Sacred Cycles – Animism & the Rhythms of Time
This course brings us into the long arc of summer, where the year reaches its fullest expression and time itself becomes a teacher. It is a season of ripeness and pause, of light at its peak and the slow turn that begins after. Through an animist lens, we explore the cycles that shape every life, the moon and sun and seasonal wheel, the rhythms of the body, and the stories that once held the year, learning to live as a participant inside the great pattern.
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Module 1: What is Animism?
This first module offers language for an old remembering. It invites practice that grows through daily contact. Animism speaks through relationship. Reverence deepens the relationship. Reciprocity sustains it. Place becomes teacher, and the heart becomes a good student. Each small act of attention strengthens the thread between inner life and the living world.
This first module offers language for an old remembering. It invites practice that grows through daily contact. Animism speaks through relationship. Reverence deepens the relationship. Reciprocity sustains it. Place becomes teacher, and the heart becomes a good student. Each small act of attention strengthens the thread between inner life and the living world.
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Module 2: Cycles Within and Without
This module is an invitation to remember what your body already knows. That you are inside a cycle that has been turning for as long as the earth has existed, and your life moves with it whether or not you recognize the movement. The pressure to be ahead, productive every moment, all of that is a story told by a recent kind of time. The cycle that holds you is older.
This module is an invitation to remember what your body already knows. That you are inside a cycle that has been turning for as long as the earth has existed, and your life moves with it whether or not you recognize the movement. The pressure to be ahead, productive every moment, all of that is a story told by a recent kind of time. The cycle that holds you is older.
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Module 3: The Moon, the Sun, and the Wheel
Look up tonight. The moon is a particular shape, in a particular place. Look at where the sun rose this morning, and where it will set. Look at the trees, what they are doing today. You are inside a calendar that has been keeping time longer than any human invention. The sky and the land have been writing the year together since before there was anyone to read them.
Look up tonight. The moon is a particular shape, in a particular place. Look at where the sun rose this morning, and where it will set. Look at the trees, what they are doing today. You are inside a calendar that has been keeping time longer than any human invention. The sky and the land have been writing the year together since before there was anyone to read them.
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Module 4: Myth, Folklore, and the Sacredness of Time
Long before there were calendars, there were stories. The sun was a god in a chariot. The moon was a maiden who walked the night sky. The dark season had a face. The harvest had a name. Time itself was a being you might meet at a crossroads. This module is a return to the stories that once held the year.
Long before there were calendars, there were stories. The sun was a god in a chariot. The moon was a maiden who walked the night sky. The dark season had a face. The harvest had a name. Time itself was a being you might meet at a crossroads. This module is a return to the stories that once held the year.
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Module 5: Living Rhythms
A year ago, this series began with a course on the living land. Then came a course on the unseen. Then on the more-than-human world around you. And now, at the close of summer, on time itself. Four courses. Four seasons. One slow turn of the wheel. You have spent a year learning to live as if the world is alive, because it is.
A year ago, this series began with a course on the living land. Then came a course on the unseen. Then on the more-than-human world around you. And now, at the close of summer, on time itself. Four courses. Four seasons. One slow turn of the wheel. You have spent a year learning to live as if the world is alive, because it is.