Crystalline Ruby Muse
Crystalline Ruby Muse is a musician on multiple instruments, composer, dancer, poet, performance artist, recording engineer, fabric artist, bodyworker and energy healer, doula, and Priestess in the Reclaiming Tradition. Crystalline is a student of the Faery Faith of Ireland and of her ancestors and has been teaching ritual arts since 1996. She has been called to the Inspired/Ecstatic Arts branch of The Tree and the Well because of her dedication to cultivating ecstatic energy in ritual through music, movement, and other forms of expression. Her mission in life is to draw forth the Radiant Essence in all of us through soulful-ecstatic expression, divine connection, cultural celebration, and deep physical well-being. She is a devotee of Brighid, the Goddess and Saint, and her Four Fires.
Crystalline has been a leader and creative collaborator in several spiritual and arts communities for the last ten years. She has performed in and directed numerous theatrical and musical productions, including being the music director for the annual Bare Bones Halloween Extravaganza for seven years. She is a founding member of the Keepers of the Flame Collective which organizes the annual Feile Brid, Festival of Brighid. She facilitates monthly song circles in her home through the Phillips-Powderhorn Cultural Wellness Center and individually instructs people in violin, voice, and Irish whistle. She (co-)Priestesses the eight Celtic Festivals of the Wheel of the Year for The Tree and the Well community and has been doing so since 2000. She is a founding member of the Prairie Spring Teaching Circle, a Reclaiming Tradition collective, and has facilitated numerous rituals and classes that focus on personal transformation, cultural wisdom and traditions, relational-community flourishing, and planetary healing.
Crystalline's personal business is Radiant Essence Temple Arts, through which she offers bodywork and healing touch, private music lessons, doula services, and more. You can catch her performing about town in the musical ensembles Muses' Mill, The Pachamama Band, and Broomfield Hill. In her free time she loves to experiment liberally with cooking and food culturing, to gather and prepare medicinal herbs and wild greens, to make beauty and joy with her beloved partner, and to sing and dance ecstatically with the spirit realm as well as other human folk.
Photograph by Jayme Halbritter