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W B Yeats The Stolen Child with Michael Conneely

Michael Conneely

W B Yeats The Stolen Child with Michael Conneely Sligo Coast Healing Centre and Air BnB

This reading of W B Yeats The Stolen Child is filmed at Loch Gill, County Sligo in the far West of Ireland. Michael Conneely and Maggie Pashley run a Healing Centre and an AirBnB on the Sligo Coast in the heart of W B Yeats Country on the Wild Atlantic Way. See: maggiepashley.com

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Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we’ve hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than he can understand.

You can email Maggie Pashley for details of the Sligo Coast Healing Centre and AirBnB which is between Easkey and Dromore West on the Wild Atlantic Way. Email: maggiepashley@gmail.com.
Maggie’s website is: maggiepashley.com
Michael Conneely studied W B Yeats for his MA at Oxford University, and Michael teaches his worldwide Druid Forest School Course about the ancient Irish Druid path at
www.druidforestschool.com
and Michel also teaches an Ogham course: The Tree Alphabet of the ancient Irish Druids at:
www.druidforestschool.com/ogham

 

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W B Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Michael Conneely

W B Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree with Michael Conneely Sligo Coast Healing Centre and Air BnB

This reading of W B Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree is filmed at Loch Gill, County Sligo in the far West of Ireland. Michael Conneely and Maggie Pashley run a healing Centre on the Sligo Coast in the heart of W B Yeats Country on the Wild Atlantic Way. See: maggiepashley.com

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

You can email Maggie Pashley for details of the Sligo Coast Healing Centre and AirBnB which is between Easkey and Dromore West on the Wild Atlantic Way. Email: maggiepashley@gmail.com.
Maggie’s website is: https://maggiepashley.com/
Michael Conneely studied W B Yeats for his MA at Oxford University, and Michael teaches his worldwide Druid Forest School Course about the ancient Irish Druid path at
https://www.druidforestschool.com/courses.html
and Michel also teaches an Ogham course: The Tree Alphabet of the ancient Irish Druids at:
https://www.druidforestschool.com/ogham.html

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The Duile, The Nine Elements of the Ancient Irish Druids

Michael Conneely

The Duile

The Duile are the nine elements system and body energy work spiritual practice of the ancient Irish Druids. Fortunately for later humanity, it preserved in a later surviving manuscript (like another mystical energy work practice of the ancient Irish Druids: The Cauldrons of Poesy), where our own body is healed, strengthened and vastly empowered and so our sense of our body becomes ever more strongly a beautiful powerful microcosm of the macrocosm: The Cosmic Man/Woman. ‘As above, so below’.

You can work with the Three Cauldrons and the Nine Elements of the ancient Irish Druids in my Druid Forest School Course. See:
www.druidforestschool.com/courses

Like all Irish Druid spirituality the practices, beliefs and histories were originally orally-preserved, and just a few of them survived to come down to us because they were written up in medieval manuscripts by often unsympathetic medieval Irish monks, who of course were blind to the spiritual wealth that they were handling – often at the request of rich patrons who wanted the old magic, the old stories! The Manuscript presenting this ancient Irish Druid visionary mystical body energy work is attributed to Amergin, the ancient Irish bard and poet of the Milesians, who invaded Ireland after the Tuatha de Danaan. The poem was re-written in the 7th Century and later copied into a 16th Century Manuscript (Legal codex H.3.18, Trinity College, Dublin). So: so very thankfully: the wisdom has survived!

Please watch this Video explaining more:

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So, what are the nine elements of the ancient Irish Druids? Well, first of all, here’s a list of the nine elements that the ancient Irish Druids worked with, and just a tiny but beautiful and magical selectin from the many indicators for each that the Druids used:

Element Magical Tools/Correspondences

1. Bones Stone of Destiny
2. Flesh Nemeton: The Sacred grove
3. Hair Plant Life, Ogham and Herbs
4. Blood Sea, West, Cauldron
5. Breath Wind, The Sword of Nuada
6. Mind The Well of Segais
7. Face Sun, The Spear of Lugh
8. Brain Imbas (Inspiration)
9. Head Heaven, The Torque

Next, here’s a brief selection of wonderful realisations that the very inspired and able students working with the Druid Forest School have come to: just in their work with the first element: The Bones: their bones!

1. Bones as Protective framework
2. Bones as Cage/ladder for our energy system
3. Bones as Solidity of our Self
4. Bones as Magical intention storage place
5. Stronger sense of our bones gives us stronger realisation that we are part of and connected to and one with the universe. This strengthens both our sense of our self and it also strengthens our sense of the nature of the universe.

Doing the exercise helps us really appreciate our skeleton and its structure, the way it protects all our vital organs, and acts as a frame and even shock-absorber for our journey through life. The more you contemplate it, the more amazing it becomes! We are held upright and strong by this scaffolding for our wonderful flesh.

Our bones can act as a storehouse for our personal power and magical spiritual intentions. This ties in with Healing Techniques that deal with the holding of energies in the body: both harmful energies implanted there that need to be healed, but also magical, inspiriting energies too. See: http://maggiepashley.com/

On the question of holding magical intention in our Bones, Maggie advises: ‘I think it all depends on intention. I think storing energy in the bones sounds like a great idea. In Metamorphic Technique we always said that the bones represented energy and power and life itself. The Taoists have a practice called bone breathing to strengthen Kidney Qi.
I think it is important to follow our own guidance rather and inner knowing rather than being over influenced by what others say.’

I mentioned above the sense of our unity with the Cosmos, the concept of Cosmic Man/Woman, what in the Vedic Indian tradition is known as Purusha. Another expression of this oh-so-valuable concept is the Song of Amergin:

The Song of Amergin

Here is an extract of The Song of Amergin was composed by Amergin, son of Mile, Ollamh or Chief Druid of the invading Milesians. Amergin composed this poem when the Milesians landed in the West of Ireland, intent on defeating the wonderful god-like Tuatha de Danaan. This poem clearly shows the oneness of the man with the whole of nature, and it shows the power of our ability to shape-shift:

I am Wind on Sea,
I am Ocean-wave,
I am Roar of Sea,
I am Bull of Seven Fights,
I am Vulture on Cliff,
I am Dewdrop,
I am Fairest of Flowers,
I am Boar of Boldness,
I am Salmon in Pool,
I am Lake on Plain…
I am Word of Skill,
I am the Point of the Weapon of combats,
I am God who fashioned Fire for a Head…….

So, get in touch with me. Enroll on one of my Druid Forest School Courses.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Michael

 

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Cosmic Man, Cosmic Woman & the Ancient Irish Druids

Michael Conneely

Cosmic Man, Cosmic Woman and the Ancient Irish Druids

The energy work that has come down to us from the ancient Irish Druids is very powerful. It includes the concept of Cosmic Man/Cosmic Woman, where the strengthened sense of our Self is one with the Cosmos, and the same concept exists in the ancient Vedic spirituality: The Purusha. Work to strengthen your Self with the Druid mystical energy work courses of the Druid Forest School.

This Blog is about my Druid Forest School Mystical Energy Work of the Ancient Irish Druids.

If you look at my Druid Forest School Courses page:
www.druidforestschool.com/courses
You will see that I offer two courses where you develop the power and solidity of your body and also see how your body connects to Land, Sea and Sky, is a reflection of the Cosmos: as above, so below.

The body is of course complete with Consciousness. And the prime aim of the ancient Irish Druids was to develop the Fire in the Head: The special spark of creativity that we incarnated to achieve this time: in this life-time.
There is such strength and power in developing our sense of our Self, where the stronger sense of body gives a stronger foundation for our Consciousness – and also this develops our sense of its Oneness with all Creation.

These two courses are the ‘Three Cauldrons’ exercise of the ancient Irish Druids and also their ‘Nine Elements or ‘Duile’.

Have a look at this video which starts us off on genuine physical and spiritual understanding of what it is to be Cosmic Man or Cosmic Woman:

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In fact the Vedic spiritual path of ancient India also had this sense that we are in fact ‘Cosmic Man’ or ‘Cosmic Woman’, and they called this: the Purusha.

This Druid Forest School course invites you to look into the concept of the cosmic man/woman. You do the powerful exercises, and you let me know what you find, and how you react to it.

It is significant that Ireland and India have the same concept. This is of course because they are both developments from the same Indo-European source. This is the reason for the big similarities in their languages which are both off-shoot branches from the Indo-European language family tree, originating from the same source language. Also within the Indi-European family tree of languages are Ancient Norse, Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Modern English, French, German, Spanish, etc.

So, as you strengthen your work with the exercises using the Three Cauldrons or the Nine Elements (The Duile) you look into the concept of Indo-European heritage, the spread of the Indo-Europeans from the single source area, maybe study cognate heritages from the source say with the Norse for example. It’s a fascinating study. See what you make of it.

I was taught Indo-European sound changes: how the Indo-European languages evolved and changed from their common source. This was at Oxford in the late Sixties when I was taught by JRR Tolkien’s son. My home base then was a spiritual community in Glastonbury when I was supported by Geoffrey Ashe and Gareth Knight, and I still love re-reading their books.

I feel that this work which stems from the Druid Path of the pre-Christian Irish, ties in to the sense of the ‘Cosmic Man’: This is the sense that we are a microcosm of the macrocosm; the sense that we are actually one with the land, the heavens, the planets.

So, for example, I work with you to build up your exercise with the first of the nine elements: the exercise for bones (and then flesh/hair, with the intention of developing your sense of being the Cosmic Man (Woman). Aim to develop a sense of your physical interpenetrating one-ness with the rest of the cosmos. See what happens. A lot can. We get a stronger physical presence. We get a stronger sense of the vastness and of destiny/fates. We become healed. We become more powerful.
Get in touch.
I look forward to hearing from you
Michael

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The Three Cauldrons Spiritual Vision Work

Michael Conneely

Michael Conneely & The Three CauldronsThe Three Cauldrons Spiritual Vision Work of the Ancient Irish Druids

The Three Cauldrons Vision work, also known as the Cauldrons of Poesy, is a supreme and wonderful healing and empowerment meditation and ritual of the ancient Irish Druids. It was preserved in a later medieval surviving manuscript.

We envision The Three Cauldrons with our body: abdomen, heart and head. These were called the Cauldrons of Poesy.

We use The Three Cauldrons to develop our good physical health, the mature and creative use of our emotions (including our most difficult emotions) and above all our Wisdom.

And when we attain our own special sort of mastery in all three of The Three Cauldrons, in all three of these areas of our life, in this incarnation, only then can we express our own especial spark of creation: Fire in the Head.

The aim of this vision work ritual is to achieve full creative expression of our special reasons for being here this time.

Here are three Videos working with the Cauldrons of Poesy:

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The Druid Forest School is based in the far West of Ireland near Ben Bulben, Knocknarea, Carrowmoor, Carrow Keel, the Caves of Kesh, Loch Arrow and the site of the Second Battle of Moytura. We share the deep wisdom of the many facets of the Druid mystical practice of the ancient Irish and their sacred heritage such as the Cauldron of Poesy, the Well of Segais and the Cup of Cormac.

This Worldwide Course aims to work with key practices aimed to develop transformative understanding into the path of the Ancient Irish Druids.
You are sent information sheets and an audio about each practice or topic of your choice.
You  thus embark on a journey of healing and empowerment and vastly develop your insight into yourself and your life.
We look forward to hearing from you: www.druidforestschool.com/courses

Why Not View some more Videos from The Druid Forest School whilst you are here ?

 

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Summer Solstice Celebration and Course – with the Irish Druid Path

Michael Conneely

For me, Summer Solstice celebration is delight in the light and heat of the Sun, and learning the lessons of that energy in our life.
We give thanks for the Sun.

Summer Solstice celebration is bonfire and shared eating round the fire. There’s leaping over the fire, especially by couples seeking the blessing and energy of fire.  Dance can embody the Fire element.
It is a time for pleasure in the foliage of nature and the growing harvest which will yet be ready to reap.
We give thanks for the herbs that are burgeoning, and for their medicinal powers.
This climax of the light is the turning of the tide, the energy of the Sun sows the very seeds of the dark times to come as from this day, the days get shorter and the nights get longer, until the Winter Solstice on January 21st.
This can feel a vibrant time when the veils between the worlds are thin, as at Beltain and Samhane, to which two festivals Midsummer is equidistant. Spirits and energies of place can usefully be attuned to. The time can be used for divination.

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The child of promise that was born at the Winter Solstice with the new tiny Sun has grown to be the Mabon (Child of Promise) and is now the radiant solar young male at the height of his beauty.
At such a time, it is good to make commitment that we will act as guardians of the land and its sacredness.

 

 

Enroll on my Druid Forest School Festivals course. Not only do we share in the preparation of your Celebration for each of the Festivals of the ancient Irish Druids, you also give me you astrological natal data, and I share weith you guidance from your Western Astrology and also your Vedic Astrology about your life path and birth chart, but also your current predictive astrology – and especially how your astrology acts as a guide to the special issues, lessons and gifts of each festival.

For example, the Summer Solstice is obviously about the Sun in his glory at his height. We all need a strong Sun to be able to manifest our special skills and tasks in this life time and so as to be able to asset our personal sovereignty and defend it. Some of us are born with very weak Suns, often a destiny of having experienced weak fathering and therefore of not being able to assert ourselves in the necessary way. Astrology can give expert guidance on this – and also how to heal and empower. And of course some of us are born with Suns that are over-strong and burn, like the Eye of Balor, and astrology can clearly identify this destiny – and again such perception can be good basis for healing and empowerment.

You can enroll on my Druid Forest School Festivals Courses at:
www.druidforestschool.com/courses.html or directly below this post.

And see details of my earthspirituality courses and novels on:
www.earthstarweb.com    www.inspirationalnovels.org     www.druidforestschool.com     www.rune-path.com
For Maggie’s healings see:   www.maggiepashley.com

And for our Healing Centre in the West of Ireland with its linked airbnb, see:  www.foxfordairbnb.com
Blog: blog.starwheelastrology.com/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/michaelconneely

AND LAST BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST: Please visit my shop for Astrology Readings, Astrology Courses, Astrology Mini-Readings, and much, much more:
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If you would like a reading for yourself or family members covering your birth chart and this period ahead, please contact me on: www.starwheelastrology.com/buyanastrologyreading.html
Or if you would like to enroll on one of my wonderful astrology courses, with their dedicated individual attention, please contact me on:
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www.mastervedicastrology.com
www.nakshatrasadvancedcourse.com
www.advancedvedicastrologycourse.com
For Western Astrology:
www.enlightenedastrologycourse.com

I look forward to hearing from you,
Michael

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Fehu the Rune of Value

Michael Conneely

Michael ConneelyA Post about Fehu the Rune of Value

The Runes, the magical spiritual Alphabet of the ancient Norse and the Germanic peoples, was seized by the great warrior magician god Odin as he hung upside down in the world tree Yggdrasil trancing and journeying for nine days. And he saw in the twigs and branches the shapes of the letters of the rune alphabet.

My heredity on my father’s side is from the Baltic and Yakut tribesman from the North polar shore. My heredity on my mother’s side is for thousands of years from Connemara in County Galway Ireland. All of this has been discovered through the site 23 and Me with Advanced DNA analysis techniques

In the celebration of the Spring Equinox I combine the two inheritances, but starting with a journey where we learn about the issue of value in our life. What is our sense of value? What is our sense of worth.

The issue of our self-worth was seen by Odin as the first step in our journey of life. It is the meaning of the first rune Fehu. As stated Fehu is the Rune of Value.

At Spring Equinox, we are called to rise in our power and expression, aligning to the growing power and brightness of the Sun.

To do that, we may fail unless we increase our sense of self-worth.

For example, when you are working with the first rune, Fehu, if you discovered you find wealth a challenge, and if you realised you wanted to change your relationship with it, it would help you if you felt willing to define in an email back to me what the nature of the challenge is, what vision you have of how you would relate to it after this work, what clearing and what shift occurred during the rune journey, during the rune stance and Galdr. This experience is exceptional and wonderful.

See my video of my Fehu rune journey at Spring Equinox to heal the issue of value in our lives with Fehu:
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See my Worldwide Rune Course at: www.rune-path.com
See my Worldwide Druid Forest School Course at: www.druidforestschool.com

Our Healing Centre and linked Airbnb in the West of Ireland is at: www.foxfordairbnb.com
I look forward to working with you,
Michael

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Ogham Alder Intuition and Defence

Michael Conneely

Michael ConneelyOgham Alder

In this celebration of the Spring Equinox I combine my two inheritances: My heredity on my father’s side is from the Baltic and Yakut tribesman from the North polar shore. My heredity on my mother’s side is for thousands of years from Connemara in County Galway Ireland. And in this Spring Equinox Ritual, I included a rune Journey for us to work on the issue of our self-value and self-worth, and I also included an ogham alder Journey to contact use of intuition.
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We need both these qualities of self-value and self-worth to be healed and active if, at Spring Equinox, we can indeed rise in our power and expression, aligning to the growing power and brightness of the Sun, which is what the spring Equinox is all about.

We may fail unless we increase our sense of self-worth.
We may fail if we can’t use and trust our intuition, and defend ourself if needed on the basis of our intuition.

The ogham is the mystical alphabet of the ancient Irish Druids, where the principal correspondences for each of the letters of the Ogham Alphabet are the very different energies of the trees.

See the video of my entering the Celtic Otherworlds of intuition at a celebration of the Spring Equinox by calling on the intuitive energy of ogham alder, and by seeing how to use this for defence, just as in the iron Age, shields were often made of Alder.
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And see my Worldwide Druid Forest School Course, with its worldwide course on the ogham at: www.druidforestschool.com

Our Healing Centre and linked Airbnb in the West of Ireland is at: http://www.foxfordairbnb.com/
I look forward to working with you,
Michael

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Crannog Lake Village and Druid Forest School Courses

Michael Conneely

Michael ConneelyCrannog Lake Village and Druid Forest School Courses

Learn about the spiritual insight of the ancient Irish with the Druid Forest School worldwide courses,

Courses include: Visionary contact with the Goddesses and Gods of the ancient Irish, The Ogham, Celebration of the eight great Festivals.

Study the Ogham today with Michael Conneely
The Ogham is magical and deeply felt. It is stunning and tantalising. The Ogham is very old. Its date of origin is unknown as nothing of the Druid wisdom system was made a note of. However the earliest inscriptions that have survived are nearly two thousand year old, and there is excellent evidence for the ogham possibly being several hundred years older than that, and undeniably Irish in its source and provenience.
Central to our understanding is that each Ogham alphabet letter or ‘Few’ represents the spirit and energy of a tree. But each Few is also a path that run across or between the Celtic Otherworlds which are different, in some cases overlapping states of consciousness which are inhabited by their own beings, for example these realms include the famous Tir na N’Og, the land of the fountain of youth, or Magh Mell: the state of Abundance, The Plane of Delight.
The Ogham’s consciousness is very non-lateral, mystical and attractive. It is very different from the energy of the Runes, which I also teach, which is more a will-based system. Both, however, significantly have their very different special power and home.

The courses are fully worldwide, and they are also based at our Healing Centre in the West of Ireland which is near so many ancient Irish sacred sites of the greatest beauty and powerful earth energies.

See the full range of Earth Spirituality courses at:
www.druidforestschool.com/courses.html

Here’s a video about a beautiful crannog lake village which is only five miles from our Healing Centre and airbnb:
This beautiful Crannog was a defensive site protecting the work of the Iron Age Smiths who discovered iron ore here which was upthrust to surface hills surrounding the lake in the creation of a rare Ice Age Pingo topography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Hear all about this very special feature in the video:
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We would like to thank Christy Lawless for his archaeological work on the Crannog:
www.rathcroghanconference.com/christy-lawless
And also for his championing of discovery of how Iron Age Irish cooking pits or Fulachta Fiadh were actually used:
www.castlebar.ie/mayo_historical_and_archaeological_society/Ancient_Cooking_Places_In_Castlebar

Find out about The Morrigan, The Dagda and the other Irish Gods. Feel the sacred energies placed in the sacred sites of the Tuatha de Danaan. See the full range of courses at: http://www.druidforestschool.com/courses.html

We look forward to hearing from you,

Michael

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Spring Equinox Sacred Weapons and Alphabets

Michael Conneely

Michael ConneelySpring Equinox Sacred Weapons and Alphabets with the Druid Forest School

I want to share with you the power of the Spring Equinox Festival, and how its celebration can grow in power and richness with use of sacred weapons, ancient magical sacred alphabets and alignment to the growing brightness of the Sun.

Following Spring Equinox ritual, you can set an intention of day by day checking out: ‘am I aligning with the day by day growing power of the Sun between now and the Summer Solstice?’

To connect with the Sun is a good and healing and sacred and empowering thing to do. I look out at the Sun rising above the mountain every morning and connect with the beauties of the earth sky and sea around here.
And the point is, the ancient Irish were sharing in the growing power of the Sun from the Spring Equinox five thousand years ago too.

We celebrated Spring Equinox not only with ritual and visionary journeying, but also with a Group visiting the three great related temple/burial mounds of the ancient Irish:
Knowth which is aligned to both Equinoxes
New Grange which is aligned to the birth of the new Sun at the Winter Solstice Sunrise
Dowth Winter which is aligned to the birth of the new Sun at Solstice Sunset.
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You, yourself, can now align to the ever-growing light and power of the Sun. That is the key theme of Spring Equinox.

You can establish a benchmark intention of your expression of your self expanding and getting more comfortable and central as the Sun himself grows day by every day up to Summer Solstice.

You can check out if you are keeping to your intention. You can check out if you are keeping on course.

And see the wonderful worldwide courses with the Druid Forest School at: www.druidforestschool.com

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I look forward to working with you
Michael

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