Today we have an Easter treat for you: a new episode of The Hedge School Podcast. In this episode, Hedge School founder Dr Sharon Blackie interviews teacher and creator of the Orphan Wisdom School, Stephen Jenkinson (https://orphanwisdom.com/). The conversation is focused on what it is to be an elder in today’s world, and on Stephen’s […]
Cailleach
Celebrating spring: Spring Equinox and the Cailleach
by Sharon Blackie I often hear statements like ‘The Celts didn’t celebrate the equinoxes; they only really celebrated the four cross-quarter days’ (Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa and Samhain). But the truth is, once we try to go back beyond the past few centuries, we have no real idea what the people in these islands who we’ve […]