May you reap the abundance of your personal harvest May you celebrate your gifts, skills and successes from the year(s) May the cost of your harvest balance the return, not sitting too heavily on you May you know not everything that grows can be harvested immediately May you release the fallacy of continual growth And once you have gathered in your harvest, may you rest.

A year ago today I made a commitment to post about my ministry every day... my everyday ministry... Often when I tell people I'm an interfaith minister they assume that means my work is celebrancy and ask me about weddings... but its so much wider than that... and so much more than paid work too... I remember a friend talking about her 'work' encompassing all the things she brings to the world... all the way she uses her gifts... and I guess that's what my posts have been abo

We record our Year With the Wheel Lughnasadh ceremony. Lughnasadh falls at the traditional time for holiday, so it ensures we can have a holiday and that our Women of the Wheel don't miss it. One of the unexpected benefits of recording was that I could experience it myself this morning! With my crazy, spun-out summer diary, I woke early to spend an hour listening back. It was so gorgeous! Even the parts that made me laugh at myself (is 1000 000 000 a billion? Surely its not

Today I send my blessings to all the One Spirit Ordinands who are taking their vows. Vows which state how they promise to show up in the world... how they'll serve... 2 years ago on this day I took my own vow. Spoke the unique words that felt Divined. The words that came to me at the end of my ministry training. A culmination of the journey I'd been on... Through ceremony & my own biography and healing... Through spiritual counselling & an exploration of different religions i

Today I attended a Crowning... a Crone-ing... an Eldering... ceremony for a wonderful friend and teacher in Colorado. It was so beautiful to be part of this sacred rite of passage to honour her life to date and this shifting to a new life stage. Blessed to have been invited, delighted to have participated and feeling full of love and inspiration. Dearest Lisa Marie Luminescent Coyote Windwalker May you know the blessing you are to all you are in relationship with May your lig

I woke up with an empty diary (other than volunteering at Youth Club tonight)... No zooms! Awesome! Of course I could've spent the day writing ceremonies, updating my website, doing some banking, uploading blogs... but after a lazy morning when I asked myself 'What would bring me joy?' the answer took me by the hand and led me outside... reminding me to grab a sketch book, paints and inks on the way. I knew where I was headed... to hold ceremony, to have an encounter with a b

Pausing to count my blessings... each stitch in the spiral another thing I'm grateful for in my life. Stitched in a Solstice ceremony and on my altar since... reminding me of the abundance of blessings ✨️ In the Wheel of the Year ceremony we asked those present to make a stitch, starting from the outside edge... a stitch for everything they were grateful for... everything that blessed their life... slowly, mindfully. Once they were done, we asked them to run their finger ove

I can't tell you how many scarves, shawls, wraps and dresses I have bought recently in an attempt to begin to feel I have something to wear for the weddings and other ceremonies I'm holding this year! Most of them have been returned 🤦‍♀️ I do love these two kimonos though... especially the green one for midsummer.. but wonder if they might feel too much... especially out on the hill blowing about! And to wear my stole or not? The stole I made for my ordination was ministry i

Tea, scones and chat about death. What could be better? Today I hosted a Death Café with a friend here on the Isle of Skye. I love these wee gatherings (this was our second) where anything on the topic of death is up for discussion... There are conversations about pain, grief, family, suicide, assisted death, funeral ceremonies, fear, burial, cremation, spirit and our beliefs about what happens after death. Today I realised that I'd love to be sung across the threshold into

I'd been having some awareness about integrating the inner masculine and feminine. I seen in meditation that the two altars I'd most recently created had the same form, the female form, with womb containing egg, ovaries and birth canal. In the second altar I added a tall vase and placed the egg into it (it looked pretty phallic from the side! Did I unconsciously bring the masculine into the feminine?!) I'd also became aware in meditation that this second altar mirrored the s

Last Night I attended the first of four 'Plant Encounter' sessions with Jean Atherton-Dow www.jeandowherbalist.co.uk/ and a sister One Spirit Minister Kim Atherton-Dow. I especially loved 'meeting' the plant through smell, taste and intuition. We learnt about the historical and modern uses for the plant (realising biology might have been a useful subject in school after all... if only if taken it beyond the age of 12). And we learnt how we might use the plant in ceremony link

Yesterday was International Women's Day (IWD) and I know I'm supposed to be inspired by it, but it had the opposite effect on me. Something had happened at the beginning of the week which triggered 'unheard' and 'powerless' in me and I had dropped into despair, grief too, which often shows up in thoughts of 'what's the point?'. As I sat with it (I feel if it's possible to just feel the feelings that's what helps me to move through them). It felt much bigger than just the even

Today's Ministry was definitely FOR me not BY me. This week has felt a bit like walking through treacle. Communications and conversations seem to have been challenging. What's going on with the planets? I know we're heading towards a full moon. And I wonder what Mercury, the planet that rules communication, is up to... where it is in my chart... As a coach, facilitator and spiritual counsellor I pride myself on communications, so it hits me hard when it feels so difficult.

I've been hosting a women's circle online since summer last year and on Sunday it drew to a close in its current format... although it will continue in a new form. The focus has been exploring spirituality and I've loved how it's emerged... the group choosing a different theme to explore in the gaps between the sessions. It's been beautiful to see the deepening of sharing... sharing of what is real and important and vulnerable as the trust in the group has grown. In our final

It was just before Christmas, the weekend had been full with a family trip away, ending with a Women's Circle on the Sunday morning on zoom, from my hotel room. I'd then jumped on a train to my friend's house, arriving with just enough time to finish planning our final Wheel of the Year Ceremony of 2021, before delivering it that evening. And so when I awoke at 8am on Monday morning, with a dream group scheduled at 10.30am and not yet having done my dreamwork for it, I though

After saying yesterday to a friend I feel I've flipped my life and the spiritual these days feels a bigger part than the human... today I've been working on my tax return again. Urrrghhh... waaaay too much humanness! So focusing on the magic and the joy in my day... I've been doing a 13 day practice which started at midnight on Christmas Eve when I pulled this Earthkeeper card... and ended tonight. The practice has been to draw a card each night and to look out for signs bet

A couple of weeks before Christmas I had a sense of boredom. Not a big urrghhh I need to change my life kind of boredom, just a low level... oh there used to be dancing and getting dressed up and events to look forward to and now there's not. Maybe we've all been feeling a bit of that in 2020 and 2021. There's just been so much less happening. Anyway it brought me to the awareness that I wanted more joy. When I sat with that, I realised that more joy requires two things... 1

This altar has been a long time in the creation! Normally I create a new altar for each Wheel of the Year festival... intuitively gathering items from around my home and from nature, to create something of beauty - an offering if you will. Every six weeks I dismantle the last festival's altar and allow the new one to come forth. But I was away at the Solstice, then caught up in Christmas, socialising between Christmas and New Year and away again at New Year.... So this is m

Just did my first virtual virtual (which has come to mean connecting in spirit not on zoom!) holding of COP26 after we gathered in person (on zoom!) yesterday... At 8.30am I lit candles and meditated. In my meditation I was led up a staircase and into a room where a spiral of women (& perhaps men too, deeply connected with their inner feminine) were all sending love... It was beautiful. The love was palpable, visible and the spiral seemed to amplify it! Sending love to ALL b

May we honour our ancestors of blood and spirit May we recognise all that brought us to this moment in life... our ancestors and their gifts and their wounds, our inspirations and our passions May we be open to receive the wisdom of the ancestors and receive guidance when we ask And above all... on the day before COP26 May we all remember that we are the ancestors of the future... May we leave the legacy we wish for those yet to come #samhain #blessings #ancestors #blood #spi