The Celtic Creatives
🪶Membership
The Body is a Place
Preview
0:00
-0:59

The Body is a Place

Sacred Site Meditation
The Paps of Anu, the breasts of the goddess in Co. Kerry

A Chairde, Friends,

Some of you have been in touch about your plans to come to Ireland and, or the WISE Isles this year, and so I felt inspired for our creative ritual this month to share a meditation from the vaults, where you will journey to a sacred site.

This was inspired by a piece I wrote and invoked called, The Body is a Place:

The body is a place.

We all originated from the body of the Earth

from her sacred waters.

We are born of the Great Mother

Of her lakes

her rivers

her seas

her moon

The sun.

Earth is a body and a place

And so you are both

a body and a place.

We know that we inherit intergenerationally

through our bodies

Our DNA weaves us to the generations

who have come before

to their joy

to their trauma

and all in between.

We are sensual beings

and so we inherit the

sensory

sensual

felt sense memory

of the places

in which our ancestors lived

in their tuath, their tribe

In community

Generation after generation.

The timeline that connects us back

to our pre-Christian, pre-Celtic ancestors

who built the cosmic temple of Newgrange

at Sí an Bhrú

the mansion

the womb of the Goddess Bóinn

is but 100 grandmothers ago.

Feel into the closeness

of 100 grandmothers ago

in your body.

Feel the Áes Dána

the People of Arts

with the poet-seer

the File

the druid magic-maker

the Draoi.

Feel our women’s traditions

the Bean Feasa

the Woman of Otherworldly Knowledge

the Bean Ghlúine

the Woman of the Knee, the midwife

the Bean Chaointe

the Keening Woman.

All cailleacha, all natural witches

All of whom were attuned

to the mysticism of this land.

All who lived in reciprocity

with the Otherworld

with the sídhe

the dwelling place of the gods

and the gods themselves

the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Receiving wisdom

giving wisdom

receiving wisdom

giving wisdom.

And their memory

continues to give to you

but you must be open

to receiving it in your body.

Allow your body to become a place

where ancestral memory resides

where your mystical lineage

can weave on through your DNA

where you can travel

to the landscape of your ancestors

even if not physically in Ériu, in Ireland.

Earth is a body and a place

You are a body and a place

A place that remembers

A place that longs for you to explore.

In this practice, through your body, you will travel to a sacred site. This can be somewhere you have visited before or are familiar with. It can be related to a particular story, goddess, god, mythic or more than human being. A place where your ancestors lived.

You might desire to work intuitively and use a map and pendulum, or simply close your eyes and allow your finger to guide you to locate a sacred site on a map of Ireland or somewhere in the Celtic Isles (and beyond).

Or your place may be unknown to you before you begin. You don’t need to have a place in mind to do this practice.

Once you have felt into how to approach this practice, prepare your space for ritual.

Ritual is a conscious act or performance that transitions us from everyday life into a world of possibility, where the limitations of the every day can be renegotiated and transformed.

This post is for paid subscribers