Sunset Journal
What if you began your day at sunset?
Five years ago, I asked myself a question. Then I asked my clients, community, and anyone else I thought might be interested: What would life look like if I believed that my day started at dusk, not dawn? This question was fuelled by my experiences as a feminine embodiment coach. Starting my day at sunset felt like a devotion to the feminine essence, to the goddess. Beginning my day with the promise of darkness: a creative incubation, a time of rest and receptivity, before surrendering into the dreaming hours and the revelations that may come from my night dreams.
It felt like an antidote to productivity culture, where you begin your day like a warrior ready to take up arms and battle through life. In the neon demands of a 24/7, switched-on life, it felt radical to contemplate my day in an ancestral way. In the Irish language, one of the words for sunset is luí na gréine, which means the ‘lying down of the sun’. The sunset felt like lying down with the ancestors.
The Sunset Journal is a printed creative journal for anyone who feels inspired to cultivate a practice of beginning your day at sunset. It is infused with the wisdom of our ancestors, but for contemporary life. There is much research on the healing benefits of evening journalling, and also on how our perception of time can lead to chronic stress and depression. We need disruptors here, and these ancestral teachings have helped me massively in what can feel like my own time-poor life.
Begin your day with dreaming, not doing.
Join the Sunset Way.
Preorder for October 2026
Begin your day the Celtic way. Our ancestors likely began their day at sunset, not sunrise, as we do today. A new day was entered with rest, with dreaming, with the promise of the stars. The Sunset Journal is an invitation to reclaim this rhythm. A creative journal infused with Irish ancestral wisdom for anyone ready to reimagine their relationship with time.
Content includes:
Explorations of this sunset way of perceiving time, drawn from classical, mythological and folkloric sources
Reflections on how our creativity can be fuelled by the darkness of dreams and the Otherworld, inspired by the Irish bardic tradition
Insights into the mystical 8th-century text, the Cauldron of Poesy, and how we can tend to three cauldrons: Cauldron of Warming, Cauldron of Motion, and Cauldron of Wisdom as a framework for beginning our day at sunset
Over three months (13 weeks) of double-page Daily Spreads with journal prompts to begin each day at sunset
Plus 13 Sunset Distillations: a practice of gathering, distilling and decoding your daily entries into a unique symbol lexicon, your own inner oracle
Design features:
Size: A5, a perfect size for journalling as the sun sets at home or wherever you find yourself on a given day
Length: 245 pages, full colour throughout including original collage artwork
Paper: Printed on Cyclus, a premium uncoated stock made entirely from post-consumer recycled fibre, with a soft natural tone and a tactile surface made for writing
Binding: Open spine binding for a unique design that lies completely flat, ideal for journalling, with foldable flaps
Made in Ireland: Created locally with artisan design and printed by an award-winning Dublin print house
For you if: You’re drawn to soul, intention and beautiful things
Preorder:
There are 130 copies available to the public. Preorder now to guarantee your copy from this limited first print run, posted to you by October 2026, just as we move into the dark months and the coming of Samhain
Postage:
Postage is provided by An Post, Ireland's national post service. Shipping options vary by destination. Many European orders can choose standard or tracked and insured; some destinations, including the US, are tracked and insured only. All tracked orders are insured. Please note that customs duties and US tariffs for non-EU orders are the responsibility of the buyer
If you order up to two copies, you will not be charged for additional postage. For larger orders please reach out to support@celticembodiment.com
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