Category: Seasonal Living
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A Druid’s Winter Solstice
‘Síocháin, suaimhneas, solas agus grá: Peace, tranquility, light and love.’ Most of Irelands traditions, folklore, customs, piseogs have roots in a much older wisdom, that of the Celts and the Druids. Indeed many of our Christian traditions have their roots in the Pagan Druid traditions and Christmas and its modern day celebrations are no different. […]
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The Cords of the Ancestors
“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.” Toba Beta All art by Edward Robert Hughes, 1851 – 1914 This time of year we find ourselves waning through the quieting autumn. Gently moving into the embrace of winter. The leaves find their way ever so sweetly released from the grip of the trees. Oh […]
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Samhain: Cauldron of the Ancestors
“I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the daystill they reach the darkness whereall of me is ancestor.” Annie Finch This time in between Samhain and the Winter Solstice is a time of descent. We descend into our inner being; into our darkness to find what it is we will bring into being at the Winter […]
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A Blackbird Flies Into My Life
“Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise.” The Beatles This morning my beautiful daughter and I had breakfast on the patio in glorious sunshine. We had no sooner tucked in when a blackbird hopping hither and yon, called […]
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Tailtiu
“When the fair wood was cut down by her, roots and all, out of the ground, before the year’s end it became Bregmag, it became a plain blossoming with clover. Her heart burst in her body from the strain beneath her royal vest; not wholesome, truly, is a face like the coal, for the sake […]