REPLAY: Co-Working with the Creative Otherworld
Our gathering 18.07.2024
A Chairde, Friends,
So lovely to see and feel your creative lifeforce on our call today. For those who could not make it live, go ahead and click on the replay and gift yourself an hour to tend to whatever work or craft calls to you.
The Celtic Harper
The song I played at the beginning of our call was by Turlough O’Carolan, who is often considered the last of the great Celtic harpers in the Gaelic tradition in Ireland. Blinded by smallpox at the ripe age of 18 years, he apprenticed himself to the harp, and what he composed is a reflection of the inner sight that is a portal to the Celtic Otherworld.
On Monday evening just gone, I lay by the Sheela-na-Gig at the Hill of Tara while Aoife Lowden my creative companion in our upcoming women’s retreat, Aisling Áes Dána, exquisitely played Carolan’s Dream on her harp. It felt like we’d been spirited away in a ritual we curated to honour the women who will be on our retreat before we even know who they are.
The song I shared today is Sir Arthur Shaen, you can listen here:
Blackbird Card
The card that I pulled for us today was from The Druid Animal Oracle: The Blackbird, Druid Dhubh. This symbolises:
Enchantment
The Gateway
The Inner Call
