Some thoughts on the journey into writing through the narrative of the Tarot.
Rewilding Writing 5: “to trut trut tr trust”…
Writing
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.
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
Summer Offerings from Sally-Shakti Willow: Yogi Poet Witch
Sat 6 July ~ CACAO POETRY MANDALA at the Yoga Life Studio, Eastbourne Thurs 11 July ~ EXTRAORDINARY & EVERYDAY UTOPIAS at the University of Brighton Fri 12 July ~ BREATHING & MOVING FOR WELLBEING at the University of Westminster 17-21 July ~ POETRY MANDALA WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCES at Buddhafield Festival, Taunton Sat 27 July ~ PEACE DRUM … Continue reading Summer Offerings from Sally-Shakti Willow: Yogi Poet Witch
WRITING UTOPIA
Submissions are open until 11pm on 21 June and the anthology will be published in 2020.
Radical Doula
The anthology, which began as a moment of triumph and cautious celebration, now also feels like a moment of protest ~ with women's bodies and our rights to choose what we do with them coming under increasing attack.
Sally-Shakti Willow 