Setting: summer of 2011
Inspired by meaning, (aine means “radiance”) and compelled by the fairy-folk tales (“…the best-hearted woman who ever lived – lucky in love and in money…”), ”Aine O’Breena” was the period-appropriate pseudonym I adopted for use during my time spent consulting at the Sterling NY Rennaisance Festival.
With some Irish in my veins, I opted to drawn upon celtic origins for the ‘gypsy’ role and adorn herself as Aine in period-appropriate celtic garb inspirations, featuring a stylized construction of a Shinrone dress designed and made by Stephanie Lalonde of Red Moon Creations with a Potomac Leather Belt carrying the Ogham writing: “Though countless lives I have lived, I will not forget”.
As Aine (pronounced ANYE), I offered 15 and 30 minute consultations with Spirit loved ones and Tarot Card readings in the “Fortune Teller’s Camp”, under the willows, at the signs of the triple spiral and the oak, beside the swamp of dancing frogs, in the land of the mystical hummingbird. Perhaps in 2012 you will find Aine O’Breena emerging there again?
