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Discovering The Sidhe - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 15
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 • Duration 01:18:20
Through this Sunday Session we will explore some folklore stories that interpret the Sidhe and the Sidhe Realm, that some people call the Fae Realm.
We will explore how people feel and what they describe when they experience the presence of the Sidhe today, and their interpretations of this connection and experiences.
We will also contemplate some mindfulness practices that connect people to what they may vision as Sidhe presence and mentoring, and even divination.
Later in the show also continuing a bit about the three enchanting strains of the bard, from last week, plus a presentation and interview with Irish harp maker craftsman Brian Callan.
Trees In Water Folklore - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 14
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 • Duration 01:24:24
The merging of sidhe, water and tree folklore through Spring
Through this Sunday Session we will transition between the water folklore subjects of February, and the tree subjects of March, to include some of the sidhe and fae folklore of Spring before we move into the brighter April.
We return to a reminder of the three pillars encouraged by Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions, these being
1) Create and use an outdoor tree sanctuary, preferably with trees.
2) Contemplate and be inspired through nature based folklore that is mainly focused on weather, water, tree, and sidhe folklore
3) Flow these inspirations through your poetry, writing, music, art, craft and problem solving.
Our live guest will be Saraí Humble of 'All Is Well' and hopefully Seamus a programmer of the 'Fairy Council Of Ireland' online hub site.
With these inspiring live guests we will talk about the branches of the Fairy Council Tree ...
Crainn ... the woodlands and expanding forest cover
Uisce ... water care, and especially preserving sacred holy wells
Tallamh ... the whole landscape cover and it's biodiversity
Imbas ... channelling our inspirations through our arts and crafts
Eolas Ársa ... our wisdom from expression of inspiration and ancient knowledge from the sidhe, fae world, earth spirits, spirit guides, whatever we could our source.
And there will be a questions and response session too.
Brighid Tales & Traditions - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 5
Monday, February 15, 2021 • Duration 01:39:48
Flame, hearth, oaks & Brighid's journey to Cill Dara. During the modern setting of the Gregorian Calender Brighid's Eve & Day, 31st January & 1st February, thoughts, prayers, intentions, ceremony, ritual, and storytelling focuses both on St. Brighid of Kildare and Bride the Goddess that inspired Brighid's name.
Here at Sunday Sessions we are dedicating two online Sunday Sessions to the Bride-Brighid-Imbolc traditions and stories.
With this first one, on 31st January, our focus is on St. Brighid ,founder of the Cille Dara monastery and culture, her life that guided her there, her trinity of her skills of healing, smithing, and poetry, traditions of oak, flame, and hearth associated with her, and a wee bit on her cows and milk. Of course a bit on Brighid Crosses and Brideog Dolls too.
We will touch on her springs, wells, water bearing and births ... but really those topics will be held for the following Sunday Sessions of Imbolc Traditions on 7th February.
Ogham, The Iona Scribes Story - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 4
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 • Duration 01:17:20
My first connection with Ogham symbols was during the 50s before I was a teen, and as a 60s teen dabbled with Ogham Divination as a 'toy. It was not until I met my stone mason boss on Iona, Attie McKechnie, during the 70s, that I learned a deeper story of the Ogham language and have been passionate about it since.
Attie was a mason's apprentice during the 1930s when Iona Abbey was being restored. He was a very fluent Gàidhlig speaker and extremely passionate about the language and it's origins. Attie aslo had a huge passionate interest in the way early medieval scribes used and change the old Scottish language. Through him I learned the tree language connections and how that found a system of scribing. Quite amazing for me to connect to Ogham on a Scottish Pilgrimage island hosting a few hawthorn trees, small hazel trees, and a few imported beech trees.
During this Sunday Session I will tell my version of the Ghaels bringing their tree language to land to be called Eara Ghael, Argyll, and what happened when they met the farming Picts and their rune style blade cut stone and wood symbols. How the two tribes forged a language so they could speak to each other.
Then how the early medieval scribes attempted to unravel this in a linear way that has preserved some of the roots of this communication, the Gàidhlig, still among some people today.
We will explore how we can actually return to some of the pre-scribed oral tree language as a guide for living a more inspired, fulfilled and better interpreted life today.
Labyrinths & Labyrinthing - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 3
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 • Duration 01:23:56
Labyrinths have been created and used by humans for, it seems, at least 15,000 years. Ever since humans learned the craft of converting calibrations into maths and geometry. This seems to have a Babylonian origin. But why were humans motivated to create them?
During this Sunday Session we will explore the wonder of these ancient labyrinths. This includes exploring the symbolism of the best known labyrinth, with the Minotaur in Knossos, Crete. Also included will be the origin of the Labyrinth names, which is something very different to those spiral of circles. I will also question why water and milk pouring on small stone labyrinths became tradition.
Of course, I will introduce you to our Labyrinth Gardens here at Carrowcrory, how labyrinths are used for inspiration, motivation, divinity connection, storytelling, mindfulness, and mental health therapy today.
Also some discussion about our intrusion of this human calibrated geometry onto landscapes, and even dare to call it 'sacred'. So, how can Labyrinths function as part of the whole of nature?
Divination - Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 2
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 • Duration 01:13:12
Divination seems to be our attempts to gain clearer insight to the pathways created by our questions. A kind of trying to find 'the spoilers' to display where our life's story is going. Some diviners may say this 'craft' is actually our wise mapping out of our story unravelling.
We usually use Divination as a tool for problem solving and decision making. It seems to be a popular thing many of us do through January alongside our dieting, operation transformations, habit controlling, getting our second garden seed order in, and assessing our garden and DIY tools.
So through this Sunday Session we will explore some stories of oracles and seers, omens and geomancy, astrology and tarot, throwing sticks, cards and dice to see how they land and what they inspire. I will question the transition between divination and gambling, when divination of questions become active games of chance.
My own fascinations are with astrology and hydromancy, so I may focus on the 'hydromancy' divination with water the most, during this session.
Please join in and share your thoughts and your practices of Divination, such as dreams interpretation.
Introduction To Sunday Sessions 2021
Season 2 · Episode 1
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 • Duration 01:12:14
Thank you for your support of Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions that went online March 2020 due to the current Coronavirus prevention practices. Our Sunday Sessions transferred to live streaming format until this virus faded away.
I have decided that Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions will still continue at 2pm, Irish time every Sunday, even when the Covid fades away and we can resume having visitors here at Carrowcrory on Sundays.
During today's Sunday Sessions, we will continue Apple Tree |Wassailing blessings, and other tree blessings for this time just before the new tree saps start to rise.
We will consider Epiphany way beyond the Christian setting of it. I also intend to include a live panel discussing affirmations for this time. Do volunteer to be a live guest for this, message me through the contact link.
I will also share an evolving changing and more sharing approach to Sunday Sessions this year now that the content from the 2020 Sunday Sessions is heading into my 'Sidhe, Water & Folklore Course' now developing for our Patreon subscribers to access.
First Footing & Wassailing into 2021 - Sunday Sessions 2020
Season 1 · Episode 40
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 • Duration 01:13:28
Through my personal experiences of first footing for several years on a Scottish island and Wassailing apple trees in Somerset and Ireland I notice similarities. There is a common bonding of wonderful and essential personal affirmations blended with simple connecting fellowship with our community of family and neighbours, even during Covid times. There is also a lovely slow down and re-connect with where we live, the landscape around us, and how it all provides for us, if we respect it.
First Footin', a heart warming simple traditions of calling on local family and neighbours, and sharing local whisky, or tea, slices of black bun, a sort of rich fruit cake in pastry, and a bowl of soup or stew. Wassailing, a joyful shared blessing of our elder apple trees in three parts, blessing the roots, blessing the tree, and blessing each other who are served by the harvest from the trees.
The common link is the social fellowships that both traditions draw us into with the banter of gossip and stories, thoughts for those passed on, joy for the living and their affirmations, and sharing our hopes, dreams and toasts to good health. We can adapt that to our Covid times.
Join us and celebrate with this, our last, and more casual, Sunday Session of 2020.
Yule Log Tales - Sunday Sessions 2020
Season 1 · Episode 39
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 • Duration 01:12:52
From a local tale of the mating of the Cailleach conceiving the new light to be birthed in Spring, to reverence for the Tree Of Life, and the slow burning of the Yule Log. The joy of the Green we bring into out homes to remind us of life and the green of Spring will soon be with us
Our celebration of Yule with stories of the changing wheel of the year, the fallen rising again, plus some fun tasty traditional recipes for this time, especially with ginger which was once only allowed in bread, by law, at this time.
Join us to share in the joy of this time.
December Traditions - Sunday Sessions 2020
Season 1 · Episode 38
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 • Duration 01:26:48
Through December, and Christmas, we put up the Christmas decorations, buy a tree, or get out the artificial tree from the attic or shed, and decorate that too. We do our Christmas shopping for food treats, and items to give as gifts to people. Much of this tradition that we do every December seems to be of habits and routine, We feel an obligation to do all of this, despite not being able to afford it and maxing out our credit to make all of this 'fun' happen.
So, during this Sunday Sessions we visit a few nature based and human fellowship traditions, of December, that we may have forgotten, never heard of, or we celebrate today in ways that seem to be very disconnected from their origins.
Through this Sunday Session I will include trees for celebration, tree blessings such as fruit tree 'wassailing', songs from ancient times that we have adapted today, and folk drama fun and healing rituals that have become mumming, guising, straw boys and wren boys these days.
Enjoy the mysteries of ancient December Traditions and how you may perform them today. In return, perhaps enjoy more meaning and blessings than from the familiar consumer ways.