Sunrise Winter Solstice walk to the Paps of Anu

The steep climb to the top of the Paps of Anu began on Saturday 23rd of December at 6.45am and the intention was to get to the top of the mountain for 8.30am for sunrise. There was no sun when we got to the top but there was plenty craic

For 7,000 years people climbed the Pap mountains on the Winter Solstice to celebrate the Goddess Danu.
The goddess of fertility and mother to the Tuatha De Danann who were a magical race of gods. They held divine knowledge and were masters of their craft.
On the Winter Solstice people would celebrate with craic, ceoil, sports and blessings for farming and Danu.
I can't imagine the energy the mountain is holding after 7,000 years of celebrations and good intentions.

At the foot of the Pap Mountains is ‘’The city’’ which is where the Tuatha De Danann live and worship the Goddess Danu.

Winter Solstice Sunrise walk to the Paps of Anu

Strengthen your path of healing and success.

Every morning I pick a card from my Visionary card deck to work with and I paint the card in a small sketchbook.

When I start painting,the messages from a divine master begin to flow.

Receiving the messages from paint has been a welcome change over Christmas, and it’s steered me away from only using my mind to receive information.

After years of meditation practice, I know that the mind can be a bit of a trickste,r and it likes to keep you safe by repeating the same old stories.

The mind will tell you what you want to hear, but paint and tapping into your pyschic senses will tell you what you need to know.

This morning,I shuffled my deck, and I asked to work with a divine master that was for the highest benefit of me and the highest benefit of all.

Lumarai the mother snake, popped out, and I got my inks and brushes and just listened.

Who is Lumarai the Mother Snake?

I am Lumarai the Mother snake and I want to tell you an aborginal creation story.

I lay asleep in the center of the earth for a very long time. 

I awoke from the void and followed my creation instinct. 

As I slithered across the Earth I woke the elemental, mineral and plant kingdoms.

I whispered to the animal kingdom it was time to wake up. 

I let them know a new dawn has arrived

I dipped my nose in the flat plains of the desert and made mountains and valleys.

I brought colour and life to where there was once darkness

I sprinkled my yellow ochre dust along songlines. (Do all people know what you talk about) 

I healed the land with my ancient songs

I nurtured the waters with reverberations from my hiss. 

I brought heart and love to places that had forgotten what it was to love. 

What messages did Lumarai bring through the paint?

Lumarai suggested an opportunity to start something new has arisen

I had the chance to seed a new creation through my art and my words but first she encouraged me to cleanse my emotional body of negative thinking and financial burdens.

She is the snake of transformation and with her help she guides you towards idyllic states of peace, harmony and love and to a place where all your dreams and wishes come true.

How cleansing your emotional body can bring you success.

As you cleanse your emotional body your vision of success and healing gets clearer, and more creative energy and love can pour through.

Your focus can be directed towards maturing the emotional body, for example if you tend to get stuck in a victim mentality or states of restrction focus on transforming the states into higher levels of happiness and creativity.

As you practice shifting emotional states soon that abundance will appear throughout your life.

The emotional body holds your next level of divinity, your waters can become sacred as you purify them.

Its part of your journey on earth to evolve and mature your emotions . You’re meant to raise your consciousness and change as you go through life.

What is the purpose of a water ritual?

A ritual for me is about getting clear on my intention, desired feelings and visions and then asking Mother Earth and the higher realms to support me in its manifestation.

Everything starts as a seed in your own mind and ritual give you a chance to plant the seed and let it grow and bloom in a way that is for the highest benefit of all beings.

This ritual is about cleansing the emotional body so I choose to ask water for its support and I gave the waters on the slieve Mish mountain a gift as a return for her help.

Water is healing, its purifying and even the sounds of water can strengthen your auric fields and energy fields.

Water Ritual on the Slieve Mish Mountain

“Mis is the original wild woman, that archetypal madwoman who lives deep within each of us. She speaks for us all: for the rage which we cannot express, for the grief which eats our heart out, for the voices we have suppressed out of fear.” Sharon Blackie

I choose to go to the Slieve Mis Mountain as Mis is a very powerful mountain with myth attached to her.

Mountains are considered a sacred place for ritual and water is a conduit to the Otherworld.

I felt cleansed after my Water ritual as it was a reminder to keep tuning into the transformational and healing power of water as I move through 2024.

I hope you enjoyed hearing about how I use the transformational power of my Visionary Cards and ritual to heal the emotional body.

If you feel inspired by this blog and wanted to ask any questions or book a Visionary Card Reading please send me a message here.

x

Tricia

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Tricia

The money goddess + the inner mother

Every time you feel abandoned or rejected grow your capacity to feel love within. 

This pause in love will help grow your compassion for yourself.

As you shift your focus towards the inner wells of worthiness and love the outside will reorder itself.

The inner mother and the money goddess can rebalance your life in a grounded contained calm manner.

As you affirm to yourself ‘‘I AM loved ‘‘ I AM worthy’’ the money goddess and inner mother can hold a stronger presence within you because youre tending to their growth.

You can bring her presence into higher levels in order for new levels of abundance and love to be activated. Its always a choice , feed your darkness or feed your love.

The queen bee/ money goddess is the one creating communities and building the frequency of the goddess everywhere she goes. 

She prompts all the other bees to work on building the mother frequency on the planet again. 

She’s building honeycombs and communities and you have a part in this.

The queen bee has a money flow that is overflowing with the sacred waters of the inner mother because shes always tending to I AM LOVED I AM WORTHY

Heal your money wound

What is a money wound?

A money wound is a relationship that you have with money that leaves you feeling powerless, scattered, fearful and in shock .

The wound is activated when you get unexpected bills, when you don't feel seen in relationships or when the path ahead is unclear.

The money wound isnt dependant on how much money you have in the bank.

You may have a lot of money but still feel powerless, ungrounded and fearful with it. 

The money wound can impact your connection to your desires and cuts you off from feeling nourished by life. 

The money wound can be held physically or somatically in the body from past trauma, generational or ancestral lack. The money wound can be linked to your core relationships or occupation. 

Your money wound can interact with other areas of your life and leaves you feeling depleted

If you feel powerless, ungrounded and scattered its harder for loving energies to connect with you. 

I had been healing my trauma and my connection to my inner mother for years and then I started to heal the money wound with the divine feminine and I tended to the wound by giving my money wound the attention and healing it needed. 

One day earlier this year I was doing belief systems work around money when I heard my inner self say 

''It's pink money''  I asked what pink money was and I started free writing the answer

The Pink money mindset is about seeing money as a Divine feminine energy that wants to connect with you. 

As you empower your relationship to money and the Divine Feminine energy within through loving kindness meditation and grounding. 

Tending regularly to the money wound means the pressure that you feel will  start to release

As the pressure releases you’ll see that that true abundance is received through healthy relationships, art and nature. 

Source energy flows through everything, not just through money. 

As you tend to the money wound a money goddess starts to rise from within. 

As you heal your relationship to money your self respect, self value and reverence for your gifts starts to naturally increase. 

This in turn magnetises new opportunities and resources to you at the center of your life and you know the high value of your gifts.
Its pink money magic.

Learn how to see in the dark

The Winter Solstice is marked as the darkest point on the wheel of the year. It occurs when the earth’s poles reach its maximum tilt away from the Sun.  

The earth is tilted away from the sun on the Winter solstice, it's the time of year to face towards the dark. 

The 21st of December marks the official day of Winter until we rise again on the Spring Equinox in March. 

The time between now and spring gives you the opportunity to study the opposite pole to light.

The dark is not negative or bad it’s simply an unknown.

It holds many gifts and it’s a time to conserve and nourish your body rather than rushing back towards the light.

You can look at it like the Chinese yin/ yang symbol, which teaches you the dual nature of everything. 

It’s my favorite time of year as I journey inwards to find resources, inspiration and wisdom. 

How do you feel in the dark?

I’ve been working with the dark as a teacher for a long time.

 As a student and teacher of the feminine mysteries, I know the mystery won't reveal itself until you step into the unknown.

In Native American teachings the bat is the opposite pole to the Hummingbird.

The light loving Hummingbird is the symbol for my art studio in Tralee Co.Kerry. 

The Hummingbird is a symbol of joy and lightness of being. 

Its opposite the bat, is completely self sufficient in the dark, it uses sound instead of sight.

Bats can use returning echoes to detect objects as fine as a human hair in total darkness. Bat brains map the echoes in a way that lets them home in on insects or avoid obstacles.. 

Do you trust your other senses to guide you?

Studying the dark at a dark cave retreat August 2023

I did not know the bat was the opposite pole to the hummingbird when I booked a dark cave retreat in Italy in August 2023. 

A dark cave retreat is where you spend three days in complete silence and darkness in a room/ cave. 

I entered the dark at sunset on a Sunday and came back out at sunrise on Wednesday.The room was really basic with a bed, sink, prayer mat and it had three stone steps that led up to a bathroom. 

My food was collected from this hole that was built into the door but no light would get through. 

Alot of fear goes through the mind at first because you have no reference points or distractions.

It's quite an overwhelming experience having no reference points, but you can't allow the experience to swallow you up.

I had to command my own sense of inner authority within it. 

The warrior in me took center stage and it showed me you how to manage the intense darkness. 

And with nothing to do,no book to read, no phone or people, the only thing I could was set myself some tasks. 

Even though i’d no concept of time or day or night, a routine started to present itself.

I had to eat, shower, brush my teeth, use the bathroom, meditate and exercise.

These simple tasks can take quite some time as you're trying to sense your way through the room. 

After a few times crawling in the dark you start to get a bit cocky and think you know your way.

But you don't, each time you begin a new journey to drink a glass of water or roll out a yoga mat. 

The main sense I used was touch and I’d feel the different textures and their temperatures as I crawled instead of walked. 

You could sense roughly the times of the day by when you were given food once in the morning and once in the afternoon. 

I would feel the temperture of the walls cooling down which was an indication the day was over.

I also decided to do Dark paintings, on the second day when my system had adjusted.

I made the decision to create a painting everytime I returned from the bathroom. I placed a sketchbook and watercolour pens and a glass of water on the counter to the left of the three stone steps.

The first time I painted x’s, then I painted O’s , then I just made marks. I’d mark the page the corner of the page, so I’d know the next time there was a painting on that page.

Tools I used in the dark 

The worst thing I could do in the dark was panic.

Fear generated by the mind can quickly get out of control and conjure up all the horror stories . Fear serves its purpose too , it shows you what needs to be looked at and then transmuted back into power. 

Instead of allowing the fear to take over, I addressed the fears that I was holding in my body and rewired them through movement and mantra.

I used my tools to keep my mind and nervous system calm and steady. 

I used mantras and affirmations to focus my mind. 

I used non linear movement which is a type of  somatic movement that works with strengthening the nervous system.  

I also used meditation and body scanning.

When I got out of the dark cave retreat at sunrise on the Wednesday morning, the first thing I did was check my dark paintings. Did I paint anything in the dark? Were there any colours, what colours did I use?

Finding different ways to see

Learning how to see in the dark is also an opportunity to build your power and trust in yourself.

You learn how not to give your energy and power away, but instead embrace the darkness and see what it is trying to teach you. 

I’d everything I needed and through my skills I saw that the dark was my ally and it was nothing to fear.

x

Tricia

Dark paintings

Meditation Circle at Hummingbird Studio

My Meditation circle begins in Hummingbird Studio Collis Sandes House, Tralee Co.Kerry in January 2024

Meditation will help you to see yourself clearly, to understand who you are, how others see you, and how you fit into the world around you. 

Each week I respond to the moons, the wheel of the year and certain needs in your local community and wider society. 

This weekly practice opens you to positive emotions and outcomes. 

It also leads people into exploring how to maintain better professional and personal boundaries. When you learn to love yourself over time you learn to respect and cherish your own space and time more. 

There is a possibility of you becoming a zen master of meditation. But ultimately this circle is about cultivating more loving kindness, calm and joy in your life. 

The circle is the culmination of my study of meditation, moon cycle awareness and the wheel of the year. 

I work with a number of simple practices that can be used at work and at home.

You’ll develop a relationship with the self, which is your own being, identity and values 

Guided meditations also help you to develop your connection to your imagination and creativity. 

The tools have been used in art residencies in schools, community support work and outreach services.

Body Scanning and Grounding 

Before we do anything in a circle, first we slow down, ground and focus on the breath. 

Body scanning is a tool used to connect the mind and body and bring you back to the present moment.

You’ll learn how to focus your mind on certain points in the body, the top of the head, the tip of the nose, your left wrist etc.

Metta

I teach metta meditation which are loving kindness meditations. Metta meditation is a concentration practice. 

You direct loving kindness towards yourself,then it extends towards those you love,those you are indifferent about, then those you're having disagreements with.The loving kindness that is directed towards yourself has a ripple effect on everyone around you.

Example of a metta prayer

May I hold myself with compassion, may I treat others with kindness, may I be free of anger and aggression, may I let go of that which causes harm 

Over 6 weeks you’ll learn how to be the compassionate observer of your life rather than the active participant. 

To put it simply, you’ll be slower to engage in arguments or environments that are not good for you when you have a regular meditation practice. 

It’ll help you step back and ask yourself ‘’Is this fight worth it,does this matter in the grand scheme of things’’. 

Maintaining inner peace is a very positive result of a regular meditation practice. 

You’ll also have a stronger awareness of the present moment and the beauty that's contained in the mundane.

Guided Meditations

In class we meditate for 20 minutes at a time and the guided meditation works with the energies that each moon cycle contains. 

Meditating with the moons is all about learning open to the wisdom that each moon cycle brings

I know the power of connecting groups to the moons,and how it helps people navigate life's challenges 

For example on the new moon you plant seeds and on the full moon you let go of excess baggage and old emotions. 

Each moon contains specific information and the guided meditations are developed in a way that heals you.

Extra tools to support you in Meditation circle 

Visionary Card deck

You’ll also gain insights from my Visionary Card deck. I created a deck and wrote a book about 22 divine masters during lockdown 2020. Each divine master leads you to a path of transformation and enlightenment. They can help you with anything from creativity, confidence, personal power and self mastery. 

Each week you’ll gain specific information from them and about the moon phases that we’re in.

x

Tricia

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