Category: Celtic Reiki Stories
Neverknow – A Story from The Sacred Grove
On the path from there to here, I have stopped and stayed a while under the canopy of a friendly ash, or motherly willow. I have sat and moodled against the supportive trunks of oak trees or spent the longest while stroking the silky bark of beech. All the while listening to the beautifully melodic […]
A Little Sunflower…
On a bridge across the River Medway in Kent, the M2 (one of the UK’s busiest motorways) transports a steady stream of traffic to Dover and onwards, to the European continent. Just a few feet away from the thunderous roar of cars and juggernauts there grows a little sunflower. She has only a small patch […]
The Legend of Hobbs Cross
On the very outskirts of town, in a little cobbled corner of Romanknowes there lies a darkness. Not a darkness as we might associate with the nighttime, but a strange intangible gloom; descending upon that little cobbled corner in such a way as to make it always seem as if the light of Grandmother sun […]
Life’s Rewards
We cannot expect any rewards from life. For life is reward enough. This brief, fleeting blink-of-an-eye that we get is the very thing that is so precious. Our experiences are the gift, be they pleasurable or painful. And whilst we strive for the experiences that feel good; all moments contain treasure. However, some are so […]
A Queen Once met a King…
A queen once met a king, although she was a queen not in title, but of behaviour and he was only a king for his sitting upon a throne. The king received the queen in his throne room, pleased by her bowing to him in servitude . “Come!” he commanded. “Come, sit upon the steps […]
There Once was a Queen…
There once was a queen who was not a queen in title, but of behaviour. She would travel the land each and every day, seeking food from the world around her, tending to the trees and creatures that she would meet and offering kindness to all the people she came across. Her journey had been […]
There Once was a King…
There once was a king who would would sit upon his throne, whilst the serfs and servants of his court brought him food to eat. Each morning a queue would form, as each minion would take their turn to offer sweet treats and tasty morsels from exotic lands. And the king would partake greedily in […]
A Monster Calls… The Power of Celtic Storytelling
The film, A Monster Calls, by J.A. Bayona, from the book by Patrick Ness, is a story of life and death, of pain and of healing. It is a Celtic story that is set in the modern world—one that feels very dark and very real. Yet, it is also a fairytale… one that uses fairytales […]
The Ballad of Old Hobbs Cross
Taken from The Midwinter 2017 Celtic Reiki Community Newsletter From the Realm of Meadows, to the Sweet Syrup Trail, Robertson’s Copse to Nightshade Vale, The folk of the woodland would look to sky To see the smoke and reply with a sigh For the folk of the woodland, knew of the cross, Knew of those […]