Lughnasa: The First Harvest of the Celtic Year
August 1: A Time to Gather with Writers & Creatives
from Around the World
HARVEST:
a half-day online retreat for Mythic-Minded Writers.
Through storytelling, writing, and conversation, we’ll reflect on our creative year &
imagine what’s possible in the seasons to come.
Your writing life involves so much more than putting words on a page.
It’s about your soul’s journey, exploring your dreamworld, tending to your heart, and thinking about how you want to heal and shape our world.
This retreat is designed to deepen your creativity at many levels:
The inspiration and renewed perspectives that come from looking at modern life through the lens of an ancient story
The opportunity to pause and review all you’ve created - recently, and over your lifetime
The support that comes with writing and sharing with a community
The accountability and structure to make sustainable plans for your next creative projects
HARVEST:
The Lughnasa Writers’ Retreat
August 1 from 2 to 5 PM ET on Zoom
Your Investment: 109 USD for the three-hour event
Note: this event is free when you join our Writers’ Knot community.
Learn more below!
The Mythology of the Celtic Festival of Lughnasa
Lughnasa is a special day on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. It is the first harvest and a time for celebration and abundance.
The festival bears the name of Lugh, one of the Irish gods of the mythical race of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, who is associated with the sun and with great skill.
But, though the holiday is named for Lugh, it was actually a celebration in honor of his foster mother Tailtú.
She was a goddess who cleared the plains of Ireland and gave the people the gift of agriculture… and then died of exhaustion.
What a strange and terrible paradox! What an opportunity to think about our own patterns of creativity, service, and overproduction!
During HARVEST, we’ll dance with those contradictions and rework the myth so we can explore:
What we’ve been working on, what we’ve accomplished, and have not accomplished as a result of those efforts
the importance of celebrating our work and effort
how we how are serving and sharing our work with others
how we’re allotting our energy
we are nurturing ourselves
and, the ways we’re destroying ourselves with all this productivity
During our time together, I’ll take you into the world of Tailtú’s story.
You’ll be invited to engage in “myth work” - the practice of exploring an age-old tale in order to help you make meaning of your own experience and our collective experience.
Or… join us for free when you enroll in the Writers’ Knot Community.
Our global online community meets weekly for prompted writing time.
Your membership also includes deep-dive writers’ salon gatherings to discuss your work and explore questions about the creative process.
We connect in a vibrant online community to share work and resources.
The next session of the Writers’ Knot begins in August, just after this Lughnasa retreat.
You decide whether you’d like to be part of the cohort that meets on Mondays at 7 PM ET or the cohort that meets on Wednesdays at noon ET!
Your investment in the Writers’ Knot: $109 per month (five month commitment required)