“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly.
She's beautiful and she's laughing.”
~ Helene Cixous
Collective Ritual
This work grows from the seeds of 'Rememberings'.
MoonChild: A Gathering in Ritual was born, from a dream time vision. In Autumn 2019 they began, with the first MoonChild, and then her six sisters followed Her (they are listed, in order, below. They each run 1 time a year, for small groups of 13-15 participants only). As of January 2023, ten MoonChild sessions have run, five BoneSongs sessions, three StarSongs sessions, one Serpentine session. As the world opens Her wings post pandemic ~ may this work find her ease for healing amidst the cracks of transformation still at our feet. ‘The Whispering of Bones, Laying of Hands’, is the Eighth Sister, who dances to her own beat and out of order from the others ( also described below).
Thank you to all the beautiful souls who showed up to create this work together.
MoonChild is set of four evening rituals. BoneSong and beyond become Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. Some sessions are residential.
The next Moonchild session will be winter 2024 (see below).
These sessions build and grow on each other, interweaving and becoming, whispering to your being from within via blood and bones, what your ancestors may have adored and whispered, and may have tried to forget, may have hidden, may have interwoven into the magick of everyday life: the birthright of your own inner songs, gifts, joys.
The sessions focus first and foremost on embodiment. Offering quiet beauty-filled spaces to remembering your own sacred anatomy, your body as home, your capacity to be here, as embodied magic. We focus on feeling, sensing and listening, with your body and wisdom being remembered as your own personal inner divination tool.
These sessions have been channeled and inspired by work I have learned with various Shamans/Lands/Beings all over the world, including within ancient Honey Bee lineages, other ancestral rememberings., and with years of healing work with my hands & voice on the treatment table, listening how to connect plants & remedies with breath, bones and dreams.
All sessions include acknowledging the stolen lands on which we live, our ancestral lines, and Moon, Star, Plant, Insect, Bird and Animal Ancestry. We work with deep listening to your own inner landscapes, growing your own personal power and healing, connecting with your own fingerprint of gifts, within the web of others who are committed to doing the same.
The basic premise of these ceremonies is this: if you give a human the space to go inside and listen, to move, be moved, by their own self, their own knowing, their own cellular dance, they will return to their own wild power and source, and begin to heal.
If they do this amongst others, remembering and believing again, calling out the colonial thoughts and mind ~ all of us, human and non human, seen and unseen, begin to heal.
The Ritual Sessions
MoonChild: A Gathering in Ritual
The beginning. We Listen. Four evenings. You are gathering with others to be in Magic, Medicine, Ritual. There is very little group talking/processing, it is in fact, you are almost completely silent, to allow a deep listening. In these sessions, there is no pressure, no need to talk about it, discuss it, no victory too small, no blockage too large. Just space, silence, ritual and rest to heal within.
Once you have all arrived, dedicating yourself to the work of your own listening, learning, being, together, the magic always emerges and happens in all kinds of silent personal ways, and in all kinds of collective hive hummings and goings.
These are four, four hour evenings (focusing on womb, heart, wings (breath/expansion/contraction), crown (nervous system), in ritual based work, including guided meditation, storytelling, inner journey work, and gentle movement. Each evening is paired with a plant ally, and you work with those allies to learn and heal. These sessions are easily gender fluid, acknowledging that womb spaces have their own knowing of their own spectrums.
Gatherings of humans can be intimidating in their own right, and something that your ancestors may have suffered persecution for in the past. The range, or 'type' of women and age (all) differ radically from constellation to constellation. Here, we are asked to develop our trust in being amongst others, and staying connected with our own power and unique magical fingerprint.
All of this ritual work, is based on the knowing of 'true self', and the ongoing practice of your own sovereignty. This is therefore the transformation and healing energy in your own field, 'clearing' as a circle and learning how to hold your own energetic boundaries in a circle/ gathering. Acknowledging the lands where you live, the ancestors, and ancestral lines you carry this lifetime. Acknowledging ancient ancestors of Moon, Stars, Plant, Honey Bee, Whale and Winged Ones. Acknowledging body as divine, magical, and divination tool. Womb listening. Heart journeying. Wing remembering. Crown/Nervous system healing.
Next Moon Child, February 27, 28 March 1 & 2, 2025
BoneSong: A Remembering of Tools
We speak. We create. We see. We divine, We remember our healing rhythm. These sessions are done with shadow, dance, movement, sound, breath and to the song within us. BoneSong is not easy, you do go in deep with shadow and ritual, throw your bones, read the patterns, look in the ancient Mirror.
We come out the other side with your own hand made rattle which helps you soothe and heal your nervous system in a new way, after meeting the depths.
Bone throwing: ancient art of divination from which dice, dominos and flipping a coin descended. Black Mirror: Scrying work, based on divination/reflection, descendant from UK/Europe, birthing your Own. Rattle: Rhythm as Healer for nervous system & beyond, the birthing of Rattle
Ancestral acknowledgement: All work will include an acknowledgement and honoring of the ancestral lines, and their work with divination, scrying, rhythm and healing and are based in the cosmologies of MoonChild: A Gathering in Ritual.
TBA, MoonChild a prerequisite
StarSong: Drum & Staff
We sing. We remember the Stars in our belly. We Drum. We meet Staff. If you are looking for Native American Drum teachings ~ this is not that. We are working with remembering the healing of rhythm and song on ancestral lines. Seidr work is ancient iron age magic work of the Staff, journeying with Tree medicine, and remembering Star Song.
Next StarSong TBA. Bonesong a prerequisite.
Serpentine: Oracle, Smoke & Spine
We remember ancestral smoke. You call out for your ancestral plants. We collaborate, We protect. We heal. Serpentine is work of healing the Spine, working with the Smoke of ancestral plants, and the High Seat & Seidr Staff. Discussions of collaborative collective medicine. Dragon Fly as Seer of 360' healing, the changing of patterns, the healing of mindsets stuck in Spine and Nervous system.
Next session TBA, StarSong a prerequisite
Labyrinthine: Calling Home the Queens
We map. We walk our life lines. We sing ourSelves home. We do the work of the hands. We tend. We Mend. We create new constellations.
TBA
Liminalities: Tending the Ancestral Lines with Spin & Weave
Tending the words & stories on your ancestral lines/ancestral tending with spinning & weaving work. Ritual Work . We walk the ancestral lines. We find the Curses & Patterns. We smith the words. We tend the patterns & nervous systems. We spin & reweave the dream.
This session is in person, residential. Will include teachings in curse unwinding, spinning and weaving ~ March 2025
Umbilicus: Ancestral Seeds & Songs
We find the Seeds. We remember the Songs. We heal the lines with breath, joy and rememberings.
Autumn 2025
The Eighth Sister, who dances who own tune, out of order from the others:
The Whisperings of Bones, the Laying on Hands
This session is for practitioners who are wanting to approach healing as a listening, to the body, who is a ritual in HerSelf. Meeting the inner oceans, winds, bone whisperings, flints and stars.
It is based on 13+ years of doing hands on healing, cranial sacral work and much else combined, into a deep steady gorgeous pulse true self dance between two souls, who are requesting healing.
Next session May 2025
* Please note, a percentage of profit form all Collective Ritual Sessions are donated back into the community- usually to an Indigenous organization/fundraiser.
