“Ecology is queer theory - environmental awareness a heightening to our interconnectivity - not a comfortable, cosy feeling rather acuity to our uncanny lack of separation, our uncanny entangled intimacy.”

Soil, actual and imaginative, is the mythopoetic and conceptual ground out of which all my work and ideas emerge. Soil longs to build, nourish and enhance - your footing within it and your feeding of it - create and sustain the bedrock and base of being. Its health is the foundation of our species survival, an intelligent and generous being at large sorely battered and abused . How we feed soil, its structural microbial health is equivalent to the strength of what it can hold - harbor - hear. The neural networks that corse through soil are its communicative and nutritional web, these neural networks correlate to dendritic structures within gut, heart, brain and dark matter. Communication between all creatures within an ecosystem is via this webbed dendritic network. What wealth breeds and riches grow from ecosystem thinking - ecology as creative and contemplative practice? These questions preoccupy lived life at the Wyrd Sanctuary and through my work with sound to soil, sound with growing, sound for the health of all beings.  

Living close to soil - metaphorically / actually - is akin to a living sky practice - a way to re-member to our ecologically meshed lifeworld. To honor soil is a radical act in the face of binary thinking, extractive and transactional endeavors. To be an earth seer, a sky seer are kin sensibilities, respectful relational modes that align to natural cycles and internal rhythms - time which is circular rather than linear. Both earth and sky practices say yes to extreme generosity - both ways, to sharing and showing up - both ways. With soil we are asked to listen, to soften, to pay attention, to follow the messages that quietly appear with exquisite tenderness. A practice that invites committing to the mystery of reciprocity, to what lies beneath - underworld work tapping the chthonic realms of unconscious earthly impulses, ones material depths. Soil practice is an opportunity to re-write relations, to strengthen Eros bonds of mutuality, to give value to base being and feed all with attentive care. Soil then is soma - is soul - is sacrament - is sentient sensual being upon which our existence depends.

The Wyrd Sanctuary is a Site birthed from soil practice - attuning to the the wyrd weave - tacking close to a ‘pattern felt yet unseen’ is how I arrived here. The full hearted intention is to co-create a site to nourish flourish for all life and come into close, felt contact with the poetics of aliveness. Housed - co habiting the Wyrd Sanctuary is Inanna - a sturdy dwelling who has lived many lives, that seep and sustain the sites regenerative intentions and cycles. She has life and death tattooed onto her bones - once a shelter to lay out the dead, a journeying home, once a painters studio, once a place of family birthings - she holds these histories as currents coursing through her tough granite walls welcoming life - death - liminal and lucid living. My presence is as a custodian, to foster thriving, attune to and tune the land, feed the throb, build the beauty and invite all life to come, create, converse and cultivate that which has not yet found a birthing place, a being place .

The Wyrd Sanctuary, and all her inhabitants, will soon concurrently dwell in the digital realm. Virtually the Wryd Sanctuary will be a heathen home to gather practices and practitioners - a hub of learning, shared living, a co-creative community. For now she fosters the presence of and practices to Venus, Vesta, Ceres, Pallas Athena, Hecate and Inanna - their breathy bloody presences run wild , re-wild, co-create our concrete - celestial - carnal - symbiotic colony. Together we are nestled within big boned sacred land, still soaked in its own raw sprit and wyrd/wild ways. Majestically overlooked by Kes Tor, latticed with Druid walk ways, charged with the virility of Scorhill stone circle, encircled by fecund peaty waters. Ground - growth - greening - life - longing - land - witch work - personal practices of any kind are welcome here on this little/large Sanctuary Site. No being is excluded - offered whole heartedly as a regenerative - restorative base for being, for conjuring vibrant erotic ecological connectivity .