Dingle Druid/ Juli Ni Mhaoileoin / Juli Malone

19/02/2026

Na Préachán. All my life generations of Crows and Corvids have witnessed how as humans my family and I live on this one and precious Earth that we all share. They are bright and intelligent birds.
In folklore they are related to the Morrigan as shapeshifters.
They watch us humans and can identify human friends or foe.

Recently a large mature Holly tree was cut down the road from me. I loved it, sweet protective Holly. I used to pass it and say hello.
The Buzzard used to perch on it watching us. A pair of adorable Wood pigeons used to hang there like love birds cooing.

Other trees around it have also been cut mercilessly. Homes, perching spots to the many birds, thousands of other creatures. Creatures that live in habitats in hedgerows acting as biodiversity corridors that maintain the delicate balance in nature .

Where do they go now ? The corridors are getting smaller. Am sitting in Cork airport about to fly the Netherlands where I am teaching / giving workshops.

I feel sad as on my way here so many fields and trees have been felled. Homes to many sentient beings of nature . Songbirds that bring so much beauty to our lives . Small creatures that create fertility in the soil. The birds, creatures, insects & the bees, the composters, fertility makers share our World.

Each and every tree is worth saving as they give so much.
Each and every tree is home to generations of sentient beings just like us.

Crow : Préachán
Raven: Fiach Dubh / Bran
Hooded/Scald Crow: Feannóg / Caróg Liath
Rook: Rúcach
Jackdaw: Cág
Magpie: Snag Breac
Chough: Cabhóg / Cág Cosdearg
Jay: Scréachóg / Scréachóg Choille

14/02/2026

Love is who we are .... The more we share it the more we have.
Today we celebrate love and all matters of the heart. Valentine’s day is an old tradition thought to have originated from a Roman Festival known as Lupercalia,
It was held on February 15 as a fertility festival ( always good) dedicated to Faunus the Roman equivalent to the Greek god Pan, 😊the Roman god of agriculture.

St Valentine was a 3rd century martyr who married lovers when marriage was banned as it was thought they made better soldiers when single.
Some of his remains are held in no other than White Friar Church in Dublin. ❤️

🐝So today feb 14th Happy Valentine’s Day, our patron saint of our beloved sacred bees.
Love is everything and all that we are. So fill your own heart with love and share abundantly ❤️ bee brave, ❤️ smiles go a long way , but 20 sec hugs even better.

Nature is all about love and they don’t go around giving cards and presents, you are loved just as you are 😊

This morning we were gifted with a magnificent sunrise. Such beauty.

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03/02/2026

The Full Snow Moon has been magnificent over the last few nights.

Spring energy is cleansing, clearing, awakening. I went for a wonderful silent sauna on Bridget’s day .

Sitting in silence gives great freedom. The energetic fire 🔥 ( I do love fire, for transformation & transmutation) in the wood fired sauna followed by full immersion in the cold Atlantic water 💦 every 15 minutes harnessing the potent energy of Spring and playful 🌊 waves.

It's a wonderful time to make an inventory or what's working in your life and what is not.

Who is aligned with your energy and who is not?

What gives energy and joy in right alignment and what steals it or creates disharmony and stagnant energy?

Does your food energise you.

What needs to change?
What old attachments within self and self limiting beliefs can be released with love and gratitude.?
What do you need to let go of?

It's such a potent time of year, it feels more natural for me with the cycles of nature and Spring energy rising to make new commitments to myself at this time than Jan 1st.

Full Moon, full release. Times are a changing for all of us all the time, within self, the Earth, the micro within and the Marco outside of us.

Dawn is my favourite time of the day. Listening to the birds, a gift of a new day filled with all kinds of possibilities.

Life is a very beautiful wonderful journey where we equally walk with much grief and wounding. Balancing the problem solving with the love.

Deeply grateful for all I have. This time of year my bed feels so warm & inviting in the morning, so cosy to stay in the dreamtime.
But then the promise of the dawn and dawn chorus calls, I gather the energy to action in my dreams, to manifest all that I dream of.

Energy and action = makes dreams come true.

Releasing that which no longer serves or blocks you is essential in this process.

I am giving a walk, talk on the plants and nature for next week as gaeilge . We shall also have a fire 🔥 ritual a chance to let go.

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31/01/2026

Making of Brigit’s cross.

How to make a Brigid’s cross, St Brigits Cross from rushes . Made with rushes from Di**le , Ireland by The Di**le Druid .