If women remember that once upon a time we sang with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many inhabitants, then we will rise up rooted, like trees. I think the fact that our native literature contains such a perfect example of the archetypal madwoman, made mad from grief at the unbearable world, is just perfect. Subscribe to my free monthly newsletter, ‘The Art of Enchantment’, on Substack, and be among the first to hear all the latest news about my books, courses and events – as well as personal seasonal reflections and reading recommendations. You can read this before If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. But if you're looking for intersectional feminism and a deeper dive into myth and the environment, look elsewhere and please report back when you find it because that's what I was looking for too.

After a few twists and turns, including some unwise years advising a tobacco company on smoking and health and safer cigarettes, and the acquisition of a master’s degree in Creative Writing, I moved to a croft in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Please note that if you are already subscribed to my Substack, you don’t need to subscribe again here to receive Hagitude updates. Spoiler alert, she is never happy and has to move from remote cottage to remote cottage to remote cottage. I found it so life-giving, filled with beautiful Celtic stories and the stories of women leading healing lives, helping others, rooted in the land. If Women Rose Rooted is a heroine's Journey to Authenticity and Belonging, a memoir examined in light of the feminine power in Celtic mythology.the utilization of ancient celtic stories to connect women with celtic heritage to their own cultures and landscapes, ok. While listening to the audiobook, I thought often of my friends who are not Celtic or who may not know it yet. These days we own just a small patch of land, and so I am focused more narrowly on the keeping of bees and hens, and the growing of vegetables and herbs. and look, I've brought all my type A ideas about success with me and I'm working on the publishing company and the magazine I started and taking care of these dozens of animals and we have the money to build a huge heated barn and totally remodel the house and we're exhausted and burned out. Being from New York City, living in the Bronx, I feared this book would have little to offer me but I was wrong.

That long, hard work, which required us to be outside in all weathers, as well as a continuing daily need for long walks to explore rocky shoreline, bog and mountain, has given me a deep and nourishing sense of connectedness to place that I feel drawn to share with others. It will have you connecting with instincts you didn't realise were divine, or it cement the notion that you are on the right path. Our story begins with the bone-deep metamorphosis that begins as we approach midlife, in the years leading up to menopause.Become a member of The Hearth for live online retreats with me, and other resources to deepen your work with story and the mythic imagination. Interspersed with her own story are interviews with other women who have succeeded in one way or another in re-rooting themselves in land and community while contributing to the betterment of the planet and society.

I am a proud feminist and it irritated me that the author spent much of the book isolating and blaming men for the state of the world/her self worth. but that makes up like 20 pages of what is otherwise an unnecessarily long biography about a woman I don't know and wouldn't want to sit next to at a wedding. section below to see the full list of what other members have put this book on their have-read or to-read lists. Creation, and so creativity, is the act of giving life, the nourishing and enhancement of life, in whatever way you choose to do it. But after getting a quarter of the way through, I was thoroughly depressed and bored by the rambling prose :-( as other reviewers mentioned, I think this book would have benefited from a heavy edit, making the narrative more focused and less rambling.As a mythologist, I’d studied Joseph Campbells’ work, of course, on the Hero’s Journey, and as a woman, I found it most unsatisfying. While the book haven’t given me an answer I liked the idea of power to make others feel comfortable and open up their vulnerabilities. I completely agree with her in thinking that feminism can sometimes force women into becoming men instead of putting us on equal footing with men and celebrating what makes us women, and not men.