First Snow

By |2026-03-18T19:50:40-04:00January 31st, 2026|Musings|

Forsythia and Maple Leaves   Welcome to the Cailleach, Goddess of the winter months. 🤍   The Cailleach, or the hag, has been feared and revered across Celtic cultures in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, for hundreds of years. Depicted as a veiled hag or an old crone, with one eye and deathly pale skin, she is said to have a bow-legged leaping gait, striding across mountains with a power to shape and ...

Season of the Yew

By |2026-03-18T19:23:57-04:00January 31st, 2026|Musings|

Now we have entered the season of the Yew tree - sentinel of death and the graveyard, rebirth and eternity.   English Yew Tree   This is likewise the Cailleach’s time. She brings us her wisdom as the old crone who presides over death. She is the storm, and the ancient creator of the land. She is the cold and the ice, the Queen of winter.     The yew and the Cailleach are part ...

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