pilgrimages wiith jen and siân

“I’m dreaming back my sisters…” 

from Come home sisters, come home by Marie Elena Gaspari

Come meet your sisters, surrounded by snowdrops, poetry and ritual as Bridget breathes the first of the year’s warmth under foot. 

"The little hare watched

The nacreous moon..."

from The Hare and The Moon by The Owl Underground

When day finally rivals night, seeds and eggs give birth, bring life. Seek sanctuary with sisters at Pennant  Melangell to unravel the myth of hare, hunter and hermit.

“Then they took the flowers of the oak, the flowers of the broom and the flowers of the meadowsweet…” 

from the Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies with artwork by Emily Wilkinson

Hear how Blodeuwedd was conjured from flowers in this fire festival of drumming, dancing and maypolling. 

“I did not fall from grace, I lept to freedom.” 

from Autobiography of Eve by Ansel Elkins

Celebrate the birth of the longest day at sunrise in ancient landscape where we will be witness to the ripening of Blodeuwedd's tale, as old and steady as the stones. 

"The Bee Mistress knows that everything is born of woman..."

from The Shamanic Way of the Bee by Simon Buxton

Reap with us the fruits of the first of Demeter's harvest and the work of the Bees.

“Let me lie in the cave of my soul for too much light blinds me, steals the source of revelation…”

from Winter’s Cloak by Joyce Rupp

As the light tips its balance towards darkness, join us in Cerridwen’s cauldron to feed the gestation of Awen, the life giving breath of the otherworld. 

“Everything is beautiful and I am so sad…”

from Adrift by Mark Neepo

Sit in circle with us to speak and hear of loved ones departed. Build an altar to them, sing to them, honour them in community as the veil thins on the eve of the first day of winter.

“If it is I whom the emperor loves, let him come here to fetch me.”

from the Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies

Gather with us at home and hearth as we bid farewell to the shortest day and welcome the returning light with the story of Elen and the tying up of the sacred map.