Substacks recommended by Caitlín Matthews

Recommended by Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

My Personal Substack

Brian shares his deep connection with myth and story, with affectionate and searching grace. A wealth of experience awaits the gentle reader.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Myth and Mystery

A place where ancient myths and religions live in a new light. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." A. Einstein

Kresho's wisdom and knowledge reveals bright pathways into the world of myth and initiations of the Mysteries.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

John Matthews' Little House of Myth and Legend

Hi. Welcome to my substack. I write about myths legends and faery lore. I hope you'll come with me on a voyage of discovery into these and other topics.

Since we share one soul, one view of history and myth, I can only rejoice that you are here with me too!

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Dwina’s Substack

By Dwina Murphy-Gibb

My personal Substack

Dwina's writing opens us both to the luminous vision of the soul's path, as well as to the deep folk humour of the ancestors. It is most wonderfully satisfying to have these together.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Woodland Bard - 'Devoted to plants since 1998'

By Jonathon Huet

WOODLAND BARD - receive meditation & story recordings with detailed articles on Trees, Plants and the Sacred Landscape as well as attend our regular LIVE online events. 'Be held and supported by Nature in a changing world'

Jonathon Huet expertly leads us into the fields, hills and woods, following the dear plants. Their songs sing remembrance of the joyous earth.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Imelda Almqvist's Substack

Reflections of a Forest Witch

The inside life of shamanic practitioners is seldom so well revealed as here, in Imelda's posts. While the glamour of expectation often promotes the alien and the odd upon us, it is true that the everydayness of our experience is both ordinary and extraordinary - yet still recognisable and familiar.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Ancestral Mothers of Scotland & Gather the Keeners

By Jude Lally

Exploring the Ancestral Mothers of Scotland and re-envisioning keening - through story, art and ritual.

Ancestral Mothers of Scotland shares with us the deep love of the land's guardian goddesses, who are very dear to my own heart.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

The Hidden Path

By Nancy Hendrickson

Where tarot, the ancestors, and the supernatural come to chat.

Nancy Hendrickson uses the tarot in deep ancestral ways, that help us follow the footsteps of our lost or forgotten beloveds.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

In the Groves of Symbols

By Melinda Reidinger

In the Groves of Symbols explores mythic pathways and connections between stories, art, ritual, the living land, and extraordinary experiences. As Karl Marx used to say (after Horace), De te fabula narratur! The story is told about you.

How much I am enjoying Melinda's wonderful posts! Leading us to the foundations of the symbol or word, she enables every reader to discover treasures.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

True Tarot Tales

By Katie-Ellen Hazeldine

Stories from the Tarot, and other mysteries of Mind and Myth with Katie-Ellen Hazeldine, psychic reader and writer in the UK.

Tarot has its part to play in exploring the changing times through which we live. Let's lift it up and shine a light!

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

The Druid Stares Back

Michael Martin, Ph.D. on Sophiology and everything else.

This intelligent and thought-provoking look at embodied Christian mysticism reveals bridges and signposts for anyone upon their pilgrim path. We are all fellow and sister travellers into holiness.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Culture Cross

By James Binks

The transmission of Ancient Greek texts from antiquity to today.

James Binks leads us faithfully along the path of cultural transmission with a sure guidance. How that wisdom spills like honey from earlier hives into different jars has been a joyous and sometimes perilous journey: we receive it s wealth with gratitude.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Myth Is Medicine

By Marisa Goudy

Mythology, storytelling, and creativity in the Irish tradition, brought to you by the host of KnotWork Storytelling.

Marisa goes to the heart of the Irish mythic understanding.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Hedge Mystic

By Jan Blencowe

Earth wisdom, seasonal living, soul work, folk saints, mythology, Christianity + spiritual Tarot

I value Jan's blend of the ancient strata of folk traditions and the holy life that was embodied by our ancestors as a single weaving.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Apprenticing the Numinous

By Sophia Voyevod Elliott

A collection of writing, poems and meanderings

Sophia's poetry and writing explore the between places with subtle harmony.

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Mysteria Mundi

By Kristin Mathis

Ancient Mediterranean wisdom and resources for becoming sacred ground

How wonderful that the Orphic Mysteries are so beautifully upheld by Kristin Mathis. The ancient mysteries are for all time.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Under a Fig Tree

By Gabriela Gutierrez

An archive of essays, poetry, stories and reflections rooted in imagination, mythopoetics and ancient religion.

Gabriela Gutierrez speaks from the urgent heart of the primal myth that the soul yearns for.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

The Pollen Basket

By Sylvia V. Linsteadt

a gathering of reflections on land, old stories & "what the bee knows" - (P.L. Travers)

Sylvia V. Linsteadt's heartfelt writing powerfully evokes the spirit of place, introducing us to the deep presences who dwell in the byways of story, myth, and the ancestral heart

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Coeling Chronicler

By Aurochs

Articles discussing Sub-Roman Britain, or The Brythonic Heroic Age as I call it, hunting down the origins of Arthurian Tropes, as well as blacksmithing, and maybe once and a while cryptids, and some relevant Archaeology.

The forgotten centuries of the Dark Ages come to life under Rhyd's hand.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Classical Wisdom

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds. Each week we discuss philosophy, history, literature, and mythology to unlock the wisdom from the Classical world. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter and receive our Ebook, "How to be Happy" a Guide to Ethical Philosophy.

As a student of NeoPlatonism and Iamblicus, I really enjoy these posts for their breadth of knowledge.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

Paul Kingsnorth speaks with the authentic voice of the soul, keeping our attention upon the sustaining mystery.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

Personal Papers

By Carol Sill

Writing from the intersection of imagination and reality. Reflections, ideas and commentary. Hand written. Manually curated.

I love Carol's take on the sweet, strange and surprising aspects of unfolding life.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary

On Substack

By Substack Writers

Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack.

As a very new entrant into the Substack, I am learning just how wonderful it is to browse this virtual library of great writing.

- Caitlín Matthews - A Hallowquest Sanctuary