For a long time, I wanted a definite truth. Without it, I felt anxious, unsettled in both mind and heart. I searched, questioned, explored, and hoped that one day I would arrive at a final answer, a place of certainty where all my questions would be resolved...

To celebrate 4 years being an Interfaith Minister and 6 years since our first interview together, Tania Ashton-Jones of TJ Frog and I met...

I had an idea... "wouldn't it be great if we could get lots of Interfaith Ministers posting together on their socials... talking about who they are... what they do... their spiritual practices... what brings them joy... etc" To have a conversation together and to share with friends and followers more about us and our ministry. The idea grew legs... then arms... a head... a torso... and then a hashtag #MonthOfMinistry @sass_at_spiritunity offered her social media expertise and

Inviting in the light to support the co-creation of a new home blessing ceremony. The first couple I married last summer, loved the Isle...

I felt so much gratitude as I walked the Solstice spiral at Findhorn this afternoon reviewing my year past... for all the joy it's brought... in whales and seals, sunrises and sunsets, swims with friends and family walks, candles and altars, art and creativity, full moons and first flowers of spring, ceremonies and relationships, standing stones and standing people (trees), silliness and stained glass, the beauty and colours of nature. JOY was my angel quality of 2022. I walk

In tonight's Yule Ceremony... our final ceremony of 2022's A Year With The Wheel... I invited our Women of the Wheel into the darkness, to imagine themselves as a seed deep in the belly of the earth. A seed... not needing to do anything, not needing to take action... just resting... just being... no need to stir until Imbolc. I dropped into the meditation with them and got a deep awareness of how we, as humanity, are the babies of the earth... having hardly been around any t

...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

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.

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 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