The Descent: Fall & Winter Sanctuary Journey
The Sanctuary Journey: The Descent is a guided Fall and Winter journey through the two inward directions of the Medicine Wheel of Life.
Beginning in the West with the season of composting, truth-telling, and honest release, then moving into the North with the deep winter medicine of steadiness, integration, and inner authority, this journey teaches you how to walk the inward arc of the cycle with awareness, support, and sacred creative practice at the center.
You will be guided by four inner archetypal presences: Skeleton Woman and the Thread Weaver through the falling away of autumn, and the Bone Keeper and Medicine Woman through the quiet depths of winter. And throughout the full arc of the season, you will create your Medicine Spirit Doll through the ancient practice of needle felting, a living mirror of what this journey is asking you to remember about yourself.
Weekly lessons are released in a gentle seasonal rhythm. Live Sanctuary Talking Circles offer witnessing and community. And the work itself happens inside your real life, not outside of it.
This is not something you add to your life.
It changes how you move through the life you already have.
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Welcome: Crossing the Threshold
A warm welcome to The Descent for both new and returning students. This lesson orients you to the full journey ahead, what the inward arc of the cycle holds, and how to move through this work at your own pace without pressure or performance.
A warm welcome to The Descent for both new and returning students. This lesson orients you to the full journey ahead, what the inward arc of the cycle holds, and how to move through this work at your own pace without pressure or performance.
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Community Talking Circle: Schedule & Recordings
Your full Talking Circle schedule for the Westgate and Northgate seasons, including all dates, topics, and planned breaks. Circles are optional and all recordings are posted here after each gathering.
Your full Talking Circle schedule for the Westgate and Northgate seasons, including all dates, topics, and planned breaks. Circles are optional and all recordings are posted here after each gathering.
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Signal: Staying Connected Between Circles
How to join our private Signal group, the intimate community space where sisters connect, share, and support one another between live Talking Circles.
How to join our private Signal group, the intimate community space where sisters connect, share, and support one another between live Talking Circles.
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Materials & Preparing for the Journey
Everything you need to begin your Medicine Spirit Doll through needle felting, including a full materials list, information about the optional Deluxe Felting Kit, and guidance for students sourcing their own supplies or joining from outside the United States.
Everything you need to begin your Medicine Spirit Doll through needle felting, including a full materials list, information about the optional Deluxe Felting Kit, and guidance for students sourcing their own supplies or joining from outside the United States.
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1: Meeting Skeleton Woman
A full introduction to Skeleton Woman, the primary archetypal guide of the West. Her mythic lineage, her medicine, her shadow terrain, and how to recognize her already alive within you. She is the one who knows the beauty of the descent.
A full introduction to Skeleton Woman, the primary archetypal guide of the West. Her mythic lineage, her medicine, her shadow terrain, and how to recognize her already alive within you. She is the one who knows the beauty of the descent.
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2: Skeleton Woman | Grief as Fertilizer
Skeleton Woman teaches that grief is not a problem to solve but a substance to be composted. This lesson explores how loss, endings, and what has been scattered can become the very ground from which something more honest grows.
Skeleton Woman teaches that grief is not a problem to solve but a substance to be composted. This lesson explores how loss, endings, and what has been scattered can become the very ground from which something more honest grows.
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The Descent gives you a living framework for the inward seasons of your life, four archetypal guides to walk with, and a Medicine Spirit Doll made by your own hands as a mirror of what is unfolding within you.
This journey gives you language for what you are living, steadiness for what is unclear, and a sacred creative practice that makes the invisible visible.
By the time the Spring Equinox arrives, you will not be the same woman who entered. You will be a more honest one.
If you have been feeling more inward, more sensitive, and more aware that something is shifting, you are in the Descent. And there is a way to walk it.