Celtic Coin Ring

I’ve wanted to do something with coins for a while, I love them and have collected them up in little boxes since I was small, imagining them to be lost ancient treasures or magical charms, however I wanted a coin that I felt connected to, instead of just borrowing one from another country or place. 

With everything that went on during 2020 and being so stuck to the places we live, I began to reconnect with the ground beneath my feet, reconnecting with the seasons and the world around me. Instead of always longing for exotic places and something different, I began to re-discover the beauty of the landscape I’ve walked for most of my life and make friends with the trees and hills near our house. 

A pivotal factor in this was also the timely read of the book “if women rose rooted” by Sharon Blakie, full to the brim of beautifully retold Celtic mythology, the connections to the goddesses, the land, the ancient traditions and how the reawakening of the power of the feminine and how rooting here in the earth beneath us can help us all navigate our way out of the “wasteland” that some of us have found ourselves in. 

The Celts were different to many other ancient people. They saw and celebrated women’s power, women trained and fought alongside the men, some leading armies into battle and being rulers of their tribes, like historical figures such as Boudicca, Maeb and Queen Cartimandua.  Marriage was a union between partners, unlike Roman laws which dictated a woman was her husbands property. They celebrated and worshiped goddesses alongside their gods and I could go on and on about the Celts and which elements of their traditions and religion I love but there wouldn’t be enough space.

All these things have inspired this ring, imprinted with an ancient Celtic coin found here in England, to remind us of the magic beneath our feet, in the woods we visit, the fields we walk and the earth we dig. To connect us with ancestors, nature and of course the power of the feminine.