I am so happy snow is here! I welcome the dormant season and the invitation it brings for inner tending for craft projects, book reading, herbal remedy making, and all the activities I set aside or do less of during the growing season. There are so many gardens to tend and nature spots to explore that it becomes a whole season unto itself. Another name for the growing season could simply be “Tending to the Landscapes.”
There are other landscapes that need tending as well. The landscapes of Spirit, for example. I find myself questioning, but what could the Spirit World possibly need from me? Don’t they already have everything they need? Why would they choose to interact with the physical world at all?
I received clarity about this during a guided visualization that Emily Morrison led, inviting us to commune with ancestors and descendants. As I approached a circle of them, I noticed a couple of open spaces waiting. I sat down in one, inside an open cave chamber lit by the warm glow of candles, and this came through . . .
“We are glad you are here. We have resources we would like to share with the physical world, but we need a translator. You also have the resources we need. We hear your requests. Then we weave it into this plane to mirror back to your plane. We need Wayshowers that can cross the thresholds and find the portals to bring folks to us for consultation. If the physical world doesn’t come to us then the cross communication is halted here. There are Spirits newly coming into the Etheric World and Spirits getting ready to go back to the physical world and others who stay in the Spirit World. Layers of experience are folded into the weavings continuously. We see the patterns and guide you as best we can.”
Ahhh . . . what a clear awareness for me. A deeper understanding of something I already knew . . . we are overlapping coexisting landscapes.
Inter-related and overlapping landscapes of Frequency, Magic, Emotional, – each one has its own cycle of growing, dying, seeding, and evolving. And in this modern world, is it still necessary to tend to these places? The answer is a big ole YES. No amount of modern technology can replace this tending.
In fact, I’m in need of more practice in tending these landscapes. I didn’t learn it in all the schools I attended, or at places of employment, at the supper table, or at family gatherings. Yet, these would be the ideal places to learn, practice, and share in tending to these landscapes.
Emily and I have once again created a space for this kind of learning, tending, and practicing of inner-landscape care. I hope you can join us. We keep these circles small so we can truly witness one another, learn from each other, and be inspired to honor all of our unique landscapes.
Winter Circle is six sessions starting in January 2026. But,we start with a bonus winter solstice ceremony and end with a bonus spring equinox ceremony.
Each session is a ceremony which includes: clearing, grounding, setting the Circle with personal candle lighting and check-ins, inviting the directions and elements, an activity and/or guided visualization, sharing session, and then closing the circle.
Each session has a theme and a bespoken plant to guide us along the way.
Winter Circle details are here.
You’ll receive a bundle in the mail with items that match each ceremony session.
We’ll start with The Alchemy of Darkness and invite Cedar to guide us along the way.
