Shape-shifting in Ireland

[@sueellensiebert9202]

I think there is so much more to existence than just the 'reality' we perceive. Such an interesting video. Thank you, Colette.

[@wendywendy3718]

What a lovely walk... so many things that caught me... My great great paternal grandparents came to Canada from County Clare... she was named Brigid. I have wild curly red hair and have no reference pictures to see if Brigid did as well... but I suspect my belief in faeries and passion for making garden sculpture and writing poetry came from somewhere! Thank you for taking us on these walk and talk journeys. You have no idea the light you share! .

[@charlotte6669]

Love your chats sending you hugs from Yorkshire, just had my morning coffee sat in the garden with my whippet Doris on my knee while listening to your lovely voice taking us through a botanical wander though your beautiful garden , ✨💐 blessings to you ✨🌺

[@saralangley8797]

Yes! Of course ! Whew !! I almost lost the run of myself ! Why make it a 'thing', just have fun and bring joy ! thank you Colette !! XXOO

[@laurielamonday3134]

What wonderful synchronicity to have found you and your beautiful paradise. Blessed be Colette, a true magickal Goddess in your own right! )o(

[@sunnybelisle4007]

Wonderful tale of the Tuatha de Danann. My friend and I tend to follow the Celtic way in honoring the Great Goddess. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge as we enjoyed a walk through your lush jungle of love, Colette...especially your stone circle. You've truly created a haven on Earth. Blessings, Dear One. :-D

[@rumorhasit9506]

I love the way your mind works, Collette.

[@Bella-ul8mq]

Great story. Historical information is fascinating. The brain thirsts for knowledge. You are a very wise woman. Thank you once again.

[@formation1now517]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. Am I the only one often moved to tears by the beauty you share , both in the surroundings of your cottage and your spirit? Even though I live thousands of miles from you I feel as if my spirit is moving on a golden thread to you! May all that you generously share with us, your viewers, encircle the world and return to you with the richest blessings!

[@dawnharris4261]

I imagine walking through your beautiful heaven on earth and meeting the fae and other woodland creatures...so wonderful, thank you.

[@HeatherDakota]

I love hearing the old stories. Thank you for sharing!

[@RavenStealstheNight]

Such a beautiful day. Imagine all the flowers popping, the lovely bees gathering more pollen for their winter stores. You my dear will have a bumper crop this year, as well as the wonderful bees. I love when the bees have their legs packed with pollen. I'd love to ask if you are going to write another book? Cookery? One of myths and legends? I would love to read something like this. Carry on my dear soul Colette. Love all that you do. Because of You, I hear and then go and research the many things you talk about and have learned so much. Thank you

[@JeanMcCormack]

You are my hero. I had no idea you were wfpb! 🍠🥔🥒🍀🍅🥕🥔🍆🍠🥒

[@corneliabraun9071]

Dear Colette. Thanks for the divine walk. I had the feeling to be with you and Jack in the garden. You are right, nature is the most important in this world. Blessings from Conny and cat Felix from germany.

[@spacekat8249]

What a beautiful sunday morning, I would so appreciate having a cup of tea next to you and listenning the ancient celtic legends... or just having sun and play witj Jack in your beautiful stones circle... It seems so peaceful ! Love and Light from France !

[@martyken4798]

Good morning. You have talked about so much in this video. It really makes you think, like you say - overpowering. I like to think of the triple goddess as maiden, mother, crone. Unfortunately today's society sees the crone as old and shrivelled rather than powerful and wise. And I've often thought that in our patriarchal Christian religion the women have held onto the goddess by revering Mary and the female saints. And Good luck with the weight loss journey. Have a wonderful Sunday.

[@elizabethcomiskey8339]

Interesting topic. I love to hear you talk about the Tuatha de Danann. They must grace your land as it appears otherworldly many times as you walk through the fairy wood. Abundant blessings and thank you for sharing your magickal world.

[@enquery]

So inspiring on so many levels. Blessings on ye, dear Colette.

[@WOLFROY47]

the black dog of surrey, that follows you home and then just disappears, i and my sister saw it, and it did just that. we had no knowledge of the legend until we asked my aunt, if we could keep it, and she said what dog ? we were very confused at the time, but she showed us a book of the history of sightings going back centuries, so yep it seems to be a family gift of seeing things, that other people are terrified of, and don't understand. so we tend not to share, because people think that you are mad. you can't please everyone

[@TraceyTruly]

I am loving your videos. Hopping about your timeline watching newer and older etc. love that you mentioned wfpb (whole food plant based) that is our life! Intrigued by the mention of the shape shifters, tuatha de danann, I will have to read more on that.

[@firesidewitch1398]

Ah! I was saying about Bredah Brigid Brigette yesterday!!! Seems like I resonate with you on some of these things.💞

[@triciabergland5067]

❤ shape shifting 🥰 thank you Colette 🙏

[@SHaas-vj6nu]

Lovely video Colette. Speaking of only seeing what we want to see sometimes reminded me of my walk yesterday at our local creek and parkland. This parkland has a few majestic eucalyptus/gum trees that pre-date white settlement here in my coastal town in Queensland - Australia. They are protected trees as they are rare now in the urban areas. Australia was decimated of it's ancient trees and not many areas now have these beautiful creatures left. As we were walking along the creek I noticed 2 beautiful ghost gums on the opposite side of the creek. There are homes along this area and these beautiful gums lean gracefully toward the waters edge. A few metres from this area is a main highway. What struck me is I have never noticed these 2 gums before yet I have been walking this parkland for 15 years! We see but we don't take notice - sometimes. xo

[@marianfrances4959]

Thank You! 🌹🇨🇦

[@BarbaraC02]

Loved this .... all of it, thank you. Beautiful visuals, history and legends... very interesting.

[@erinwest-ogilvie8974]

I just adore you!!! This spectacular video was triggering

[@JeanMcCormack]

One of my favorite poets , actually, my favorite poet is Patrick kavanagh,... "stoney grey soil of Monaghan the laugh from my love you thieved, you took the... of my child hood and gave me your cold conceived" the peoples poet. A farmer. A poet.

[@martinlong2804]

A few years ago I was in a beer garden sitting on a picnic bench on my own, when this lady came up and asked if she could sit down. I said no problem. We were looking into the river. We got talking after about half hour. I was looking at her face she turned her head and looked back At me, her face change and I was looking at a completely different person. And she said do I scare you. I said no do have a split personality. She said sometimes. The conversation got cold. After about 15mins I said my good byes . I told the bar Man to keep an eye on her. Just in case she might jumped in to the river. She didn't. I can still see her face in my head to this day.

[@zencat17]

I'm currently writing about shapeshifting as part of my journal work for OBOD Bardic course (who have incidentally named Eimear of the Danu clan down in Kilkenny as the next chief of the order which is amazing to have a woman and member of the fellowship of Isis in the role as chief druid), digressing there, shape shifting is something I am looking at within myself, how I morph and change around other people perhaps unconsciously to fit in and be accepted or even when in the company of women with children knowing I am a childless mother I have to keep up an appearance because the emotional side is somehow uncomfortable for others around me, or how others change their faces to hide something they are feeling too. But how wonderful it would be to shift into a bird and fly over the mountains and perhaps back in time too to see the founders land in Ireland, I'm spending more and more time on your wonderful isles and getting in touch with the spirits and stones of the south. Brigid has been my muse since I left my home in Glastonbury and moved to Hastings, spending half a week working in Waterford each week, my journey going forwards now is a transitioning to living between two worlds! well done for re-plenishing your health reserves, may you go from strength to strength.

[@WOLFROY47]

The Tuath(a) Dé Danann (Irish: [t̪ˠuəhə dʲeː d̪ˠan̪ˠən̪ˠ], meaning "the folk of the goddess Danu"),

[@theblissfullone]

Deep within the psyche and the genetic make up of those people ... I agree whole heartedly. 🌷 I have thought on this often over the years. The way you describe shape shifting/acting/quantum physics ... perfect. Many blessings to you and yours dear Colette. ❤️

[@michaelwhity7382]

Glorious.

[@JeanMcCormack]

Or Austin Clarke... February.. "Every old man I see reminds me of my father, when he had fallen in love with death one time when the leaves were gathered" And Patrick kavanagh again "Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder And here in the Advent darkened room, with the dry black bread and the sugarless tea... will charm back the soul of....."forgot the rest "

[@annettecoykendall7090]

Like others here, I love hearing about the Tuatha de Dannan and shape shifting and all these wonders. I have had experiences of feeling as if I have become something other than myself - like a turtle swimming through the ocean, for example- where I am fairly fully immersed in sensations and awarenesses of a different consciousness. It has helped me understand them a bit more.

[@widdershins2687]

.. and the christian monks weren't exactly the most reliable of narrators. I loved hearing your thoughts on the Tuatha Dé Danann (I hope I spelled that right) and shapeshifting. :)

[@michaelwhity7382]

They are not reliable at anything.

[@campingintheforest_]

The thought of acting, as an example or a way of understanding shapeshifting...is interesting. Reality as perception, and projection, is familiar. The ancients here, and a few contemporaries have some knowledge of this. In the Great Lakes of Michigan, our ancestors, the Gatay-anishenabeg those whom have returned to this life...or old spirits, used this shapeshifting, they were and are the Midewiwin. Today much has been lost to colonization. Still there are some who continue in the best way they understand. Some things are not discussed, Mukwa massen is one of those subjects. Literally the bear walk. Jesuits left some history of this, however reliable that can be considered. The notion of cultural relativity is helpful when reading such history...through which lens do we view...the carvings in stone have some bearing on the subject, as well the birch scrolls, today's researchers are bound to their own narrative. The Anthropologist, the Native Amerindian and the colonized can be one in the same, that's me in brief. So anyhow, the ability to change one's form, can be used in a good way, or bad. And as we have seen, some things are better left unspoken, as power can corrupt, and when we focus energy we should be clean vessels to ensure we are good. I often consider how much contact our ancestors had, it seems like it was much more then current paradigms suggest. An ancient scroll/map displays a route to where you are, and our symbol for creation resembles a Celtic cross. Independent invention? That's HIStory. You surround yourself with good energy, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@JeanMcCormack]

Grainne.. Ireland was a matriarchal society before christianity came and made everything patriarchal

[@JeanMcCormack]

I guess, in essence, you are a modern day Seanchai

[@mauricepowers3804]