Ancient Celtic Wisdom
I just had another mystical experience.
It's the result of the ancestral healing work I've been doing with ICU. If you're interested, they have more sessions upcoming.
I can only describe this mystical experience as distinctly personal. It was a revelation of my identity in this life as a soul in a body that is connected to thousands and thousands of other lives and years of living in a body on this planet.
I am a Celt.
I am 98% genetically associated with the most western area of Europe inhabited for thousands of years by the Celtic peoples. My ancestral Celts came to say hello in the most boisterously Celtic way possible; they made me feel it.
My whole life I've felt like some kind of wierdo because I seemed to feel things so much more strongly and deeply than those around me. Or at least, I would show my feelings easily - especially related to the natural world.
The joy and the grief I felt at being alive with animals and trees and birds and bugs and sky and water, made people around me uneasy. My deeply cutting grief at the harm and unnecessary suffering in the natural world at the hands of humans, was viewed with confusion and ridicule. Tears of joy and tears of sorrow are just as easy for me and I cry a lot, everywhere.
Celts have big feels.
I used to hide it and I'm still a little embarrassed by it, especially when I cry at work (how can I not cry when people come to frame pictures of loved ones who have passed - both human and non-human?). I have recently accepted that this is the beautiful heart that I have. My sensitive feeling heart is what it is and is no more or less valuable than a stoic stiff upper lip.
And that's all it took.
The ancestral work and this small acceptance of the feeling heart that I have, was enough to open the door for a flood of Celtic ancestors to claim me and connect me to a long, rich lineage of deep feeling for the earth.
I have been claimed by Celtic Ancestors.
To Speak for the Trees
by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
In it she shares ancient Celtic wisdom from the valley of Lisheens and Irish words that are significant to the Celtic spiritual world view.
Mothaitheacht is an Irish word that means "the feeling you get in your chest when you recognize/connect to the sentience of a tree."
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
"This is you." my ancestors said.
This is me. This is the culture that I'm made of. This is my belonging. This is my soul and my heart.
Anamchara. "Soul friends", but more along the lines of all things share soul and are inspirited with soul so we can communicate and learn from all beings and protect all beings in the world because we are ultimately the same soul together.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
"This is where you come from." my ancestors said. This is me. This is where I belong.
Ceaolta na Cruinne. This means 'the song of the universe' in Irish and refers to how it feels when the sun dances on your skin.
This is the song that Ogma heard and transcribed as the first alphabet of the ogham script. The letters are based on trees.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
My whole life I've never felt so SEEN and validated. Every thought and feeling I've had about the world and what it means was recognized and confirmed and had history and culture and place and ancestry behind it.
When I read "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I felt validated because it was the first time that I had ever read someone from science recognize and legitimize my feeling sense with nature; the heart connection and love that I feel for this world.
It was confusing though, and left me struggling because as much as I resonate with indigenous world view - I am not indigenous and it doesn't belong to me.
Celtic culture, wisdom and spirituality belongs to me.
It is the song that's been singing in my blood, through my dna, with my famine-created hemochromatosis since I was born.
@lezleydavidson If you’re Irish or Scottish - watch this! PSA for my fellow Celts. #hemachromatosis #ironsaturation #health #healing #psa ♬ original sound - High Priestess of Holy Sh!t
This revelation and connection to my ancestors was nothing short of a total embodiment of beliefs and an anchoring to the people who feel as I feel and see the world as I see it and love it like I do. I came home fully into my body for the first time in my life, cradled in the ancient Celtic love for the world.
We are transplanted Celts who have been disconnected from our roots.
I know I'm not the only one who feels like this. I'm not the only one who feels an intense, non-specific, deep and enduring love for the physical world. It was such a relief to connect to the roots of this.
To connect to people who look like I do, who have felt as I do and communicated with and adored and cherished and loved the world like I do for thousands of years. It is nothing short of a miracle to find my way back to these roots.
My roots.
Your roots.
Shared roots in a world where every being is inspirited with anam, and is communicating love and wisdom with us at all times.
Ancestor Chats
In the Divine Reminders Library, with other mini course resources and worksheets to help you know yourself. Celtic Animism flavour.
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