What We Seek

We are gathering glimpses - fragments - insights of lived experience, practice, scholarship and creative work that illuminate the threshold territories explored in each volume

We are compiling a quarterly series examining the Celtic cross-quarter festivals as gateways to the numinous.

This work is intended for those who understand that behind the manifest world lies a more fundamental order, and that "things" can serve as doorways into direct encounter with these deeper patterns.

This volume explores the mystical point where death and life are revealed as one continuous process. Imbolc marks not just spring's arrival but the first stirring beneath winter's surface; the moment when what seemed to be a dark blanket of death, becomes the wombspace of creation itself, holding life within it. Any other symbolic interpretation on the essence of IMBOLC will also be welcome for this edition.

Theme

Open Now

How endings are always beginnings, the spiritual significance of dormancy and emergence, the wisdom held in apparent emptiness, the power of silence, practices for recognising life-force within apparent death states (in relationships, projects, spiritual practices, landscapes) and any other symbolically aligned entries.

Focus

Submissions Deadline:
December 1st, 2025
01/12/25

Volume 1: Imbolc
"The Silence"
Death-Becoming-Life

Release Date:
February 1st, 2026

Example Forms of Contribution

Documented workings, seasonal observances, or ceremonial frameworks that engage with threshold states and liminal timing.​

Studies in folklore, depth psychology, anthropology, traditional practices, comparative religion that shed light on threshold consciousness & place-based practice.

First-person explorations of encounters with place-spirits, seasonal initiations, or experiences at the boundaries between worlds.

Photography or artwork that captures something of the numinous presence within landscape, or the liminal qualities of seasonal transition.

Visual Documentation

Poetic
Transmission

Theoretical Frameworks

Work that uses language symbolically to evoke the ineffable, translating abstract essence into accessible form.

Philosophical or theoretical explorations of liminal space, place-based spirituality, or the relationship between consciousness and landscape.

Phenomenological Accounts

Research

Ritual
Practice

Submission Guidelines

Length:
up to 2,000 words for written work

Format:
PDF or Word document

Images:
High resolution (300 DPI), with brief context where relevant

Poetry:
Individual pieces or collections up to 50 lines, max 3 poems per person.

Include a brief note (under 200 words) contextualising your work within the broader theme, along with relevant credentials or background.

Let us know how you would like to be credited for your work. Contributors retain copyright & give us the right to publish.

No AI submissions. Must be your own work.

Submit to:
SLR@maiden-mother-crone.org

FREE
No fee required to enter

Queries
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Selections

Contributors should understand that this work assumes familiarity with the deeper currents, whether through traditional training, academic scholarship, artistic practice, or years of solitary work in these areas.

The threshold places still hold their power for those who know how to approach them properly. This series aims to preserve and share that knowledge among those capable of receiving and applying it responsibly.

We are looking for work that emerges from sustained practice, serious study, or deep creative engagement with these territories.

We seek contributors who understand that this work serves not only intellectual curiosity but the deeper need to maintain living connection with the more-than-human world and the intelligence that moves through it.