Spirit and Bone

Summer's Descent: A Somatic Ritual for Moving Into Autumn

Saera Burns guides a seasonal ritual for the shift from summer into fall, using breath, embodiment, and story to release unfinished energy and make room for autumn. Blending meditation, seasonal reflection, and group sharing, the session honours what is complete and returns energy to the roots.

Saera shares how seasonal change lives in the body, why transition can feel like a "brackish" collision of energies, and how ritual helps us move from summer expansion into autumnal integration. She closes with a simple daily practice with a tree.

KEY TOPICS

• Saera introduces herself as a professional witch and ritualist with nearly 20 years of paid ritual work.
• Stitching the seasons together through the body, navigating summer's expansion and fall's contraction.
• "Brackish" seasons: changing seasons as fresh water mixing with the sea.
• A guided breath and tree meditation to release tension, dryness, and burdens.
• Physical dryness mirrored in emotional, financial, and relational dryness, and how roots still find nourishment in drought.
• The "ruthless calling" of autumn: naming which projects, desires, or connections will not fruit, and letting them go.
• Group sharing to name and witness what no longer wants to follow us into winter.
• A story of summer and fall in a tug-of-war, and why autumn needs its full turn.
• Seasons as life stages: summer as youth, autumn as midlife, winter as elder wisdom.

KEY CONCEPTS

• Brackish seasons: the messy, mixed feeling when one season lingers and another arrives.
• Ruthless calling: honestly naming what will not complete so energy can return to what matters most.
• Allocating: consciously placing unfinished emotional or creative energy into a held object for release.
• Seasonal life cycle: summer, autumn, winter, and spring as mirrors for human life stages.

QUOTES
"My intention of this gathering is to help us stitch the seasons together through our bodies."
"What can you do with your life to invite autumn?"
"Find a tree that you can just have a moment pause with."

PRACTICES TO TRY

• Name one project, connection, or desire that is unlikely to fruit.
• Hold a physical object while naming that unfinished energy.
• Notice where summer is lingering in your life and what autumn asks you to release.
• Spend a few quiet moments each day with a nearby tree for the next month.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Opening breaths
01:22 Land acknowledgment and calling in the season
02:47 Stitching the seasons together
04:44 Saera's ritual background
05:53 Breathing with the seasons
06:47 Climate change and seasonal transitions
07:50 Leaf breath meditation for release
10:08 Roots and sap moving downward
11:42 Dryness, money, and underground nourishment
15:17 Honouring the body's changing shape
17:36 Harvest, compost, and grief
18:42 The "ruthless calling"
20:33 Setting up group sharing
22:37 Naming what did not come to fruit
30:08 The seasonal tug-of-war
33:31 Letting autumn fully inhabit itself
35:21 Life seasons and elder wisdom
36:52 Voting for autumn
38:17 Finding an object to hold
40:22 Allocating unfinished energy
42:25 Singing release into the object
46:28 What to do with the object
47:38 Shame, desire, and summer's preciousness
49:10 Q&A and the Ritualist Hive
53:40 Group harvest reflections: love, stability, grace, freedom, trust
55:21 The garden, roots, and natural nourishment
57:14 Emergent teaching and listening to the field
57:54 Closing blessing
59:20 Homework: pause with a tree daily for a month

" I had arrived on this island and even though I was finding different people to connect with. There is something that I knew in my bones from my lived, experience about circling with women and focusing our intent our prayers and the power of being a witnessed in a more ritual container. And so that was not happening for me, and so I decided I was going to create something that fed this longing"

P.s. next Spinners if Fate series ~

🗓 Fridays 7:15–9:15 PM | Ganges Yoga, Sa

April 17th — Money & Resources

May 15th — Home & Belonging

June 12th — Relationships & Connection

💜 $40/class | $99/series — only 13 spots

Link to register or see upcoming circles 🐝

https://www.saeraburns.com/event

For Free Spinners of Fate webinar "the art of declaration msgic" here:

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in circles I trust,

Saera

Musing on the uncomfortable in-between of this pregnant Sabbath of Imbolc.

we are approaching the belly of the dark Winter Solstice, baby and And it's so interesting at this time of the year, because I feel like it's really easy to lean towards the returning of the light. Lets muse on ways to be consumed with the dark.

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p.s. New Years Eve 7th annual Calendar Magic : Divining 2026

www.saeraburns.com/event

$20.26 until Dec.21_ then $45

🪩ONLINE VERSION:

🗓 Date: December 31

⏰ Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. PST

replay available until Jan.4th

IN-PERSON VERSION:

🗓 Date: December 31

⏰ Time: 6:30-9 p.m.

📍Where: Ganges Yoga, SSI

122 Lower Ganges Road

Participants will compile a booklet of 12-months of psychic impressions received first hand from visions, body sensations and oracle/tarot cards.

Beginners, sceptics, high-caliber Seers alike have all received jaw dropping accurate messages.

Wanna play?

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Wrap up the loose ends.

Make the decisions on what you wish to tend and maintain.

Along with that which is ready to compost or be released from your care.

The wheel will spin again.

What will you carry with you?

Who will travel past the blades edge?

Its that season again when I deep dive into the study of "Entities" goody... Today I thought to practice on myself and wow that was a productive 15 minutes! Let me recap the experience ( magical animal encounters and all)

You are cordially invited to:

👻👽A community Entity Spring Clearing session.

Tuesday June 10

-6-7:30p.m PST

-BY DONATION

(Dm if you need an alternative payment option eg. paypal, e-transfer)

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REPLAY AVAILABLE- still potent!

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Today I had the audacious thought, what if I decided that the days of my past holding me back from moving forward were over?

The memories that have captivated me and held me in skins of who I was?

Very real limitations my ancestors faced that have influenced my bodies capacity?

Opinions I’ve reinforced about myself, forged from my actions of the past?

What if today all of that changes? 

A declaration of independence?

I hereby proclaim that my actions, opinions, and choices are in accordance with the living life force of the present moment.

That I am fully in coherence with the current energies of the land.

Today I choose to feel the limitless possibilities before me.

Maybe tomorrow I will gather acorns stashed in hallow trees of who I have been.

But for today I will seek out the newly sprouted nettle of the Now.

Fingers tingling with the sensation of Life.

Hear my plea and my prayer.

In devotion to the living energy of the present moment.

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P.s. Early Wave for 🌊Onwards 6-week online momentum journey ends tomorrow.
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(Warning first 3 seconds are glitchy... ) Letting the body alert you of decoy opportunities.

Along with me sharing about upcoming :

Onwards 6-week online journey

April 16-May 28

$120 early wave ($220 after April 3) or x3 payments of $40

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