While researching for my MA folklore dissertation on female folkloric creatures, and simultaneously diving into the study material for my specialised coaching major on female life transitions, I’ve come across a lot lately that’s made me examine and question the traditional division of women’s lives into the three phases of maiden, mother and crone. Sara…
Author: Amelie Rowan
Self-Worth or Selfish?
Something I see coming up over and over again for my coaching clients is a deep, and sometimes unconscious worry around whether truly feeling your own self-worth will somehow make you selfish… Growing up female, most of us are bombarded with cultural messaging about the importance of putting other’s needs before our own, making others…
Folklore and the Irish Diaspora Part II: Changelings and Cowboys
In this second part of a two-part blog series looking at the migration of folklore and belief, I look at how folklore has been used as a way to make sense of the emigrant experience and how in some cases new folklore emerges as people create new identities outside of the original homeland. Diaspora and…
Folklore and the Irish Diaspora Part I: Away… With the Fairies?
Away…. With the Fairies? This is a 2-part blog series looking at folklore and the migration of belief. In this first part I will look at the Irish fairy faith and ask whether those that emigrated to America took their fair folk with them or left them behind in Ireland, forever linked to place. In…
The Joy of Snails
A couple of people have asked me recently – why a snail logo? First the spiral shell … Earth Spirals is so named because spirals are an ancient symbol of spiritual development, oneness with the universe/nature and the Goddess, found in art, philosophy, esoteric and spiritual paths in many different traditions. Spirals can be seen…
Lessons From a Mermaid
I want to tell you a story about anxiety and the power of self-love…
Tantra and Ecospirituality
This year has been an incredible journey for me, I am halfway through a very intensive year-long training with the Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, learning to use a tantric approach in my work as a love, sex and women’s empowerment coach. Alongside this, with the Temple of the Great Goddess in Rome, I am…
What’s in a Name? The Naming Ceremony
Of course, everyone loves a handfasting, but one of my very favourite ceremonies to officiate as a Sacred Celebrant is the Naming Ceremony – both for babies and adults. The Baby Naming Ceremony For those parents not interested in a christening, it can seem like there aren’t many options for a special ceremony to mark…
Honouring Nature’s Downtime… Even with a full time job
The shortest day and longest night is approaching… As we enter the Dream Time of Yule we can feel our energies dipping, as all around us nature begins her Winter slumber. The trees have lost their leaves, conserving their energy before the great outpouring of new life in Spring, animals begin to go into hibernation,…
The Way of the Sacred Celebrant
It’s not often that you gain a whole new family within the space of a week… …But that’s exactly what happened this September at ‘Celebrant’s bootcamp’, otherwise known as the Sacred Celebrants Academy training in Glastonbury. I had chosen to attend this course for continuing professional development – I’d run rituals and ceremonies for many…
Earth Spirals 