'Listen to your hearts
Find the truth that's beating there.
Open to your longing
For right living in the world.
Know that it is possible
For the point of power is now.
These are the most important things:
Hold your vision. Love with passion.
Speak your truth, and also listen.
Open to the dreams that call you
To a truer manifestation
Of the spirit of creation
And honouring of sacredness.'
The Power of Nine
Hi everyone. I'm Dearbhaile, the second Bard of Glastonbury, now Elder Bard for Poetry for the Bardic Order of Ynys Witrin. Welcome to my new website.
The vast majority of you already know me so thanks for checking out my website as I asked! For those of you who don't, who've found yourselves here through the workings of the web, you are doubly welcome! I suggest you check out 'The Heart of Ireland' and 'Strange Sisters say it for the planet' - they are a good place to start as they definitely give you an idea who I am and what I'm about.
Please write. It makes my day when I hear from you. I hope you all find something here that speaks to you. It's amazing to hear all the different ways in which people use the material here - for example someone used the poem 'Speaking Stones' and the article 'Opening the Heart in Hell' in teaching about secondary trauma last year.
Happy New Decade. If you're interested in Astrology, you'll know that there are some very interesting changes due this year - it's time to identify our priorities and strip away all irrelevancies - in the metaphor I used in 'We are the Warriors' a few years ago, it's time we all moved into our positions, to take our places in the battle that the Shambhala prophesy foretells. The Great Turning has moved into a new and significant phase. In order to sort out the mess we've got ourselves in, we need to understand, accept and start living up to our creative responsibility. Learning how to apply the metaphysical law 'Energy Follows Thought' is the key lesson of this time.
For those of you who are interested in working with me (and it is delightful to discover that there are so many of you!!) I'm having what I can (being a creative individual) call 'a sabbatical' for the first half of this year. Between Thyroid Eye Disease and all the complications that's created on top of a relapse into CFS, I've temporarily put my hand up and accepted I need to get better first and then return once more 'firing on all cylinders'.
I'd some amazing experiences both performing as Bard and working as facilitator of the WTR last year and with the prospect of performing in the poetry field at Glastonbury Festival and running Councils of All Beings in Wales and Ireland, I've powerful visions to help me on my road to health. I'm writing now about the lessons and blessings of the challenges of this healing journey. Truth to tell the latest phase has involved some weeping and gnashing of teeth but ultimately I know there is a divine plan and if it appears that right now that means I get to spend lots of time in bed sending love on the airways, well so be it.
But this summer I will stand in a circle of people looking up the majesty of Blwch Mawr on the glorious Llyn peninsula which I know from having lived in North Wales for a decade and my heart sings at the thought of it. There is another Council of All Beings in the pipeline possibly at home, in Omagh, working in Gortin Glen, woods I played in as a child.
So envisaging such wonderful adventures will give me serious incentive to follow the regime that will lead me back to health!
