Celtic Soul Garden
Discover the key to your Creative Destiny
11th August-3rd October 2025
FROM THE STARS
When I first launched this course, I thought it was about aligning the creative process to the Celtic Seasons. I soon realised that this creative cauldron holds a much greater vision, and this is to connect people with their dán, their soul’s calling or creative destiny in our tradition. As one participant put it:
‘My soul has been longing to be part of something like this.’
Your Dán-Desire
Your desire will be your north star for our your Celtic Soul Garden journey should you choose to take it.
Or what I call, your dán-desire.
1.Dán
The Old Irish word, dán can mean the poetry that is alive within us, a creative or artistic skill, a calling, destiny, or fate—a soul’s unique gift.
What I find most fascinating about our dán is that it is described both as a gift bestowed upon us by the divine and as a gift that we offer back to the divine. To use contemporary language, our soul is endowed with a calling by the Universe, and when we live into this calling, we give back to the Universe.
2. Desire
The etymology of the word, desire, is said to derive from the Latin, de sidere, meaning, ‘from the stars’. The star is often understood as the archetype of the ‘Self’, the higher self of soul. So when we get clear on our dán-desire, we align to that north star, the higher self to guide our creative path.
‘Feminine consciousness, as I see it, means going into that grounding and recognising there who you are as a soul. It has to do with love, with receiving—most of us in this culture are terrified of receiving. It has to do with surrendering to your own destiny, consciously—not just blindly, but recognising with full consciousness your strengths, your limitations.’
Marion Woodman, Worshipping Illusions Interview
GROUNDED IN SEASONS
In her beautiful book, The Secret Garden: Temenos for Individuation, Margaret Eileen Meredith describes how the secret garden is a symbol of our soul. When we uncover the lost key, follow the unseen guidance to the hidden door, and have the courage to turn the lock, we enter into our secret place, into our soul. We experience all seasons and grow from here.
‘As every gardener knows, it is not only the blossom or the harvest that is important. It is in all the phases of the garden—the seasons, the new growth, the decay, the fallow periods; the planting and waiting; the partnership with nature. All of these matter.’
Margaret Eileen Meredith
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, in her seminal Women Who Run With the Wolves, encourages her readers to keep a garden, be it a psychic one or one with ‘mud, dirt, green’, because it helps us to move with rather than against the inhalations and exhalations of our own true nature as part of the greater ‘wild Nature’.
In this live online course, once you have anchored into your dán-desire, you will explore how to work creatively using the seasonal wisdom of the Celtic Calendar (rooted in the Irish tradition) at any time of year.
You will journey through the seasons of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa, creating in a way that feels cyclic, organic and deeply honouring of your three bodies: your earth body, your creative body, and your dream body (soul).
Our ancestors believed everything was alive with soul. That our souls are connected to the Anima Mundi, the ‘World’s Soul’. Every living being on this magnificent mothership beats as one. To work in a way aligned to the principles of the Celtic Seasons is deeply honouring of our ancestors.
We live in an overculture that sees itself separate from, and superior to, nature. Giving way to nature’s intelligence in our creative work can be an act of liberation from the oppressive and fear-based narratives we are faced with every day.
Remember, not many of nature’s creatures are forced to live inauthentically in the way that humans do to survive. This is an innovative and profound way to bring ancestral wisdom to modern life.
‘The goal of life
is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.’
Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living
Your Curriculum
11th August-3rd October 2025
You will experience 7 live 90-minute classes over 8 weeks (hosted on Zoom) along with guided practices, creative tools and rituals as weekly ‘fieldwork’ in your Celtic Soul Garden. You will have access to a private, interactive group portal where you can download your fieldwork, ask questions, share reflections, and support your fellow soul gardeners. You'll continue to have access to everything for a further six months after the course finishes.
You can view your curriculum online or download the eBook.
Enter the Garden
‘Celtic Soul Garden was an open door to the calling that I’ve always had in me, but which I couldn't name or harness. Jen has an amazing gift for teaching and storytelling. Being able to map my own energy and creative process to the Wheel of the Year and to the archetypal energies of Celtic gods and goddesses has shifted how I’m approaching not just my current projects but my long-term vision for my future.’
- Pauline, USA
Early Bird available until 1st July
(After this full price is €695)
FAQS
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This course is open to anyone who feels soul-aligned with this work.
Open to all genders.
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Upon booking you will receive a confirmation email. On 11th August, I will email you with access to our private group portal so you can get settled into our garden.
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With varying time zones and the current of life, I understand that it’s not always possible to attend classes live. Please don’t worry, class replays will be uploaded within 24 hours. All live calls will be hosted on Zoom.
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The community sharing will close at the end of the course, but you will have access to your portal for a further six months after the course finishes so you can cycle through it again. All fieldwork, eBook and audio resources are downloadable for lifetime access.
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Refunds are not offered so please be sure you are devoted to this experience upon booking. You can read my full T&Cs here.
‘Green is a wisdom of its own, older than ours, a green wisdom which is always there, always present and throbbing at the core of our being. It is what Hildegaard of Bingen, that remarkable woman from the 12th century whose songs of life and love and loss have emerged in our own time, called viriditas (greenness), her name for the cosmic energies of all creation.’