Ritual, Place, and Remembering What Was Ours
- Jan 12
- 4 min read
Why Have We Turned Out Instead Of In?
Capitalism has suppressed our seasonal earth based wisdom and we need to claim it back.
Happy New Year.
Or is it?
Anyone else feel off this time of year?
My body has refused to cooperate with the NYE narrative being sold for sometime now.
Because something ancient is missing.
I started delving into books about ritual through bone tiredness, and questioning everything. I like to analyse. It’s a gift. It helps me to discover, learn and embody clarity. When people tell me I analyse too much? I smile.
If only they knew.
Like many of us in the West, I have spent years learning fragments of other traditions. Christianity, Yoga, Meditation, Buddhism, a touch of Ayurveda, a sprinkle of astrology, human design, gene keys…I love it all. It’s all useful and meaningful stuff and as practices - they work but to me, often feel imported.
Like putting my favourite houseplants in the wrong soil.
My curiosity lead me to search backwards. Myths, folklore, Godess stories…you name it.
When I moved to Gozo, a land that time almost forgot…the land beneath my feet spoke to me loud and clear. It made me question what I once knew, before time was sliced into me like neat blocks and sold back to me as productivity.
Everything started to make sense to me in a completely different way.
