Today marks Juneteenth – June 19th, 1865 – when Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, announcing that enslaved people in the South were free. This came TWO AND A HALF YEARS after the Emancipation Proclamation, a delay that reveals how liberation announcements and lived liberation are often worlds apart. For over 250 years, MILLIONS of African …
Dear Friends, This week I learned something that stopped me in my tracks – quite literally, as you’ll soon understand. I had been speaking with my dear friend Alice about how much I intuitively feel that this time of year is about slowing down. One would think it would be peak productivity time as the …
As we approach the longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere, there’s something both luminous and liminal about this threshold time. And of course, a blessed Winter Solstice to those of you in the Southern hemisphere – also a time of deep pause and liminality! Summer solstice holds the paradox of peak light …
It has been a very full and fulfilling few weeks here at Dark Woods of Grief, as we began our 2025 Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training & inaugural Roots of Ritual Training last week. I am over the moon as we welcomed fourteen women, stepping across the threshold towards their gifts as initiated Grief Tenders. This is …
Artwork by Autumn Skye, “Seeker of the Sublime” In times of profound crises, the ancient practice of tending to our grief together takes on a whole new level of importance. I have been on my soapbox shamelessly about how critical this work is at this time, and I’m not backing down. 🖤 Here’s why… Some astrologers are …
This is a short and sweet one, because I feel like I’ve been moving through honey (or mud, depending on the moment LOL) all week. Anyone else out there feeling like this?? I’m doing some deep personal healing in these past few months, and it is slowing me down in a way I really haven’t felt before. …
Dear Beloved Community,First, to those of you who are in the depths of your own grief journey right now: I see you. 💔 I honour the courage it takes to feel what you’re feeling in a world that often rushes us toward false comfort. Your willingness to be with your grief – to tend it, to …
Have you ever felt that undeniable pull, that electric knowing that courses through your body? ✨✨✨ The one that doesn’t arrive through careful analysis but emerges from somewhere ancient and wise within you? Perhaps it comes as a tingling that races up your spine, a sudden heat blooming in your chest, or a magnetic draw …
When the forest burns, the mushroom networks below the soil activate to share resources and information. In times of collective crisis, our human networks must do the same. The world is burning. Let’s not pretend otherwise. We’re all feeling it. Personal and collective grief can no longer be separated. This isn’t just another moment of …
Right now, deep beneath the late winter soil, billions of seeds hold their potential in perfect stillness, waiting for the exact conditions they need to crack open and begin their transformation. We cannot see this vital work happening in the darkness, yet it’s essential for new life to emerge. Just as we wouldn’t dig up …
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