Next Stage Celtic Wheel TRIBE
Become the FORCE OF NATURE you were born to be
We are in a crucible moment. It's a wild edge of evolution moment. The ancients predicted it. You know it in your belly and in your bones.
The Patriarchal systems that have been leading the world are in the final throws of death. In the indigenous wisdom of Ireland, women held the power of sovereignty and cyclical wisdom.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a year-long journey of remembering and reweaving ancient wisdom with new knowledge, for modern medicine women who want to birth a new, more beautiful world together.
1600+
Wise Women
5
Continents
13
Celtic Calendar Cycles
60
Virtual Campfire Ceremonies
Are you willing to let this time REIGNITE your instinctual WISDOM and innate POWER?
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is an immram - an ancient Celtic mythical soul journey. It's for women like you and me, all over the planet, who are ready to evolve. To call back our sovereignty and call in new paradigm sisterhood in service to a more beautiful world being born through us.
Have you been feeling
POWERLESS
in this
INTENSE
time of momentous change?
Do you feel the excruciating tension of living between worlds? An old soulless world that is fragmented and chaotic and a new wiser more interconnected world you know in your depths is possible.
It feels like everything is being shaken up. You struggle with never having enough time, joy or ease.
You are done with the hustle, 'always on' culture - but you don’t know how to get off the hamster wheel.
You are drawn more and more to nature, Celtic wisdom, cyclical awareness, and the sacred work of the Feminine.
I know that place intimately, from the past 2 decades of my own life and from working with women over the last 16 years.
So here are a few things I've learned...
Not only can you handle the intensity of these times - you can trust it to reshape you into a wise and powerful Sovereign woman.
Being a mess, feeling lost and powerless is all part of the path of flourishing.
What you are feeling is the creative force of evolution. It's your fierce 'forbidden' Feminine rising and roaring within you.
You have what you need inside.
You carry unique medicine that nobody else has. In the Celtic tradition that is called your Dán, your Soul's gifts, your destiny, your dharma.
The ancestors of this land of Ireland honoured the in-between, liminal spaces, the unmapped.
They knew the power of gathering to share stories, song, poetry, to drum and dance as ways to connect to the soul, the sacred force that animate all living beings.
This Celtic wisdom can resource you now to leave behind the disconnected dominator culture that has our world in crisis.
Introducing
NEXT STAGE CELTIC WHEEL
TRIBE
A year long journey of ritual, remembrance and reconnection for women who want to live more deeply, claim their sovereignty and usher in a new wiser world together.
Here are the 7 touchstones on that journey.
a map for next stage
SOVEREIGNTY
Imagine having a map, a framework, a path and guidance over the next 12 months, to help you learn to live from your sovereign centre.
Deepen into your depths and gently learn to become the highest authority in your life while staying open to other perspectives. The path of evolved sovereignty is learning to "have ourselves" without "othering" or perpetuating the Patriarchal spell of separation.
the SACRED WORK of the FEMININE
Our work now is to allow an unravelling and then to reweave.
Our unhealthy masculine patterns encoded from patriarchy, that have us depleted, disconnected and armoured up are unravelling. As they do we reweave the soft, fierce, intuitive cyclical feminine ways back into our lives so that we embody a radical new relationship between our inner feminine and masculine.
decolonising TIME through CELTIC CYCLICAL WISDOM
As we travel around the Wheel, attuning to nature's cadence and the ritual rhythms of our ancestors, our perception of time changes.
We stop exclusively living enslaved to the scarcity consciousness of linear time. We find ourselves in the creative consciousness cyclical time and integrating both.
ROOTED in PLACE and in NATURE
No matter where you are on the planet, the Next Stage Celtic Wheel connects you to the sacred land you find yourself on and to your place as a participant in the "family of things".
The ancients of Ireland honoured the land as feminine and they deeply understood the interconnected kinship we have with our more than human allies. This journey is about remembering, repairing and restoring that kinship.
connecting to your DÁN
The word Dán has many meanings in the Celtic tradition. It can be translated as gift, poetry, destiny, dharma, daimon, genius. It is your Soul's highest expression.
This journey offer you a full cycle to connect to your Soul and explore the unique constellation of gifts, the medicine you were born at this time to embody as a force of nature.
a SISTERHOOD
of allies
We are more powerful in community. As we share our stories in sisterhood a new more beautiful collective story comes to life through us.
Come sit in circle around our virtual hearthstone, an evolving sisterhood of modern medicine women, hospicing out the old and birthing the new, all over the planet.
next stage MANIFESTING + MAGIC
The journey through the seasons is the sacred cycle of birth, death and rebirth. It is the creative process of the cosmos.
Women have always held knowledge of this sacred cycle in our belly. We are magical creative beings in a quantum field who know how to dance with polarity, manifesting from the frequency of your Soul.
“If you are thinking about signing up for the Celtic Wheel, do it.”
It brings you into an amazing world of sisterhood, self discovery, finding a beautiful rhythm with mother nature, and best of all there are always plenty of laughs along the way.
- Áine Ireland 2021/22/23 cycle
“My life changed when I joined Next Stage Celtic Wheel."
I have taken the Next Stage Celtic Wheel course two years in a row. I plan to join for a third year. My life changed when I joined Next Stage Celtic Wheel. My inner knowing expanded, and life became more mystical. Living with the rhythms of the Natural World is powerful. Honouring the ways of the Celtic Wheel brings balance and harmony to my life. I am grateful to Mari and her incredible team for this amazing experience. I highly recommend this journey!!!
- Anne, USA 22/23 and 23/24 cycle
“I was unprepared for the immense depth the Celtic Wheel has offered my experience of life...”
The transformation and remembrance through the Wheel is utterly astounding. As a perpetual student and mystical seeker of ancient wisdom and belief systems, I was unprepared for the immense depth the Celtic Wheel has offered my experience of life. Mari guides and teaches with grace, knowledge, wisdom and authentic powerful service. The Wheel is the tether and vessel from which my entire spiritual life is now held and experienced through. So deeply and abundantly grateful to Mari and her team for the awakening and offering of my soul's remembrance."
– Stephanie, USA, 19/20 and 20/21 Cycle
So here you go wise ones...
Everything you’ll get with Next Stage Celtic Wheel TRIBE
- 10 x LIVE RITUAL CALLS with me on Zoom, all recorded (two hour calls). We share, we create ritual together and you will receive an energetic activation every 6-7 weeks at each Celtic festival
- 4 x TRIBE LIVE calls (90 minute) with special guest speakers where we will deepen our journey with our plant allies (see below)
- 4 x ANAM CARA group calls. (90 minutes). These will be facilitated calls, one in each season, that create a space and structure for you to meet in smaller ongoing peer groups with in the intention of deepening the learning and sisterhood.
- A comprehensive FESTIVAL GUIDEBOOK -with traditions, themes, ritual mythology and sacred sites - one week before each festival to prepare for the festival.
- 3 x PRE-RECORDED TEACHING VIDEOS (+ audios) before each festival. In these 15 minute videos I share how the ancient ancestral wisdom can guide and resource us in modernity and I bring you onto the land to the power places and sacred sites for each festival.
- 16 x WISDOM WEAVES short worksheets exploring the cyclical themes we work with in each seasons. You receive these every two weeks between each festival.
- PRACTICES to live and embody Celtic cyclical wisdom - Worksheets, guided meditations, wisdom maps, ritual preparations, wisdom practices and resources.
- Access to a TRIBE MEMBERSHIP PORTAL until 21st October 2025
- Access to the TRIBE COMMUNITY APP for connecting with me and the sisterhood until 21st October 2025
Plus 2 Extra Bonuses:
- The EIGHT WISDOMS OF THE CELTIC WHEEL WEBINAR recording - I break down 8 wisdoms that the Celtic Wheel of the Year offers us as powerful and practical medicine for this time.
- The EIGHT CELTIC FESTIVALS eBOOK 24/25 EDITION - This is an updated 'at a glance' guide to the sacred festivals with the archeoastromony festival dates for 24/25 and some new maps.
I'm Mari Kennedy,
I will be your guide.
The Celtic Wheel found its way to me in 2011, when I was in a very challenging and desolate place. For the preceding five years, my life had been in a constant state of flux, uncertainty and loss.
In April that year, my father was dying. I now know that the Celtic Wheel was his passing gift to me. It happened in a mythic moment in the auspicious Hazel Wood forest in Sligo, on the west coast of Ireland.
A month later I met my teacher in this tradition - Dolores Whelan - who has been a Carrier of the Flame of Celtic Consciousness for the past 30 years.
I had taken Celtic Studies as an Archaeology undergraduate at university, but it was years later, through the Celtic Wheel, that I entered a soul apprenticeship to the Celtic tradition.
The Celtic Wheel is the ritual calendar handed down to us from the indigenous Celtic and Pre-Celtic ancestors of this land. They were rooted in the rhythms of nature and the cosmos. The feminine and masculine were both honoured and they deeply understood the interconnectedness of all things.
Reconnecting with the wisdom of the Celtic Wheel profoundly changed how I approached my life. It helped me to make sense of my challenges and losses. It showed me the value and beauty of the ebbs and flows, the fallow and the fertile times.
It taught me to trust the falling apart, the dark and death.
It continues to demand that I own my radiant power as a woman and live unapologetically aligned to my Soul. It showed me the PATH OF EVOLVED SOVEREIGNTY.
It offered me a map of how to reclaim and lead from my inner feminine - through rhythms, cycles and nature and in so doing, find a gentler, wiser and more fierce way to live.
It connected me to the mystical in a very practical way.
This is why I created this body of work. This is why I lead women.
My Story
Are you hearing the call?
Here’s a look at the ritual journey we will take...
Call 1:
Welcome Call
Fáilte Isteach - Welcome in
Orient: Welcome yourself onto this Soul journey around the Wheel and meet your tribe.
Pre-call material: Welcome videos and orientation workbook.
Post call: Call Recording
Call 2:
Samhain Festival:
The Cauldron
Death and Darkness
Samhain circle and ritual to celebrate the Celtic new year and the ceremonial threshold of winter and the Giamos (dark) half of the year.
Reclaiming: Dark feminine powers of shedding, surrendering and sacrifice.
Pre-call material: Samhain Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Samhain Wisdom Weaves + Samhain practices
Call 3:
Winter Solstice:
The Womb
The Void and Desires
Winter Solstice circle and ritual to celebrate the alchemy of the dark void and the threshold of midwinter.
Reclaiming: The dark feminine powers of receptivity, rooting and dreaming.
Pre-call material: Winter Solstice Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Winter Solstice Wisdom Weaves + Wisdom practices
Call 4:
Imbolc:
The Fiery Arrows
Awaken and Emergence
Ritual call to celebrate new beginnings at the threshold of Spring.
Reclaiming The feminine powers of the creatrix and masculine powers of 'one-pointed focus' and committment.
Pre-call material: Imbolc Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Imbolc Wisdom Weaves + Imbolc practices
Call 5:
Spring Equinox:
The Vesica Pisces
The Dance of Opposites
Spring Equinox circle and ritual to celebrate equal day, equal night and the ritual threshold of mid Spring.
Reclaiming the feminine power of magnetic potency and the masculine power of discipline and commitment.
Pre-call material: Spring Equinox Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Spring Equinox Wisdom Weaves + Spring Equinox practices.
Call 6:
Bealtaine:
The Sacred Marriage
Roots and Blossoms
Bealtaine circle and ritual to celebrate fertility and protection at the threshold of Summer and the Samos (bright) half of the year.
Reclaiming our sovereign Queen and the masculine power of boldness and risk taking.
Pre-call material: Bealtaine Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Bealtaine Wisdom Weaves + Bealtaine practices
Call 8:
Lughnasa:
The Gifts
Ripeness and Joy
Tribe circle and ritual to celebrate the abundance of the harvest at the ritual threshold of Autumn.
Reclaiming the feminine capacity for celebration, craic, joy tempering the over-masculine tendency of burnout and excess. Harvesting our unique constellation of Soul gifts.
Pre-call material: Lughnasa Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Lughnasa Wisdom Weaves + Lughnasa practices
Call 9:
Autumn Equinox:
Final Harvest
The integration of opposites
Tribe circle and ritual to celebrate the final harvest and the ritual threshold of mid Autumn.
Reclaiming the feminine intelligence of pausing to complete, tempering the over-masculine tendency to by pass intentional endings.
Pre-call material: Autumn Equinox Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + A.Equinox Wisdom Weaves + A. Equinox practices
Call 10:
Circle into Spirals
Conscious Completion
Tribe closing circle and ritual to complete our mythical journey together and prepare to drop into the deeper and higher spiral of the next cycle.
Pre-call material: Preparation for the ritual.
The THEME we will be playing with this turn of the Wheel
Seeking our Bush Soul : remembering with our plant allies.
In Tribe 2024/25 we will journey and dream with our great guides, allies and ancestors : the plants. Together with the plants we will remember our shared kinship and dissolve the boundaries between us and the natural world.
Each woman will journey with a local plant, herb, bush or a tree that calls to her. Together we will play with the question posed by philosopher and Mystic John Moriarty:
"To seek my bush soul, to come back into wilderness.
What am I outside of culture?
What am I in nature?"
We will "come back into wilderness" to remember and reconnect to the deep web of reciprocity and interconnectedness between us humans and all of life.
We will be joined by guest plant Wisdom Carriers who will share their wisdom and guidance with us.
Carole Guynet
Carole is a medicine woman, herbalist, priestess, teacher and author. A practitioner of sacred plant medicine since 1986, her work incorporates herbal medicine, flower essences, plant spirit healing, sacred ceremony and shamanic practices. As a priestess honouring the Goddess, she has dedicated her life to plants, healing and the awakening of consciousness.
Aoife Lowden
Aoife is a Bean Feasa, devoted to remembering the ancient healing ways of Ireland. She works intimately with the land, ancestors, elements, plants & trees to co-create spaces of healing & remembrance. Aoife offers regular fire and native plant ceremonies, sacred site ritual, retreats and ancestral celebrations.
All this plus...
TWO FABULOUS BONUSES
FREE BONUS 1:
The EIGHT WISDOMS OF THE CELTIC WHEEL WEBINAR
I break down 8 wisdoms that the Celtic Wheel of the Year offers us as powerful and practical medicine for this time.
FREE BONUS 2:
The EIGHT CELTIC FESTIVALS eBook
2024/2025 updated edition
a beautifully designed eBook detailing the themes, mythology, symbols, gifts and wisdom of each Celtic festival and season. It includes the 2024 / 2025 archeoastronomy dates for each sacred threshold and some new maps.
Registration is now closed
Next steps!
How It All Works
Step 1
Register
Doors open on September 25 2024. Receive your welcome material and watch the introduction videos. Take some time to orient yourself in the membership area. Set your intention and consider the intentional power word you will work with for the full cycle.
Step 2
Meet me and your Tribe
You will receive the Samhain festival material on October 24 2024. Then join me for the Opening Circle welcome call live just before Samhain on October 29 2024 . We will meet the TRIBE, orient together, set our intentions and Prepare for the Celtic new year.
Step 3
Step onto the Wheel
After the Opening Circle take some time with the materials to prepare for our Samhain ritual on November 4 2024. Together on that live call we will step onto the next spiral of the Wheel and begin our beautiful Soul journey.