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A dear sister sent me these words she wrote after a previous Samhain Circle and I felt they deserve a place here:The wom...
02/09/2025

A dear sister sent me these words she wrote after a previous Samhain Circle and I felt they deserve a place here:

The womb of our mothers, the womb of the earth.

Submerged in the waters of truth and love.

Submerged in our mother.

Nourishing me from the inside out.

The more I surrender, the more I release.

She knows and loves every crevice of my body and caresses it with love and care.

I allow her to hold me, to support me.

I feel free.

I am where I belong.

Past. Present. Future.

Of all there was and all there ever will be.

Floating in the divine feminine.

Remembering.

Honouring
Her
Me
You

By being.
By feeling.

The waters are alive.
The waters in and out of me.

All she wants is to be in harmony.

To fall.
To flow.
To ripple.
To wave.
To trickle.
To wash.
To nourish.
To live.
To grow.
To transform.
To heal.
To soothe.
To be.

She contains so much knowledge.

The sustenance of life.

The source.

All I had to do was
To listen.

You can come to our SAMHAIN Circle in October to get a taste of our work I've popped the link in Bio for those of you wa...
27/08/2025

You can come to our SAMHAIN Circle in October to get a taste of our work

I've popped the link in Bio for those of you wanting to come to Avondale and experience the Samhain ritual in Circle (includes water rites)

Le Grá

Helen

Thank you for this photo on the land

We've been water divining and conjuring for what promises to be the most beautiful stellar container starting in January...
27/08/2025

We've been water divining and conjuring for what promises to be the most beautiful stellar container starting in January 2026!

So excited for the foundations and Roots of Ceremony training.

There are still a few spaces available. Just msg us for the application form

Thanks for the pics and dog love

Spaces filled with graceWe are currently taking applications and last minute wait-lists are active for both the Roots of...
14/08/2025

Spaces filled with grace

We are currently taking applications and last minute wait-lists are active for both the Roots of Ceremony and the foundational circle training starting in January 2026

If you feel the pull make sure you fill out the application form for your acceptance onto the course

We have been calling this in for so long and it's finally happening!!!

This is something primordial that your soul will remember. It is an old and ancient, yet brand new technology for the way of circle tending.

Steeped in a sacred paradigm for transmuting limiting beliefs, conjuring, being and leading your personal evolution and community. We are here with countless coaches, therapists, teachers, shamans, mystics, masters, healers, practitioners and medicine men/women, entering to assist in this training, while cultivating and refining an expansive array of tools, techniques and modalities, all in service of your expansion and liberation.

Here, we do not speak in rhetoric, in tongues you can't understand or unmeaningful disingenuous metaphors. 

We are actually LIVING it!

Come activate in the spiral of the Ways of Ceremony
and you may realise the frequency you have been interfacing with may not be the one that serves your highest! we are sparking abundance codes and joyful loving and living.

Please Note , If you have asked a question, have filled out the application form Or wish to apply for the scholarship. Please bear with us. We will get back to you!

 our future selves doing the work of the present moment. Incoming aquarian age, Mars in Libra much 😅

Lots more information in the emails and thank you for your patience kind souls

Coming to the realistic inner standing that pregnancy birth and postpartum are the biggest seasonal turning points in a ...
08/11/2024

Coming to the realistic inner standing that pregnancy birth and postpartum are the biggest seasonal turning points in a woman's life

The most R/evolutionary, epic invite into creative energy and self-generated passion 

All of Life itself is revealed during this FULL time 

All of Creating comes from the of the life-giving pulsing of the Womb

From this centre, we radiate, expand and learn about all the universe, all of Gods, Nature's deepest teachings

There is no space for anything in the centre other than pure love, pure divinity, pure Soul light. 

In being pregnant, I am really learning what it is to receive, to depend, to lean on

I am learning how I truly want to be treated, cared for and seen and loved.

It looks and feels so simple for me: forest school mothers handing me down their birth pool, swims on the shores of wild waters with wise women, my husband running the bath and boiling the potatoes, my mother putting dahlias in a new blue vase for me, my children singing to my belly, barely yet awake barefoot in the cold morning grass. 

We bless. We breathe. We bathe. 

This space in between worlds is making room for a new voice to emerge, a new tender love to grow , an ineffable exquisite imprint of new life.

My heart is beating with yours dear child

Hard to believe we are already at the day of all saints & Halloween is hereRight before a powerful new moon in Scorpio u...
31/10/2024

Hard to believe we are already at the day of all saints & Halloween is here

Right before a powerful new moon in Scorpio ushers us into a whole new cycle

Scorpio as a water sign brings a lot of depth to this time of year, the unseen murky waters lying beneath the surface leading to the potency of exploring the shadow sides of our selves.

You might find that dreams, synchronicities, and intuitive flashes are heightened, helping to uncover what lies beneath the surface.

Are you seeing any thing come to the surface as we move through this threshold? 

We are over here still rippling from the glendalough waters and the gathering held in Avondale for the Samhain Circle. Grateful to have stirred our inner Waters to lead us into a revelatory time of self disclosure.

What an honour to be with you women at this fire festival 🥮🎎

Stay open 

Stay curious 

Let it begin now

In the heart

In your Body

It is your quest

Your opening

Your beating chest

Here we are at the cusp of the new moon 

Can you feel it awakening the Water within? 

📸.lynch.photography

Time spent singing and chanting in front of the fire, reminded me that imbas is not something we invent or have to ever ...
30/10/2024

Time spent singing and chanting in front of the fire, reminded me that imbas is not something we invent or have to ever try to conjure up, it is always a part of us, something that has always been and will always be within, our bloodline, our recent and ancient amhainn that runs through us.

Nature so vibrantly alive all around here is allowing me, inviting me in, a pathway to reconnect with something primal, something sacred.
My mother tongue, the freedom of movement and sound so articulately unencumbered, moving my spine, my womb, my baby, bringing me inward to that. A willingness for depth and expansion helps.

The mountains, with their timeless strength lent me some of their own. The Imbas Retreat was really rediscovering the light, knowledge, bradán feasa, that has always been within, there is no where outside to seek, search or ask for it.

Deep gratitude wells within. The mother well. The other well. Language of our soul emerges.

Gratefully guided and held in this imbas container by these incredible artists musicians and poets.
Granting me the foundation I was looking for.
Nourished by the amazing chef
And the women that chose to journey together
and others whose insta handle I don't know!

It also led me so beautifully into Samhain and the deep holding that would be needed (next post!)

A magical day created by divine Libran friend Emily Self massage to cacao to working with all her homegrown flowers. A...
07/10/2024

A magical day created by divine Libran friend Emily

Self massage to cacao to working with all her homegrown flowers. And delicious food by

Feeling blessed to connect and be held

Ive never done one but I've been getting soo many dms about pregnancy, life, birth, owning and running a retreat centre,...
26/09/2024

Ive never done one but I've been getting soo many dms about pregnancy, life, birth, owning and running a retreat centre, free schooling, birthing at home etc etc that I'll run a little Questions and Answer later in my stories

Send me your questions via the Q box (which I will share in stories) and I'll see if I can answer what you want to know about ME

Ps no medical advice or otherwise will be forthcoming 😃

Photo of me and the girls playing on the beach by my gorgeous friend

Living close by bodies of Water has consistently altered the course of our livesAs the river, and now the sea between de...
25/09/2024

Living close by bodies of Water has consistently altered the course of our lives

As the river, and now the sea between deep valleys of pools collecting, direct and curate our realities they persist in being a part of us, in flowing within our body as nature does.

Lately the Waters and the Waves have been asking me so clearly:

Where can I trust more?

How can I surrender more?

What is there to be afraid of? Truly , dig deeper... 

and how can I dive headlong through it to the other side of the wave?

Where is my innate joy earth based, (real living light) A-rising from?

Beneath the surface, is that real excitement and anticipation for new life. For me, for this beautiful being in my womb, for my family and friends and those that love me. As everything changes when a new human is born.
And as I am morphed into a yet another version of myself through pregnancy, I feel called to honour the tides that wash over us all. Which is why this Circle is being called by the highest beings to be held.

There is so much I could say (but here isn't the place) and so much I love and adore about these Waters that have taught and continue to teach me so so much

What it is to really be in this body. On this land. Living in the unknown. To have another soul in here too.

After all, we are each one wave after another, one particle melting into one another. 

We will be at the Waters for Samhain, calling in our wildly creative dreams that are ripe for scripting.. during the portal of entry to the darkness and letting go of the things that are too heavy to carry with us into Winter 

Women who land here, embodied, integrated, embracing the rise and fall, ebb and flow of our inner tides, and when this is who we are, and choose to be, we feel so much ease, peace and love in the movement of every single ripple. 

We cannot wait to be with you for our final gathering of the year!

All the details are in the link in the description

The link will be in profile (for limited time as spaces are nearly full already, thank you so much 🥹)

Any questions reach out to either myself or Siobhán or Jenny

Thank you dear friend@maireadlucyphotography

New Love beams through in formation, a Soul soul so strong, called in through the Waters. Pregnancy: an ineffable, exqui...
11/09/2024

New Love beams through in formation, a Soul soul so strong, called in through the Waters. 

Pregnancy: an ineffable, exquisite, direct line to God 
The eminent entheogen

In Me, In the deep waters of my Womb, a new soul stirs,

Awakening, creating from dreams, hope, and the breath of eternity, 
the dream of my ancestors 

A promise unfurling in the quiet,

Waiting for the world’s first embrace.

Woven from chapters of writing, of loving, of being present of the deepest intimacy with the love of my life

The earth cradles you, waits for you and your flow into my arms in January 

My body swells like the moon—full, glowing,

Carrying whispers of stars yet to fall.

And we are here for it all,
excited and humbled and joyful 

Thank you Mairead Star seer, Creator, Shaman of the Camera 📸

Where reality merges with the unreal beauty of the Avonmore Late summer Circle still rippling magically, being heartfull...
28/08/2024

Where reality merges with the unreal beauty of the Avonmore 

Late summer Circle still rippling magically, being heartfully felt and resounding within our body, mind , psyche and souls.

 22 women circled in and were held by the ancient amhainn mhór river that runs right through the land at Avondale, held by the wisdom of old, changed by the river, the flowing in of the new and embraced, & loved by her ancestral remembrance and cellular touch.

Such a deep honour to witness Women, wild, free, sacred, unbinding ourselves from norms, restoring & self harmonising, breaking body borders and culture-creating in our relationship to home, earth, to each other and the Breath of the ones to come. 

As August draws to a close, we find ourselves slowly settling into a new rhythm, a new vibration in the Waters and land here. A time for ripe autumn berries, fulfilling that nostalgic feeling of change that comes on the crisper winds

We are tuning into the next Circle for Samhain, always a gathering like no other here at Avondale. 

Just DM your email or LiB to hear about the eclipses, our full sacred reality right now, how everything has unfolded and the upcoming Circle at Avondale.

Thank you to for feeding us such nourishing beautiful food

Deepest Gratitude to for capturing such sublime movements and truth unfolding brilliantly (many we simply won't share publicly but are in our private messages& heartank) 

And as always .maria.rose for the container we hold, the magic pouring from our souls, the nourishment and honouring of the female divine woman.

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