The Great Descent
The Great Descent
The lunar eclipse in Pisces, with the Sun in Virgo, brings us to a powerful threshold of release, shadow work, surrender and conscious change. From a shamanic perspective, an eclipse can become a moment to look at what has been hidden, where we may have lost connection with our power, and what is ready to return to the light. The ancient story of Inanna and her Great Descent through the seven gates offers us an extraordinary map for navigating this movement. As the season turns toward Autumn, these ancient, cosmic and seasonal teachings come together to ask: what are you ready to release, and who are you becoming?
There are moments when the teachings seem to arrive from every direction at once.
The moon is speaking. The season is speaking. The ancient stories are speaking. Our own lives are speaking. And suddenly, what we have been sensing quietly within ourselves is reflected everywhere around us.
This lunar eclipse brings us a powerful image: something normally completely illuminated is temporarily covered by shadow. It has not disappeared. It has not ceased to exist. For a moment, we simply cannot see it in the same way. And then the light returns.
For me, this is a powerful reflection of the inner work we are being invited into right now.
What has been hidden?
What have we avoided?
What are we trying to control?
What is asking to be seen differently?
What is ready to be released?
And perhaps even more importantly:
What is ready to come out of the shadows?
I love when these moments happen because the teaching rarely arrives alone.
The eclipse is happening within a much greater movement. We have crossed Lughnasadh and begun the first subtle turn toward Autumn — the season of harvest, discernment, completion and release. And alongside this seasonal movement stands the ancient story of Inanna, the Goddess who willingly descends through seven gates into the Underworld.
Different traditions. Different languages. Different doorways. And yet the teaching is remarkably similar.
To me, this is one of the ways the universe has our back.
Sometimes it lays the teaching on thick. It doubles it up. Sometimes it triples it up so that we really cannot ignore what is being shown to us. And at the same time, the larger energetic movement helps to carry us through the very threshold we are being asked to cross.
This is how the teachings within my Awakening Touch Mystery School are reflecting and supporting this movement right now.
In Wisdom of the Seasons, we are entering the Autumn teachings of harvest, discernment and letting go.
In Awakening the Fire Goddess, Inanna is our guardian archetype this month, taking us into the ancient teaching of descent and initiation.
In September’s Communication with Spirit Journey Circle, we will take that teaching experientially through an eight-week journey I am calling The Great Descent.
And through Loss of Power and Boundaries, we explore another essential layer: our relationship with power, energy, choice and self-leadership.
This is why I love Mystery School work. The teachings are not separate from life.
We learn to recognise the sacred spiral when it appears — through Earth, cosmos, myth, Spirit and our own lived experience — and consciously walk with it.
The Autumn Teaching — Knowing What Is Complete
Autumn begins with discernment. The land is still abundant, yet something has already begun to change. Some things are still growing while others have completed their cycle.
This is the first harvest of the soul.
What has ripened?
What is complete?
What wants to be carried forward?
What needs to be returned to the earth?
This is one of the fundamental teachings within Wisdom of the Seasons: release is not a failure of growth.
Release is part of growth. And we are part of that same living cycle.
When Water Meets Earth — Surrender and Discernment
Intuition. Imagination. Sensitivity. Compassion. Surrender. Connection with the unseen.
Virgo brings us back to earth:
Discernment. Attention. Practical action. Responsibility. Organisation. Service.
What do I need to stop trying to control — and what actually still requires attention from me?
Because these are not the same thing. There are things we need to surrender. There are things we need to attend to. And knowing the difference is part of spiritual maturity
Surrender Is Not Avoidance
We speak a great deal about surrender in spiritual practice.
Let go. Trust. Allow. But I believe we need discernment here too.
Sometimes we say we have surrendered something when really we have stopped looking at it.
Sometimes what we call acceptance is avoidance.
And sometimes the opposite is true. We keep trying to fix, control and manage something that life has been asking us to release for a very long time.
So, there are two questions worth sitting with:
What am I trying to control that I need to surrender?
And:
What have I been avoiding that actually needs my full attention?
Autumn asks this. The eclipse asks this. And Inanna asks this.
When Autumn is lived consciously, Winter becomes a season of deep dreaming rather than heaviness. Only when we have completed one cycle can we truly imagine the next.
The Eclipse — What Happens When the Light Is Covered?
There is something extraordinary about the symbolism of an eclipse.
Something normally illuminated becomes temporarily covered by shadow. It has not disappeared. It has not ceased to exist. For a moment, we simply cannot see it in the same way. And then the light returns.
This is a beautiful image for shadow work.
We often think of shadow as something dark or negative that needs to be removed.
That is not how I understand it.
From a shamanic perspective, I am interested in what has moved outside our conscious relationship with ourselves.
What have I buried?
What have I rejected?
What am I frightened to acknowledge?
What gift have I pushed away?
What part of my power have I placed into shadow because at some point it did not feel safe, acceptable or possible to embody it?
Shadow work in a shamanic sense is not simply looking for our undesirable behaviour.
Yes, our shadow can express itself through behaviours and reactions.
But behind that behaviour there may also be a gift, a capacity, an instinct or a piece of our power waiting to be brought back into relationship with us.
Something wants to come out of the shadow.
Shadow, Power and Self-Leadership
This is where shadow work and power work meet.
Power is one of the foundational teachings in shamanic practice, and it is a subject I believe we need to understand deeply. I am not speaking about power over someone else. I am speaking about our ability to inhabit ourselves.
To know where our energy is going.
To recognise what influences us.
To recognise when we have handed authority for our choices to someone or something outside ourselves.
To notice when fear, old stories, relationships or unconscious patterns are making decisions for us. And to bring ourselves back into conscious participation.
This is why I offer my Loss of Power and Boundaries workshop regularly. For me, this is foundation and energy maintenace.
If we want freedom, we need to understand our relationship with power.
If we want to create consciously, we need to know where we have choice.
If we want self-leadership, we need to recognise where we are responding from our own centre and where something else is running the story.
Freedom requires choice. And conscious choice requires awareness.
Inanna — The Great Descent
And then there is Inanna. I could hardly imagine a more appropriate archetype for this moment.
In Awakening the Fire Goddess, Inanna is the guardian archetype we are working with this month.
Her story is one of the oldest descent myths we have. Inanna chooses to enter the Underworld.
At each of the seven gates she is required to remove something.
Her crown. Her jewellery. Her breastplate. Her symbols of status and authority.
Piece by piece, what has identified and protected her is taken away. Until she enters the deepest chamber with nothing left to hide behind. This is initiation.
And it asks us:
Who are you when what you have used to define yourself is removed?
Who are you when the strategies that once protected you no longer work?
Who are you underneath the identities you have learned to carry?
What remains when you cannot control the outcome?
Touching the Sacred Every Day
Light a candle. Say a prayer. Walk outside. Place your hand on the earth. Sit at your altar. Journey. Listen.
This is at the heart of the Mystery School teachings within Awakening Touch.
The practices are not separate from life. They are ways of meeting life. The seasonal cycle, shamanic journey, ritual, archetypal teachings, sacred circle and our relationship with Spirit give us structures through which we can consciously participate in what is already moving.
When the Universe Repeats the Teaching
Autumn says: Release what is complete.
The eclipse says: Look at what has been hidden.
Pisces says: Surrender.
Virgo says: Discern and act.
Inanna says: Descend. Remove what can no longer accompany you.
And our relationship with Spirit says: You do not have to cross the threshold alone.
This is why I experience these moments as an extraordinary offering.
The universe is not whispering the teaching from one direction. It is surrounding us with it. Season. Earth. Moon. Myth. Spirit. Community. Our own lived experience. Layer upon layer.
We still have to walk through the gate ourselves. But we are held within a much greater movement as we do.
The Great Descent — Eight Weeks of Journey
We will work with Inanna’s seven gates through shamanic journey, allowing each gate to become a personal place of inquiry and encounter.
What am I being asked to remove?
What am I holding onto?
What has completed?
What identity has become too small?
What part of my power has been hidden?
What becomes possible when I stop carrying what no longer belongs with me?
And importantly, we will work with the empty place and the return. Because descent is not the destination. We descend so that we can return differently.
The Mystery School — Different Doorways Into the Same Teaching
Wisdom of the Seasons teaches us to recognise these movements through the living cycle of the Earth — when to begin, grow, harvest, release, rest and dream again.
Awakening the Fire Goddess brings archetypal teachings into that movement. This month, Inanna walks beside us through descent, surrender and initiation.
As the Fire Goddess cycle completes at Samhain, we move directly into Awakening the Dark Goddess in November. The outer fire begins to turn inward and we enter the darker half of the year — into the deeper teachings of shadow, ancestors, death and rebirth, the unseen worlds and the wisdom that can only be encountered when we are willing to enter the dark.
Inanna becomes a powerful threshold between these two journeys. Her descent prepares us for what comes next. We learn that darkness is not simply something to move through or overcome. It is a place of initiation, gestation and deep knowing.
Communication with Spirit — The Great Descent takes us experientially through those gates using shamanic journey.
And Loss of Power and Boundaries brings the teaching directly into our relationship with energy, choice, personal authority and self-leadership. Different layers. Different practices. Different doorways. But one living body of teaching.This is what Mystery School means to me. We don’t collect spiritual knowledge. We live it. We meet the teaching again and again, from different directions and at different depths, until it becomes something we know through experience.
What Are You Already Becoming?
It is easy during a time of release to focus entirely on what is leaving.
What is ending?
What no longer fits?
What needs to be surrendered?
Harvest is not only about what we leave behind. It is also about recognising what has ripened.
So ask yourself:
What new state of being is already emerging within me?
What do I know now that I didn’t know a year ago?
Where am I already responding differently?
What part of myself is ready to come out of the shadows?
Who am I already becoming?
Perhaps the eclipse does not create the transformation.
Perhaps Autumn does not create it.
Perhaps Inanna does not create it.
Perhaps they help us recognise a transformation that is already underway.
A Simple Practice for This Threshold
On one side write: I release control of... Choose one thing.
On the other side write: I give my attention to… Choose one thing.
Sit quietly with both.
Then ask:
What is being revealed to me through this?
And finally:
What am I already becoming?
You do not need to know the entire path ahead.
You need enough presence to recognise the gate you are standing before now.
Autumn is here. Inanna is descending. The shadow moves across the light.
And perhaps the invitation is not to resist the descent.
Perhaps it is to recognise how many hands — Earth, cosmos, archetype, Spirit and community — are holding the doorway open for us.
The work is ours. But we do not do it unsupported. We descend consciously. We meet what has been waiting in the shadows. We reclaim what belongs to us.
And, in time, we return carrying something we could not have found by remaining only in the light.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Lughnasadh – The First Harvest of the Soul
Lughnasadh – The First Harvest of the Soul
Lughnasadh is the first of the harvest festivals. It stands midway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox and marks the gentle beginning of Autumn—not according to the weather, but according to the living wisdom of the natural world.
The Celtic peoples understood something we have largely forgotten. Nature is always preparing what comes next.
There is no abrupt ending. Only relationship. Only rhythm. Only a continuous movement from one season into another.
When we learn to walk with that rhythm, life begins to make more sense.
The First Harvest
When we hear the word harvest, most of us think of abundance. Fields. Fruit. Vegetables. The visible results of months of care. But Lughnasadh invites us into another kind of harvest.
The first harvest of the soul.
It asks us to pause and ask:
What has this season given me?
What have I learned?
How have I changed?
What has life been teaching me?
Sometimes the answer is found in the things that flourished.
Sometimes it is found in the things that didn’t.
Some of my greatest harvests have not been the moments when everything worked exactly as I hoped. They have come through disappointment. Unexpected endings. Difficult conversations.
Plans that changed direction. Questions that took months to answer.
Looking back, I can see that nothing was wasted. Everything became wisdom. That is the true harvest.
The Forgotten Art of Completion
How to complete. We are very good at beginning. We celebrate new ideas.
New projects. New relationships. New dreams.
Walking into Autumn
This is why I love the Celtic understanding of Autumn. It is not a season of decline. It is a season of understanding. A season of relationship with our emotions. A season of recognising what nourishes life and what no longer does.
“Many people notice a quieter energy at this time of year. A longing to slow down. A touch of melancholy. A need to reflect. I believe this is not something to fear. It is part of the wisdom of the season.
– Gita
When Autumn is lived consciously, Winter becomes a season of deep dreaming rather than heaviness. Only when we have completed one cycle can we truly imagine the next.
Walking the Whole Cycle
One of the greatest gifts the seasons have given me is perspective.
There have been many moments when I thought something had gone wrong.
Looking back, I can now see that I was simply in a different season. Growth was happening. Just not in the way I expected. This is why I believe understanding one season is helpful. Walking the whole cycle is transformational. Each season prepares us for the next. Each season gives meaning to the one before and the one after. Without the whole cycle we only ever see part of the full picture.
And as we walk through the seasons, something beautiful happens. We begin to understand ourselves. We notice where we naturally flourish. Which seasons challenge us. What patterns return. How intuition speaks to us. How we move through change. Little by little, self-knowledge becomes self-leadership. Life no longer feels like something happening to us.
We begin to participate.
A Beautiful Reminder
Recently, one of the women walking this journey shared something that deeply touched me.
“This Saturday, I went to a ceremony and journeyed in a completely different way, thanks to what I have learned in the program. It was completely different. Simply through what I had already learned from shamanic journeying and the tools I had received; I visited another universe. I felt so much gratitude for this experience. It brought me so many answers and carried me throughout the entire day.”
Not dependence. Not collecting more information. But becoming someone who knows how to walk with life.
An Invitation
Every Fire Festival offers us a doorway into the Wheel of the Year.
Imbolc awakens.
Beltane brings us into becoming.
Lughnasadh teaches us to harvest and complete.
Samhain invites us into dreaming and renewal.
Each is a beginning. Each offers a different doorway into the same living cycle.
If something in these words speaks to a place you have always known but perhaps never fully trusted… Perhaps this is your season.
Each year I welcome a new circle of women to begin walking the Wheel together through Wisdom of the Seasons.
Not simply to learn about nature.
But to discover themselves through it.
Bring your life exactly as it is.
Bring your questions.
Bring your experience.
Bring your longing.
The journey begins there.
And I would be honoured to walk the coming year beside you.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Brigid – The Goddess Who Teaches Us to Tend the Sacred Flame
Brigid – The Goddess Who Teaches Us to Tend the Sacred Flame
There is something about July that always slows me down. The great celebration of the Summer Solstice has passed. The longest day is behind us and, although the fields are alive with abundance, we know instinctively that the Wheel has begun to turn toward harvest.
This is not yet the time of gathering. It is the time of tending.
What are you tending?
As I prepare this month’s teachings for Awakening the Fire Goddess, I find myself spending time with Brigid, one of the great Celtic goddesses whose wisdom has accompanied people for centuries.
Many know Brigid as the goddess of poetry, healing and the sacred flame.
Others know her through the wells of Ireland, where people have journeyed for generations seeking healing, inspiration and blessing.
Yet beneath these beautiful stories lives a teaching that feels remarkably relevant today.
Brigid asks a deceptively simple question.
What are you tending?
Not what are you dreaming about. Not what are you hoping to create one day.
But what are you actually nourishing with your attention, your time and your energy?
The Fire That Does Not Burn Out
One of the oldest symbols associated with Brigid is the eternal flame that was tended for centuries at Kildare.
It was never intended to become a roaring bonfire. It was simply never allowed to go out.
There is something deeply moving about this image. Our culture often celebrates intensity.
The big beginning. The burst of motivation. The dramatic transformation.
Nature teaches something different. A flame survives because someone returns to it.
Brigid reminds us that our gifts, our healing, our relationships and our creativity are no different. They do not grow because of one inspired moment. They grow because we keep showing up.
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“Brigid asks: Can you stay with the flame after the first excitement has passed? Can you return when it is ordinary? Can you nourish the gift when no one is praising you?
– Gita
Fire and Water
One of the things I have always loved about Brigid is that she belongs equally to fire and to water. She is the keeper of the sacred flame. She is also guardian of the sacred wells. At first these seem like opposites. Yet together they reveal one of her deepest teachings. There are times when life asks us to act. And there are times when it asks us to receive.
There are seasons for creating. And seasons for restoring.
The flame teaches devotion. The well teaches replenishment.
Without the well, the fire burns out. Without the fire, the water becomes still.
Nature is always teaching us balance.
Walking with Brigid
For me, working with a goddess is never about worship. It is about relationship.
It is about allowing an archetype to illuminate something already alive within us.
Brigid invites us to become conscious keepers of our own inner flame. She reminds us that devotion is not a grand gesture. It is lighting the candle. Returning to the journal. Making time for the walk. Sitting in silence. Creating something with our hands.
Choosing, each day, to nourish what truly matters.
Perhaps this is why her teachings feel especially alive at this point in the Wheel of the Year.
The first excitement of summer has passed. Now comes the quieter work. The beautiful work. The work of tending.
This Month with Brigid
She also returns later in the year in Awakening the Dark Goddess, where she offers a very different teaching as we journey through the returning light of spring.
Although each programme approaches her from a different perspective, both invite us into a living relationship with this extraordinary goddess rather than simply learning about her.
And because Brigid’s wisdom is deeply rooted in the rhythms of nature, her teachings weave naturally into Wisdom of the Seasons, where we learn to live in conscious relationship with the turning of the Wheel throughout the entire year.
A Question from Brigid
As I continue preparing her teachings this month, I find myself returning to one simple question. Not because Brigid asks it once. But because she asks it every day.
What are you tending?
Whatever it is, remember this: The sacred flame rarely asks for more effort. More often, it simply asks us to keep returning.
And in that quiet act of devotion, something extraordinary begins to grow.
What are you tending?
Walking with Brigid — A Simple Daily Practice
Brigid reminds us that the sacred flame is not kept alive through grand gestures, but through small, faithful acts of devotion.
Her teachings invite us to return, day after day, to what matters most. Like tending a fire, it is not the size of the action that matters, but the consistency with which we return.
For the next few days, try this simple practice.
Morning — Ignite
Before the day begins, place your hands over your heart and ask:
What part of my life is asking for my attention today?
Carry your answer gently with you throughout the day.
Midday — Nourish
Pause for a moment and ask:
What small act would nourish my inner flame right now?
Keep it simple. A walk. A few quiet breaths. Writing a page. Drinking water slowly. Lighting a candle. Do one small thing with full presence.
Evening — Tend
Before going to bed, take a quiet moment to reflect. Ask yourself:
What did I nourish today?Notice it without judgement. Simply acknowledge the small ways you returned to yourself.
For Brigid teaches us that a sacred life is not built through occasional moments of inspiration. It is built through the quiet devotion of returning, one day at a time.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Beltane – sacred threshold & fire portal
Beltane – sacred threshold & fire portal
Beltane (1st May) is a Celtic traditional celebration and a vibrant fire festival marking the sacred midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It is known as the witch’s New Year. It is both the final celebration of spring and the first festival of summer—a time of powerful transformation and renewal.
As the wheel turns, this ancient threshold of fire and fertility—where spirit and earth dance in union—is an invitation to renew your commitment and ignite your momentum.
In the shamanic and pagan traditions, this is no ordinary day. Beltane is a sacred portal into the next season, igniting the inner flame that awakens your creative power and life force. The veil between worlds thins, allowing you to commune with the unseen and deeply connect with your roots—not just in soil, but in soul.
What is Beltane?
Beltane is not just a festival. It is a threshold.
It sits between seasons, where winter fully releases its hold and something wilder, more volatile begins to rise. The season is connected to the fire element—and with it, your inner fire. It ignites the inner flame: passion, truth, and the path into sovereignty.
Fertility, Union, and Sacred Desire
Beltane is often reduced to a “fertility festival,” but this barely scratches the surface.
Fertility here is not just about reproduction—it is about creative life force. The same force that brings crops to bloom also awakens desire, inspiration, and the urge to create, connect, and become more fully alive.
In myth and folklore, Beltane is associated with the sacred union between the land and the divine masculine—often represented as the marriage of a goddess and a god, ensuring the fertility of the land.
This theme echoes in later traditions of the May Queen and the Green Man, and in older Irish myth cycles where sovereignty goddesses grant kingship through union.
Desire, in this sense, is not indulgent.
It is initiatory.
It draws us into relationship—with the land, with others, and with ourselves.
Walpurgis Night and Beltane
I was brought up in a lineage that celebrated both Walpurgis Night and Beltane.
Held on the night of April 30th, Walpurgis Night is deeply rooted in Germanic and Central European folklore. This was the night witches gathered on high places like the Brocken—not for spectacle, but for alignment with forces that do not surface during ordinary time. It is a celebration honoring the light and the fire element.
This is not light, decorative fire.
This is protective fire.
Bonfires were lit not just to celebrate, but to ward off what moved more freely that night—spirits, wandering entities, and unseen influences believed to cross more easily into the human world. Noise was made. Bells were rung. Boundaries were reinforced.
Because the veil was open, choices had to be made.
Walpurgisnacht sits opposite Beltane, yet the two are intertwined. Where Beltane celebrates fertility and life, Walpurgisnacht acknowledges the raw, unstable edge of that transition—the moment where energy surges before it settles into form.
This is why it has always been tied to witchcraft.
Not because witches “gathered” in the way later stories suggest, but because this night amplifies threshold energy.
It is a time for breaking patterns, cutting attachments, and working with fire as transformation—not comfort. Standing between what was and what is about to become.
It is not a night for passive ritual.
It responds to intention with force.
And it will reveal where you are still divided.
If you work with it, you do not approach gently.
You approach clearly.
Because Walpurgisnacht does not soften anything.
It sharpens.
It exposes.
And if you are willing to stand in it without stepping back, it will show you exactly what needs to burn for you to move forward.
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“When we connect to the teaching of the seasons and mother nature, and when we invite sacred moments into our daily routine, we bring magic back into our life.
– Gita
The Goddess in Bloom
In this season, the goddess is not distant.
She is in everything.
In the way your body responds to warmth.
In the way your senses open.
In the subtle longing for more—more life, more truth, more connection.
She is the blooming earth.
The sensual vitality moving through all things. The sacred union between spirit and matter.
And here is the part that often gets forgotten:
Beltane is not just about celebrating her. It is about recognizing where she lives in you.
Your desires. Your creativity. Your longing to step into something fuller, truer.
This is not something to tame or quiet.
This is something to listen to.
In my Awakening the Fire Goddess circle, we honor Blodeuwedd in this month of May. Brigid is also one of the goddesses often honored during this celebration.
🔥 How to Meet Beltane
In the old ways, women did not seek empowerment—they remembered their authority. Fire was not something they used. It was something they became.
Fire lives in your blood.
The Fire is a Path
A call.
Not always comfortable.
Not always convenient.
But clear.
It is the call to step deeper into alignment.
To stop circling around what I already know.
To bring my work, my voice, my energy fully into the world.
And this is exactly the space I hold inside Awakening the Fire Goddess.
This journey begins at Beltane, because this is where we meet the fire within us—not as an idea, but as something to tend, to work with, to embody.
It is a path of sovereignty.
Of uniting the feminine and masculine within.
Of learning how to stand fully in your own energy and offer it into the world.
This journey begins with Beltane and reaches all the way through the season to Samhain.
Beltane is the threshold in which we begin communication with six powerful archetypes.
This sacred fire portal is also when I open the door and invite more women to join the Wisdom of the Season program—a transformational journey that holds a deeper rhythm. Because this work is not just about one moment—it is about learning how to live with the cycles. To understand them, to move with them, to let them shape the way you live, create, and show up.
Why should we celebrate the fire portals, the solstices, and equinoxes?
The Wheel of the Year is a symbolic and cyclical representation of the changing seasons and the natural rhythms of life. Rooted in ancient traditions, this concept divides the year into eight distinct festivals, each marking a significant point in the annual cycle.
As we honour this mystical circle, we align with the energies of the Earth, absorbing the lessons whispered by the wind, the warmth of the sun, and the changing landscapes, acknowledging the sacred dance of life’s perpetual renewal.
In celebrating the Wheel of the Year, we find ourselves not only in communion with the natural world but also on a deeply spiritual initiation. The rituals and traditions woven into each turn of the Wheel become a mirror reflecting our own inner transformations, between the soul and the cycles of existence. This journey invites you to listen, learn, and harmonize with the timeless wisdom of nature.
Reflection from Gita
To walk with Beltane is to remember that life is not meant to be lived at a distance.
It is a season that invites participation.
Not cautiously.
Not partially.
But fully.
With heat in your blood.
With presence in your body.
With a willingness to cross the threshold—from who you have been… into who you are becoming.
And like the old fires on the hills, it asks only one thing:
What are you ready to set alight?
🔥. I would love to hear from you. Leave a comment, let’s open a conversation and share your Beltane practices.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Journey the medicine wheel and discover the wisdom of the seasons, a 1-year online programm. You can follow the program at your own pace, with access to additional inspirations and in-person support when needed. Once you have completed the one-year cycle, you will have a new vision and understanding of your life and your relationships. This teaching will inspire and nourish your live journey.
- Sign up to the newsletter to stay tuned for offers and opportunities, recipes, and inspirations.
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The Three Celtic Cauldrons
The Three Celtic Cauldrons
A Shamanic Path to Inner Power
In Celtic cosmology, power is not something to be seized or imposed. It is something remembered, tended, and brought into right relationship. Among the most evocative teachings carried through the old Irish wisdom texts is the teaching of the Three Cauldrons—an ancient map of human vitality, consciousness, and spiritual authority.
This is not a chakra system borrowed from elsewhere, nor a metaphor divorced from land and lineage. The Three Cauldrons arise from a distinctly Celtic worldview: earth-rooted, poetic, embodied, and relational. They offer a shamanic framework for understanding how life force moves within us, how imbalance arises, and how true power is cultivated from within.
The Cauldron as Sacred Vessel
In Celtic culture, the cauldron is never merely a container. It is a threshold object—a place of transformation, regeneration, inspiration, and rebirth. Cauldrons appear again and again in myth: the Cauldron of the Dagda that never runs empty, the Cauldron of Cerridwen that brews wisdom and poetic fire, the cauldrons of rebirth that restore warriors to life.
Within the human being, these cauldrons are understood as energetic vessels that hold and circulate our life force (neart), our emotional truth, and our spiritual fire. When the cauldrons are upright and in harmony, energy flows freely. When one is tilted, blocked, or depleted, we feel it—in the body, the emotions, and the soul.
The Three Cauldrons are:
• The Cauldron of Warming (Coire Goiriath)
• The Cauldron of Motion (Coire Ernmae)
• The Cauldron of Wisdom (Coire Sois)
Together, they form a living system of balance and power.
1. The Cauldron of Warming – Rooted Life Force
The Cauldron of Warming is located in the lower body, often associated with the belly, womb, hips, and lower back. It is the first cauldron we are born with fully upright, and it governs physical vitality, instinct, sexuality, safety, and belonging. This cauldron is warmed by the earth itself—by nourishment, rest, touch, sensual pleasure, rhythm, and connection to land and body.
When it is strong, we feel grounded, alive, and at home in ourselves. When it is depleted or tilted, we may experience fatigue, disconnection from the body, shame around desire, or a sense of not belonging.
In shamanic Celtic practice, restoring the Cauldron of Warming is not about transcendence—it is about coming home. Walking barefoot on the land, tending the hearth, honoring the cycles of the body, and reclaiming pleasure as sacred are all acts of healing this cauldron.
True power begins here.
2. The Cauldron of Motion – Emotional Flow and Relationship
In the Celtic shamanic view, emotions are not obstacles to spirituality; they are initiations. The Cauldron of Motion teaches us how to stay present with intensity, how to let the heart be shaped by life without breaking, and how to move between worlds—inner and outer—with integrity.
Song, poetry, ritual, breathwork, and sacred listening are traditional ways of tending this cauldron.
3. The Cauldron of Wisdom – Sacred Fire and Knowing
The Cauldron of Wisdom rests in the head and upper body. It is the last cauldron to be fully upright and is associated with insight, inspiration, vision, and spiritual authority.
This is not intellect alone, but imbas—the luminous knowing that arises when body, heart, and spirit are aligned.
When this cauldron is upright, wisdom flows downward rather than pulling us out of the body. We become clear-seeing without becoming ungrounded, inspired without burning out. When it is prematurely activated without support from the lower cauldrons, it can lead to dissociation, spiritual bypassing, or inflated ego.
In Celtic tradition, true wisdom is earned through lived experience, humility, and service to life. The fire of this cauldron is lit by devotion, contemplation, ancestral listening, and time spent at the thresholds—dawn, dusk, solstice, equinox.
Power here is not domination. It is clarity in service of balance.
The Dance of Balance: Uprighting the Cauldrons
Healing and empowerment are not about forcing the cauldrons into alignment. They are about relationship—listening to which cauldron is calling for attention and responding with care.
Many modern wounds show up as an overemphasis on the upper cauldron (mind and vision) while the lower cauldrons remain undernourished. The Celtic path reminds us that wisdom without embodiment is unstable, and spirituality without warmth lacks roots.
Shamanic practice with the Three Cauldrons may include:
• Grounding rituals and body-based practices
• Emotional tending through ritual, voice, and community
• Seasonal ceremonies aligned with the land
• Ancestral remembrance and mythic storytelling
In deeper shamanic work, these practices are not only symbolic—they become direct experiences. Through guided journeying, ritual structure, and intentional sequencing, it is possible to enter each cauldron as a living inner landscape, listen to its state, and gently restore balance.
This is the foundation of my online course on the Three Celtic Cauldrons, where you are guided step by step to work with each cauldron through shamanic journey, embodied reflection, and ritual integration. As the cauldrons slowly come into harmony, a natural authority emerges—quiet, steady, and unmistakable.
Reclaiming Your Power the Celtic Way
The Three Celtic Cauldrons offer a deeply humane and earth-honoring map of inner power. They remind us that we are not meant to ascend away from our humanity, but to inhabit it fully.
To walk this path is to warm the body, soften the heart, and clarify the mind—again and again, across the seasons of life. Power, in this tradition, is not something you take.
It is something you become when all parts of you are allowed to belong.
May your cauldrons be warmed, upright, and well tended.
Go Deeper: A Guided Journey with the Three Celtic Cauldrons
If you feel called to not only understand this teaching, but to live it in your body and energy, I invite you to join my online course: The Three Celtic Cauldrons.
This is a 4-session self-paced online journey, designed to support a deep, experiential relationship with each cauldron. You will be guided to:
- Connect directly with the Cauldron of Warming, Motion, and Wisdom through shamanic journeying
- Learn how to sense imbalance and restore flow in your own energetic system
- Anchor the teachings into daily life, relationships, and seasonal transitions
The course can be followed:
- As a 4-day intensive immersion
- Or over 3–4 weeks, allowing it to become a steady companion for seasonal portal preparation or integration (Equinox, Solstice, or personal thresholds)
All sessions are recorded and can be completed in your own timing, making this work accessible and supportive wherever you are in your cycle.
✨ You are invited to step into a deeper relationship with your inner power and Celtic lineage of wisdom.
👉 Learn more and join the course here: Three Celtic Cauldron
I’d love to hear your experience, questions, and reflections. I invite you into the conversation—let’s weave our voices and deepen the connection.
Gita
