For centuries, the Tuatha De Danaan have lingered at the edge of memory. Sometimes they are described as gods, sometimes as faeries, sometimes as a mysterious people who arrived in Ireland shrouded in mist. Their story refuses to settle into history. It persists as myth. And myth endures not because it is fanciful, but because it carries a truth too deep to be held by facts alone.

The Tuatha De Danaan are often called the Beautiful People or the Shining Ones. Yet this beauty was never a matter of appearance. It was a quality of Being. In the old stories, when the Beautiful People are defeated, they do not vanish. They retreat underground into the hollow hills. They become hidden. What disappears from view does not cease to exist. It waits. Myth hints that what is most radiant in us is never destroyed, only forgotten.

Myth speaks in this way because it is not interested in information. It is interested in remembrance. These stories were never meant to be believed literally, nor dismissed as fantasy. They are symbolic maps of consciousness, inviting the listener to recognise something ancient stirring within themselves and to sense that the Beautiful People may be closer than the mind has been taught to imagine.

In this series of articles, you are invited to explore a deeper invitation hidden within the story of the Tuatha De Danaan. This is not an exploration of myth as folklore or history, but as revelation. The Beautiful People are not beings from another realm or another time. They symbolise a truth that has been driven underground within the human heart. To engage this story is to be invited to recognise yourself—not as a character in a myth, but as the living expression of what the myth has always been pointing toward. The Tuatha De Danaan reveal a way of KNOWING yourself beyond personality, beyond image, and beyond inherited stories. They invite you to realise yourself as one of the Beautiful People, not by belief, but by direct KNOWING of who you are as Being.

What does it mean to be beautiful? Does it mean having the right kind of face and body, wearing the right clothes, or projecting the right image? These may express a culturally conditioned idea of beauty, but they do not touch the deeper truth. To live as someone who knows and feels their Being as beautiful is to know beauty as an essential attribute of who they are. This is the kind of beauty myth gestures toward when it names a people as “Beautiful.”

Being beautiful is not something you achieve; it is something you realise. You can alter your appearance, but if beauty is not felt as who you are, it will never satisfy. To live as one of the Beautiful People is to recognise beauty as an inner authority rather than an outer standard. This awakening is not forced or manufactured; it arises naturally when you allow a deeper truth to inform your life.

When I write, it helps to offer a definition that encapsulates the invitation being made. Here is the definition of Being Beautiful that will be unfolded through story, reflection, and practice.

Being beautiful is knowing who you are as a unique expression of Love flowing through the form of the body willingly open to life.

This is not the definition of beauty promoted by celebrity culture or image-driven ideals. Those forms of beauty depend on comparison and approval. The beauty named by myth arises from Essence and finds fulfilment through being expressed in the world.

To live this way requires a reversal of focus. It asks you to move from the mask of personality to the felt beauty of Presence, from living for acceptance to living from truth. In mythic language, this forgetting of Being is the exile of the Beautiful People—the moment when the Tuatha De Danaan are driven underground and what is most radiant in us becomes hidden.

The story you are asked to release is the story of the separate self—the belief that you must earn love, hide who you are, or perform in order to belong. Myth names this fear as the forgetting that sent the Beautiful People into hiding.

In this series of articles, I will be sharing with you an Irish story entitled The Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann. This is both a traditional and a living story. Stories evolve according to the consciousness of the time in which they are told. I share this story with one intention: to invite you to fall in love with who you are beyond the mask of personality and to discover the freedom of living from Essence. Let me reassure you again—there is no sense of loss here. What myth names as the Four Treasures are not objects to be possessed, but capacities of Being remembered when the Beautiful People awaken within the human heart.

These stories were not created by the Beautiful People, nor deliberately left behind. They were revealed through Seers, Enchanters, and mythic storytellers of the past—those whose attunement to Presence allowed them to listen deeply and give form to what was already moving within the collective soul. Myth arises not from invention, but from intimacy with Being. In this way, the stories endure because they were never owned; they were received, carried, and passed on as living invitations that ask to be embodied rather than admired.

While this is an Irish story, it is also a universal one. It is your story. It ends where you are invited to begin. You are invited to know the Beauty that in so many hearts has been driven underground. You are invited to claim the treasure Creation knows you to be. You are invited to walk this world as one of the Beautiful People—Being Beautiful, informed by Love.