This is a selection of hand crafted paper that I have made from wild native medicinal plants for water rituals. Those of you that follow my work for a while may remember seeing photos of plant fibers I was gathering for this purpose last year. This here is the result!
Each set contains
- wild Rose paper
- Woad paper
- Dandelion paper
- Daisy paper
- Bracken paper
- Yarrow paper
- French Marigold paper
- a set of ecoprinted notelets (see below)
- a Nettle paper pouch
Each collection of wild native medicinal plant paper comes with a set of ecoprinted cards, and both are wrapped in a heavily textured and durable hand crafted nettle paper pouch that is adorned with pink Yarrow and Mugwort, and ritually sealed with wax. These are hand crafted paper pages with raw edges.
There are many many ways that one can approach working with these, it depends on your personal prayer expression really so I am reluctant to spoon feed ritual suggestions. What I can do is share a little insight into one of the way I found myself working with them since I finished making them in April!
To explain my concept for this I will offer the following scenario:
Imagine feeling betrayed, hurt, wounded, and/or emotionally/physically abused by your mother. Note that all these aspects relate with womb/moon/water element/inherited trauma/fluid bodies and emotional wellbeing - all themes of Autumn/Water season.
Imagine now that you have chewed through this story and come out the other side, past the reactive emotional triggers and into a healthier and more balanced place of response. In this case, a ritual response, a ceremony in fluid communication - writing a letter of grace and forgiveness (to yourself and/or your mother) on a sheet of paper made from Wild Rose!Oh the Rose, grace filled queen of the heart, teacher of forgiveness, thorn medicine, healthy boundaries, and the one who assists us to move stagnant and/or stuck energy in and around the heart so that hurt can heal.
Perhaps you're working on themes relating with supressed anger, are finding it challenging to access anger, or finding it difficult to get past the deep sense of betrayal - then the Dandelion flower paper is the colleague to work with for this fluid prayer.
Perhaps you have just finished journeying through the above processes, unravelled your birth story to the point of no-birth', and are ready to birth yourself completely new - then the Daisy blossom paper would be the plant fiber birth doula to witness your process.
This is just a few small examples on what I am talking about where ritual potential is concerned, it's always in the details.
I decided to make these botanical ecoprinted cards to go with the plant paper, for affirmations and/intention setting. They are adorned with a pressed Speedwell blossom. The set of both medicinal plant paper and cards is held in a beautifully textured nettle fiber pouch, ritually sealed with Selenite, Pink Yarrow, Mugwort, and a Dandelion paper label.
I have been working with the Rose and Dandelion (paper) mostly over the summer, and there are so many ways of incorporating these into rituals, in both profound and potent ways, beyond the traditional methods of journaling or writing. This is something I certainly plan on incorporating more into group work and personal healing. I look forward to exploring the journey and observing what unfolds with this set of ritual colleagues.
Just eight of these hand crafted wild native medicinal plant ritual paper sets will be offered as part of the Autumn Water collection.
OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED, BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU AGAIN SHORTLY.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
