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Welcome to the MUSINGS room in our digital nest! Here you will find an extensive selection of articles, poetry, prose, videos, recipes, and tutorials that journey the natural cycles, seasons, elements, and archetypes in the Celtic Wheel of the Year, as well as our Irish indigenous festivals, folklore, and customs.

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The Path of Life and the Changing Year

One of the more interesting observations I have noticed when I write about the changing seasons and the turning of the year is how many...

When We Are No Place at All

"The middle-despite the common use of that word-is not halfway between here and there, beginning and end, birth and death, right and...

How to Recapture Your Imagination

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom under the grip of a spyglass. If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you...

Spring, the Air Element, and the Silent Extinction of Words

Imbolc marks the first day of Spring in Ireland and the Celtic Wheel of the Year. The principal element of Spring is Air, and this...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'A Morning Offering', by John O'Donoghue

I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from...

Seeking to walk beautifully on the Earth - A talk from Irish writer and philosopher John Moriarty

Recorded in the early 1990's, this incredible recording gifts magical insights into the fertile ground that is the mind of the late great...

On Imaginal Cells and Trusting the Process

To better understand the opportunity hidden in today’s crises, consider the tale of another world in transition. Imagine you are a single...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Ancient Language', by Hannah Stephenson

If you stand at the edge of the forest and stare into it every tree at the edge will blow a little extra oxygen toward you It has been...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Sojourns in a Parallel World', by Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Learning from Trees', by Grace Butcher

If we could, like the trees, practice dying, do it every year just as something we do— like going on vacation or celebrating birthdays,...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'On Pain', by Kahlil Gibran

And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Wild Geese', by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

Is time your friend or master?

'We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.' - H.G. Wells....

Filaments of Connection - from the Macrocosm to Microcosm, and back

When it comes to mythology and ancient indigenous wisdom it is generally accepted that the stars, constellations, and the cosmos itself...

How can an Owl catch a Mouse underneath a foot of snow in total darkness?

Owls do have excellent vision, but one would need either infrared or x-ray vision to see a small mammal under snow. Instead, owls do much...

Ten Love Letters to the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh

In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an...

Wintering, and how Trees illuminate the Art of Self-Renewal in difficult times

“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a...

The Complex Root Systems of Plants

Winter is the season of the earth element and earth, and it's hard to speak about earth without speaking about physical roots, our...

On Smoke, Mirrors, and Shadow Play

One of the interesting qualities of being human is, by the look of it, we’re the only part of creation that can actually refuse to be...

The Miracle that is the Earthly Vessel

The earth element/winter season relates with, amongst other themes, the physical body and your relationship with it. So as a little...

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