A soft three hour sleep meditation for the night of the new moon, and for the thing you keep picking back up. A gentle female voice walks you through a small ritual for putting one thing down, just for tonight, and then lets you fall asleep to hours of warm ambient sound.

The new moon falls tonight, Thursday the tenth of September, at about half past eleven Eastern time. There is genuinely nothing in the sky to look at, which is the whole point of this one. The moon has not gone anywhere. It has come around between us and the sun, so its lit half is turned away from you and it is out in the daytime sky, entirely whole, doing something you cannot watch. Being unable to see a thing is not the same as it being gone.

Then the history, which is real and which is the reason this episode exists. The Athenians ran their months on the moon, and they called the last day, the dark one, hene kai nea, the old and the new, because one day belonged to both months at once and there was no honest way to split it. That was also the day debts came due, and a comedy staged in Athens in the year four twenty three before the common era opens with a man lying awake in the dark counting down to it while everyone else in the house snores. Nearly two and a half thousand years, and not one detail of that has changed.

And then the seisachtheia, the shaking off of burdens, when Solon cancelled the debts of Athens outright and had the marker stones pulled out of the fields. Nobody pretended the debts were not real. They were real, and they were cancelled anyway, because the collecting had come to cost more than the debt was worth.

This is not about forgiving yourself. It is about calling one night's remission on one thing, and putting it beside the bed where it will still be in the morning.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in, and the sky with nothing in it

1:30 A day the Athenians had a name for

2:07 Where the moon actually is tonight

3:26 One month ago, when it put the sun out

4:47 The old and the new

6:14 The man who could not sleep

7:51 The stones in the fields

10:32 The debts were real and were cancelled anyway

12:59 The ritual, and it is only for tonight

14:50 Letting the weight go

17:22 What is here

18:56 Going under

20:46 Rest is a practice

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after about twenty minutes so nothing wakes you; the ambient sound continues for almost three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com

New sleep meditations every Monday, plus rituals on the new and full moons. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

#newmoon #sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #regret #guilt #newmoonritual #darkmoon #fallasleep #lettinggo #sleepstory

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This episode uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for treatment of any sleep, anxiety or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

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The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

A guided sleep meditation for anxiety at night, for the racing 3am mind and the fear of the dark, voiced gently by Nyx, the Greek goddess of night. A soft female voice guides you for the first 19 minutes, then almost 3 hours of calm ambient music carries you through the night.

The Greeks did not think the night was the frightening part. Nyx is older than the gods and older than the sky. Sleep is her son. So are dreams. In the Iliad, Zeus came to the edge of the dark looking for someone who had run to her, and he turned around and went home, because he would not do anything to displease swift Night. The Orphics went further and said he came to her with a question and asked the dark how to build the world.

So the dark is not the danger. The dark is the house that even Zeus would not enter, and tonight you are inside it. Nothing needs you now. Not until morning, and morning belongs to her sister.

This is part of The Goddess Meditations, a series of female voiced sleep meditations from The Tender Hour, each one guided by a goddess of old myth.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in and put the day down

1:41 The oldest woman in the world

2:16 Hesiod, and the night that mothered everything

5:15 Homer, and the night even Zeus would not cross

6:40 The Orphics, and the god who asked the dark for instructions

8:27 The dark is not the danger

9:15 The day cannot follow you in here

10:47 Letting the body go

14:01 Hypnos, who was already in the house

15:10 Going under

18:18 Rest is a practice

19:00 Almost three hours of sleep sound

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after about 19 minutes so nothing wakes you; the ambient sound continues for almost three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com

New sleep meditations every Monday, plus rituals on the new and full moons. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

#sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #sleepanxiety #fallasleep #greekmythology

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This episode uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice or a substitute for treatment of any sleep or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

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The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

A guided sleep meditation to help you fall asleep, gently voiced by the Norse goddess Hel. A soft female voice guides you for the first 20 minutes, then over 3 hours of calm music carries you through the night.

Tonight you can let go all the way down. Hel, keeper of the great quiet hall at the roots of the world, receives you exactly as you are, tired and unfinished and human, and lets you set down every burden in the warm, safe dark. There is nothing to prove here, and nothing to fix. Only the deepest rest, for as long as you need it.

This is part of The Goddess Meditations, a series of female-voiced sleep meditations from The Sleeping Almanac, each guided by a goddess of old myth.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in

2:00 Breathe, and sink down

6:30 The quiet hall at the roots of the world

12:00 You are held in the dark (the blessing)

17:00 Drifting down

20:00 Three hours of sleep music

(Timestamps are approximate; adjust in Studio if you like.)

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after 20 minutes so nothing wakes you; the music continues for about three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com

New sleep meditations every Monday and Friday. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

More meditations to fall asleep to:

(add the other goddess links here once they are live)

#sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #fallasleep

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This video uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice or a substitute for treatment of any sleep or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

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Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXcB4uoZoY

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

Let Iðunn, the Norse goddess of renewal, restore you tonight. A soft, first-person guided meditation that melts into three hours of gentle ambient sound to carry you all the way through the night.

When you are worn all the way down and have nothing left to give, Iðunn brings you into her orchard, where the air is sweet and something slow and green begins to grow back in you. You do not have to be strong here. You only have to rest, and let yourself be made new while you sleep.

There is nothing to do and nothing to keep awake for. Let her voice settle over you and drift.

🍎 You are being made new tonight. You do not have to earn it.

Sleep now. She will keep the watch until morning.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6g15VCv0PI

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

A guided sleep meditation to help you fall asleep, gently voiced by the Welsh goddess Cerridwen. A soft female voice guides you for the first 20 minutes, then over 3 hours of calm music carries you through the night.

Tonight you do not have to carry the day any further. Cerridwen, the Welsh goddess who keeps the great cauldron of transformation, takes everything the day left tangled and heavy and lifts it into the warm dark of her cauldron, where it will cook slowly, through the night, into something you can use by morning. You only have to lie still, and let her tend the fire while you sleep.

This is part of The Goddess Meditations, female-voiced sleep stories from The Tender Hour, each guided by a goddess of old myth.

Shop the goddess prints, oracle decks and moon calendars at Gildenmyth: https://gildenmyth.etsy.com · Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/gildenmyth

New goddess sleep stories every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in

2:00 Breathe, and stir the cauldron

6:30 A year and a day at the fire

12:00 What the cauldron may have (the blessing)

17:00 Drifting down

20:00 Three hours of sleep music

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after 20 minutes so nothing wakes you; the music continues for about three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

#sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #fallasleep

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This video uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice or a substitute for treatment of any sleep or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuh4NSvYKUg

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

Let Frigg, the Norse queen of the gods, quiet your overthinking mind tonight. A soft, first-person guided meditation that melts into three hours of gentle ambient sound to carry you all the way through the night.

Frigg sees all the threads of what is and what may be, and she keeps her own counsel, calm and unhurried. When your mind will not stop turning the same thoughts over, she gathers every loose thread gently into her hands and holds them for you, so you can stop holding them yourself. There is nothing left tonight that needs your worrying.

There is nothing to do and nothing to keep awake for. Let her voice settle over you and drift.

🌙 You can let it go now. Frigg holds the threads. You can rest.

Sleep now. She will keep the watch until morning.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0GWOMmN_U

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

A guided sleep meditation to help you fall asleep, gently voiced by the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna, the oldest named goddess in recorded history. A soft female voice guides you for the first 20 minutes, then over 3 hours of calm music carries you through the night.

Tonight you do not have to fight your way into sleep. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and the oldest goddess your people ever named, walks you down through the seven gates of rest, and at each gate she helps you set down one more thing you have been carrying, until you reach the deep, still place where sleep can finally take you. You only have to breathe, and let her keep the watch until morning.

This is part of The Goddess Meditations, female-voiced sleep stories from The Tender Hour, each guided by a goddess of old myth.

Shop the goddess prints, oracle decks and moon calendars at Gildenmyth: https://gildenmyth.etsy.com · Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/gildenmyth

New goddess sleep stories every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in

2:00 The first gate is the breath

6:30 The seven gates down

12:00 The Great Below (the blessing)

17:00 Drifting down

20:00 Three hours of sleep music

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after 20 minutes so nothing wakes you; the music continues for about three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

#sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #fallasleep

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This video uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice or a substitute for treatment of any sleep or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrTgtpn8cc

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

Let Eir, the Norse goddess of healing and gentle care, hold you tonight. A soft, first-person guided meditation that melts into three hours of gentle ambient sound to carry you all the way through the night.

When you are hurting, or tender, or worn thin by something hard, Eir sits with you in the quiet and lays her steady hands over what aches. She asks nothing of you. This is a place to set down the hurt and simply be cared for, and to let deep rest do its own slow, gentle work through the night.

There is nothing to do and nothing to keep awake for. Let her voice settle over you and drift.

🤍 You are safe to rest now. You are cared for.

Sleep now. She will keep the watch until morning.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSIuExerBLU

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

3 hours of 4 Hz delta wave binaural beats for deep sleep. Left ear: 200 Hz. Right ear: 204 Hz. Your brain perceives the 4 Hz difference as a delta wave — the brainwave frequency associated with the deepest stages of sleep and physical restoration.

⚠️ HEADPHONES REQUIRED — speakers play both channels together and cancel the binaural effect entirely.

No voice. No guided meditation. Just deep sleep.

Shop goddess prints, oracle decks and moon calendars at Gildenmyth: https://gildenmyth.etsy.com · Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/gildenmyth

New sleep music and goddess meditations every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Subscribe and turn on the bell.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Delta wave begins (4 Hz)

45:00 Second movement

1:30:00 Third movement

2:15:00 Fourth movement

2:59:40 End

HOW TO USE

Put on headphones, lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The 4 Hz delta binaural beat runs for the full 3 hours beneath the music. Start at a low volume — binaural beats work at any volume, louder is not more effective.

#binauralbeats #deltawaves #deepsleep

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This music uses AI in its production (audio and composition). Binaural beats are an audio phenomenon and are not proven medical treatment. This is for relaxation only and is not medical advice. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery. Consult a doctor before use if you have a history of seizures or epilepsy.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85r-a8U8yI

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.

A guided sleep meditation to help you fall asleep, gently voiced by the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu. A soft female voice guides you for the first 20 minutes, then over 3 hours of calm music carries you through the night.

Tonight you do not have to shine for anyone. Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess who once hid her light away in a cave until the whole world went dark, sits with you in the quiet of your own cave, asks nothing of you, and holds up a mirror so you can finally see the light that has been burning in you all along. You only have to rest in the warm dark, and let her keep the watch until morning.

This is part of The Goddess Meditations, female-voiced sleep stories from The Tender Hour, each guided by a goddess of old myth.

Shop the goddess prints, oracle decks and moon calendars at Gildenmyth: https://gildenmyth.etsy.com · Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/gildenmyth

New goddess sleep stories every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Subscribe and turn on the bell so a goddess can sit with you each night.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Settle in

2:00 Breathe in the quiet dark

6:30 The cave, and the mirror in the tree

12:00 What the mirror shows you (the blessing)

17:00 Drifting down

20:00 Three hours of sleep music

HOW TO USE

Lie down, dim your screen, and let it play. The voice fades after 20 minutes so nothing wakes you; the music continues for about three hours. Headphones optional. Set a low volume.

#sleepmeditation #guidedmeditation #fallasleep

DISCLOSURE & SAFETY

This video uses AI in its production (voice and music). It is for relaxation only and is not medical advice or a substitute for treatment of any sleep or health condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

Watch this meditation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFbZjHpvDY

The Tender Hour is soft, first person goddess sleep meditations in a gentle female voice. Each episode is a guided meditation that melts into hours of warm ambient sound so you can fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

All episodes, art, and more: https://gildenmyth.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

For rest and reflection only; the voices are AI generated. Not medical advice.