Image: Nadia Duvan, of the Nani (Ulchi) people of Siberia, communicating with a bear spirit. The self-ethnonym of these people is Nani, meaning ‛local, aboriginal people’ and their language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic subbranch of the Altaic language family. Photo by Kiliii Fish Photography
I am called by the great She-Bear when the year begins to turn inwards
Entering the Cave of the Grandmothers as naked as I arrived into this world. There is much work in the dark months: listening, telling stories, learning, and dreaming.
I am kin with the olive-green fingers of moss, and the sea-green lichen
I am daughter of the Old Woman of the Land. She who brings the land into winter. She who strikes down life - for without death there can be no rebirth
I am sister to her fairy cattle, fleet-legged deer who graze among the headstones
I am She Who Wears Antlers, shapeshifting to run with the herd, hooves racing on land formed by the bones of the Old Antlered One
I walk with an ear to the ground, and a foot in the other world wearing my fought for threadbare selkie skin
Gathering with sisters, living outside of patriarchy we paint our shields with symbols of magic and protection. Speaking out for those whose voices have been silenced
Shredded by eagle talon, ripping away the illusions modernity weaves, we remember who we are, a wild and feral, of Earth
Walking the Path of the Ancestral Mothers of Scotland
Join me for our next journey on the Path of the Ancestral Mothers, exploring the energies of Spring Equinox. A time of emerging from winter’s cave and returning to the world. With:
Stories of Breejah and the great She-Bear emerging from hibernation and bringing life back to the land
Guided meditation
Bears in Scotland
Art project & divination
Needle felt art by Jude Lally
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