LAMMAS CIRCLE When Women had Wings

When Women Had Wings

A Lammas Circle
Bird Women & Ancient Memory

2.5hr Online Gathering ~ Two Ceremony times available
Sunday February 1
11.00-1.30am OR 6.00-8.30pm Sydney time

USA: Saturday January 31, 4-6.30pm PST

There was a time when women wore wings.

Across Neolithic Europe, women shaped clay into bird-bodied forms. They danced with beaked masks, shapeshifted between worlds, and carried the language of wind, feather, and season in their bones. In fairy tales, swan maidens and goose women still remember this way of flying beyond the known world, loving deeply, returning with vision.


Bird song was the first language
It is still said to be the voice of prophecy

This Lammas/Imbolc, the threshold of harvest and migration, Brigid’s Day we gather in circle to listen for the oracular wisdom of the language of the birds.

When Women Had Wings is a two-hour ceremonial circle devoted to the ancient memory of bird women: swans, cranes and winged goddesses who cross between earth and sky, life and death, lover and beloved. Through the symbols in fairy tales, mythic journeying, movement, and sacred presence, we trace the red thread that connects us, weaving our bodies into deep cosmic time, when earth and spirit were not separate, and we knew how to fly.

This is an evening of story and love.
Of wrapping ourselves in a mantle of feathers and wild wise dreaming.
Of remembering what lifts us when the north wind calls.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

• Mythic meditation journeys connecting with swan and brigid, and the memory of our earliest lineages of shapeshifting bird women

• Ancient bird-woman motifs from archaeology, myth, and fairy tales

• Old European stories of swan maidens, wild geese and nettle weaving women

• Somatic movement and gentle dance inspired by bird bodies and wings

• Bird-language as oracular wisdom:; signs, symbols, and messages for this season

• Receiving gifts from swan women to carry into dreams, prayers, and daily life
  

This is a space for visioning, nourishment, and upliftment

TWO CEREMONY TIMES AVAILABLE
AUST: Sunday February 1
11.00 - 1.30pm OR 6.00-8.30pm Sydney time

USA: Saturday January 31, 4.00-6.30pm PST

- same zoom link for both times-

2.5hr ONLINE gathering

Cost $AU40

The recording replay of the circle will be sent to all registered participants.

YOUR FACILITATOR

Jacqui Bushell has been dancing with the mythic imagination for much of her life, through her love of the archetypal wisdom held in fairy tales and her work as a spiritual herbalist, listening for the voices and stories in plans, rocks and landscape. She is passionate about encouraging others to explore their own mythology at the borderlands of psyche, body, culture and land. She has been facilitating women’s circles, ceremonies, retreats, workshops and courses in Australia and internationally for 30 years.

Jacqui guides people in awakening their creative soul through connecting with the mysteries of the earth and their own sacred nature. She weaves together plant spirit alchemy, energetic healing, embodiment practices, storytelling, journey work and earth connection to inspire transformational shifts in the way people see themselves and their world. Her work is always empowering and experiential, inviting you to come home to a deep sense of belonging and kinship with nature.

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