Samhain: Prompts for Entering the Dark Cycle

Samhain: A time of threshold, of engaging in the mystery. A time of trickster, liminal time, the gossamer, the numinous, the veiled light, the 'all that's seen may not be all'. This passing over into the new Celtic Year signals the entering into the dark unknown, into the falling of leaf then the fallow of leaf, into the time of invitation to the underworld, the subterranean, the submerged.

Tonight, as masked figures and caped beings knock on the doors, as flames rise from the bonfires, as ghouls and shadow seep, we are called into 'thin time', where ancientness and ancestors bring questions of how to connect with and reclaim the old ways, to renew and revitalise how we move through the longer cycles of time. It is a time too to reflect on this turning towards the stillness and dark of the winter months, to prepare for our own return to the deep unknown.

Some questions as guides:

What areas of your life are craving silence and stillness?
What masks have you been wearing? What masks are you ready to shed?
What does the darkness have to teach you?
How can you honour all that is yet to be discovered within you?

Samhain blessings to you all.

Clare. xx

Living Seasonally: Spring Session

 It is really only now that I feel like my year is beginning. As the season starts to shift into longer and brighter days, I feel ready to get going. Ideas which were planted months ago are starting to take shape, and more seeds are being sown. Emerging from the winter, there is an energy of growth around; an energy that needs support, fostering and nurture.I am soon to launch the Spring cycle of Living Seasonally, and I must say I’m excited- because it is exactly about that- nurturing ideas, fostering community and supporting people to find what is really  bringing them alive right now.This will be the third time I have run this course, and by now I am getting a sense of what people really gain from it. They gain new perspective I see, and it provides a structure for thinking through ideas, reframing challenges and plotting a map for making their visions tangible. But what it also offers is a tight time frame- we look at the next season ahead, and ask what vision we have of ourselves for this chunk of time.So often I find when we dream, we dream of a distant future. I am all for dreaming but sometimes we also get addicted to the dreaming, and there is a blockage from drawing the dream down into daily reality- right here, right how. Plus it can be hard to do it alone, so gathering with like minded people, and sharing perspectives and insights can not only accelerate the process but make it clearer, and more fun too.The course is online, over 8 days. Shared through video, audio and written medium will be a host of visioning and planning tools on a private online learning platform. There is a ‘Living Seasonally’ Spring planner to go with the process and participants are given access to a private facebook group following the course, where we continue the connection and conversation. Interested?  You can read more and register for the course over here. We start of Feb 10th and it will run until Feb 17th.Would love to have you on board!Clare xx

Being led through a major transition through Clare's Seasonal Planer was a joy - artistic, beautiful, simple yet highly effective in its approach. It helped me to kick-start working on my new projects. I was looking forward to the vidoes every day, also for the community of likeminded women through the FB group, the sharing, the safe exploring of openness. For weeks the files were a great help to keep me on track and still are.Clare in her wonderfully down-to-earth way is a coach you can trust to guide you with focused, gentle kindness. I am looking forward to the next segment.Esther Moser, Autumn 2015