Through this Sunday Session we will explore some folklore stories that interpret the Sidhe and the Sidhe Realm, that some people call the Fae Realm. We will explore how people feel and what they describe when they experience the presence of the Sidhe today, and their interpretations of this connection and experiences.We will also contemplate some m…

The merging of sidhe, water and tree folklore through SpringThrough this Sunday Session we will transition between the water folklore subjects of February, and the tree subjects of March, to include some of the sidhe and fae folklore of Spring before we move into the brighter April.We return to a reminder of the three pillars encouraged by Carrowcr…

A refreshed vision from the three enchantmentsResurrection means different things to different people. This Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions is hosted on the Christian Easter Sunday, a time of Christian belief of the body of Jesus becoming alive again after being dead and then ascending to heaven. With this Sunday Session I am considering what may be de…

An hour or so exploring some of the practical, engaging, wholesome, and personally therapeutic activities we can do within and around trees.Subjects covered will include creating a passion for woodlands, forest education available for anyone, carbon dioxide reduction and increasing replacement oxygen with trees, a re-visit to creating your own tree…

Access to an essential space for nature, and the great spirit connectionThis is a Sunday Session about uncomplicated and easy tree and nature connection that most of us should be able to do for precious sanctuary.I applaud the people who have taken over stewardship of land and dedicated it to the purpose of expanding woodland cover ... but for this…

'Tis the season that most people may be planting treesThe tree planting season is traditionally Samhain to Imbolc, early November to early February, in the Northern Hemisphere. This is known as the 'dormant season' during the tree cycle. But, us humans are usually last minute with things, and the bulk of the seasonal tree planted gets done late Feb…

Exploring our forgotten connections to ancient arboreal founded languagesOne thing you will notice with Ogham symbols, if you try to draw them, the immediate difference to our English scribing, that unfolds our thoughts from left to right, is that Ogham is written and read from the ground up. Its like starting from the roots and climbing up the tru…

Dowsing is divination employed to locate underground ground water, our main topic during this session, but also dowsing tools used to locate and understand earth vibrations in specific spaces. Other uses will probably be talked about too.We will look at various dowsing tools from Y shaped twigs to swinging metal rods, adapted metal coat hangers, an…

... especially the water serpents of Ireland in almost every riverNot exactly a Valentine's Day subject, or is it? Serpents are strongly related to fertility, both the fire and water kind. But maybe they are not romantic, yet sometimes romanticised in story.Chinese New Year is on 12th February this year, also celebrated across the Indo-Chinese coun…

Celebrating the earth womb, water bearers, and births of spring. This Sunday Sessions focuses on the goddess traditions that are said to have inspired the life, crafts and teachings of Brighid of the Eternal Flame. Many people interpret this as the Earth Goddess called Bhride, Bride, Brighid, and other similar names. During this Sunday Sessions we …

Flame, hearth, oaks & Brighid's journey to Cill Dara. During the modern setting of the Gregorian Calender Brighid's Eve & Day, 31st January & 1st February, thoughts, prayers, intentions, ceremony, ritual, and storytelling focuses both on St. Brighid of Kildare and Bride the Goddess that inspired Brighid's name. Here at Sunday Sessions we are dedica…

My first connection with Ogham symbols was during the 50s before I was a teen, and as a 60s teen dabbled with Ogham Divination as a 'toy. It was not until I met my stone mason boss on Iona, Attie McKechnie, during the 70s, that I learned a deeper story of the Ogham language and have been passionate about it since.Attie was a mason's apprentice duri…

Labyrinths have been created and used by humans for, it seems, at least 15,000 years. Ever since humans learned the craft of converting calibrations into maths and geometry. This seems to have a Babylonian origin. But why were humans motivated to create them?During this Sunday Session we will explore the wonder of these ancient labyrinths. This inc…

Divination seems to be our attempts to gain clearer insight to the pathways created by our questions. A kind of trying to find 'the spoilers' to display where our life's story is going. Some diviners may say this 'craft' is actually our wise mapping out of our story unravelling.We usually use Divination as a tool for problem solving and decision ma…

Thank you for your support of Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions that went online March 2020 due to the current Coronavirus prevention practices. Our Sunday Sessions transferred to live streaming format until this virus faded away.I have decided that Carrowcrory Sunday Sessions will still continue at 2pm, Irish time every Sunday, even when the Covid fades…

Through my personal experiences of first footing for several years on a Scottish island and Wassailing apple trees in Somerset and Ireland I notice similarities. There is a common bonding of wonderful and essential personal affirmations blended with simple connecting fellowship with our community of family and neighbours, even during Covid times. T…

From a local tale of the mating of the Cailleach conceiving the new light to be birthed in Spring, to reverence for the Tree Of Life, and the slow burning of the Yule Log. The joy of the Green we bring into out homes to remind us of life and the green of Spring will soon be with usOur celebration of Yule with stories of the changing wheel of the ye…

Through December, and Christmas, we put up the Christmas decorations, buy a tree, or get out the artificial tree from the attic or shed, and decorate that too. We do our Christmas shopping for food treats, and items to give as gifts to people. Much of this tradition that we do every December seems to be of habits and routine, We feel an obligation …

One of five Ogham subject sessions I now host each year, and perhaps divination with Ogham is the most popular and most mysterious, because there are no defined scripted ancient archives. All we have is a combination of speculation of ancient ways from fragments passed down combined with modern divination and oracle methods that bring in the ogham …

There is a fourth time of celebration of Samhain, but barely observed now, and that was when Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, an open star cluster in the north-west of the constellation Taurus, rises in the bright night sky of November. 1000s of years ago, this used to be close to the sidereal cross quarter point of Samhain, in this north…

Harp lessons are generally about how to play tunes on a harp. This session is about how a 'novice'. anybody really, can obtain a harp and use it to accompany poems, songs, imagination in general. This is about learning to feel the harp, sense the harp, and not technically play it. Should be of interest to anyone interested in harps from absolute be…

The old flame dowsed, and the new flame lit, so at least winter will be warm. How does this transition feel to you?Overall, this Sunday Session will tune in to how we revere ancestors, how we cross the veils, and how we settle debt, anger, revenge, grudges, and move into better feeling freedom.This Sunday Session will continue what we did not cover…

How and where did the celebrations of Samhain, and later Halloween, originate?Overall, this Sunday Session will tune in to the whole root of this time, the celebration of harvest gathered, the sharing, and the preparing for quiet weaving winter time through winter into Imbolc and the spring awakening. This Sunday Session will explore how we 'play' …

Thoughts of Crows, Ravens, and Corvids can stir up a dirty, and even scary reputation. They are certainly topical of the end of October time of year. This Sunday session explores the regeneration symbolism, wisdom symbolism, team instincts of crows, and the free solo instinct of ravens. Also the reflection of these through the changing tide of wint…

I love exploring the folklore of dragons and serpents. They are certainly not satanic worship but a beautiful imagery of the seasonal cycles of life. Through this Sunday Sessions we present the nature based folklore of the 'fire serpents' though one of two human quest myth stories filter through too. These stories that arise from the annual cycle o…

Guidance through ideas for tapping into fluid inspiration channels translated into a personal journal. This journal is then valuable content for later poems, stories, blogs, writing songs, personal card messages to people, storytelling, script writing, screenplays, and great ideas for living a colourful, adventurous, and happy life.--- Send in a vo…

Starting with Airmid and the stories of deeds of her remarkable ancient Tuatha De Dannan healing, we flow through the folklore legend of her collection of 365 herb plants on her cloak. From the dramatic story event of Airmid's cloak into the quest of discovery and practice of plant based healing and therapy since those ancient days, we explore wher…

Ogham is very popular at Sunday Sessions. With this session, I explore the ancient, and not so ancient, Ogham, stones. These being the stones carved with Ogham alphabet symbols. I explore how a Tree Language evolved into being carved onto stones, including possible origins, and changes of purpose and meaning over the centuries. From divination to i…

I am passionate about Apple folklore, possibly most of all. I find the bite into a fresh crispy apple is always enchanting and sets of the imagination. In this sessions the Avalon folklore gets a look in too, and an introduction to wassailing which will not be far away from this time, in some places.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s…

A time and opportunity to recap on where we are with our Tree Sanctuaries and Tree Sanctuary ideas. This is a time when trees are truly turning colour around us in many places where we live. It is also a time we start to think about and plan our next tree planting season between November and March.This is also a follow up to our March 'Us And Trees…

A casual interactive online session. Presentations and discussions about the food harvests from a few gardens, and tips about how we are storing, preserving, drying, and what we are looking forward to from now until next Spring when we start again..--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message…

A herb session without herb books. A quest to learn a bit from herb plants through your senses, and past uses memories. An experience of wonder, trust, discovery and confidence about some of the plants that may already surround you.You will not need to know their names of the herbs but allow senses to discover how they can benefit you and how to ha…

Informal poetry sharing online gathering for Heritage Week in Ireland. Poems submitted and performed about ancient sites, traditions. and folklore, from around Ireland--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

Applying folklore to explore deep passions that inspire our poetry, writing, music, crafts, dancing, and drama.Folklore stories of Aislings arousing passion in men, and Green Man variations arousing passion in women. Both have been the dynamic inspiration of profound writing, art, crafts, and dramatic lives--- Send in a voice message: https://podca…

Beyond Lughnasadh traditions and onto focus on our own first harvests, fresh local produce in the markets, farm shops, and local shops. Focus on our gratitude moments of sensory attention and celebration for the magic of growing and what this year's harvest has provided for us.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/car…

Combining Lughnasadh Traditions with a live small Country Fair market at Ballagh Farm Shop. Trading on Lunasa Holiday weekend is a major tradition of this time, Lammas Fair. This year social distancing and masks included, but still recorded interviews--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message…

featuring bilberries, bilberry bushes romance, garlands, tying the knot, chopping off golden heads, first harvest loaf, first harvest ale, first harvest spuds, dog shows, baby shows, Lammas Fair, Crom Dubh, Crom Cruach, Mag Slécht, deeds of Lugh, and people showing off their prowess through sports and chopping down more trees to make more fields, t…

With this session I cover the Ogham references in the ancient Book Of Ballymote and tales of Bards related to the Ogham both from the Scriptoreum of Ballymote and the Tuatha De Dannan tales of Corran, or Coarran the Bard of Dean Cecht. I also share suggestions of how these stories can assist our imagination, creativity and project outcomes today.Th…

I love exploring the folklore of dragons and serpents. They are certainly not satanic worship but a beautiful imagery of the seasonal cycles of life.The stories that arise from the annual life cycle and spiral fill us with wonder and a whole spectrum of emotions. There are several serpent and dragon stories around where we live.Enjoy ideas for unco…

A follow up to our March 'Us And Trees' Session. Going into more depth with what you interpret a Tree Sanctuary is, and how to become a living part of it. Presented also are the eco benefits and the personal Green Prescription health benefits. How it’s a way to Grow Your Own Oxygen too.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…

On the 'menu' are ...The Student, poem by Chandler NicholsWolf Moon, poem by Fergus HoganNature Revisited, poem by Fergus Hogan'Enchanted by Sunset', painting by Val Robus, poem by Woodland BardSharing our heart voice ...Anyone can create and perform wonderful inspired poetry, despite many fears about not being able to. Part of this session include…

On the 'menu' are ...St. John & water blessingsHerbs for this timeBonfire traditionsFeasting at Midsummerand some Bardic banter before and after--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

Sound baths are usually full of beautiful gongs and gigantic crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, and various instruments collected from world music shops.In this sessions we cover ancient origins, myths, and lore of sound enchantment and therapy. An introduction to use of enchanting healing instruments, We complete this with the bathing in the emb…

Discussing our garden sanctuaries that are very much in Bloom now. Or where to go if you do not have a flower garden. Ireland's Bloom Festival was cancelled this year, but we can still enjoy a bloom feast in various ways to serve us with sanctuary, smiles and happy inspirations.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ca…

A close alternative to a 'hero's journey' mindfulness session, as this is not really about heroes but breaking free and trusting life.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

I introduce some of the goddess, sidhe. and fairy folklore of sacred wells, loughs, rivers, sea, and clouds, and a little introduction to the Water Divination, Also Trees In Water Folklore, and Dowsing sessions--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

During Biodiversity week I am inviting ideas for exploring and improving biodiversity in the landscapes we are keeper and stewards of. Suggestions of what to look for and what we may manage to attract more life.Included is .how we may be tuned into our local biodiversity through more tolerance, perhaps less order, and additional joy from small thin…

This session features the origins of fairy stories, a couple of fairy stories connected to traditions of May focused within and around the Hawthorn Tree--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

Bealtaine folklore, including the story of Yellow Flowers, Posies and Knots, and a couple of stories behind the May Bush tradition.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carrowcrory/message

Food Sovereignty, is a movement of believing that people who produce, distribute, and consume food should control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution. It is promoting the rights of people to define their own local food and agriculture systems that are "culturally appropriate" to where they live.Will this replace our depe…