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This is a drum for the threshold walker. For the one who listens with their bones. She is the first of two drums, birthed from the same hide, on the same day.
She was crafted in the energies of Lammas, the ancient feast of first harvest, a time when the grain is cut, the fruit is gathered, and something once loved must be offered back to the land. And she was birthed beneath the opening of the Lion’s Gate portal, when Sirius aligns with our sun, and the soul remembers its shape.
This drum was made in the ripening, in the return she is for the ones ready to walk through the fire with truth in hand. This drum is bound to an ash hoop , a tree sacred to both Norse and Celtic tradition. In the Norse cosmology, ash is Yggdrasil, the World Tree, whose roots stretch into the underworld, and whose branches hold the stars. It is the tree of initiation, of journeying, of spiritual structure a, living axis connecting all the realms.
In Druidic lore, ash was the wood of healing and divination, of flight and sacrifice. It was used to make spears, staffs, and magical wands. Ash stands tall at the liminal place, between what was and what will be. It is said that lightning favours the ash tree.
To drum on ash is to call in transformation through direct connection to spirit, root, and sky. This hoop holds that same bridge energy , connecting you to underworld, overworld, and the space between
.Woven at the back of the drum is a flared Celtic cross, not the Christian symbol, but a much older one, a solar wheel, a compass. The Celtic cross predates Christianity by centuries. Its central ring represents the sun, the eternal, the cosmic whole. The four arms extend outward in cardinal directions , north, south, east, west , anchoring you in both time and space. It is a navigation tool for the soul, found carved on stones and burial sites across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
To hold a Celtic cross handle is to place your hand at the centre of a wheel that turns through life, death, dream, and destiny. It is grounding and expansive, anchored and radiant. A reminder that you stand always at the centre of the great spiral
Across her face flies a black crow, wings outstretched beneath a golden moon .Crow is one of the most enduring and complex spirit figures in myth. In Irish and Scottish lore, the Morrigan, goddess of fate, sovereignty, and battle often takes the form of a crow or raven. She flies above the battlefield not as a destroyer, but as a witness, a seer, a midwife of endings. In many Celtic stories, crow is the shapeshifter, the one who brings prophecy, who speaks what others will not name. She is the voice in the dark that says ‘ Now is the time, shed what is false, come clean to the soul
.In Welsh legend, the “Bran” (meaning raven or crow) was a great guardian king, whose severed head continued to speak truth after death. In Norse tradition, Odin sent his two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, to gather knowledge across the worlds, one carried thought, the other memory.
To drum with crow is to walk with all these stories.
To call in what has been hidden.
To give voice to what must be released.
This drum feel like she is for grief rituals, ancestral journeying, liminal work, and ceremonial release. She does not speak in whispers, she speaks in knowing an she will call to the part of you that already understands what must be let go.
She was crafted from red deer, a creature long revered as a guide between realms, a symbol of grace, sovereignty, and soul instinct. The deer’s breath still lingers in her voicem and that voice is low, full-bodied, steady and soul-deep.
Birthed under the Lion’s Gate, this drum also carries the frequency of rising light, the clarity that comes after burning, the direction that appears when illusion falls away.
She is not always gentle. But she will be true. And she will walk with you , into the dark, and through it.
She has been cleansed with herbs local from land and ready to meet her earthside guardian
She is £345 + P&P, or kerbside collection from Ludlow. For International Shipping to the US and Canada please contact me for cost.
