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Lunar Imbolc post on the journal.‘I can sense a warmth of some kind amidst the darkness; something has begun to glow som...
22/02/2026

Lunar Imbolc post on the journal.

‘I can sense a warmth of some kind amidst the darkness; something has begun to glow somewhere, my pulse quickens, and I feel my heart beating rhythmically in my chest.

As I turn a corner in the vastness, lunar Imbolc quietly greets me. The Chinese calendar says it’s the new year - four moons after ours, reminding me that time can be so ambiguous, my body remains less convinced. Even so, there appears to be a subtle reorganisation of energy. I sense a readiness within me, and all around me, the air seems charged with strength that doesn’t need to perform...

… I glance at the full image of myself and feel something expand. In the distance, I see blue, the distinctness of Majorelle blue. I watch myself rub my knees and stand up straight - so familiar.

My eyes are drawn again toward the strip of flat blue, feeling the heat and the hum as I move like a magnet towards it.’

Lunar Imbolc 🔥🌑🎠
17/02/2026

Lunar Imbolc
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Imbolc - A small tending.This is the threshold Brigid belongs to.I’m less interested now in tracing her lineage or namin...
31/01/2026

Imbolc - A small tending.

This is the threshold Brigid belongs to.

I’m less interested now in tracing her lineage or naming her attributes than in noticing how her presence registers, letting seasonal intelligence lead rather than using it as ornament - An intelligence that doesn’t push, a fire that doesn’t demand fuel, just tending.
The days are still short, and the cold still holds, the trees are still bare, the only signals are the potential the air holds - nothing looks convincingly like spring, yet the dark has loosened its grip, just enough to let a different quality of attention and light in. The light returns without announcing itself, and my body senses change.
Imbolc lives here.
Not in any dramatic sense, but as a quivering inside stillness. The dark is no longer closing in.
Imbolc, i mbolg - in the belly. A sense of something quietly organising beneath the surface, asking for protection at the moment rather than exposure. The work here is not expression, but containment - for now. No need to rush toward light, no need to convert feeling into action, no need to explain what hasn’t finished forming.
I say this because, I dont want to get saturated with Brigid ornaments and superficial totems, it can suddenly become very easy to misread this moment. How tempting it can be to treat it as a signal to begin again, to re-enter at speed, and doing, to make plans. Instead, Imbolc asks for a different kind of participation: A devotion without display.
Permission to move my body more, to warm what has been resting. A quiet pull toward simple food and repetition. Sap shifting in preparation to rise.
It’s less about orientation - where am I, what comes next - and more about inhabitation. How do I live inside what’s already here? If I were a tree, how would I live inside this trunk, this bark, these branches that are still bare to the onlooker but working and preparing within?

Unburdened Moon 3 - Fantasies of furs, feathers, props and pearls.
18/01/2026

Unburdened

Moon 3 - Fantasies of furs, feathers, props and pearls.

nearly new.*beside myself* this morning on the beach, i don’t care who’s fault winter is i’m 💯 in.
13/01/2026

nearly new.

*beside myself* this morning on the beach, i don’t care who’s fault winter is i’m 💯 in.

Bright Solstice horses minding the mound.
21/12/2025

Bright Solstice horses minding the mound.

Winter Solstice Befriend the dark, be curious.Today we celebrate mid-winter and the continuing cycle and rhythm of the s...
21/12/2025

Winter Solstice

Befriend the dark, be curious.

Today we celebrate mid-winter and the continuing cycle and rhythm of the seasons, a little extra light will slowly seep into each day - An intimate impression on us.

We know more now about the cosmos than ever before - Why? Because we can look beyond the surface, we can look up as well as at the ground, revealing new frontiers in our understanding of space, time, light and energy. Our ancestors who dared to imagine more discovered that on this day, sunlight changed, so they designed and built Newgrange to align with the rising sun and Stonehenge to align with the setting sun - I mean!

We’re living in a time of becoming increasingly isolated and insular, but we’re also living in a time of immense innovation and science (innovation and science are not the enemy; those Newgrange folk were scientists and innovators). We can’t go back in time, but we can create the future and, more importantly, the present we want, desire and need.

I believe the first step is about enquiry and belief in something bigger. Of tuning in and remembering who we really are. That’s why today is important, to notice the Solstice, to allow the darkness of the winter and slow returning light to infuse us, just as it regenerates nature.

It gets so dark I can feel it on my skin, a tingling in my face, just below my right cheekbone. It’s not uncomfortable, ...
19/12/2025

It gets so dark I can feel it on my skin, a tingling in my face, just below my right cheekbone. It’s not uncomfortable, just a little unnerving. The best thing about being here is the sensation of weightlessness when I allow myself to switch off. I imagine it’s probably what it feels like to be in space. The same reduced speed holds steady, I had half expected (hoped for) a new shift, something to mark progress or a deeper descent, but it doesn’t come, no new space is filled, no expansion. It’s simply here, inside...

… My only task now is to allow my nervous system to adjust to the consequences of the dark, without treating it as a problem to be solved.

New dark Moon post on journal.

The short road home.
11/12/2025

The short road home.

1: At the entry point, the pace drops and the external noise dulls. Something in the atmosphere has shifted into a famil...
19/11/2025

1: At the entry point, the pace drops and the external noise dulls. Something in the atmosphere has shifted into a familiar dropping, darkening, and thinning of surfaces.

New Year, New Moon.Moon 1 - Something in the atmosphere has shifted into a familiar dropping of pace, darkening long nig...
19/11/2025

New Year, New Moon.

Moon 1 - Something in the atmosphere has shifted into a familiar dropping of pace, darkening long nights and thin surfaces.

This is the first new moon of a new year, this is the way I see it anyway. It’s not something I decided, it’s just the way it is here, the land and the air say it’s so, and who am I to contest it...

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Devotion & AttentionAs you devote yourself - where might you get lost?We’re complex beings living on a complex planet. E...
16/11/2025

Devotion & Attention
As you devote yourself - where might you get lost?

We’re complex beings living on a complex planet. Each of us is devoted to something, whether we realise it or not. Our lives can easily become shaped by things that claim our attention, habits, social expectations, the constant hum of systems designed to occupy our time and focus…

Cailleach Ritual follow up as we enter into Lunar Samhain week. link in bio

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