The Fourth Cycle

16/10/2025

“We are gatherers,
the ones who pick up sticks and stones
the old wasp’s nests fallen by the
door of the barn,
walnuts with holes that look like
eyes of owls,
bits of shells not whole but lovely
in their brokenness,
we are the ones who bring home
empty eggs of birds
and place them on a small glass shelf
to keep for what? How long?
It matters not. What matters
is the gathering,
the pockets filled with remnants
of a day evaporated, the traces of
certain memory, a lingering smell,
a smile that came with the shell.”

~ Nina Bagley
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Art: Meraylah Allwood, “The Hag” from Forest of Enchantment Oracle.
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21/06/2025

Solstice Blessings, welcoming in peace for all of the world 🕊️Love, Light and Life 🌅

02/02/2025

Imbolc blessings from a sunny Lake District 🌱

As I close down my late grandmothers estate, it is not only a physical closure but a cutting of cords that have kept me bound to unhealthy and toxic behaviours. I knew this year would be big but I hadn’t realised the importance and transformation that I would be forced to step into.

Brigid has come and planted her seeds for a better and brighter future
My ancient grandmothers have gathered, the circle is now complete
The cailleach has waded away into the depths of the bog

As the sun rises today I give gratitude to my beginnings, to the women who came before me, to their scars and burden that they carried. But now I realease them and I choose to live in the light for my future generations to come ☀️

31/10/2024

Blessed Samhain 🙏
May the light of your flame welcome home your ancestors on this special night 🍁🍂🔥

30/07/2024

Vandana Shiva 🌹

29/07/2024

Wow! What an absolute pleasure it was meeting this wonderful lady, Brooke Medicine-Eagle who is so full of wisdom, love and knowing. It was an honour to sit in circle with her and other beautiful women whilst we collectively dreamt, danced and sang of restoring paradise, in our hearts and on our land 🌎

And a huge thank you to Ruth Cato for her holding and offering of her beautiful space ♥️

02/07/2024

Feel this deep in my heart today ♥️

Where does one go when
the world’s gone mad…
when everyone’s offended
if you don’t agree with them
and anger permeates the
air we breathe?

What does one do to try and
stay in right relationship
with self, other and planet,
with constantly changing
language, mores and customs
that dictate which group
is currently in vogue and
which hovers on the rim?

How does one stay true to
personal beliefs that were
hard fought wins as we
struggled to shake off the
Chains of Patriarchy so we
might speak and walk our
truth without being called all
manner of derogatory adjectives?

We’ve lost the idea of the Circle,
that place held as Sacred and Holy
Ground, where All were welcomed
and differences put aside and/or
worked out in a way that allowed
for the idea of both/and, such that
both the self (however one defined
themselves) and the tribe thrived.

On a quest for meaning and purpose,
I am a circle with no beginning and
no end as I traverse the Cosmos of
lifetime after lifetime after lifetime,
always bringing forward ancient jewels
from earlier knowings as I seek the
gnosis that lives in this now.

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The Gnosis of Now, ©Arlene Bailey
Art by Josephine Klerks, josephineklerks.com

*Fia Cirkeln means "Fia's Circle" - link to Fia's song in comments

20/06/2024

Exploring newness
🌼 All feelings are welcome
AND
🌼 All feelings are heard
AND
🌼 All feelings are necessary

🌕 Welcome, Litha may your abundance of newness shower down upon us this Summer solstice ☀️

14/06/2024

All has been consecrated.
The creatures in the forest know this,

the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know
as does the heart full of love.

Strange a priest would rob us of this
knowledge

and then empower himself
with the ability

to make holy what
already was.

~ Catherine of Siena, “Consecrated”
14th century CE

Art by Christy Kirk, “Rainbow Collective”
Sacred Tree Goddess
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