Every ancient and earth-based culture has engaged in regular collective trance ritual since the beginning of time. Trance rites are celebratory mechanisms embedded within communities. They are created by the community for the community. They mark moments and transitions within the lives of individuals and to honour thresholds in the elemental and astrological calendars. It is in these spaces that alchemical transformation can take place, where the humming vibration generated through movement,...

As humans we have always offered together in Ceremony. Ceremony is an ancient technology that honours and celebrates transformation. Something has to die before it can be reborn, and our own literal births and deaths are the ceremonies of incarnation we participate in as humans, whether we do so consciously or not. To offer in Ceremony is to engage with the greater powers, fields, forces and allies that support us as part of this great web of consciousness. To engage intentionally and...

Which transformative powers are we celebrating? This weekend, many will be celebrating Easter, the christian holiday commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, an English derivative for the Hebrew name of Yeshua. And yet this timely festival of descent, death, and rebirth, nestled at the very threshold of spring, has deeper roots than many of us are aware of. The rites of resurrection have been practiced throughout cultures for time immemorial. From the solitary contemplation...