Brighid Path & Sovereignty Soul Craft

15/09/2022

New mini-course - twenty one days leading up to Samhain

15/09/2022

I'm offering a new mini-course next month. It's time to work with the Witch Wound.

If this calls to you check our the info doc in the newsletter attached and contact me with any queries. I'd love to have you with us as we hold a potent, safe cauldron space for this exploration and healing.

New mini-course - twenty one days leading up to Samhain

15/03/2022

Great cyclical forces pull and push at the shores of our psyche, the emotions moonstruck, and the body stone softened.

What is ebbing?
What is incoming?
Where is the rock and the watchful beacon?
What is a mere tumbling of stones, a turning over of mind, a tinkling rearrangement of the surface thought?
What is returned to you, cast on a previous tide?
What are you idly tossing to the waters now?
And what of the wave of great change that comes only once thrice cubed?
Are you counting, watching, waiting, welcoming and surf ready?

04/03/2022

Up on SoundCloud, the link is in bio. A fifteen minute meditation to shift the focus of your day or week and to send the vibration of peace and love out into the world. Let's not underestimate the wider impact of collectively holding peace at the forefront of all we do and think in these times. A peaceful heart is not without boundary or necessary action, but rather enables a calm clarity to both be and do.

This guided meditation can be used as a new moon practice, a world peace practice or as part of your daily intention setting.

Having listened to the guided meditation the practice can be transferred to twenty breaths as follows:

1. Come to stillness
2. Acknowledge and name what is that serves no-one
3. Breathe it in and release down and out to the earth
4. Breathe it in and release down and out to the earth
5. Breathe it in and release down and out to the earth
6. Pause in the space created
7. Locate the soft light of peace
8. I AM Peace
9. I AM Love
10. Peace and Love I AM
11. Pause in the shift
12. .......... is PEACE
13. .......... is LOVE
14. PEACE and LOVE is ...............
15. Pause in the shift
16. I choose to ..........
17. I intend ........
18. ............. I AM
19. Pause in the wonder of your intentions made manifest
20. Smile and carry on with your day

04/03/2022

My current level of input. Even my banana, raisin and sunflower seed porridge has a mix of potent mushroom powders, green superfoods and turmeric in it. I promise its grounding, comforting and delicious.

My other goodies (herbal and mineral supplements, vibrational essences, cbd oil and rose oil) are helping to keep me balanced and focused. I'm endeavouring to support cognitive function and my mood, because autistic and adhd brain is not an easy juggle with uni, personal life and biz any way, without everything else going on in the world. I often feel like I don’t do any of it very well at all. Most of this stuff keeps the inner critic, self doubt and incapacitating freeze at bay, so I can keep going, contribute and be vaguely productive.

This isn't a 'hey look at me post'. It's a reminder that when things are bleak or a bit scary; when your heart is breaking; when you feel powerless to help; when you are struggling with overwhelm or low mood; when you are trying to serve life but find your spirits dipping; when you are shadow-working; or all of the above, up your nutritional and energetic levels of personal support and self-care.

For any of us to serve well in whatever capacity we choose to give in our daily lives, we have to bridge the gaps between mental, emotional or physical health and lack of sleep, heavy workloads, family stress, anxiety, pandemic concerns, political worries, pollution, nutrition, differabilities, disabilities and illness in the best ways we can.

Think smart. Hydrate. Load up on nutrition. Consistently invest time and energy, if not money, in your mental and physical health as best as you can. These things will promote emotional resilience. This isn't a call to suddenly ditch the comfort food or start a fancy regime, I haven't by a long shot. It's a genuine question? How are you supporting you so that you can be the best you can be in these weird and worrying times? Giving to yourself so you can give to others is not selfish. It's wise. Your oxygen mask goes on first.

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28/02/2022

Let me guide you through a beautiful meditation, a self care practice, to ease grief and fear. These practices are so essential in times of stress, loss, illness or sadness. To be able to be with what is without losing our light, hope and passion is hard often times.

So make yourself comfortable. Take twenty minutes to align with Love and Grace, transmuting that which halts you in fear. I promise you will feel better afterwards even if that's just because you've paused and breathed and connected in to yourself.

https://soundcloud.com/heidi-wyldewood/heart-flow-and-violet-flame-meditation

03/02/2022

Today, in the Northern Hemisphere, we find ourselves at that midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.

This time of year is both associated with the pagan goddess of Ireland Brighid, one of Tuatha dé Danann, and the matron saint Brigid and we celebrate it as Imbolc or Candlemass.

Seeming to both sally forth on the same Sacred Feminine ray, in more recent times She has become associated with the Swan. This archetypal energy bringing us grace, purity, transformation and poetry is certainly in line with Brighid, as She presents in the wider world.

Her older animal associations of sheep, cow, ox and boar indicate her practical nature, but on a deeper examination these beings show Her sovereign connection to the Land and to the Otherworld. Her precious oystercatcher walks the liminal shore, as She too stands to assist us at the thresholds of life and other. The serpent which emerges from the hole at this time of year, warmed by the sun's rays, indicates the magickal and transforming nature of Her invitation to us this springtide.

What purification and cleansing is Her call to you today? Where is the grace and nourishment of the Otherworld touching your life right now? Where shall your yearning for transformation lead you? Perhaps you cry out at the injustice in the world and wish to be the change. Or do you find yourself in a liminal place, turning the stones at the shore?

Who do you feel drawn to this Imbolc? Sheep, Cow, Serpent, Ox, Boar, Oystercatcher or Swan. What shall they bring to you as you step into the spring?

Light a candle. Make a prayer. Pause to connect with Her in breath and body. Let the Sacred Feminine lead you gently out of hibernation into all the possibilities of awakening to Life.

Banner art: Wendy Andrews

01/02/2022

Utterly stunning. Be moved deeply this Imbolc day by words and vision Brighid-crafted into something potent and inspiring.

‘Imbolc/Vision'To celebrate Imbolc and Brigit's Day 1st February, this is an eco-poetry film commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles. Inspired by the...

01/02/2022

Although, astrologically speaking, Imbolc is not till 3rd February this year, today is lunar Imbolc, a dark moon.

With this new moon, a new season emerges. Springtide pops her head up through the winter frosted ground in the form of Snowdrop. She heralds the change with her delicate looking bells of purity and hope, whilst the air is still chill enough to see breath. Delicate as she may look, Snowdrop is a milk-white warrior, a Brighid flower, born of forces that wrestle the black rod from the Cailleach's wintry grasp and turn the wheel of the year.

Snowdrop is the first magick cast of the white wand, the thaw is begun. Slowly we wend our way now toward the bright half of the year. Not yet. But soon.

Hope.

Bright Blessings of Imbolc to you and yours. What shall your dreaming be this moon? What gentle awakenings can you sense within?

01/02/2022

The Pilgrim's Journey begins today, but if you hear the call there is still time to join this spiral. Registration closes on 5th February.

Do you yearn for a potent connection to the Sacred Feminine, and to feel Her guidance throughout the coming year? Would you like find out what Brighid's 'Blue Nine', the wisdom codes of healing and transformation could do for you?

Come Pilgrim, heed the call.

Message me to find out how I can support you with this mixed media online course. Payment is in instalments.

23/01/2022

Several years ago I said prayers on this mound, the site of witch hangings. I poured Grove Offering to the ground and asked that they be remembered and the land healed of the pain it was holding.

Today I returned. I found a small memorial that was created last September for the thirteen people who were accused, hanged and their bodies burned: Agnes Murie; Bessie Henderson; Isabel Rutherford; Robert Wilson; Bessie Neil; Margaret Lister; Janet Paton elder and younger; Agnes Brugh; Margaret Hoggin; Janet Brugh; Christian Garvie; and Agnes Pittendreich

Rest in peace o bright ones.
I'm sorry.