Dream Pillow of Sight & Protection
Participants: 20 space available @ $10.00 each
Date: Aug 8, 2025
Time: 6 PM - 8 PM
Location: 2800 McCurdy Road Kelowna BC V1x 8c8
Duration: 30- 60 minutes
Contribution: $10 donation to the Seminary & Farm Fund
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Includes: Fresh basil, blue felt, tiger’s eye chips, scroll parchment, thread or ribbon, and a dream tea sample
Workshop Intent:
Join us in crafting a traditional dream pillow, filled with sacred plant and stone magic to guard the dreamer, invite prophetic vision, and anchor messages from the Otherworld. This hands-on ritual draws from historical lore and is rooted in our community land, blending ancient traditions with present-day purpose.
Materials and Meaning
Blue Felt – Blue is the colour of twilight, vision, and sacred waters in Celtic tradition. In Scottish and Irish lore, the Otherworld often reveals itself at the edges of day and night between sky and sea, veil and sleep. Blue invokes that in-between place where the seer may catch glimpses of fate or receive ancestral messages.
Basil Leaves – While not native to Celtic lands, basil carries protective qualities that echo old Gaelic plant lore. In a Scottish context, it aligns with the tradition of planting charms herbs used to guard doorways and hearths from ill spirits. Basil can act as a threshold herb, standing guard at the veil of sleep. In Mediterranean folk magic (closely linked to early Druidic herbalism through Roman occupation), basil was used for divination and dream revelations.
Tiger’s Eye Chips – Though not mined in the Celtic world, tiger’s eye fits within the ancient Celtic practice of carrying stones for protection and second sight. The Highland seers (fiosaichean) and Welsh awenyddion would use stone or reflective objects to gaze into other realms. Tiger’s eye mirrors this tradition, helping to ground while opening the “eye beyond the eye.” It functions much like jet or amber in warding and divinatory practices.
Parchment Scroll – The use of written charms, carmina, or dream requests echoes early Celtic Christian and pre-Christian traditions where dreams were considered sacred messages. Bards and filidh (poet-seers) in Gaelic Ireland recorded visionary poetry and dream omens on birch bark or vellum. Writing to the dream realm honors this bardic connection to inspired sight (imbas).
Thread, Ribbon, or Twine Knot magic and cord-binding were commonly used in Scottish witchcraft and Welsh folk cunning. Tying the pillow shut seals the intention just as threefold cords, hair ties, or red threads were used to bind wishes, blessings, or protections in Celtic domestic magic.
Opening Ritual:
We begin with grounding breath and a community chant to invite protection and sacred space.
By basil leaf and tiger’s eye, Dream spirits hear our lullaby.
Guard our sleep and let us see, What dream and destiny shall be.
Closing Blessing:
As we complete our work and prepare to dream, we speak this charm aloud together:
Let dreams be kind, let sight be clear, What’s needed next, may it appear.
Guard this sleep, guide what’s shown, Let no harm enter this dream zone.
Shared Offering:
At the end of the workshop, we share a small sample of dream tea, lovingly prepared with lemon balm, mugwort, and chamomile herbs traditionally used to soothe the body and stir the second sight.
All funds raised go directly toward farm rent and community land preservation.
Blessed dreaming, from all of us at Star Sapphire Seminary.
(Pic is Sage for those who d not like Basil)
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