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How to know you’re ready for the Descent

By Lian Brook-Tyler

Most of our clients come from a background of various forms of spirituality, particularly non-dual and 3P. They’re drawn to us because they feel we are offering something that feels strangely “right” to them at that point in their lives.

Often there’s been a sequence of seemingly magical synchronicities and signs that’s led them to the point of knowing they’re called to walk the path of Waking The Wild.

But they’re worried it’ll mean disavowing or dismissing the years they spent in and the benefits they got from whichever spiritual path they’ve walked before.

When actually, the opposite is the case… these forms of spirituality are what we call Ascension. Simply put, it’s understanding and experiencing our non-separation… this is precious, beautiful and if we lived in a more indigenous life-way: our birthright.

So they get to keep all of that.

The reason they’re drawn to work with us is because they know deep down that they’re ready for the journey of Descension… into the wildness of the body, earth and soul.

They’ve seen their sameness to everything and everyone, and now’s the time to taste their uniqueness… the gift they came here to be.

It’s a very different journey to Ascension… it’s not all Love & Light, in fact, it’s more like Love & Dark.

Monroe once said “…if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

Side-note: if you want to dismiss this because it’s from someone known for her looks rather than her mind, may I offer an alternative view? Having studied La Monroe for years, I see her as being waaaay smarter and deeper than she’s given credit for. I’ll also be forever grateful to her because in lieu of YouTube or a mother around to teach me how to apply make-up, I taught myself by poring over her stills. But I digress.

Her words can be applied to how others relate to us, how we relate to others but, most of all: how we relate to ourselves.

When we can welcome, see and love our “worst”, our darkness, our wounds, and our shadows, we can love ourselves wholly – we can love ourselves whole.

This wholeness brings with it all kinds of gifts… from finally being able to make a living doing what we love, addressing “mystery” illnesses that have plagued us for years, to creating real intimacy in our relationships… that I’ve seen only come from the Descent.

You’ll know when you’re ready… you can look out for those synchronicities and signs. But most of all, know that you’ll know.

Art: still from The Misfits, 1961. It’s one of my favourite photos of her. And yes, probably because she’s hugging a tree so I get two of my great loves in one photo.

#thedescent #wakingthewild #ascension #3p #nonduality #shadow #rewilding #soulpath #marilynmonroe

Why all of you is welcome ♥️

Why all of you is welcome ♥️

By Lian Brook-Tyler

I work with a lot of empaths… people with a gift that for most of their life has felt anything but.

First of all their gift needs acknowledgement and then the work really begins… loving and cultivating themselves to become who they came here to be.

Despite understanding and helping empaths, I’m not one. In fact, I’m almost the opposite… I don’t experience other people’s feelings, in fact mostly, I have no clue how others are feeling.

For most of my life I felt like there was something wrong with me. I was so bad at reading a room, feeling the energy, and knowing how to show up “right”.

Slowly, painfully, and often embarrassingly, I learned enough to get by, to the point now that most people would call me empathic.

In actual fact, part of my gift is how I make others feel.

I’m often told that I bring a lot of energy into a room. I can turn the temperature sub-zero with a look (which has been described as Game of Thrones White Walkeresque), make someone feel they’re at risk of being incinerated (that’s the Dragon part of me) or I can light up a room and everyone in it, like the sun.

The more work I’ve done to integrate my shadow the more the impact I have is positive one: people feel seen, loved, welcome, liberated and most of all: a gift.

But I don’t deny that the capacity for the White Walker and the Dragon is still there, I honour and welcome those parts of me too.

We only get to be a gift and welcome others to be theirs when we stop shaming ourselves for everything we’re not, and instead start loving ourselves, radically, completely, for everything that we are, dark, light, blooms, thorns and all.

Art: Edward Howell, Unsplash

#empath #energy #soulpath #radicalselflove

Three years and three vows…

Three years and three vows…

By Lian Brook-Tyler

Three years ago I took a vow to serve the archetypal Feminine.

It felt like a choiceless choice, I had no clear idea then why I was making it or what it would require of me.

It didn’t take long for me to realise that I couldn’t serve the Divine Feminine without also being in devotion to the Divine Masculine – so I got two vows for the price of one.

Living this vow has turned me inside out, back to front, upside down.

Where I used to push, I now pull.
Where I used to close, I now open.
Where I used to tame, I now liberate.

Two years ago, I took a vow to be led by Soul, yet again, it was a choice made without knowing the How or what it would entail.

It’s been the unmaking of me…. Deep, wild, dark, beautiful, true.

I know those two vows were necessary to take me to the point when last year, I took a vow to walk the path of real Magic.

This is the most challenging vow I’ve made, it’s the one that’s been calling me all my life and that I’ve tried hardest to ignore.

After a lifetime of moving between fear and fascination, obsession and disassociation, I’m now finally: all in.

I’m now deep in Magical teachings – learning magical first principles, plus more healing, more rewilding, more focus, more Love – and I begin my shamanic practitioner training in a few months.

It feels completely right and yet, it still scares me.

I also know that a big part of my path is revealing Magic to others. I believe that Magic is a human birthright, and that right now we need all of its Love and wisdom… so whilst some secrecy is necessary, I will need to share many things openly, more than I feel comfortable with right now.

We don’t need to be a witch for the witch wound to ache a warning.

And yet, this is a vow it would kill me to break (a line that always makes me cry from ‘All The True Vows’ by David Whyte).

So, three years and three vows have brought me here… on my knees in devotion to the Divine Feminine & Masculine, Soul and Magic.

I could never have planned it this way… or did I?

#realmagic #magick #soulpath #davidwhyte #vow #rewilding #divinefeminine #wildfeminine #witchwound

#truewill #loveisthelaw #divinemasculine

Rewilding and real Magic…

Rewilding and real Magic…

By Lian Brook-Tyler

It was so misty when I was out on my wander yesterday, I took this photo as I strolled back down the lane to my house, marvelling at how lost in the mist it was despite being so close.

I dearly love this landscape… the fields, the great oaks, the hedgerows, the streams and the woods.

I know it so well and I feel safe here no matter how foggy or dark it is.

And despite its familiarity, there’s constant wonders too… animals (a buzzard on our fence yesterday), treasures (a Hag Stone one day, a special feather the next) and invitations deeper into the mystery (a tree pointing to the next breadcrumb on my path).

I’m reading Weaving Fate, Aidan Wachter’s brilliant book about the practice of real Magic, at the moment and it’s illuminated further something we constantly talk about in Waking The Wild… the need for those of us walking the path of soul-led, open-hearted sovereignty to spend time in our natural habitat, especially if we’re here to contribute to the Great Work.

Talking of the impact of the modern tame, sedentary way of life, Wachter says it thus… “We also lose the sense of connection to the physical and natural worlds we physically inhabit, trading the immediate knowledge of our place in the ecosystem and all its beauty and dangers for canned stories of the lives of others.”

Canned stories are not the fuel required to unfold our own myths. We need to do as Clarissa Pinkola Estés implores…

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”

So misty, cold, wet or dark, I go. The alternative isn’t really an alternative for me… and as you’re reading this, I suspect it isn’t for you either.

#realmagic #magick #greatwork #rewilding #wildmagic #soulpath #aidanwachter #clarissapinkolaestes #wildwoman #wildfeminine

Our “secret sauce”

Our “secret sauce”

By Lian Brook-Tyler

Our work involves helping people to create seemingly miraculous transformations and actualise extraordinary visions, and we’ve spent years walking and unfolding the path of Waking The Wild to make those kinds of mythical results occur predictably.

It can seem that our work is complex, innovative, and “out there”, and I guess that some ways it is because it’s a product of who we are (I’m a disruptive, obsessive geek who is guided by trees, dreams and non-physical entities, and Jonathan brings all the seeing, depth and wisdom of the oldest of souls) but the beating heart of everything we do is a simple, ancient truth: that every one of us is a gift and we become it only when we are welcomed and loved for all that we are.

We believe the world doesn’t need more productivity, efficacy, knowledge and growth for the sake of it, it needs more unconditional love.

If there’s a secret sauce to our work, it’s that… and you’re more than welcome to steal the recipe.

P.S. Coming up in 2021 there will be more ways that you can walk the path of Waking The Wild. It’s going to be an epic year of Soul, Myth & Magic if we have anything to do with it! To find out more go to: Go deeper – Primal Happiness –

#loveistheanswer #soulpath #soulwork #wakingthewild #unconditionallove