Wild Wisdom | The Pathway of Wonder and Awe

Before I lived beside the Southern Ocean, I dreamed of it. In this month’s Notes From the Pathway of Wonder and Awe, I reflect on wonder, home, and the mysterious way our deepest dreams begin long before they become the lives we are living.

Dreams shape our lives in ways we often don’t recognise until we look back. Some come to us in sleep, revealing healing, guidance or the next step. Others emerge through imagination, creativity and the dreams we dare to pursue.In this Full Moon practice, Michelle shares a dream that changed the course of her life and invites you to reflect on the moments that have shaped yours. Through contemplation, a walking practice and a simple creative exercise, you’ll create a constellation of the things that make you feel most alive—a map of your inner sky to help guide what comes next.

This month we explore dreaming as a spiritual practice — the dreams we enter while we sleep, the imagination that accompanies us through our days, and the larger dreams seeking expression through our lives. Through reflection, simple ritual and attention to wonder, we are invited into a deeper relationship with the wisdom that unfolds through dreaming.

In this Full Moon practice, Michelle MacEwan explores Spiritual Wayfinding — the ancient art of finding our direction through the language of the world.At times, the next step is clear. More often, we are asked to move without certainty, guided by intuition, synchronicity, dreams, beauty, relationship, and the deeper patterns moving through our lives.This practice invites you to pause beneath the light of the Full Moon, reflect on what is calling you forward, and explore a simple ritual for taking the next step without needing to see the entire path.A contemplative practice exploring intuition, synchronicity, story, symbol, and the many ways guidance reveals itself through the living world.

This month’s New Moon Practice explores spiritual wayfinding — the ways guidance moves through dreams, story, prayer, synchronicity, beauty, and the living world itself. Through reflection, spoken word, and simple ritual, Michelle invites us to strengthen our inner wisdom and move through uncertainty with greater trust, steadiness, and presence.

In this month’s Notes from the Pathway of Wonder & Awe, Michelle reflects on the healing power of stories, imagination, and the mysterious signs that guide us through times of uncertainty.From childhood memories of storm-lit rooms and bedtime stories to the deeper wisdom carried through oral traditions, Stories as Medicine explores how stories shape us, protect us, and remind us that we are never truly alone.

There are moments in life that ask everything of us.Moments where the instinct is to run, to close, or to turn away.This Full Moon Practice is an invitation to do the opposite — to stay.To meet yourself fully in what is here, and to discover the quiet power of self-devotion.Because healing does not come from escaping what is difficult.It begins the moment you are willing to be present to it.When you remain — even in discomfort, even in uncertainty — something begins to shift.What once felt overwhelming can reveal itself as medicine.And in that, a deeper strength, and a feeling of grace, can emerge.

This New Moon practice explores medicine as a way of life — not something we take, but a relationship we enter into.Through story, reflection, and a simple guided practice, this recording invites you to reconnect with your inner world, deepen your sense of trust, and recognise the medicine present in all of life.

A remembering of kinship — with whales, with land, and with the living systems we are part of. What it means to return to a way of being shaped by respect, responsibility, and belonging.

There is an awakening moving through the world — a remembering of our place within the living web of life. This Full Moon Practice explores kinship not as an idea, but as a way of being — how we relate to the land, to each other, and to the deeper intelligence that guides us.

In this New Moon practice, we turn toward kin — a deeper sense of belonging to land, life and the unseen web of relationship that holds us. Through reflection, conversation and a guided inner journey, we explore the threads that connect us and the knowing that arises from within.

In this reflection from the Pathway of Wonder & Awe, Michelle explores how we learn to recognise the magical signs that guide us along the path. As we step into the unknown, these quiet moments of synchronicity become lanterns that illuminate the way forward.

In this Full Moon Practice, we enter the theme Entering the Unknown — approaching each day as a small pilgrimage.Michelle invites you to reflect on a milestone in your life — a threshold moment that quietly shaped your direction and continues to guide you. Through gentle ritual and embodied reflection, you are guided to reconnect with the signs, synchronicities, and inner knowing that anchor faith in uncertain times.This practice is an invitation to remember your inner compass, to trust your guidance, and to shine your lantern into the world.

A New Moon practice for entering the unknown — walking forward without certainty, guided by inner light and steady faith.

To live in rhythm with life is to live from the heart.In this reflection, Michelle explores what it means to trust our inner rhythm — the cadence of breath, the beat of the heart, the felt sense of yes, no, or not yet. Through story, sky, season and moon, she speaks to how rhythm steadies us in uncertain times and helps us find our way.An invitation to return to your own timing and move in relationship with the living world.

Under this Full Moon, we gather to listen for the rhythm of life as it moves through us. Rhythm lives in breath, in the tides, in memory, and in the great movements that shape who we become. In this practice, Michelle reflects on an early relationship with the sea and explores how even the most turbulent experiences can teach us about steadiness, presence, and belonging. This is an invitation to slow down, feel what is alive in you, and remember your own inner rhythm.

In this New Moon Practice, we explore the rhythm of life — the natural cycles that steady us in times of change. This reflection invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and align your inner rhythm with the living world, offering a grounded way to move through this threshold time.

In this Full Moon practice, I invite you into the magic of the night and a gentle shifting of perception.Each Full Moon, I offer this practice to help you stay connected to the lunar cycle and to your New Moon intentions — a way to remain spiritually nourished and supported as you move through your life.This is a Moon for awakened awareness — our capacity to recognise signs, synchronicities, and guidance as they arise.Held within the tender, home-calling energy of a Cancer Full Moon, and the threshold time of the Omen Days, this practice offers a simple embodied invitation to soften, notice, and receive.Together, we tend the heart and the hearth, listen to what the night reveals, and allow a subtle shift in perception to take root as the year ahead begins to unfold.

This piece is part of Notes from the Pathway of Wonder and Awe — a series of spoken podcasts exploring themes of meaning, presence, and inner listening.In this episode, Michelle turns toward the magic and mystery of the dark. Rather than something to move through or overcome, the dark is explored as a vital space of rest, renewal, and quiet gestation. It is an invitation to slow down, to listen more deeply, and to trust what is forming beneath the surface.

This New Moon practice explores the magic of the night and the power of shifting perception. Drawing on rest, wonder, and Silver Branch Perception from Irish myth, it supports a gentle transition into a new rhythm as we move toward 2026. The practice invites deeper presence, self-devotion, and a renewed way of seeing yourself, your dreams, and the world around you.

Each full moon you will receive this note from me to keep you on track with the lunar cycle and your new moon practice. These are crafted to keep you spiritually nourished and to help you to continue to expand your spiritual growth. This month our practice is The Art of Self Devotion

Cultivate inner safety and grounding with a simple self-devotion practice of morning stillness, intention setting, gratitude, and elemental release.

Notes from the Pathway of Wonder & Awe. This episode invites you to rediscover the art of wayfinding—seeing through the heart, listening to nature’s quiet language, and tracing invisible maps of meaning through your life. Drawing on ancient wisdom and the practice of devotion, we explore how to orient ourselves toward inner and outer alignment, and follow what makes us feel truly alive. A contemplative, soul-guiding conversation along the pathway of wonder and awe.

This months full moon is a super moon. It is the second, and biggest, of three super full moons in succession. A super moon is when the Moon is at the closest point to Earth during its orbit, appearing larger and brighter, and its gravitational pull can cause higher ocean tides. Our inner emotional waters can also be affected.This full moon is in earthy Taurus, the sign of stability, grounding, material security, beauty and manifestation. This is a perfect opportunity to celebrate your inner value. Your inner value is your gold. Our Practice this Month is: Ancestral Traditions, Reverence, The Unknown 

In this episode, Michelle invites you to slow down and embrace reverence in everyday life. From the quiet of early morning to the sacred waters of holy wells, discover how simple rituals and presence can awaken the Divine spark in all life.

The Wild Wisdom monthly practices are sent out each new moon. They include instructions and actions for you to take throughout the lunar month to develop and deepen your spiritual pathway, and keep you grounded and spiritually invigorated. They also have a mantra, blessing or prayer to enhance your practice.Our Practice this Month is: Ancestral Traditions, Reverence, The Unknown 

Each full moon you will receive this note with a ritual or ceremony to keep you on track with the lunar cycle and your current new moon practice. They are crafted to keep you spiritually nourished and to help you to continue to expand your spiritual growth.

Welcome to the Wild Wisdom New Moon Monthly Practice.The Wild Wisdom monthly practices are sent out each new moon. They include instructions and actions for you to take throughout the lunar month to develop and deepen your spiritual pathway, and keep you grounded and spiritually invigorated. They also have a mantra, blessing or prayer to enhance your practice.Our practice this month is Balance, Walking the Shoreline of Certainty and Uncertainty.

This month’s Full Moon practice, “Rest and the Still Point Within,” guides you through a tea ceremony to release blocks, reconnect with your still point, and open to clarity, balance, and spiritual growth.

This podcast shares the spoken version of Michelle MacEwan’s monthly practices and newsletters. Through reflections, stories, and gentle guidance, Michelle invites you into a space of wild wisdom, nature connection, and wellbeing. Each episode offers a chance to pause, listen, and reconnect with what is sacred in life.