Sacred Journeys: S1 Ep1 The Whiteleaved Oak
In this first episode, Rev. Helen James & Kelly Peacey visit the magical small hamlet, The Whiteleaved Oak in Herefordshire which is steeped in storytelling. It sits in a valley at the southern end of The Malvern Hills between Ragged Stone Hill and Chase End Hill where the 3 counties of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire meet. This convergence of the Shires may have been a place of neutrality not beholden to any one shire but an important spiritual liminal space offering passage to unseen dimensions to access information to make important decisions that might affect the land and relations in the Shires.
To this day it draws many visitors including druids, pagans and dowsers for various purposes including spiritual pilgrimages, to connect to the land and elemental kingdom or to connect with powerful earth energies that are said to be here or for visitors wanting to simply bathe in the rich green tapestry of nature. This tiny hamlet has many oak trees but was believed to be named after a rare and auspicious white leaved oak tree that marked the epicentre of what John Michelle author of The Dimensions of Paradise calls the perpetual choirs. He said it was here that at any one time 100 druids and later 100 Christians sang the land into harmony. The sound travelled across the land as intentional healing frequencies via the 10 earth energy lines that emanated from it. In the spring it welcomes you with blankets of bluebells and the summer the sheep appear to maintain the choirs with their own version of sound alchemy. Author and dowser John Gibson-Forty followed the 10 energy lines with dowsing and confirmed that a great Decagon was indeed centred around the site of where the great white leaved oak tree once stood.
Up until 2020 visitors would come to the hamlet to visit an oak tree aged between 500-800 years old. Here they would have bonfires, leave ribbons on the branches and place trinkets, prayers and other offerings inside the trunk of the dying tree that sadly accidentally burned down. Perhaps the tree spirit and spirit of the place were telling us all that we are on a liminal passage between the old world and the new world.
In this video, Helen and Kelly take you on a journey to visit this magical place of mystery and wonder. Sit back and watch them explore the energy by dowsing, singing and drumming, & watch them share in love and gentle laughter their experiences. Later Kelly channels the spirit of the place and offers a channelled healing meditation, so we become pillars of peace.
So grab yourself a cuppa, get comfy, as we take you on our journey to the Whiteleaved Oak.
"Perpetual Choirs were a Celtic institution from pagan into early Christian times … in each of these three choirs there were 24,000 saints; that there were 100 for every hour of the day and night in rotation, perpetuating praise and service to God without rest or intermission” - The Measure of Albion
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