(Content warning - despair and mild suicide reference.) Sally-Shakti Willow walking away along the white sand beach in Tulum, Mexico. Autumn Equinox 2021 I’m leaving my marriage.💔I was in my late twenties, and I had everything a young woman could want: a car, a career, a trendy new flat, and my dream wedding to my … Continue reading [ReWilding Writing 6] : I’m leaving my marriage.
Rewilding Writing 5: “to trut trut tr trust”…
Some thoughts on the journey into writing through the narrative of the Tarot.
Rewilding Writing 4
Less than 500 words - that have taken me a year, and half a box of tissues, to write. ✨Joy Freda West: 13 August 1935 - 30 August 2022✨ Content Warning: Reflections on my Grandmother's Death, from my perspective.
Rewilding Writing 3: Notes on Reading a “Spiritual” Magazine
I’m supposed to be editing my mini-book. I’ve blocked off the time to do it this afternoon. But I’ve just read a spiritual magazine for the first time in ages, and I can’t help but be unsettled by it. It’s a magazine focused on books and publishing in the esoteric and spiritual industry, too. That’s why I’ve chosen it to claim my attention while I eat my lunch in the burning late summer sunshine.
Rewilding Writing (2)
Rewilding Writing is iterative and generative and collaborative and messy and open. Its forms are not fixed and its destination is unknown. It goes where it flows like a river of life – and it guides me on my path as I write.
Rewilding Writing
I’ve just buried a bird. It’s the first day of my bleed and I’m in a lot of physical pain and I’ve buried a bird. I didn’t stop to take any photos. And I’m not even sure what kind of bird it was. The whole thing was over pretty quickly, a lot more quickly than I’d imagined, really. Just moments after journaling to myself that I would start taking responsibility for whatever needs doing, as it needs to be done, instead of putting it off until some other (never) later time when it’s usually too late. I looked over at what I had thought was some leaf litter or debris in the garden and I realised that it was a bird.
Writing Utopia Now: October 2022
I just read Rimbaud’s Illuminations for the first time.
EarthKeepers Poem at Buddhafield Ritual 2019
Now feels like the perfect time to share this video. Highlights of the Buddhafield Ritual from the summer of 2019, including the full reading of my poem EarthKeepers.
Samhain Ritual Poetry Performance
We saged the space, lit three candles, and transported our audience into another realm for the duration.
Being a Writer When Not Writing : Litha & Lammas
It's been a while... I haven't written a poem since Beltaine. And, as the reader will attest, not a blog post either. Litha, or Summer Solstice, the Celtic season just passing is the Solar Energetic peak of the year, the time of greatest energy for accomplishment and productivity - getting things done and bringing things … Continue reading Being a Writer When Not Writing : Litha & Lammas
Sally-Shakti Willow 