Next Stage Celtic Wheel TRIBE
Become the FORCE OF NATURE, a force of the FEMININE, you were born to be
We are in a deep crucible moment of death and rebirth on this planet. The ancients predicted it. You know it in your belly and in your bones.
In the indigenous wisdom of Ireland, women were the earth and held the power of sovereignty & cyclical wisdom.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel Tribe is a year-long journey of ritual, remembrance, resouling, restoration and repair. It is a burning hearth for modern medicine women who want to birth a new, more beautiful world together.
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Are you willing to let this time REIGNITE your instinctual WISDOM and wild FLOURISHING?
TRIBE is an immram - an ancient Celtic mythical soul journey. It's for women like you and me, all over the planet, who are ready to evolve. To call back our sovereignty and call in new paradigm sisterhood in service to a more beautiful world being born through us.
Have you been wondering how you can show up in this
INTENSE liminal time between worlds?
I have lived that question intimately, for the past 2 decades of my own life and in my work with women over the last 17 years.
So here are a few things that I've learned...
Not only can you handle the intensity of these times - you can trust it to reshape you into a wise and powerful Sovereign woman.
Being a mess, feeling lost and powerless is all part of the path of flourishing in a new world.
What you are feeling is the creative force of evolution. It's your fierce 'forbidden' Feminine rising and roaring within you.
You have what you need inside. We are the living feminine resistance born at this time to birth change.
You carry unique medicine that nobody else has. In the Celtic tradition that is called your Dán, your Soul's gifts, your destiny, your dharma.
The ancestors of Ireland honoured the in-between, liminal spaces, the unmapped as places of potential, healing and wisdom.
They knew the power of gathering to share stories, song, poetry, to drum and dance as ways to connect to the soul, the sacred force that animates all living beings.
This Celtic wisdom can resource you now to evolve out of the disconnected dominator culture that has our world in crisis.
The Celtic Wheel of the Year - Celtic Cyclical Wisdom
The Celtic Wheel is the ritual calendar handed down to us from the indigenous Celtic and Pre-Celtic ancestors of this land. They were rooted in the rhythms of nature and the cosmos.
The Wheel tracks the sacred thresholds of the solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarter festivals.The feminine and masculine were both honoured and they deeply understood the interconnectedness of all things.
Like the medicine wheel celebrated by many indigenous cultures reconnects us with seasonal cyclical wisdom.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a body of work I created from apprenticing to the Celtic Wheel of the Year for the last 14 years. It has returned me to the rhythms of nature, my cyclical nature and my forbidden sovereign feminine nature.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a mythic map, a methodology and ancient modern medicine for this momentous time of chaos and change.
It tracks the archetypal journey of transformation through the sacred cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
It is a map for Re-souling, Re-wilding, Re-santifying, Re-enchanting and Re-imagining ourselves and our world
through
Remembrance,
Reconnection,
Restoration,
Reweaving
and Reunion of the true feminine and true masculine
Introducing
NEXT STAGE CELTIC WHEEL
TRIBE journey
A year long journey of ritual, remembrance and reconnection for women who want to live cyclically, claim their sovereignty and usher in a new wiser world together.
Here are the 7 touchstones on that journey.
the SACRED WORK of the FEMININE
In the face of the unchecked extreme masculine forces creating chaos across the planet choosing to lead with the feminine and come into right relationship with our masculine is the radical response and medicine needed now.
Our unhealthy and unchecked masculine patterns encoded from patriarchy, that have us depleted, disconnected and distracted are unravelling. As they do we are remembering the soft, fierce, intuitive cyclical feminine ways and embody a radical new relationship between our feminine and masculine within.
a map for next stage
SOVEREIGNTY
Imagine having a map, a framework, a path and burning hearth over the next 12 months, to help you learn to live from your sovereign centre.
Deepen into your depths and gently learn to become the highest authority in your life while staying open to other perspectives. The path of evolved sovereignty is learning to "have ourselves" without "othering" or perpetuating the Patriarchal spell of separation.
decolonising TIME through CELTIC CYCLICAL WISDOM
As we travel around the Wheel, attuning to nature's cadence and the ritual rhythms of our ancestors, our perception of time changes.
We stop living enslaved to the scarcity consciousness of linear time. We find ourselves to be a living process in the creative consciousness of cyclical time.
ROOTED in PLACE, in NATURE, in our BODIES
No matter where you are on the planet, Next Stage Celtic Wheel connects you to the sacred land you find yourself on, to this earth body you find yourself in and to your place as a participant in the sacred order of the Cosmos
The ancients of Ireland honoured the land as feminine and they deeply understood the interconnected kinship we have with our other than human allies and our ancestor of the land. This journey is about reconnecting, repairing and restoring that kinship.
connecting to your DÁN
The word Dán has many meanings in the Celtic tradition. It can be translated as gift, poetry, destiny, dharma, daimon, genius. It is your Soul's highest expression.
This journey offer you a full cycle to connect to your Soul and explore the unique constellation of gifts, the medicine you were born at this time to embody and bring in service to the world.
a SISTERHOOD
of allies
We are more powerful in community. As we share our stories in sisterhood a new more beautiful collective story comes to life through us.
Come sit in circle around our virtual hearthstone, an evolving sisterhood of modern medicine women, hospicing out the old and birthing the new, all over the planet.
next stage DRAÍOCHT
(MAGIC)
The journey through the seasons is the sacred cycle of birth, death and rebirth. It is the creative process of the cosmos.
Women have always held knowledge of this sacred cycle in our belly. We are magical creative beings in a quantum field who know how to dance with polarity, manifesting from the frequency of your Soul.
“Mari's wisdom and guidance are transformational ”
This year on the wheel with Mari has been a gift! Mari's wisdom and guidance are transformational - she's created a powerful circle of sisters on this journey, even though we're thousands of miles apart. I'm honored and grateful to be a part of it, and to learn from Mari as we remember and reconnect with the land and ourselves.
-Sarah, USA 2024/25 cycle
“My life changed when I joined Next Stage Celtic Wheel."
I have taken the Next Stage Celtic Wheel course two years in a row. I plan to join for a third year. My life changed when I joined Next Stage Celtic Wheel. My inner knowing expanded, and life became more mystical. Living with the rhythms of the Natural World is powerful. Honouring the ways of the Celtic Wheel brings balance and harmony to my life. I am grateful to Mari and her incredible team for this amazing experience. I highly recommend this journey!!!
- Anne, USA 22/23 and 23/24 cycle
“I was unprepared for the immense depth the Celtic Wheel has offered my experience of life...”
The transformation and remembrance through the Wheel is utterly astounding. As a perpetual student and mystical seeker of ancient wisdom and belief systems, I was unprepared for the immense depth the Celtic Wheel has offered my experience of life. Mari guides and teaches with grace, knowledge, wisdom and authentic powerful service. The Wheel is the tether and vessel from which my entire spiritual life is now held and experienced through. So deeply and abundantly grateful to Mari and her team for the awakening and offering of my soul's remembrance."
– Stephanie, USA, 19/20 and 20/21 Cycle
“I have been craving a held space like this”
To me, the Celtic Wheel is a journey back into alignment with my own rhythmand nature's rhythm. Mari masterfully guides us toward remembering how to access our own wisdom and sovereignty.
– Simone, USA, 2021/22 Cycle
"Having the guidance and support of Mari and the wheel I felt like I had a midwife of sorts beside me."
The wheel has been an interesting journey for me. Throughout the year I feel like I've been called to work on boundaries a lot, and that involved me stepping out of old patterns and letting the old system I was working from to die away. This was very scary but having the guidance and support of Mari and the wheel I felt like I had a midwife of sorts beside me gently whispering her prayers for me in the dark while I sobbed and wailed in-between the old and new. I realised the importance of destruction and reconstruction. Something had to die in me before the other could be born. Now as I come to the end of this cycle I have smashed through the old pattern and I have changed some very old old behaviours that do not serve me anymore. . I have evolved......princess to queen and I'm ready 💕
- Kim Ireland
The THEME we will be weaving into our journey together in Tribe 25/26 ......
🌹 Return of the Goddess: leading with the feminine
In the face of an old patriarchal order that, in 2025, is leading with the unchecked wounded masculine, our work as medicine women is to lead with the true feminine. To restore and reweave goddess consciousness and the voice of the feminine back into our world.
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We will journey with the Celtic goddesses of each festival and season. Meet the many faces of the goddess in Ireland - the Cailleach, Bridget, Queen Medb, Tailtu, Tlachta, Sheela na Gig and more....
"She is the permanent and abiding presence of nature and is both the creator of the land and the land itself" - Peter O'Connor, Beyond the Mist
IMAGE CREDIT:An Cailleach with Bridget by Dee Mulrooney
Everything you’ll get as a sister of Next Stage Celtic Wheel TRIBE
🌹 CALLS
- 10 x LIVE RITUAL CALLS with me on Zoom, all recorded (two hour calls). We create ritual together and you will receive an energetic activation every 6-7 weeks at each Celtic festival. (see full details of each call below)
- 5 x Return of the Goddess calls (90 minute)
- Check out the full call schedule here
🌹 FESTIVAL MATERIAL
- A comprehensive 8-10 page FESTIVAL GUIDEBOOK for each of the 8 festivals with traditions, themes, ritual mythology and sacred sites. You will receive he guide one week before each festival so you can prepare for each festival.
- 3 x PRE-RECORDED TEACHING VIDEOS (+ audios) a week before each festival. In these 15 minute videos I share how the ancient ancestral wisdom can guide and resource us in modernity and I bring you onto the land to the power places and sacred sites for each festival.
- 16 x WISDOM WEAVES. These are short worksheets exploring the cyclical themes we work with in each seasons. You receive two between each festival.
- PRACTICES to live and embody Celtic cyclical wisdom - Worksheets, guided meditations, yoga, wisdom maps, ritual preparations, wisdom practices and resources.
🌹MEMBERSHIP PORTAL + COMMUNITY + free APP
- Access to a TRIBE MEMBERSHIP PORTAL until 30 September 2026.
- Access to the TRIBE COMMUNITY APP for connecting with me and the sisterhood until 30 September 2026.
- A free app (for phone or tablet) where you can access both the course content and connect with Tribe community all in one.
Plus :
- Next Stage Celtic Wheel illustration A4 PDF
- At a Glance calendar of the fixed and archaeoastronomical festival dates for the 2025/26 Wheel of the Year.
I'm Mari Kennedy,
I will be your guide.
The Celtic Wheel found its way to me in 2011, when I was in a very challenging and desolate place. For the preceding five years, my life had been in a constant state of flux, uncertainty and loss.
In April that year, my father was dying. I now know that the Celtic Wheel was his passing gift to me. It happened in a mythic moment in the auspicious Hazel Wood forest in Sligo, on the west coast of Ireland.
A month later I met my teacher in this tradition - Dolores Whelan - who has been a Carrier of the Flame of Celtic Consciousness for the past 30 years.
I had taken Celtic Studies as an Archaeology undergraduate at university, but it was years later, through the Celtic Wheel, that I entered a soul apprenticeship to the Celtic tradition.
Reconnecting with the wisdom of the Celtic Wheel profoundly changed how I approached my life. It helped me to make sense of my challenges and losses. It showed me the value and beauty of the ebbs and flows, the fallow and the fertile times.
It taught me to trust the falling apart, the dark and death.
It continues to demand that I own my radiant power as a woman and live unapologetically aligned to my Soul. It showed me the PATH OF EVOLVED SOVEREIGNTY.
It offered me a map of how to reclaim and lead from my inner feminine - through rhythms, cycles and nature and in so doing, find a gentler, wiser and more fierce way to live.
It connected me to the mystical in a very practical way.
This is why I created this body of work. This is why I lead women.
My Story
Here’s a look at the ritual journey we will take...
Call 1:
Welcome Call
Fáilte Isteach - Welcome in
Orient: Welcome yourself onto this Soul journey around the Wheel and meet your Tribe of sisters.
Pre-call material: Welcome videos and orientation workbook.
Post call: Call Recording
Call 2:
Samhain Festival:
The Cauldron
Death and Darkness
Samhain circle and ritual to celebrate the Celtic new year, the ceremonial threshold of winter and the Giamos (dark) half of the year.
Reclaiming: Dark feminine powers of shedding, surrendering, rooting and sacrifice.
Pre-call material: Samhain Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + 2 Samhain Wisdom Weaves + Samhain practices
Call 3:
Winter Solstice:
The Womb
The Void and Desires
Winter Solstice circle and ritual to celebrate the alchemy of the dark void and the threshold of midwinter.
Reclaiming: The dark feminine powers of receptivity, rest and dreaming.
Pre-call material: Winter Solstice Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Winter Solstice Wisdom Weaves + Wisdom practices
Call 4:
Imbolc:
The Fiery Arrows
Awaken and Emergence
Ritual call to celebrate new beginnings at the threshold of Spring.
Reclaiming The feminine powers of emergence and masculine powers of 'one-pointed focus' and committment.
Pre-call material: Imbolc Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Imbolc Wisdom Weaves + Imbolc practices
Call 5:
Spring Equinox:
The Vesica Pisces
The Dance of Opposites
Spring Equinox circle and ritual to celebrate equal day, equal night and the ritual threshold of mid Spring.
Reclaiming the feminine power of magnetic potency and the masculine power of discipline and commitment.
Pre-call material: Spring Equinox Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Spring Equinox Wisdom Weaves + Spring Equinox practices.
Call 6:
Bealtaine:
The Sacred Marriage
Roots and Blossoms
Bealtaine circle and ritual to celebrate fertility and protection at the threshold of Summer and the Samos (bright) half of the year.
Reclaiming our sovereign Queen and the masculine power of boldness and risk taking.
Pre-call material: Bealtaine Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Bealtaine Wisdom Weaves + Bealtaine practices
Call 7:
Summer Solstice:
The Shining Ones
Power and Pleasure
Summer Solstice circle and ritual to celebrate the growth and eros at the ritual threshold of midsummer.
Reclaiming the feminine power of fullness and radiance and the masculine power of volition and taking up space, in service to the feminine.
Pre-call material: Summer Solstice festival guide, videos, audios and Prep for the ritual.
Post call material: Call recording + Summer Solstice Wisdom Weaves + Summer Solstice practices
Call 8:
Lughnasa:
The Gifts
Ripeness and Joy
Tribe circle and ritual to celebrate the abundance of the harvest at the ritual threshold of Autumn.
Reclaiming the feminine capacity for celebration, wild craic, joy, of tempering the over-masculine tendency of burnout and excess. Harvesting our unique constellation of Soul gifts.
Pre-call material: Lughnasa Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + Lughnasa Wisdom Weaves + Lughnasa practices
Call 9:
Autumn Equinox:
Final Harvest
The integration of opposites
Tribe circle and ritual to celebrate the final harvest and the ritual threshold of mid Autumn.
Reclaiming the feminine intelligence of pausing to complete, tempering the over-masculine tendency to bypass endings and conscious completions.
Pre-call material: Autumn Equinox Festival Guide, Preparation for the Ritual workbook, 3 pre-recorded videos and audios.
Post call material: Call recording + A.Equinox Wisdom Weaves + A. Equinox practices
Call 10:
Circle into Spirals
Conscious Completion
Tribe closing circle and ritual to complete our mythical journey together and prepare to drop into the deeper and higher yet deeper spiral of the next cycle.
Pre-call material: Preparation for the ritual.
If you feel called to join Tribe but do not have the financial means at this time, please contact me directly. I hold a small number of supported places and can discuss options with you.
Click below if you would like to check out the Self Led option which you can join at any time through the Celtic year.
The Self Led journey