Blog Posts

My blog is a space to explore my musings on healing, spirituality and soul-led living. I share reflections on energy work, shamamic practice, and tools for personal transformation. May these posts inspire and support you on your path.

I’ve always loved this time of year. Beltane feels like a threshold, or a turning point into something brighter and more alive. It’s my birthday at Beltane too, so perhaps that’s part of it. The sense of beginning again - camping season starts again, longer days, lighter evenings.

In many shamanic traditions, the first journey a beginner makes is to meet a power animal or compassionate helping presence. Some traditions describe this ally as having been with us since birth. Others understand it as a guide who steps forward when we begin to listen deeply. A power animal is a compassionate helper – one that can offer guidance, support, vitality, and perspective as we begin to explore this way of working.

In this blog, I want to explore what happens next. When we journey, our awareness loosens from its usual orientation and begins to travel. To understand that movement, it helps to imagine a vertical structure or axis that links us above and below.

While planning this month's Full Moon Women's Circle, my thoughts have been on Samhain and ancestral healing (Samhain being the old Celtic festival celebrated between 31 October and 1 November that marks the end of harvest and the start of winter; when the veil between the living and the dead is said to be thin). It was timely then that last night I went with two trusted friends to hear two inspiring women talk about Scotland’s witch trials, and it left me wondering ... What