Ep 30. Musings from my Journey in Scotland and Ireland (pt. 1)
When Erik and I recorded this episode, we intended it to be a bonus episode… and yet I’ve kept putting off listening to it. Honestly, I think I expected to find it super cringe (and it is a little, though not as much as I feared). But now here we are, approximately 1.5 months after recording it. Travel hasn’t allowed me to record many new episodes with guests and the moon moves through its phases… and I can’t keep hiding anymore.
Some context: August 23, I left the US and flew to Scotland to begin four months of living on the road here and in Ireland. This episode was recorded at the end of August, less than a week after my arrival. Thousands of miles of journeying are between the Kate who writes this and the Kate you’re about to listen to. And yet, I still don’t totally know what this journey is about. I suspect most of it won’t come clear until after the trip.
But in this episode, you’ll hear my initial musings on:
- why I’m in Scotland and Ireland;
- ruptures in my ancestral roots;
- tending inner wounds of oppressor and oppressed;
- layers of culture;
- choosing to build skill and capacity for healthy conflict;
- healing backwards and forwards;
- feeling the land calling me;
- the gap between my expectations and reality;
- a reactivated ‘witch wound’;
- my why behind the podcast and the surprising (to me) revelation that starting it was also connected to this trip;
- letting stories be alive;
- knowledge, wisdom, and stories in community;
- when myths become propaganda;
- waiting for heroes to come save us;
- learning how to receive stories so we can more intentionally engage with them
…. and more.
As I say at the end, I hope this episode gives you a little more sense of who I am. I hope it inspires you or allows you to find something that allows you to feel you belong around this fire.
I hope it reflects how stepping away from what’s familiar and onto another land can open us, humble us, enliven us.
I hope it avoids completely interpreting another culture through my own lens. And where I inevitably have, I hope you can hold the tension of my own interpretation with the differing ones you have or have heard. After all, conversations like this walk the line between facts, stories, and possibilities. And that’s why we gather around the fire.
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Email – kate@wildsacredjourney.com
Instagram: @wildsacredjourney_kp
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