Uplifting and inspiring, it explores eight Celtic festivals, how they were celebrated and understood in the past, the underlying changing energy of the Earth, and the ways we may use this energy to create meaningful celebrations for today to deepen our connection to the Earth and our fellow human beings.
Deepen your connection to the Earth by learning to work with the natural cycles of the year—an inspirational guidebook from an expert in healing techniques and Celtic wisdom Our relationship to the Earth has changed. We have become more aware of how our actions can affect the balance of Nature. Earth Wisdom is a potent reminder to appreciate the natural vitality, unity, and intelligence of all life. Covering everything from tree lore and Celtic festivals to Moon energies and herbalism, it includes imaginative ways to experience the seasonal cycles and ways to heal and develop our relationship with the Earth, the trees, and the plants through practical and heart-centered interaction. This book inspires us to restore our own connections to the Earth, encouraging us to follow our own personal spirituality and intuitive wisdom. In so doing, it increases our potential for creating positive change in our lives and in the world!
For the ancient Druids, the healing and magical properties of herbs were inseparable from the larger cycles of the seasons, the movements of the planets, and the progression of a human life. A Druid’s Herbal shows the reader how to use herbs when creating rituals to celebrate festivals and significant life passages such as births, house blessings, weddings, funerals, and naming ceremonies. Drawing on extensive research and a deep personal experience with Pagan traditions, Ellen Evert Hopman explores the history and folklore surrounding the eight major Celtic festivals: Samhain, Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltaine, Summer Solstice, Lugnasad, and Fall Equinox. Included in each discussion are complete instructions on the medicinal and magical uses of the herbs associated with each celebration. Using these Celtic traditions as examples, the author suggests ways to incorporate the symbolic and magical power of herbs into personal rituals that honor all phases of life from childbirth to last rites. Also included are chapters on how to prepare herbal tinctures, salves, and poultices; herbs used by the Druids; herbal alchemy and the planets; and the relationships between herbs and sacred places. Filled with practical information and imaginative suggestions for using herbs for healing, ceremony, and magic, this book is an indispensable and comprehensive guide to age-old herbal practices.
In 'Letting in the Wild Edges', Glennie Kindred encourages us to celebrate the bounties of nature and reconnect with the Earth. Season by season we are given tips for foraging wild foods, learn how to grow edible and native plants in our gardens and are given recipes for making simple medicines from our finds. By letting wild native plants in to our lives and gardens, Glennie helps us to trust and listen to our intuition and expand our many senses.
This user-friendly source book will be of great value to everyone wishing to celebrate and honour the changing rhythms and seasons of the Earth and her cycles. Sacred Celebrations explores each of the eight Celtic festivals, looking at how they were celebrated and understood in the past, the underlying changing energy of the Earth and ways we may use this energy to create meaningful celebrations for today. This book does not attempt to follow or recreate the past, but encourages us, whether celebrating on our own or with family and friends, to follow our own inspired interpretations of each festival, to touch the sacred, share and participate in the power of nature, express our feelings and find ways to focus on spiritual regeneration and healing. Book jacket.
Our Sacred Earth is a healer, a teacher and a muse.Consciously connecting to this tremendous resourcecan awaken us to deeper truths and bring us closerto divinity. Just being in nature is enough to deepenour humility, gratitude and awe. Communing with ourliving planet can be transformative. For whatever theproblem, somewhere in its vast history, our SacredEarth has already solved it.Open your journal, and step outside of judgement,comparison and timetables. Go beyond who youunderstand yourself to be. Honour the seeker in you,step outside expectation and let go of constraint. Letinky rain pour over these pages. Let your expressionflow in streams of consciousness. Let it come slowly.Let it deepen. Let it puddle, let it rage, let it trickle.Each mark on the pages waters a seed so that your sketches, lyrics, memories, plans, poems, notes,heartaches, hopes and musings grow to become a rich and vibrant landscape - where the dandelions aren'tcompeting, the mountains aren't jealous of the sea and the rain doesn't come on schedule. Yours is the rain,the sun and the seeds. You are a creator, an observer, a student, a teacher, and explorer of this Sacred Earth.This deluxe softcover journal features 220 pages of cream-coloured premium quality wood-free paper, witha combination of lined and unlined pages to accommodate all facets of your self-expression - you may liketo write, paint, muse, scribble or sketch. Includes poetry by Toni Carmine Salerno as well as an introduction,journaling tips, unique messages and 44 full-colour illustrations.