The Kinspirit Podcast

Recorded at the end of Summer, Narinder and I discuss our shared experiences growing up in religious fundamentalist communities and how it shaped our perspectives on life. We explore the beauty and romance in everyday living and the importance of calling forth the beauty in this world. Narinder also shares her journey as a death midwife and the role of death midwifery in society. We discuss the concept of forgiving this realm, embracing death as home, and the importance of wonder and unconditional love. Key Takeaways: About Narinder Bazen Narinder Bazen serves in these curious times as an artist, Death Midwife, Death Midwifery trainer, and Enchanted Life Guide. Her work centers around midwifing society, as we let go of the world we knew to take hold of the world we want to see for ourselves. Find Narinder on the Internet: InstagramWebsite

Pain is mycelial. This episode is dedicated to sharing in prayers for Palestine and recognizing how we can each own our role in the global revolution our world needs. Key Takeaways of this Episode: Places to Donate: Doctors without BordersAmnesty InternationalDar Al-Hiraj Islamic Center

How do you know if you have spiritual gifts? What are the signs that your spiritual gifts are coming online? In this week's episode of the Kinspirit podcast, I continue our mini-series on Spiritual Gifts by sharing some of the key signs that your spiritual gifts are coming online and how to work with them. I also share some key things to watch out for that will help you to stay grounded, discerning, watchful, and in your body without shutting your heart down from the experience that you are having Here are the five key signs that your spiritual gifts may be activating: Here are five things to look out for when your gifts are activating: Here are three things to support your process:

Carly Mountain, author of Descent & Rising: Women's Stories and Embodying the Inanna Myth, joins the podcast to discuss the psychospiritual descent to soul and the wildly misunderstood sacred rites of passage that many women secretly experience. She emphasizes the importance of calling this wisdom back into the lives of women and normalizing the nature of both descent and rising as part of the feminine path. Carly explores the concept of sacrifice and the need to let go of certain aspects of ourselves in order to rise and embody our true selves. She also highlights the role of desire and pleasure in the journey of descent and rising, and the importance of compassion for ourselves and others as we navigate these transformative processes. Key Takeaways: About Carly Mountain Carly Mountain is a psychotherapist, women’s initiatory guide, breathworker and author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. Her work has evolved over twenty years of working with sacred practice and space holding. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters. Website: carlymountain.com Instagram: carly_mountain

There's something that happens when we walk through a soul-level initiation: we discover that we may have extrasensory gifts. These gifts don't often feel like "gifts" at first. Sometimes they feel intense, like the veil is a bit thinner than we thought before. If you're like many people, you take to google to try and figure out what's happening to you. Perhaps you have dreams or premonitions about things that haven't happened yet. Perhaps you feel more sensitive to other people and environments. These experience may sound cool and exciting, but they are not always pleasant. They come with a tax to the body. It doesn't always feel pleasant to perceive the mixing of many people's energetic cocktails through your one little body. It's not always fun to wake up from dreams that feel prophetic, but a have a tinge of fear or darkness that we may not feel comfortable holding or working with. When discovering your spiritual gifts for the first time, it's really important to be supported. It's really important to have tools, technology, and wisdom in your corner for when the spiritual initiation takes you into territory you've never gone into before.

In this episode with Sarah Wildeman of Our Common, we explore the complexity of relationships and our connection to land and place. We discuss how important it is to witness each other honestly, hold space for generative conflict, and allow ourselves to process harms that may occur within our community bonds. We also delve into the ways in which our relationship with the land can teach us new ways of connecting and being together. We hope this episode supports you in your inquiries into interconnectedness and the wisdom of understanding ourselves as part of a whole system, a wider web of relating. About Sarah Wildeman Sarah is a leadership & relationship dynamics coach, community-builder, and founder of Our Common - a coaching and consulting practice serving community seekers, community builders, and existing communities. Nearly a decade of community-living, and years of experience working and coaching in complex organizational dynamics, has equipped her to work with people to navigate nuanced relationships with authenticity and courage, empowering individuals and teams to get creative and create lasting change. Her work includes leading community conversation, running a re-villaging group, hosting nature-based retreats, and coaching with leaders, teams, and living-communities. Sarah grew up in a home focused on hospitality, and mutual-aid, where shared elements of life with friends and neighbours was considered ‘normal’. With her own young-family, she lived in intentional-community for close to a decade - including living on shared land with other singles and families while sharing meals, work, and chores etc. She's spent the last 4 years setting down roots in the BC Okanagan, where she and her family seek to live in alignment with their core-values of environmental stewardship, community-care, and local-impact, through small daily choices. Sarah brings a collaborative whole-system approach to all her work, making space for collective grappling, encouraging courageous action, and helping us to remember we're never truly alone. Find Sarah's Work: Instagram Website More Links: Autumn Study Group – Women Who Run with WolvesThresholdkeeper Retreat, Mendocino, CA – 11/2 - 11/5

Welcome back to the Kinspirit podcast! In this episode, we explore the concept of radical inherent belonging and the importance of living from a place of deep connection to the Earth. We discuss the role of the sun as an archetypal medicine and how it supports us in our journey toward our culture work. We also redefine the idea of Earth Stewardship, emphasizing that it goes beyond land tending and encompasses all aspects of our lives and contributions to culture. Key Takeaways: Quotes: Links Mentioned Creative Devotion Discussion Series – Santa Fe, NM – 8/25Women Who Run with Wolves Study Group – Autumn Study Group Mapping Change, Shaping Futures: A Workshop and Intro to the Astrology of Your Culturework – 9/1Storykin Small Group – Starts 9/20⁠Thresholdkeeper Retreat – 11/2 - 11/5⁠

This week, David Bedrick, an elder dedicated to the work of Unshaming, joins me on the podcast to discuss what it means to step into the transformative potential of eldership. We explore the ache for elders in our culture and the necessity of imparted wisdom, courage, and insight. David shares his personal journey of finding his path and the role of elders in guiding and supporting him. Together, we discuss the quality of humility, the power of embracing the darkness, and the regenerative nature of forgiveness as a path of heart. About David Bedrick David Bedrick is an elder dedicated to the work of unshaming our culture and our world. He is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame Based Studies and the author of several books, including "Talking Back to Dr. Phil" and "17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body, Shame and Redemption." David's upcoming book, "Unshamed," will be published in 2024. Summary: David Bedrick, an elder and founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame Based Studies, joins the podcast to discuss the concept of eldership and the importance of stepping into this role in our culture. He emphasizes the need for elders to embrace their path of heart and share their wisdom and experiences with others. David also explores the significance of humility, death, and regenerativeness in the journey of becoming an elder. Key Takeaways: Links: David's Website David's Instagram Unshamed: Monthly Medicine

Hello new listeners! Welcome to the Kinspirit Podcast. Inside of Kinspirit, we are dedicated to the work of bridging the gap between the everyday and the sacred, exploring change, initiation, and crafting a better world. This podcast aims to inspire listeners to notice subtle shifts in themselves and in the culture that can lead to powerful outcomes and systemic change. By centering the soft body, the nervous system's need for sweetness, safety, and truth, this podcast explores how to integrate multiple dimensions and realities into crafting futures for ourselves and future generations. Through conversations with various guests, we will delve into concepts of cultural wholeness, the medicine of initiation, the seasons, and change. We'll be asking questions like, “How might we craft futures of wholeness? What does that look like, taste, feel like? What does it look like in our work? In our relationships with ourselves and each other, and in our relationship with the mystery and our myths? How can we allow wholeness to be centered in our human evolution and global creative processes? How can we craft a vision of the future that can hold all of us?" We hope these episodes to support you in your own inquiry into these questions. Thank you for listening. Enjoy.

Daje welcomes listeners back to the Kinspirit Podcast after a brief hiatus. She shares her decision to move back to New Mexico after initially planning to move to California. Daje also announces changes to the Thresholdkeeper Retreat and introduces the guest for this episode, Sabrina Monarch, an astrologer and host of the Magic of the Spheres podcast. They discuss the themes of Saturn in Pluto and how to work with current Pluto transits. The conversation explores the concepts of soul fracturing, transiting high and low places, the somatic integration of different realms of reality (digital, physical, akashic), and how to become a reality artist. About The Guest: Sabrina Monarch is an astrologer, novelist, mystic, romantic, and philosopher. She hosts the Magic of the Spheres podcast and has a background in evolutionary astrology. Sabrina is known for her interdisciplinary and evolving approach to astrology. Summary: In this episode, Sabrina discusses the themes of Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn in Pisces and how they relate to our personal and collective experiences. She explores the concept of high and low places, how to integrate of different realms, the challenges and opportunities that come with these transits, and how to become a reality artist that can dance with the transits rather than become overcome by them. Sabrina emphasizes the importance of intentional participation and how astrology is here to guide us through these times of great change. Key Takeaways: Links: Sabrina Monarch's websiteMagic of the Spheres podcastSabrina Monarch on Instagram

Weaving a New Story of Courage, Power, and Purpose on the Earth Lately on the podcast, we've been transiting the realms of sacred rites of passage, thresholdcrossing and initiation. We've been exploring what it looks like to embracing our natural cycles of life / death / change / initiation and recognize the medicine that each of these stages offer us. In this episode, I sit down with my sister, Ashley River, Ceremonial Tattooist, Facilitator, Co-Founder of School of the Sacred Arts: A Mystery School for Ceremonial Tattoo and Co-Visionary of the Thresholdkeeper Retreat, happening on July 27 - 30 in the coastal redwoods of Mendocino, CA. We both met in Santa Fe, NM in a time when we were both transiting through powerful initiations that matured us and woke us up to deeper layers of the medicine, work, and vision we're both individually called to birth. Part of what has forged our friendship is the recognition of how terrifying it can be to step out into your work and medicine with past life (a present life) karmic memories of being burned, hung, tried, and exiled while putting your everything into birthing vision into the world. In this episode, we explore what it looks like to deeply surrender to the potent medicine our initiations invite us into. We talk about how the purpose of initiatory medicine is to lift us up into a higher beauty and an expanded capacity to step into our unique potential. I'm so excited to co-host Thresholdkeeper with my sister Ashley. You can find out more about her medicine, her School of the Sacred Art and our work together below: About Ashley River Ashley River is a multidimensional artist, ceremonialist, author, teacher, mystic, and threshold guide. She is the creator and teacher of a healing modality of ceremonial tattoo alchemy called Soul Tattoo®, the Author of Tending to the Sacred, and Messages from the Heart of the Divine oracle deck, Host of Weaving your Web podcast. co-founder of Feminine Voices retreats and School of the Sacred Arts school for Sacred Tattooing. Her work is a devotion to desire, feminine liberation, soul expression, and creative empowerment through the deep and wild evolutionary path. www.ashleyriver.co About Thresholdkeeper Retreat Thresholdkeeper is a midsummer, threshold-crossing respite for healers and medicine keepers in the redwood forests of Mendocino, CA taking place on July 27 - 30. This is a retreat for the ones who hear the unmistakable call to surrender to the wisdom of the Pysche's Song. It is for those who know that their life's work is to traverse the deep world – the liminal spaces of mystery, death, change, birth, and initiation – in order to gather the ingredients of the medicines they know will serve their people in these times of immense cultural change. Thresholdkeeper is for those who honor that the path of becoming is not rainbows and fairies, but the daily work of firmly walking upon rich, dark soil of a changing Earth. Learn more about Thresholdkeeper at the link below. https://www.thresholdkeeper.info/

I first heard the term psychospiritual descent to soul from Bill Plotkin, eco-depth philosopher and SoulCraft Guide who has dedicated the last 40 years of his life guiding people through nature-based soul descent. In the introduction of his book, Journey to Soul Initiation, he refers to himself as a "Cocoon Weaver", apprenticed by the archetype of Death. Reading Plotkin's work for the first time a year and a half ago was a homecoming of resonance. He languages the rite of passage of the psychospiritual descent to soul like no other I've read. In this episode of the Kinspirit podcast, I share five practical things to consider while moving through soul descent. If this episode finds you at just the right moment, I pray it supports you and reminds you of what's awaiting you on the other side. Mentioned in this episode: ⁠Women Who Run with Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes⁠⁠Descent & Rising: Women's Stories and the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth by Carly Mountain⁠⁠Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin⁠⁠Journey to Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin⁠ Learn more about Thresholdkeeper Retreat: Thresholdkeeper is a midsummer, threshold-crossing respite for healers and medicine keepers in the redwood forests of Mendocino, CA taking place on July 27 - 30. This is a retreat for the ones who hear the unmistakable call to surrender to the wisdom of the Pysche's Song. It is for those who know that their life's work is to traverse the deep world – the liminal spaces of mystery, death, change, birth, and initiation – in order to gather the ingredients of the medicines they know will serve their people in these times of immense cultural change. Thresholdkeeper is for those who honor that the path of becoming is not rainbows and fairies, but the daily work of firmly walking upon rich, dark soil of a changing Earth. Learn more about the Thresholdkeeper Retreat at ⁠www.thresholdkeeper.info⁠

Rewilding is a concept that has gained much popularity in recent years as the pandemic has peeled back the layers of industry and challenged our global relationships with consciousness, our priorities, and our politics. There are many conversations to be had about rewilding our external lives through learning to garden or farm, by taking a closer look at how fast we're moving as a world, and by choosing to raise our children in ways that benefit their spirits and their wholeness. But what about this idea of rewilding the idea internal aspects of society? Our thoughts, our inner landscape, our conscious minds, our mental wholeness, and our souls? How can our ways of orienting to the world be benefited by rewilding the inner landscape of the soul? It felt incredible to sit down with Bethaney Wilkinson and discuss these things. While we didn't come away with concrete step-by-step answers, together we did ask some incredibly valuable questions that we hope will spur you on in your own relationship with these matters. About Bethaney Wilkinson Bethaney Wilkinson (she/her) holds space for change as a writer, facilitator, leadership coach and spiritual director. She is author of The Diversity Gap: Where good intentions meet true cultural change (HarperCollins Leadership), and hosts a podcast by the same name, which has been downloaded over a quarter of a million times worldwide. She is also the lead writer and curator of A More Beautiful Way, a blog and podcast series dedicated to slowing down, simplifying, and finding the Sacred in our everyday lives. She has dedicated more than a decade to exploring the intersections of community, racial justice, and social change—specifically in the organizational context. When she's not leading racial equity efforts for teams, or sitting with folks exploring their spiritual journeys, you can find her stewarding a one acre homestead called Cedar Wilde with her husband Alex and their two dogs, Isla and Bear.

In this episode of the Kinspirit podcast, I talk about the realities of queer / feminine rites of passage and the psychospiritual descent to soul. These realities are the secrets (or the mysteries) that many women carry and have been taught to silence themselves in the same ways we have been taught to hide and hush our blood, the realities of childbirth, and the ways of the psychic nature. When I sought to create a study group for Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' book, Women Who Run with Wolves this Spring, I was nearly after plunged into a psychospiritual descent of my own that cracked open a layer of awakening in me that I would not have been able to access if I treated my experience the way many women are taught to treat their experiences – through the lens of skepticism, partial digust, and trying to "figure out" whats wrong." What I learned is that you can't "study" the goddess. You have to embody her. You have to live her. These mysteries that she offers us are not just cute annecdotal stories. They are medicines to be kept in vials on our belts at all times as we descend into the vast wild dark of the future. We each, in our own way, are living these myths. The ancient stories of Wild Woman, La Loba, La Heusera, Inanna, Persephone, Ixchel, Isis, Hecate are not just tales to memorize and sound smart with. They are guideposts to help us find our way as we live in the world. If you want the medicines of the deep world and the magic of the mystery in your life, you have to surrender your body, your pride, and the construct of your knowing. Because if we're listening, we know that to live – to really live – we have to honor the fact that the life will call us to journey the depths, the womb of the world, and be reformed there. At the gates of the deep world, we are each asked to shed our preparations, achievements, accolades, studies, shields, and weapons before we enter. The underworld of the psyche is a vast and viscously dark place. None of the preparations will do any good there. We have to come bare. We have to come curious. We have to come naked. Mentioned in this episode: Women Who Run with Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola EstesDescent & Rising: Women's Stories and the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth by Carly MountainNature and the Human Soul by Bill PlotkinJourney to Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin Learn more about Thresholdkeeper Retreat: Thresholdkeeper is a midsummer, threshold-crossing respite for healers and medicine keepers in the redwood forests of Mendocino, CA taking place on July 27 - 30. This is a retreat for the ones who hear the unmistakable call to surrender to the wisdom of the Pysche's Song. It is for those who know that their life's work is to traverse the deep world – the liminal spaces of mystery, death, change, birth, and initiation – in order to gather the ingredients of the medicines they know will serve their people in these times of immense cultural change. Thresholdkeeper is for those who honor that the path of becoming is not rainbows and fairies, but the daily work of firmly walking upon rich, dark soil of a changing Earth. Learn more about the Thresholdkeeper Retreat at www.thresholdkeeper.info and use the code Kinspirit25 at checkout to receive 25% off your your registration until May 24.

There is a reason why we need Spring and Sunrises, Births, and New Beginnings. We can’t swim in the depths and death of the underworld forever. Our bodies crave the cyclical way. Our bodies crave the knowing that there will always be a second chance waiting for us around the bend somewhere and at some point in the future. Otherwise, what would be the point of living? Spring offers us that chance to remember that grace, grace is woven into everything. There is no eternal damnation except for through our own choosing. And even if we did choose it — even if we did choose to fracture ourselves off into the darkness forever, there is always a hand that is reach in to pull us out. We only have to say that we want it. We only have to say that we want the resurrection. We want the shift. We want the turning. We want the warmth of the cool spring dawn. Seasonal Prompts through the Four Directions: North – Society – The Nurturing, Generative Adult – What about this season drew you into deeper harmony with yourself and clarity about your role in the world? What do you know now about who you are that you didn’t know at the beginning of Winter? What did the dark of the of mid-night season reveal? East – Spirit – The Innocent, The Sage – What revelations are now unfolding within you? What newness is taking root? What wants to be welcomed into your world? What is being born? South – Soil – The Wild Indigenous One, The Inner Child – Where do you feel these initiations taking place in your body? What is the Earth saying about your reformation? What progressions can you see? What desires do you have? Where do you feel the safest and most at home? Are you accessing your wonder? Your delight? Your sense of sensuality and play? Where are you finding the most liberation in your body, your community, your voice, and your home? West – Soul – The Muse, The Inner Beloved – What parts of this season have invited you witness your inner mysteries? What poems, songs, images are playing agains the screen of your imagination? What shadows have greeted you there? What are growing in courage to face? Can you access the beauty in these shadow-aspects? What parts of yourself are you learning to deeply love in this? Link to workbook will be uploaded by 3/19. Check back then!

In the circles that I weave in, there is a lot of talk about death. And not only the end-of-life kind of death, but the death of culture, ways of relating, identities, and ways of being, too. Ironically, I find this conversation to be so life-giving. As more and more people are shifting from the “concept” that something is wrong and into hands-in-the-soil style investigating, Death, Grief, Change begin to be more present topics in conversation. From the lens of my own lineage of learning, I see the work of restoring and re-storying our grief rites as intercession and prayer work. Grief is not just sadness. It is a complex abiding. It is prayer. It is acceptance. It is the work of holding change. I call on Adrienne Marie Brown’s framework in her book, Holding Change: a book about facilitation and mediation in the emergent strategy way. She says, “It is time to move towards ways of being that are focused on listening to each other deeply and accepting each other, whole. We need to learn ways of being in space together that help us see beyond false constructs of superiority and inferiority without asking us to sacrifice what has shaped us. We need to study being receptive and nonjudgmental with each other, letting the earth and community hold us until we remember we already belong. I believe holding change can be sacred work, and I’ll admit it is most satisfying to me when the sacred is palpable in the room.” I feel humbled and receptive to this way of being with our stories, our lives, and our bodies. There is so much to learn from grief. There is so much to learn from change. There is so much to learn about how to hold the realities that are unpeeling before us while also holding the futures and potentials that are ready to be brought forth. This work of re-storying our grief rites and the ways we hold death is our culture is slow work. It’s presence work. And I’m so thankful for this powerful conversation with Alexis Sabatino who has committed her life’s work to support the collective in recalibrating the ways we hold ourselves through change. About Alexis Sabatino She is the Founder of the global women’s movement, She Heals Collective. She is a Healer, Mystic Teacher, Storyteller, Intuitive Coach, Rebirth Midwife, and "Rites" Facilitator. She guides women through sacred rites of passage into wild soul embodiment. Her passion is in resurrecting the wild self within by returning women to their ancient roots, original language, womb wisdom, alchemical bodies, and authentic soul essence. The She Heals community is in devotion to the evolution and rewilding of Womankind. Relevant Links: Follow her on Instagram Visit Her Website Here

Initiation is a sacred part of being with the human experience and an art for our culture to reclaim in the emergence of our age. Through the medicine of initiation we get to witness our capacity, our gifts, and the potency of our potential in the world. It’s through initiation that we learn how to meet the edges of life and grow in flexibility, inner-resource, and discernment. Karla embodies medicine of sacred initiation and essence liberation: the power of being true and non-hierchical with ourselves. I appreciate her voice on being with subtle addictions, moving through and navigating romantic distortions and navigating the life / death / life cycles of change. You can learn more about Karla and follow her work at the following links: InstagramWebsite

In today's podcast episode, I sit down with Ari Felix, writer, astrologer, world-builder, and dreamtender to chat about traversing the taboo realms of money, power, communion, and presence.⁠ From Persephone's descent into the underworld to exploring the ways we tend to over-identify with our seasons of death, darkness, strain, and shadow, Ari and I spare no amount of depth in this powerful non-linear conversation about the necessity of soul descent in the building of the inner world.⁠ We recorded this episode directly after Taurus / Scorpio eclipse season in November 2022 and it was perfect time to affirm fresh new narratives about what is possible when we are present to ourselves, our desires, and our truths as we live, grow, and pursue our futures.⁠⁠ Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts. I can't wait to hear how this one lands for you.⁠⁠ About Ari:⁠ Ari Felix is a multidisciplinary philosopher and mystic dedicated to living in veneration of the Planetary Ancestors (including the Earth). Their work is about emotional transmutation, dreaming new worlds, and building those worlds through visionary power and spiritual freedom. They are an experimental guide interested in taking creative risks to provide experiences that support people to feel radiant. They want dreamers and worldbuilders to know that who they are is everything they need to create their dreamworld.⁠ Ari uses the pronouns they / them and you can find them on instagram at @saltwater.stars or book an astrology reading, tend a class, or learn more about what they're up to at saltwaterstars.com.

When I was actively deconstructing my Christian faith back in 2016, I wondered, "Is it possible to evolve my faith, beliefs, and values without dissolving into bitterness, hatred, or deep regret? Can I stay soft in this process? Can I remember goodness?" Now, six full years later, after having this conversation with Josh, I truly believe so.⁠= Growing up Christian, I was taught some really harsh truths about the world, heaven, hell, and God. I was taught that humans are no more than depraved animals doomed to separation from the divine unless we engaged in certain salvation protocols and rituals of faith.⁠ But with time, I learned that there was more to being human that the doctrines for life I was given. There's a deeper narrative available of grace and self-kindness that beckons us to recognize our radical and inherent belonging on Earth.⁠ In this conversation with Josh Perez, former Young Life director, Enneagram Expert, and multi-disciplinary storyteller, we traverse the territory of spiritual evolution and finding the courage to embrace new faith narratives that are expansive, nurturing, and edifying to hold.⁠ This podcast episode strikes a deep chord for me and I can't wait to hear how you're holding it, too.⁠ About Josh⁠ Josh is a creative with a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling — exploring the spaces where being human and artistry meet. California born, Albuquerque raised. He's been dwelling in the southwest desert for the past 17 years and recently relocated to Denver, Colorado. ⁠You can find him on the internet at www.justjoshperez.com and @justjoshperez on IG.⁠ Enjoy!⁠ ⁠

Today's podcast episode is an invitation to perceive a more honest Winter through the lens of the Four Directions. In one of my most recent personal Substack posts, I wrote about how the stories we're often given about Winter, don't seem to line up to what Winter actually ends up feeling like in our bodies. And instead of continuing on cycles of feeling guilty for not resting enough, being "jolly" enough, or hibernating enough, what if we could rewrite our relationship with Winter to be more aligned to what feels authentic in our forms? Energetically, Winter is the season of depth, imaginative rest, and sacred responsibility. In the wheel of the four directions, Winter stations North, holding the medicine of the Nurturing, Responsible, and Generative Adult. In the Northern Hemisphere, we transit through the zodiacal seasons of Capricorn (our work and place in the world), Aquarius (who we are in the context of ecosystems and community), and Pisces (the deep world and the futures we’re imagining). It’s so interesting how in Western culture, we almost only see Winter as a time for holidays, feasting, dormancy, and sleep, but there is so much more happening energetically and beneath the surface of the sleeping Earth body when her skin gets a little cold. Beneath the frozen surfaces, our individual and collective bodies are teeming with the spirit of potential. There is a lot to establish about ourselves in the Winter. What would it look like to lean into this? Relevant Links: Rewriting Winter: Prompts for Imagining a More Honest Winter through the Lens of the Four DirectionsGreeting the Polypoetic Self Workshop ReplayFollow us on Instagram at @theregenerativemysticFollow us on Instagram at @kinspiritSubstack: KinspiritSubstack: The Story Doula