Hello friends!

Today I’m sharing a little clip from last week’s Cave of Dreams workshop session, the Gates of Winter. It’s a guided visualization based on supernatural ballads and stories in which human beings enter the otherworld and interact with the beings there, such as fairies or elves. For context, at the start of the clip you’ll see that before this visualization we were singing the ballad Tam Lin together.

In many fairy and elf narratives, it’s clear that poetry and music and other creations are gifts from (and to!) the otherworld. Since Samhain is a time that the gates to the otherworld are said to be especially open, I thought I would invite folks to visualize entering a fairy mound, to find one of their own artistic creations already complete in that place, outside of ordinary reality.

All you need for this visualization is a picture in your mind of your achetypal cozy and comforting coat or cloak, since it will come up in the journey.

Please enjoy.

If you want to join us at the next workshop on November 10th, please get your ticket here!

An inspired Samhain to you.

Love,

Danica

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