Honouring the Bones

My sister,
I honour your bones.
I cradle your bones,
As we are cradled in the palm of the Great Mother

I honour your stories.
I honour the stories you hold in your bones.
The stories of life and death and birth and grief and living.

I see you.
I see the strength,
The strength and love and courage in your bones.
I see you sister, daughter, mother, grandmother.
I see the ancestors.
I see them walking in your bones.

My sister,
I love you.
I love and honour you.
I love and honour the bones of you.
As I hold and honour you,
So do you honour me.



I offer a ceremony of 'Closing the Bones' as part of my healing practice for women.  These words arose from deep within as I contemplated this work.

The sculpture in the image is 'Cradle Woman' by Ember Vincent (www.embervincent.co.uk)

New Year, New Dreams

As the new year takes root and my baby boy turns a month old I am starting to think about what I want my work to look like for the next twelve months or so.  I seemed to spend a lot of 2013 working really hard and being ridiculously busy, but not actually achieving very much, so I decided that this year I needed to dream my way into a new way of living and working, not least because I have a very small person to take care of too!

The problem is its not a simple dream, I am a crazy, creative ideas person.  I have more ideas floating around at one time than anybody could manage in a single lifetime, I have an ideas book that is bursting at the margins!

I've slowly realised that my path is changing, after many years of being very focused on pregnancy and birth, I am finding myself drawn to working with women in wider context.  Using creativity and connection to the divine feminine, I want to help women to live, to heal and become their fullest selves.

So for 2014 I am bringing Wild Magpie into being.  My offering of healing work and celebration of all things feminine.  I hope some of you will join me on this journey.

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