Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Creativity for Seasons of Loss

This bite sized episode is a round up of ideas and questions I use to design my own spreads, in case you too have a lot on your mind and heart right now!
Here is Alexis' blog that I mentioned: https://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog
here is the invite to the free winter solstice tarot workshop: https://wonderful-term-81242.myflodesk.com/s4b5ao1vu9
Sending love to you and your deck,
Yarrow

In this episode I sit down with Asha Frost, bestselling author, Indigenous healer, oracle deck creator and mentor, to talk about her new book The Inner Winter. We start with where we each are in the seasons, and Asha shares how her body is slowing down with the autumn and how she practises safety in that slowness through breath, walks, candlelight and a hand on the heart. She talks about writing through the deepest winter of her life, living with chronic illness since she was 17, and what it taught her about boundaries, surrender, and a worth that doesn’t depend on what she produces. We talk about the habits of people pleasing and fawning (and meeting them with compassion rather than shame), and how she wrote a book that invites rather than prescribes.
I also loved wandering into dreaming and daydreaming, what a medicine wheel view of the seasons offers in a culture that wants us in perpetual summer, and what it means to age with joy. If you’ve ever felt unseen in a hard season, her invitation to reclaim your power as a wintering elder I think is such a gift. You can find Asha’s books, including You Are Medicine and The Inner Winter, and her two oracle decks (which are for everyone) wherever books are sold, and connect with her on Instagram.
Asha Frost is an Indigenous Medicine Woman, and the international best-selling author of You are the Medicine, The Sacred Medicine Oracle, and The Animal Elders Oracle. She has a degree in Psychology and Homeopathic Medicine and has guided thousands of people through
profound and lasting transformation as a keynote speaker, healer, homeopath, and ceremonial guide.
Asha holds membership at Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and is a mama of two boys with whom she walks gently upon the earth. She loves sharing her Medicine in powerful ways through ceremonies, teachings, and speaking events. Through this work, she loves seeing people reclaim their roots, find their healing wisdom, and rise into their power.
https://ashafrost.com/
https://www.instagram.com/asha.frost

This is a gentle exploration of the grief that come up when we look at patterns in our childhoods and families in more detail. I am sharing what is coming up for me since my mum passed, what helps and what I am orienting towards.
I mentioned two books by Clare Alexander: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/287509/claire-alexander
and the ACA newsletter: https://adultchildren.org/email-subscriptions/
here is the invite to the free winter solstice tarot workshop: https://wonderful-term-81242.myflodesk.com/s4b5ao1vu9
Sending love,
Yarrow

This week I’m joined by Georgia Wall, a ceremonial teacher and artist based in New York City, who weaves grief, creativity and ceremony together with such care. We begin with a reading from her book, The Circle Room: a book in ceremony. I really loved her October letter! We talk about how grief threads through everything we love, what it means to turn 40, and what her five-year-old twins are teaching her about impermanence.
Georgia also shares how art school, a decade as a teaching artist and years of spiritual seeking led her into ceremony work, and how she made her book from a residency to a small fabric-bound print run. We also talk about Sacred Bridge, her six-week online group experience for anyone moving through a transition, with its next cohort starting in January. You can sign up for her monthly Love Letters newsletter, and if you’re in Brooklyn on 22 November, she’s hosting a live grief circle with writing, altar work and space to hold whatever is showing up for you.

You can learn more about Georgia's work, her book and classes over here: https://www.theceremonialist.earth/
Thank you so much for joining us!
Love,
Yarrow

I feel re-energized around my tarot practice and I know many people return to their decks this time of year, so I wanted to record a little episode on approaches that can help us deepen our relationships to our decks and read in a way that feels more meaningful without adding a whole lot of faff that no one needs.
Here is the invite for the free winter solstice tarot workshop: https://wonderful-term-81242.myflodesk.com/s4b5ao1vu9
and here are the discounted readings I am currently offering: https://griefmagic.com/tarot/
Thank you as ever for listening!
Love,
Yarrow