Sacred Earth Intensive | Sonoma County, CA

Join Starhawk and herbalist Amythest Faria for a five-day intensive in magical, practical and herbal healing for self, community and the earth.

“From the great above, she set her ear to the great below…”  The Goddess Inanna descends to the underworld to face her sister, Ereshkigal, Queen of death.  Hanging on a meathook, she wonders…will she ever rise again?

We’ve all had those times in life of loss and grief, when we wonder how we’ll ever find hope and regeneration again. While grief is a natural part of life, there is another layer of torment we suffer from the ways we have internalized oppressive structures of power.  But when we face that self-hater within, we can transform it and liberate our great creative energies. In this intensive workshop, we use the tools of magic—ritual, trance and energy work, as well as the knowledge of the healing herbs and practical potion-making of compost and earth-healing brews to help us transform.

The myth of Inanna guides us through the process of descent and return, bringing back the deeper knowledge only the underworld can provide.

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This intensive is designed to offer deeper training for those who have taken a Sacred Earth Apprenticeship, attended a Reclaiming Witchcamp or skills training, or who have other training in the magical skills of ritual and ceremony.  If you have worked with the elements before, this is a chance to refine your tools and deepen your magic, visualization, energy sensing and shaping, trancework and plant communication.

All who love plants are welcome, no herbal pre-requisites are required.

We will begin each day with the collective creation of sacred space, before focusing on the nuances of magical tools for collective and personal work. Afternoon sessions will include hands-on work with the wild and cultivated plants at Black Mountain Retreat Center as well as at Starhawk’s nearby permaculture farm, Golden Rabbit Ranch. Evenings will take us through a cycle of co-created rituals delving deeper into the myths and stories we learn from the plants.