These are the haunted dusks of the bone-gatherers, and I know myself as one.
Our ceremonies are born of story and song, of oracular firelight and wandering within the ‘twixt and ‘tween. We ask ourselves at Samhain, at the end of the wildest year we have ever lived, what has fallen into the bone-pile. Here in our mythic underworld, we wonder what fleshless remnants do we wish to keep after this strange chapter in the world story ends, and what shape will our bone-huts take?
Welcome to Our Bone-Hut
Over these liminal days of 10/29 and 10/30, we will go deep together. We will tend to the spirit of our underworld moments. We will raise our hoods and howl moonward. We will be marked by the stories of our dead and build wild altars from prophetic stones and the blood-stained bones of who we used to be before our inner wise one began singing for us.
Mapping the Bone-Hut
A Few Guidelines:
Unless otherwise noted, the only materials you need for the events are a journal, writing utensil, and candle. If you can have a dedicated candle for this retreat, that’s best. The color and shape is entirely up to you.
Each event has its own link.
Each event is password protected. The password for all events is BoneHut (case-sensitive)
All times are listed in ET.
Every event will be recorded. The recording links are different from the links to join live. At the end of each day, the “join live” links will be replaced here with the recording links. The recordings take a little time to process and will not be immediately available (For instance, if an event just ended, it will be a few hours before the recording link is posted here. Please be patient with us hags).
The recordings will be available through the links for one year and a day. You can choose to download them and keep them forever and ever if you like.
Please make sure you are using the most updated version of Zoom. In the unforeseen event that there is a collective Zoom tech-glitch, please refresh and check this page. If there is nothing posted here, and you are having trouble entering the session, please make sure you are using the most up-to-date version of Zoom (1) then email us at TheHagSchool@Gmail.Com (2).
Bone-Hut Community Agreements
Confidentiality. What happens in the bone-hut stays in the bone-hut.
Body Kindness. Please tend to your body. Move when you need to move, drink water, and feel free to turn off the video and look off-screen every so often to serve your eyes.
Psyche Kindness. There are many limitations to our online container. As Dr. Estes says, we cannot “see the weather passing over your head” in a virtual environment. Please take care, and, if you feel your psyche putting a boundary up, opt out.
Tending to the spirit of the moment. Let each event be an encounter with something new, some piece of the mystery. The online context can invite a casual approach to the work, but we welcome participants to be fully present, fully here with us. Name these moments as treasures and treasures they will be.
Protecting the integrity of the circle. Please do not share any links or materials outside of our circle for obvious reasons.
Opinions. In the event we have an optional sharing or reflection circle, know that opinions can be asked for but not freely given.
Boundaries. Please do not contact anyone in this circle, including teachers, outside of email unless otherwise noted.
Group Values
Communal Magick
Curiosity
Befriending the Not-Knowing
Working the more-than-human world
Equity
Compassion
Our circle can hold it all.
Embracing our many contradictions
~ Here is a playlist to inspire ~
Schedule + Links
If you are experiencing tech issues, contact: thehagschool@gmail.com
Saturday ~ 10/29
Theme: In the Witch’s Bone Hut
10am ET- 11:30am ET:
The Autumn Dreaming Time: Opening Circle with Danielle
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal, Writing Utensil, 25 Blank Index Cards OR 25 Pieces of Paper (cut to about 3x5 inches)
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session I ~
Prompt: I’m in the bone-hut, and, this year, I’m dreaming of…
Ogham: Furze ~ “Gather the resources you need.”
12pm ET-1:30pm ET:
In the Shadows of the Stars: Astrology and the Shadow World with Ruchi Jain
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal, Writing Utensil, Your birth chart if you have it, this handout visible (not necessary to print it): Astrology of the Underworld Handout
Note: It will be helpful to know where Black Moon Lilith is in your birth chart for this session. If you’re not sure, you can find out here.
~ Click Here to Watch the Recording of Session II ~
Prompt: “I know I’m here now for a reason, and, just for today, I’m naming purpose as…”
Ogham: Rowan: “Look for the protective omens.”
2pm ET-3:30pm ET
Snake Medicine for Shadow Times: Serpentine Stories with Madame Flame
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal, Writing Utensil, A Raw Egg, Burn Bowl, Fire Source, Paper (not bound in journal)
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session III ~
Prompt: “So slowly, so surely, I am shedding the old…”
Ogham: Willow ~ “Hone your night vision.”
Resources:
Books Mentioned by Flame: The Book of Lilith (Robert Brown), Hero with a Thousand Faces (by Joseph Campbell), The Sibyls: The First Prophetess of Mami Wata (by Mama Zogbe)
4pm ET-5pm ET
Otherworldly Communion: Dreamwork and Divination with Danielle
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal, Writing Utensil, Your Dream Journal or log if you have one
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session IV ~
Prompt: “My dreams are speaking to me even now, even now when I sense a new and wild…”
Ogham: Spindle~ “Look for the sudden bursts of insight.”
Resources: Time Loops by Eric Wargo, Growing Big Dreams by Robert Moss (and his other books on dreams), Stephen Aizenstadt (He has talks on his “dream-tending” system but no books that I’m aware of), Women Who Run with the Wolves (of course) by Dr. Estes, Precognitive Dreamwork by Eric Wargo
Sunday ~ 10/30
Theme: through the veil
10am-11:30am ET
Ancestral Spelunking: Mining the Legacies of Bullshit with Suzanne Fisher, LCSW
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal, Writing Utensil, Genogram (Only if you’ve worked with Suzanne before and have one)
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session V ~
Prompt: “I am a living ancestral altar, and, this year, that altar looks like…”
Suzanne’s Power Point Presentation
Ogham: Beech ~ “Look to the old stories for medicine.”
Resources Mentioned: It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolyn, No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
12PM ET-1:30 pm ET
A Gathering of Ghosts: Time-Weaving, Banishing Magick, and Ancestral Visions with Danielle
Password: BoneHut
Materials: A picture or belonging from a loved one in-spirit, one of your beloved dead who you sense has a loving energy (not an “unfinished business” spirit)
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session VI ~
Prompt: “I remember this spirit who visits me now in the bone-hut, and I remember them for…”
Ogham: Alder ~ “Gather the oracular knowledge.”
Resources Mentioned: Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George
2pm ET-3:30pm ET
Underground Initiation: Closing Circle with Danielle
Password: BoneHut
Materials: Journal and Writing Utensil
~ Click Here to View the Recording of Session VII~
Prompt: Writing Prompt: “I’m crawling from this bone-hut with a song in my heart, and that song begins with…”
Ogham: Honeysuckle ~ “Look at the root of the distraction for the hidden secret.”
Resource: The “Deer Woman Dreaming” story is in The Holy Wild Grimoire
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