Seasons & Cycles Workbook
Seasons & Cycles Workbook
Write your way through the wheel of the year following the gentle and supportive words of NATURAL INK. maker, Karn John. Drawing on many years of experience as a writer, facilitator and general human, Karn offers prompts, thoughts and suggestions for being out in the world to get your creative self humming and singing.
This 46-page booklet contains:
Advice on supporting yourself and your practice
Journal prompts for each of the 8 points in the Celtic Wheel of the Year
Exercises in the natural world to do solo or in community
Quotes from some of the finest authors and facilitators in this field
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This workbook resource is a place to explore your connection to inner and outer landscapes through journaling and reflection.
You may already have a journaling or writing practice, or this may be new to you. You may be an avid cycle follower, or this may be a whole fresh world.
Here you will be introduced to seasonal cycle awareness and free-writing journal practice that can help you to reflect on and connect this in simple ways, all in aid of nourishing your creative practice and life.
The writings here are an invitation and a starting point. Please take what is helpful, adapt to fit for yourself and leave the rest.
Includes:
Journaling as a seasonal landscape practice: writing to root.
Cycles: Grounding in noticing what is happening outside and inside of us.
Journal questions for the new and dark moons.
The Seasonal Wheel of the Year in the Celtic Traditions:
Calan Gaeaf/All Hallows Eve/Samhain- 31st October
Hirnos/Winter Solstice/Yule- 20th - 23rd December
Gwyl Fair/Candlemas/Imbolc- Beginning of February
Alban Eilir/Spring Equinox, Ostara- 21st - 23rd March
Calan Mai/May Day/Beltane- 1st May
Gwyl Ifan Ganol Haf/Summer Solstice/Litha- 20-24th June
Gwyl Awst/Lughnasadh/Lammas- The beginning of August
Mabon/Autumn Equinox- 20th-23rd September