I think one of the most difficult things is trying to relay in words what has happened on one of our Sacred Journeys. There are so very many levels to the experience. I will begin by saying that the land of Eriú is truly Sacred and when she knows through her beautiful Emerald Heart that we are walking upon her with open and loving Hearts, she in return opens her beauty, magic and power. The land of Ireland (Eriú) is very feminine, with her curving hills, sandy beaches and winding roads. Her roads hold a mystery and a sense of adventure. The only way to truly navigate is to be in the Heart and allow Her to lead you to her Sacred Spaces. Each place we visited held within it many layers of energy and unfoldment and we were, as a group, and as individuals, truly graced by her gentle welcome.
The Tuatha Dé Danann are known as the Gentle Ones. Their combined Soul envelopes and sanctifies the land in all the places still remaining away from the new European highways. The Great Beings of that Race accompanied our travels and lent their magic to us in multiple ways, every day.
 Our journey began in Connemara. The astounding beauty of the land there alone does wonders for the Soul. Each day we had one of the most beautiful beaches to walk on and to meditate upon the magic just off shore in the many islands and underwater magical realms of the Tuatha.
On 9/9/9 thirty of us gathered around the Singing Stone in Lettergesh. I have mentioned this special stone in previous writings. Through attunement to this Stone last summer it revealed to me that it was a Singing Stone connected with the Mer and Dolphin Kingdoms off the shoreline where it stands. This  Stone has been lying beneath the ground and waiting to be discovered for the present age. This discovery was made by Maureen and Jimmy the Guardians of the land. They knew to stand Her up and to let Her sing! If you wish to visit this beautiful Stone you can contact Maureen and Jimmy at maureenmf@eircom.net
Last summer we gathered around the Stone and assisted in activating the singing lines from the sea, through the body of the Stone, all the way to Uisneach. This year we wove the song more fully, through Clonmacnoise, Uisneach. Tara, and all the way to Benn Étair in Dublin (Howth). Our gathering consisted of a lovely mixture of local folk who feel in their Irish hearts the importance of this beautiful Stone and the group who traveled with me from America. Our day was an honoring of the Stone, the people of the land and the greater connections we are now making internationally, and inter-dimensionally. During the Transmission which occurred both at the Stone and later through a Teleconference (the recording is now available on my website) we received many wonderful gifts from Mananann Mc Lir.  Mananann is the Great God of the sea. He is a God of gods and highly revered for his power and compassion on the inner planes. He is the Guardian of the famed Tír Na N’Óg (the Land of Eternal Youth) mentioned often in Irish mythology. It was Mananann himself who took the God Lugh (Solar Deity of the Tuatha) to Tír Na N’Óg while just an infant, to train him up in the ways of the Gods. Through this magical day time wove itself into a Unity of focus and the ancient Ireland of the Tuatha became the Living Present in our Hearts.
Of all the places to be on 9/9/9 this was the most wonderful for me. Being Irish and deeply in love with the west coast of Ireland, it was truly magical for me to have returned here with a group of kindred Souls from America and to witness the weaving of the Hearts that took place around the Stone and later during our celebration dinner in the local hotel. Special thanks to Jimmy, Maureen and Doreen for your open hearted welcome and generous sharing of your beautiful land.
9/9/9 is the completion of the old. All that is not in Heart Resonance can no longer hold us now. The scales of illusion are falling from our vision and we are remembering our Spiritual heritage. We are now hearing, clearer and clearer, the call of the Sovereign Self that stood in the beginning on this most beautiful of planets, and vowed to increase the beauty, to increase the Heart Song, to increase the Love and Unity of all Beings. To assist us on our journey we each received the magical breastplate of Mananann, a Spiritual White Steed and a magical boat to travel through the dimensions. These gifts are real and assist us greatly in remembrance of the magical ways we knew when we walked together in the beginning, before the great forgetfulness fell upon our vision and our senses.
From Lettergesh, Connemara, we made our journey to Clonmacnoise. We had visited Ard na Rí last summer and experienced the special magic that Eric Dilworth has created there through structures that embody the Sacred Geometries of Ancient Egypt and the esoteric teachings of Pythagorus and Plato. We were, in the summer of 2008, invited to bless the  foundation of a third pyramid. This we did by opening to the Tuatha Dé and forming a Faerie Ring of Ancient Truth, Honor, Trust and Love. This summer that pyramid was complete and we had the wonderful experience of gathering therein. Eric and Imelda had since married and had their first child, Sophia – a busy year! We gathered in the pyramid with this wonderful little family and words fail to translate the power and the beauty of that particular gathering.
Ard na Ri is a special place. The Stone of Consciousness is a very important Stone. Through attunement we discovered that it holds the energy of Atlantis at its highest level. This stone is imbued with the Convenant of the Grail Kings, and the imprint from the Isle of Ruta. It was around this stone that we gathered in the pyramid. Through attunement and the assistance of the profound geometries that Eric has imbued into the third pyramid we became aware that the pinnacle of the pyramid opens energetically through the inner planes to the Throne of God around which sit the 24 Elders.
 I think of Ard na Ri as the new Clonmacnoise. The monks of old instilled a great level of Christ Consciousness and compassion into the monastery there and these energies can be felt through meditating among the ruins. What is remarkable to me is that this Consciousness is now revitalized and energized through the rather ingenious work that Eric has done at Ard na Ri. I consister Ard na Ri one of the most important sites in Ireland. Since it is the private home of Eric and Imelda and there rather glorious little daughter Sophia I would encourage visitors to call before visiting. Again, here is the website.
From there we traveled to our cottage retreat in Donegal. By now the group had reached a wonderful level of harmony and co-operation and the work began to go deeper and deeper. The focus for this second week was to attune to our Beloved Columcille, one of the Inner Family of Light on Earth, who carried the original Truths of the Christ Consciousness and to visit three of his Sacred Sites. We visited Gartan, his birth place, and received the gift of the white Gartan soil for our group. Only the Friel family has the right to dig the soil. They are of direct descent from Columcille. The records tell us that it was when Eithne, mother of Columcille, was full term and walking home to birth her special child, that she hemorrhaged on this soil, thus making it Sacred. The soil has been used for healing for 1400 years. In Gartan there is a Stone known as Leac na Cumha (Laknacoo). We are told that it was upon this stone that Columcille lay before leaving Ireland and imbued it with the remedy for loneliness and homesickness. Many visit this stone before leaving Ireland for this reason. Our group gathered around this special Stone. It has many little pits in it where the rain water collects. I believe this water has a very special quality to it.
We also visited Glencolumcille. This is a very special glen on the Donegal coast and precious to me as it is where I visited often with my mother during my teenage and early adult years. All around the Glen are 15 stations consisting of various ancient stones and crosses. People walk these stations for healing, for prayerful focus and to honor Columcille and ask for his blessings. Such a Sacred Walk in Ireland is called a Turas. We visited three of these Sacred Stations to gather our focus and intent, before walking in silence up an ancient road to the site of Columcille’s Church.
Here there is a slab of stone known as Columcille’s Bed. It was upon this bed that each one received a very powerful activation. We then walked to the Holy Well, a very special spot, still very alive and active. We journeyed on in the evening to a huge megalithic dolmen, known as Diarmiud and Gráinne’s Bed. It is believed there are 366 such sites in Ireland. Here we were called to heal the energetic split between the Christian Church and the Inner Teachings of Light carried by the High Druids and the original great teachers of the Tuatha Dé Danann. We did this through a beautiful ceremony and ritual, where a braid of woven light was brought by the group backwards through the timeline, through all the teachings of Light of Ireland through the ages. Energetically, with the assistance of the Councils of Light, we wove the energies together and anchored them in the Heart of Mother Earth, the Great Danu.
Each day brought us deeper into the realization that the energies were truly revealing themselves to our group and bringing with them the nectar of their blessings. The early Irish Christians carried the true Christianity to a great extent. Columcille was teaching the same teachings back then to a small group of disciples as we have received in the last century from the Ascended Masters. Because the veils of consciousness were such, the deeper teachings were still being taught through imagery. Yet, he did pass on the esoteric teachings to his close disciples. He also imbued these Sacred Sites with the energies of these teachings, and this was palpable to our group. We are truly now in the time of awakening and part of that awakening is that we are all being called to different places in the world to re-integrate the wisdoms from past lifetimes that we ourselves left seeded there for a ‘future self’ to receive. Some in the group felt this strong sense of ‘returning’ to harvest the experiences of a previous self that had walked and talked with Columcille. This was a very powerful experience.
Between visits to these wonderful places we spent days at our Cottage Retreat, gathering around the turf fire and sharing. These times brought the group to a wonderful level of openness and progress together. By the time we made our visit to Tory Island the feeling that we were truly a family of light was present among us, which made this journey across the sea, on a beautiful sunny day, so very meaningful. Once again the land received us. Tory Island is unique. It holds a strong individuality. Many of the folk from the islands around Ireland chose to move inland from the 1940’s onward. Those who have remained on the islands have a strength about them, and a wonderful sense of community. We had lunch in the only café and received a lovely welcome there. We then visited the ruins of yet another Columcille Church, known now as the Church of the Seven. Here once more we were greeted by the local Guardian and gifted some of the Holy Soil. Here it is guarded by the Duggan family, and can only be dug by a member of that family. This soil was very dark brown, like the native turf. We then walked along the island until we were guided to form a circle. The spot that we were led to brought us to the top of the most spectacular cliffs I have ever seen. We all stood in amazed awe at the beauty of the scene before us. Truly the land sang to us. In the Mythologies of Ireland we are told that the Gods had almost given up on humanity but because Ireland dreamed of beauty the Tuatha Dé were called from the depths of their heaven to come and assist the people. That dream of beauty is certainly infused into the landscape of Ireland, and I would have to say that one of the most beautiful places of all are the northern cliffs of Tory Island.
We gathered in Sacred Circle with the rocks there, which formed a natural ring. Tory Island is the birth place of Lord Lugh. He was born to Eithne, (the same name as the mother of Columcille, and I believe the same Being), the daughter of Balor of the Evil Eye. Balor’s dark seers had told him that if his daughter had a child it would be male and it would grow up to be a great warrior who would kill Balor. Thus, Balor did everything he could to prevent his daughter from becoming pregnant, including keeping her within a tower, called Dún Balor. However, nothing can prevent the Divine Plan from unfolding and Cian of the Tuatha Dé discovered the beautiful Eithne. He manifested magically through the walls of the tower, in an invisible form. She said “Who is there that I cannot see?” and Cian appeared before her. He visited often after that, and Lugh was conceived. When he was born he was carried away by Cian to Mananann Mac Lir, who brought the God-Child up in Tír Na N’Óg. Lugh did return to Ireland, and during the second battle of Moytura, he did kill Balor of the Evil Eye.
 We are also told that when Patrick banished the demons from Ireland a residual energy remained in Donegal. When Columcille was present he cleared this energy, but a small amount remained in Tory Island. We were led to do an intense clearing of the energy and the archetype of evil. We concentrated this throughout the land of the island and then outward to the world. Tory Island is part of the province of Ulster, the only county of Ulster that is in the Republic of Ireland. In the mythologies of Ulster we are told of Macha, the Great Goddess of the Tuatha Dé, the Horse Goddess. She appeared to an ordinary man named Crunnchu, knocking upon his door one day and entering in. She behaved in every way like his wife. He thought he had gone to heaven! He realized she was no ordinary woman, that she possessed the power of the Gods. She asked him not to speak of her powers and he promised that he wouldn’t. However, at a gathering at the King’s Court in Emain Macha, after Crunnchu had had a few too many drinks (this is Ireland remember!) he began to brag, and stated that his wife could run faster than the King’s horses. This was taken as a Royal Challenge that would have to be met. Macha was at this time nine months pregnant. However, she was told by the King that she would have to run with his horses to prove that the King’s horses were indeed quicker. She begged to be relieved of this as she was so far pregnant, but was told that if she did not run her husband would be killed. The myths tell us that she ran with the horses and won. However, upon reaching the finish line she gave birth to twins and then died. Before she died she put a geis on the army of Ulster that when they went into battle all the men would suffer the pangs of child birth for nine days. This geis followed the army of Cuchulainn and was one of the reasons why Ulster lost the Battle of the Two Bulls against Queen Medb of Connacht.
We were led, in our activation, to reverse the Geis of Macha. Guided by the Beings of Tuatha we cleared the cause, effect, and record of this geis, so that the land of Ulster can be further freed of the imprints of suffering.
On our final day we visited Yeat’s grave at Drumcliffe, Sligo. Drumcliffe is also the site of another Columcille monastery. It is interesting how certain sites, because of the energy lines beneath and through them, hold many layers of Sacred Activations from different times. That Ireland’s most lauded poet is buried here, and that many people visit daily, is a wonderful testament to the way the Divine energies work with us.
Infused deeply into this land are the original teachings of the Ancient Irish, Sligo being the land particularly associated with the Tuatha Dé, later infused,through the inner and outer work of Columcille. And later still, Yeats and Lady Gregory were to actively revise the myths and legends of Ancient Ireland and bring them forth so beautifully through drama and poetry.
The end of the Journey was the beginning of the next one! There will be a strong continuity of focus and purpose with this work, until we meet again next year on this Sacred Land in preparation for 10-10-10. We will return to our Cottage Retreat in Donegal for several days of deep attunement with the blessed land, the Councils of Light and each other for the sharing of light codes and activations. Then we will travel under the Mantle of the Dove of Light, Columcille, to the Island of Iona, for the 10-10-10 activation. This will be a powerful opening into the Realm of the Dove of Light,the point of White Core Fire from which the Seven Rays of Creation come forth. I will have the details of this Journey available as soon as possible, as, in these times, it feels important to be well prepared. I will send the practical information out about this Journey once it is all in place.
Special thanks to members of the group for supplying me with some wonderful photos to share here.
Deepest Blessings
Áine - Croí Geal Gréine na Sidhe
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