Antlered Path

09/11/2025

I see my journey as one of a Wild Pilgrim, not just headed to a particular sacred place or a fixed destination. More of a serpentine, wild edged wander, a way to live, a way to explore spaces, make deeper connections with the smallest aspects of an ecosystem or with the broadest sweeping landscapes.

You see, the wild pilgrim state is to feel part of the living ecosystem not separate from it. To follow wild trods, create new ones, to pause with emerging flowers at Spring time, to honour the passing of a dead bird on the side of the road, to muse with trees....To feel the rush of the wind before it reaches the skin.

Often I will feel a calling to visit a particular place and that could involve quite an effort, other times I just need to set out and see where I end up. Intuitively navigating, perhaps taking a 'wrong' turn and feeling a bit 'lost' or perplexed as to why I headed down a certain path or turning off the road.

If we are to trust in the mystery, the great unfolding, the shifts in the Wyrd and the transformative potential of our souls, we need to navigate a little with our 'witchdar' - give a little room to our innate knowing, our wild wonderful wisdom.

I feel this the most when I am on the land, in deep dialogue with where we originate from.

As John O'Donohue put it in his book 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace' -
"The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart".

I have added a new short free post on Substack on my wild pilgrim musings which ultimately will form the book I am writing. Do follow me over there if you haven't already and comment on the post if you can, or hit the like button. It all helps and I really appreciate it!

Wild blessings!

09/11/2025

In this month's Antlered Path Blessings from the trees post on Substack, I share insights and blessings from Reed spirit. Reed grows as a community plant usually forming large reed beds, sanctuaries for birds and other wild kin. Reed holds space and protects. It calls out in the wind as a liminal guide. It is a bridge to Otherworld. It is rooted strongly in watery energy, yet manages to hold itself well in the strongest of winds. Resilient reed ally helps us to face our wounds, our pain and to come to some kind of acceptance of suffering.
I share poetry, meditation and more in this post, it is a packed one!
If this calls to your soul, do follow the path over to the Substack. You are most welcome there.
Blessed be.

09/11/2025

A charm for peace - take a moment to focus on peace - peace within - peace around - peace flowing.

08/11/2025

Arriving at the threshold of twilight - watching the sun shift behind clouds as it sunk into the silver horizon - sea spirits were very frisky - waves leaping up to meet us at certain points - noticing how captivated many others were by the sea’s timeless magic and how easy it is to dissolve a sense of self when close to the vastness of deep water…. Leaving blessings and deep love for the wild.

03/11/2025

02/11/2025

Good morning. I have just published the first of two posts connected with the Dorset Ooser (folkore mask) on my Substack. Excited to share the photo of the Ooser in the tree trunk, which was created by Tony Davies, my partner and editor of the Antlered Path podcast. I took the photo and he has worked his magic! (Not AI).

I have spent many an hour reading and researching into the mystery that surrounds this iconic piece of West Country folklore and also walking the land around where the mask lived for many years - Melbury Osmond. Because we live close to Melbury and I have long felt it had some very deep, liminal magic. The walks have revealed much to me, which I aim to share in a short film next weekend (or the following weekend). Because it is not only words and written records that can convey the energy and purpose of something. The land and the Other, the spirits, the whispers in the wind, these too have much to share.

So do head on over to Substack and enjoy my foray with the mask!

"Ooser, horned man as mask,

grimaces through time,

deep in the

trunk of

World Mother Tree.

What is he telling me?

What can he be?

He is the liminal,

He is the meeting

twixt mundane and

wild reality".

26/10/2025

Samhain, Samhain
Time to dream again,
Summer has to sleep
Winter's call is deep.

Fire calls us home
through paths of bone
and stone.

Spirit wild, body tired
Let us not mourn alone.
No let us not mourn alone
for what is now
not known.

Let us in harmony
feed the flames
our dreaming song.
Let us in harmony
feed the flames
our dreaming song.

We dream the end
We dream the new
We feed the fire
to warm our brew.

Samhain, Samhain
Time to dream again,
Summer has to sleep
Winter's call is deep.

(Words by HilaryC of ).
Image from the recent free Substack post which you read by following the link in the Insta Bio or comments on Facebook).

25/10/2025

🫎 Come journey to the Antlered Hearth in the sacred domain, within your inner landscape. To honour Summer's End, the shift in seasons, the portal of winter, the longing in our souls...

In this week's substack I share a journey style post with suggestions for deeper connection, prompts through three questions that you can write down responses to and offer to your ritual fires.

I share recent photos, video and audio with love and blessings.

Link to this free post is in the Bio and comments.

Please do consider subscribing (free or paid options) and liking the post if you like it!

🌟 Blessed be.

25/10/2025

Forest calls us home. Moments of remembering. Sacred space.

24/10/2025

Arrive here in this sacred space. Breathe in the rooted energy of World Mother Tree - pause - gently notice your connection to deep earth holding you, supporting your every step. You are beaming light to others - you are a beacon of hope. 🙏🌟🌳

23/10/2025

Come on a New Moon wintry walk with me, from my cottage to the deer park and beyond….There is a shift in energy afoot, cold wind blows through my bones. Cailleach has arrived. The is tingling. The Wild Hunt is close by.