Samhain Ancestral Journey

We are standing at a sacred threshold.
Open up the holy doors and we shall enter.

We are traveling together on a spiral road.
Sing with courage to light our way home.

The ancestors are calling.

It is through the veil of the ancestors we will enter during this sacred time of year.

We gather to call our ancestors home to us, to receive their whispers of encouragement, to listen to their wisdom, and to honor the generations that we come from.

These are the times to gather together to heal, to grieve, and to honor the transformations occurring within and around us. It is important to not turn our back on each other or the ancestors or the Earth. Collectively - and virtually - we can open our intuitive eyes and our hearts even wider to the power and potential each of us holds within for healing, for clarity, for connection, and for inspired action.

Coming together in the ancestral realms is a part of our collective healing and grieving process that we need during these times.

The turning of the wheel

On the Celtic Wheel of the Year, we turn to the Gaelic Fire Festival of Samhain to honor the ancestors and the time when the veils to the ancestral realms are thin.

The New Moon in Scorpio is one signal of the beginning of the Season of Samhain.

We circle to honor, witness, remember and receive wisdom from our lineage.

It is time to honor the endings and cast new beginnings during this potent time.

Samhain represents not only a portal into the ancestral realms and a time of remembrance, celebration, and joy but also the time to sweep away the cobwebs within our minds, bodies, and hearts to usher in a new season.

Samhain was (and still can be) the Celtic New Year. Join us to honor what is complete and call in what is next.

Do you feel the Call?

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INTRODUCING

the samhain ancestral journey

In circle we give space to grief, to gratitude, and to everything in between.

When you enroll in this circle journey, you are allowing the sacred space to be created for you and your ancestral connections.

Upon registration, you will receive a guidebook to help you prepare for this sacred experience which is like a journey to the Underworld to retrieve treasures from beloved ancestors. You will have an embodied experience for yourself.

A special note to those whose ancestors were colonizers:

Colonization is something we have been conditioned to gloss over or bypass. The more we can sit within this sphere of truth and the discomfort that arises, the more we can untangle from its hold and complacency.

There will be space in this journey to sit with ancestors who were part of the colonization process. There will be prayers and intentions to come into right relationship with the colonized and the land beneath our feet. It is your job in our circle to listen and not insert your own stories at the forefront of our time together. This is how we begin to mend and repair.

A special note to those whose ancestors were colonized:

Feelings of belonging, security, and comfort are of the utmost importance. There will be space in this circle to sit with ancestors who were part of the colonization process if you so choose. There will be space to speak their names, share, grieve, and honor the truths you carry in your blood. You will be witnessed and your voice, stories, and healings will be amplified and uplifted.

In our shared space we will also be holding a ritual to honor our collective grief as well.

An embodied practice of ancestral remembrance is awaiting.

Save Your Spot Now

During our time together you will experience:

Guided journeys to the ancestral realms
Samhain Season Sound Bath with Tanya Clark of The Dancing Soul
Dreaming temple practice with the ancestors
Sacred space to share and be witnessed in an open, non-judgmental, inclusive environment
Commitment to your ancestral remembrance praxis
A caring community accessible through our private community app
An online program portal with resources, astrology insights, guidebooks, and journaling prompts to deepen your experience
Discounted 1:1 private sessions with Gretchen will be available to support you

SCHEDULE

Week 1: Samhain Opening Ceremony + Invocation of Ancestors
Monday, November 13, 2023 (Lunar Samhain)

Week 2: Spirit of Place
Monday, November 20, 2023 (Waxing Half Moon)

Week 3: Spirit of Dreams
Monday, November 27, 2023 (Full Moon)

Week 4: Spirit of Grief
Monday, December 4, 2023 (Waning Half Moon)

Week 5: Spirit of Hope and Reclamation
Monday, December 11, 2023 (Dark Moon)

All calls are at 1 pm EST, 12 pm CST, 11 am MST, 10 am PST (US, Canada), 6 pm GMT.
Calls are recorded and uploaded to our portal within two hours for your convenience.

This is a praxis of embodied ancestral remembrance.

reserve your spot with a heartfelt contribution

The Samhain Ancestral Journey Experience

Registration

We begin on the Scorpio New Moon.

We gather virtually on Zoom every Monday for 5 weeks.

Monday, November 13 (New Moon/Lunar Samhain)
Monday, November 20 (Waxing Half Moon)
Monday, November 28 (Full Moon)
Monday, December 4 (Waning Half Moon)
Monday, December 11 (Dark Moon)

All calls will be recorded.

Space is limited to maintain the intimacy of the group experience.

This experience is an act of love, scholarship, praxis, and devotion.

Because money can function as a barrier to access under systemic oppression, please choose a suggested contribution as it best fits your proximity to power/privilege and current financial circumstances.

If you have more to give, please consider paying it forward to support this offering for others.
If you are able to give the minimum, you are supported by our community.
No one will be turned away.

Suggested price: $199.00

Looking forward to gathering in this sacred lunar cycle.

Your Journey Space Holder + Guide

Gretchen Sechrist Kehan

Gretchen is dedicated to the unveiling of mysteries, the gifts of grief, and honoring the inner journey and descent necessary to transform ourselves in this shifting world.

She has worked for over 18 years in the fields of transformative change, coaching, and entrepreneurship. She is a trained Psychic, Priestess, Transformational Coach, Certified Online Business Manager, Intuitive Healer, Scholar-practitioner, and Creatrix of Daughters Rising. She most recently graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) with an M.A. in Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice.

As a Soul Midwife, Oracle, and Facilitator, Gretchen works through ritual, sacred space, channeling, guided meditation, group coaching, and mentoring to empower others to reclaim their sacred gnosis and intuitive connection to become leaders of their own hearts, hearths, and lives.

Gretchen believes in actively cycling with the energies of the season and understanding your blood ancestral and your spiritual lineage in order to walk the pathway to Know Thyself.

Your Journey Sound Alchemist

Tanya Clark

Tanya will be leading us on a special Samhain Sound Bath to support our integration and journey into the ancestral realms. Tanya is a Sound Alchemist, Ritual/Ceremonial Leader, Spell-crafter, Oracle Reader, & Intuitive Movement Practitioner. She holds a well-diversified background with a BS in Exercise Science/Dance, training and continued studies in the Neurofascial system, Pilates, yoga, sound healing, the Oracular Arts, ritual/ceremony, moon rhythms, and the seasonal Wheel of the Year. She loves assisting people in awakening to their own magical and cyclical nature to create a balanced, grounded, and creative life through her business, The Dancing Soul.

With over 20 years in the Wellness community, Tanya is passionate about grounding in a deeper connection to the Universal rhythms through Moon and Seasonal gatherings, weaving between sound, silence, creating breathing space, exploring movement, honoring and harnessing your intentions in spell workings, oracle readings, and ritual/ceremony as a journey back to the abode of the heart.

A Special Note of Thanks and Recognition

... to the teachers, mentors, and guides who have inspired and informed me along this line of work.

Thank you, especially, to Dr. Kimmy Johnson who taught me about kinship of place and held the container to explore ancestral migrations, MaryBeth Bonfiglio and the work of Blood + Belonging, all of my professors at CIIS, Angela Bixby and the Conscious Psychic Program, Karine Belle and the Rooted Global Village, Resmaa Menakem who inspired the somatic abolitionism work and antiracism circles, Achintya Devi and Ameya Cohen and the Priestesses of the Rose who supported my own journey, remembrance, and embodiment through the Wheel of the Year, the Lenni-Lenape Tribe whose land I mother, work, dream, and live on, my Quaker ancestors who returned me to these lands, and the countless and constant companions and soul travelers on this path.

And most of all, thank you for being here and for the future ripples of change and transformation we shall create.

May we unravel together to remember and become the healing that is necessary.