Ancestors blessing us after Samhain ceremony… work tended to with deep care and bridging intentions in the ancient Appalachian mountains.
Prayers laid and tears offered for the I, the We and the All.
Bowing to all who care for this soil through time
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Majesty. Masculine. Magic.
🤎🖤🧡
For years the doe and her fawns have walked with me, in delicacy and death.
One leapt head first into the side of my car in self-sacrifice, protecting us from a falling tree around the next corner. She was the first large living being to die in my arms and became how I taught my son of the honouring of life in death. Songs and sacred tears on the school run.
I’ve been out on snowy midnight mountains with hunters, bringing prayers and offerings to the land for the gift of meat. The bullet and the blessing.
They welcomed us to our new home, snuggling up to the boy in the garden. Deer kin recognising human kin.
And the stag is incoming.
The horned one walking me through worlds and opening up liberation, love and magic. Its thresholding power beckoning…
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ELDERS
Have you found your elders?
Are you calling them in, with fierceness and clarity?
Are you longing for them?
Not just your stone ancestors but your human elders also.
I was,
so much,
in deep longing and readiness.
I prayed in ceremony for my elders to find me and other beloveds held this prayer for me also. And they began to find me. A text here. An unexpected meeting spouting tears of recognition there. I was courageous enough to recognise them when they came knocking, saying “Hey, see you, I need you.”
And do you know what I heard back?
“I need you too. My elderhood can’t be awoken without you calling it forth”
We can’t do this work alone, we’re not meant to. Relational infrastructure is critical to systemic health. Find your kin, find your sacred sisters, your brothers, your lovers, your partners. And find your elders.
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You can’t stay the same and become 🔥
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MENTORING OPENINGS
If you are ready to be met and accompanied on the next phase of your path, I am here.
If you are longing to be held as you descend, release and find your roots, I am here.
If you want to be held as you create, reach and soar for your highest possibilities, I am here.
And if you simply need companionship as you navigate life today, I am here.
This summer I have mentoring spaces opening up. This is not an A-Z programme with promises, it is a relationship with accountability. It is not a course with modules, it is a weaving with wisdom.
One-to-one work is a deeply sacred container, focusing on the relational wisdom that reveals itself in our shared field. And yes I’ve a ton of coaching models and frameworks too, if they’re needed for extra support.
Drop me a note if you’re curious about being in connection and seeing what working together can reveal for you.
In love and revelation, Lydia 🌹
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This sunbeam made me shriek, laugh, cry and celebrate.
This beam means time, place, beginning, turning.
We live at 1000 ft on the north side of a mountain, it’s cold and windy and for a few weeks each winter the sun does not even touch the ground in the back yard.
What this beam means today is that the sun is now high enough to begin peeking over the ridge, shining directly in a window which it hasn’t done for months. Seeing this beam on the floor heralds the return of the light into the house.
The opening, the budding, the thawing of hearts, minds and bodies.
Imbolc is not just a one off ceremony, it’s a season of unfolding that comes as much alive in the mundane for me as it does in the majestic. As within, so without. As above, so below.
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BEE CARE
As the bees begin waking up they’ll be stumbling along sleepily, needing nutrients for energy.
Mix some water with honey or sugar and pour it near them or drip a drop onto them.
We had three big beauties indoors today, loving their sticky little bath and then getting resourced to fly off 🐝
📸 pure spring moments with @enthusiastic_plantsman
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Yesterday I posted a clip from a podcast I did but it didn’t upload fully - here is some more. Thanks for the lovely notes about sharing my voice… after working through tons of fear and rage in my throat, I am beginning to be able to express myself more cleanly and clearly. It’s a long and never ending journey but I’m liking this current place 🌀🌀🌀
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Personal reflections on my first meeting with the Celtic wheel of the year in 2011, and how I find its mapping of time and state medicinal for these times.
This excerpt is from a podcast the Seasonal Alchemy team were invited onto, Embodied Pathways with @dr.adrianh , after Adrian attended our Lughnasa retreat in the Forest of Dean last year. Loved the chats!
#indigenous #celtic #integral #emergence #holisticliving #lakeswimming #trees #ogham #mysticism #meditation #healing #facilitator #coaching #consciousbusiness #irishart #irish #coaching #healing #consciousness #mindfulness #consciousmamma #ireland #seasonalalchemy #celticwisdom #sacredwells #forestofdean #gloucestershire
Personal reflections on my first meeting with the Celtic wheel of the year in 2011, and how I find its mapping of time and state medicinal for these times.
This excerpt is from a podcast the Seasonal Alchemy team were invited onto, Embodied Pathways with @dr.adrianh , after Adrian attended our Lughnasa retreat in the Forest of Dean last year. Loved the chats!
#indigenous #celtic #integral #emergence #holisticliving #lakeswimming #trees #ogham #mysticism #meditation #healing #facilitator #coaching #consciousbusiness #irishart #irish #coaching #healing #consciousness #mindfulness #consciousmamma #ireland #seasonalalchemy #celticwisdom #sacredwells #forestofdean #gloucestershire
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