The Rise of the Rebel Ma

If fear didn't exist, what could happen?

ARRGHH lads I’m finally doing it. I’ve been dreaming about writing a blog for more than 10 years and I’ve never actually done it because, well I guess, fear, procrastination and excuses were holding me back from sharing my heart and my art because deep down I was shit scared of commitment and feared judgement.

I was worried it would be too much hard work and just another thing for me to do on my long list of dreams to pursue as a time-poor Rebel Ma of two but I also know that my truth deserves a place to live and breathel and the goddess gifted me my desires because I can and I AM but the conduit... I don’t HAVE to…. I GET TO do it, how fucking lucky am I?

My Rebel Ma Rising writings are a living, breathing entity that want to be shared and even though it might be highly inconvenient and will take some level of commitment,; I also know that it is all leading me somewhere beautiful and I am answering her call to step more in to my role as a writer and a Seanchaí (the Gaelic word for Irish storyteller) who in ancient Ireland held the key to all Irish folklore, myth and legend. 

With the help of my inner Rebel Ma muse this is already feeling like one helluva pleasure project not a pressure project and it’s opening up doors where there were only walls. I am so over screaming into the void on socials and the crazy censorship so many of us are experiencing for standing on the right side of history. I’m yearning for deep and meaningful connection and community with like-hearted sisters who are doing big things in the world and actually give a fuck about nudging humanity forward.

Who’s with me?

Around 18 months ago I launched my dream podcast Rebel Ma presents All Boobs Blazing for the Feminine Rising but after recording 8 epic episodes with women across the globe life got busy with my publishing house, marriage and motherhood and I put it in the too hard basket. But I’m bringing sexy back (Justin Timberlake voice) and putting it here on my Substack to have a proper platform for all things Rebel Ma Rising. And I am so fucking excited. Albeit it is all still a work in progress.

I’m not going to lie this season of my life, nurturing a new marriage, settling into a new country, building a new life, a new home, a new community and a new career, fuck it has been an initiation of fire. I have been humbled and fumbled my way through many dark nights of the soul. There was nowhere to hide. I’ve had to die a thousand times but like a rose I rise and on the other side of those ego deaths is a new level of liberation, ownership and acceptance.

At times being a mother maker with a big vision has been full of so much pride, love, expansion, fun and adventure and at others full of anxiety, doubt, guilt, grief and sadness trying to make sense of the world around us (hello witnessing jeno-side in real time in Palestine) and be the best I can be in my role as mother, wife, business woman, daughter, friend and human while navigating the fears, what ifs, buts and maybes of walking the road less travelled as a mother maker here to disrupt patriarchal systems and do things different.

And now here I am feeling reborn after a period of contraction and stagnancy feeling lit-up, liberated and excited about life again and I’m sitting in the question of: If fear didn’t exist what could happen?

If I truly believe I’m a writer and a Seanchaí then I will no longer hide in the shadows of self-judgement and fear and I will put myself out there with no attachment to the outcome other than being proud as punch of myself for ticking off another big fat fuck yes on my bucket-list.

Like many of you reading this, I am sure, I’ve been struggling navigating life and business while witnessing the live streamed horror being inflicted on our Palestinian kin. It’s felt so shallow and superficial selling on socials and more often than not I’ve fallen into despair, feeling utterly helpless at the state of the world around us.

But as we bear witness and do what we can to stop this we must also not forget to nourish and nurture ourselves and not feel guilty about choosing joy and channelling our rage and frustration into heartfelt action just as our ancestors did.

After months of reflecting and trying to find inspiration and motivation to show up and share my magic as a joy generator, a voice activator and a dream liberator, here I am.

I hope to share writings that will rekindle the beauty, magic, joy and ceremony in our days and breathe life back into our weary hearts and art.

Making time to nurture relationships that fuel our spirit and uplift our souls is what we all need more of right now. Creating spaces to feel peace and fire up our potential and purpose amidst the darkness is what I’m good at.

It is my wish for this to be a sanctuary of radical awakening for the paradigm shifting women and mamas on a mission to change the world through our soul-led businesses.

This is your safe space and happy place to come home, to where we can dance alongside each other and rise together in truth, trust and potent sisterhood as we share stories, hopes, dreams, fears, values and visions. 

May this be a coven of deep exploration and conversation about juicy topics like collective liberation, feminine leadership, relationships, spirituality, Celtic mythology and ancestral wisdom to support us in living, loving and leading from our deep well of matriarchal medicine as we build lives and legacies we can be proud of steeped in fun, freedom and wild fulfilment.

I will be weaving in my personal experiences and sharing all my musings on writing, feminine energetics, mother-centric leadership, conscious relationships, sovereignty and lots of juicy truths in between.

Thank you for joining me. I am so honoured you have chosen to spend your precious time with me on this little corner of the interweb, now let me introduce myself….

Is míse Saoirse (meaning I am freedom in Irish).

I come from a long line of storytellers, rebel matriarchs and revolutionary men who were a stand for truth and fought for freedom and I am proud of my place as the next evolution of them. I am generations of joy and resistance.

I have Celtic warrior blood running through my veins and I am doing my best to honour my ancestors every day by reclaiming my place as a wise woman in my lineage.

In a world that tries to dim our light, I am the spark that ignites hope and inspires others to believe that the life and world we dream of is not only possible, she is on her way, and on a quiet day I can hear her breathing.

I am a mother, mentor, wife, writer, publisher, teacher and forever student of life, love and living in tune with my own unfuckwithable feminine frequency. 

Even though I have many trainings and titles under my belt I am still figuring it out and I know I have barely scratched the surface of all the beauty, magic and mystery of this life. 

I follow my heart hits and the frequency of excitement in search of adventure, aliveness and treasured moments with my family, my wildly epic husband Darragh and two little wildlings Fiadh and Bodhi. 

After almost 20 years working in the media and PR industry and over a decade of social advocacy and spiritual study I answered the call for more. More truth, more authentic expression, more deep connection, more illumination. 

I packed up my safe and comfortable life in Sydney, moved to Bali and set up my own indie publishing house with a purpose to provide a platform for female trailblazers and change makers to rise and thrive by owning their voices and desires, sharing their truth from a place of power and making it easy for them to make their dreams come true and become published authors.

I am the founder and CEO of House of Wild Publishing, HerWild Lead-HER-Ship Retreats and the host of Rebel Ma Presents All Boobs Blazing for the Feminine Rising Podcast.

When stories are told powerfully they have the potential to shift paradigms, raise the frequency of the planet and contribute to profound healing in others and when we free ourselves we have a duty to then free another. This is what I am here for. 

I regularly create anthology books rooted in collective liberation, offer feminine leadership mentoring and facilitate rite of passage initiations on sacred lands around the world. 

I give a fuck, probably too much. I've always cared about the future of this world. When I was a kid I cried so much when I heard about the Ozone Layer that my grandad had to come out and give me a clip around the ear. 

I long to make a positive contribution to people and our beautiful Mother Earth to the point where I can beat myself up for never doing enough but I keep showing up and standing up against human suffering and injustice, it’s the love in the blood and strength in the bone of my lineage that knows only too well the true cost of colonisation, separation and the long windy road to liberation, but that’s a whole other story for another day.

I am passionate about reawakening divine feminine consciousness as my contribution to humanity, to bring truth to power and healing to society just as my ancestors, the fílí (seer-poets of ancient Ireland) did. 

The fílí­ ("fil-ee") were the most highly revered group in early Irish society and were the King’s trusted advisors whose gifts enabled the tuath (the tribe) to flourish. Their patron was a woman, Brigid, the Triple Goddess of Poetry, Smithwork and Healing.

Brigid of Faughart Mural

Once upon a time Earth-honouring cultures like mine, revered the Great Mother and worshipped the Goddess. They lived in a harmonious union of masculine and feminine energies for the alchemy of creation but with the invasion and rise of the colonialist, capitalist, patriarchy, feminine wisdom and power was suppressed and oppressed.

The Great Mother / Goddess was eradicated from history causing great imbalance, disconnection and dysfunction in humanity and robbing us individually of so many possibilities when we are in sacred union of our masculine and feminine energies.

In ancient Irish mythology the Sovereignty Goddess (feminine) represented the land and nature while the King (masculine) represented the people and culture. They would be symbolically married in a ritual called the banais righe, enacting a sacred contract between masculine and feminine powers to ensure a thriving kingdom.  

The legend goes that when the King was fair and effective he enjoyed the Sovereignty Goddess’ support, but when he was greedy or unjust he would suffer her wrath; crops would fail and birth rates would drop until she claimed the power back for the tuath (tribe). 

As women in the Mother Summer season of our lives it is said we are responsible for birthing abundance to all and I feel the call of the Sovereignty Goddess more than ever before, impregnated with a whole new world, where no woman stays quiet or plays small.

In these evolving times more and more of us are remembering who we are and reintegrating the feminine history and mystery that was long forgotten, reawakening to our powers, potential and dán (soul gifts) and restoring to our natural template and rhythms. 

And it’s the mother makers, musicians, artists, poets and sacred storytellers who are rising and remembering and walking us home the new and ancient way, rekindling our connection in a very magical, sacred way to the mystery.

Prophecies have foretold and wisdom keepers all know that the rise of the feminine will restore healing and balance to our burning world. It is more pivotal than ever in this age of collective transformation, war, climate crisis and chaos to reclaim feminine archetypal energies that can evolve with us in service to our times and help us align to that which is true and good. Our future depends upon it.  

We are the divine feminine embodied. We are descendants of warrior Kings and sovereign Queens. It’s time to remember who we are and what it means to be wise women, wild women, matriarchs and midwives. Leading us to the other side, the Mother side, to what has been prophesied. The return to the time of the feminine. 

It’s time to clear and cleanse the ties and chords to the colonialist, capitalist, patriarchal world that are keeping us enslaved. To break free from all the ways we have been sleeping with the enemy. To wake up to the Sovereignty Goddess within and embrace new ways of living, loving and leading from our deep well of matriarchal wisdom. 

In the words of divine feminine artist and activist Sarah Durham Wilson, it’s time to move to the frontlines of this life. To no longer be meek, pretty, pleasing and polite but to pick up our swords, become mothers to this world, and fight with all our might for what’s right. Deeply grounded like a Great Mother Tree with roots deep and wise, to rise to the cries of the children and the Earth in these bewildering times.

It’s time to dismantle the systems embedded in us that keep us from seeing our true power and be more devoted than ever to sharing our dán (soul gifts) in service to the collective. Together we can radically reimagine what this world can be and co-create with the divine as conduits of the new paradigm.

There’s hardly a moment that goes by where I’m not thinking of the horror that is happening in Palestine and the children and mothers of the world suffering with hearts broken, lands, lives and dreams stolen. 

That’s why I am channelling my energy into a higher vision. To use the power of story to shake humanity awake from our slumber and free ourselves from the patriarchal spell we’ve been under. 

In this story I hold the vision of a post-patriarchal, modern-matriarchal world, where all lives are sacred and the truth is told. Where we decolonise our minds, bodies and the Earth. Where mothers, children and life come first. 

In this story I make a difference, however small, in service to collective healing and freedom for all by publishing books for the revolution and creating sacred spaces for women to feel safe to share their gifts and step more fully into their leadership.

To be the medicine. Because we are the antidote. Together we can let go of the hooks and excuses holding us back from going all in on our dán. And believe it’s not only possible, it is done, and it gets to be fun. 

I would love to hear from you and what you dán is? That which you innately are, that which you were born to be, do and share as your Goddess-given gift to the world?

And if you are not sure you can ask yourself the question:

What passions, moments, joys bring you to life and allow your true authentic essence to shine?

What dreams can you manifest into reality just by simply being and weaving what comes naturally?

I would so love you to share with me :)

Míle Buíochas (A thousand thanks)

Saoirse.. don phalaistín xxx