The Great Descent
The Great Descent
The lunar eclipse in Pisces, with the Sun in Virgo, brings us to a powerful threshold of release, shadow work, surrender and conscious change. From a shamanic perspective, an eclipse can become a moment to look at what has been hidden, where we may have lost connection with our power, and what is ready to return to the light. The ancient story of Inanna and her Great Descent through the seven gates offers us an extraordinary map for navigating this movement. As the season turns toward Autumn, these ancient, cosmic and seasonal teachings come together to ask: what are you ready to release, and who are you becoming?
There are moments when the teachings seem to arrive from every direction at once.
The moon is speaking. The season is speaking. The ancient stories are speaking. Our own lives are speaking. And suddenly, what we have been sensing quietly within ourselves is reflected everywhere around us.
This lunar eclipse brings us a powerful image: something normally completely illuminated is temporarily covered by shadow. It has not disappeared. It has not ceased to exist. For a moment, we simply cannot see it in the same way. And then the light returns.
For me, this is a powerful reflection of the inner work we are being invited into right now.
What has been hidden?
What have we avoided?
What are we trying to control?
What is asking to be seen differently?
What is ready to be released?
And perhaps even more importantly:
What is ready to come out of the shadows?
I love when these moments happen because the teaching rarely arrives alone.
The eclipse is happening within a much greater movement. We have crossed Lughnasadh and begun the first subtle turn toward Autumn — the season of harvest, discernment, completion and release. And alongside this seasonal movement stands the ancient story of Inanna, the Goddess who willingly descends through seven gates into the Underworld.
Different traditions. Different languages. Different doorways. And yet the teaching is remarkably similar.
To me, this is one of the ways the universe has our back.
Sometimes it lays the teaching on thick. It doubles it up. Sometimes it triples it up so that we really cannot ignore what is being shown to us. And at the same time, the larger energetic movement helps to carry us through the very threshold we are being asked to cross.
This is how the teachings within my Awakening Touch Mystery School are reflecting and supporting this movement right now.
In Wisdom of the Seasons, we are entering the Autumn teachings of harvest, discernment and letting go.
In Awakening the Fire Goddess, Inanna is our guardian archetype this month, taking us into the ancient teaching of descent and initiation.
In September’s Communication with Spirit Journey Circle, we will take that teaching experientially through an eight-week journey I am calling The Great Descent.
And through Loss of Power and Boundaries, we explore another essential layer: our relationship with power, energy, choice and self-leadership.
This is why I love Mystery School work. The teachings are not separate from life.
We learn to recognise the sacred spiral when it appears — through Earth, cosmos, myth, Spirit and our own lived experience — and consciously walk with it.
The Autumn Teaching — Knowing What Is Complete
Autumn begins with discernment. The land is still abundant, yet something has already begun to change. Some things are still growing while others have completed their cycle.
This is the first harvest of the soul.
What has ripened?
What is complete?
What wants to be carried forward?
What needs to be returned to the earth?
This is one of the fundamental teachings within Wisdom of the Seasons: release is not a failure of growth.
Release is part of growth. And we are part of that same living cycle.
When Water Meets Earth — Surrender and Discernment
Intuition. Imagination. Sensitivity. Compassion. Surrender. Connection with the unseen.
Virgo brings us back to earth:
Discernment. Attention. Practical action. Responsibility. Organisation. Service.
What do I need to stop trying to control — and what actually still requires attention from me?
Because these are not the same thing. There are things we need to surrender. There are things we need to attend to. And knowing the difference is part of spiritual maturity
Surrender Is Not Avoidance
We speak a great deal about surrender in spiritual practice.
Let go. Trust. Allow. But I believe we need discernment here too.
Sometimes we say we have surrendered something when really we have stopped looking at it.
Sometimes what we call acceptance is avoidance.
And sometimes the opposite is true. We keep trying to fix, control and manage something that life has been asking us to release for a very long time.
So, there are two questions worth sitting with:
What am I trying to control that I need to surrender?
And:
What have I been avoiding that actually needs my full attention?
Autumn asks this. The eclipse asks this. And Inanna asks this.
When Autumn is lived consciously, Winter becomes a season of deep dreaming rather than heaviness. Only when we have completed one cycle can we truly imagine the next.
The Eclipse — What Happens When the Light Is Covered?
There is something extraordinary about the symbolism of an eclipse.
Something normally illuminated becomes temporarily covered by shadow. It has not disappeared. It has not ceased to exist. For a moment, we simply cannot see it in the same way. And then the light returns.
This is a beautiful image for shadow work.
We often think of shadow as something dark or negative that needs to be removed.
That is not how I understand it.
From a shamanic perspective, I am interested in what has moved outside our conscious relationship with ourselves.
What have I buried?
What have I rejected?
What am I frightened to acknowledge?
What gift have I pushed away?
What part of my power have I placed into shadow because at some point it did not feel safe, acceptable or possible to embody it?
Shadow work in a shamanic sense is not simply looking for our undesirable behaviour.
Yes, our shadow can express itself through behaviours and reactions.
But behind that behaviour there may also be a gift, a capacity, an instinct or a piece of our power waiting to be brought back into relationship with us.
Something wants to come out of the shadow.
Shadow, Power and Self-Leadership
This is where shadow work and power work meet.
Power is one of the foundational teachings in shamanic practice, and it is a subject I believe we need to understand deeply. I am not speaking about power over someone else. I am speaking about our ability to inhabit ourselves.
To know where our energy is going.
To recognise what influences us.
To recognise when we have handed authority for our choices to someone or something outside ourselves.
To notice when fear, old stories, relationships or unconscious patterns are making decisions for us. And to bring ourselves back into conscious participation.
This is why I offer my Loss of Power and Boundaries workshop regularly. For me, this is foundation and energy maintenace.
If we want freedom, we need to understand our relationship with power.
If we want to create consciously, we need to know where we have choice.
If we want self-leadership, we need to recognise where we are responding from our own centre and where something else is running the story.
Freedom requires choice. And conscious choice requires awareness.
Inanna — The Great Descent
And then there is Inanna. I could hardly imagine a more appropriate archetype for this moment.
In Awakening the Fire Goddess, Inanna is the guardian archetype we are working with this month.
Her story is one of the oldest descent myths we have. Inanna chooses to enter the Underworld.
At each of the seven gates she is required to remove something.
Her crown. Her jewellery. Her breastplate. Her symbols of status and authority.
Piece by piece, what has identified and protected her is taken away. Until she enters the deepest chamber with nothing left to hide behind. This is initiation.
And it asks us:
Who are you when what you have used to define yourself is removed?
Who are you when the strategies that once protected you no longer work?
Who are you underneath the identities you have learned to carry?
What remains when you cannot control the outcome?
Touching the Sacred Every Day
Light a candle. Say a prayer. Walk outside. Place your hand on the earth. Sit at your altar. Journey. Listen.
This is at the heart of the Mystery School teachings within Awakening Touch.
The practices are not separate from life. They are ways of meeting life. The seasonal cycle, shamanic journey, ritual, archetypal teachings, sacred circle and our relationship with Spirit give us structures through which we can consciously participate in what is already moving.
When the Universe Repeats the Teaching
Autumn says: Release what is complete.
The eclipse says: Look at what has been hidden.
Pisces says: Surrender.
Virgo says: Discern and act.
Inanna says: Descend. Remove what can no longer accompany you.
And our relationship with Spirit says: You do not have to cross the threshold alone.
This is why I experience these moments as an extraordinary offering.
The universe is not whispering the teaching from one direction. It is surrounding us with it. Season. Earth. Moon. Myth. Spirit. Community. Our own lived experience. Layer upon layer.
We still have to walk through the gate ourselves. But we are held within a much greater movement as we do.
The Great Descent — Eight Weeks of Journey
We will work with Inanna’s seven gates through shamanic journey, allowing each gate to become a personal place of inquiry and encounter.
What am I being asked to remove?
What am I holding onto?
What has completed?
What identity has become too small?
What part of my power has been hidden?
What becomes possible when I stop carrying what no longer belongs with me?
And importantly, we will work with the empty place and the return. Because descent is not the destination. We descend so that we can return differently.
The Mystery School — Different Doorways Into the Same Teaching
Wisdom of the Seasons teaches us to recognise these movements through the living cycle of the Earth — when to begin, grow, harvest, release, rest and dream again.
Awakening the Fire Goddess brings archetypal teachings into that movement. This month, Inanna walks beside us through descent, surrender and initiation.
As the Fire Goddess cycle completes at Samhain, we move directly into Awakening the Dark Goddess in November. The outer fire begins to turn inward and we enter the darker half of the year — into the deeper teachings of shadow, ancestors, death and rebirth, the unseen worlds and the wisdom that can only be encountered when we are willing to enter the dark.
Inanna becomes a powerful threshold between these two journeys. Her descent prepares us for what comes next. We learn that darkness is not simply something to move through or overcome. It is a place of initiation, gestation and deep knowing.
Communication with Spirit — The Great Descent takes us experientially through those gates using shamanic journey.
And Loss of Power and Boundaries brings the teaching directly into our relationship with energy, choice, personal authority and self-leadership. Different layers. Different practices. Different doorways. But one living body of teaching.This is what Mystery School means to me. We don’t collect spiritual knowledge. We live it. We meet the teaching again and again, from different directions and at different depths, until it becomes something we know through experience.
What Are You Already Becoming?
It is easy during a time of release to focus entirely on what is leaving.
What is ending?
What no longer fits?
What needs to be surrendered?
Harvest is not only about what we leave behind. It is also about recognising what has ripened.
So ask yourself:
What new state of being is already emerging within me?
What do I know now that I didn’t know a year ago?
Where am I already responding differently?
What part of myself is ready to come out of the shadows?
Who am I already becoming?
Perhaps the eclipse does not create the transformation.
Perhaps Autumn does not create it.
Perhaps Inanna does not create it.
Perhaps they help us recognise a transformation that is already underway.
A Simple Practice for This Threshold
On one side write: I release control of... Choose one thing.
On the other side write: I give my attention to… Choose one thing.
Sit quietly with both.
Then ask:
What is being revealed to me through this?
And finally:
What am I already becoming?
You do not need to know the entire path ahead.
You need enough presence to recognise the gate you are standing before now.
Autumn is here. Inanna is descending. The shadow moves across the light.
And perhaps the invitation is not to resist the descent.
Perhaps it is to recognise how many hands — Earth, cosmos, archetype, Spirit and community — are holding the doorway open for us.
The work is ours. But we do not do it unsupported. We descend consciously. We meet what has been waiting in the shadows. We reclaim what belongs to us.
And, in time, we return carrying something we could not have found by remaining only in the light.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Lughnasadh – The First Harvest of the Soul
Lughnasadh – The First Harvest of the Soul
Lughnasadh is the first of the harvest festivals. It stands midway between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox and marks the gentle beginning of Autumn—not according to the weather, but according to the living wisdom of the natural world.
The Celtic peoples understood something we have largely forgotten. Nature is always preparing what comes next.
There is no abrupt ending. Only relationship. Only rhythm. Only a continuous movement from one season into another.
When we learn to walk with that rhythm, life begins to make more sense.
The First Harvest
When we hear the word harvest, most of us think of abundance. Fields. Fruit. Vegetables. The visible results of months of care. But Lughnasadh invites us into another kind of harvest.
The first harvest of the soul.
It asks us to pause and ask:
What has this season given me?
What have I learned?
How have I changed?
What has life been teaching me?
Sometimes the answer is found in the things that flourished.
Sometimes it is found in the things that didn’t.
Some of my greatest harvests have not been the moments when everything worked exactly as I hoped. They have come through disappointment. Unexpected endings. Difficult conversations.
Plans that changed direction. Questions that took months to answer.
Looking back, I can see that nothing was wasted. Everything became wisdom. That is the true harvest.
The Forgotten Art of Completion
How to complete. We are very good at beginning. We celebrate new ideas.
New projects. New relationships. New dreams.
Walking into Autumn
This is why I love the Celtic understanding of Autumn. It is not a season of decline. It is a season of understanding. A season of relationship with our emotions. A season of recognising what nourishes life and what no longer does.
“Many people notice a quieter energy at this time of year. A longing to slow down. A touch of melancholy. A need to reflect. I believe this is not something to fear. It is part of the wisdom of the season.
– Gita
When Autumn is lived consciously, Winter becomes a season of deep dreaming rather than heaviness. Only when we have completed one cycle can we truly imagine the next.
Walking the Whole Cycle
One of the greatest gifts the seasons have given me is perspective.
There have been many moments when I thought something had gone wrong.
Looking back, I can now see that I was simply in a different season. Growth was happening. Just not in the way I expected. This is why I believe understanding one season is helpful. Walking the whole cycle is transformational. Each season prepares us for the next. Each season gives meaning to the one before and the one after. Without the whole cycle we only ever see part of the full picture.
And as we walk through the seasons, something beautiful happens. We begin to understand ourselves. We notice where we naturally flourish. Which seasons challenge us. What patterns return. How intuition speaks to us. How we move through change. Little by little, self-knowledge becomes self-leadership. Life no longer feels like something happening to us.
We begin to participate.
A Beautiful Reminder
Recently, one of the women walking this journey shared something that deeply touched me.
“This Saturday, I went to a ceremony and journeyed in a completely different way, thanks to what I have learned in the program. It was completely different. Simply through what I had already learned from shamanic journeying and the tools I had received; I visited another universe. I felt so much gratitude for this experience. It brought me so many answers and carried me throughout the entire day.”
Not dependence. Not collecting more information. But becoming someone who knows how to walk with life.
An Invitation
Every Fire Festival offers us a doorway into the Wheel of the Year.
Imbolc awakens.
Beltane brings us into becoming.
Lughnasadh teaches us to harvest and complete.
Samhain invites us into dreaming and renewal.
Each is a beginning. Each offers a different doorway into the same living cycle.
If something in these words speaks to a place you have always known but perhaps never fully trusted… Perhaps this is your season.
Each year I welcome a new circle of women to begin walking the Wheel together through Wisdom of the Seasons.
Not simply to learn about nature.
But to discover themselves through it.
Bring your life exactly as it is.
Bring your questions.
Bring your experience.
Bring your longing.
The journey begins there.
And I would be honoured to walk the coming year beside you.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Beltane – sacred threshold & fire portal
Beltane – sacred threshold & fire portal
Beltane (1st May) is a Celtic traditional celebration and a vibrant fire festival marking the sacred midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It is known as the witch’s New Year. It is both the final celebration of spring and the first festival of summer—a time of powerful transformation and renewal.
As the wheel turns, this ancient threshold of fire and fertility—where spirit and earth dance in union—is an invitation to renew your commitment and ignite your momentum.
In the shamanic and pagan traditions, this is no ordinary day. Beltane is a sacred portal into the next season, igniting the inner flame that awakens your creative power and life force. The veil between worlds thins, allowing you to commune with the unseen and deeply connect with your roots—not just in soil, but in soul.
What is Beltane?
Beltane is not just a festival. It is a threshold.
It sits between seasons, where winter fully releases its hold and something wilder, more volatile begins to rise. The season is connected to the fire element—and with it, your inner fire. It ignites the inner flame: passion, truth, and the path into sovereignty.
Fertility, Union, and Sacred Desire
Beltane is often reduced to a “fertility festival,” but this barely scratches the surface.
Fertility here is not just about reproduction—it is about creative life force. The same force that brings crops to bloom also awakens desire, inspiration, and the urge to create, connect, and become more fully alive.
In myth and folklore, Beltane is associated with the sacred union between the land and the divine masculine—often represented as the marriage of a goddess and a god, ensuring the fertility of the land.
This theme echoes in later traditions of the May Queen and the Green Man, and in older Irish myth cycles where sovereignty goddesses grant kingship through union.
Desire, in this sense, is not indulgent.
It is initiatory.
It draws us into relationship—with the land, with others, and with ourselves.
Walpurgis Night and Beltane
I was brought up in a lineage that celebrated both Walpurgis Night and Beltane.
Held on the night of April 30th, Walpurgis Night is deeply rooted in Germanic and Central European folklore. This was the night witches gathered on high places like the Brocken—not for spectacle, but for alignment with forces that do not surface during ordinary time. It is a celebration honoring the light and the fire element.
This is not light, decorative fire.
This is protective fire.
Bonfires were lit not just to celebrate, but to ward off what moved more freely that night—spirits, wandering entities, and unseen influences believed to cross more easily into the human world. Noise was made. Bells were rung. Boundaries were reinforced.
Because the veil was open, choices had to be made.
Walpurgisnacht sits opposite Beltane, yet the two are intertwined. Where Beltane celebrates fertility and life, Walpurgisnacht acknowledges the raw, unstable edge of that transition—the moment where energy surges before it settles into form.
This is why it has always been tied to witchcraft.
Not because witches “gathered” in the way later stories suggest, but because this night amplifies threshold energy.
It is a time for breaking patterns, cutting attachments, and working with fire as transformation—not comfort. Standing between what was and what is about to become.
It is not a night for passive ritual.
It responds to intention with force.
And it will reveal where you are still divided.
If you work with it, you do not approach gently.
You approach clearly.
Because Walpurgisnacht does not soften anything.
It sharpens.
It exposes.
And if you are willing to stand in it without stepping back, it will show you exactly what needs to burn for you to move forward.
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“When we connect to the teaching of the seasons and mother nature, and when we invite sacred moments into our daily routine, we bring magic back into our life.
– Gita
The Goddess in Bloom
In this season, the goddess is not distant.
She is in everything.
In the way your body responds to warmth.
In the way your senses open.
In the subtle longing for more—more life, more truth, more connection.
She is the blooming earth.
The sensual vitality moving through all things. The sacred union between spirit and matter.
And here is the part that often gets forgotten:
Beltane is not just about celebrating her. It is about recognizing where she lives in you.
Your desires. Your creativity. Your longing to step into something fuller, truer.
This is not something to tame or quiet.
This is something to listen to.
In my Awakening the Fire Goddess circle, we honor Blodeuwedd in this month of May. Brigid is also one of the goddesses often honored during this celebration.
🔥 How to Meet Beltane
In the old ways, women did not seek empowerment—they remembered their authority. Fire was not something they used. It was something they became.
Fire lives in your blood.
The Fire is a Path
A call.
Not always comfortable.
Not always convenient.
But clear.
It is the call to step deeper into alignment.
To stop circling around what I already know.
To bring my work, my voice, my energy fully into the world.
And this is exactly the space I hold inside Awakening the Fire Goddess.
This journey begins at Beltane, because this is where we meet the fire within us—not as an idea, but as something to tend, to work with, to embody.
It is a path of sovereignty.
Of uniting the feminine and masculine within.
Of learning how to stand fully in your own energy and offer it into the world.
This journey begins with Beltane and reaches all the way through the season to Samhain.
Beltane is the threshold in which we begin communication with six powerful archetypes.
This sacred fire portal is also when I open the door and invite more women to join the Wisdom of the Season program—a transformational journey that holds a deeper rhythm. Because this work is not just about one moment—it is about learning how to live with the cycles. To understand them, to move with them, to let them shape the way you live, create, and show up.
Why should we celebrate the fire portals, the solstices, and equinoxes?
The Wheel of the Year is a symbolic and cyclical representation of the changing seasons and the natural rhythms of life. Rooted in ancient traditions, this concept divides the year into eight distinct festivals, each marking a significant point in the annual cycle.
As we honour this mystical circle, we align with the energies of the Earth, absorbing the lessons whispered by the wind, the warmth of the sun, and the changing landscapes, acknowledging the sacred dance of life’s perpetual renewal.
In celebrating the Wheel of the Year, we find ourselves not only in communion with the natural world but also on a deeply spiritual initiation. The rituals and traditions woven into each turn of the Wheel become a mirror reflecting our own inner transformations, between the soul and the cycles of existence. This journey invites you to listen, learn, and harmonize with the timeless wisdom of nature.
Reflection from Gita
To walk with Beltane is to remember that life is not meant to be lived at a distance.
It is a season that invites participation.
Not cautiously.
Not partially.
But fully.
With heat in your blood.
With presence in your body.
With a willingness to cross the threshold—from who you have been… into who you are becoming.
And like the old fires on the hills, it asks only one thing:
What are you ready to set alight?
🔥. I would love to hear from you. Leave a comment, let’s open a conversation and share your Beltane practices.
Connect to your community
The path towards inner wisdom and discovery of ourselves is a path which, ultimately, we have to journey on our own. Knowing who you are and what gift you carry is revealed in this path of discovery of the Self. It brings sovereignty and autonomy.
Community is the way we nourish ourselves on this journey. We find safety in the sacred circle with others and inspiration when we listen to their own discoveries.
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Transition – A Shamanic Perspective
Transition – A Shamanic Perspective
Transition is never just change; it is a sacred passage. From a shamanic perspective, transition is a journey between worlds, a threshold where the old dissolves and the seed of the new begins to stir. These times ask not only for courage but also for devotion to practice—the thread that keeps us nourished and connected.
Entering the Season of Darkness
Transition calls for flexibility, flow, and clarity of vision. This is why a daily practice is vital—it keeps us rooted, so we can navigate change with choice rather than being swept away by it. For us to move through transition consciously, we need anchors, practices, and ways of reflection that keep us connected to the thread of our becoming.
The Anchor of Practice
Portals All Around Us
Equinoxes, Solstices are portals.
New moon and full moon are portals.
Even sunrise and sunset open thresholds.
Each one is an invitation to pause, to root into your practice, and to step across with awareness. These portals remind us that transition is not an exception to life—it is the rhythm of life itself.
Trusting the Descent
Take time to pause and ask yourself:
- What signs show you that you are in transition?
Look for subtle shifts: a sense of restlessness, old patterns resurfacing, or do you become overwhelmed and drop what nurtures you, like your personal practice, your walk in nature, time with your favorite book etc. - How do you personally experience transition?
Do you resist it, fight against it, or collapse under its weight? Or do you find yourself leaning into it, curious about what it might reveal? - What is your minimum practice?
Identify the one ritual, prayer, or embodied presence that feels essential—the practice that holds you steady no matter what changes. - What portals call to you most strongly?
Is it the moon, the sunrise, the silence before sleep, or the seasons turning? Noticing which natural rhythms speak to you will help guide your passage.
Practice is your compass. Here are ways to keep steady during times of transition:
- Keep a daily journal.
I love when things are practical—bullet points, simple reminders, little sparks of joy that feel light and easy to follow. Just check them off and let them guide your day.
If you’d like an example, have a look at the EN daily planner – Introduction from the Wisdom of the Season Cycle teaching.
Keeping a daily journal is a powerful way to witness your own journey. With time, the pages reveal the map of your transformation—showing you how far you’ve come and inspiring the next step forward, creating a supportive momentum. - Anchor in ritual.
Even a small ritual—a candle lit at dawn, a whispered prayer at sunset, a cleansing breath before sleep—creates sacred space and reminds you that you are moving through a portal, not just a schedule. - Visualizations to witness your transition:
In the audio section of my website, you can find a guided visualisation. You are invited to enter a reflection on the process of transitioning. What supports this process and what hinders it. Transition – guided visualisation
Autumn brings transition, guided by the element of water, reminding us to honour and tend our emotions. One of its key teachings is to complete cycles in a good way. Even when the new awaits us with promise, there is always a touch of sadness in letting go. This cleansing process is essential—it creates the space for the new to enter.
Transition is not a linear path; it is a spiral. Each time we descend, we return with more wisdom, more strength, and more light to share. The darkness is never an end—it is the womb of becoming.
The Raven Spirit and Sacred Lore
The Raven Spirit and Sacred Lore
The raven is one of the creatures surrounded by a wealth of lore and mythology. It is cloaked in seeming opposites, embodying both birth and death, and is associated with mysticism and magic. The raven stands for prophecy and serves as a messenger from the unseen realms, symbolizing wisdom and knowledge. Known as an omen of death and destruction, the raven guides us into the darkness to bring forth the light. Each journey into the dark helps us develop the ability to manifest light, which is the essence of creation. When the raven appears, doors open between the worlds.
We are reminded that death is always a part of life, and death leads to rebirth. The great goddess Morrigan shapeshifts into a raven to bring forth her medicine. She is a powerful archetype of the sacred feminine and initiates us into the Awakening—the journey of the dark goddess.
The raven stands for wisdom and magic
The raven, a scavenger, symbolizes transformation and teaches us how to face death and war in order to bring forth life and order. Ravens are omens that announce deep healing and initiation—a death of something that gives birth to something new.
Raven offers the gift of prophecy. When we face overwhelming challenges, the raven guides us in accessing our own inner strength.
If the raven has entered your life, expect magic.
The raven represents prophecy and insight
The pagan tradition
Raven can bring parts of us out of the dark and into the light. It teaches us how to shape that which is unformed and give it the form we desire, how to enter the void and stir the energies to manifest what we most need.
The Norse tradition
Odin, the Norse god, had two ravens, Huginn (Thought) and Muninn (Memory), who would fly out each morning and return in the evening to report on events in the world. Odin himself would sometimes shapeshift into a raven. Ravens are spectral messengers, bearing the weight of untold visions and prophetic whispers.
The great Goddess Morrigan
Morrigan teaches us to be ready for initiation and to choose our battles wisely in life. She represents sensuality, magic, and prophecy, offering prosperity, sovereignty, and a connection to the land. Through chaos, darkness, and transformation, she helps us summon the strength to right wrongs, letting go of the old and outdated so that we can emerge from the dark, through the mist, into rebirth and sovereignty. You can learn more about the Morrigan in the Awakening the Dark Goddess program.
When You Journey with the Raven, Ask:
Shamanic journeying is direct communication with the spirit world—an ancient practice. It is simple to learn and offers a deep connection to your intuition and inner wisdom. It builds confidence and autonomy in your inner power, strengthening your knowledge of who you are. Here are some suggestions for journeying with the Raven Spirit:
Ask Raven to activate the energy of magic, linking it with your will and intention.
You may journey to the raven as a teacher and ask to be shown what lies within you—how to find the magic in your life and align it with your intention and will.
Shadow healing
You may journey to the raven spirit to receive help as you venture into the dark, confronting your shadow and initiating deep healing and transformation.
Protection
Call on the raven for protection. It will come and cloak you in its dark embrace.
Dismemberment Journey
Call on the raven for healing in a dismemberment journey. Dismemberment is a profound purification process that releases and cleanses what no longer serves you, resetting your vibration and energy. We teach dismemberment in the How to Journey – Advanced course.
The raven has the ability to teach you how to stir the magic of your life without fear. Each of us has a magician within, and the raven can show you how to bring that part of yourself out of the dark and into the light.
Persephone’s embrace – Autumn Equinox
Persephone’s embrace – Autumn Equinox
At the threshold of the sacred journey
The myth of Persephone
The myth of Persephone centers on her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld, and her role as both goddess of spring and queen of the underworld. Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of harvest, is taken by Hades to be his wife. In her grief, Demeter causes the earth to wither and become barren, leading to the first winter. Eventually, a compromise is reached: Persephone spends part of the year in the underworld with Hades and the other part above ground with her mother.
Her return each spring symbolizes the renewal of life and the changing seasons, while her time in the underworld represents death and dormancy. This myth explains the cycle of the seasons, with Persephone’s dual role embodying the balance between life, death, and rebirth.
Persephone’s transcendence aligns symbolically with the autumn equinox, a moment when the balance of light and dark shifts, mirroring her descent into the underworld. As the equinox marks the tipping point toward longer nights and shorter days, Persephone’s journey into the depths of Hades represents a spiritual passage into the inner world, where darkness and reflection reign.
Her transcendence is not merely a departure but a profound transformation, as she assumes her role as queen of the underworld.
The autumn equinox reflects this shift, where nature retreats, preparing for the quiet introspection of winter. Together, they symbolize the soul’s movement into deeper wisdom, cycles of life, death, and rebirth, and the invitation to embrace the shadows in order to understand the full spectrum of existence.
On the 22nd day of September, the celestial scales are recalibrated, as the autumnal equinox suspends time in a fleeting dance of light and shadow. For but a breath, the cosmos hangs in perfect equilibrium. It is here, at this liminal crossroads, that Persephone lingers at the veil of the underworld. Her gaze cast behind her, the delicate hesitation conjures the equinox itself. Yet, as her vision descends into the depths and her foot descends upon the threshold, the cosmic balance tips, and the reign of darkness begins. In that instant, summer dissipates like a forgotten dream, and the ancient Wheel turns, heralding autumn’s dominion. Shadow deepens, and the power of night takes command over all living things.
The time has come for the soul’s descent into its own shadowed depths.
Whether or not we are conscious of this journey, winter calls us forth, challenging us to engage with its ancient symbols, cryptic archetypes, and unspoken truths.
The cyclical pulse of the cosmic wheel beckons—perhaps commands—our passage alongside Persephone, down the spiral stairway. Year after year, we must journey into our own darkness, for it is only through this exploration that the soul may ascend and evolve.
Persephone emerges from the depths not merely as a queen, but as a priestess of profound power and sacred authority. She carries within her the esoteric knowledge of the highest occult mysteries, possessing intimate understanding of the eternal cycle—life, death, and rebirth. She embodies this cosmic rhythm, and in doing so, reveals that all women are the living essence of this vast mystery.
Her wisdom is drawn from the earth itself, rooted in the tangible world of the body. Like the secret mysteries held by women throughout time, Persephone’s knowledge flows through her physical being, reflecting the sacred connection between the body and the soul’s deepest truths.
Awakening the dark Goddess
The ancient myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hecate weaves a primordial thread through the soul of every woman, serving as a sacred key to her inner journey. It is a tale that beckons all women to descend into its depths, uncovering its hidden wisdom as a guide toward self-realization. By unraveling the veils of constructed identity, dissolving the illusions of persona, she glimpses the eternal essence of her authentic self—and through this revelation, she beholds the veiled mysteries of reality itself. This is the journey of embodied wisdom all women are called to take. The Awakening the dark Goddess program is aligned to this purpose. .
I invite you to dip into the ancient wisdom of the earth, a gift offered to us during this sacred turning of the seasonal wheel.
How then shall we stand before this new season? Where shall we fix our gaze, and where will our intuitions find their compass? What sacred acts might we perform to synchronize our being with the rhythm of the turning world?
Sisters, Mothers, Crones, women in leadership and on the path of sovereignty, this is your invitation. AWAKENING THE DARK GODDESS is a journey into the sacred wisdom, to bring to life all of the Goddess you are. To reclaim the wild, the free, the deep, the raw, simply natural – YOU, unapologetically.
Gita
