“Fire! Fire!” Is all they seem to say. Traversing across Northern Lands, in search of dark on the longest summer days - and the warm nourishment of food … to ignite, to breed, to create …

One continuous Fire - reigniting the Heart each time I moved it, only to move it again. I started at 6pm - when the Sun was still high, hot and bright, which the Fire mirrored - worked through the brief darkness until the first light started to stretch across the North East horizon about 2.30 am, when I started the return to the Centre.

To find the purpose a distillation of the Pearl needs to occur, allowing those particles to be decoded into a knowing through the waters of consciousness. And with that a growing clarity as the Rainbow Fire is drawn within so as to find it’s own source from there - which is where the Opal holds this inner Rainbow Fire.

She grows out of damp soils where Water and Earth merge, representing the embodied consciousness of the shift from Maiden to Mother. 

Bright and quick they fly so close by me I can hear and feel their wing muscles manoeuvring their flight, as they brush past.

Their brilliant bright song fills the heart with it’s sweetness. 

Eating and drinking what the land offers is more than nurturing our bodies, we develop an intimacy with the Earths body, an innate awareness of seasonal flow, the tender miracle and determination of life, how it is sustained and meets it’s needs within an eternal dance of evolving relationship.

… March into April 2026

Over the past few weeks the elementals have been handing over pockets of land and guiding me what to plant in each, as well as glimpses of next years projects already - which means it’s taking some level of self control to not rush in and complete this years projects first!

It feels curious to me that after the year of Snake, which was often referred to as releasing old layers - removing external structures - that this then enables the expansion of the year of the Horse - more room to grow … which loosens what is more deeply buried within to rise up and be seen, witnessed and dissolved.

About this time last year it was Goldfinch who would meet me in the White Willow each day and her message was Self-Love and so I asked Blue Tit, do you have a message for us? Here is his reply …

It’s mid-April and it’s something of a relief to know that throughout all the storm winds, rain, sleet and snow - that nest have been built, eggs laid and the young are hatching …

And so though some have concerns about those trying to access the 10th Stargate, let me reassure you, they are too late. the work has already been done.

Being online creates a very different experience, one that is not being limited by place and distance. By it’s nature it curates a more immediately independent relationship with the natural world - one for your own contemplation, discovery and sense of food and natural resource sovereignty. As well as increasing and building bridges of understanding ethical, reciprocal relationship and consideration of the sentience of nature.

From Christmas Eve to the 6th January I spent time in gentle retreat and contemplation - gentle in the way that I didn’t fully remove myself from the outside world. In many ways this is no different from how I usually live, other than my intention.

Gentleness wields a potency that is more pervasive than force

… the image I received was similar to that of the Will o’ the Wisp - a being filled with curiosity … and we have started conversing.

And so represents the hollowing woman - the one who is becoming free of conditioned beliefs and expectations.

We will explore the pulsing weave, the rich tapestry, of Maiden, Mother, Crone. Through the many layering threads of our personal weave, our ancestral weave and the great Cosmic one.

Here we are really focusing on our Inner Elder, so they can become a healthy ancestor for our Inner Child.

Chestnut is strong, straight and true - a resilient master of self, solid standing, protective of his core values. Together they weave prosperity - one that flows from the wisdom of a full heart.

The more I become absorbed in writing this the more species are showing me their protective qualities … Gorse with the power of a coiled snake, Rowan deeply rooted within the feminine power, Hawthorn emboldening the power of the Heart, Nettles restorative warmth, Hollys ability to hold thunder and so many fungi are talking to me about theirs … and I am starting to be initiated into the knowledge of the protective qualities of nurturance that plants and animals carry to care for what is precious.

What a beautiful message to receive as the days move deeper into the darkness of the Feminine principle.