Celtic Authors I Love + the New Book We're All In!

Voices of Celtic Wisdom is available now for purchase!

Greetings to the Oldest & Most Precious Dream in You~

I have two. One is that I would never forget how to do magic and that I would have brushes with enchantment all my days. I didn’t quite put it that way back then, but this early vision for my life is viscerally memorable. I can almost taste this knowing I had then, that I was meant for magic.

Not an easy thread to follow in a cultural atmosphere which tends towards “seeing is believing” as the unquestioned default. And yet, from my teens onwards, I was found by those who seemed to confirm another truth— which is that often enough in life, believing is seeing. The work of mystics, medicine people and spiritual masters from many different traditions flowed into my world, as if they longed for me, too. Proof that we must follow our soul’s calling. If not for ourselves, then for those initiates coming after us who will need the stones we’ve laid to help them across the dark waters of their becoming.

Ultimately, the magic of the Sufi’s, Buddhists, Gnostics, Taoists, and Native American traditions (specifically the Huichol, with whom I originally learned shamanic practices), guided me to the more buried and even less understood magic and medicine held within the mystic traditions of my own, indigenous roots— the pre-Christian Celtic peoples of Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England.

This began in my early twenties. By my mid-thirties, this love affair grew into a full-fledged devotion to the study, practice and contemplation of ancient Celtic wisdom. Ten years on from there, I couldn’t have imagined that I would become a bhean feasa— a medicine person in this wisdom tradition. Our deepest knowings are a mystery to be lived; they hold the golden seed of our greatest aliveness.

My second mystery-to-be-lived was that I would become an author. At nine years old, I sat at the desk my son now sits at, and wrote in my journal that when I grew up I would be a writer. At that time writer was synonymous with author. Then, the internet came and I got to become a writer without any gatekeeping or delay. And yet, the deeper I went into my practice as a writer, the more I’ve longed to become an author.

I feel so honored to share that these two dreams have merged in a momentous way, via a chapter in the gorgeous new book by the Weaving Remembrance organization, Voices of Celtic Wisdom. This is my first time being published in print, and I am so deeply moved to share this occasion with fellow Celtic authors, mystics, bards and practitioners whose work inspired and guided me well before this collaboration!

So often, we feel ourselves on the outside of what we most love, looking in. But the amazing revelation is that wherever we most soulfully long to belong is exactly where we belong. It’s exactly where we’re needed, wanted and can have the greatest impact. In the Celtic tradition, we call this anam cara— very deep soul friendship with the people, places and traditions whose destinies are intertwined with our own.

We are now enrolling for the 2025-26 soul journey in the Wild Becoming Sanctuary— a modern, earth-rooted priestess temple for amplifying women’s power and belonging, through following their inner-most callings.

In this space, we enter into deep exploration of your dán (your soul’s mythic identity & gift), the oldest and newest dreams courting you, and the wounds that interrupt such explorations. We do this led by the astoundingly practical, initiatory magic of the Celtic Wheel of the Year…

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All your pressing questions, answered.

Sign up by the New Moon on April 27th & receive a custom, guided journey to get you started with the sanctuary’s existing classes & exercises.

You’ll fill out a yummy soul-survey and from there, I will offer you a guided, suggested pathway for self-discovery and healing that meets you right where you are. $150 value~ free with your annual membership.

Last but not least, I want to introduce you to a few of my lovely, devoted co-authors, all devoted Celtic wisdom keepers with chapters in Voices of Celtic Wisdom.

Jennifer Murphy is an Irish Mythologist, Anthropologist and Feminine Embodiment Coach who focuses on empowering women through ancestral lineage, somatic wisdom and creativity.

Manda Scott is the best-selling author of the Boudica series, an in-depth, semi-fictional look at the ancient Iceni tribe of now-southern England in the early first century, as they fought off the Romans. She’s also a podcaster, teacher and activist.

Glennie Kindred is a true Elder, offering earth-rooted rituals, ceremonies and practices for harnessing the power of the 8 holy days of the Celtic Wheel of the Year + many ways of working with the seasons, nature beings, and the elements.

Dougie Mackay is a truly incredible, Scottish storyteller who I met in a class on Scottish Song & Story, also offered by Weaving Remembrance.

Mary McLaughlin is a singer/songwriter/teacher who is steeped in the Ulster Gaelic song tradition of her native Ireland where she was born and raised. Her music has enchanted me for decades now, and encouraged me to begin learnign Gaelic through traditional songs.

I have so much gratitude for Hannah Leigh, for following her calling to gather wisdom keepers of this lineage we are re-membering.

There’s so many more amazing authors featured in this volume! These are just a few whose work has inspired me, even before this collaboration. I’m so grateful for this web of magic and healing we are co-weaving, in service to these times and all future generations.

May you tend the oldest, deepest dream in you. May you come to know and express your dán (your soul’s mythic identity & gift).