Rae Serafina Barker

december is a sacred time of year.

It’s a time when we’re collectively ushered into night — pulled into the deep, primordial currents of winter, death, and darkness descending,

…a time when life invites us to slow down, embrace stillness, and sink into the depths of what’s rising up within,

…a time to let go + welcome death + compost what’s passed.

Winter descent + solstice darkness + quiet stillness all have medicine to offer…

…opening spaces for transformation, emergence, and new sparks of life on the other side.

But the world around us doesn’t often see it that way and continues to swirl in its frenetic mania + obsession with speed, noise, and productivity.

Which means we’re often encouraged us to keep moving, stay on the surface, and ignore whatever might slow us down + beckon us into the depths.

But we miss so much when we do.

So let’s take another way + journey into the heart of the depths calling our name.

This winter, I’m offering a 5-week adventure into the fertile depth + holy darkness of this time.

This will be an experience of:

• Letting our bodies unwind + our spirits deepen as the world freezes, the days darkness, and the year draws to a close.

• Creating a sacred container that can hold us through this liminal time.

• Carving out space to listen + feel for what wants to emerge + rise from the deep place within.

• Drawing on the medicine of frozen stillness to find our way through.

• Communing with the forces that meet us in this threshold between years, seasons, and worlds.

Through it all, I will be supporting you on the journey — offering tools + talismans, holding space, and charting steps + pathways for the adventure ahead.

This adventure also includes:

• A gathering space to process, share, ask questions, and be in community.

• Two virtual retreats — one to deepen into descent + darkness, endings + letting go — and another to expand into light, rising, and what’s coming alive for us next.

  • Retreat #1 is scheduled for Friday, 12/20 at 5:30pm eastern/2:30pm pacific.

  • Retreat #2 is scheduled for Friday, 1/3 at 4pm eastern, 1pm pacific.

  • Each retreat is 2 hours. The sessions will be recorded + shared will participants.

• A New Year’s tarot or oracle reading. I’ll pull a card just for you from one of my decks as an invitation into your year ahead, and then mail you the card + reading.

This offering is priced on a sliding scale to make it more accessible to folks for whom the full price is out of reach at this time.

Price is $100, $175, or $250. You choose the option that’s most doable in the context of your present circumstances + resources. Whichever tier you choose, I’m so happy to have you join us : )

Here’s where we’ll be journeying together:

Week 1: Descent

Week 2: Darkness

Week 3: Stillness

Week 4: First Light

Week 5: Rising

Each week, you’ll receive a lovingly crafted guide to the week’s theme that include reflections, invitations, and more, along with a meditation to take you deeper.

You’ll also receive a piece of art in the mail as an anchoring talisman + invitation into the magic.