About
Stewards of the Flame is a self-paced body of work for those drawn to the sacred art of care—those who tend quietly, faithfully, and often without recognition. It explores the archetype of the Nurturer (summer/fire element) not as a gendered role or biological function, but as a way of being in deep relationship with life. Rooted in Irish cosmology, ancestral memory, elemental wisdom, and depth psychology, this work reclaims tending as an act of power, presence, and cultural continuity. Across nine mythopoetic chapters, Stewards of the Flame invites you to meet the many expressions of the Nurturer: the one who mothers without children, who parents themselves, who fathers the community, who midwifes grief and honours elders, who tends the land, the classroom, the sickbed, the story, the soul. You’ll be invited into teachings, rituals, reflection prompts, and embodied practices that speak not to idealism or perfection, but to intimacy, integrity, and choice. This work honours all who care—therapists, teachers, artists, carers, kin-keepers, and those whose offerings are invisible but vital. It is a remembering of care as sacred labour and cultural medicine. Because in a time of collapse, to tend is to resist disappearance. To choose reverent attention is to keep the flame alive. This offering is part of a living body of original work rooted in the oral traditions and ancestral rhythms of the Irish land. Written and spoken from within—not about—this culture, it reclaims the Nurturer archetype from distortion and martyrdom, returning to the fierce, steady flame of true care. This is a hearth-lit journey of over 30,000 words of ritual, reflection, myth and depth-psychological insight, drawn from decades of work in rites of passage, Irish cosmology, and elemental practice. It is not borrowed or stylised—it is lived, embodied, and inherited.