Leandra Witchwood Published on: 14/08/2025Keening is not about fixing. It’s about acknowledging. It’s about reverence for what has been lost, and the spirits who still linger in the wounds. And as I sit with the land, this desolate, aching Earth. Even if I didn’t choose the damage, I can select the devotion that follows because this is what it means to love the land not just in spring, but in sorrow.
Leandra WitchwoodAcross these traditions, one theme recurs: the starling is a herald. A creature that appears when something is about to move. When the atmosphere is changing. When the world, in one way or another, is beginning to rearrange itself.
Leandra WitchwoodWhen the World Falls Out of Balance. When societies lose reverence for the land, for the feminine principle, for the living web of spirit, imbalance begins to grow. Power replaces stewardship. Extraction replaces reciprocity.
Leandra WitchwoodWhen the World Falls Out of Balance. When societies lose reverence for the land, for the feminine principle, for the living web of spirit, imbalance begins to grow. Power replaces stewardship. Extraction replaces reciprocity.
Leandra WitchwoodA story of the Child Goddess Archetype - In her hands, she carried a small basket woven from willow twigs. Inside it were seeds. No one had seen her arrive, yet it felt as though the land itself had been waiting. She paused at the edge of the field and breathed deeply. The air was cool and damp, filled with the faint scent of thawing soil and distant rain.
