapeshifting, Creation. It is a bird of birth and of death, of mysticism and magic. A Messenger from the Spiritual Realms, a bringer of omens. With their range of vocalisations, they teach us to understand the language of animals. They teach us about fearless playfulness with their tumbling aerial antics and they teach us to shine with iridescent beauty and all the colours of the rainbow.

I want to share a journey that I have long been guided to do, but hesitated over because, quite frankly, I wondered it was just a tad bonkers. So if you like things that are on the edge of bonkers and if you are interested in what the people of Orion, Sirius and the Leo constellation have to say about sacred warriorship, stepping into your sovereignty, stepping out of the matrix of patriarchal control and awakening your unique gifts to bring through technologies that will help us to live sustainably on earth, please read on.

I see myself in my place of beauty, high up on a ridge above a valley. I am standing under a tree and my horse is grazing nearby, a beautiful brown and white painted horse. Horse invites me up onto his back. Now we are riding fast with the wind in our hair. I have a sense of exhilaration. ‘Be ready for new adventures, Anna,’ says Horse.

This is a place of edginess. The valley just drops away to a starry night sky. My horse is saying, ‘Come on, let’s go for it!’ So we wheel around and we gallop towards the edge. He leaps and suddenly he has wings, like Pegasus. Now I am falling off his back, but I find that I have wings too, angel wings. I am flying through the starry night sky and there is someone flying alongside me. ‘I am Archangel Raziel,’ he says. ‘I heard your call. I have appointed myself as the guide that can help you translate the information that you require from the star people. It is your life’s mission to bring this information to the earth. Come with me.’ He holds my hand as we fly together.

Now we have landed on the moon and he says, ‘In order for you to do this, you have to raise your energy vibration enough to be able to move through the portals and to find the refined energy of the places where the energy is stored. So I am going to ask you to meet me heart-to-heart. You can expand your light body and raise your vibration until you meet mine. Then we will fly off together and you will see and perceive everything through my eyes, through my heart, through my consciousness and my intelligence. This will make it easier for you to understand.

So I stand opposite him. I kindle the light in my belly. I kindle the light in the base of my spine. I grow my light and my luminous body until it is as big as his field. ‘You are ready to merge with me,’ he says in a deep voice. ‘Merge with me now. Get your personality out of the way. Let the little Anna step aside and let the Anna that is the eternal soul being step forward and merge with me. We are going on our mission to the stars. First we go to the star at the centre of Orion’s belt.’ We zoom there faster than the speed of light and arrive at the portal and enter the centre of the star. We enter through the layers of light to the centre which is like a void.

I have a sense of many people, many beings, a warrior race, lion people, Orion people. They are beings who have human form, but with the heads of falcons, lions, bulls, rams.

Raziel says, “These are the warrior people – not warriors in terms of killing, but warriors in terms of being brave, fearless, out on the edge, people who will do things without being afraid of the consequences, to their little body’s and their little souls. That thinking does not exist here. You need to bring this consciousness down to the earth. This is the knowledge that you are an eternal being and if you brave up and step into your eternal soul, there is nothing that can harm you, nothing can destroy you.”

“You need to put aside the fear that has been put upon you as a race by beings that would benefit and gain from controlling you and controlling your resources. They are wounded in themselves. They have closed minds. They live in a kind of purgatory. You are not to be afraid of them. If anything, they are to be pitied, because they cannot move beyond this state of needing to control others. Whereas you humans have the possibility to evolve beyond this need to control others.”

“You do need to stand up for what is right. You need to defend those who cannot defend themselves, by standing up and speaking up for your beliefs. There are many of you that are doing this already.”

“You have made this step forward by unplugging yourself from the matrix of fear. You need to repeat this frequently and we ask you to teach this journey to others. Teach each of them to find their own guide who can help them with this. Teach them to find the warrior spirit within. Teach them how to connect with the Oneness of the Divine. When they are at one with the Divine, they will truly know that nothing can harm them and they will have no fear of standing up for themselves, speaking up for themselves. You can do this, by telling your story of how you healed your cancer naturally and gently without harmful interventions from orthodox medicine. This is a major step forward.”

“We are calling all to stand up to the patriarchy that is controlling your planet, calling men and women, calling the light workers. Teach them how to meditate and get in touch with the Oneness, how to connect with their inner strength, their inner warriorship and their eternal light beings that cannot be harmed by anything. You have seen this. You have felt this. You have lived in this, free of fear.”

“Part of standing up to the patriarchy involves speaking up to the creditors who offer you false money and tell you that you owe them, so much more than they lent. I am going to do some alchemy now to cut the ties that connect you to these companies.”

I (speaking as Anna now) see myself as a little mouse, attached to tendrils sent out by these companies that wrap around me. Raziel is unfurling them and taking the tendrils off me. It hurts when he pulls them off me. They are like barbs. It feels better to have them gone. In their place, Raziel showers me with golden coins. My aura is full of light. He showers my house with golden coins.

Raziel says, ‘You need to teach people about this – how to free themselves from debt, by unplugging from the matrix of control. Just see what happens now. Your soul is being renewed.’

I (Anna) see my light body being worked on. My light body has a shiny new coat which is impervious to the tendrils that would leach out my money.

Raziel says, ‘You will always have enough money, Anna. Trust that you will always have enough – always enough for what you want to do.’

The Lion People come forward with a big chest of money, saying, ‘This is for you to come to our Lion-hearted Leadership Academy. They shower it into my aura, packing it into my root chakra, getting me to stand in it and absorb the gold. The tell me to paint my toenails gold again.

Raziel tells me, ‘The time on Orion is ended now. We are going to Regulus.’ We zoom back out of the Orion star. We zoom towards Regulus. The lion of the Leo constellation lies in the sphinx position. We enter through doors in the lion’s chest into the heart star of the Leo constellation, Regulus. We are here with more Lion People.

‘What is your message,’ Raziel asks the Lion People.

The Lion People tell us this, ‘Each and every one of you must step into their own sovereignty and not be controlled by others. Each of you has their own unique gifts that you can bring to the world. These gifts will show you how to live more sustainably with the waters, with solar power that comes from the sun, with the winds of the earth, the waves of the earth. Every one of you has your own unique blueprint, that will let you work with the earth in this way, to allow you to bring through new technologies, new healing. You, Anna, need to help people come to this place, to awaken their gifts. Lead people on journeys to the heart star of the Leo constellation, to open their hearts and to receive their true gifts, their true calling. We are infusing yours into you now.’

I feel my heart chakra warming, opening, blazing with light – more open than it has ever been before, right through to my back, my shoulders and my angels wings. My heart star is blazing, just like Regulus. I bask in this light, in this ability to walk forward with an open heart.

Raziel says, ‘Last but not least, we are going to Sirius. The Lion People can take us there. You are in my heart and I will take you there, flanked on both sides by Lion People. We are off to Sirius now, to the Dog Star, to the Temple of the Dog People. They are the seekers and the trackers. Here we are, in the blinking of an eye.’

We are being welcomed by the beautiful people of Sirius. They are full of light and look like Anubis. The qualities that they impart are the qualities of seeking and tracking new information. They have the qualities of the dog, unconditional love, loyalty, the ability to defend those who need defending. The Dog People will lay their lives on the line for those who cannot defend themselves – just as a loyal dog would defend its beloved master. They work in community. They work as a team. They bring through these qualities for humans.

Raziel says, ‘Again, you can lead journeys for people to receive these qualities and these codings of light into their energy fields. So that they may work with the Dog Star people and embody those practices for themselves – their community living, laying down their lives for the greater whole. They are infusing you with these properties now. You will attract to yourself, people that can help you and support you in community to get these messages through. Now it is time to return. I will bring you back to the moon, where you will detach from me. Then you must return to earth and ground yourself. Call on dragon and serpent energy to ground you and then go and spend time in your garden.’

So Raziel brings me to the moon. I part from him and come back to myself, my own energy body. I thank him.

He says, ‘Thank you, Dear Anna, for being willing to undertake this mission. You will be blessed in your life for this work.’

I see him fly away and I am back on Pegasus, flying back to my home place in the mountains. We land. Our wings disappear. I dismount and feel myself standing back on the earth, grounded and home.

Wow! Mission accomplished and so much wisdom imparted by the Star People for me to ponder upon and act upon. I would love to hear your comments about this. Has anyone else had similar experiences?

Last night I slept out under the full moon. The bright yellow orb of the Thunder Moon, as the July moon is known, shone between puffy clouds, illuminating the stark outline of a fallen tree and the ruins of a stone barn. As twilight fell, the first star of evening appeared in a dove soft sky above the darkening silhouette of a majestic oak.

I made a nest for myself beneath my favourite crab apple tree. My place was soft, warm and dry, but open to the stars and the moon. I know this tree well. She is a kind, ancient old lady who felt as if she would care for me and guard me through the night. I had no intention of trying to stay awake, just wanting to sink into my surroundings and drift into sleep with the arms of Mother Nature for a pillow.

On Sunday morning I had arisen with the feeling that I wanted to immerse myself in nature and now was the time. For the past few weeks and months, life has been busy and stressful. I felt disconnected from the natural rhythm of life and longed for some serenity. It has been dry and hot for several days, but I felt a change coming in the weather and now would be a good chance to have a sweet night that might not come again. As evening approached, the lazy, lethargic part of me said, ‘Why bother, when you can have a comfortable night at home in your bed?’ But the call of the wild was strong and I resolved to do it anyway.

Thunder Moon

It was just beginning to turn towards dusk as I made my way up the hill towards my chosen spot. The golden fronds of  tall grasses waved in a gentle breeze. Harebells, clover and purple self-heal fringed my path. The birds were present in abundance, twittering and burbling as they made their way to a roost for the night. A buzzard flew overhead with a piercing cry of ‘Kee, kee, kee!’ As I settled myself down, a raven flapped his way to his resting place with his strange cry of, ‘Conk, conk,’ like hitting a metal pipe with a piece of wood. Just as everything quietened for the night, a screech owl let out it’s eerie cry and then silence and darkness fell together, the final curtain of the day.

I awoke with dawn’s first light and got up to see golden shafts of sun breaking the horizon over Stockley Hill. And just after dawn, I was greeted with the loud trilling call of a green woodpecker, as he flew across the hill top. The little birds – the tits, the sparrows, the blackbirds, thrushes and unidentifiable LBJs (little brown jobs), fluttered and twittered busily on their morning errands. I felt slightly disappointed to see not a single animal of the mammalian variety, not even a rabbit. I had thought that as I settled myself down and merged with nature, that the animals would become bold and all come out of their hiding places. Even a small creature which had snuffled and scratched in a patch of nettles nearby, remained hidden. It was only to be expected though, as I’d made so much noise blowing up my air bed that every animal in the valley knew exactly where I was. As I drifted into sleep, I entertained the romantic notion that I would awake to find myself surrounded by curious woodland creatures. Alas, this wasn’t to be either. Perhaps some unconscious snoring and farting had alerted them to my presence and made them stay away. Another disappointment was that I couldn’t even recall a magical dream to grace the night. But what I did get was the serenity I sought. I felt so peaceful and awed by the beauty of the dawn after such a sweet, soft night. This feeling of peacefulness has stayed with me through the day, along with a quiet confidence in my physical body to survive out in nature, despite the health and mobility issues that have beset me for so long. So I got exactly what I needed. I feel blessed and grateful that I could have this beautiful experience, less than 10 minutes from my home.