The Fourth Cycle

21/06/2025

Solstice Blessings, welcoming in peace for all of the world 🕊️Love, Light and Life 🌅

02/02/2025

Imbolc blessings from a sunny Lake District 🌱

As I close down my late grandmothers estate, it is not only a physical closure but a cutting of cords that have kept me bound to unhealthy and toxic behaviours. I knew this year would be big but I hadn’t realised the importance and transformation that I would be forced to step into.

Brigid has come and planted her seeds for a better and brighter future
My ancient grandmothers have gathered, the circle is now complete
The cailleach has waded away into the depths of the bog

As the sun rises today I give gratitude to my beginnings, to the women who came before me, to their scars and burden that they carried. But now I realease them and I choose to live in the light for my future generations to come ☀️

31/10/2024

Blessed Samhain 🙏
May the light of your flame welcome home your ancestors on this special night 🍁🍂🔥

30/07/2024

Vandana Shiva 🌹

29/07/2024

Wow! What an absolute pleasure it was meeting this wonderful lady, Brooke Medicine-Eagle who is so full of wisdom, love and knowing. It was an honour to sit in circle with her and other beautiful women whilst we collectively dreamt, danced and sang of restoring paradise, in our hearts and on our land 🌎

And a huge thank you to Ruth Cato for her holding and offering of her beautiful space ♥️

02/07/2024

Feel this deep in my heart today ♥️

Where does one go when
the world’s gone mad…
when everyone’s offended
if you don’t agree with them
and anger permeates the
air we breathe?

What does one do to try and
stay in right relationship
with self, other and planet,
with constantly changing
language, mores and customs
that dictate which group
is currently in vogue and
which hovers on the rim?

How does one stay true to
personal beliefs that were
hard fought wins as we
struggled to shake off the
Chains of Patriarchy so we
might speak and walk our
truth without being called all
manner of derogatory adjectives?

We’ve lost the idea of the Circle,
that place held as Sacred and Holy
Ground, where All were welcomed
and differences put aside and/or
worked out in a way that allowed
for the idea of both/and, such that
both the self (however one defined
themselves) and the tribe thrived.

On a quest for meaning and purpose,
I am a circle with no beginning and
no end as I traverse the Cosmos of
lifetime after lifetime after lifetime,
always bringing forward ancient jewels
from earlier knowings as I seek the
gnosis that lives in this now.

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The Gnosis of Now, ©Arlene Bailey
Art by Josephine Klerks, josephineklerks.com

*Fia Cirkeln means "Fia's Circle" - link to Fia's song in comments

20/06/2024

Exploring newness
🌼 All feelings are welcome
AND
🌼 All feelings are heard
AND
🌼 All feelings are necessary

🌕 Welcome, Litha may your abundance of newness shower down upon us this Summer solstice ☀️

14/06/2024

All has been consecrated.
The creatures in the forest know this,

the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know
as does the heart full of love.

Strange a priest would rob us of this
knowledge

and then empower himself
with the ability

to make holy what
already was.

~ Catherine of Siena, “Consecrated”
14th century CE

Art by Christy Kirk, “Rainbow Collective”
Sacred Tree Goddess
www.etsy.com/shop/SacredTreeGoddess

04/06/2024

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

~ Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women
https://layneredmond.com/Home.html

Art: Mamicha
Mamichamaternidad on Instagram
https://www.mamichamaternidad.com/

29/05/2024

The divine masculine is an energy. Not a ‘man’ but an essence that we can all welcome and cultivate to live more directional, sweet, loving lives. The top of Glastonbury Tor held me and .am.jane.mary a few weeks ago while Pan rained on us we soaked it in. Ecstatic. The energy of the divine masculine brings creative energy to me, plants seeds of projects and themes, brings the feeling of enlightenment and sovereignty - a tallness to my spine & a strength that can hold others in the darkest of moments ‘I’ve got your back’ I heard deeply from within when I first embodied this energy.
Welcoming the divine masculine energy is an incredible boost for my work with the divine feminine as it is the riverbank that allows the femme to flow creatively. Allowing me to feel safer and be more creative as well as the women I work with.
Bringing my work out to men in the world is highlighted by this essence I’ve been embodying, practising and welcoming in. It’s something I can offer to those men too, and really welcome the healed masculine home.
Who’s in?
Like an Oak - Workshop for men coming up next month as a pre cursor to the Year Long Initiation for Men starting in November ruthcato.com for more details

10/05/2024

Arrival.

08/04/2024