The White Crow Shamanic Drum

This is the second of the Sister Drum, both born on the same day, under the same skt this drum is brings  of clarity, remembrance, and radiant vision. Crafted from the same red deer hide as her sister, she carries a different voice,  not darker or lighter but like starlight through mist and truth at dawn.

She was birthed during Lammas, the ancient festival of the first harvest, a time of both abundance and offering. The grain is cut, the land is thanked, and we are asked ‘What will you keep, and what will you lay down?’

She was also made during the opening of the ‘Lion’s Gate portal’, when Sirius rises beside the Sun in Leo. This is a window of cosmic alignment and soul awakening, when the veils thin and ancestral voices stir.

This drum was born into that liminal light, to call you back to what was once known.

The hoop  is formed from birch, the first tree to regrow after fire. In Celtic tree lore, birch is associated with renewal, blessing, and rebirth. It is the tree of Beltane fires, used in rites of cleansing, fertility, and transition.   Birch holds a gentleness that is not softness, but resilience, the strength of new life returning, again and again. It is the tree of the dreamer, the poet, the seer. Birch teaches us that it is not only through descent that we find power,  but also through vision, through beginning again.  To hold a drum on birch is to invite in that breath of fresh magic, of spacious clarity, of quiet insistence that the soul already knows the way.

Woven into the back is a Triskele handle,  the ancient triple spiral. Carved into megalithic stones across Ireland long before recorded time, the Triskele is a symbol of continuity and transformation. 

It turns in threes:

— Land, sea, sky

— Past, present, future

— Maiden, mother, crone

— Birth, death, rebirth

To hold a Triskele in your hand is to step into the rhythm of the spiral path,  not linear, but layered, nor  logical, but wise. It holds the memory of those who lived close to the land, who read messages in wind and star, hoofprint and crow call.  This handle grounds the drum in the old turning, in the knowing that everything moves, and returns.

Hand Painted across the drum face is a white crow and a golden moon.   White crow is a figure that appears in myth and folklore across cultures,  always rare, always uncanny, always a signal. In Welsh and Celtic traditions, she is a being from the Otherworld, arriving when the soul is ready to see what others cannot.  She  is the anomaly, the vision-keeper, the one who appears not to warn, but to reveal. Where black crow carries prophecy, white crow carries remembrance of something ancient and buried, now ready to return.

She does not shout. She shines.

This drum is for clear sight, ritual blessing, and soul healing.

She is the one you bring to the liminal moments, A prayer spoken under starlight, a boundary drawn in truth,  vision received in silence.  She has seen the underworld, but choses to face the sky

But she chooses to face the sky.

She has been cleansed with local herbs and is ready to meet her earthside Guardian.  

Exchange is £345 plus P&P, or kerbside collection from Ludlow.    For international shipping to the US or Canada please reach out to discuss.  .