Descent in to Darkness

The Sun has just started to peak over the horizon on this beautiful Autumnal morning. The golden light floods the lands around me and glistens through the last remaining leaves on the big oaks trees who circle this land. There is a sweetness that hints on the edges of the morning breeze, with the top notes of overripe berries, of rose hips, of the last flowers of summer, of apples, all held by the undertones of the rich full bodied earth, shrouded in the beauty of dampness and decay.

It is like a perfume from natures wild apothecary, heralding the start of the descent into darker months…..

Each morning , for many years now, I have stood here at this edge place alongside Blackthorn and Hawthorn, and Rose and Nettle , with the Winged ones, the Small ones, the Ancestors of this land and all of my More that Human neighbours, and together each day, we have welcomed the rising of the Sun. This simple act of just being has allowed this beautiful awareness of each other to brew and deepen, demonstrated in our easiness and willingness to include each other in both our internal and external conversations. This daily ritual weaves their stories into my bones and mine into theirs, like a golden thread that runs through all of us, holding us together in a beautiful reciprocal community and a remembering of a time before, when we recognized how intrinsically our lives were in twinned. And although I have been gifted to work with some wonderful & brilliant human teachers , my greatest learning has come from those in the More than Human world, in those conversations on the edge places where we meet, every day and it is to these ones I give my deepest of gratitude for my own remembering too.

And so, it is on these edge places I find the magic and mystery bubbles, like invitations for the brave to step into. And this is brave work, brave because it pulls against all the western Ideology that we have been given, that is inherent in our cells and stings the witch wound that we all hold deeply inside. So we have to be brave to keep meeting ourselves on the edge places and remembering ourselves home.

For me this path is rooted in soul, in the darker places and I feel here, the need to hold out my sense of Soul and Spirit, for clarity - see how it settles in your bones and what places it calls to in you, if any:

Spirit - for me feels upwards, its ascending, its quick moving and separates us from our bodies, its the heights, the crystal clear peak experience, celestial angels and union, its the light. As a collective our spirits are connected and whilst this is such vital work, I know its not, in a sense , my work.

Soul - for me is downwards. Descending deep into the darkness, a place of where creation comes from. Soul feels slow moving, not a place for clarity, but a place of mystery and magic, a place of ‘ what could be’ if we stayed long enough in the fertile richness of this dark place. It is where our mythopoetic selves live, where our wildness lives, it where our animal self lives, its connected to the Anima Mundi . Soul work is the place that Western Culture keeps us from, its an edge place.

And so it is from this place that I was called to create the Soul Weaver Mentorship. To begin at the darkest , darkest point of the year, where the lands are held in a quiet hush and where the invitation is to journey inward and downward to find the the sparks of creation held deep in the fertile earth and inside you. Those sparks that can only be gathered in this stillness and where, if we look close enough, we will find the simmering cauldrons of our souls, like huge unexplored star maps inviting us in. Here, you can find the end of the golden threads that you can untangle and reweave back to who you were meant to be when you were plucked from the places between the stars and before our humanness got in your way.

Over this deep Soul nourishing 6 months I will be your guide, your navigator, as you journey through the star map of your soul, uncovering and opening doors and hatches, and unblocking tunnels that allow you to explore the deepest parts for you and you to hear the what your soul yearns for you to hear. Reweaving you back into the most exquisite tapestry of who you were meant to be when you were plucked for the space between the stars.

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Much Love

Louise xxx