Wild Rose Path
For the ones who can see the life they want but can't yet find the path to it. For the woman who suspects the way back to herself might be through something older and slower and closer to the earth than anything she's tried so far. If you feel more like yourself near plants, or something in the natural world keeps catching your attention - that's not accidental. That's what we explore here through seasonal rhythm, plant wisdom, and the kind of knowing that lives in the body rather than the head.
Spirals within spirals
Hey Reader, It's no secret that I'm a bit of an astrology nerd - and so the next couple of months are looking pretty interesting from that point of view. Some things are already starting to 'play out'... identities shifting and signs of this appearing in physical reality, relationship contracts up for renewal or cancellation... It makes me think about spirals within spirals. For example, we can be moving through the transition of our own becoming, moving towards Sovereignty... and that may...
Write to me
Hey Reader, It's half term, so the creative urge is still very much there, but increasingly difficult to channel and practise right now. Some days it looks like one, maybe two paragraphs on a Substack post. Other days, it's writing in my journal and a side of A4 drivel when I wake up (those of you who have read the Artist's Way, this is my idea of Morning Pages!) It's been so hot I keep planning to write at night, but by then the brain-fog has well and truly set in. So here we are, in stolen...
Path gone. Just like that.
Hey Reader, It's Wednesday, and of course, I've been wandering again. Bringing back some wisdom from the Howgill Fells! Today I went up to the stile to get onto the fell (Crook) that I found last week...but this time I followed the pipe track along hoping I could get across to Sickers fell. Probably wasn't the best day to do it after all the heavy rainfall, but feeling motivated (probably by impending half term), I thought I'd see how far I can go. And it was a nice enough little path along...
No one is handing out permission slips
Hey Reader, Welcome to this weeks' Journal. It has been one of those weeks where it feels like a sidestep, or maybe a step backwards. Survival mode, a lot of solo parenting, and that absolute git, Self-Doubt, showing up right on cue. But sloooooowly, I'm learning to pause when it arrives and ask: are these stories actually true?? And why now? Usually it's because I'm looking for approval that was never coming from outside of me in the first place. No one is handing out permission slips. Which...
Rooted, seasonal, online - shall we gather?
Hey Reader, A shorter letter this week, because there's a lot going on below. Videos have been slowly happening despite the Bank Holiday throwing a spanner in the works, and now the new 'filming studio' (polytunnel!) has a cover on (but no doors yet!), I'll try some videos in there. I'm working on another free offering for email subscribers too - so as existing subscribers, I'll share it here when it's ready. And there's one more thing that's been quietly forming during all these fell...
She's been calling me for months...
Hey Reader, How are you? Time seems to be getting ever faster and the weeks fly by. So here I am again with another letter to you. I write this after having just come back from the top of everyone's Not Favourite Howgill Fell - Crook. She's not as famous as Winder, but sits right next to her. In this pic, Crook is the 2nd of the 4, with most of Winder just out of shot. I love how at this distance, they look pretty straightforward to climb. Ha! Anyway, this morning's pilgrimage was almost not...
Where the hell are we?
Hey Reader, How are you? Do you ever have that urge at the moment to be brutally honest to that question...and say 'I haven't got a bloody clue?!!' Or maybe you know the answer already, but it goes against that unspoken social rule of 'yeah, I'm fine...(NO I am NOT fine)'. This week I think I'm in the first camp. I just want to walk, into the hills, hang out with trees, and drink Ginger & Mint tea all the time. Then you check in with what's going on in the world. The other night I read this...
It gets harder before it gets better
Hey Reader, For those of you into astrology - it's being a bit of a week. I'm slowly starting to feel that Mars in Aries energy...could it be that things we're invested in are starting to move, to happen? Or do we all need to go and hide under a collective duvet?! To me, it feels like a bit of both. I'm working my way through explaining each stage of the Wild Rose life transition spiral over on YouTube, and this week it's all about the bit where it gets harder before it gets better. Not what...
You don't need to see the whole path
Hey Reader, A story for you today. I live up a lane, kind of at the bottom between two of the Howgill Fells - Winder & Crook. This means I'm lucky to have a lot of beautiful walks on the doorstep. As I've lived here for years now, the kids are older, I've had more and more chance to explore the routes. A few months ago, I noticed on a map that there was some sort of footpath a bit higher up - not into the fells, but somewhere higher than the house and just below the fell wall of Crook. I've...
We're all in the middle of something
Hey Reader, A shorter email this week - because it's the Easter Holidays here and honestly - bandwidth is low! Although I go less and less on socials now, I have noticed pockets of actual authenticity popping up here and there - like wildflowers through a crack in the pavement. People just sharing stuff they're moving through, not with a 3-step fix, not to gain attention, not starting with "This might be controversial but..." My kids' current favourite phrase they've picked up from my laptop:...
For the ones who can see the life they want but can't yet find the path to it. For the woman who suspects the way back to herself might be through something older and slower and closer to the earth than anything she's tried so far. If you feel more like yourself near plants, or something in the natural world keeps catching your attention - that's not accidental. That's what we explore here through seasonal rhythm, plant wisdom, and the kind of knowing that lives in the body rather than the head.