WALK THE CELTIC WHEEL
Self led - Soul Led Programme
Let me guide you through the next turning of
the Celtic Wheel of the Year - Roth Na Bliana.
A year long guided journey of ritual repetition, remembrance and reclamation of Irish ancestral wisdom. This is for women who want to live deeply connected to their cyclical nature and lead from their true sovereign feminine, by aligning to the rhythms of nature.
🔴 Weave the cyclical wisdom of the Irish Celtic Medicine Wheel into your life over a full cycle
🔴 Be guided through the eight festivals, the sacred thresholds of the Celtic ritual year.
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 cyclical consciousness in our bellies, our breath and our bones.
1600+
Wise Women have walked Next Stage Celtic Wheel
....from
5
Continents
....over the last
8
Cycles and deepening spirals
Step onto the Spiral Journey of Sacred Remembrance
Next Stage Celtic Wheel of the Year is a mythic map, a methodology and ancient modern medicine for this momentous time of chaos and change.
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
꩜ the Reunion of the true feminine and true masculine
Next Stage Celtic Wheel weaves ancestral wisdom, Celtic consciousness, jungian psychology and evolutionary theory. .
Through ritual, reflection, seasonal practice and relationship with the land, you will be invited to deepen your capacity to listen ~ to yourself, to nature, to the ancestors and to the wisdom that becomes available when we stop trying to force life into a straight line progress.
The Celtic Wheel of the Year - Celtic Cyclical Wisdom
The Celtic Wheel of the Year is the ritual calendar of eight festivals handed down to us in the whispers of the Celtic and Pre-Celtic ancestors of this land.
Like the medicine wheel celebrated by many indigenous cultures the Wheel reconnects us with seasonal cyclical wisdom.
Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a body of work I created from apprenticing to and living the Celtic Wheel for the last 15 years. It has returned me to the rhythms of nature, my deep cyclical nature and my true sovereign feminine nature.
The Wheel takes us on a spiral path through the eight sacred thresholds of the solstices, equinoxes and four cross-quarter festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa.
Each turning offers its own medicine. Its own invitation. Its own questions.
When we consciously mark these thresholds, we begin to step out of the relentless forward motion of modern life and back into relationship with the natural world, with our own bodies, and with the deeper rhythms of life.
When you walk with the seasons for a whole year, something begins to shift.
Walk the Wheel Alone or Gather with a Few Sister Witches and walk it together.
You can journey alone or I suggest that you gather some sister witches and wise women in your community and share this journey (and the cost) with them.
Because that is our work now as women - to gather in community, to build the web of allies, to learn to live cyclically, to show up in service to the new world wanting to be born through you.
Meet together at each of the festivals, craft ritual together, share the practices and seasonal inquires, get out on the land together.
PLEASE NOTE : this is just a suggestion to share it with friends on a personal basis only. I ask in sharing this that you respect the body of work I have created. This is not permission to use this material to run a commercial circle or use it in a professionally setting.
Commit to the Sacred work of the Feminine for a full year
In the ancestral wisdom of Ireland, women were the earth and held the power of sovereignty & cyclical wisdom.
Walking the Celtic Wheel we re-inhabit the feminine wisdom that has been banished. Our wild intuitive nature, our relationship to cycles, to darkness, the dark Goddess, to the land, the cosmos, our bodies and our sovereign center.
In the face of the unchecked 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.
As you journey through the Turning of the Celtic Year I will guide you to.....
celebrate each of the 8 festivals with RITUAL and CEREMONY
Receive suggestions and guidance to craft your own ritual and some wisdom questions to help you work with the energies, gifts and challenges of each festival.
attune to the magical landscape of ancient Ireland its myths, folk lore, goddesses & ancestral wisdom
I take you to the sacred sites for each of the festival celebrations. The thin places, the power places across these Celtic lands, You will meet the Goddesses, myths and folk wisdom connected to each holy threshold.
awaken your CYCLICAL NATURE and the consciousness of FLOURISHING
The Wheel teaches us how to live the rhythms of being alive. How to inhabit the full range of experiences of being alive in a living breathing body. How to dance with the ups and the downs, the ebbs and the flows, the highs and the lows of life. To open to the fallow and the fertile times, the seasons of great joy and success and seasons of wintering, grief and darkness.
This is wisdom of living fully flourishing. We were never taught it. Walking the Wheel, living it for a whole cycle, we remember we are each a wild glorious force of nature part of Great Nature that animates us.
rewild yourself in the UNSEEN REALMS
Each festival I will guide you in a special NSCW practice where you will connect to the unseen realms, the Celtic Otherworld and receive the intelligence that resides beyond the veil.
You will cultivate what John Moriarty, the great Irish mystic, called “silver branch perception,” a deeper way of knowing, a soul deep knowing that is connected to Animus Mundi, the soul of teh world where everything is animated and interconnected.
root in PLACE, in NATURE, in your BODY
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
Change your relationship to TIME
As we journey around the Wheel, attuning to nature's cadence and the ritual rhythms of our ancestors, our perception of time changes. We connect with archaic ways of understanding time.
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.
“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
Here's a breakdown of everything you’ll get on this Self-Led, Soul-Led Next Stage Celtic Wheel Journey
🌹 FESTIVAL MATERIAL
- A comprehensive 8-10 page FESTIVAL GUIDEBOOK for each of the 8 festivals that includes traditions, themes, ritual, mythology and sacred sites. You will receive this 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 -20 minute videos I share how the ancient ancestral seasonal wisdom can guide and resource us in these days of flux and instability. I also bring you onto the land to the power places and sacred sites for each festival.
- DEEPENING PRACTICES to live and embody Celtic cyclical wisdom - At festival you will receive guided meditations, Embodiment practices, Seasonal Immram journey's, Reflection prompts
🌹 MEMBERSHIP PORTAL
- Access to MEMBERSHIP PORTAL for 12 months
Plus :
- You will receive two versions of the new Next Stage Celtic Wheel map / illustration
- A Digital Download to carry with you on your devices
- A High Quality ready to Print A4 for your home
- At a Glance calendar of the fixed and Archaeoastronomical festival dates
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 highs and lows, 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 every day.
This is why I created this body of work. My intention is always to inspire and embolden my fellow sisters to live from their deepest Soul.
My Story
Here’s a look at the ritual journey we will take...
Welcome and Orientation Module
Fáilte Isteach - Welcome, orient and prepare to step onto the Wheel
Samhain
Death, Darkness and Letting Go
Winter Solstice:
The Dark Night Of the Soul
Imbolc:
Awakening, Emergence and New Beginings
Spring Equinox:
The Creative Dance of Opposites
Bealtaine:
Sovereignty and The Sacred Marriage
Summer Solstice:
Power, Pleasure and Full Flowering
Lughnasa:
Harvest, Ripeness and Celebration
Autumn Equinox
The Integration of Opposites and Strong Endings