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Bealtaine Moon Collective spell casting. UNDERSTANDING THAT WE’RE IN THE MIDST OF COLLECTIVE GLOBAL GRIEF IS THE BEGINNI...
30/04/2026

Bealtaine Moon

Collective spell casting.

UNDERSTANDING THAT WE’RE IN THE MIDST OF COLLECTIVE GLOBAL GRIEF IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW NAVIGATIONAL WAY.

BLENDING OLD WAYS WITH NEW MEANING, CREATING PASSAGES. INVOKING COLLECTIVE FRONTIERS.

THE PORTAL IS WHERE WE’RE STANDING NOW, WHERE EARTH MEETS SKY.

more on the journal…

Bealtaine magic blessings - get that dew on you

and keep her lit x 🔥 x

How to choose.Moon 6 - Arriving.Smelling a familiar, apple and grassy cream scent on the air, I see a hawthorn bush in t...
19/04/2026

How to choose.
Moon 6 - Arriving.

Smelling a familiar, apple and grassy cream scent on the air, I see a hawthorn bush in the near distance, with bright little green leaves eager to burst into blossom. A cuckoo sings, calling so distinctly amongst the thousands of songbirds. Bees are busy with dandelions, and dandelions are busy organising life.

I smell myself, salty and fresh, musky with hints of jasmine. A golden shimmer settles behind the hill. We’re all alive.

New post on journal - we’re half way there.

Cosmic Rituals - Spring Equinox. The cosmic clock is turning, the ritual of Spring equinox has occurred once again. The ...
22/03/2026

Cosmic Rituals - Spring Equinox.

The cosmic clock is turning, the ritual of Spring equinox has occurred once again. The sun begins to brightly rise in the sky, like the sun, love permeates everything, animating nature.

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ”

― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder

🆕 post on journal.

Moon 5 - Escape VelocityIf you wanted to be thrown into the air and never come back down, to actually escape Earth, you’...
18/03/2026

Moon 5 - Escape Velocity

If you wanted to be thrown into the air and never come back down, to actually escape Earth, you’d need to be travelling at just over 11 km per second. If you were standing on the sun, you’d need to travel at 617 km per second to escape. Light is incredible; it travels at 300,000 km per second - that’s how it can escape from the sun and earth so easily. When your escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, that’s when you become a dark star.

Here I am, on the edge, at the horizon, looking back towards the light. I’m still unsure how to re-embark on the journey or where it might be leading me. It all seems irrelevant right now.

Symmetry is all I can see from here, everything is flat and featureless. I rotate and see the same thing over and over from every angle - nothing. Then I remember the lesson: I need to break the symmetry. I need to fill it with matter, with things that matter.

I try to recall what matters. First, it’s hard; then I think of love, the most important presence, and the easiest and safest for me. As scenarios and situations come to my mind, I notice they have a clarity and sharpness, and I recall this is what it’s like when the mind has been dormant in a dark slumber, allowing the body to feel. Why is it I only ever realise that at this stage? The space fills as my thoughts appear, and just like that, I’m back in the gravitational field, surrounded by particles moving backwards and forward through time.

I can’t see it, but I can sense there is freedom all around me, it’s a migration of light. Weight loosens its grip, and I begin to move, through the full air. I move beside the moon, all new and shining, through the fields, along the beach, under the sea, feeling light(er).

New Moon post on the journal.

afternoon delights when your tights match the marble
16/03/2026

afternoon delights when your tights match the marble

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
🔥🌑🎠

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.

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