Sara McFarland
Harvesting the taste of my own Magic
Mabon: Autumn Equinox 2024 Listening to the cranes calling to each other, I notice their songs have changed in quality. The laughing...
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Sara McFarland
Jul 223 min
Beauty making in the collapse
Hello friends, it's been awhile since I last sent you some words. I have been deep in healing old wounds, deep in feeling grief and...
Sara McFarland
Mar 213 min
Equinox: Liminal threshold between Dark and Light
This morning dawns grey and rainy and I feel the liminality that is equinox- one foot in each world of dark and light. As I am invited...
Sara McFarland
Aug 3, 20234 min
Lammas, first harvest
As the first harvest arrives and the rains cool the evenings and the swallows fly in flocks like schools of fish above the fields, I...
Sara McFarland
Apr 9, 20233 min
Osprey neighbors
Spring comes slowly this year, frost still graces the ground with kisses in the mornings. Daffodils and grape hyacinth bloom and the...
Sara McFarland
Mar 4, 20235 min
The wild others
Out walking with the dogs, along the road and down the path, past the four black horses who, every Sunday go out for a stroll with the...
Sara McFarland
Feb 8, 20234 min
I don't understand this world
I'm not from here... I am reminded of this every day- through the language, culture, the questions and most recently, the total shift of...
Sara McFarland
Jan 9, 20234 min
New beginnings fed by the tears and songs of grief
The full moon is just past. The days are growing longer in the northern hemisphere. Now, more than ever, I feel time speeding up,...
Sara McFarland
Dec 2, 20223 min
The heartbeat of the ancestral Dolmen
Softly, slowing down, rest. I keep hearing these words. From the holy, from other humans, from the earth in winter, from my own body....
Sara McFarland
Nov 10, 20225 min
Samhain - on moving house and re-weaving my belonging
Through the days and over the threshold of Samhain and the Day of the Dead, I moved house. This Celtic new year time, the blood moon of...
Sara McFarland
Oct 3, 20224 min
Of Apples, Wasps and Hornets
I wrote a whole other letter to you about apples, their mythic power (from poison to food of the goods), their symbolic multiplicity...
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