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EARTH PRAYERS Wild Clay Celtic Wheel of the Year Paint Palette & Earth Pigments
“You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rainWhen it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stoneUntil its calmness can claim you.”
- John O'Donohue
 
This is the EARTH PRAYERS Wild Clay Celtic Wheel of the Year Paint Palette & Earth Pigment Set, from The heART of Ritual.
 
This set is created for those interested in talismanic art and ritual practices, land based art, wild organic colour, sustainable art, herbalism, sigil magic, art journaling and more. It is both a lovesong and an ode to home, this beautiful planet.
 
This listing is for one EARTH PRAYERS wild clay paint palette and set of eight earth pigments. The wild clay that was gathered for this ceramic paint palette was collected in the high Alps next to streams of glacial melt water. Each piece was shaped by hand, textured by a stone gathered in the stream, and the clay itself was not 'purified' of the tiny stones that occurred in it, they are still there and tell their own stories. Each palette is a one off, handmade and completely unique, as such, slight variations will occur in shape and colour. Each palette is finished with cordage made from reindeer rawhide that has been eco dyed with Oak tannins, so you can hang your palette as a piece of talismanic art between uses if you wish. As you can see from these pictures, the paint palette is large.
 
The EARTH PRAYERS wild clay paint palette comes with a set of eight earth pigments, one for each of the eight sacred festivals in the Celtic Wheel of the Year. Each earth pigment was gathered by hand and ground in a hand carved mortar and pestle made from Gneiss. This material roughly dates to about 1.6 billion years old and some of the Gneiss in that locality is over 3 billion years old, making it among the oldest rocks on earth (which is about 4.5 billion years itself). This gives a whole other dimension of contemplation when you consider O’Donohue speaking of stone as the tabernacle of memory. Each earth pigment comes to you in a recycled glass bottle with cork stopper, ritually sealed with local beeswax, and adorned with our botanical Celtic Wheel of the Year mandala.
 
A personal note on the price - I am aware that these are vastly underpriced, however it is important to me personally that this offering remain as financially accessible as possible to those who feel drawn to work with them. Doing so is my way of honouring this ancient art, and seeing YOU for the path you walk and the work you are practively doing. Too few people are engaged in this deep form of ritual work in these fast modern days, so I hope that this might encourage more to consider it.

EARTH PRAYERS Wild Clay Celtic Wheel of the Year Paint Palette & Earth Pigments

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  • My personal practice is to walk lightly, and this is reflected in all that I do, including what is available via this online shop (and in person). All offerings are made from seasonal, sustainably hand harvested local native plants, flowers, resins, our medicinal plant tinctures, extracts, our tree, flower, mushroom and crystal essences and much more. Absolutely every single ingredients is gathered by me, crafted by me, packed and shipped by me, nobody else touches them. This is something I am very 'strict' about, and for good reason too as it relates with energetic integrity and ritual creation. This is why I 'work' ritually, in silence, and alone at all times and at all stages in the process.

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Our Autumn 2025 shop opening took place from 6pm on September 7th until 6pm on September 14th
 All times are listed in CEST. Orders begin shipping from 22 September, fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis. Made-to-order pieces dispatch from 6 October onward, unless noted otherwise. All orders are shipped from Europe.

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WINTER 2025 COLLECTION: 

Full details of each season’s collection are shared exclusively through our seasonal newsletter. This missive carries the deeper ground of the season – its energies, themes, and archetypes. Shared only four times a year, it offers original long-form writings on the mythic, elemental, and archetypal ground of the season within Irish cosmology and the Celtic Wheel of the Year, along with the creative soil from which each collection emerges. Readers also receive early access and a members-only preview of these handcrafted, ephemeral offerings.

 

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SEASONAL OVERVIEW

Season • Winter

Element • Earth

Direction • North

Archetype • Elder Archetype

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS COLLECTION

Our Winter/Earth Element Collection arrives into the season of Samhain – that threshold between the last new moon of the dying Celtic year in October, astronomical Samhain, and the first new moon of the year to come in November. It is here that endings and beginnings lie folded together – a dreamtime of moons that leads us into the deepest dark – asking us to walk slowly, to walk in Earth time. 

 

This is not the hurried clock-time of the everyday. It is slow time – deep time – recorded in bedrock and fault-line, in layers pressed through clay and shale. As the earth keeps her history in stone and strata, so we carry memory in bone. The land is our larger body – marrow and mountain, clay and skin, each carrying memory. To enter this season is to enter those depths, to map again the contour lines of the inner ground, to feel where the body holds fractures, pressure, weight-bearing, release. The work is slow. The work is old. Stone remembers, and so do we. Our bodies are cairns of remembrance.

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Between Samhain and Solstice we are pilgrims moving through inner hollows and chambers of the soul. It is sanctuary time, a time of reverence and devotion, where prayer is not passive but visceral and embodied – where we kneel not before idols but within the tabernacle of our own being. The ember of light is entrusted to us here, and it must be guarded with care – fanned in trust, sheltered in hope, nourished with care, until it kindles to flame and warmth.

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Samhain is also the season of surrender. To grieve what has passed in the twelve months gone. To honour ancestors, yes, but also to lay down the burdens of the year, the losses and thresholds crossed, the shocks and griefs that linger. As leaves return to soil, so sorrow returns to earth, darkening into humus that feeds what will come. In the body, this work is felt in the earth element – in the musculoskeletal frame, in the gut’s deep work of breaking down and letting go. To release is to create space, and to hold is to become heavy. The earth teaches us this balance, for she both receives and yields in the same breath.

 

This is the annual pilgrimage to the soul’s inner shrine – beyond one life, beyond one line of ancestry. It is the thread that connects us with stone and to soil, with grandmother and grandfather, with all who came before and all who will come after. In this time-out-of-time we reweave ourselves into that thread, into the north, into the slow, enduring rhythm of earth itself. And from that ground – from a living tapestry of blood and bone and surrender – the Solstice light is born again. A flame at the heart of winter.

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REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION​

Focus for the Winter collection is the element of Earth, Embodied Ritual & Green Prayer, Illuminating the Dark & the Inner Hearth, Chakras of the Root, Knees/Elbows, Feet/Hands and Earth Star, Physical WellBEing, the Musculoskeletal System, the Digestive System & Intestinal Health, Death, Grief Processing & Trauma Composting, Vulnerability & Surrender, The Pilgrim & the Inner Journey, Protection, Connection & Roots, Hibernation & Radical Rest, Cultivating Sanctuary & Stillness, Conscious Nourishment & Nurturance, and of course, Earth Rituals for the Head, Heart and Hands.

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