Category: How to become EarthWise
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The time between times: exploring liminal shifts in the seasons
Now is the time between times. It is a quiet stretch of days and weeks between one season and another, between one festival or holiday and another. The Autumn Equinox has passed, the time is approaching for Samhain. But now is a gentle period that to me is the time between times.
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Cultural memory: what we remember and what we forget
Bringing together the wisdom of the Earth found in nature, science, mythology and spirituality The Journey Begins: Remembering and Forgetting A natural corallary to discussing “what is known” is to consider “what is remembered?” and why? We have today shards of ancient knowledge and information, we have re-imagined practices and stories built on interpretations of…
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What is known? Relationship between science and ancient memory
Introduction Science is not an unchanging, infallible truth. It is sometimes treated as that. That once something is said, with a scientific authority, it is a truth never to be disturbed and anything which does not agree with this is a falsehood, or at best perhaps a folkloric anachronism which is viewed as simplistic and…
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Discovering the spiritual offering of horses: an EarthWise invitation
Bringing together the wisdom of the Earth found in nature, science, mythology and spirituality This is part 2 of the series on the spiritual meaning of horses Introduction From my earliest memory, I was transfixed, mesmerized, by horses. I cannot name the moment, the event, the reason for this. It was just always there, from…
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Creating a forest bath ritual: explore the change of seasons
Introduction Forest bathing is a practice that can be done year-round, in all seasons. There might be some thought that it is a practice reserved only for good weather, and that forest bathing must stop in the winter, or going into the colder and darker months. This post explores the benefits of forest bathing in…
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Spiralling into Liminality: the Labyrinth, a Practice from Time Immemorial
Bringing together the wisdom of the Earth found in nature, science, mythology and spirituality Introduction The word “spiralling” can have many connotations. One of them is of something spinning badly and negatively out of control. When someone or something is said to be spiralling, it is to describe something going very badly wrong. And yet…
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Discovering whispers of the ancestors: a pilgrimage to the Roman Barrows
Introduction If you pay attention, if you learn how to pay attention, the land and nature are always speaking to you. But sometimes it is not always easy to hear the message. For too much in busy, modern life, it is easy to miss the subtle messages. For it is true that sometimes nature roars.…
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EarthWise Travel: 9 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Journey
Introduction It is very likely at some point on your EarthWise exploration that you will seek out new locations. These may be sacred or spiritual sites. Or you might be drawn to an historical place. The destination could be a tourist landmark or a locale that draws in a combination of visitors. Visiting new sites…
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To The Ridgeway
I want to look across the green fieldsto the ancient trackwaysand feel the landsingunder my feettelling me stories and songsburied within but there for the hearingif only you ask if only you listen.I want to feel the landsurge like magicunder my feettelling my storiesleading me home.–Sarah Sargent