Summer Solstice Ritual Journey💥

The summer solstice is a space of transition fueled by the sun’s power. This ritual uses that liminal tension to journey to our spirit guides for wisdom, guidance, and healing.

Join Ray and co-facilitator Tripp for a guided drum journey into energetic realms. Ray will drum steadily on an asymmetrical bodhran at a tempo known to help induce a light meditative state. Bring a personal intention — guides you want to meet, or something you want to request from them.

The guided meditation includes: connecting with the body, the earth, and energetic realms. Then we travel through a forest and a tunnel to reach a “safe space.” The drum — and sometimes light vocalizations from Ray — will continue for 20-30 minutes while we meet our guides and fulfill our intention. After returning to the safe space, the tunnel, the forest, and our bodies, we’ll have time for notetaking and optional sharing before closing the circle together.

About the practice:
This style of spirit guide journey draws from what some practitioners call "core western shamanism" — a distillation of practices found from Central America to pagan Ireland to Central Asia. The core mechanism of using a drum to enter a light meditative state and communicate with healing spirits appears among disparate cultures, each with their own processes. By creating a general framework for that practice, we make it accessible to anyone who feels called to it, regardless of background or ancestry. Ray calls this work “trance journeying,” rather than “shamanism,” due to the Black and brown origins of that word. Arden Intuition is committed to uncolonization and takes cultural appropriation seriously.

Who this event is for:
Anyone who feels drawn to it is welcome; no experience required. Please join in the spirit of mutual support and collective healing. See below for full accessibility information and guidelines.

💥Cost:
Sliding scale donation, $20 - $50 suggested. No one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). 5% of all profits at Arden Intuition are donated to organizations run by, and directly serving, Black and/or Native people in the U.S.

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Bring:

• Intention — help you want to request, a guide you want to meet
• Paper and writing utensil
• Snacks and beverages to help you ground as we close
• An eye covering, or a darkened room
• Whatever else you need to tend to your body, mind, and spirit
• Look up whose land you’re on: https://native-land.ca
• Optional: altar items, candle, representations of the elements, something from nature

Guidelines & Accessibility:

• Please arrive fed and hydrated.
• Doors open 5 minutes beforehand and close 10 minutes after start time. Please sign in early to sort out any tech issues and use cell service if your WiFi is unreliable. Once the circle has been opened, you are welcome to leave the Zoom if needed and return.
• Please be somewhere quiet and private, for confidentiality and the freedom to express yourself. What happens stays confidential within the group.
• Closed captioning will be on. Zoom AI will be off. This event is not recorded.
• Please mute when not speaking. Video is your choice, but please no significant visual movement, substance use, strobe lights, or nudity. Chat is welcome if you prefer it to speaking.
• Sit, stand, lie down — do whatever you need. Prompts are suggestions; feel free to deviate. If you leave the Zoom, you can return. The ability to visualize is not necessary.
• We do our best to make this event accessible. Please contact us at least two weeks before the event — and before registering — to discuss any additional needs: ardenintuition at gmail.

Plan:

• acknowledge land, open circle
• talk about solstice & journeying
• break
• open to body, earth, spirit
• journey to spirit guides ~ 30 mins
• drum ends, self-tending, notetaking
• optional sharing
• closing

Facilitator:
Ray (they/them) is a white, trans masc, disabled grief worker and spiritual guide who has been offering readings and energy work to people, pets, and places professionally since 2016. Coming from a line of rural southern Appalachian sensitives and healers, they’ve walked these realms outside of any religious or medical context since they were a child. Anti-oppression, trauma sensitivity, and accessibility are continual goals. For more about their practice, please see the About page.

Circle Steward:
Tripp (they/them) is a white, agender, and neurodivergent queer from Northern Appalachia. They are exploring their path as an intuitive and healer with Appalachian folklore, astrology, dreaming, nature and embodiment. Tripp loves animals and dancing!

Thank you for doing your part to help heal the world.
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