Isla Macleod

Isla Macleod is a ceremonialist and ritual weaver, creating bespoke journeys and rites of passages to honour our natural transitions and life cycles. Inspired by nature, forged by longing, devoted to remembering. Lover of moss, mead, mushrooms, trees, wild swimming and moonlight.

Website: islamacleod.com
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Diary 2022 - Festival pages

Imbolc © Isla Macleod Ostara © Isla Macleod Beltane © Isla Macleod Litha © Isla Macleod Lammas © Isla Macleod Mabon © Isla Macleod Samhain © Isla Macleod Yule © Isla Macleod

Diary 2021

Feast of Remembrance © Isla Macleod Samhain Offering © Isla Macleod 2018

Samhain is the time to honour and remember all that we have lost: grieving the dead and feeding the memory of our ancestors. This relationship between the living and the dead, the seen and unseen, is what enables the Great River to keep on flowing. With our prayers, songs, stories, tears, offerings and creations, we can tend to the sacred fire around which our ancestors are fed and warmed. We can enliven and deepen our relationship with all our relations during this sacred time: stitching a glistening thread that weaves back and forth, honouring the Great Spiral. With this thread we can access a whole realm of unseen support, love, inspiration and grace in our lives. Through our giving, we receive, and balance is preserved.

In the woods where rock and moss meet,
Ferns unfurl and Wren sings his sweet joy –
This Sacred Earth
Beckons you Home.

To make your bed upon the soft greens
And lay your head down to dream.
To remember your wild edges
And feral feet;
The memory of your bones
And the stories that speak from the stones.

Waking from the Buzzard’s call,
Your body entwined with roots of Oak,
There is nowhere else to go.
Here is the answer to your Longing.
There is nothing else to know.