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Sara McFarland
Oct 31, 20243 min read
The memory of ancient waters
Samhain 2024 New Moon We arrive in these days of flooding and fear, of beauty and power, of longing and grief at the veil between the...
Sara McFarland
Jul 22, 20243 min read
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
Aug 3, 20234 min read
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
Mar 4, 20235 min read
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
Dec 2, 20223 min read
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 read
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 22, 20227 min read
Singing the Song of Now:Re-membering ourselves into the great cosmic Songweb of Life
One day last May, I walk in the sacred grove of hawthorn, ash, oak and elder, home to fox, hare, a riot of songbirds and seasonally,...
Sara McFarland
Oct 3, 20224 min read
Storying with Earth
Each being, by being itself, is telling its story, singing it’s creation. Listen, what is the Red Kite crying out or the fox shouting out...
Sara McFarland
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Ancestral storytelling
"Story is far older than the art and science of psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes....
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