The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

3 weeks ago | sharonblackie.substack.com | Sharon Blackie

Read on for a special 20% discount on the forthcoming Wise Women paperback, and the audio recording of an exclusive new wise-woman story from the north of England. This month I’m afraid I’m something of a content-free zone, as I’m grinding away here into the last flagging, gibbering days of completing this new manuscript and my brain cells are all shot to hell and back.

4 weeks ago | sharonblackie.substack.com | Sharon Blackie

Apart from my monthly newsletters and occasional bits of this and that, my original work here at ‘The Art of Enchantment’ is for paying subscribers. This is because writing is my full-time job i.e. it’s the only way I get to eat and pay the bills. From time to time I offer post previews to all subscribers so you know about what’s available here. I promise you, though, that I will never be irritating enough to send previews to you that contain no more than a sentence or two.

1 month ago | sharonblackie.substack.com | Sharon Blackie

I promised earlier in the year that I’d open up a conversation in our Temenos explorations about what’s often called ‘Celtic Christianity’ – the idea that the form of Christianity which developed in the Celtic countries as opposed to that which was dominated by Rome, is somehow different and, in particular, more nature-focused. This was a big…

1 month ago | sharonblackie.substack.com | Sharon Blackie

It’s getting on for a year now since we took our last foray into the world of the fairy-tale heroine and ended our months-long exploration of some aspects of her journey. (If you’re new to this Substack and missed those posts and discussions, you can find the full series here.) And as most of you will know, I’ve been busy ever since turning…

1 month ago | sharonblackie.substack.com | Sharon Blackie

I’m very much looking forward to Saturday’s Myth & Fairy Tale Salon, in which we’ll be talking about a story very close to my heart: the old Irish tale known as ‘The Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis’. The story exists only in a shortened form, and in Irish; my version (which I wrote for If Women Rose Rooted) is based on an English summary of two old…