Weaving Synchronicities: Feathers, Sea, and Moonlight

All of my work feels like weaving a tapestry. Each project arrives as if divinely guided, the threads finding one another, beautifully woven together like the traditional Welsh blankets that hold warmth, strength, and story in every stitch.

Living in Wales has been a homecoming to my hiraeth, that deep, soul-longing for belonging, for the place where heart and hearth meet.

Today on the Aberystwyth promenade, I stopped still at these words carved into slate:

“Furious feathers synchronise with the sea.”

For me, feathers have always been a sign of synchronicity. To find them etched in stone beside the sea, on a path I have often walked yet never noticed, felt like another whisper from the universe.

These words evoked the painted mural on the wall of the Bookshop by the Sea, Cranogwen’s poem about the eternal dance between the moon and the tide.

And then my thoughts travelled further down the Ceredigion coast to Llangrannog, the birthplace of Sarah Jane Rees, known by her bardic name Cranogwen.

Created by sculptor Sebastien Boyesen, her bronze statue celebrates Cranogwen’s extraordinary life and how her thoughts were always close to the sea. The incredible statue shows her reading her prize-winning poem, the moment she became the first woman ever to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1865. The folds of her dress are inscribed with her own words, threads of poetry woven into metal, her voice echoing across time.

The sea, the feathers, and the moon also remind me of my own connection with Arianrhod, the Welsh goddess of the stars, cycles, and feminine power.

These threads, ancient goddess, Welsh poet, public art, and my own personal synchronicities, all belong in the same tapestry I weave in life and work.

Together they remind me, and perhaps you too, that we are part of something vast, rhythmic, and divinely woven.

always reflecting light into the world

Katie x