Ghosts of yule
Vision Bundles, Seer’s Charms, and Oracular Storytelling for the Longest Night
In this one-day, three-part event, participants will create their personal oracle decks for this year some may call “2024” along with their own “Book of Visions” for the coming year, a bundle of personalized prophecies divined through story, seership practices, and charm-crafting. Danielle will guide participants through oracular story-work, inviting them to both see and script the soon-to-be chapters in their lived-out-loud stories, their personal myths of shapeshifting, flame-tending, and homecoming. Naming three Yuletide stories as muse, the work includes simple scrying practices, sigil work, pathworking, charm-writing, and the creation of a potent “13 Days of Yule” practice. We will also name prophecies as the original gift of Yule and shape visions for our loved ones and the world.
All sessions will take place on Saturday, December 16th. All will be recorded for those who are unable to join us live, and all recordings will be posted here in our portal by 5pm ET on December 16th. In the event of technical difficulties, please email TheHagSchool@Gmail.Com.
RECOMMENDED MATERIALS:
A thin journal that “speaks beauty to you” that will become your “Book of Visions.”
A writing utensil
A pack of blank index cards (3x5 or 4x6) + art materials of your choosing
A “seer’s stone” that finds you sometime after the new Long Night’s Moon dawns on 12/12. This can be a pebble that got stuck in your shoe, a magickal geode that’s been tucked in the corner of your house for decades, a piece of an ancestor’s gravestone, or ANY stone that calls to you, that seems to mirror a hidden part of your witch’s psyche.
December 16th, 2023
10am-11:15am ET : The Seer’s Shadow
~ Click Here to Watch the Recording of Session I ~
Password: Yule
During our introductory session, Danielle will share our first “story lantern,” our guiding tale that will grant an ice-and-frost foundation to our work. Participants will work with their own memories as muse, naming mythic images from the tale as teacher, and invite their vision bundle to take shape. Danielle will share and unpack a seership formula for divining in darkness, for communing with the wild unseen on the longest nights, and participants will see and script three personal visions for the coming year.
Ogham: Yew (Let die what must die so the new might live)
Seer’s Stages: See, Stabilize, Amplify, Illuminate
11:30am-12:45pm ET : The Seer’s Gift
~ Click Here to Watch the Recording of Session II ~
Password: Yule
In the second session, participants will learn formulas for charm-writing and amplified sigil work, working with our second, guiding story and naming it gift. Participants will consider letting the story be both prophecy and “present,” crafting a vision for a loved one and adding this seer’s gift to their bundle. Danielle will also share tools for gifting sigils, charms, and visions, and participants will begin to craft their personal oracle deck for this year some will call “2024.”
Ogham: Silver Fir (Hold the long vision)
Charm Formula: The Light + The Dark + The Holy
Collected Version of The Little Match Girl
Resources (Books) Mentioned: The Witch’s Art of Incantation by Roger Horne, Time Loops by Eric Wargo
1pm-2:30pm ET : Ghosts of Yule
~ Click Here to Watch the Recording of Session III ~
Password: Yule
In the third session and final session, participants will complete their “Book of Visions,” their seer’s bundle, for themselves, their beloved dead, their loved ones, and the world. Danielle will share our third story and invite participants to make the story their own, to stitch together their own “13 Days of Yule” practice, as the new and wild year comes creeping. We will complete and consecrate our oracle decks, sensing their potency and divining the first messages from this personal system of divination. We will end our time together with an optional sharing circle, invitations for moving forward with and amplifying the work, and honing our night-vision.
Ogham: Grove (All Knowledge)
13 Days of Yule Practice: Allow the message on your oracle card to inspire a small “action” that day, beginning on the full moon of 12/26.
Day I (December 26th): The Day of the Wren
Celebrate your creatures. What’s the message of your White Wolf card?
Day II (December 27th): Mother’s Night
Celebrate your ghosts. What’s the message of your Grandmother card?
Day III (December 28th): Day of Innocents
Celebrate innocence. What’s the message of your Innocents card?
Day IV (December 29th): Day of Fools
Celebrate the joker. What’s the message of your Trickster-Salesman card?
Day V (December 30th): The Boar Feast
Celebrate the wild. What’s the message of your Ancestral Medicine Cabinet card?
Day VI (December 31st): New Year’s Eve
Celebrate cleansing. What’s on your Severance card?
Day VII (January 1st): New Year’s Day
Celebrate renewal and community. What’s on your Celebration card?
Day VIII (January 2nd): Day of Snow
Celebrate beauty in the grey. What’s on your Haunted Borderlands card?
Day IX (January 3rd): Day of Evergreen
Celebrate what endures. What’s on your Yule Tree card?
Day X (January 4th): Day of Divination
Celebrate what comes. What’s on your Home of Longing card?
Day XI (January 5th): Day of Gifts to Self
Celebrate desire. What’s on your Feast card?
Day XII (January 6th): Day of Fire
Celebrate joy. What’s on your Alchemical Fire card?
Day XIII (January 7th)
Celebrate renewal. What’s on your Ashes of Renewal card?
Collected Version of The Fir Tree.
Resources (Books) Mentioned: The Faithful Gardener by Dr. Estes, Winter Solstice by John Matthews
If you enjoyed this class, THANK YOU. Have a look at next year’s The Witching Hearth to see if it’s for you.