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Scottish Wind- Heralds of Scotlands Spring
Before calendars fixed our months into neat boxes, people in Scotland watched the land, the animals, and the weather, especially our Scottish wind, to guide us to action. This relationship between person and land is something I’ve written extensively about,…
The Sacred Circle of Home and Hearth
Our homes were round once – a sacred circle. Imagine. A home with no corners. A roundhouse. Folk say the Romans made houses rectangles and introduced the cross-cutting corners of bureaucracy. The ideal Roman city was a regular grid of…
Sacred Water : Journeys of Transformation and Personal Power in Scottish Folklore
In Scottish cosmology, sacred waters such as our sea and rivers are more than elements; they are animated by their own spirits and present to us gateways to profound wisdom, spiritual insight, and personal power. Water is life and wise…
Scottish Cosmology of the Three Realms
Introduction – Celtic cosmology To understand why Scottish folk practice includes a focus on nature – earth, sky and waters spirts and its animated world we need to understand the roots of this island and its associated cosmology. This post…