Resting in the Beauty of Winter - Honoring Light and Dark

Name: Resting in the Beauty of Winter - Honoring Light and Dark
Start: 2025-12-21T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-21T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Daydream Studios

Schedule

Sun Dec 21 2025 at 09:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Daydream Studios | Winchester, VA

Around altar and flame, we’ll start with opening to and tending our relationship with the Otherworld, then we’ll begin rebuilding a deeper relationship with the sacredness of the season.
And through story; ceremony; and animist, shamanic practices we’ll listen for whatever guidance the Otherworld has for us as we find our way back towards the vibrant-and-cyclical aliveness available to us in each moment.
Our Shared Premise:
These days, like this season, it can feel like darkness is all around. Many of us experience a pervasive sense of emptiness and burnout. Storms of worry and fear howl inside. Our usual sense of orientation isn’t working and we can feel lost in the noise, the confusion - unsure of what it means, whether we’re broken, or how to find our way back to something solid and trustworthy when the ground keeps shifting beneath our feet. Or perhaps we feel like we’re the only spot of summer in the midst of everyone else’s winter and we feel our life force energy slipping away. Winter isn’t just outside of us, but inside as well.
But winter doesn’t just represent endings, darkness, emptiness, and death. Winter is also a time for rest, for dreaming, for gathering in intimate groups to share food, warmth, laughter, and labor. It reminds us that everything, absolutely everything, all life in fact, begins first in darkness. And there is no night that hasn’t yet made way for day.
Winter has a beauty, too.
And it’s Beauty is a necessary ground for the return of the light.
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Wherever our ancestors come from in the world, there were ceremonies and rituals to honor the solstices and equinoxes and the movement of the sun through the sky.
These traditions were practical (they helped monitor the cycles of seasons which dictated agricultural practices). But they were also spiritual - they helped humans stay connected to the natural world in tangible, relational ways.
This ceremony is in invitation to bring offerings, bring your heart, bring your sense of confusion or emptiness. We’ll start with opening to and tending our relationship with the Otherworld, then we’ll explore our relationship with darkness, feed the Holy, and honor and call back the Light.
And through story; ceremony; and animist, shamanic practices we’ll listen for guidance around themes like: navigating initiations, endings, and fruitful darkness; being in right relationship; love as an active practice; and being the light.
It’ll be a slow, deeply contemplative time together. Perfect for resting into the season.
For more logistical details and some background on this type of ceremony and whether or not it might be a right fit for you at this time, head here: https://www.wildsacredjourney.com/ceremonies