Fairy rings have featured in the works of European authors, playwrights and artists from as early as the 13th century. Fairy rings occupy a prominent place in folklore throughout Europe depicted as gateways into elfin kingdoms where elves and fairies gather and dance. Celtic traditions claimed that fairy rings are the result of their celebratory dancing. A great deal of mythology surrounds fairy rings. Europeans often allude to supernatural origins of The Fairy Ring.

Modern science offers two theories regarding the process involved in creating fairy rings. One states that a spore begins a fairy ring. Hidden in the soil is a huge network of threadlike mycelia. Mushrooms are not individual organisms. Rather, they are just one part of a huge network of threadlike mycelia hidden in the soil. If the mycelia make an arc or a ring, they continuously grow about the centre of this object.

The second theory presented by scientists, shows that fairy rings could be established by connecting neighboring oval genets of these mushrooms to form an arc or a ring continuously growing about the centre of this object.

Growing up in St. John’s, Newfoundland, I enjoyed my rich Celtic heritage. The folklore was kept alive by the oral tradition in rural Newfoundland. My grandmother, of Irish decent, would caution me about wandering into the fairy realm and warn me to put breadcrumbs in my apron pocket “in case the fairies came”. The breadcrumbs were considered a bargaining tool - if captured.

I have always been fascinated by our human need for ritual and our innate drive towards the supernatural world. We appear to have a strong instinct and need for connection, which enables us to survive as a species.

I am also drawn to my Celtic roots and the concept of “the circle”. Like the mushrooms of the fairy ring, connected and surrounding the center, this symbol represents the mission of The Anam Kara Centre – a healing circle that connects all modalities and people around a spiritual holistic center.

In the Celtic folklore tradition, I invite you to enter the realm of the Fairy Ring. Each week a new fairy will present a gift of Elvin wisdom to quench the spirit.

The wisdom of the “wee folk” have been historically embedded in folklore, literature, plays and song. Though they inhabit the enchanted realms, they can cross between the thresholds between this world and the Otherworld. With the ability to bestow gifts or inflict havoc if angered, fairies have been much loved and feared in Celtic lands.  Listen to the wisdom of the Little People as they speak through The Fairy Ring. 

THE GATEWAY TO THE OTHERWORLD STANDS OPEN. 

CROSS THE THRESHOLD & ENTER THE FAIRY RING, WHERE

THE GIFTS & GUIDANCE OF THE FAIRY FOLK AWAIT YOU

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Thank you for joining The Celtic Fairy Circle.

Erin

Hydrating Arid Lands

“It is essential that be become aware that taking care of our planet will take place when we take care of ourselves. Be the conscious healer of your life and the earth will simultaneously heal too.”

Hilegaard of Bingen, defined sin as a spiritual dry-rot, aridity, a refusal to grow. She believed that the opposite of sin was the ability to be gloriously and outrageously alive – green and moist as nature itself. Water is the most common metaphor for femininity and spirit.  We can observe that in nature it is our most greening agent. The colour green is the colour of the heart charka. In order for us to grow into our own natural beauty and power we must pour the waters of spirit upon our arid places and reclaim ourselves.

Women’s Empowerment

Accepting What Is

"Making it through the rain"

It is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we meet these hardships that constitutes our positive or negative attitudes.

Acceptance is a difficult lesson to learn. There are always conditions in life that are painful, unpredictable, and outside our control. We can get stuck in believing we are victims, that circumstances and others should or should not be a certain way. Caught up in intolerance and fear, we clutch resistance tightly to our chests, cementing ourselves to the attitude and pain, and cancelling acceptance. 

Acceptance is the antidote to pain and suffering. Accepting what is rescues us from lapsing into a sense of helplessness and the hopeless resignation of depression. Acceptance is having the inner courage to endure and persevere -- knowing that rain is necessary for growth and is not a permanent state.

Please direct inquiries regarding our support group through the Anam Kara Centre Website email: lynda@anamkaracentre.com

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