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'Willow Dawn' Ritual Rattle (for New Beginnings)
This is the 'Willow Dawn' Ritual Rattle, from The heART of Ritual. 
 
This ritual colleague was created during the hour and day of Venus, overseen by the Morning Star (Venus) during the Alpine sunrise in Spring (Air element season). This rattle is absolutely luminous!
 
Willow is the Celtic tree that holds space for us over Imbolc, and a wonderful colleague to support us through transitions and change of all kinds so that we may birth ourselves into the new. It is a potent tree to work with when releasing stagnant grief (and communicating/finding language for grief) and holds space for our growth and emotional healing.
 
The ethically sourced reindeer rawhide rattlehead was ecodyed with garden prunings from the Willow that we share space with here in our garden last Spring, and the shades that developed on the rawhide truly are the colour of the dawning of a new day! Full details on these rattles can be seen in the additional information sections.
 
 
ABOUT RITUAL RATTLES
Rattles are ceremonial colleagues that are worked with to purify, cleanse and transform an individual, group energy, or place. They are also wonderful to use to energize or invigorate if a person is feeling sluggish or a space is stagnant. This is their transformative work as traditional healing tools.
 
What resonates with you, how you choose to uniquely work with these ritual tools, your experience, and the direction this takes is entirely up to you. It is your intimate expression of prayer and reflects your unique ceremonial intention.
 
 
IT'S IN THE DETAILS
See the additional info sections (to the right) for insights into the elements contained within each ritual rattle, why they were chosen, and how these prayer tools came to be.

'Willow Dawn' Ritual Rattle (for New Beginnings)

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  • The rattle head is lovingly crafted from upcycled reindeer rawhide. Deer medicine being one of my most revered to work with of all northerly medicines (earth element), for it speaks (with me) of the magical and mystical realms, ancestral connection, and guides me like Polaris on my soul path.

    Note that these rattles contain a balanced reference to both the masculine and feminine guiding stars in our sky - the northern star of Polaris, and the morning star of Venus.

    The rattleheads have been sewn together with plant fiber cordage made from mugwort, wild nettle, and rose. The space between the rattlehead and handle has also been wrapped with these plant fibers and adorned with a fossilized water lily stalk which Irish legends refer to as 'Fairy Money'. Fairies are winged creatures of the sky, and Air Elementals. I like the idea of this element making a playful nod by way of alms to the winged folk so that safe passage through new beginnings is assured.

     

    Without getting too energetically prescriptive, fossils are deeply grounding, relate with the lower chakras (root chakra and below), and the geometry and symbolism of the pentagram is a matter of perspective depending on your spiritual path. For me, the pentagram represents all five elements of BEing and it also represents the orbit of Venus around the Earth every eight years.

     

    I also like the fact that these pentagram shaped fossils are sections from a water lily stalk - the water lily is a wonderful reminder of the depths of BEing and how we can blossom and thrive when we move beyond victimhood and consciously choose to flourish (and embody the survivor).

     

    The rattle handle is Willow driftwood that I found along the banks of the river where we live.

  • I purposefully choose to work with Willow for this collection. Willow is ruled by the Moon (and water) and the Willow used for these handles is river driftwood gathered along the waters edge at a place that we affectionately call ‘Happy Place’. Willow is also the Celtic Tree of Imbolc, the time that this collection is being released.

     

    Those who are familiar with my ritual rattles already know that I purposefully ensure the holes in the seams of the rattleheads leave enough space for the wildflower seeds and any other small medicines to be shared into the space you are using the rattle in - in practical terms this means that while using your rattle outside as a personal healing colleague, the very use of the rattle and the motion of shaking it means you disperse the wildflower seeds into your surroundings. My hope here is that the seeds take root and grow, so that the pollinators can be gifted food and contribute to the recovery of the ecosystem. As such, as much as the rattles I make are personal healing tools, they also support the land. As within, so throughout, in every way. Always.

     

    Each of these rattles is ritually anointed with a special balm made with wild rose, mugwort and yarrow, which not alone blesses each rattle, but also conditions the raw hide and leaves a beautifully fragrant finish.

     

    These rattles most certainly are a divine union of masculine and feminine polarities which in itself, promotes and enhances the state of high heart harmony. These ritual tools contain all five elements of BEing and all seven directions, gifting you a complete and dynamic experience. They are functional art and ritual moon magic in one.

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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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