Cauldron of Cerridwen 🌒🌕🌘 | Celtic Mythology Sleep Story | Sleep Meditation

In tonight’s bedtime story, inspired by Welsh mythology, you enter into the service of Cerridwen, a powerful goddess who possesses gifts of magic and poetry. You assist her in brewing a special potion intended for her son: a draught containing all the spark of poetic inspiration, that will make the drinker the greatest poet alive, but only the first three drops drunk will grant the magical gifts. Through an accident of circumstance, you - and not the goddess’s son - become the first drinker of the potion. You feel your mind open to new gifts, knowledge, and inspiration.
Sleep & Sorcery is a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure.
Tonight’s key ingredients:
Celtic / Welsh mythology: the Tale of Taliesin, Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), Preiddeu Annwfn (The Spoils of Annwn), Blodeuwedd
Relaxing wind sounds 🌬
Imaginative meditation
Music/Sound: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw, Pandora’s Box by Arthur Benson from Epidemic Sound
Sleep & Sorcery is written and produced by Laurel Hostak
Copyright Laurel Hostak 2022
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[@ellyt3429]

this is so incredibly beautiful so far- i can’t believe i somehow missed this one!!!! ❤ thank you for your amazing work. your writing is ethereal. ❤❤❤❤

[@cmeride79]

It was actually * you*, Laurel Awen, who received the gift! How you write; the yarns you weave and the songs you compose, whether in time or verse, are tremendous! You have an incredible talent- the gift of the bard, in every sense of the word. .. I am *so* glad that I found you, for my life - whether in dream time or otherwise - would have missed this amazing enrichment. Thank you for sharing these wonderful tales. I am increasing my gift ... by support. SO golden! 💜💯⭐️🏆🥇⚜️👑🔮🪄✨🧹🎸💜

[@sleepandsorcery]

Thanks so much for the kind words! Many blessings 💚

[@teramitchell4074]

I thought that I had commented on this ages ago! This is one of my very favourites of your recordings! Indeed, one of my all time favourite recordings / meditations. Excellent work! The images are complimentary to the story. Thank you for this, and for all of the hard work, heart, and soul that you put in to each piece! 💚💜💚

[@sleepandsorcery]

Thank you, Tera! This is one of the pieces I’m most proud of - the material is so so close to me heart. 💚💚💚

[@cmeride79]

@@sleepandsorceryIt is so easy to *feel* why ... it is the very stuff of dreams. 🔮🪄🧹🧚✨

[@magikme033]

Thank you love this ❤beautiful blessings to all who read this 🎶

[@starflowy]

Beautiful blessings to you too ❤

[@sianpodmore4988]

Beautifully crafted word-imagery. Thank you. You seem to have drunk of Cerridwen's potion yourself.

[@sleepandsorcery]

Thank you 💚

[@kgoodridge1]

"Word Imagery"... What a beautiful way to call what was almost poetry and yet not. I know I'm missing out because I don't like the cadence of poetry so I don't read them, but this surprised me. During the first few minutes I had to come back to the present to ask myself if the sentence you said previously rhymed with the current one. It didn't so I listened on. It WAS beautifully written! But I fell asleep before the stirring girl drank the three drops. I may listen again tonight so that I can enjoy it from the beginning. You did a wonderful job with it 🙏

[@sleepandsorcery]

Thank you, Karen 💚 This story is especially close to my heart.

[@wendi4418]

Truly enchanting!

[@Crow3306]

I loved this! However, I fell asleep very quickly, so I'll have to give it another listen to enjoy the whole story!

[@tanias1534]

Another ❤ly story thank you

[@sarahkelly4145]

My goodness.

[@jackieroberts7895]

Cymru am byth ❤

[@jackieroberts7895]

This is welsh Celtic mythology not Irish or Scottish

[@sleepandsorcery]

😊 yes! Using the Hanes Taliesin, the Four Branches, and a few other sources as inspiration.

[@ellyt3429]

she said it was welsh many times 😅😅