Sacred Land and Lineage Circles
Welcome to the next evolution of Sacred Kernow: Land and Lineage Circles
Supporting Your Connection to Land, Lineage, Self and Community
You – all parts of you – are so very welcome here.
For the last four years, I have been deepening my relationship with my lineage and the land here in Cornwall. In 2023, I designed a series of unique women's circles that I am now ready to gently introduce to the world. These circles are for anyone curious about deepening their relationship to land, lineage, self and community.
The Sacred Kernow Land and Lineage Circles weave together all my learning, experience and passions:
Exploration of my Irish Celtic Lineage
Honouring Cycles, Seasons and the Wheel of the Year
Cornish Celtic traditions, symbolism and spirituality
Land connection and stewardship
Women's Circle traditions
Social Justice, equity and inclusion
Embodied movement
Ritual, Rites of Passage and Ceremony
Story-telling and voice activation
Somatic, shamanic journeying
Why do Women’s Circles feel so important right now?
“Love and justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Women gathering is, and always has been, a revolutionary act. Women’s Circles are intentional, powerful gatherings where we can build community, listen openly, use our voices, be heard and be seen. Circles are places where we dismantle hierarchy and competition and instead practice self-focus, community care and sacred activism.
Through the medicine of circle, we come into deeper relationship with self, land and lineage and we dare to dream into being a new reality for ourselves, our communities and the world.
What makes Land + Lineage Circles unique?
Many of us look outside of ourselves, our culture and our land for meaning and spiritual connection. The Sacred Kernow Land and Lineage Circles encourage the exploration of your own cultural, land and ancestral lineage through the gentle arc of 14 circles.
Each circle has a theme inspired by the land here in Cornwall - however, these are all archetypal concepts that stretch across cultures and geography. Each offering is supported by a sacred site, an energy/deity and a plant spirit and invite you into your own embodied relationship with place, ancestry and culture.
For transparency, all circles will have the same format:
Introduction
Calling in the Directions and Land Acknowledgement
Handcasting and Community Agreements
Somatic Shamanic Meditation
Oracle Card Pull and Partner share
Deep dive into the theme
Community share
Embodied movement
Activity to support the theme (ie Ceremony, Ritual or Rite of passage)
Soul moment
Close
Our journey through Land and Lineage will follow this arc:
· Circle 1 (2 May 2024): Introduction and Opening Ceremony
· Circle 2 (15 May 2024): Meeting Your Land held by the Spirit of Cornwall and Creating your Feelings Compass
· Circle 3 (5 June 2024): Exploring Possibility and Receiving the Maiden Rites of Brigid
· Circle 4 (19 June 2024): Honouring Cycles with Goddess Domnu's support and Creating an Earth Offering Practice
· Circle 5 (3 July 2024): Connecting with your Inner Child and Working with Fairy/Piskey Energy to Honour your Voice
· Circle 6 (17 July 2024): Working with Hawthorne Plant Medicine through a Heart Opening Earth Offering and Tea Ceremony
· Circle 7 (7 August 2024): Exploring Mother Energy and Receiving the Mother Rites of Ker
· Circle 8 (21 August 2024): Connecting with the Divine Feminine through a Water Ceremony supported by the energies of the Mermaids of Lyonesse
· Circle 9 (4 September 2024): Exploring the Divine Masculine and Receiving the Father Rites of Cernunnos
· Circle 10 (18 September 2024): Embodying Sacred Union with the support of the Michael/Mary Line and a Celtic Tree of Life Ceremony
· Circle 11 (9 October 2024): Exploring Inner Wisdom and Receiving the Crone Rites
· Circle 12 (30 October 2024): Honouring Ancestors through an Earth Offering during the Kalan Gwav Portal
· Circle 13 (13 November 2024): Exploring Sovereignty and Receiving the Dragon Rites
· Circle 14 (20 November 2024): Co-created final circle and Closing Ceremony
All circles will take place from 7.30-9.45pm on Zoom. In between circles, there will be a community WhatsApp group to support this journey and optional enrichment activities (spiritual homework) to deepen your relationship to each theme.
To ensure these circles are offered with the highest levels of integrity, accessibility and meaning, I have gathered 10 women over the last 8 months to help shape their design. This is some of their feedback:
· We created a sisterhood of people from different lines and lineages, different walks of life, ethnicities, religions. I feel we definitely left the world behind when in circle together. We took steps back into the old ways and practices to enhance our way forward. We paused time in circle. We were truly heard in circle.
· I feel blessed to have been a part of this container. Once again you have put so much love, thought, care and energy into the planning on space holding. Beautiful!
· The value of coming together in circle, sharing our voices and being held, knowing there is no way to get it wrong is very liberating for this former perfectionist!
· I loved the content and felt it was great anchor point for the last 7 months. I loved learning about myself more in terms of my lineage and connecting to a deeper wisdom inside me.
· It was a great experience - you hold space in such a wonderful way.
· I love that there was no judgement and that we had space for all beliefs.
· This was a very powerful experience for me. The reminder that there is no way to do it wrong is incredibly powerful. It is that freedom to be ourselves that is rarely found but so needed. Thank you once again for sharing your wisdom and magic.
· I love this container that you have created and how it’s grown circle by circle.
· This has been a really powerful experience for me. The visualisation, dance and writing rituals created a beautiful container for me to process things I had been working through. Thank you.
· Dancing in each circle gives me a way to honour my experience in the best way my body knows how: through movement. I found the writing rituals very powerful as they enabled me to draw together so many different aspects of my past. The meditation at the start of circles was an amazing portal for me that I feel facilitated me to go deeper during the rest of the evening.
· Just beautiful. I would never have done any of this work on my own and I feel it will enrich my life moving forward and it has facilitated healing I needed to do for both myself and my lineage.
· I don't want this to end! This is a beautiful container, Meghan.
Will you join me?
All of me is infused into these circles and I would love for you to bring your unique heart to them as well. I am now looking for 10 women to join me in May for The Remembering: A six-month journey through the 14 Sacred Kernow Land and Lineage Circles. The investment from you will be £33 for each circle (paid bi-monthly, totalling £462) or £380 for all 14 circles (paid in advance). This includes a unique package delivered to you, which contains materials to support each circle (UK residents only - if outside the UK, I would ask you to assist with shipping costs).
If you would like to be one of the 10 women to be part of The Remembering, please book your place by 25th April. To pay in full, please go to https://paypal.me/meghanefield?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB choosing friends and family and pay £380. You can also pay via BACS: Meghan Field Consultancy, Barclays, 20-11-43, 13387917. To pay monthly, please see link below.
Circle Teacher Training
I will be offering in person and online Land and Lineage Circle training in Autumn 2024 for anyone who wants to dive deeper into running these circles for themselves.
Let’s have a conversation
If you have any questions, please get in touch at hello@meghanfield.com or +447950963730.
In love, devotion and service,
Meghan, Sacred Kernow