Come dear wild soul,
Sit a while and lay down the whirlwind of life and weight of the world.
Do you know how precious you are?
For the way you see magic in the smallest of wonders in the natural world - be it the glinting sun on a spider’s web, the way the rain makes small rivers in the mud or the bright stars in an inky black sky - this is what it means to be alive.
Do not belittle the power of your gentle, fierce and tender love for this world.
At a time where it feels like speed counts for more than consideration, loud opinions count for more than compassion and taking sides counts for more than connection…
...your ability to pause and see magic and wonder and relationship in the smallest of places is a precious gift - it offers a compass for the more loving, just and rewilded world we are creating.
Welcome to We Are Stardust on Substack
“Every one of us is a memorial to long-dead stars. Every one of us was quite literally made in heaven.” – Marcus Chown, The Magic Furnace
Welcome to We Are Stardust - a place for a place where art and science collide to enrich our experience of and relationship with this messy, beautiful universe. I support you to come home to your wild self, remember your deep relationship with our messy, beautiful universe as essential and slow down into the awe-inspiring aliveness of the living world.
www.wearestardust.uk
In the We Are Stardust Substack you’ll find:
🍄🎙️ Your Wildly Enchanted Life podcast with Agnes Becker (free) - A podcast for fellow creative souls, wild visionaries, and tender-hearted dreamers to step outside and find beauty, wonder and belonging in our messy, beautiful universe through art and science.
🖌️🌿 Studio & Wild Live sessions (free) where I take you behind-the-scenes of my art practice either in the studio outside to draw with nature.
📖 🐦⬛ Essays (free) on what it means to come home to your wild self and remember your deep relationship with our messy, beautiful universe as essential.
🌙🌲 A Year Of Wild Enchantment (£73.50/month or £20/year) - 18 months’ of seasonal private podcasts and wonder quests that invite you to step outside and slow down into the awe-inspiring aliveness of the living world on your doorstep.
JOIN A YEAR OF WILD ENCHANTMENT! Join for £7.50/month or £75/year:
Hi, I’m Agnes Becker from We Are Stardust
I am an artist and science communicator who feels most at home with family and friends, immersed in nature on long walks in the UK’s Bedfordshire countryside where I live.
After a degree in Natural Sciences and a Masters in Science Media Production, I spent 10 years working in universities with scientists - mostly sitting at a desk in front of a computer desperate to be outside.
I created We Are Stardust - a place where art and science collide to enrich my and your experience of and relationship with our messy, beautiful universe.
Today I make art that inspires connection with the more-than-human world and run adventures to rewild your soul…
…Because I believe your desire for a rich and wildly enchanted life in deep relationship with the more-than-human world is FUNDAMENTAL to being human.
🌲⭐ Join A Year of Wild Enchantment
A Year of Wild Enchantment is for fiercely tender-hearted wonder-seekers ready to step outside and slow down into the awe-inspiring aliveness of the living world.
Rooted in beauty, science, art, magic and awe, this is a space where love for our messy, beautiful universe is seen as an act of gentle resistance.
Our attention is precious - it is literally what makes up our life experience. A Year of Wild Enchantment will teach you how to reorient your loving attention from negative news towards wonder in nature.
In this monthly subscription you will find a magical place where you will receive inspiration, encouragement and support to nurture a practice of wonder and loving attention for nature on your doorstep.
Upgrade to a paid subscription for £3.50 a month (or £20 for the year) and get 18 months of:
🌟 Monthly wonder quests - exploratory topics and quests to get you outside and noticing your local web of life with child-like curiosity and playful creativity as a regular practice. Quests are simple and achievable evidence-based nature connection exercises. One month you may track the opening of a blossom, the next you’ll get to know the song of a local bird.
🎙️ Monthly Your Wildly Enchanted Life private podcast episodes - deep dive episodes that weave together science, art, folklore and rewilding the soul so you see the most ordinary moments in nature as magically extraordinary.
The world of We Are Stardust
Welcome wonder-seeker,
You have stepped into a strange, dark, beautiful, twilight world where owls hoot in their nests, lobsters clack their claws under the weight of the deep ocean, stars flicker full of the promise of other worlds, hearts beat and nourish our bodies, plants share their wisdom and the moon guides our journey home. It is an exultant place where we celebrate the universe and all it contains through love, attention, stillness, wonder, creativity, discovery and curiosity. It is a place where we - all of us - belong. Where we can be creative, analytical, rational and intuitive all at once.
It is a place we have known all our lives, is always there below the surface and yet is difficult to find through the glare of screens and noise of daily life. We may see it in the raindrop jewels on a spiders web or just before the moon disappears behind an ink-black cloud. We feel it when we dig our hands into the rich earth and sense the millennia of evolution that came before us right back to the atoms blasted into being through stellar explosions that make up you, me, the trees, rocks. we are stardust.
Together, let us create for ourselves a rich, layered, nourishing life living in tune with our own nature and the nature of the more-than-human world.
Agnes x
