Solas Beatha - Scots Gaelic for Light of Life

Mythic storytelling • Creative wellness • Seasonal Touchstones

WHAT IS SOLAS BEATHA:

Solas Beatha is a mythic, nature-filled, creative world where story, art, and seasonal touchstones meet.

It is a place of:

• whisper‑soft storytelling

• Celtic wisdom

• peaceful nature

• ancestral remembrance

• slow‑living creative wellness

• forest, water, and mountain calm

Here, story is a way of seeing.

Nature is a teacher.

And creativity is a gentle, sacred rhythm.

WELCOME FROM LILLY:

Welcome, dear one,

I’m L.M. (Lilly) Christenson, a mythic storyteller, artist, and keeper of ancestral threads.

My creative world is shaped by the landscapes that raised me: the forests and waters of the Pacific Northwest, the wild foothills of Colorado, and the ancient memory of my Scottish Highland lineage.

I create stories, art, photography, and seasonal touchstones that help us return to the old paths, the quiet ones, the mythic ones, the ones that remind us who we are.

Solas Beatha means Light of Life in Scots Gaelic. It is the hearthfire of my work, a sanctuary of story, nature, and gentle creative rhythms.

Within this world, the tales are carried by Grandma Mae, the mythic grandmother of Solas Beatha, a warm and timeless storyteller who keeps the old stories alive.

She is the voice that guides listeners through myths, faerietales, and the ancestral landscapes woven into my novels and art.

Welcome to the stories that bring us home.

ABOUT LILLY:

I am a mythic storyteller whose creative identity is shaped by the ancient pattern‑thinking of my ancestors, a way of seeing shaped by the Celtic Highlands, the Norse sagas, the Scottish Isles, and the intuitive traditions of pre‑modern cultures.

My mind works in constellations, weaving intuition, symbol, emotion, and logic into a single tapestry. I do not write in straight lines. I write in mythic spirals, where every story echoes another and every world touches the next.

I am the author of Beyond Trivar, the first novel in my interconnected legendarium, and the creator of Solas Beatha, a mythic storytelling world where nature, ancestry, and imagination meet.

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and live in Colorado, surrounded by mountains, rivers, and forests that echo the landscapes of my ancestral homelands.

ANCESTRAL ECHOES

My creative voice is shaped by the the clans of my lineage. These ancestral echoes shape the stories I tell and the worlds I build:

• Shaws - Wolf Clan

Intuition, liminality, the unseen threads, protectors of Caledonian Forests.

• MacDuffs - Keepers of Ancient Rights, Crowning Kings of Scotland,

Sovereignty, sacred duty, moral clarity.

• MacIntoshes - Chiefs of Clan Chattan, Unity, resilience, the weaving of many into one.

• MacAlpines - The Old Kings of Scotland, Ancient memory, the merging of worlds.

WHAT I CREATE

Solas Beatha is a constellation of creative offerings. Everything I create belongs to the same mythic world:

• Stories & Novels - mythic fantasy rooted in ancestral memory

• YouTube Storytelling - peaceful readings, Myth, Legend, Faerie Story, Celtic lore, whisper‑soft narration

• Podcast - fireside reflections and mythic conversations

• Art & Photography - visual mythology shaped by nature

• Seasonal Boxes - Touchstone offerings for each turning of the year

• Apothecary - teas, salves, soaps, and herbal creations with lore cards

• Grandma Mae guided Faerie Stories & Mythic Reading of old

EXPLORE THE WORLDS:

My legendarium spans multiple realms across three interconnected fantasy series, each one woven with a Faerie Storie that connects everything together in the end.

The Three Series:

Series I - The Trivar Cycle

High Fantasy across Trivar, Arway, and Faerieland.

Nightflights - sacred Monarch Eagles carry riders between realms.

Series II - The Time‑Weave Cycle

World‑linked fantasy through time travel, ancestral memory, and crossings into Faerieland.

Series III - The Origins Cycle

The deep‑lore revelations behind the first two series - the ancient truths, the first guardians, the origins of the worlds.

The Realms:

• Trivar - the heart of the High Fantasy

• Arway - the world of ancient guardians

• Faerieland - the in‑between realm of the Fae

• Earth - the PNW, Michigan’s UP, Colorado, Orkney, and the ancestral Highlands

The First Book:

Book One of the Trivar Cycle, Beyond Trivar, is already published and will be re‑released this fall.

The Pattern:

Each world touches the next.

Each story echoes another.

Each series reveals a deeper layer of the myth.

Faerie Stories weave everything together.

MEET GRANDMA MAE: THE HEARTHFIRE OF THIS WORLD

Grandma Mae is the mythic grandmother of Solas Beatha, a warm, wise, timeless storyteller who carries ancient tales across generations and realms.

She is not a character I perform.

She is a story‑keeper, a lore‑bearer, and the narrative bridge between my creative worlds.

Her voice is:

• warm

• gentle

• humorous

• mythic

• grounded

• timeless

Her presence feels like:

• a cottage at the edge of the forest

• candlelight on a winter night

• a grandmother who knows the old stories

• a guide through mythic landscapes

She appears throughout Solas Beatha:

• reading myths and faerietales on YouTube

• writing lore cards for the apothecary

• guiding seasonal touchstones

• whispering the old stories behind my novels

• weaving ancestral memory into every corner of this world

She is the hearthfire.

You are welcome at her table.

FEATURED CONTENT:

Latest YouTube Videos:

Playlist

Featured Apothecary:

2–3 items with lore

Seasonal Boxes:

Current seasonal offerings.

Art & Photography:

Highlight gallery.

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

Letters From the Glade

A gentle seasonal letter with stories, reflections, and mythic calm.