The Celtic Creatives
Discover lost parts of yourself through Irish Feminine Mysticism
Welcome, Fáilte,
I’m Jennifer Murphy, Irish Mythologist, Anthropologist and Feminine Embodiment Coach.
My coaching, courses, events, rituals, and membership offers creative space for women to flourish by reawakening their mystical lineage.
Three Bodies
My work is a dance of three bodies:
Earth Body, Creative Body, and Moon Body.
I use the symbol of the body as an ecosystem where all parts work in harmony so that the whole can flourish.
EARTH BODY
‘I am the wave of the ocean
I am the hawk on a cliff
I am the god that puts fire in the head.’
Song of Amergin
Our ancestors were animistic, believing that all of life contained anima, or anam in Irish: soul.
The Earth Body holds all living beings, curates the elements and carries the Anima Mundi, the World’s Soul. Each one of us—you, me, crow, oak—is made from the same manifest and yet mysterious force of creation itself. We are made from nature.
Being in nature helps us to feel well because it cloaks us in this creative lifeforce. As within, so without: nature shimmers back to us the same mysterious pulse that vibrates within us.
Creative Body
‘Humankind alone is called to co-create.’
Hildegard of Bingen
For the mystic like Hildegard of Bingen, creativity is our way to channel viriditas, the greening power of nature, what our ancestors called ‘imbas’, the light of nature that illuminates inner-wisdom.
They believed we must follow our dán, which in Old Irish can mean poetic endowment, artistic skill, a calling, destiny or fate—a soul’s gift. It is a co-creation, a gift bestowed upon us by the gods and one we offer back to the gods by living it. Our Creative Body is our vessel to live out our dán, the sacred container for our soul.
It is our animal ally like the shapeshifter of folktales, be it deermother, selkie or hare crone, offering us its companionship and primal intelligence.
Moon BODY
‘Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.’
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Just as the moon mirrors the light of the sun, the unconscious reflects the hidden aspects of ourselves that desire to be seen and integrated. Myth and folklore, imagination and night dreams are our doorways into this hidden realm.
It is from this place that archetypal images emerge—goddess, druid, witch—to be worked with in responsible, grounded, and human ways to guide our lives.
Irish mysticism holds a lost tradition of Celtic dreaming that is ours to reawaken, for dreams are the messages of our souls. What makes the dream? The same creative force that creates all of nature, including us: the Mystery.
Values
These three bodies are anchored in three core values that guide our work together.
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Together, we believe that deep roots in our mystical lineage grow slowly, nourished by care, intention and grace. We attune to and trust our inner seasons, embracing the great cycles of life.
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We create heart-led and safe spaces for self-discovery, tenderness and transformation. We honour the diversity of meaning-making, recognising that everyone can bring this tradition to modern life in their own unique way.
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In Irish, draíocht means magic, derived from draoi meaning druid, from Proto-Celtic dru-wid, meaning ‘oak-knower’. We believe that through our connection to nature and the cosmos, we open ourselves up to the synchronicity and wonder of the universe to light our path.
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