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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: 'The Thing Is', by Ellen Bass
To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,...
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: '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...
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...
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...
Vision
If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it... then a long time...
Fear and the Earth Element within
Fear is one of the themes that destabilizes our root, the earth element within us. Here are a few powerful words to consider on fear, and...
The Cycle of Form and Formless
We are taken into winter, when the leaves are fallen from the trees and the branches are bare. Winter is this barrenness that belongs to...
The Long Night
The ‘Long Night’ feels true of our wider collective experience. Layers of underworlds. Journeys through grief, fear, loss and sickness...
The Edge You Carry With You
You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you. You know so very well, your childhood legacy: that...
On Being (T)here
In moments of transition and liminality, the movement from 'here' to 'there' can be washed away where only pure wonder remains. The...
On Co-Weaving Community and Mental WellBEing
Throughout this year I've been reflecting on my practice of weaving containers, energetic architecture, and curating space, and given the...
Winter Trees as a Portal to Aliveness
There is something about the skeletal splendor of winter trees - so vascular, so axonal, so pulmonary - that fills the lung of life with...
A Deep Winter Prayer (of Release)
I release my partner from the obligation to complete me. I release my parents from the feeling they failed with me. I release my children...
On the Philosopher's Stone
'There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.' ~ Jalāl...