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 …
Being authentic – no matter how messy it can look sometimes – is one of my core values. It drives me absolutely crazy that we are taught in this society to put a positive spin on everything and say that we’re “fine”, even when we’re actually not. There’s so much stigma around showing any kind …
As we enter 2025, I’m feeling a tremendous amount of grief, alongside gratitude for so many things. How can we not be feeling both, as humans in a world full of so much beauty and so much suffering? I want to share with you some big changes happening for 2025 in our Dark Woods Community today, …
Today we are celebrating the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and also the beginning of the 12 days of Yule, which begins on the eve of the Solstice and ends on New Years Day. It is a time of deepening into the dark, with the knowing that as the wheel turns, the light returns. Everything is always changing …
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