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A selection of articles, poetry, prose, videos, and tutorials that journey the natural cycles, seasons, elements, and archetypes in Irish tradition, and the Celtic Wheel of the Year.

Is time your friend or master?

'We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.' - H.G. Wells....

Filaments of Connection - from the Macrocosm to Microcosm, and back

When it comes to mythology and ancient indigenous wisdom it is generally accepted that the stars, constellations, and the cosmos itself...

How can an Owl catch a Mouse underneath a foot of snow in total darkness?

Owls do have excellent vision, but one would need either infrared or x-ray vision to see a small mammal under snow. Instead, owls do much...

Ten Love Letters to the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh

In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an...

Spring, the Air Element, and the Silent Extinction of Words

Imbolc marks the first day of Spring in Ireland and the Celtic Wheel of the Year. The principal element of Spring is Air, and this...

Wintering, and how Trees illuminate the Art of Self-Renewal in difficult times

“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a...

The Complex Root Systems of Plants

Winter is the season of the earth element and earth, and it's hard to speak about earth without speaking about physical roots, our...

On Smoke, Mirrors, and Shadow Play

One of the interesting qualities of being human is, by the look of it, we’re the only part of creation that can actually refuse to be...

The Miracle that is the Earthly Vessel

The earth element/winter season relates with, amongst other themes, the physical body and your relationship with it. So as a little...

What can we learn from how Nature spends Winter?

Life's adaptations to the cold and dark part of the year demonstrate how time and patience, in the end, teach us how to survive....

Vision

If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it... then a long time...

Hibernation

It’s that time of year when the call of winter invites us to retreat here in the northern hemisphere. To rest deeply into the boundless...

Fear and the Earth Element within

Fear is one of the themes that destabilizes our root, the earth element within us. Here are a few powerful words to consider on fear, and...

The Magic of the Earth Element

The forest breathes, it lives, as one. Primordial, intricate, wild. Wild in it's impossible terrain, teeming with life; buzzing, dancing,...

The Cycle of Form and Formless

We are taken into winter, when the leaves are fallen from the trees and the branches are bare. Winter is this barrenness that belongs to...

The Long Night

The ‘Long Night’ feels true of our wider collective experience. Layers of underworlds. Journeys through grief, fear, loss and sickness...

Perspectives on Death and Dying

This months BIOPHILIA Mentorship focused on themes of death, funerals, grief composting and trauma amongst other earth element...

Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Everyday sort of Magic', by Charles de Lint

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic, the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and...

The Edge You Carry With You

You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you. You know so very well, your childhood legacy: that...

Find Your Biophonic Niche

You flicker from tree to tree, splaying your rump feathers, curling your toes around a maple branch, flushing green and flexible after...

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