Lughnasa's Bounty

A Creative Retreat for Áes Dána Founding Members

A Chairde, Friends,

A gentle reminder that we gather next week on Thursday, 15th August at 19:30 Irish Time for our creative Lughnasa retreat. This is an opportunity to down tools and come together for a space of reflection, celebration and renewal. A time to ask:

What have I learned since the dark months of Samhain?

What has borne fruit?

What can I celebrate?

Who am I becoming?

Our Gathering

I am working in a co-creative spirit with our mythic ancestors as I curate the retreat, which will be brought to life in collaboration with your beautiful souls. A taste of what’s emerging:

• Teachings on Lughnasa from traditional Gaelic seasonal wisdom and our rich mythological sources

• Sensing into gods of the arts and oracles

• Lughnasa as a time of transformation, of balancing the tension between old and new ways—in the mythology and within ourselves—and the need to acknowledge the spectrum both offer

• Insights into the ancient Irish concept of two distinct types of wisdom

• The practice of fosterage in Irish mythology as reflective of early Irish society, and its relevance to our own lives today