It’s 4:45 a.m.

For months, I have woken up in the middle of the night. It could be menopause, but that’s only a part of it. Tonight, there is a massive weight across my shoulders, a feeling of dread as heavy as a boulder in my belly....

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending"

J. R. R. Tolkien

At the Autumn Equinox we move from a circle into a deepening spiral as the cycle comes to a close and we journey towards the Celtic new year at Samhain. 

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Image credit : Kaye Maahs. 

I remember as a child a large picture of Brigid with a white cow that hung in one of the bedrooms in our house.

When I lay in the bed underneath, I often found myself drawn into the image. Even...

Letting in the GOOD 

The Ancient & New Wisdom of Lughnasa 

In the Celtic Wheel the invitation of Lughnasa is to PAUSE, to HARVEST THE GOOD in our lives and come into a new relationship with JOY. 

That is what our ancestors did...

Jan 27 , Written By Mari Kennedy

Imbolc or Imbolg  means “In the belly”

An old Irish word that refers to the ewe’s milk that comes in a month before the lambs are born in Spring. 

It speaks to the subtle signals that...

“Every beginning is a promise,

born in light and dying in dark”

Brendan Kennelly

On this Winter Solstice and on the cusp of the new decade, I believe we humans are at a collective crucible moment. A moment when we are invited to face...

R E S T

verb

1.cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength.

To    R E S T    in 2022 is a radical, revolutionary, evolutionary act. 

To pause and deeply let our bones rest is not...

It’s the time of Lughnasa, the festival of the harvest in the Celtic calendar and the final cross-quarter day in the cycle. Each of the eight festivals in the Celtic Wheel brings with it new energies rooted in the natural world. Each...

In the Celtic Wheel the Solstices and Equinoxes are considered solar festivals that mark significant points of the sun’s journey. Solstice means “sun stands still”.  For three days, at the highest point (Summer solstice) and...

ANCIENT WISDOM OF OPPOSITES FOR A WORLD IN FLUX

The Wisdom that the Spring Equinox offers us is the wisdom in the dance of the opposites as we
move from darkness into light, from death to rebirth in nature.
In the Earth based cosmology of our...

Right now, here on planet earth, we are moving through the twice-yearly threshold of the Equinox—the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere and the Autumn Equinox in the southern half of the planet. Equinox means “equal...

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

― Joseph Campbell

The world feels different. Being alive feels different to me these days. It’s different from how it felt even...