After over 6 months, the Antlered Path podcast returns with an episode linked to tree spirits! I share an opening meditative connection to World Mother Tree, to help us ease into a sacred space.

I share folklore and other insights into tree spirits together with poetry and hone in on two species in particular - Hawthorn and Hazel.

I have a lovely guest this episode, Louise Tarrier. I have known Louise for many years. We started a women's circle together out on the land in mid Dorset and have a very deep shared love of trees! So it was a lovely gift to have Louise with me to share this passion.

She has spent over a decade involved in reforestation and ecological repair, including her work with Carbon Positive Australia, where she supported large-scale tree planting initiatives across Western Australia. There, she witnessed the quiet resilience of the land — and the powerful role of trees in healing it. Her work is grounded in both transpersonal psychology and conscious leadership, and she brings these threads together through her platform She Changes, guiding individuals and organisations to lead, from a place of passion in purpose, and in harmony with nature — not separate from it.

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Show notes

"Awakening and Renewal"

A belated Imbolc episode, though I feel the content is still relevant! So, wow it has been some months since the last episode and we are so glad to be sharing this with you now.

Join me out on the trods and connect to Imbolc tide blessings and energies with this episode that focuses on the shifting of Winter into Spring. There are blessings and a poem, there are trodcasts too!

Oh and I pronounce the name of the Goddess Brigid in the contemporary Irish 'Breej'. It is what felt right!

The trodcasts that I share in this episode were recorded in different local West Dorset sacred spaces in late January.

The first one is in Cattistock churchyard where there is a beautiful little well and Snowdrops, plus lots of incredible birds. The following one is in the garden by Silver Well at Cerne Abbas and then the Beech Grove at Giant Hill Cerne Abbas. This is a very special place of pilgrimage, myth and recent archaeological exploration. There is a large Beltaine/May Day gathering that takes place at the well and on the hill with a local Morris side at Dawn.

I simply share the messages and insights that flow through me whilst connecting to spirits of place. I hope they resonate with you.

It was my intention to release this episode in early February, so apologies for the later publishing!

Imbolc is still taking place, so hopefully you will feel the awakening and renewing Imbolc blessings reaching you where you are.

The blessings and poem:

First blessing is by Caitlin Matthews 'Brigid of the Mantle' from Little Book of Celtic blessings and an excerpt by John O'Donohue fromthe blessing, 'For Presence,' found in Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US).

'Goldfinch' from the 'Lost Spells' by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.

Many blessings across the Ways to you.

With Love, Hilary and Tony x

Welcome to the Sacred Sea!

A delve into a few Celtic and British Isle linked stories and archetypes...

Come explore the sacred domain of the Sea where Mannanan Mac Lir abides and rises from the Ninth Wave, dry and full of stories of flowers and abundance.

We also explore a very old story from Orkney, call out to the Red Billed Chough - a feisty sea bird ally linked to Cornwall and King Arthur. Plus a lovely wee chat about Selkies with my special guest Jude Lally from Path of the Ancestral Mothers.

Plus more!

We hope you love it and let us know what you think.

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