My Values
My approach is anchored in the five elements:
Enchantment - Wind
To unlock my heart to the wonder-awe of the seen and unseen.
To be spellbound by the mystery within nature and the cosmos that spirals within all life.
To wander through the everlasting of myth, folk and fairytale and weave back threads of lumination. Not to reinvent the past but to reenchant the present.
To heed my soul’s whispers through the fantastical within me. To honour the creative spirit, imagination, and dream as the highest realm of [soul] reality. To recognise, respect and tenderly nurture this in others.
Beauty - Earth
Emboldened by my senses, to trace the texture of beauty in the life that surrounds me so that I can become more wholly (and holy) alive.
To relish in the creation of beauty even the simplest of spendours. To collapse into the beauty of a moment, into the luxury of being.
To witness the beauty that lives behind a facial expression, a word, a bodily gesture, a creation; that gifts it its spirit.
To see beauty in the creation and death faces of the Great Mother, like the Sheela-na-Gig, gloriously ripe and gloriously decaying.
To take joy in the beauty of imperfections; my own that make me, me; and others that make them, them.
Craft - Fire
To devote to quality, depth, richness of broth over consumptive speed. To be wise to the dance and stillness of seasons and great cycles.
To engage the dream that comes prior to thinking and make with it through images, my words, my hands, my body. To do so in a co-creative spirit with the Otherworld intuiting that in this way creativity is infinite as the Well of Segais never runs dry.
To sow my craft with heart and humanity trusting it will grow under the light of those who need it. And to cultivate the space for making in others.
To have the courage to change my mind, make mistakes, adapt, reinvent, evolve. To be an apprentice to life.
Legacy - Water
To contribute to the evolution of the Irish culture.
To embody the discernment of the king to apply a critical lens to the overculture, and the timelessness of the Goddess to enter the cultural dreamtime.
I am a cultural dreamer. I dream for our culture.
To breathe life into old ghosts whose origins are debated by scholars. And yet, their archetypal patterns live on within us, speaking to our soul’s code.
To be a Creative Ancestor, listening, really listening, to the voices of the past and the voices of the future.
Co-creation- SouL
To dance with all of the above by co-creating with the Creative Ancestors of the Otherworld, and through collaboration and community with others, nurturing our creative clans.