root and staff: exploratioN of the witch

AUTUMN 2023 SESSION CLOSED—Winter 2024 Session of earth begins in january

six week witchcraft mentorship

Do you want to talk to spirits, confidently create rituals, and connect with the living landscape around you?

LEARN HOW—BUILD RELATIONSHIPS—ROOT INTO YOUR OWN SACRED MAGIC

DIVE DEEP INTO THE ethics & FOUNDATIONS OF ELEMENTAL MAGIC, folk ritual, and witchcraft

OVER SIX WEEKS YOU WILL:

  • INVOKE THE MAGIC OF THE WATER ELEMENT

  • MEET YOUR HELPING SPIRITS

  • CONNECT WITH YOUR WISE AND LOVING ANCESTORS

  • PRACTICE YOUR PSYCHIC SKILLS AND FEEL MORE CONFIDENT IN DECIPHERING PSYCHIC MESSAGES

  • LEARN CLEANSING TECHNIQUES TO USE DAILY TO PROTECT YOUR ENERGY

  • AND CREATE A PERSONAL HEALING RITUAL

…ALL IN A COHORT OF WISE AND POWERFUL WITCHES

TAKE UP YOUR STAFF OF POWER AND JOIN A CIRCLE OF WITCHES THIS AUTUMN HONORING THE POWER OF WATER

WEEK ONE: Water element & allies of the west

  • Welcome the season of Water: element of healing, cleansing, dreaming, intuition, and emotion. We will cast the circle, invoke the water element & feel the living presence of elemental magic.

  • Meet the magic of water in a space of trance & journey work and connect with an elemental ally. You’ll communicate directly with and begin to build relationship with spirits of this elemental force, receiving insight for how the blessings of water can support you right now

  • Root into an ecological perspective of magic—connect with creating meaningful relationships with plants, animals, and the environment around you through Land-honoring practices…and through this deepen your connection to the Wheel of the Year; building the foundations for a powerful personal cosmology of seasonal magic

  • Delve into the practice of ancestral magic, and form meaningful connection with an ancestral ally. We will be drawing on their wisdom and guidance for your healing path, and work with them to deepen your understanding of your ancestral magic & spiritual roots, whatever they may be!

  • Experience how nourishing and empowering ancestral magic truly is, and illuminating the ways you already embody and use deep magic in your day-to-day

  • Explore ethical considerations around ancestral work, boundaries with ancestral energies, and how to work with ancestors in a way that aligns with your values & integrity. We will talk about how to deal with painful/traumatic family dynamics and fraught familial histories in a way that is honoring, tender, and rooted.

  • Connect with the concept of Ancestor in a way that is liberating and healing—exploring Other Than Human ancestors, cultural/identity-based ancestors (like queer ancestors) as a way to reweave our relationship with all of Creation.

WEEK TWO: ANCESTOR WORK PART ONE

  • Learn how to create a meaningful ancestral altar practice to honor your ancestral spirits, and develop personal rituals and practices within that space to help you communicate with your ancestors

  • Delve into the importance of offerings: how you offer them, what do you offer, and why make them are all questions we will cover. Learn about the practicalities of offerings and sink deeper into the embodied magic of the craft

  • Connect with the threshold of Samhain, exploring histories and folk traditions as well as philosophies of harvest season in order to support your own personal seasonal celebration woven into your personal ancestral and ecological relationships

  • Share in a Samhain ritual space together honoring the last harvest gateway

WEEK Three: ANCESTOR WORK PART two

WEEK four: psychic development & hygiene PART one

  • Connect with Water as gateway & guardian to the Otherworld

  • Discover, deepen, and nurture your unique gifts & intuitive abilities, gaining confidence in using your psychic gifts for personal growth and helping others.

  • Aquire the knowledge and skills to ensure safe and respectful interactions with the spirit world, as well as examine the ethical aspects and considerations of utilizing psychic gifts.

  • Learn how to establish and maintain healthy psychic boundaries when working with both humans and spirits.

WEEK FIVE: psychic development & hygiene PART two

  • Learn and use simple & effective energy clearing techniques, and explore ways you can intuitively build a personal energetic cleansing practice for your body and for your home

  • Develop a deeper understanding of how your energetic field impacts your wellbeing and how to cultivate psychic self-care as a means of protective magic; feeling empowered in protecting and maintaining your energetic space

  • Strengthen your psychic and intuitive skills through practical exercises in a group setting—leave feeling confident and empowered in your gifts & abilities

WEEK SIX: grief & Healing

  • Explore the concept of healing in a hurting world—using your magic to honor the deep pain alongside the potential for deep beauty. Holding the complexity in your spiritual practice, and ways to ground into your spiritual practice as a resource of healing for yourself AND collective

  • Connect with a healing spirit for guidance and support on your personal healing journey, and receive a powerful healing in a journey to a space of deep soul healing

  • Craft a personalized self-healing ritual, so you can apply your knowledge to actively promote healing in your own life

  • Closing the circle, giving our gratitudes, releasing Water & The West

  • Thursdays 6-8pm PST for 6 weeks, beginning October 19 and ending November 23

    Class will be held over zoom, and will be recorded!

  • -Each of the six two hour classes will be formatted to include lectures on the topics of the week and time for group conversation, exploring ways to build personal techniques of magical practice and space to share them. We will engage the topics through journey work, journaling, personal ritual, and psychic development practices.

    -We will have weekly journal prompts sent as a pdf to support your personal individual explorations.

    -There will be a group Discord discussion focused on some of these prompts each week as a way to connect and share about our learning.

  • The program in total is $500 USD paid in $100 monthly payments for 5 months. There is a sliding scale option to pay a total of $350 with $70 payments for five months. If you’d like to pay in full or arrange alternative payment plans please email espen@tendingthemystery.com


•Those who want to explore and sink into celebrating the seasonal magic of Autumn & the harvest celebration of Samhain in a way that is personal and unique to you!


•Witch curious, baby witches, and seasoned witches alike who are seeking a way to build/deepen a relationship with magic through the lens of discernment


•Spiritual folks who would like to create magical rituals that resonate with your heart, rooted in your values & integrity


• Sensitive, curious, and heart felt people who want to connect with other witches & create community in their magical explorations!

SOUND LIKE YOU?

THIS CLASS IS FOR…