Spring Equinox Grief Studio this Thursday!
Working with the energies of Spring, the Tower Card, and Aries Season (zoom link + details inside)
“Yes,” Spring seems to say: “Things must change.”
Join us this Thursday to work with the energies of Spring, the Tower Card, and Aries season to call in that what you want most for this world and call ourselves back into collective and collaborative power amidst troubled times. Our next Grief Studio is this Thursday, March 27, from 6-8pm eastern time.
Aries season is of course the first of the zodiac year, and it is a sign of fire, risk-taking, action. This golden ram gives us another story of survival through interspecies kinship, as in Greek mythology it is aries who Hermes sends to rescue Phrixus & Helle.
We’ll be exploring the themes of welcoming Spring as a resurrection, planting ourselves as seeds, and riding the winds of change and making art inspired by these themes. ❤️🔥
These studios are for paid subscribers and are spaces to dialogue with, make, and share your own art and writing alongside other grievers. For $16-20 per month, you both support this publication and your creative practice too! You’ll also access monthly creative prompts and other paid posts!
What to bring:
🕯️🧙♀️Bring something that reminds you of our collective/collaborative power to transform. This could be the Tower card, a seed, a flower, something that connects you to aries energy/ your own power, adornments that help you shapeshift, or whatever resonates most.
🕯️💐Set the space: Please find a comfortable, quiet place for our meeting. Set this space for yourself in any way that feels most supportive for you, whether bringing in pillows, candles, flowers, photos of any of your beloved dead, drawing a tarot card, creating an altar of some kind, bringing in scents and textures you enjoy, or simply making sure you have a spacious and comfortable space.
🍉🫖Bring nourishment: Please bring water, tea, any beverages, fruits, or snacks you'd like to bring for our time together.
🎨📒Bring art supplies, a pen and paper or something to write with, or if there is a more pleasurable or accessible form of reflection you like to do, bring materials for that…Markers, colored pencils, paints, collaging supplies, your phone to record voice memos... There will be time set aside to free-write/create/reflect using whichever mediums work best for you.
🧚♀️🌊Disrupt perfectionism and come as you are. You do not need to be "on" in order to show up to this space. Let however you're arriving be enough.
Structure for Grief Studios*:
Welcome & Grounding
Small group discussion around a particular theme, tarot card, plant, or text related to grief
Intention Setting for your creative practice
Creative Exploration/Studio time: Undirected, parallel play/creative exploration using whatever mediums/materials you feel called to, with the understanding that all of life can be lived as art, and that our artmaking gets to be a practice of attunement to ourselves and the world around us. Studio time can include anything from painting, collaging, dusting off your apothecary shelves, making tea, making music, rearranging your room, casting a spell, cooking a meal, or simply laying down and allowing yourself to rest as a creative practice…
Reflection/Witness Writing: Set aside time to free-write/reflect on your creative process, and witness and dialogue with your own art/creative process as if it were animate and speaking to you.
Reading Witness Writing: Time to read aloud our witness writing with one another, without the intentions to critique or comment or discuss. Here we are simply in the magic of witness - hearing ourselves speak aloud our witness writing, feeling ourselves be heard and received by one another.
Closing✨
Optional Debrief: After we close our ritual studio space, there will be an option to stay back and spend 15-20 minutes debriefing and discussing about your experiences of this process!💗
Sessions (not including break out rooms!) will be recorded for those unable to make them live ✨
*This structure is adapted from the lineage of the Jewish Studio Process, whose two year Creative Facilitator Training Fellowship I am currently in and deeply grateful for!