Rachel Jackson

17/06/2026

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12/06/2026

10/06/2026

A body will not reveal its secrets to an absentee owner .
How many books have been written about how our bodies keep the score? But more than keeping our past locked into place and how others treated us, our bodies also keep the score of how we personally treat our own bodies .

Every time you listen to your body, your body responds. Every time you ignore your body, your body remembers.
Your body keeps a running tab on whether you have its back or not.
Whether you will protect it, guard it, listen when it screams , and say no when it matters the most.
Do we respect our bodies enough to have the hard conversations or do we treat our bodies as nothing more than a dumping ground for our repressed desires and anger?
Our bodies know when we refuse to safeguard it, they know the score, and thus they know when we can’t be trusted.

Why would anybody reveal their most intimate information to someone who doesn’t take them seriously? Our bodies treat us the same.
Our body discerns whether we as guardians are worthy of its treasures.
Our bodies know whether we are ready to receive its deepest wisdom or not.
No Body will reveal its inner mysteries to someone it can’t trust. No Body will reveal its divine guidance to a lacklustre custodian.
What is inherently sacred about the body has to be protected, even from ourselves.

If we can not establish a loving, trusting relationship with our own body, how we we will ever experience why Love became Human?
If bodies are so dispensable, what’s the point of incarnating?

People keep searching for the key, the answer, the mystery and meaning to Life and refuse to listen to the custom built answer they were born into.

Spaces remain on my upcoming workshop:
The Moon & Mother
June 13, 2026
Online on zoom.
10 am Irish time
3 hours.

05/06/2026

The engraving reveals one of alchemy’s deepest mysteries: that the path to the sun begins in the dragon. The dark creature emerging from the rocky earth embodies the primal forces of instinct, desire and untapped potential hidden within the depths of the soul. Yet from this same source rises the serpent, not as a symbol of corruption, but as the living current of transformation winding upward through the sphere of perfected nature, represented by the pentagram. The flowering plant that blossoms from its ascent signifies the birth of a new consciousness, a soul that has turned its lower nature into wisdom rather than repression. Above it all shines the radiant sun, not merely as a heavenly body but as the image of ultimate illumination, the divine center toward which every stage of the Great Work is directed. The image teaches a profound truth: enlightenment is not achieved by escaping the darkness within, but by transforming it into the very force that carries us toward the light.

26/05/2026

Tacitus wrote of FEMALE DRUIDS while describing the brutal slaughter of the Druids by the Romans on the island of Mona in Wales. In his account, he speaks of women known as Banduri, female Druids, who defended the sacred island and cast curses upon the black-clad invaders.
Tacitus also observed that among the Celts there was no true distinction between male and female rulers, noting the formidable power and authority Celtic women possessed.

According to Plutarch, Celtic women were nothing like the women of Greece or Rome. They took part in the negotiation of treaties and wars, stood within assemblies, and acted as mediators in disputes and quarrels.
The geographer Pomponius Mela wrote of virgin priestesses living upon the island of Sena in Brittany, women gifted with the power of prophecy and foresight.

Famous Druidesses

Irish tradition preserves two principal names for Druid women: baduri and banfilid,
the female poets and seers. Yet the names of most Druidesses have long vanished into the mists of memory. One name that survives is Fedelma, recorded in ancient texts as a woman of the court of Queen Medb of Connacht, described as a banfili. She is said to have lived in Ireland during the 10th century BC.

Perhaps the most renowned descendant of a Druid woman was Boudicca, whose mother was believed to have been a banduri. Boudicca, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe of Britain, rose in fierce rebellion against Rome during the 1st century AD, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance and sovereign feminine power.

The Worship of Goddesses

The Druidesses honored the goddesses through seasonal feasts and sacred celebrations woven into the rhythm of the year. Among the deities they revered was Brigid, whose presence endured long after the coming of Christianity, later transformed and adopted by Christian nuns as Saint Brigid.

She stands at the threshold of the sacred grove, sickle in hand, invoking the old powers beneath the shadow of the trees - one of the Banduri, feared even by Rome.

Art: Virginie Demont-Breton
Virginie Élodie Marie Thérèse Demont-Breton (26 July 1859, Courrières – 10 January 1935, Paris) was a French painter whose artistic path began remarkably early. By the age of twenty she was already exhibiting at the Salon, and only four years later she received a Gold Medal at the Amsterdam Exposition.