Writing Prompts: Final Shed of the Year of the Wood Snake
Final Shed is a ritual writing circle held at the edge of a cycle, where we gather inside serpent medicine to name what is ending and consciously release it. Together we write into the cords that still bind us to dying systems, inherited patterns, and the exiles or shadows that surfaced over the year, allowing grief and truth to move without being rushed toward resolution. This class is both communal descent and deliberate severing, a final skin laid down before momentum returns. From that honest ground, we turn toward the Fire Horse and ask what courage, movement, and embodied power we are ready to claim, calling our strength up from the earth and stepping forward changed.
Cord Cutting: The Red Thread
This cord cutting works with the red thread as something inherent rather than something to earn or repair. The journey stays in the body, especially the sacral waters, and moves slowly through sensation, consent, and creative energy. Release here is not about severing connection to desire or instinct, but about loosening what has dulled or quieted the wild knowing we’re born with. The Maiden, Mother, and Crone appear as witnesses and companions, helping restore access to erotic vitality, belonging, and continuity without collapsing into shame or obligation.
Medusa
This class moves through Medusa as a living archetype shaped by violence, power, and survival. We stay with her story long enough to feel how patriarchy turns harm into myth and how those myths still move through our bodies and choices. Athena, Danaë, Perseus, and Medusa become mirrors for the ways protection, betrayal, inheritance, and awakening play out within us. The class invites responsibility without shame and imagination without bypass, opening space to rewrite what strength, guardianship, and transformation can look like now.
Writing Prompts: Rewriting Fairytales
In this class we return to the old stories and lay them open on the table. The princesses, the wolves, the bargains, the glass coffins, the girls sent into forests. We notice where fear was planted, where obedience was rewarded, where mothers disappeared, where magic was distorted. Then we begin again. Together we freewrite with intention, following a loose but steady structure that helps us breathe new endings into inherited tales. This class moves something deep in the Inner Territory. It stirs grief, anger, delight, defiance. Bring a fairytale that won’t leave you alone and carve out real time to enter it. When you’re done, share your rewritten myth with us. We are building new storylines on purpose.
Cord Cutting: Resurrection
This cord cutting is not about severing in the traditional sense. It holds a moment of looking back without reentering, acknowledging the underworld without descending into it. The emphasis here is on sovereignty, emergence, and choosing to be born anew without collapsing into what has already been lived. Resurrection is framed as an act of consent and readiness rather than struggle, offering a way to release the past while staying oriented toward what is opening next.
Cord Cutting: Communion
This cord cutting is relational and discerning rather than decisive. We will travel holy ground, lean deep into our beings, reckon with the connections that have grown stale or that have simply completed their work in us. We'll partake in a type of inner communion that gives us the opportunity to do what feels right: to sever, to readjust, to release, to firm up - there is no right or wrong. So come with your tender heart cords, come with your stories, come with your desires, come with your aches. You are the healer.
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.
Wyrd Changer: Your Oracular Sight
This class restores trust in ways of knowing that were trained out of us. It situates intuition inside lineage, ethics, and responsibility, not prediction or performance. Oracular sight is remembered here as collective, relational, and wise enough to alter direction with care.
The Red Thread: Belonging to the Wise and Wild Mother
This is an archetypal and mythic class centered on exile, belonging, and the restoration of the inner mother through Great Goddess lineages. The work names mother wounds and inherited disconnection not as personal failures, but as outcomes of cultural rupture, and invites a return to the Wise and Wild Mother as a living presence within the self. Belonging is held here as something remembered and reclaimed through story, witness, and honest self telling rather than earned or bestowed.
The Erotic + The Great Goddess
This is an archetypal and mythic teaching centered on The Erotic as a sacred, life generating force within Great Goddess cosmologies. The work invites a return to stories where desire, vitality, and aliveness were held as holy rather than suspect, and where power flowed through relationship rather than domination. The class situates personal longing and pleasure inside collective mythic frameworks, offering a way to untangle erotic power from patriarchal distortion and reclaim it as animating, relational, and liberatory.
Writer’s Soul: Audre Lorde
This is a writing and listening class rooted in Audre Lorde’s insistence that language is a site of power, survival, and truth telling. The work centers her voice as queer, Black, feminist, and uncompromising, inviting writers to meet their own words as living forces shaped by body, grief, love, and responsibility. Writing here is not separated from politics or soul. It is understood as a way of telling the truth of one’s life in relationship with the world.
Descent, Initiation, and Transformation
This year, we are centering on the Inner Territory work of manifestation. On unblocking inner rivers of memory and story, of sitting honestly with subconscious beliefs and habitual responses. On identifying where our monsters prowl and leading them to green pastures where they can soften, unarmour, and allow younger parts of Self to repair, to exhale, to expand.
Inner Territory Journey: Inner Light For The Long Dark
This journey is about tending the inner hearth as we enter the long dark. We remember the seasonal myths that helped our ancestors survive silence, cold, and uncertainty, and we gather what needs to be close before winter deepens. The work steadies the nervous system and strengthens inner companionship, offering warmth without forcing optimism.