Unraveled: Self Reclamation
This journey moves through the landscape of identity, inherited stories, and the threads that no longer belong to us. It asks us to notice what we are carrying, what was chosen for us, what we may have stitched into ourselves for survival, and what may be ready to loosen. There is tenderness here, but also courage. The energy of Samhain runs through the whole journey, making it feel like a threshold between who we have been and who we are becoming. It offers space to listen to the parts of ourselves that are ready for something different and to trust the wisdom of what wants to stay, what wants to shift, and what is asking to be released.
Inner Territory Journey: Root Chakra
This Journey takes us back to the moment a limiting belief first took root. We don’t rush it or override it. We witness the origin story with steadiness, noticing what was formed in response to fear, survival, or misunderstanding. A guide steps in, not to rescue, but to interrupt the old script and shift the trajectory. We stay long enough to feel the belief loosen, to watch the limits begin to melt off the body and psyche. This is reclamation through witnessing. This is manifestation through unbinding.
Self Reclamation: Beyond the Wall
This journey follows on from the Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots. Here, we listen to defenses instead of tearing them down. We ask what the wall has been protecting and whether it still needs to stand. Reclamation happens through respect for survival intelligence. As always, we move slowly, with intention, and on behalf of all our parts of Self. There is no rush, no need to force or conjure an outcome.
Self Reclamation: The Living Altar
We begin building an altar of our energy bodies in the wildest part of our being. This journey is about cultivating relationship with the self as something alive and responsive. The altar is not symbolic or fixed. It moves, shifts, and answers back. What emerges here comes from listening to the energy body in its wild state, and following what calls from beyond reason or plan.
Self Reclamation: Largeness
This journey makes space instead of seeking change. It softens the inner landscape to make room for feral, jagged, grieving, fire breathing parts to lie down without being managed or improved. In this meditation, we offer all parts of ourselves haven rather than transformation, trusting that rest holds its own kind of intelligence.
Self Reclamation: The Land Of Giants
This journey opens into the scale of the towering giant redwoods in the Pacific Northwest. It places the self alongside something vast and alive, where awe interrupts self scrutiny and perspective shifts through direct contact with largeness. What we reclaim here comes from remembering that we are shaped by land, movement, and wonder, not only by the stories we carry about ourselves.
Self Reclamation: Samhain
We're going to be riding the gates of Samhain, thinning the veils of our own decomposing stories and laying out a plate for our nearly dead parts. We're going to be making sacred ground from the dark loam of our lives, at this time of the year when stories soften and identities loosen. The turning here is quiet and preparatory, shaped by what is laid down and what is allowed to rest as the year shifts toward winter.
Self Reclamation: La Loba
This journey follows the old story of La Loba, the Bone Woman, as a way of remembering what has been scattered or buried in our inner territories. It moves with the quiet devotion of gathering bones, trusting that what has been preserved still knows how to live. Nothing is rushed or forced back into form. This reclamation happens through attention and patience. We are guided by the Bone Woman’s song to restore our instinct, vitality, and soul memories.
Self Reclamation: Sitting In
This journey is built around attention and patience. Drawing from older, earth based practices, it turns the act of Sitting-Out inward, moving slowly through sensation, detail, and presence. Exiled parts aren’t summoned or analyzed. They are given time to notice that they are being listened to. Reclamation unfolds through continuity, through staying with what’s here long enough for relationship to form, shaped by land, ritual, and remembered ways of keeping watch.
Self Reclamation: Seiðr
This journey draws from the Old Norse practice of seiðr (pronounced say-thr) as quiet, relational spirit work, moving gently toward the inner goodness of the heart. It creates space for parts of the self that have been silenced or set aside to return without pressure. Nothing is performed or pushed. Attention stays with consent, attunement, and the body’s own way of recognizing what is ready to come home. Reclamation unfolds through listening, at the pace it asks for.
Self Reclamation: Nothing Is Permanent, Not Even Exile
This journey questions the idea that exile is permanent. It follows sensation and the subtle inner threads that lead back to parts of the self that have gone quiet or distant, meeting them without urgency. Some moments here are tender, others feel like thresholds, but return isn’t forced. It happens through attention, patience, and the willingness to stay present long enough for something to recognize itself again.
Self Reclamation: Soul Medicine
This reclamation begins by orienting the body and senses, letting a peaceful meadow visualization and chakra energy clearing create enough steadiness to continue. The ancestor visit shifts the tone from doing it alone to being accompanied, introducing guidance that arrives through relationship rather than effort. The yew tunnel and the wall remind us that exile didn’t happen randomly, and that how we approach matters. What returns here comes back through care, lineage, and trust, and the bonfire brings it all home, signaling that no part is being reclaimed in isolation.
Self Reclamation: Bonfire
This is a self reclamation journey centered on recovering an old soul skin. The garden near the home of the inner territories acts as a place of safety and orientation before moving through the chakras to release what no longer belongs. The Selkie story functions as a living mythline here, not as teaching but as permission, naming what happens when something essential has been taken, hidden, or survived without. Reclamation unfolds through returning to an old memory from a resourced, present self and choosing to bring that version home without force. This journey is about consent, timing, and remembering that what was once stolen can still be reclaimed intact.
Self Reclamation: Wild Horses
This is a Self Reclamation journey centered on rescue without reentry. The bonfire acts as a signal, not a descent point, calling exiled parts without forcing them back through memory. The wild horse appears as an untamed aspect of self that already holds strength, speed, and agency, meeting the wounded part without domination or re-traumatization. The reclamation happens through embodiment, choice, and relationship, allowing the past self to come home without losing its wildness or freedom.
Self Reclamation: The Tomb
This journey moves toward what has been sealed rather than avoided. It follows subtle inner threads to places where parts of the self have been caught in memory, guilt, or unfinished stories, and offers a way to bring them home without forcing resolution. The tomb is not a place of finality here, but of sacred decomposition, where old narratives are allowed to break down and become nourishment for what comes next.
Self Reclamation: The Wolf
This journey moves from protection into instinct. It tends the outer gates and energy body, then follows the pull toward the wild threshold where the Wolf waits. What is reclaimed here is not softened or civilized. It is met with loyalty, care, and recognition, allowing exiled parts to return without needing to be reshaped.
Self Reclamation: The Red Road
This journey lives at the moment of leaving the garden. It follows the Red Road as a place of choice, lineage, and wild encounter, where versions of the self begin signaling from beyond what is familiar or protected. What unfolds here is often surprising and alive. Ancestors, future selves, mythic figures, and portals appear not to be interpreted, but to be witnessed. Care is the throughline. Not rescue, not fixing, but learning what it takes to tend what has been waiting out in the holy wild.
Self Reclamation: The Door
This journey works with entry and return. A door appears into parts of the inner landscape that were overlooked rather than lost, places no one thought to visit. Nothing is hunted down. What returns does so by invitation, arriving when there is enough openness to notice and receive it.
Self Reclamation: Tropical Forest
In this meditation we travel first through the chakra system, from the crown down. We welcome the parts of self that have been set aside. The tropical forest and shoreline hold heat, vitality, and invitation, creating a place where exiled parts can approach without pressure. Everything our parts bring is welcomed, shared, and recognized at the fire.