...to the well... in memory of a wonderful woman. Sonja Eckl, known to many as Ganga. She inspired me to do Ministry Training. She connected me with lots of amazing people, bringing together therapists and others in the Health Oasis. She trusted me with her weddings and other ceremonies when she wasn't well enough to do them... She was so loved by so many and blessed so many couples with ceremonies over the years. She's left a deep hole in the community. As there won't be a

So today I got to spend the day with my friend @stonechat.baskets playing around with her homegrown, harvested, processed and soaked willow. How cool! She showed me some baskets she'd made, the tools, some different types of willow and some of her favourite willow weavers on You Tube and then we hung out and I had a go. Loved it! Pretty pleased with my wonky... gappy... lopsided... half made basket! Did I mention... I made this?! From scratch! It was top of my list of apocal

This morning I had a supervision session which brought up lots of feelings which have been hanging around the past couple of weeks... flat... joyless... unseen... invisible... alone... I started to go into the why... the 'becausing' as I call it... searching for the reasons... I'm less busy... my husband is super busy... my role at work has changed... blah blah blah... And then I read a post from my lovely friend @loveyourlifeinspirations about being in that place of searchin

This afternoon I had the privilege of listening and holding space whilst someone disclosed something from their childhood. We never know how the threads of our early life, woven into us at a young age, will affect us in later life. All that we go through (& it's thought all that our mothers and grandmother's go through) is stored in our minds and bodies. Even when we think we've put something behind us, dealt with or processed trauma... sometimes all it takes is one external

I've started a writing 'group' with a friend. It's just the two of us! We meet on zoom... we light candles... we call in all the love and support... we sit in silence for a while... we check-in with one another... listening, witnessing... and then we write... My writing is on ceremony. Its something that came to me to do towards the end of my ministry training, my journey with ceremony being a bit of a roller coaster, and although I've had a few goes at writing something, I'v

So many emotions we go through in a day... in an hour... a minute... even holding multiple emotions simultaneously at times. Just noticing... The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be

I had a Spiritual Counselling/Accompaniment session this morning for a client. Before our sessions I always have a look around the house... on all my many shelf and windowsill altars to see what wants to come. I trust what I'm drawn to not needing to make sense of it. This is what came today. A bee... berries... beads... beans! The bee I made out of felt... berries is picked for a Mabon altar... beads I bought from Greece intrigued with this Eastern orthodox prayer tool (& of

A gorgeous Samhain ceremony with @space_for_grace_scotland and our women of the wheel (part of A Year With the Wheel). We journeyed back through our female lineage to find the gifts the grandmothers passed to us. And explored the wise, knowing, intuitive, nature connected, earth loving, healer and holder in us... the 'witch' within. We wove all the gifts of all the generations back into ourselves. So much insight... wisdom... connection and synchronicity as always. My gift fr

I had the absolute joy of driving to Applecross to hold a beautiful Quaker style marriage ceremony. With a bigger guest list than any of my other ceremonies to date (usually wee elopements out in the elements) I was a little nervous, but this rainbow right outside my front door was a sign that all was well... that I was held! Oh and the prayer that was mysteriously on my lounge carpet this morning... a wee cutting someone had taken from the newspaper! The autumn colours on t

Yesterday I had the honour of collaborating on an incredibly special Healing Ceremony for an amazing woman ♡ My heart is overflowing with love today and I'm so full of the energy from it I woke at 5am. When I was ordained in 2020 I knew that Healing Ceremony would be a big part of my ministry but I didn't know what that meant or how it would come to be. Until yesterday... when it well and truly manifested! I don't want to share about the ceremony as it feels too sacred to p

I'm marrying a couple next month who are bringing a horn to use in their ceremony... in a ritual. They had someone making mead for it, but the seal broke and they found themselves meadless! I wondered if I could source them some Scottish mead. I found a producer, but then I wondered if I could source some here on the Isle of Skye. I put a message out on Instagram... no luck. And then I had an idea... mead is made from honey right? I put a post out on a local bee keepers grou

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

In 2020, as part of my ministry training I wrote a vow renewal ceremony for my husband and I. I crafted it based on our reflections of our relationship and marriage to date... on our hopes and dreams for the future. I crafted it to connect with the land of Skye... where we'd made home... and to echo our original ceremony and the traditions of New Zealand where we married. For the vow renewal we each wrote personal vows to speak to one another... as we hadn't taken that opport

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

1. Because you're curious about what it might bring to your life 2. To work through childhood trauma 3. Because you've received bad news...