free 90-minute immersion
There is a moment each spring when light and dark stand in equal measure.
A hinge in the year. A quiet recalibration of the living world.
We arrive at the threshold of the spring in the northern hemisphere while systems strain, narratives fracture, and our future is in peril. It arrives while many of us are tired, watchful, and uncertain what future is being seeded around us.
Meanwhile the ground softens and roots begin their quiet negotiations with water. Seeds open without waiting for permission or under the conditions of the age we live in. Spring does not wait for stability. It pushes through asphalt, grief, and the stories humans tell about endings.
On March 19th at 5pm Pacific, we will gather to honor the Vernal Equinox, a threshold of balance and becoming, we gather to practice allegiance with what continues. The astronomical turning arrives at 7:46 am PDT the following morning. We meet on the eve so you can carry what emerges from our time together into the crossing itself, seeding the opening and tracking your dreams as the threshold unfolds.
This free ritual is held in the spirit of Soft Rebellion, a practice of tending life where we stand and refusing the habit of numbness, we gather to notice what continues and to place ourselves in relationship with it. A choice to orient toward living processes instead of collapse stories. A refusal to let despair be the loudest voice in the room and to connect our altars as a collective community.
During our time together we will:
Settle the body back into seasonal rhythm.
Compost the fractures that keeps you frozen in place
Call in what is needed for you to thrive through this season
Name a living commitment you are willing to care for this season, individually and collectively.
Bring:
- Offerings to the land spirits
- A flame representing the returning sun
- Small strips of paper to write down what you care releasing into the flame
- Cedar, sage, or juniper for saining(smudging)
- Seeds for renewal
- Water to nurture
Join us – Register now!
No optimism required.
Come as witness, as habitat, as a small intelligence
inside a vast conversation with your fellow human and non human kin.
Facilitator
Shannon Willis, M.Ed
Shannon will be your guide for this immersive. Her work lives at the wild confluence of dream midwifery, oracular listening, ancestral reverence, and ritual arts. She’s the Ritual Director at Ancestral Medicine, and an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa, she has also apprenticed herself to the dreaming wisdom of her own bloodlines and to teachers of Jhanki Shamanism.
Shannon writes and weaves spiritual accompaniment for emerging leaders and cultural edge-walkers—those drawn to the holy work of remembrance, repair, and rooted resistance. She dwells with her son and their furred companions near the mist-kissed shores of the Salish Sea, on the ancestral and living lands of the Twana-Skokomish people.
