I have wanted to visit Anglesey for an awfully long time. It was the last stronghold of the druids during the Roman invasion, and some say that it is the heart of the UK Neolithic landscape. It is home to the famous Bryn Celli Ddu (‘the mound in the dark grove’), whose passage is aligned to the summer solstice sunrise, which also has what many believe to be a pillar of petrified wood contained within , which is really rather remarkable.

The place did not disappoint. Anglesey has an area of 400sq km and only 70k people, this quite in contrast to the craziness of Guernsey, which is 25sq km and has a populace of approx 65k. The energy is totally different too and it was a difficult place to leave, not least because I spent the best part of a week offline so was not subjected to EMF, but because the land itself is incredibly fertile and alive and rich and is not affected by materialism in the way that Guernsey is.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the land here and this is certainly not a rant about Guernsey, but it saddens me how much we have overdeveloped in the name of capitalism, which the finance industry heightened. The energy is just so much lighter on Anglesey, not just because there is more space and less people, but just because it was once awash, literally awash, with menhirs, creating a crystal grid across the land.

The transition back to Guernsey was tough, I could feel WIFI in a way I never had before, as a prickling to my body and a buzz in my ears and the speed and noise of the motorway as we drove to Glastonbury as a transitionary place was intense. It wasn’t much better in Glastonbury and I was grateful to the Tor, this is definitely still a pure place despite the number of people who sit there on their phones oblivious to the moment and the views.

OK so maybe I am going to rant but only because my eyes have been opened to the intensity of the effect on my energy field of WIFI and phones. I really don’t think we realise how much we are affected by what is happening out there and has been normalised so now it is as if many are born with a mobile phone attached to their hand - or indeed wrist. I haven’t had a smart phone for a good few years now but Anglesey did gift me the opportunity to experience life without WIFI and because I was spending hours at a time in dolmens each day, I have become very conscious of the effect of WIFI on my energy field.

This doesn’t make life any easier though and the boys are now having to adjust to prolonged periods of time where they are no longer able to get online. Yet this has opened up new ways of being for them too. I used to go straight to my laptop every morning and check emails. Now I get outside and see how my plants are coming along, as that is the other thing Anglesey gifted, a rekindled passion to get growing. The WIFI goes off at times throughout the day and at night too and I am certainly sleeping better and am much less agitated when there is no WIFI in my field. Wearing fluorite helps too.

We live close to a mast, and most of the households in our lane have had one person suffer cancer these last few years. Is that coincidence? Sadly I can feel the energy emitted from these structures when I walk past. I am conscious that there is more noise in the media too about the downside of phones and social media and online living and I am pleased about this. I was told the other day that schools are finding that reception age children can’t speak properly because they have been brought up on phones, and no longer experience their parents actually talking to them, plus they find it difficult to focus and concentrate, I notice this with my eldest if he has been online too much.

I just feel we need to start waking up a bit more to the forces at large out there and our health and wellbeing. It is all very well eating well, but what else are we consuming?

So yes, Anglesey was amazing, is amazing. It literally is like a crystal grid, there are menhirs (or evidence of menhirs) all over the place, which are like big acupuncture needles, punctuating the land and orientating energy. The dolmens are incredible too, albeit many are destroyed just like here. Those we did visit have retained their potency and I was lucky to have the opportunity to just sit and be within them and allow them to work on my energy field - never underestimate the positive effect of sitting in dolmens, or indeed under trees.

Anglesey gifted in other ways too. I finally have a grip on the major lunar standstill which we have been experiencing this last year. It is very difficult to understand the moon, as it is so erratic and I am certainly no expert, but I am conscious now that it literally is a standstill and that there is a difference between the most southerly/northerly moon rise/set and the most southerly/northerly full moon rise/set.

As it happened I was by chance in a dolmen in west Wales, Gwal Y Filiast, aligned to the most southerly moon set, about 2 hours after the moon did it’s most southerly set for 18.6 years, this on a half moon so we couldn’t actually see it. I knew something was afoot as I had quite an intense reaction to being in the dolmen as the energy was incredibly pure and reminded me of times gone past, which caused an emotional release. It was only later I learned of the coincidence.

In any event I am clearer now that June and July full moons will allow us to see the most southerly full moon rise/set. The northerly full moon rise/set already happened, and in some ways I was conscious of that as found myself in Scotland, at Clava, the Stonehenge of Scotland (or so they say). Which reminds me that we often know more than we realise we know, because a part of us is working on an unconscious level in alignment with cosmic forces - even better if we can be conscious!

I can’t let Anglesey take credit for the other shift, because I am conscious that my clients this week are experiencing similarly so it is in the field so to speak and may well be the effect of the southerly moon standstill, nestled as it was, two days after the Equinox and sandwiched between two eclipses, so the cosmic shifting was huge, and that is without me going into the other planetary changes too, but it seems to me that we have been gifted new beginnings.

This time of year is all about new beginnings anyway and I wrote about this in the blurb to advertise a chakra balancing class I want to share just before Beltane so that students can truly drop into it. This time of year is potent with the union of the masculine and feminine, and all that this creates, the bubbling of powerful life force from deep within the Earth, alive and vibrant.

The ancients recognised this and many Neolithic sites have been built to harness the sun’s energy at this time of year, dolmens capturing the rising Beltane sun and menhirs punctuating the land, in representation of the aforementioned divine union. Particularly in old traditions from among the Celtic-speaking peoples of the British Isles, Beltane was seen as a time of new beginnings and has been described as a form of the New Year.

In many ways this is based on practical, agricultural practice and at this time of year the cattle were driven between fires to cleanse them. People were said to celebrate with the Maypole, a phallic representation of the union, and enjoy sexual union out under the stars, welcoming in the new year with fires.

Really this is a time of new ways of being. No more do we need to carry around our perceived trauma and wounding, no longer do we need to buy into self-deprecating and negative thought patterns, no more do we need to keep repeating old behaviour patterns, no longer do we need to keep buying into the illusion of the material world. We didn’t need to do this anyway, but we did, and now we are ushering in a new way of being collectively, which hopefully moves us into a place of greater inner freedom, regardless of what is happening to us externally.

Certainly I feel changed and maybe I do have Anglesey to thank for that, for gifting me the opportunity to live another way, increasingly in touch with the earth and the energy of the stones. It was a joy to witness the migrating birds, especially the geese, and I am delighted that here on Guernsey the swallow have arrived all the way from Africa, what amazing birds they are - spring really is here.

I hope that you are enjoying the opportunity for new ways of being and relating and can be more of who you truly are beyond what you have been told and have been led to believe. You can be anything you want to be, your potential is never ending, and freedom is there for those who seek it.

Hope to see you all soon.

Love Emma x

Anglesey, the moon and new ways of being