Imbolc marks the beginning of the New Year in earth-based calendars. It is all about the inner fire – symbolized by the beginning of Spring, and the stirring of seeds under the earth. It has the potential for recalibrating our sense of life. There is tremendous potential for renewal, inspiration, and freshness with the return of Yang.

Let go of the old, break up habitual patterns, and move towards the people and things most nourishing in your life. This is a time of deep inner work, where the seeds of enormous breakthroughs can be sown.

Spring presents us with an amazing opportunity to replenish ourselves. The season itself represents the energy of fertility, newness, and growth, as nature flourishes all around us. Ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty springtime court entertainments involved the recitation of poetry and the playing of new music.

It is a time for gatherings rife with music, play, and poetry about love, newness, and rebirth. Bring songs and poems about love, wear green, let your hair down, and bring fresh flowers.

With healthy yang dominating in the late spring and early summer there is a sense one can do anything -multi-task, complete projects, concentrate, invent new ideas, or even re-invent oneself. There is a feeling of great accomplishment and competence.

Come pray your deepest dreams and manifest your path forward with in this beltane fire ceremony.

Summer Solstice is the zenith of yang energy and the beginning of the end of summer. After the solstice yang begins it’s a decline as yin is birthed as we head towards autumn and the days get shorter.

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At summer solstice yang ideally begins to sink down, be anchored, and let yin take over.

The summer is abundant with ripe, juicy, yin filled fruit. We can further accentuate this abundance by literally giving ripe fruit to friends and allies. Gift giving helps to harmonize the season’s yin and yang as well as ancestral energy.​ We will gather together, wear fancy clothes, give gifts, and celebrate our lives and community. 

Autumn is about the out breath of our lives, a turning inward and a time for reflection that comes with slowing down. If yang, at the end of summer, does not yin up it becomes violent, out of control, overly ambitious and dominating.

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In this ceremony we will calibrate with yin by surrendering to the flow, harmonizing with nature, and giving thanks for the abundance all around us.

Autumn is the time to let go of that which is no longer serving us, to harvest that which we manifested over the warmer seasons, and to turn our energy inward and towards reflection. Our ceremony will be focused around calibrating with the growing yin.

It is the time to pull inward and gather our qi into ourselves on all levels. It is a time to organize the more scattered and spontaneous patterns of the summer months and harmonize with our inner worlds.

Winter is a time of rest - an out-breath, a hibernation, and a slowing down.

It is the time to honor and grieve those that have passed (Dia de los Muertos), and times that have vanished. It is the time to let go of all that no longer serves us.

Annual Silent Ceremony

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Winter is the time when Big Yin is free to develop, unhampered by yang's effects of doing, being busy, and moving faster. 

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The council is to not squander the wintertime with activity.

The winter seasonal cycle offers a tremendous opportunity for the recovery of the body, mind, and spirit when we take the time to slow down and dream with intention.

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Cultivating our yin over the winter months means we will have enough energy to nourish the burgeoning creativity and bring the ideas, dreams and visions that have been cooking to fruition in the spring.