Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth

to live in the creative present we must return to the past.

and we often struggle to find our place in family or community afterward, we feel so wholly different.

Gyre Carling

distinct changes—a before and after. The changes are final and fixed: in a rite of passage there is no going back. Rites of passage absolutely restructure our lives. We are not the same after such an experience.

rather than avoidant and escapist.

is a journey of spiral and overlap, of labyrinth and gateway, a place where we touch on the forward and back of life in a simultaneity not found in most contemporary narratives.

creative lineage,

When we share too frequently or too soon, we diffuse the energy of our process and confuse our own intentions.

If you want to change, you have to change: your

sometimes tricks—deadlines, witnessing, reciprocal exchange—can help motivate our brains into being devotional with ourselves