Episode
The Silver Wheel with Jen Murphy | S7 Ep3
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- KnotWork Myth & Storytelling
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- May 14, 2026
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- 3612
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Summary
OUR STORY Jen Murphy tells us the core tales Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, the great epic of Welsh mythology, beginning with King Math and his Goewin, his “virgin footholder” and concluding with the story of Arianrhod. Jen concludes her telling with Blodeuwedd, who you met in S7 Ep 1. OUR GUEST Jen Murphy is an Irish mythologist, anthropologist and founder of The Celtic Creatives. A Dubliner born and bred, from the time she could talk, Jen's grandmother Frances O'Sullivan filled her ears with tales from Irish myth and folklore, fuelling a now 40-year fascination with the stories of her lineage. Jen's apprenticeship to following her soul's breadcrumbs has guided her formal studies in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies, Anthropology, and Jungian Psychology. Jen supports people to remember that they have a shining soul, to dream Celtic spirituality into their modern lives by making the Celtic soul a living aesthetic—centring the soul in the everyday experience of life—through mythwork, dreamwork, and the body. Find her on Instagram @celticreatives and at https://celticcreatives.substack.com , https://www.celticcreatives.com/ IN THIS EPISODE How stories choose their tellers - Jen had prepared a different tale entirely, and then this telling of Arianrhod insisted on being told Jen takes us on a beautiful tour of the moon's monthly cycle as a map of our own becoming Arianrhod as living initiator: Jen maps the three refusals: name, arms, marriage - onto her own creative journey toward the Sunset Journal , a ritual practice rooted in beginning the day at dusk Reclaiming the night: Jen gives up the 5am productivity myth and discovers that creating by moonlight, as a confirmed night-owl, born just before the winter solstice is simply becoming more of her nature Jen's Sunset Jour…