When winter comes to a woman’s soul, she withdraws into her inner self, her deepest spaces. She refuses all connection, refutes all arguments that she should engage in the world. She may say she is resting, but she is more than resting: She is creating a new universe within herself, examining and breaking old patterns, […]
Goddess Cailleach
March 2018 Goddess Calendar and Feast Days
Spring, Glorious Spring, is coming! Goddess is new again. The Winter Crone takes a step back and the Maiden of Spring is revealed to perpetuate the cycle of life. The joy and innocence of the Spring Maiden Goddess affirms the potential of our creative lives and the ability to dance, sing, and stand in the shower of […]
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Goddess Calendar and Feast Days for January 2018
HAPPY JANUARY, BLESSINGS OF THE NEW YEAR, and WELCOME 2018! The Goddesses of Winter hold sway now (in all of their myriad forms) – it is the time of the Crones and Wisdom Women. They keep vigil at the hearth fires, poke the coals, and sustain us in the darkest season. They are singing our […]
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Goddess Calendar and Feast Days for November 2017
Samhain and Day of the Dead celebrations roll right into November. The veils are thin. Our Ancestors and Beloved Dead are around us and all time seems to be held in sway to the liminality of the worlds right now. Astrological Samhain is when Scorpio reaches 15 degrees and occurs on November 7. Connect with […]
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A Journey with the Cailleach by Jude Lally
When you look over the folklore of Ireland and Scotland the Cailleach is known by many names, this is because she was a localized deity. She was the Cailleach of your loch, mountain or moorland – this then gave her slightly different qualities and the animals associated with her. I do not know all these […]
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Living in a Sacred Landscape {Jude Lally}
As the sun slowly descended below the peaks of the Isle of Rum the land enters into the gloaming. At this point of the wheel of the year, just passed Beltane and approaching summer solstice, twilight in these north western latitudes of Scotland lasts for many hours after the sun goes down. Twilight paints the […]
