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Queen of the Solstice · Mooney's Mythic Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Mooney's Mythic Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm here.
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SPEAKER_00: It's alright everyone, I'm right here.
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SPEAKER_00: This podcast is sponsored by winter.
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SPEAKER_00: By the retreating of our energy deep, deep into our bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: Deep into the safety of our bodies.
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SPEAKER_00: The remembering of our self-care, of our quietness.
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SPEAKER_00: This podcast is sponsored by Winter.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, hi.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm really happy to be here.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Sarah Mooney.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've got someone on the sofa.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm on the big sofa.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've got Ted Waters on the sofa with me.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're going to have a chit chat with her later on.
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SPEAKER_00: But even better than that, she's going to sing for us.
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SPEAKER_00: She's gonna sing for you.
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SPEAKER_00: She's gonna sing for us.
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SPEAKER_00: She's gonna sing.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to tell you that I had such a gorgeous story wintering time on Sunday.
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SPEAKER_00: So thanks to everyone who came to that course, it was really, really special.
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SPEAKER_00: And it reminded me even more that stories are just so important for us to nourish
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SPEAKER_00: ourselves with and connect with other people.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was listening to Madonna saying, we lost dancing.
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SPEAKER_00: And somewhere we've lost dancing, we've lost singing, we've lost storytelling.
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SPEAKER_00: As a normal practice, you know, just as a normal way of expressing and connecting.
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SPEAKER_00: So my...
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SPEAKER_00: my dreaming for us all this winter is that we find somewhere to sing and we find
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SPEAKER_00: somewhere to dance and we find somewhere to to listen to the storytellers to listen
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SPEAKER_00: to the musicians to to listen to something live yeah i'm really praying that that
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SPEAKER_00: um that happens for all of us this winter and i am contradicting uh disconnection
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SPEAKER_00: by having you here deadwaters hello
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm very good.
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SPEAKER_00: Hello, pod people.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's Amber's just going down the stairs with a noisy band.
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SPEAKER_00: She'll be back later.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm very happy to be here.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm just going to say a bit about you,
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SPEAKER_00: Ted,
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SPEAKER_00: because I know it's really hard for us to talk about each other,
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SPEAKER_00: but are you a farmer?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, tell me about that.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got a little organic farm just north of Chevalier Lake which is about nine
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SPEAKER_00: acres and it's about two acres of no-dig veg and we've got chickens and ducks,
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SPEAKER_00: not commercial at the minute,
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SPEAKER_00: but we've got a beautiful roundhouse in our woods that we hire out to kids' groups
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SPEAKER_00: and retreats and we plant a lot of trees and the deer are then eating a lot of
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SPEAKER_00: trees and
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SPEAKER_00: Deer eat trees.
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SPEAKER_00: Deer eat whatever you try and put it in the ground.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't eat the ones that are regenerating themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: They just like nosh off the bark and they just have little shoots.
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SPEAKER_00: They protect them and it is with God and lots of trees to protect them over the winter.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's our lovely little punch of magic.
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SPEAKER_00: So what part of yourself are you going to protect for the winter?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, all of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Like bubble wrap.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Bubble wrap.
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SPEAKER_00: Like,
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SPEAKER_00: yeah,
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SPEAKER_00: kind of lovely parser tape around the edges that people find really hard to crack
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SPEAKER_00: into when you blow your scissors.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love winter.
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SPEAKER_00: I really deeply love winter and I always don't rest enough compared to the amount I know I need to rest.
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SPEAKER_00: And I feel like,
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SPEAKER_00: especially the last couple of weeks,
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SPEAKER_00: I felt really like,
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SPEAKER_00: oh my God,
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to put everything down and just find a pile of leaves without eating it.
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SPEAKER_00: and just and just snuggle down and just keep things really simple and i think the
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SPEAKER_00: contrast we have in our culture predominantly is that it's not simple this time of
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SPEAKER_00: year it's got lots of questions and deadlines and really it's not natural for us to
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SPEAKER_00: be rushing about and yeah
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SPEAKER_00: and you can only get so much done in the day outdoors and you feel sleepy early in
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SPEAKER_00: the evenings and we should be sleeping normally it's not completely hibernating but
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SPEAKER_00: we should be moving much slower so each winter I try and winter harder and better
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SPEAKER_00: it's a thing isn't it because it's like
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SPEAKER_00: yes I really hear all that and I spent all day you know everyone got a big buzz on
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SPEAKER_00: their phone except me because I don't have a smartphone yeah so we would get buzzes
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SPEAKER_00: but everyone got a big buzz stay indoors and watch out for the wind and I ran with
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SPEAKER_00: that and I just stayed in bed all day great and it felt like my circadian rhythm
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SPEAKER_00: was sort of swapping over to winter
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SPEAKER_00: And I want to stay connected and that's,
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SPEAKER_00: yeah,
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SPEAKER_00: I think that's,
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SPEAKER_00: I want to see my solids and my family in a really impressive way.
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SPEAKER_00: I was reading about that solstice ceremonies.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you want a seasonal celebration?
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SPEAKER_00: Is that right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know if I coined the term.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I was doing more sort of weddings and families and things and I was
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SPEAKER_00: actually just really love marking the seasonal tides around the Celtic Hill and
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SPEAKER_00: holding them in circles and just
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SPEAKER_00: So what would that look like if you're creating a space for the winter season,
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SPEAKER_00: what would that look like?
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SPEAKER_00: So I would bring in elements that are around us, I would bring in songs and poems of this time.
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SPEAKER_00: stuff,
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SPEAKER_00: twigs,
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SPEAKER_00: berries,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe things growing on the farm,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe something I've found,
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SPEAKER_00: just for some water space.
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SPEAKER_00: And just to remind me,
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SPEAKER_00: often that they're very bare boned,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: at this time of year things are very bare boned,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe it's a bone,
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SPEAKER_00: maybe it's a branch.
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SPEAKER_00: I love, the thing I really love about walking around in the wild is
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SPEAKER_00: if you go up closely to all the trees,
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SPEAKER_00: they've all got little buds,
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SPEAKER_00: they're all waiting,
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SPEAKER_00: they're just poised,
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SPEAKER_00: they're ready to go,
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SPEAKER_00: they never stop,
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SPEAKER_00: they just rest.
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SPEAKER_00: And so something like that as a reminder of that spring will always come in the
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SPEAKER_00: last seasons,
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SPEAKER_00: a bit wonky,
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SPEAKER_00: spring does come eventually.
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SPEAKER_00: And maybe some greenery to remind us that some things push through winter and hold
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SPEAKER_00: their leaves and keep them right at the same time.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah I think I've always been a tree that loses its leaves over winter but I think
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SPEAKER_00: I might be an evergreen this year.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm feeling pretty juicy but I was looking at my Christmas tree and thinking that
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SPEAKER_00: other years it would have been totally appropriate to leave it until every needle
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SPEAKER_00: had dropped to the ground and it
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SPEAKER_00: and wonky until I put it on the fire I think it would have been more a sort of
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SPEAKER_00: representation of my journey but this year was a bit different and I think that
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SPEAKER_00: might be because I'm resting deep earlier I remember feeling like so much energy I
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SPEAKER_00: had so much energy last year until deep into January and then I was just like kind
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SPEAKER_00: of
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SPEAKER_00: I think as long as we can have space or we need space,
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SPEAKER_00: that's what we find hard to find,
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SPEAKER_00: I think,
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SPEAKER_00: is being able to follow our own rhythm,
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SPEAKER_00: in with the cycle of rhythm,
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SPEAKER_00: and recognise it.
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SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I'm hoping it won't come out this year, so, you know, mid-January, a bit of juice in me.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm not completely wanting to have it and have it wrapped together, so I'm thankful.
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SPEAKER_00: But that's sort of,
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SPEAKER_00: like I say,
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SPEAKER_00: being able to go out and find those juicy people,
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SPEAKER_00: find those healthy people,
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SPEAKER_00: get out into nature and come back in,
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SPEAKER_00: being able to come back into oneself and into your internal process and just into
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SPEAKER_00: your own rest and not have to be doing what you're doing.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what happens in the summertime or that sunlight.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what the sun is doing now in the solstice.
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SPEAKER_00: So the solstice means sun, obviously soul, ice which means frozen stillness.
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SPEAKER_00: So in the solstice the sun keeps still for about three days I think and it's only
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SPEAKER_00: twice in the year that it keeps still.
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SPEAKER_00: and i just love this image of these old and they do it at the white spring i love
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SPEAKER_00: it when they do it at the white spring um which is a it's a wall it's a bricked up
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SPEAKER_00: um spring in glastonbury so you can use gates at the front you can come in but what
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SPEAKER_00: they do is they um everyone piles in there's hundreds of people in there and um
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SPEAKER_00: electricity in there and it's dark,
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SPEAKER_00: absolutely dark and we're all in there together totally pitch black for as long as
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SPEAKER_00: we can possibly manage it and then we call for light or to
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SPEAKER_00: the child represents Bridie who is the goddess of the springtime and she goes
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SPEAKER_00: around and lights everybody's cameras.
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SPEAKER_00: It's so beautiful and it's really precious and I was thinking about that this
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SPEAKER_00: morning about who dares to gather together with a group of friends and these
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SPEAKER_00: can we be as still as possible in company without it involving a screen of any kind?
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SPEAKER_00: That's what I've been thinking about.
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SPEAKER_00: Who do I know well enough or trust well enough or that I want people in my life who
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SPEAKER_00: I know and trust well enough that I can say,
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SPEAKER_00: come and sit in the dark with me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll sit in the dark with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Come and sit.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got this great idea.
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SPEAKER_00: Come and sit in the dark with me or let's do nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: and keep getting outdoors as well because it's really important to me in the winter
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SPEAKER_00: and when the door opens and you come in and the warmth of the home wraps around you.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's that thing of hopefully if you've got warm home then that can do it.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got that constantly and I feel that quite a lot in a very cosy home.
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SPEAKER_00: if you can find it I think it's the contrast it's appreciating whatever you've got
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SPEAKER_00: wherever you are appreciating those moments of lack or seeing those moments of lack
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SPEAKER_00: like when you're hungry and then you eat and your body's warm and when you're cold
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SPEAKER_00: and then you get warm again and we have much more contrast in winter than you do in
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SPEAKER_00: summer you know you might want to cool off in summer but it's not quite the same as
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SPEAKER_00: that like
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SPEAKER_00: I love that, it's like the summer sort of builds and builds and builds and builds,
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SPEAKER_00: It's a gentle time,
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SPEAKER_00: it's time to be gentle with ourselves,
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SPEAKER_00: gentle with each other,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: do you have anything to give?
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SPEAKER_00: I do love that about the festive season,
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SPEAKER_00: about the things that you've heard on to,
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SPEAKER_00: that people give,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: is it time to look out beyond ourselves and go,
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SPEAKER_00: okay,
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SPEAKER_00: I have wonderful food or whatever we've got,
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SPEAKER_00: what can I give?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah that's what I've been trying to talk to Noah around about Christmas,
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SPEAKER_00: about it not being about spending beyond your means and buying what someone else
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SPEAKER_00: wants but thinking about what have I got and what have I managed
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SPEAKER_00: brought towards me this year or yeah what can I offer that's really of myself I'm
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SPEAKER_00: always trying to get him because he's really good at origami I'm always trying to
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SPEAKER_00: get him to make origami things for people but he doesn't value them because it
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SPEAKER_00: comes easily to him and he makes this great origami frogs and he makes his origami
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SPEAKER_00: trees and all kinds of things and I'm saying just make people origami you know
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SPEAKER_00: they'll love it and he doesn't
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SPEAKER_00: I often write people birthday songs because I'm like, oh, I haven't got any presents.
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SPEAKER_00: I just wrote you this silly song.
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SPEAKER_00: And people love it.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh, it's just a stupid song.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's because I'm like, oh, it's just, yeah, that's your thing.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's like more and more I'm thinking about what is my essence and how can I not
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SPEAKER_00: offer that and not feel like skint,
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SPEAKER_00: knackered grumpy I know at the end of that's you know by sort of January the 2nd
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SPEAKER_00: hugs I can give hugs they're quite easy this Christmas I'm giving you a hug yeah
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SPEAKER_00: yeah that's fast getting more getting more comfortable being more intimate with
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SPEAKER_00: each other so that we can receive more deeply will you sing will you sing to us now
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SPEAKER_00: yes thank you so I'm going to sing
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SPEAKER_00: It needs a little explanation, actually.
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SPEAKER_00: The other solstice song.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've been in the solstice song.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: This is winter solstice.
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SPEAKER_00: This is winter solstice.
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SPEAKER_00: I wrote the song on the way back in a lay-by.
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SPEAKER_00: having been treated to a spa by a friend after the first four years of setting up
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SPEAKER_00: our little farm,
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SPEAKER_00: which was just fields.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was so tired.
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SPEAKER_00: She left me in the spa for a bit in a day.
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SPEAKER_00: I came back and found me about drawing in those lounges and woke me up.
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SPEAKER_00: And I haven't rested, I really haven't rested for a long time.
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SPEAKER_00: I've been working, working, working.
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SPEAKER_00: So this came in quite quickly.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the other thing about rest, isn't it, is that creativity just bubbles out from good rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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Definitely.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh,
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SPEAKER_03: winter solstice,
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SPEAKER_03: I'm glad you have come My body is tired from all that I've done I rest here a while
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SPEAKER_03: in your deep winter's night Revived and renewed,
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SPEAKER_03: I'm awake with delight
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SPEAKER_03: The dark will not fear us from verse so deep.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh clarity, wisdom, strength, come when I sing.
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SPEAKER_03: I'll wake with the dawn, so vital and fresh.
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SPEAKER_03: And know that this time when it's right, the dark hurts.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, light, come in gently, oh, light, come in slow.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, light, come and show me, oh, light, come in low.
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SPEAKER_03: I'll wake with your dawn, full of peace, full of rest.
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SPEAKER_03: And know to slow down at this time was the best.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, winter solstice, we're glad you have come.
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SPEAKER_03: Our bodies are tired from all that we've done.
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SPEAKER_03: We'll rest here a while in your dear winter's light.
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SPEAKER_03: Revived and renewed with a work with us.
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SPEAKER_03: The dark will not fear, we'll slumber so deep.
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SPEAKER_03: All clarity, wisdom, strength, and one else.
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SPEAKER_03: We'll wake with the dawn, so hard, torn and fresh.
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SPEAKER_03: And though it just slowed down, this time was the past.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, light, come in gently, oh, light, come in slow.
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SPEAKER_03: Oh, light, come in short, all that we will know.
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SPEAKER_03: We'll wake with your dawn, full of peace, full of rest.
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SPEAKER_02: And oh, please tell me to slow you down.
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SPEAKER_02: Whoa, whoa, what's the best?
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SPEAKER_00: Twas the night before yuletide and all through the glen,
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SPEAKER_00: not a creature was stirring,
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SPEAKER_00: not a fox,
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SPEAKER_00: not a hen.
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SPEAKER_00: A mantle of snow shone brightly that night as it lay on the ground reflecting moonlight.
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SPEAKER_00: The fairies were nestled all snug in their trees, unmindful of flurries and a chilly north breeze.
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SPEAKER_00: The elves and the gnomes were down in their burrows, sleeping like babes in their soft earthen burrows.
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SPEAKER_00: When low, the earth moved with a thunderous quake, causing chairs to fall over and dishes to break.
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SPEAKER_00: The little folks scrambled to get on their feet, then raced to the river where they usually meet.
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SPEAKER_00: What happened?
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SPEAKER_00: They wondered, they questioned, they pushed.
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SPEAKER_00: As they shivered in nightclothes, some bare arms, some rode.
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SPEAKER_00: What caused the earth's shudder?
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SPEAKER_00: What caused her to shiver?
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SPEAKER_00: They all spoke at once as they stood by the river.
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SPEAKER_00: Then what to their wondering eyes should appear?
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SPEAKER_00: But a shining golden light in the shape of a sphere.
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SPEAKER_00: It blinked and it twinkled.
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SPEAKER_00: It winked like an eye.
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SPEAKER_00: Then it flew straight up and was lost in the sky.
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SPEAKER_00: Before they could murmur,
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SPEAKER_00: before they could bustle,
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SPEAKER_00: there emerged from the crowd with a swish and a bustle.
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SPEAKER_00: The holly kid, with his hand on a cane, resplendent in green, with a flowing white mane.
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SPEAKER_00: As he passed by them smelling of winter and spices, reminiscent of earth slumber and robin and tices,
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SPEAKER_00: My name is the Holly King,
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SPEAKER_00: the Oak King's twin brother,
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SPEAKER_00: the Holly King proclaimed in a voice wild but tamed.
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SPEAKER_00: I've come to remind you, for you seem to forget, it is time for deep rest, and yet.
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SPEAKER_00: I see no hearth fires, I hear no music, no bells, the air is not filled with rich fragrant smells.
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SPEAKER_00: of baking and roasting and simmering stews, of cider that's mulled or other hot brews.
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SPEAKER_00: There aren't any children at play in the snow or houses lit up by a warm candle's glow.
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SPEAKER_00: Have you forgotten, my children, the fun of celebrating the rebirth of the golden bright sun?
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SPEAKER_00: He looked at the fay folk, his eyes going round as they shuffled their feet and stared at the ground.
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SPEAKER_00: Then he smiled the smile that brings lights to the day.
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SPEAKER_00: Come, my children, he said.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's play.
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SPEAKER_00: They gathered the mistletoe, picked spiky holly.
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SPEAKER_00: They threw off the drab and drew on the jolly.
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SPEAKER_00: They lit a big bonfire.
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SPEAKER_00: They danced and they sang.
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SPEAKER_00: They brought out the bells and clapped when they ran.
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SPEAKER_00: They strung lights on the trees and bows oh so merry in colours of cranberry, bayberry, cherry.
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SPEAKER_00: They built giant snowmen and gave them their hats,
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SPEAKER_00: then surrounded them with snowbirds and snowcats and bats.
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SPEAKER_00: Then just before dawn,
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SPEAKER_00: at the end of their fest,
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SPEAKER_00: before they went homeward to seek out their rest,
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SPEAKER_00: the Fae folk,
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SPEAKER_00: they gathered round their favourite oak tree and welcomed the sun near the tree's finery.
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SPEAKER_00: They were just reaching home when it suddenly came.
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SPEAKER_00: The golden light would turn like an arrow shot flame.
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SPEAKER_00: It lit on the treetop where they could see from afar the golden light sphere turned
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SPEAKER_00: into a five-pointed star.
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SPEAKER_00: The hollykin just smiled at the beautiful sight.
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SPEAKER_00: Happy little tidy whispered.
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SPEAKER_00: Good night.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, Ted.
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SPEAKER_00: That was so gorgeous.
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SPEAKER_00: I just had to read into that.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I just get so excited by the...
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SPEAKER_00: by the atmosphere that's created with music.
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SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to speak back to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, that was just divine.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it actually got me thinking about rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, rest isn't just lying down.
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SPEAKER_00: Rest is making spice, mild cider or juice and having hearty times and being creative and playing.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and doing what's easy.
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SPEAKER_00: Putting stews in and mulled wine in the slow cooker and just doing what's easy.
24:54
SPEAKER_00: I don't know who wrote that poem.
24:56
SPEAKER_00: That's been on my desk all year.
24:59
SPEAKER_00: I have moved that.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: Every time I've gone to do something, I've moved it and I've opened it up and I've gone, oh, what's that?
25:04
SPEAKER_00: What's that?
25:05
SPEAKER_00: Why is that on there?
25:06
SPEAKER_00: And I haven't done anything with it.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: And then yesterday or the day before, I just thought,
25:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I was going to learn that this year.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: You'll have to be next year.
25:24
SPEAKER_00: So, beyond being a farmer and a seasonal celebrant, you are a singer.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm a singer.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: I didn't have my name on something as a composer earlier this year, which was quite funny.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: I did a big arts council play called Rising Waters in the Tree Valley, and it was amazing.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: It was a five metre long massive giant salmon that spoke and came to life.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: It was fantastic and I did all the sound effects and music for that and it was a real,
25:52
SPEAKER_00: it was a real new,
25:54
SPEAKER_00: itchy placement.
25:55
SPEAKER_00: I loved it, so I really enjoyed finding great Crested Green Warbler sound effects.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: So I, yeah, all things music if I can and that's coming into my life now.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: I co-run the farm with my wonderful partner, husband, and I have home school, my kids are a bit older.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: So you've got some space, which is lovely.
26:21
SPEAKER_00: Well done.
26:22
SPEAKER_00: Not completely.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: There's still one in the mix that's, you know, homing a lot.
26:28
SPEAKER_00: So yeah,
26:29
SPEAKER_00: lots of lovely music and really trying to,
26:32
SPEAKER_00: I used to do a lot of festivals and gigs and then had to sort of put it all down
26:36
SPEAKER_00: for the kids and the farm and trying to kind of work out how to bring that,
26:41
SPEAKER_00: you know,
26:41
SPEAKER_00: which bits that to bring back in and what I had to do with it.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: authentic time in my life where I don't have any capacity to not be very authentic
26:52
SPEAKER_00: anymore so yeah and it's like we're talking about isn't it about doing things
26:56
SPEAKER_00: easily yeah what's the most kind of delicious way of doing something because
27:01
SPEAKER_00: sometimes festivals can mean lots of driving and lots of gigging and
27:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
27:07
SPEAKER_00: and sometimes festivals can be really gorgeous and just as rejuvenating as going to one,
27:13
SPEAKER_00: as contributing.
27:14
SPEAKER_00: I love that, as tiring as blessed every festival is.
27:20
SPEAKER_00: My beating heart wants to lift up the prayer of there being a collaboration of
27:25
SPEAKER_00: performing arts on this land every year.
27:28
SPEAKER_00: It really, I feel strongly about that.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that's some energy as well.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: That's a semi-creative, like...
27:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I think about it.
27:43
SPEAKER_00: So alongside that,
27:46
SPEAKER_00: I recently did a natural voice network quite early,
27:48
SPEAKER_00: of course,
27:49
SPEAKER_00: and I've already been sort of pulled by sales and things.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: So tell me, all these words, all these words, natural voice network.
27:58
SPEAKER_00: What's that?
27:58
SPEAKER_00: So it's an organisation that really promotes singing,
28:03
SPEAKER_00: community singing,
28:04
SPEAKER_00: and singing without needing to read music.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: So it requires that you just learn things like,
28:08
SPEAKER_00: yeah,
28:09
SPEAKER_00: maybe there's some words for it on the board or on the shoot,
28:11
SPEAKER_00: but really not going to have that pressure.
28:14
SPEAKER_00: That's the musical.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Okay, hit me.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Let's have a sing.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh no, hang on, simple.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: Something super simple.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay, hang on.
28:30
SPEAKER_00: I think it's really important for us to reclaim our singing.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Really, really important.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: I belong to the Avalonian Free State Choir,
28:42
SPEAKER_00: and it's total nepotism,
28:45
SPEAKER_00: because I know the choir leader Sally very well.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, I wouldn't be in there, because I'm hopeless at learning words and not so great at singing.
28:57
SPEAKER_00: But my singing has so improved.
29:00
SPEAKER_00: I've been in it a year now and I've started,
29:02
SPEAKER_00: I've stopped mouthing and I've started to let sound come out.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: It's great and everyone's been lovely.
29:08
SPEAKER_00: They've pretended not to notice that I'm not singing.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: I have to tell the pod people that when I heard the pod people
29:16
SPEAKER_00: people out there when they heard not only discovered that Sarah was doing this
29:22
SPEAKER_00: podcast but also then had her sing in the middle of it I was like oh my god she's
29:27
SPEAKER_00: good at everything she's so amazing listen to her we can all sing and then the next
29:32
SPEAKER_00: one I think you said something about your inhibitions when singing so yeah it's um
29:37
SPEAKER_00: we have we can all sing because actually I've got a song that's so if you speak you
29:41
SPEAKER_00: can sing
29:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
29:48
SPEAKER_00: I think it's a trick to stop us from really meeting our full potential to make
29:53
SPEAKER_00: singing unfashionable.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: I think that this is based on no fact at all, but I think that the church stole it.
30:02
SPEAKER_00: and made it theirs and made it impossible or illegal for people to sing other than
30:09
SPEAKER_00: to praise the Lord and then they broke down the churches so it's like there's
30:13
SPEAKER_00: nowhere for us to sing and I can totally feel in my own body from singing more that
30:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm feeling much more connected to the inside of myself and I feel good
30:28
SPEAKER_00: so um yeah and look at let's lock down all the choirs that went wild all the online
30:33
SPEAKER_00: choirs that went wild over lockdown yeah let's let's just remember that we love
30:38
SPEAKER_00: singing remember all of you that place that moment where you love singing and um
30:46
SPEAKER_00: yeah do it in the car you know just like that's a great place to start doing the
30:50
SPEAKER_00: car
30:52
SPEAKER_00: I do it at petrol stations.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's really weird when I start, it's a very strange habit.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: But it's a real, there's a real women thing as well.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: Our voice has been taken from us and I hadn't realised that really how deep that had gone in my psyche.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: For me, being a performer, I still hold stuff.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: There's cultural stuff,
31:18
SPEAKER_00: there's stuff from school,
31:21
SPEAKER_00: of people saying,
31:22
SPEAKER_00: don't show off,
31:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm good at something,
31:24
SPEAKER_00: that still is right.
31:29
SPEAKER_00: over my life, I still have fear.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: What am I saying?
31:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, God, if I have fear, am I saying that I'm a singer?
31:38
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's really helped me kind of realise how much we're all affected by it.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: And I think it's good for people who feel like they're not strong singers to
31:46
SPEAKER_00: understand that singers are terrified too,
31:48
SPEAKER_00: that it's such a big thing.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: I wrote a little song when I was on this course about the birds,
31:55
SPEAKER_00: the wonderful big trees in this space where we did this quiet eating week,
32:00
SPEAKER_00: residential week,
32:01
SPEAKER_00: and they opened their eyes,
32:02
SPEAKER_00: imagine if the birds were scared to see,
32:04
SPEAKER_00: imagine if you'd never heard their chirping,
32:07
SPEAKER_00: can you hear the silence that would bring the emptiness,
32:09
SPEAKER_00: I feel,
32:09
SPEAKER_00: definitely.
32:12
SPEAKER_00: And it was just this like,
32:18
SPEAKER_00: But that's even the message to myself, that I'm scared to sing.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: And actually even if you're saying, hey, bring us a song out there.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Have I got the right thing?
32:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a whole lot of time.
32:32
SPEAKER_00: Let's sing the wrong song at the wrong time.
32:38
SPEAKER_00: So there's a wonderful call and response thing that Frankie Armstrong who's sort of
32:44
SPEAKER_00: pioneered a lot of the Natural Voice Network
32:46
SPEAKER_00: amazing woman and she's been blind most of her life and is partly deaf and has such
32:54
SPEAKER_00: incredible ability to understand resonance and song and voice and bring it out of
32:59
SPEAKER_00: people she's an incredible human and is dedicated to her life to singing and
33:04
SPEAKER_00: helping people sing and so she does this wonderful kind of call and response thing
33:08
SPEAKER_00: we do it with hay making and I did it the other day with our choir so Ted is those
33:13
SPEAKER_00: of you who have never made hay
33:16
SPEAKER_00: Imagine you've got those long old-fashioned pitchforks with the sort of four prongs
33:21
SPEAKER_00: at the end,
33:22
SPEAKER_00: slightly curved.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: We're not making hay because that's the summer thing.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: We're going to toss the hay up to keep it air and dry in our barn.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: And what you do is you're standing, imagine sort of walking forward side to side.
33:35
SPEAKER_00: and you just when your body's doing something you kind of get out of your own head
33:38
SPEAKER_00: a little bit so we'll do a little chord response so I'll sing just anything and
33:43
SPEAKER_00: then you just copy me we're copycats we did it from birth we did it when we were
33:48
SPEAKER_00: born we did it with babies that's how you don't speak
34:04
SPEAKER_00: everyone join in at home if you want to.
34:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm keeping it low and deep for the wintery vibes.
34:33
SPEAKER_02: La da.
34:36
SPEAKER_02: Ring ding.
34:38
SPEAKER_02: Ring ding.
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SPEAKER_02: Moyo.
34:42
SPEAKER_02: Moyo.
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SPEAKER_02: Boyo.
34:46
SPEAKER_02: Boyo.
34:48
SPEAKER_02: Boyo.
34:50
SPEAKER_02: Boyo.
34:52
SPEAKER_02: Boyo.
34:53
SPEAKER_02: La la.
34:56
SPEAKER_02: La la.
34:57
SPEAKER_02: Maya.
34:58
SPEAKER_02: Maya.
35:02
SPEAKER_02: I really enjoyed that.
35:07
SPEAKER_02: It's really good.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: You've got such gorgeous resonance.
35:32
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's, you know, singing every week for a year.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's really brought that through.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm going to... I think I could do that.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: You've made me think that there's... Because I was thinking about tossing the hay.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: It's a bit like sort of making a bed in the morning.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: And there's lots of things I do regularly that I could sing at the same time as
35:57
SPEAKER_00: doing them and how that might make me feel differently about doing them.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: I've got such a dinner lady in me, it just wants to get it done.
36:08
SPEAKER_00: But I could actually enjoy the task whilst I'm doing it and bring some flow to it.
36:15
SPEAKER_00: It might make my life a little bit more.
36:16
SPEAKER_00: And so many of the songs around the world are work songs and the older songs and sorts of Scottish
36:23
SPEAKER_00: walking songs w-a-u-l-k-i-n-g and they have to pass the time on the repetitive
36:29
SPEAKER_00: things you know you're rolling the tweed and you're singing something incredible
36:33
SPEAKER_00: again it won't start now get the description get the pronunciation wrong but
36:38
SPEAKER_00: they're to pass the time and they're to they build community and they and they
36:43
SPEAKER_00: literally weave while you're weaving you know and they come from every culture
36:47
SPEAKER_00: they're in every culture they're in us to
36:50
SPEAKER_00: to make those sounds.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, we were probably singing before we were speaking words.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: It's really interesting.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: We definitely,
36:58
SPEAKER_00: you know,
36:58
SPEAKER_00: when little kids are making those sounds,
37:00
SPEAKER_00: they're making kind of woo,
37:02
SPEAKER_00: woo,
37:02
SPEAKER_00: woo,
37:03
SPEAKER_00: woo,
37:03
SPEAKER_00: and they're,
37:03
SPEAKER_00: you know,
37:04
SPEAKER_00: and they're copycats and they're copying,
37:05
SPEAKER_00: so doing that call and responses.
37:07
SPEAKER_00: It's really helpful, great.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: I loved it, thank you.
37:11
SPEAKER_00: Great, we've made our hay nice and dry for instance.
37:15
SPEAKER_00: Great, what you need, dry hay.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: What was I going to say?
37:19
SPEAKER_00: Before you sing your next song,
37:25
SPEAKER_00: You were telling me about where it came from.
37:27
SPEAKER_00: Now, I haven't quite got it, so now you say it all again over the pod, I might just slow you down a bit.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: So tell me.
37:35
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm trying to start at the beginning.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: So there's a wonderful artist called Sophie Watt, who's a potter and an artist of many different mediums.
37:47
SPEAKER_00: and she's also an amazing horsewoman and she drives carriages and carts and rides
37:53
SPEAKER_00: and she's got an incredible ride with horses and she used to go around the country
37:57
SPEAKER_00: I think a lot when she was younger just camping out just a horse and sometimes had
38:01
SPEAKER_00: a bike and a tent and that was quite easy normal for her and I think she got to,
38:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm not quite sure how old she was,
38:09
SPEAKER_00: mid-late 40s and thought I just need to see if I can still do that
38:14
SPEAKER_00: And so she had this idea of a pilgrimage that she,
38:21
SPEAKER_00: and I'm not quite sure the exact order she chose to do these in,
38:23
SPEAKER_00: but she was living in a converted chapel on the Mary Ley Line,
38:29
SPEAKER_00: which is part of the Michael and Mary Ley Lines that interweave across from Cornwall.
38:35
SPEAKER_00: right across England, kind of in a straight line, almost like the edges of a double helix.
38:42
SPEAKER_00: I don't know much about the Michael and Mary lines.
38:45
SPEAKER_00: We might do another pod about that.
38:47
SPEAKER_00: But what I do know is I saw a line going through the Michael line once,
38:53
SPEAKER_00: and it goes through all the ancient sites,
38:57
SPEAKER_00: Avebury,
38:58
SPEAKER_00: Stonehenge,
38:59
SPEAKER_00: that's what we taught.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: You can draw a line through them.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: And then someone was in the abbey,
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Billy the Celt and I were in the abbey,
39:08
SPEAKER_00: and he said,
39:08
SPEAKER_00: look at all the spires.
39:10
SPEAKER_00: And from the top of the abbey, you could see like three or four spires of churches in different villages.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: So they've all been built on what is perceived to be
39:22
SPEAKER_00: uh sacred space which are these um lines which are called lay lines and some people
39:27
SPEAKER_00: call them the michael or mary lines right yeah and they're kind of some people
39:32
SPEAKER_00: believe that they're the sort of energy lines that have powerful points on them so
39:36
SPEAKER_00: there's there's the less well-known places like
39:44
SPEAKER_00: and I'd love to,
39:47
SPEAKER_00: now having kind of immersed myself in this whole album of songs around it,
39:51
SPEAKER_00: I'd love to go explore it more because there's places where I don't know if that
39:55
SPEAKER_00: was part of this whole thread.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: So she went on this pilgrimage on her horse,
39:59
SPEAKER_00: but she...
40:00
SPEAKER_00: Hang on,
40:00
SPEAKER_00: so she went on the pilgrimage,
40:03
SPEAKER_00: she walked on her own,
40:05
SPEAKER_00: she got dropped down in at the bottom of the corner.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: But she did the lines, what's she doing?
40:09
SPEAKER_00: She's following the ancient bridal ways and the ways and some of the roads on her
40:15
SPEAKER_00: horse and every day she was commissioned by the Western,
40:19
SPEAKER_00: Royal Western Academy to,
40:21
SPEAKER_00: I think someone got wings,
40:22
SPEAKER_00: she was going to do this thing.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: do this journey and they commissioned her to draw a picture every day and every day
40:29
SPEAKER_00: she managed to somehow,
40:31
SPEAKER_00: remarkably with technology on the back of the horse,
40:35
SPEAKER_00: put them online and the Roller's Academy would print these pictures out and put
40:40
SPEAKER_00: them in a wall behind all their spaces.
40:45
SPEAKER_00: And so she was doing this every day,
40:47
SPEAKER_00: and it went on for weeks and weeks,
40:48
SPEAKER_00: and a friend of hers called Michael Cunning,
40:51
SPEAKER_00: who's actually a vet,
40:52
SPEAKER_00: he didn't call himself a poet,
40:55
SPEAKER_00: began to write little supporting messages to her,
40:59
SPEAKER_00: and where she put those posts.
41:00
SPEAKER_00: And in response to her pictures.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: In response to her pictures,
41:03
SPEAKER_00: and about her,
41:04
SPEAKER_00: yeah,
41:04
SPEAKER_00: about the picture,
41:05
SPEAKER_00: about her journey,
41:06
SPEAKER_00: and it felt as if he'd been on the phone to her that day,
41:09
SPEAKER_00: and he hadn't at all,
41:10
SPEAKER_00: but he had this sort of amazing insight into
41:14
SPEAKER_00: what it would have felt like to go from place to place in these moments in time
41:17
SPEAKER_00: that she'd captured in these drawings.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: Some of them are very sketchy,
41:20
SPEAKER_00: some are slightly cartoony,
41:22
SPEAKER_00: some of them are deeply curled up in the earth,
41:27
SPEAKER_00: lots of ravens.
41:29
SPEAKER_00: lots of really beautiful owls and animals and lots of horse energy in them and a
41:38
SPEAKER_00: few weeks in I,
41:40
SPEAKER_00: this is a very long intro to her song,
41:42
SPEAKER_00: a few weeks in I thought I need to catch up with her so being up to you know sort
41:46
SPEAKER_00: of knowing what she was doing preparing for it was a few weeks before she was going
41:51
SPEAKER_00: she left in like the first of April or something it was snowing it was freezing
41:55
SPEAKER_00: cold still and she was kind of
41:59
SPEAKER_00: So I thought, okay, catch up.
42:00
SPEAKER_00: And I went online and found these pictures and found these poems and had a very
42:05
SPEAKER_00: sort of dialed in moment with a glass of wine,
42:08
SPEAKER_00: kids gone to bed and put them all to music without intending to,
42:12
SPEAKER_00: just put about 20 of them to song and just kept pressing play.
42:17
SPEAKER_00: One of them was written very like this song that was sort of cover, sounded very like an executive song.
42:24
SPEAKER_00: And so created this accidental album
42:28
SPEAKER_00: songs about her journey wow and then record them actually in Glastonbury if you
42:33
SPEAKER_00: want to do it somewhere along that you know with that energy on that line the lay
42:38
SPEAKER_00: line energy to record them with Jem at the Hive studios originally they've been
42:43
SPEAKER_00: remastered recently um yeah so wow so it's got this amazing and we you know none of
42:49
SPEAKER_00: it was intended he didn't mean to write the poems we never planned any of it which
42:53
SPEAKER_00: is
42:55
SPEAKER_00: Which is wonderful,
42:55
SPEAKER_00: because I think if we planned that kind of project,
42:57
SPEAKER_00: it would have been a bit huge,
43:00
SPEAKER_00: but it sort of kept evolving and really run magically.
43:05
SPEAKER_00: we have a sign in the kitchen that says art is the thing that nobody asks you to do
43:10
SPEAKER_00: and I think about that sometimes about what am I tinkering with what am I playing
43:16
SPEAKER_00: with nobody asked me to do the podcast but I'm glad you're listening I'm so glad
43:21
SPEAKER_00: you're doing the podcast by the way I am like the super fan sitting on the sofa
43:27
SPEAKER_00: being like
43:32
SPEAKER_00: book as well in my view so play us one of these songs from this beautiful album we
43:39
SPEAKER_00: are slap bang on the ley line guys playing you this song so if we disapparate after
43:45
SPEAKER_00: the song is finished then you know
43:48
SPEAKER_00: It's called Time for Home.
43:49
SPEAKER_00: We may go home.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: We might, okay, I'm going to get really comfy.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: So it's called Time for Home and it's one of the last ones that I wrote where she
43:59
SPEAKER_00: was bringing,
44:00
SPEAKER_00: she actually did it in two stages.
44:01
SPEAKER_00: She did it on one beautiful horse called Oski.
44:04
SPEAKER_00: He was about four years old, beautiful, Appaloosa, and he was a horsey person.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: He's kind of spotty, not a very big mane.
44:12
SPEAKER_00: He's just like the old looking horse, but he's just...
44:15
SPEAKER_00: He's got the most amazing energies, the gentlest, beautiful, goofy soul.
44:20
SPEAKER_00: And he was quite young and she was like, I think he's done enough.
44:24
SPEAKER_00: She's done like a hundred days or something.
44:26
SPEAKER_00: And so she was bringing him home and then going to continue with her little
44:31
SPEAKER_00: Dartmoor pony and cart in a second.
44:34
SPEAKER_00: So this is time for home.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Oski's going home.
44:39
SPEAKER_00: Oski, honestly, I just, I have, oh, it's just the mystery of the soul.
44:43
SPEAKER_00: I love that holds it very deeply.
44:44
SPEAKER_00: He's still,
44:44
SPEAKER_00: she's actually a soldier,
44:45
SPEAKER_00: but he's still in our valley,
44:47
SPEAKER_00: and every time I go in,
44:52
SPEAKER_00: I just have to go in there.
44:54
SPEAKER_00: I had a car accident once when my car flew in the air,
44:57
SPEAKER_00: and it rolled three times,
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SPEAKER_00: and it landed upside down.
45:01
SPEAKER_00: And I was advised to spend time with horses.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: And I was expecting,
45:06
SPEAKER_00: because this person who I said,
45:09
SPEAKER_00: you know,
45:09
SPEAKER_00: you're way out of your body,
45:10
SPEAKER_00: you need to spend time with horses.
45:11
SPEAKER_00: And I'd not spent much time with horses before.
45:14
SPEAKER_00: And I was expecting that to be very grounded, like four feet on the ground.
45:19
SPEAKER_00: And actually what I discovered when I was with the horses, that it's constant adjustment.
45:24
SPEAKER_00: flow constant movement you know they didn't for a second keep all four feet on the
45:30
SPEAKER_00: ground and and through that through spending time with them and being able to kind
45:35
SPEAKER_00: of allow that constant movement to come through my body and adjust my body as it it
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SPEAKER_00: needed um i did start to get kind of healer
45:46
SPEAKER_00: They are incredible.
45:47
SPEAKER_00: I have also owned a very difficult horse who was very much a soul challenge and he
45:53
SPEAKER_00: was living with Oski at the time at some points of me having him and it was such a
45:57
SPEAKER_00: contrast having this little teenager horse basically and then having Oski in the
46:02
SPEAKER_00: same space.
46:06
SPEAKER_00: I wish you were mine so yeah they sometimes come to us to teach us things yeah
46:12
SPEAKER_00: maybe we'll find ways to welcome our teenagers teenagers but sometimes they're not
46:19
SPEAKER_00: welcome are they but let's sometimes they come in anyway they're welcome they're
46:24
SPEAKER_00: really welcome okay I may when you're finished singing I may do a small journey
46:31
SPEAKER_00: afterwards but we'll see how it goes
46:46
SPEAKER_03: Why daylines and rains on night?
46:51
SPEAKER_03: Early mornings and something to find.
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SPEAKER_03: A cloud of snow, sun chod through struggle.
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SPEAKER_03: Rankin round me, sky and rain apart.
47:12
SPEAKER_03: Smiles to my eyes, bosky strides on one.
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SPEAKER_03: Ride and ride onto the tour until we can now move.
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SPEAKER_03: and no more.
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SPEAKER_03: Black cloud on a Sunday morning have we come our way.
47:48
SPEAKER_03: Michael and Mary lay.
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SPEAKER_03: Dark skies
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SPEAKER_03: A couple green arms such as I have seen Come on,
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SPEAKER_03: ski,
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SPEAKER_03: turn with me I'll hold your end with your main You and me alone Time for hope
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SPEAKER_03: Time for home.
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SPEAKER_03: Ooh.
48:37
SPEAKER_03: Ooh.
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SPEAKER_03: Ooh.
49:16
SPEAKER_00: Deep inside all of us is a cave.
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SPEAKER_00: Time for home.
49:26
SPEAKER_00: always come away and we find ourselves at the mouth of that cave ready to go deeper
49:33
SPEAKER_00: in us and we call for good company whether that's a scent or a person or an animal
49:46
SPEAKER_00: or a guide we call for good company and it comes and so we walk deeper
49:55
SPEAKER_00: into this cave, into our winter, into our soul, into our safe place deep, deep, deep inside.
50:09
SPEAKER_00: And we know that the fires will burn in here and the candles will be lit and there
50:15
SPEAKER_00: will be a deep welcome for us.
50:18
SPEAKER_00: And we look around this place and we see who's there,
50:24
SPEAKER_00: what is feeding us, where we're getting our warmth from, our joy, our delight and our deep rest.
50:36
SPEAKER_00: And we find a place in this cave where we lay down for a while.
50:41
SPEAKER_00: It suits us just so.
50:48
SPEAKER_00: And as we lay there, our body drops
50:54
SPEAKER_00: our neck letting go of our head, our shoulders melting, body resting back, resting back, resting back.
51:09
SPEAKER_00: Breathing, resting, deepening into the water.
51:24
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Ted.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: And I wouldn't call that a long introduction into that song.
51:32
SPEAKER_00: I would have called that a great story.
51:34
SPEAKER_00: It's a great story.
51:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a great story.
51:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's inspiring about what is possible in a life and how we can live life differently.
51:47
SPEAKER_00: So thank you for that.
51:48
SPEAKER_00: And I just think what you were saying before, there's something that one you create about conspiring
51:57
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it doesn't matter where inspiration comes from, it's just it's all around us.
52:02
SPEAKER_00: It can be completely unplanned.
52:06
SPEAKER_00: That's not planned.
52:09
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and collaborate.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: I would like to do more collaboration next year with different artists, I'm sure.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: Ah yes, so when I was getting my Christmas decorations out, I found some books, some story books.
52:30
SPEAKER_00: that I thought I'd run out of.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: So we should be getting some storybooks for Christmas, guys.
52:37
SPEAKER_00: And if anybody wants one, you can message me on Substack for listening this year to this podcast.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: I'd love to send you a storybook.
52:48
SPEAKER_00: So if you message me with your address, I'll send it to you.
52:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was a nice thing.
52:55
SPEAKER_00: How can people get in touch with you?
52:56
SPEAKER_00: How can they listen to your horse?
52:59
SPEAKER_00: What's your horse album called?
53:01
SPEAKER_00: It's called Earthline.
53:02
SPEAKER_00: Earthline.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: So it is on, it's on Bandcamp.
53:06
SPEAKER_00: It's not on my Bandcamp, but it's on Bandcamp's Earthline.
53:11
SPEAKER_00: It's also the four, we've been remastering some of the tracks and putting them on Spotify.
53:15
SPEAKER_00: So there's four up there, three up there now, and it's Headwaters.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: coming in the spring.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: And then there's also the interstellar song.
53:29
SPEAKER_00: Brilliant.
53:31
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what it's called?
53:33
SPEAKER_00: It's the album.
53:40
SPEAKER_00: all the songs about Sophie's journey, Sophie's story.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: And then,
53:45
SPEAKER_00: currently I just have,
53:46
SPEAKER_00: when Solstice is just the one single that's not part of the album,
53:50
SPEAKER_00: there's more coming,
53:51
SPEAKER_00: there's a song called Billion Atoms coming up next year,
53:53
SPEAKER_00: which is what we're going to do for a few times.
53:56
SPEAKER_00: But we can find you there.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: You can find me on Spotify,
54:00
SPEAKER_00: you can find me on Bandcamp,
54:01
SPEAKER_00: you can find me on Instagram,
54:04
SPEAKER_00: Ted Rogers Music,
54:07
SPEAKER_00: and all the other places.
54:08
SPEAKER_00: She's going red.
54:09
SPEAKER_00: It's just, you know, all of this.
54:12
SPEAKER_00: It's wonderful.
54:12
SPEAKER_00: It's free marketing.
54:13
SPEAKER_00: so it's yes it's um um tick tock would you believe but they're all ted waters music
54:21
SPEAKER_00: right so we just we'll just duck duck goose ted waters music and there we go um and
54:28
SPEAKER_00: um
54:29
SPEAKER_00: I would like to invite you to come on the 19th of December to see some storytelling and music.
54:38
SPEAKER_00: Sarah Curtis is going to be playing some music and we're going to tell the story of
54:43
SPEAKER_00: the Snow Queen and a couple of other things.
54:45
SPEAKER_00: I asked a lot of people what their favourite story was and a lot of people have been saying Snow Queen.
54:51
SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to say, OK, I don't have that much of a connection to it.
54:56
SPEAKER_00: So I'm looking forward to telling it.
54:58
SPEAKER_00: and there's lots of potential for deep magic so that's on the 19th of December if
55:03
SPEAKER_00: you've got the stamina after that I am actually telling a bedtime story at a
55:08
SPEAKER_00: cabaret around the corner oh I've just remembered actually that I think that this
55:12
SPEAKER_00: is going to go out a little after that so you might miss it guys never fear I hope
55:23
SPEAKER_00: you energetically buy your tickets but that art
55:28
SPEAKER_00: The only other thing I wanted to say to you before we go is that at the end of February,
55:35
SPEAKER_00: I booked out the retreat house at the Chalicewell Gardens,
55:38
SPEAKER_00: which is so holy,
55:41
SPEAKER_00: so magical,
55:42
SPEAKER_00: really.
55:42
SPEAKER_00: I ran a retreat there last year and the profoundity of the sacredness of the space really was incredible.
55:52
SPEAKER_00: and what i do is i'll take a story as a framework and then we create ritual
55:58
SPEAKER_00: initiation any anything in you that you need to let go of that you want to be
56:03
SPEAKER_00: witnessed that wants to emerge we create ceremony um in the gardens at night which
56:09
SPEAKER_00: you have to ourselves and we also use the white spring um through through
56:15
SPEAKER_00: storytelling it's exquisite so i've got
56:20
SPEAKER_00: i think left on that so um yeah let me know if you've and i've been awful as you
56:29
SPEAKER_00: know at um getting it out there so people you just have to get in touch if you're
56:34
SPEAKER_00: interested right now um get in touch with me where can people find you then um
56:44
SPEAKER_00: well uh i'm not really sure but you can if you go if you duck duck goose and try
56:50
SPEAKER_00: not to say the g word um mooney's mythic podcast then i'll come up in certain
56:56
SPEAKER_00: spaces and um yeah but also you can buy your cup of tea if they want to find it so
57:07
SPEAKER_00: i do have a patreon page and i do have some patreons
57:10
SPEAKER_00: thank you very very very much you know who you are i'm thinking of you and saying
57:14
SPEAKER_00: your names in my heart right now
57:16
SPEAKER_00: yeah if you think oh that woman needs a cup of coffee although she doesn't because
57:20
SPEAKER_00: she's given up coffee two weeks and counting but she needs hydrating let's say then
57:26
SPEAKER_00: you can buy me a cup of coffee on Patreon and that's Moony's Mythic podcast as well
57:32
SPEAKER_00: I think go for it you know it'll be the it'll give you that warm fuzzy Christmas
57:40
SPEAKER_00: feeling if you can afford it and if you can't no problem come and listen anyway
57:44
SPEAKER_00: lots of love guys see you next week um please get in touch let me know what your um
57:50
SPEAKER_00: winter's looking like and what you're um liking or not liking about this pod lots
57:55
SPEAKER_00: of love bye bye