Season of the Witch
A two-month initiation into the mystery, magic, and medicine of the year’s deepest night.
An Invitation to Step into the Dark
Between Halloween and the Winter Solstice, the light recedes, the days grow quiet, and the old year begins to die back.
This is a threshold season. A time to gather close to the fire, honour the dead, listen to dreams, and seek wisdom in the darkness. As the natural world withdraws into stillness, we are invited to tend the mysteries that can not be accessed in the bright seasons of the year.
Season of the Witch is a two-month immersion into the wisdom of the dark season. Together, we will explore ritual, dreamwork, ancestral connection, divination, and embodied practice as a way of consciously meeting this ancient passage. This is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and discover what is asking to be released, reclaimed, or renewed as you move toward the longest night of the year.
What We’ll Explore
Through a series of pre-recorded lessons and eight live 90-minute gatherings, we'll walk together from Samhain to the Winter Solstice, exploring late-autumn wisdom through somatic awareness, mythic storytelling, seasonal ritual, plant medicine practices, dreamwork, and ancestral connection.
Each gathering includes embodied grounding, seasonal and archetypal teachings, experiential practice, guided ritual, and space for reflection, conversation, and community.
Week 1: Crossing the Threshold: Samhain & the Archetype of the Witch
We begin our journey at the threshold of Samhain, orienting ourselves to the landscape of the Dark Season and the witch archetype. We'll explore what it means to dwell in liminal spaces and consider the ways this ancient archetype continues to shape our relationship with ritual, intuition, nature, and the unseen.
Week 2: Smoke & Fire: Impermanence, Fear & the Wisdom of Grief
Guided by Dhumavati, the smoky widow goddess, we'll explore mortality, impermanence, and the grief that accompanies all forms of change. Rather than rushing toward resolution, we'll practice sitting by the fire together, bearing witness to what is fading and honouring the wisdom of endings.
Week 3: The Veil Between Worlds: Ancestors, Altars & Offerings
With Hekate as our guide, we'll turn toward the beloved dead and the thinning veils of the season. Together, we'll explore practices of ancestral reverence, create altars, and prepare ourselves for the deeper work of remembrance and connection.
Week 4: The Bone House: Belonging, Memory & Ancestral Connection
This gathering invites us into a deeper relationship with ancestry through ritual, reflection, and remembrance. We'll explore lineage, inherited stories, and the blessing currents that flow through our ancestral and more-than-human relationships.
Week 5: Entering the Wild Woods: Night, Symbol & the Imaginal
Deep in the forest, we meet Baba Yaga, the wild crone of Slavic folklore and keeper of ancient wisdom. In this gathering, we'll enter the symbolic landscape of the Dark Season through story, guided imaginal practice, and an exploration of the rich inner world that exists beyond ordinary consciousness.
Week 6: The Dreaming Body: Dreams & the Language of the Soul
Dreams offer us another way of knowing. Together, we'll explore the practice of dreamwork, learning how to work with dreams as living experiences rather than puzzles to be solved. Through reflection and conversation, we'll deepen our relationship with the language of image, feeling, and intuition.
Week 7: Tarot, Divination & the Art of Sacred Inquiry
In the stillness of the long night, we'll turn to the tarot as a way of listening more deeply. Through candlelit practice and shared inquiry, we'll explore how meaningful questions, symbolic imagery, and divination can help us cultivate new ways of seeing and deepen our relationship with intuition and inner knowing.
Week 8: The Return of the Light: A Winter Solstice Ritual
At the turning of the Winter Solstice, we gather to honour both the darkness and the returning light. Through ritual, reflection, and prayer, we'll acknowledge what has passed, celebrate the gifts of the year behind us, and offer our intentions to the season that lies ahead.
The Witch's Apothecary
Plants were here long before us. The human story has always been woven into the story of the plants, who have fed us, healed us, sheltered us, and taught us how to live in relationship with the living world. When we consciously turn our attention toward them as teachers, allies, and kin, we enter into a relationship that is both ancient and immediate.
Throughout our journey, we’ll get to know four plant allies: Reishi, Hawthorn, Elder, and Mugwort. We’ll explore some of their traditional and medicinal uses while also getting to know them through simple practices of observation, ritual, sensory experience, and everyday herbal medicine.
The emphasis is not on becoming an herbalist, but on cultivating relationship: slowing down, paying attention, and discovering what becomes possible when we approach plants not simply as resources, but as living beings with whom we share the world. All practices will be simple, optional, and offered with clear guidance for safe use.
The Heart of Our Inquiry
The Season of the Witch is not a course in technique or a set of prescribed practices. It is an invitation into relationship: with the rhythms of the natural world, the wisdom of the body, story and symbol, and the mysteries that become more visible during the dark months of the year.
Together, we'll explore the archetype of the witch and consider how this ancient and enduring figure might deepen our understanding of embodiment, intuition, the more-than-human world, and the mysteries that shape our lives.
You don't need prior experience with ritual, tarot, or plant medicine to participate. All that's required is a willingness to slow down, listen deeply, and enter into a more meaningful relationship with mystery.
Together, we'll contemplate questions such as:
- Who is the witch, and what is my personal relationship with this archetype?
- How do the rhythms of the seasons express themselves in my own life?
- What is my relationship with the land that holds me?
- How do I strengthen my trust in intuition and inner knowing?
- Who are my other-than-human allies, and how might I deepen those relationships?
- What practices help me cultivate a more meaningful relationship with mystery?
This circle is for those drawn to the mysteries of late autumn and who feel called into a richer relationship with the world, with themselves, and with the unseen.
Practical Details
Format: Eight live workshops via Zoom (recordings provided) + pre-recorded video lessons + PDF handouts
Dates: Oct 31st- Dec 21st
Platform: Hosted on Teachable for lifetime access to recordings and materials
Pricing Options
Full Price: $469 CAD
Sliding Scale: $389 – $ 469 CAD
This program is offered on a sliding scale to support accessibility while honouring the depth of preparation and care that goes into these teachings.
Please choose the rate that feels aligned with your current resources and what you sense to be a fair exchange for the value you’ll receive.
If you’re financially stable or resourced by your work, paying at the higher end helps make space for others to join at a reduced rate. If you’re navigating financial constraints, you’re warmly welcome to use one of the reduced-rate codes at checkout.
Who Am I?
My name is Natalie, and I identify as a teacher, a storyteller, and a wisdom seeker.
For more than two decades, I’ve guided circles rooted in seasonal wisdom, embodied mindfulness, and animist ritual. My work weaves the body, the mythic imagination, and the natural world into a path of embodied inquiry.
The Season of the Witch is my love letter to the part of us that is drawn to the mystery and feels most alive under dark skies.