I made a video today.
I had every intention of talking on several issues, but found myself almost mute as I walked the woodland.
A strange kind of afternoon, for there seemed to be little birdsong too.
Silence appeared to be universal.
This often happens after Samhain…though I know not why.
For my part I’m inclined to go with the flow and whatever the Cosmos is channelling.
There appears to be a ramp-up to conflict towards war happening in the world of Man…deliberate and dark.
It grieves me.
The elements of abusive and hate-filled Patriarchy, that has fuelled fear, horror and utter chaos for over two thousand years, are eagerly moving towards one last onslaught.
There is so much hate it is almost possible to taste it on the air!
Politicians and religious leaders are doing their utmost to hold back the tide of change, issuing decrees and telling falsehoods to keep humankind from evolving…yes, evolving…for we have been revolving for millennia!
You are reading these words and looking at the images of Bealtaine and feeling confused…
Yet this is the true reality…this is the Great Mother rising!
Her energy is so strong that it manifests reality wherever She finds a portal.
And a portal She has found here for sure!
This is love and joy from the Great Creatrix!
Remember her imprisonment in the matrix of monoculture…like prison, grey, bland and impoverished?
There was no killing, just planting and nurturing the Great Mother back to health…something so utterly alien to political and religious leaders!
Force and diktats being their order of the day!
My tolerance for these people of chaos and destruction is now zero.
I cannot and will not tolerate their verbiage!
In the continuing attempt at paying my way I have opened a Cottage Gift Shop…
https://bealtainecottage.com/cottage-gift-shop/
In the Bealtaine Project tradition of putting it out there for free, I’ve made another video (No Ads!)
Blessings and more power to you XXX Colette
I keep myself occupied in the world as I know it…the one where I weave wreathes from Willow and Dogwood…
The one where cruelty and chaos are not allowed entry!
You’ll understand my terror, for that’s why you’re here…to touch base with reality! 
Yes, this is reality…as it was meant to be and in the world most inhabit, is not! 
I have always chosen this reality, both as a child living in poverty and as a mother creating sanctuary for her children in London. 
I have always sought out Mother Earth, wherever she was hidden from view by retail parks and shopping centres, housing estates and suburbia. 
I chose this reality. 
I planted it, brought it forward, share it and allow it’s force to move out in waves of healing and peace.
We all choose our own realities and what we allow carelessly in or strive to keep out! 
The Lughnasadh Garden is another reality being birthed at Bealtaine. 
Just as wanton destruction is being justified all over this Sacred Earth, the need for creation is more necessary than ever in the history of what we laughingly refer to as “civilisation!”
Regardless of party/gender/colour or creed, politicians take us to war and care nothing for the protection of Mother Earth…and that in my view is unforgivable! 
As I approach my birthday and my 61st year, I am becoming convinced more and more of the need to keep one’s head down and continue to nurture and care for Mother Earth. 
It’s all I care to do, for there is much destruction and violence all around that has reached a point of insanity! 
I don’t know where to go from here, except to keep doing as I do and keep this website going…where, I do not know! 
Why has the government of 
It concerns me deeply to imagine the almost two thousand children who are awakening this morning in their homeless temporary accommodation…mostly Bed and Breakfast only hotels! 
I live in a comfortable little cottage, but grew up in circumstances not dissimilar to the homeless children of Ireland today, in that I was a child of an economically disadvantaged family. 
This is what economic inequality looked like in Ireland 53 yrs ago…that’s me on the left.
Yet over half a century ago, despite the cramped conditions, we had a house we called home! 
There should not be a homeless crisis here in Ireland…or anywhere for that matter!
There were 5,811 people ‘officially homeless’ in emergency homeless accommodation in February 2016 – an increase of 48% over the previous February. This figure includes adults (3,930) and children with their families (1,881), but it does not include the ‘hidden homeless’ who are living in squats or ‘sofa surfing’ with friends or people who are living in domestic violence refuges.
If every country in the western world can find endless money for war and bankers…need I say more? 
The Irish Government should be particularly ashamed this morning in the wake of yesterdays revelations that over sixty per cent of all houses sold last year in Ireland were to cash buyers…most of whom commanded the wealth of so-called Vulture Funds! 
In this so-called republic, for any child to go to bed hungry or awaken in cramped squalor is an utter disgrace. 
I picked up an old poetry book of mine and randomly opened it to find Yeats and this…
The clock moves to just after 4pm and the sky outside is darkening fast. 
I rejoice in days like these, for one feels alive and adrenaline pumps to the surface, as the full force of Mother Nature moves across the sky and the trees tremble. 
There is a conference in Paris today…on Climate Change. 
War and militarism are the key components of what fuels Climate Change! 
Everything, yes everything is connected! 
Jack worries not…there are times I envy him!
