The ancient Mother Goddess arose with our evolving consciousness as the womb from which all life sprang. She was seen as the hearth fire around which all gathered for warmth and sustenance; as the cave that protected and gave shelter and the life force within the bellies of women and the earth from which all living…
Podcast Winter Sanctuary Meditation As the long dark nights are with us, here is a meditation to help you find inner sanctuary.
From animist and pagan beginnings where people sought to understand the meaning of life through nature itself, through observation of patterns in the sky, the ebbing and flowing of the tides and the symbolism within nature. The intuitive was revered together with the search for knowledge, both being inseparable. Somewhere amongst the need for authority…
Meditation for Imbolc A journey through a winters night and an encounter with the Goddess Brigid, whose festival of Imbolc, the quickening of Spring, is held at the beginning of February.
“Divination has been practiced a way of knowing and communicating for millennia. Diviners are experts who embrace the notion of moving from a boundless to a bounded realm of existence in their practice. They excel in insight, imagination, fluency in language and knowledge of cultural traditions and human psychology” (Tedlock, 2006) Humans have, since the beginning…
2022: The Year of the Lovers and the Devil “To discover the source of this alchemical love within, is to uncover the deepest secrets of the soul. It is to unearth and align with the ultimate truth of who we are” Atalina Wright (NB: 2022 is a number 6 year unless, like me, you travel…
7 pm, 15th December 2021: Wigmore Library, Gillingham, Kent To capture the mood of a traditional Kentish Christmas, a festival talk on the old Yuletide traditions that continue to thrive in the Garden of England as Kent is often known. We shall explore when they originated, what they meant and how they have evolved; Hoodening,…
Short or Solitary Ceremony to Honour the Ancestors at Samhain On Samhain eve (31st October), set aside a small table to represent your ancestral shrine. Place a black cloth over it with some orange candles or tealights. If you prefer, this shrine can be created outdoors. Some bright autumn leaves can decorate. Place images or…
8 September, 2021: Treadwells Online: This mini workshop will demonstrate several classic spreads, such as the Celtic Cross, as well as showing how to work with a spread, or without one, or make one up yourself! Pdf handout included of all spreads used and information on how to create one. To book: https://www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/learning-tarot-spreads-workshop8 September 2021
25 August 2021: Treadwells Online: Charles Leland’s 1899 classic Aradia, The Gospel of the Witches is an exuberant, alluring Italian text whose goddess passages have influenced modern Wiccan ideas. It also includes spells, incantations, myths and incovations allegedly from the Strega tradition and these certinly come from Italian folk magic practices of the time. Suzanne…