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Celtic Soul Garden

28th April-6th June 2025

Ancestral Framework for Modern Creativity

In this live online course, you will explore how to bring a creative project to life using the seasonal wisdom of the Celtic Calendar (from the Irish tradition) at any time of year. You and your creative project will journey through the seasons of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa creating in a way that feels cyclic, organic and deeply honouring of your body and soul.

Our ancestors believed everything was alive with soul. That our souls are connected to the Anima Mundi, the Soul of the World. Every living being on this magnificent mothership beats as one. To work in a way aligned to the principles of the Celtic Calendar, is deeply honouring of our ancestors.

We live in an overculture that sees itself separate from, and superior to nature. Capitalism has no interest in the intelligence of nature bar for extraction. Giving way to nature’s intelligence in our creative work can be an act of liberation from the oppressive and fear-based narratives of capitalism.

Remember, not many of nature’s creatures are forced to live inauthentically in the way that humans do to survive.

This is an innovative and profound way to bring our creations to life in modern times through Celtic mysticism, alchemy and nature’s wonder.

TAKE A PEEK INSIDE OUR PORTAL

If you’d love to spend your summer living into your creative dreams fortified with an ancestral framework that you have co-created, then join me and get to:

  • Clarify your ‘dán-desire’ to magnetise what you are calling in for your life.

  • Meet the ‘spirit’ of your craft as your co-creative ally.

  • Use the Celtic Seasons as a framework for the creative process.

  • Learn a technique for dreamwork so your dreamworld can guide your creativity.

  • Generate an ‘ecosystem tree’ to manage your creative projects.

  • Apply the symbolism & stages of alchemy to navigate creative challenges.

  • Infuse even your daily to-do list with ancestral magic.

  • And much more…

‘As every gardener knows, it is not only the blossom or the harvest that is important. It is in all the phases of the garden—the seasons, the new growth, the decay, the fallow periods; the planting and waiting; the partnership with nature. All of these matter.’

Margaret Eileen Meredith, The Secret Garden: Temenos for Individuation

Who is this for?

This is for you if you are…

  • Feeling trapped by modern life’s hustle culture and are ready to reclaim your creative autonomy.

  • Ready to honour the quicksilver quickening of Imbolc while also honouring the dreamtime of Samhain. This is about working with complementary energies not a binary of fast versus slow.

  • Excited by the prospect of working with a framework for your creative work that is underpinned by Celtic wisdom and mythos, body and soul (corp agus anam)—and most importantly—in bringing this to life in your own unique way, generating a wonder-vision for your great work.

  • A natural innovator devoted to personal growth in ways that are honouring of your body, your soul, and nature.

This is NOT for you if you are…

  • Looking for quick-fix productivity hacks rather than a curious and soulful partnership with your creative process.

  • Wanting a cookie-cutter model for how to engage with the Celtic Calendar that is not rooted in a living culture.

  • Focused on mainstream linear ways of working that are not honouring of body and soul.

‘In the garden one can see the time coming for both fruition and for dying back. In the garden one is moving with rather than against the inhalations and the exhalations of greater wild nature.’

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Your Curriculum

Diagram of the wheel of the year with four quarters labeled Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa, showing seasonal transitions and corresponding activities; includes elements of alchemical processes Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo at center; bordered by Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox symbols; terms like surrender, renew, celebrate, and embody denote phases. Background includes "Anima Mundi" and illustrations.

You will experience 7 live 90-minute classes over 6 weeks (hosted on Zoom) along with guided practices, creative tools and rituals as weekly ‘fieldwork’ in your Celtic Soul Garden. You will have access to a private, interactive group portal where you can download your fieldwork, ask questions, share reflections, and support your fellow soul gardeners. Here’s a sense of what’s in store:

  • Themes include: Overview of the Celtic Calendar: Seasons, Land and Archetypes; Magnetising Your Dán-Desire; Meet the Spirit of Your Business or Craft.

  • Themes include: Samhain Personal Research & Practices; Celtic Seasons Creative Project Planter; Empathy Mantle Map; Alchemical Rooms Activation.

  • I believe dreams are vital to our creative process and so I have prepared this bonus workshop on dreaming, which aligns to the dreamtime of Samhain.

    Themes include: Celtic Dreaming; Dream Incubation; Dreams & Fairytales; Moving as the Dream.

  • Themes include: Imbolc Personal Research & Practices; Ecosystem Tree for Project Managment; Sacred Contract with your Higher Self.

  • Themes include: Bealtaine Personal Research & Practices; Flourishing Boundaries; Saoirse (Freedom) To Do List; Blessing for Being Seen.

  • Themes include: Lughnasa Personal Research & Practices; Moving with Money; Worthy Activation; Honouring Your Harvest Basket.

  • Time for our end of course feis - feast and celebration! ♡

meet jen

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I’m Jennifer (or Jen), an Irish mythologist, anthropologist and creativity mentor, and founder of The Celtic Creatives. A Dubliner born and bred, from the time I could talk, my grandmother Frances O’Sullivan filled my ears with tales from Irish myth and folklore, fuelling a now 40-year fascination with the stories of my lineage. My apprenticeship to following my soul’s breadcrumbs over the past twenty years has guided my work and formal studies in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Creativity and Innovation, and Jungian Psychology with Art Therapy.

I’ve supported clients to bring the Celtic Calendar to life in diverse ways—from mapping its wisdom to the menstrual cycle, astrological cycles, or using it as a business model for strategic planning, quarterly planning, and holistic programmes, to aligning it to psycho-spiritual alchemy grounded in Jungian psychology.

Personally, the more closely I work with nature’s cycles, the more alive and organic I feel, the more magnetic and abundant I become, and the more connected to my creativity and the more-than-human world I find myself. I’m continually astounded by what our connection to nature offers us (as we are nature).

This is why as part of my dán, my soul’s work and creative destiny, I want to share this with you.

Kind Words About My Work

  • 'The content itself is truly liberating. It has allowed me to embrace all of who I am and has really opened me up to living in alignment with the cycles of nature and life.'

    Beth, South Africa

  • 'My perspective on myself and my energy has been completely shifted, and I know this is just the beginning.'

    Sarah, USA/Turtle Island

  • 'I would say to anyone considering working with Jen that I would endorse her as the most authentic facilitator I have ever worked with. '

    Ellie-Lea, Australia

  • 'The experience was so visceral. I first felt like a sprout and then grew into a big tree with swaying branches. It was truly a mythical journey that my being travelled through. Thank you for your magnificent work, Jen!'

    Marion, Germany

  • 'I could really feel that this is one of the most important things I have ever done. It was an experience from the Otherworld and my only wish is that everyone could be brave enough to follow those small impulses, feelings and ideas, which lead us back to ourselves.'

    Monika, Czech Republic

  • 'I can say with absolute certainty that this was an incredibly life-changing experience. Jen is a kind and intuitive wise woman, who made our space so safe, warm and inviting. I have met some inspiring women—all on their own journeys—and hope that this connection continues.'

    Becca, Ireland

  • 'This experience with Jen was so empowering but also gave space to be vulnerable and to connect with ourselves and each other... learning about these ancient energies helps us to unlock our own magic and that is so needed in this current Earth paradigm.'

    Jamie, USA/Turtle Island

Enter the Garden

Celtic Soul Garden: Payment in Full
Celtic Soul Garden: Payment in Full
€595.00
Celtic Soul Garden: Payment Plan Celtic Soul Garden: Payment Plan
Celtic Soul Garden: Payment Plan
€300.00 every month for 2 months

Course dates: 28th April-6th June 2025

The week in advance of our start date, you will receive access to our private group portal. Live classes begin 28th April. We end on 6th June.

  • Live class:

    Celtic Calendar Overview

    Monday, 28th April @15:00-16:30 Irish Time.

  • Live classes:

    Samhain

    Tuesday, 6th May @15:00-16:30 Irish Time (Monday is a bank holiday).

    Celtic Dreaming

    Thursday, 8th May @14:00-15:30 Irish Time.

  • Live class:

    Imbolc

    Monday, 12th May @15:00-16:30 Irish Time.

  • Live class:

    Bealtaine

    Monday, 19th May @15:00-16:30 Irish Time.

  • Live class:

    Lughnasa

    Monday, 26th May @15:00-16:30 Irish Time.

  • Live class:

    Feis

    Tuesday, 3rd June @15:00-16:30 Irish Time (Monday is a bank holiday).

FAQS

  • This course is open to all creatives (including all genders). Ideally you will have a creative project that you’d like to bring through this process so you can iterate and adapt, and make the framework work for you and your unique way of being in the world. Your creative project could be anything from a book, an art project, an offering or course you’d love to create, a design project, a product, a podcast etc. Whatever you are dreaming to life right now.☆

  • Upon booking you will receive a confirmation email. Then the week in advance of our start date, I will email you with access to our private group portal so you can get settled in and feel ready to go!

  • With varying timezones and the current of life, I understand that it is not always possible to attend courses live. If you can make it live, please do as you will benefit from the group resonance and feel in creative flow. If you cannot make it live, please don't worry, class replays will be uploaded within 24 hours. All live calls will be hosted on Zoom.

  • The community sharing will close at the end of the course but you will have access to your portal for a further six months after the course finishes so you can cycle through it again. All fieldwork PDF and audio resources are downloadable for lifetime access.

  • Refunds are not offered so please be sure you are devoted to this experience upon booking. You can read my full T&Cs here.

‘Already in the not so deep places of our minds
there is no boundary between us and the stag of seven fights,
between us and the hawk.
A little deeper and there is no boundary
between us and the salmon.
Deeper still and there is no boundary
between us and the wind,
between us and the wave.’

John Moriarty, Invoking Ireland