~ Photos from my 20s, 30s, 40s .. I see a beauty now I didn't recognise at the time, I felt broken inside. In my 30s I started my inner journey and created a new story ❤️
11/11/2025
11.11 Guided Meditation Ceremony
MEDITATION & CONSCIOUSNESS
Between Worlds ~ Monthly Gatherings
Within the Chaos: A Return to Stillness
Theme & shared Intention: Manifesting.. Aligned Trust
(Creating a new story, with a different ending)
Tuesday 11 November
Quinta da Faianca
Almoçageme
Colares ~ Sintra
TIME ADJUSTMENT
5.30pm Arrival
6-7.30pm Meditation & Exploration
1 hour guided meditation & talk/sharing with Caterina accompanied by sharing Ragas on the Tanpura
Advanced registration only: PM to confirm your place
€20 (Concessions €15)
Next full BETWEEN WORLDS event in Jan/ Feb featuring live music with global sounds... More details soon , join the WhatsApp link in the Bio to stay in touch with future events
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BETWEEN WORLDS ~ an eclectic Soul Alchemy series featuring wisdom teachings, ceremony, meditation and Ethnomusicology - showcasing unique musicians infusing global sounds and inspiring unity through a celebration of multiculturalism and shared experience.
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02/11/2025
Samhain Reflections at the Lake of Love and Ashley Chase forest ~ Dorset
Samhain marks the ancient Celtic New Year, the midpoint between autumn equinox and winter solstice, when the veil between the worlds was believed to be at its thinnest. It was a time to honour ancestors, release what had passed, and prepare for the dark half of the year.
Here in Littlebredy, the landscape carries that liminal feeling naturally. The River Bride, whose name likely comes from the Celtic root briga or brida, meaning “gushing stream”, rises at this lake. The entire Valley takes its name from this source. Some link the name to the Celtic goddess Brigid, keeper of the hearth and inspiration, who bridges life and death, light and shadow.
Standing by the water’s edge, you can feel that sense of threshold: the stillness of the lake mirroring both sky and soul, many ashes have been scattered there. It’s easy to see why this place has been called the Lake of Love, symbolising connection, remembrance, and the flow between worlds.
As Samhain turns the year’s wheel, endings and beginnings meet in still water.
A time to listen and reflect, honouring the continuity between the living, the land, and those who came before us
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📷 Lake of Love, Littlebredy and Celtic pagan altar, Ashley Chase forest ~ Dorset
The light and peaceful energy was magical 🤌🏽
My crappy phone camera doesn't do it justice 🤍
02/11/2025
Creating a new story...with a different ending.
We all have parts of ourselves we’d rather hide. The “devil” isn’t some outside force. It’s the side of us we’ve learned to hide, deny, or condemn.
Walking side by side with it means we stop pretending and running from the uncomfortable truth of who we are. We start taking responsibility for our shadow, not letting it run the show, but not banishing it either.
That "devil" inside isn't trying to destroy you, it's showing you your power, truth and boundaries. When you deny it, it owns you. When you face it, it frees you.
Walking side by side requires courage, awareness, integration...which leads to Wholeness.
That's where freedom begins.
When you can walk beside your “devil,” you’re no longer controlled by it.
And something shifts in the collective.
Because most of what plays out in the world - conflict, polarisation, blame, comes from people projecting their unowned darkness onto others. When we can’t face our own shadow, we need someone else to carry it for us. So we create enemies, villains, “bad guys.”
But when individuals begin to integrate what they’ve rejected, their anger, shame, greed, fear.. that projection loses power. Compassion grows and accountability becomes possible.
We stop needing to punish others for the parts of ourselves we won’t acknowledge.
Collective healing doesn’t start with more light, but with more honesty.
When enough of us can do this without shame the world softens.
The new story begins inside us first.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
C.G. Jung
21/10/2025
The hero steps beyond the threshold, enters the underworld (liminality), dies to the old self, and returns bearing the elixir ~ not just changed, but as a bridge between worlds.
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BETWEEN WORLDS
Friday 24 October
5.30 arrival, 6-9pm
Quinta da Faianca
Colares, Sintra
Between Worlds 🌀 an eclectic Soul Alchemy series featuring wisdom teachings, ceremony, meditation and Ethnomusicology - showcasing unique musicians infusing global sounds and inspiring unity through a celebration of multiculturalism and shared experience.
20/10/2025
Between Worlds 🌀 an eclectic Soul Alchemy series featuring wisdom teachings, ceremony, meditation and Ethnomusicology - showcasing unique musicians infusing global sounds and inspiring unity through a celebration of multiculturalism and shared experience.
The first chapter of this project showcases a performance by (Tiago Francisquinho) a master of the Didgeridoo and ancient instruments, and a world music alchemist - two multi-instrumentalists who blend ancestral roots and contemporary soundscapes into one transformative journey.
Caterina Valente .soulalchemy is a Social Anthropologist and Alchemist, sharing embodied wisdom over 20 years of working around the world with a deep exploration of holistic teachings and modalities that inspire us towards wholeness, balance and internal peace.
As Within, So Without.
Caterina will be holding a meditation ceremony to coincide with the rising of the Morning Star, marking the official start of the new Venus cycle.
~ a moment of clarity, renewal and intense energy for related themes as love, beauty, relationship and balance.
Between Worlds: Humanity finds itself at a threshold, where solitary paths have taught us resilience, healing and strength. But the next chapter calls us into unity. Love in this sense is compassion, solidarity, and the willingness to weave our stories into one greater tapestry.
Let us come together to celebrate our shared experience and inspiration, to focus on what brings us together rather than what separates us. Timing in love is the collective awakening ~ the call to move forward together and create a new story.
BETWEEN WORLDS
Within the Chaos, A Return to Stillness
Chapter 1: Venus at the Heart of the Sun
Friday 24 October, 2025
Arrive 5.30pm ~ 6-9pm
Colares, Sintra
Food medicine lovingly prepared by Anna at .da.lunna
In a time where suffering in the world weighs heavy on our collective heart, beauty is not a frivolity, it is even more important. To notice the way sunlight filters through leaves, to savor the sound of the ocean, to marvel at laughter and a meal shared between friends, these small acts of romanticising life are everything.
Because when injustice reigns, brutality seeks to strip us of wonder, to convince us that despair is the only truth. But beauty is a reminder that humanity is more than violence and tenderness still moves in the darkest places.
It is a privilege to focus on our inner work when many can dream only of survival. Healing ourselves and balancing our rage and the unresolved within is sometimes the greatest way we can impact the whole - that is not only a privilege but a responsibility to ourselves and those that we impact around us each day.
Romanticising life is not denial of suffering, it is choosing to see and honour the sacred, even when surrounded by destruction. To hold onto joy and awe is to preserve what oppressors and war-makers cannot take: the soul’s ability to dream, to create, to love.
By keeping beauty alive, not by dissociating or denial but holding it all - the pain and the beauty - expressing ourselves through art, music, in nature, in the simple rituals of daily living, we are keeping alive the very essence of what makes us human.
📷 Sebastien Zanella
26/08/2025
In alchemy, the swan represents the union of opposites necessary for the creation of what is known as the Philosopher's Stone, ‘a substance capable of turning base metals into gold' ~ the internal journey from pain to wisdom, individuation, self-realisation, the expansion of consciousness.
One of my favourite artists, Hilma af Klint's palette displays the dualities and union of light and dark, male and female, life and death.
🖼️ Hilma af Klint, The Swan, No. 1 and No. 15 (1915)
12/08/2025
The Devil & The Angel – A Choice Between Timelines
🌞 8/8 gateway closes, and we find ourselves emerging into a new Cycle. Many felt the veil thin, the heat intensify, the energetic tension. No ordinary celestial alignment, but a cosmic referendum moment where the soul stood at a crossroad between The Angel and The Devil— 2 archetypes mirrored within every one of us.
🕊️ The Angel – The Soul
In the Tarot, the Angel manifests most clearly in The Lovers and Temperance cards. The Lovers is about conscious choice. It’s a recognition that love, truth, and divinity are not handed to us, but cultivated through Discernment. The Angel represents that quiet voice, the compass pointing toward integrity, healing, and union.
But to follow the Angel is to surrender false ego, to trust the long path of alchemy over instant gratification. To endure the burning away of old identities in service of a higher self.
🌝 The Devil – The Shadow
It's not the villain you were taught to fear in religious dogma, but the binding illusion that you are trapped, powerless, or broken. The addiction to suffering, comfort in dysfunction, to staying small.
The Devil whispers: “You can have it now—no growth required.” It is unchecked desire, manipulation, distraction, addiction, consumerism, apathy. In truth, the Devil is you—untethered from your own awareness. Those parasitic energies that manipulate and extract from you are your mirror.
🔥 The Split
This year 88 wasn’t a blessing, but a forked road. A timeline fracture. Each of us was asked: Which version of reality are you feeding? Which path did you choose...
EVOLVE OR REPEAT?
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light get in” ~ Leonard Cohen
🌑 But the cracks are also how the dark leaks in.
Every moment you betray your intuition, your knowing, self-respect, silence your soul. That’s the crack.
This energy amplified these fractures. For some, it birthed clarity, purpose, illumination, peace and an immense karmic breakthrough. For others, it dragged up long-buried demons, addictions, toxic relationships, looping karma on a path that compromises Truth to seek external validation.
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Caterina is a certified Integrated Energy Healer and Spiritual Intuitive Counsellor, passionate about living authentically, in alignment with one's True Self and Soul Purpose and providing guidance for others on this path.
Soul Readings: Using tarot as an intuitive tool, Caterina will guide you through the deeper story of your soul - a process that unveils your unconscious mind, following the clues of internal alchemy.
*This is not a traditional tarot reading,* but rather an alchemical process of energy transmutation - a deeply heart healing journey that enables you see through the shadows and obstacles that have been holding you back from your highest potential, in all aspects of your being - life, work, love and relationships. Freeing you to step into your Truth and Authentic Self, reclaim your Sovereignty and Power - returning to unconditional Love with a renewed sense of Grace, Peace and Clarity.
Testimonials:
⭐ "Amazing extraordinary creature. Your capacity to explain and be the bridge between us and the universe quite shocked me! I will now consult you very often."
⭐ "My reading with Caterina was so much more than a tarot reading, it was profoundly healing. She is a strong intuitive who is truly working with her gift."
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Sessions: no time limit as long as is needed for the process to complete.
Booking a Session: Online payment via Paypal and schedule your session date & time via Whatsapp: +44 797 9756143
