28/08/2025
Dearest Women of wild earth, tender hearts and a flame that’s ignited full of dreams of belonging and a home that meets the eternal sacred within all.
That’s you.
My dear one.
My dear sister.
Thank you for becoming a part of our very special village. A village that was woven through our prayers, through our tears, through our voices, through our joy and through our stories.
Thank you for being you and for truly opening your heart. I felt it. WE all did and for me, this gave space for the opening of a depth, that we are only just surfacing into again as we rekindle our path of what it is to truly be a woman in these times of great change.
As we step into remembering, re-learning how to be in sacred sisterhood, how to tend to the soil within the earth and in our hearts as if they are one.
This is the beauty, this is the medicine.
Year 3 of this journey tended to many new openings, an opening of a new land to call our home, opening to my weavers to hold this vision with me, my dearest sisters, Tessa and Lena who have been by my side for many moons. To Clare who stepped in in service to the land, to sisterhood, to the rising of the feminine way, to The Hillyfield and the women who held these lands and us so eloquently. To Desire, for feeling the call to drop into welcoming the women. To our Elders, some old and some new, rekindling our lost traditions and respect for them who guide us to create something with this much depth and beauty. To Sacred Sister for tending to our hearts and our tears. To Wildwood Sisters for bringing the importance of our young women, to pave a new way for them as they initiate into adolescence.
There were so many new openings, that came with tremendous growth and rebirthing. When we birth, it is never an easy task. We had some logistical challenges and I want to thank you all for your patience and understanding. Claire (Who tends to the land with Doug at The Hillyfield) shared a really beautiful piece at the closing ceremony which i’m going to try and articulate here for you all… ‘When giving birth, there’s always a moment where you start to doubt yourself, what am I doing? Is it too late to turn back? You’re in the thick of it and you don’t know how this is going to go or how it’s going to end… This was Thursday!’ She shared and we laughed.
In our westernised culture, we can sometimes come with an expectation that everything will be ‘perfect’, when in reality, it’s in the most challenging moments that we get to see the beauty of life and what we are really here to bring.
On Saturday morning as I lay hidden in a field with Nat from Sacred Sister pouring my tears and heart out to her, at the end we heard the teens gathering under a tree and chanting ‘A heart that breaks open can contain the entire universe.’ - Joanna Macy
Through the chaos, the tears, the breaking, we surrendered and the magic truly shone through. I hope you felt it as much as we did.
I hope that each of us have received some form of nourishment from our time together, to take with you into your world, to spread it like seeds with your family and communities. Keep tending to your heart dear one, and know that you can come back to these moments together whenever you need topping up.
This weekend is never just about the weekend, it’s about creating long lasting change in our lives so that we can rise, hand in hand, heart to heart with each other. Lean in dear one, we are here.
I want to thank all of our incredible facilitators, volunteers, Carmel and her team, and any one else who has been part of holding this space and tending to the nourishment of making this weekend truly special. It really means so much to me to see this gathering really start to come into her own.
This year is incredibly powerful, there is so much moving in our universe. Be gentle with yourself, take extra care for you and find ways to nourish and topup your cauldron of love.
We are with you, hand in hand, heart to heart.
Love & Infinite Blessings,
Lucy & The Medicine Woman Hearth ######xx
P.s. My only two photos taken the whole gathering! A few videos to come soon! That moon was powerful!