Magic in the Woods ~ Tales from the Cottage

Yes, magic is real...come with me!...Everyday Life in an Old Cottage in the Woods amid rhythms from the Celtic world, West Of Ireland. Books written by Colette O’Neill include:
"A Cottage and Three Acres"
"Walking Between Worlds"
"In Search of the Goddess Rising"
"A Guide to the Deep Midwinter"
"The Magical, Mythical Map"
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[@beckyarmstrong4990]

Thank you for taking us along with you through your woodland. That was a lovely treat. You have tended a beautiful piece of our world. What a treasure. Stay well Colette.

[@swansong5263]

You certainly breathed life into your beautiful land Colette, best wishes.

[@schielesmrs7648]

You know what it's like to see you've posted a video? It's like when someone surprises you with a nice cup of tea. Or when somebody grabs you for a hug. Or brings you a new plant. It's just bloody lovely!!! 💖💖💖 cheers Colette for lifting my spirits and calming me down.

[@kikitaube-hansen]

Thanks for this comment

[@pamflorus2884]

Mother Earth is an exquisite artist who utilizes her palette so gracefully. You have created a mystical landscape and cottage as well. Thank you for sharing its beauty with us all.

[@MyEverydayGarden]

This has evoked such a sense of calm within me this morning. 🙏Blessings to all❤️

[@TheEmpressgoth]

Thanks Ms.Colette have a great weekend

[@claudette1490]

God has his hands all over the place.... Blessings 💟💚☘️

[@juliefermer3257]

It feels like such a privilege to have you take us on a wander through your beautiful woodland. Thank you for sharing so generously. I love the thought that the stream takes energy and messages from Bealtaine Cottage out into the ocean and the wider world. I hope that the love and hope and regenerative energy it takes with it is felt and taken up where it is needed most. Blessings always ❤️

[@lyndaturner6686]

I take my morning tea back to bed and watch one of your videos , what a wonderful way to start my day, in calm and peace.

[@MrsMMcG]

Lovely walk with such peace Colette. Listening to the leaves rustle and the water flowing was the perfect sound. Bright blessings! 😌

[@MrRoastedSnow]

The path less chosen. Thanks Colette as always

[@thegardenmuse2398]

"..and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." WOW I remember that poem. I was made to remember it back in grade school. It follows me everywhere 🥰

[@Patricia-zo8tg]

Oh my peaceful place the woods, thank you for sharing your heart space with us 💚🙏

[@krazedvintagemodel]

Colette, you are one of my favorite people in the world! For having created your own, and for sharing it with those of us who enjoy it! Thank you! Peace and Blessings 🌻

[@elainerichards6406]

Hi Colette, thank you so much for taking me with you around your beautiful and ancient grounds of Bealtaine. Blessings ❤️

[@lyndaburman3232]

Seriously Colette what a truly magical legacy you have created for future generations in the West of Ireland. What you have single handedly done is incredible ! The waterways & pathways, the diversity of little micro climates...it's just breathtaking... To watch these videos it is easy for me to feel the energies & atmosphers in all the different parts of your Woodland ...it's magic ! You are one of life's unsung heros & I hope with all my heart that in our lifetime you are formally recognised in some way for the love,dedication,hard graft & unwavering devotion you have shown The Great Mother ,in which we,all of us benefit 🙏 P.S...this footage most certainly shows the the gentle start of the thinning of the veil....it's wonderful. ❤️✨

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you for that lovely compliment Lynda...it is deeply appreciated XXX

[@northangel30leather6]

Yes beautiful comment, She absolutely should be recognised as a heroine and protector of nature and mother earth. She's certainly enriched my life and the lives of so many others and I think the absolute world of her!

[@helenfarrington5084]

Good Morning Colette. Thank you for that wonderful tour of the Fairy wood and all those trees, how wonderful to live amongst them. Blessings to you and to the Wood. X

[@sheilaclarke5276]

Must agree Colette, trees are so important 🌿🍃

[@summerrain7466]

Colette, thank you for that walk through the woodland. It always soothes my soul! Between health issues and logistics, I so seldom get to immerse myself in nature now. It's a lack that I feel keenly everyday! So I will rewatch this video many times. I quite agree with you about it not mattering all the time where you point the camera, there is always something interesting to see. I love when you zoom in on things, and I love when you pull out and give the broad picture. It's all beautiful!

[@alisonwheeler8929]

This was gorgeous. I help others plant woodland as part of my job and wholeheartedly agree that planting a little native woodland in the right place can do do much to help nature and restore a so

[@yvonnebirch6026]

Thank you again and again for sharing your magical land. It seems like your woodland is caressed and blessed by the little streams and creeks ! What a welcoming place for anything that wants to sprout and grow ! Blessings to you ! 💕🌷

[@loulouh.5734]

Thank you for posting your Magickal home. The energy is amazing it made my heart hurt from the pleasure. 💜🙌🏻♥️

[@suzannegagne8692]

I raised 3 crows when I was little…well actually my father did because I was so young. Their mother was killed. I named then Blackie, Blackie and Blackie. They followed me everywhere.

[@buddhistbushcrafter4589]

Colette, just wanted to say, got your 2 books, "Walking Between Worlds" and "Guide to the Deep Winter" today in the mail. Thank you for signing! That is most kind of you!

[@carolgregg5714]

Thank you Collette - you are such an amazing woman…thank you for being my mentor and a huge inspiration to all of us 🙏🏼❤️…Carol xx

[@eon2222]

its hard to comprehend that the water we drink is older than the sun - Beautiful land, its very blessed to have you !

[@margaretohara7250]

Beautiful. Blessings.

[@susanwheeler9624]

Such a lovely way to start my day. Thank you Colette 💚💙💛

[@gillianford9208]

Thank you so much Colette for my beautiful books, I am filled with joy from the love they exude from every page! With love and blessings from Northumberland ❤️

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you 🙏 Gillian

[@cherihermans9118]

What a peaceful place ❤

[@pamelacollard567]

As AllWays Colette a Wondrously BeautyFull Video ~ Thank You for sharing these precious moments ✨🍂🍁🍂✨

[@bridgetannanelson6921]

These are my favourite kind of videos, I love to hear you talking about the land, and each path is like a mini adventure you're letting us explore with you. My husband is of direct Irish decent, and I also have 1/4 Irish blood, we are so drawn to come home. You have inspired us to look for our own land back in Ireland, where we can plant trees and live simply. I'm so looking forward to ordering my next book from you Colette, hopefully with a calendar. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙏🌍

[@jankitteringham8483]

Lovely sound of the stream. Blessings Colette. 🥰🇬🇧

[@sunnivabjrndal3943]

It really is impossible to make a bad shot of your woodland garden , beauty everywhere, in front and behind the camera : )

[@mightymissk]

Ah…you put up one of your walks, bless you. I’m sitting here in my kitchen. Just a few miles away there is wilderness. Northern Ontario bush stretching for miles between small towns and I can’t get to it without a car. But I’ve got half an acre of tree lined backyard and a ton of ideas about what to do with it, many of them inspired by you dear lady. You always make me remember how much I love the bush.

[@eddiek0507]

What a lovely sized woodland, It looks amazing not just now in autumn, but any season of the year. So peaceful, no noise, just running water, the breeze and birds, perfect bliss!! 🙂👍🏻👍🏻

[@mumof3325]

Enchanting and peaceful 🌺🌸🐝

[@sheilajoseph9953]

Thankyou Collette for sharing your magnificent peaceful woodland. I love the connection you have with nature. I think if you stand quietly in the woodland, you can almost hear the trees talk. 💚

[@mschmidt1645]

This walk through the woodland fed my soul. Please show us what you do with the shaggy mushrooms. How do you prepare them? I love it so much when as your walking you’re giving us the history of the different parts of the woodland. You have no idea what this means to us. So comforting and lovely to hear of all you’ve done. Thank you and blessings to you. ❤

[@carolarmstrong4979]

Thank you once again Colette ! Loved that ! I also like it when you mention your little artefacts. Blessings to you. X🌳🌳🌳

[@myrtleholly2016]

I admire you so very much--a fully self-actualized woman, unapologetically true to her unique self

[@joannebarlow654]

That iron chair by the owls would complete my set Colette but living in Australia the postage would be out of this world lol

[@OLaura3552]

Thank YOU, Colette! Once again - for another lovely visit with you and Bealtaine. I have been away for a few days; writing and doing some activist work in my local community. It's always good to "come back home" to the beauty-filled; peaceful space that you have created for all of us to share. Thank you for being you. Blessings Colette.

[@marysmyth8288]

Lynda Burman : absolutely on the same page as you proclaim * The Magic of the Atmosphere , The Legacy for Future Generations , Bealtaine Cottage in the West of Ireland 🇮🇪 amen

[@lindawitherspoon446]

Your woodlands are fantastically gorgeous!!! I’m just awe struck. It does look ancient.

[@denisegariepy1176]

Morning! Beautiful woodlands…

[@theresalebleu3132]

I love when you walk through the property it’s so calming and relaxing to hear the water flowing and the leaves under your feet makes me relax and I love the mushrooms

[@trisha1076]

I just love the way you think, that the earth is an actual part of us and we can communicate and be loved , in return, by it.

[@dottiebotts1970]

so nourishing to walk through your woods! so many gifts…

[@MariaJMcMahon]

You do so well in connecting us all to nature and bringing us home to mother earth.

[@claudette1490]

Special- timeless it is..... 😔🙏

[@christinaplaisted9563]

Thank-you I thoroughly injoyed the walk with you xx

[@jantrewitt4058]

Lovely and relaxing, as usual. Thank you for this tour of the woodland. Blessings.

[@elainesplots1132]

Just fabulous Colette ❣️

[@nikolaodonnell6813]

So beautiful and spiritual…….thank you for sharing

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

I love going with you through the fairy wood

[@janclark1894]

Hi Colette everything looks beautiful, the colours are amazing, Danu's and Colette's garden a feast for the eyes ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@debiebrumley3104]

Tree's are life ! thank you.

[@oilpntr]

Te wonderful language and dance of the trees. They form their own covers and arbors and love life, dont they? I love it when 2 have grown together and are not hindered by the faux pas of showing affection as some humans. I have 2 such trees to sit with. The roots of one couple look as if they are the finger ears of 2 hand, intertwined. It creates a perch over a rushing creek, to sit upon. I call that the Embracement tree. The other is still younger, and they look as if they are, French kissing, or perhaps, even doing the deed. I wish at time we could post pics to you here As you place Blessings upon your earth, theDivine Goddess blesses you back

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

you are an absolute inspiration Colette! Ive been absent for a while trying to cut back on KZbin viewing to focus more on creating content, art and my garden. Now im back I wonder how I could have been away from your garden and your vision for so long! you have been completely transformative you know in my life so thank you ❤❤❤

[@karareynolds772]

This was such a lovely autumnal walk with you Colette. The woods look so beautiful in their many colours and your cottage looks more cosy by the day. I so love this glorious time of year ❤🍁🍄

[@bonitaharrison4736]

I love walking in the wood with you. I'm very happy there. And, I'm very proud of what you've created there. God Bless.

[@angelacarberry6055]

This has really relaxed me .

[@alisonwheeler8929]

Ooops sent my comment before finishing! …restore a soil. I have a little wood of my own with things secreted in places! I was walking in another wood this morning with my collie And found my first patch on chanterelles and picked just a few for my supper. I enjoy hearing about your gentle life.

[@deborahlang8470]

Colette, thank for sharing your woodland with all the little vignettes of sculptures, So lovely to watch after a long day of working . so peaceful/zen. Blessings from Maryland USA

[@RichardSmith-bm2us]

Love the Crows!!! Hope you’ll share more of what they like doing at Bealtaine Cottage. Very pleasing video. Thank you.

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

Hello Colette. Greetings from across the pond. Excellent video with superlative production values. - so inspirational, motivating and heartfelt. But of course, that's to be expected from a strong self sufficient woman such as yourself.

[@alaksandra1979]

Blessings to you Lady. What you've done is just pure magic to the land. You help her remember who she was and she is thriving! 🍂🍃✨️🌱✨️🍃🍂

[@ginawingrove7061]

The cottage is looking glorious Colette x the colours you chose are perfect and really show off the planting. The woodland, as usual looks amazing x thank you for another lovely video x blessed be x 🌏🌿🌳🍀

[@francesdavey1337]

Thank you for sharing with us it's Beautiful x

[@lindapitchford4941]

I'm so amazed that you share the woodland and know the names of your trees, bushes, etc. I live in a desert 🏜. The lushness is wonderful. You have a wonderful variety.

[@raperecovery]

You getting very clever with your filming. Love seeing the detail,amazing. I am inspired. ❤🌻🤩🧡😍

[@sandragoerlich7134]

Beautiful, thanks for sharing Collete

[@Jacquiandteddy]

Thank YOU for sharing it with US, Colette! I'm always delighted when I see that a new video has gone up. I didn't know that about the owl - I have an owl carving that watches over my bed at night.

[@jillwheelden680]

fabulous

[@carolinecoffey5404]

You can feel the energy of the woodland it’s so magical and peaceful 💚

[@sheilabrewster3620]

Very interesting about the iron. The pumpkins in the window are cute. I enjoy your videos.

[@amyspalding-gregson8956]

Magical, very much enjoyed the story telling.✨

[@Hearth_and_Hawthorn]

I just re-created my own channel that is similar to yours but in the city. I mentioned your channel in one of the videos and tagged your channel but in it I mention how depressed I would get watching your videos. Not because of anything you do or say! Just because I couldn't have what you have. I also said I had to resubscribe to your channel because I just love it so much. I just needed to get to a place of acceptance with my situation I guess. I live and work in a city, live in a townhouse but am transforming it into my own magickal cottage in the city. We've been there just over 7 years and transformed our little townhouse lot from weedy grass to an ever growing goddess garden. It's still a much work in progress. I still see parking lot and neighbours but we've done so much in the years, my partner and I. It's not easy to live in a city as you know. Sometimes I get discouraged. I had a run in with a crazy woman two days ago who was out of control while innocently walking my dog. (I will be posting a video about this as well) I was ready to shut down my channel because I felt I was delusional thinking I could make my life in the city, quiet and beautiful like someone living in the country. I can edit videos into works of art but I still work full time in the city and I decided to go more raw, less time consuming and personal, like your channel. There are so many overly edited and curated youtube channels. While beautiful, give people a false perspective, in my opinion. I decided to make my channel my story of transforming city life to a Goddess Spiritual cottage/country lifestyle. It's challenging! I want my own faerie wood but will probably be a faerie corner, my own Danu well but it will probably be a fountain or a tiny pond etc...Anyway, sorry for the long post! Hope you don't mind me mentioning you xo

[@JR-kz2xn]

You couldn't have said it any better Colette. "It IS completely beautiful." All of it. As always thank you for sharing the beauty of Bealtaine and yourself. Hope you have a wonderful evening.

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Hello Colette nothing like a Autumn walk through your gardens. Thank you for sharing your day with us. Sending you hugs and love ❤

[@tiedyedsouthernfried3137]

My momma had the ability to "witch" water. She found water on their homesite when she and her husband built their house. I can do it as well. I also have the ability to find unmarked graves. I once helped map out an overgrown cemetery where stones had been destroyed by flood waters.

[@colleenelizabethh4101]

Your land is so beautiful, so peaceful. 😌

[@lindsaywilliamson5837]

Love your raw videos but you are great with doing these voice over tours as you go! Different feel but wonderful perspective! 🧡

[@connielee2797]

Very lovely!

[@levinawalsh2015]

Really Beautiful!! Blessings to You Colette. ☘🥰.

[@cathysandercock8675]

Your video made me feel like a warm visit from a Friend. Our acreage is so cold as we prepare for winter and walking through your acreage and fairy wood with you was just what I needed today. Cheers!🇨🇦

[@jpm12343]

I love your videos, Colette.

[@claudette1490]

Breath taking😔/ your voice is soo calming also..... 😉🙏

[@9FatraBbits]

What a lovely peaceful wander. Thank you.🐇🍁🦉

[@victor-vc6oy]

Thank you so much for this video, (from a battered old witch who can't get out these days!) I felt you had made it just for me and even if you didn't, Her loving hands were all over it! Anyway, that's how Magic works on The Great Web of Being. My favorite thing about your land is the water you have channeled, from both above and below, flowing to the Ocean, to rise again through theAir as a drop of rain! But my favorite image was of the mushrooms growing beside the mossy log. Enchanting! In that it is spellbinding and makes you feel like singing! Another thing which is synchronous is that my partner is an O'Neill,whose cousin, Neil O'neill is the family expert on the tribe. At one time the whole of Ireland was simply known s Neill! Lots of love to you and All things immanent!!!

[@bealtainecottage]

The Land of The Great O’Neill was the title given to Ireland

[@MrSHG66]

It's funny but I can never get my bearings when wandering with you around the Bealtaine Project. The names of the sections of garden are familiar but there are just so many constantly changing vistas and views that it all seems to rearrange itself each time we are invited to visit and I quickly lose my way. Perhaps it is the Sidh making adjustments to confuse us onlookers? Utterly magical, as always. Thank you!

[@jaclynstewartoclair208]

I love all the ferns. Thanks for the walk.

[@marysmyth8288]

Dear Colette, I have followed your marvelous video’s for a few years now, From the first encounter of Bealtaine Cottage , I cannot put into words the praise I feel in my heart , I feel as a wee child would feel , The Enchantment of your Narrative where You take us to where Everything blends perfectly , from the wee stream flowing to the Sea , to the family of crows High in the tree’s . I am so moved spiritually by your vision and determinations , Let Mother Nature portray her own magnificence in the absolute beauty of your Woodlands . Such a magnificent life you have created within the walls of the Cottage to your daily walks And labor of Love. Ps my old Auntie was a great Fair Isle Knitter and since a child i have worn the Berets Yes I just love your Blue Beret , mine is the color tan 👩‍🦰 Yes Blessings returned to you , Colette , a marvelous Irish Lady. Mary Canada 🍁

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you 🙏 Mary and bless you xxx

[@miaj5118]

Oh I love what u said about paths. I've always thought the same thing when walking through woods. Which path is going to take me on the best adventure! 🥀

[@francisjohnson665]

Lovely , we're dry as a bone where I am. Blessings too you. ❤

[@miaj5118]

Where are you

[@eileen945]

Hi Collette, What an ethereal video. I loved this classic walk and narration from you. It felt......AHHHHH! BTW, YOU look really cute my friend. 😎😎 !

[@littlehomeinthevalley]

Would you be willing to create a more in depth video of how exactly you found the source of your spring and well? How you dug it out and formed that beautiful space where Danu presides?

[@Haldir1]

Thank you. Great videos. My wife and myself can't wait to visit Ireland!!!

[@missglenellen]

Thank you for sharing! I especially love Danu's place and the beautiful sound around her.