Compass

a Yearlong Inquiry with the Elemental Forces of Change

 


There is nothing so steady as change. 

At present, I find myself securely positioned in the Nature is change; I am nature locus of life. 

The constant in all this change is the ritualistic web woven by the five elements, one feeding another, two balancing a third, all of us entirely possible because of the whole of them. 

We might attune to the elements as a Compass and study these energies and their edges, the in between spaces, and the parts of us that press up against them, willingly or less so.

This spring, you can join me

and a close cohort of deeply-tending humans as we move through the seasons and honor changes within us and in the world around us. 

This cohort is centered on building a clear and integrative practice for yourself. That practice may look like something you can touch. It may look like something that stirs your mind or your heart. It might look like building patterns and pathways in your spirit that know how to connect with the moment for this year and all the years to come.

An Elemental Path with the Seasons

We’ll begin in late April to flirt with the dynamism of wood in spring, crafting the life before us; stir spirits with fire as summer moves in, relishing intensity and harnessing it for our alchemical motions; and tend the earth with every mark of change; liberate our spirits with metal as autumn breezes carry us into all the wisdom we find in our bones; and dance through and around and in and beyond with water in the depths and darkness of winter.

As we move through this year of attention, attunement, and practice, we cultivate an understanding in our very depths the grace between all of the seasons of the year and maybe too the seasons of our lives.

We might mark our lives with the seasons
and steep in them and wander
through them to these places where change happens.

We might know ourselves to be
not only capable but creative
in our presence and our agility there.

When you sign up for the Spring 2025 Compass Cohort, you are choosing a seasonal connection with the wild, the weather, your own spirit, me, and a few other gemmy humans and

◓ Five cohort gatherings with the seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer and the fruit of Transition

◑ Ten personal sessions with me delving into your unique journey with the element of the season

◒ Fifteen guided meditations deepening into three aspects of each season: early edges, deep center, late fringe


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REGISTRATION

Registration will open in early March and closes just after the equinox or when our cohort fills. We’ll determine the dates and times of our gatherings as our cohort takes shape. If you’re concerned about your availability, just send me a note!

Wood ◐ April 2025 Fire ◒ June 2025 Earth ◑ August 2025

Metal ◑ October 2025 Water ◓ January 2026

GATHERING NOTES

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  • Deep study with the five elements and their seasonal affinities (see more below)

  • Elemental poetry and inspiration from guides who tend the seasons and the elements with their lives

  • Personal practice: community support and sharing for how you are connected with yourself in these seasons

  • Seasonal reflection

  • Mystical integration with the elements

  • Somatic practice finding and returning to our own edges, where wood meets fire meets earth meets metal meets water and so on and so forth in all directions

This is so much of how I want to live my life,

seeping into the seams of reality with every direction of change. Find the rough and raucous sides of these elements; find their soft, sometimes subtle interiors.

Join me, delve into the richness of your own life with the elements by understanding your elemental temperaments and how you, in particular, relate with these forces.

There is only more room for us to be together.

WOOD 

Wind into the light of sun as the days stretch longer with the sincere and tempered guidance of the plants. Together, we’ll follow the pure example of the green beings, the understory and ground dwellers as well as the towering trees of the forest and then the hedges and the backyard gardens and the persistent ones who carry us along highways and byways. Sway and grow and gather into your own being the golden light of the sun as we personally and collectively gather ourselves into our vision and direction and place. 

Guided by the green beings, plants low to the ground and reaching high into the clouds.

FIRE

Blossom with the bright; trust the sun; tend your internal fires. Lend your senses to the quieter voices that breathe us towards and through and even beyond the spark that is fire. Bring your personal integrity into the creative and destructive powers of wild fire.

Guided by flashes of light and color in the blossoms of high summer and the lasting glow of the sun star.

EARTH

Settle. Observe. Adapt. Allow yourself to hold the strength and stability, the knowing and care, the extension of grace and presence that is earth. Feel the support you desire in your journey while pouring that quality of grace and meaning back into the ground beneath you. And, in so doing, build with earth the stamina and integrity you desire to carry earth with you into the chaos of the world.

Guided by the slow, clear, knowing strength of the mountain.

METAL

Stretch into the width of time and space with the lifetimes of stones. Honor the levity of change with the wind. Bring your own intuition into the steps of the everyday with this moment and the next. Tend quiet, internal spaces with curiosity, understanding, and trust. Build the subtle connections that reside deep within you as you navigate the bridges between your depths and the ways of the world. You are wisdom. 

Guided by the ancient quiet of the stones and the weaving movement of the wind. 

WATER

Stand in the water. Truly, come stand in the water. Let the stories of the ancients wash over you as they pour down from these blessed mountains. Let your heart find home in the comfort of this glorious place. Find personal ritual with water through guided collection from ancient and new waterways near you into vessels for our water gathering. 

Guided by the percolating flow of springs, the power of waterfalls, and the rhythm of the sea.

 
 
 

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