by Sharon Blackie Brigit is one of the most-loved of the divine or semi-divine females who appear in medieval Irish literature, and one of the most poorly understood. A quick internet search will reveal all kinds of statements about her: she’s a fire goddess, a sun goddess … or, hang on a moment – was […]
Month: January 2018
The post-heroic journey: where eco-heroine meets eco-hero
by Sharon Blackie In my book If Women Rose Rooted, I described what I called an ‘Eco-Heroine’s Journey’: a kind of antidote to the swashbuckling, all-conquering hero who defines the action-adventure called the ‘Hero’s Journey’, which was first proposed by American mythologist Joseph Campbell several decades ago. In his book The Hero with a Thousand […]
Plant medicine in Ireland: discovering nature’s pharmacy
by Nikki Darrell Plant medicine is a part of our natural authentic humanness. Research shows that we have genes in our bodies from plant origin and that as our bones form in the womb they follow the same growth pattern as plant cells. At the Plant Medicine School, we work to reclaim our herbal heritage, […]
‘The Rock and the Spring’: introducing Marie Goodwin
Marie Goodwin is The Hedge School’s new Media Alchemist & Diaspora Community Researcher, based in Media, Pennsylvania. To introduce her, we’re reblogging this article which she wrote for her own blog, Personal Mycology, back in July of this year. I don’t remember much of my childhood. It is an odd feeling, frankly. People […]
‘How I connect to the land in the city’: introducing our new editor, Anna Leach
It is easy to overlook the sacred in the city. But as unlikely as it sounds, I find it in Finsbury Park, the scruffy council-run public space in northeast London characterised by overflowing bins and throngs of smoking teenagers. Over the last ten years walking through its wide avenues and around the lake has consistently […]
Introducing The Hedge School’s new team
I’m delighted to introduce two new team-members who will, over the next few months, be working hard to make The Hedge School an exciting forum for ideas about building a new folk culture, and an authoritative source for information about the native myths and traditions of Ireland, Great Britain, and the Celtic nations. Our ultimate […]
Looking for help at The Hedge School
UPDATE ON 3 JANUARY: THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED. THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR INTEREST! We’re delighted to say that our Patreon funding has reached a level of around US$200 per month, which means that we will now be able to begin fulfilling some of our ambitions for making it an authoritative source for people […]