The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, and according to Daoist philosophy, when Yin reaches its fullness and the first stirrings of Yang return. In the I Ching, this is Hexagram 24, Return (復 Fù): Thunder beneath the Earth, the seed of light hidden in deep Yin.

Join animist spirit medium Mimi Young for a two-hour lecture-plus-ritual exploring the mysteries of Hexagram 24. Together, we will reflect on the Solstice as a threshold of renewal, practice bilateral drawing and pendulum divination to embody the rhythm of return, and explore Thunder ☳ as the seed-trigram of renewal through trigram transformations and mini-readings. We will learn how to fire scry, gazing into the living flame as the mirror of the returning light.

At Samhain, when the veil thins and the dead draw near, we enter Hexagram 29: The Abysmal — the dark stream of the I Ching. This hexagram, water doubled ☵ ☵, is the current of descent, danger, and initiation, teaching us how to move with fear and depth as regenerative forces.

In this two-hour ritual gathering, we’ll explore necromancy, water scrying, and divination with the I Ching, weaving them together as practices for honoring and communing with the dead. Through shamanic journeying, trigram casting, and shared reflection, we’ll practice “walking the Abysmal” with sincerity and courage.

What This Fall Equinox Ritual Service is Intended to Support:

This ritual can bring a noticeable lightening: feeling less weighed down, more focused, and ready to make moves with steadiness. Subtle but accumulative, the results often show up as improved clarity, grounded confidence, and tangible power in your day-to-day life.

• Cord cutting: Releasing energetic residue from past relationships, outdated roles, or ways of working

• Harmonizing your inner landscape when you’re navigating change or decision fatigue

• Rebalancing your personal Qi to support a calmer, more directed season ahead

• Letting go of fear-based attachments that block your voice, visibility, or earning capacity

• Opening clearer paths forward: spiritually, emotionally, financially, relationally

• Creating space and direction for aligned opportunities, including those related to work, money, or collaboration

Hungry Ghost Day, observed during the Zhongyuan Festival (中元節) in the Daoist lunar calendar, marks a rare opening between worlds, when the Gate of the Earth is believed to open and wandering or forgotten spirits cross into the human realm. Rooted in Daoist cosmology and East Asian animist traditions, this is not just cultural observance but a form of spiritual hygiene and energetic protection, where offerings are made to honour ancestors and appease unsettled spirits. Their presence, even if not personally connected to us, can manifest as lingering grief, fatigue, emotional weight, or subtle unrest in the home.

This ritual is not about remembering or appeasing someone else’s dead — that is not mine to do. Rather, it is a spell of petition and protection from spirits, performed to restore peace in your home by tending to the spiritual residue that may be lingering unseen. Through sacred fire, ritual speech, and offerings of fruit and herbs, I petition on your behalf for resolution, release, and balance, creating both boundary and balm between the living and the dead.

If you’ve been wondering how to clear negative energy from your home or how to protect your energy, or spirit protection in general, this spell service offers an ethical and effective path. This ritual is ideal for those carrying unnamed grief, sensing ancestral echoes, or seeking renewed clarity and safety in their space.

Wealth-Fortified Days in Chinese Almanac

This spell service is designed not to chase more, but to help your money stay with you, settle, and become a co-regulating presence in your life.

Timed with Geng Yin and Ji Wei days in the Daoist almanac, this ritual is focused on energetic cohesion between you and the wealth you already attract.

Through altar work, mineral and sigil magic for money, and spirit invocations, I’ll help secure your financial flow, seal energy leaks from anxious spending or overgiving, and strengthen your relationship with money as a steady, supportive presence.

Mid-July this Wood Snake Year offers a rare opening where Western astrology and the Chinese almanac align to support energetic realignment. With Jupiter and Sun trine Neptune, and a sequence of bright, luck-filled days according to the Chinese calendar (Yi You Day flowing to Ding Hai Day), this Magnetism Reset spell is for those feeling scattered, overlooked, or energetically off-track.

Through altar work, sigil magic, ritual speech, and spirit collaboration, I’ll work on your behalf to clear interference, restore your natural magnetism, and align you with the visibility and resonance you’re ready for. The idea is to shift the need from constant hustling or pushing to a radiant composure of attraction.

Friday, June 20 from 6-8 PM PDT
live-stream with recording

Happy Summer Solstice!

During the Summer Solstice, the daylight stretches to its fullest, the most Yang day of the year, according to Daoist cosmology. Yang represents what is expressed, luminous, and alive with movement. At this solar peak, the night (the Yin) contracts to its shortest. This is the season of Fire, of action, clarity, the heart, and the eyes. Yet in 2025, we are in a Wood Snake year in the Chinese astrological calendar — a time when the Serpent, a Yin creature, holds and stewards the Fire, which is also its natal element. Fire, then, is not blazing outward unchecked; it is coiled, discerning, and paradoxical,

In this guided Summer Solstice ceremony, Mimi Young, animist spirit medium and occult educator, will open the séance field for participants to receive messages from the Wood Snake herself, the Fire Element of Yang, as well as loving spirits, ancestors, and benevolent nature beings. We will work ritually to call in guidance, release inherited noise, and access the oracle of the Serpent and Fire within and around us, and through the elemental lens of Daoist cosmology.

This is an opportunity to deepen your animist connection with the Unseen, refine your psychic boundaries, receive spirit guidance, and engage with Fire as an ally.

On Sunday, May 18, Mimi Young, animist occultist will be performing a Return to Sender ritual on behalf of folks who are looking for spiritual aid in the regard. The focus will be to remove unseen harmful energies and influences, and send them back to their original source, cleansed from your field and life. This work is designed to dissolve energetic blocks, untangle lingering harm, and restore your personal field to clarity and strength.

Money spells - witch for hire: Qi Lin Day is considered especially auspicious in Taoist calendrical wisdom, linked to the energy of the mythical Qi Lin—a sacred symbol of peace, protection, and prosperity. This makes it an ideal day for Taoist-aligned spellwork focused on road opening and wealth drawing. The day carries benevolent cosmic support for new and renewed opportunities and material abundance.

When things won’t budge—when applications go unanswered, doors close for no reason, or funds just don’t seem to flow—it’s time to clear the path.

On Qi Lin Day, I’ll be conducting two sets of spellwork on your behalf: one to remove blockages and open the way forward, and one to petition the spirits for financial flow—support that’s aligned, sustainable, and tangible.

This is a remote ritual and private spell service conducted on your behalf. Your role is to simply opt in, and let the work begin.

*This will be the last Magick of Tea gathering until 2025!

Collage making is an art therapy method that reminds ourselves of our ability to show up in our lives in refreshing ways, in ways that we want to. The process itself can mimic a shock or severance, then a processing and accepting that paves way to meditation, healing ritual, and a place to reconstruct.

Sitting with the combined ceremony of Tea and healing collage making, timed with the approaching Winter Solstice, makes the hidden visible.

Join us for this occult course via live-stream (with recording) to usher in the Fall Equinox, where according to ancient Taoist principles or Five Elements (Wu Xing), is about rooting in the Earth Element and envisioning with the Metal Element. The Earth grounds us and grows us, its materiality is what makes our human experience distinct. From this home and body, we are able to wield the Metal qualities of clarity and vision. In many ways, this season of the Fall is likened to potions: both fortifying by drawing nutrients and by expelling unwanted entities. The Autumnal Equinox is equal parts creation and destruction; everything changing all at once.

During the Summer Solstice, the day becomes the longest (associated with Yang, or daylight or the expressed) of the year while the night is the shortest (linked to Yin, or darkness or the potentiated). This makes the Summer Solstice the most Yang day of the year, signifying the peak of summer and Yang-Fire energy.

Join us via live-stream (with recording) to usher in the Fire Season, also known as the Summer or Greater Yang phase, according to ancient Chinese traditions, including Daoist practice. The wisdoms shared and rituals we’ll engage in will not only help us honour the visible, as represented as the Solar archetype, but also to relate with the Yang aspect (sometimes referred to as the Masculine) that has so often been misunderstood or vilified. This continues our year-round exploration of the Wu Xing (Five Elements) according to Daoist principles.

*This will be the last Magick of Tea gathering until the fall!

Collage making is an art therapy method that reminds ourselves of our ability to show up in our lives in refreshing ways, in ways that we want to. The process itself can mimic a shock or severance, then a processing and accepting that paves way to meditation, healing ritual, and a place to reconstruct.

Sitting with the combined ceremony of Tea and healing collage making, timed with the approaching Summer Solstice, makes the hidden visible.

Little-known to many, doodling engages our brains in the theta state. Theta waves, one of the five types of electrical pulses generated by the brain, often occur during meditation, dreaming, or deep relaxation. Research suggests theta waves play a significant role in processing information and forming memories. Doodling offers insights, serving as an oracle and catalyst for our needs to emerge, spiritual healing, and what’s coming into our auric fields.

For this Magick of Tea hybrid gathering (in-person and live-stream), participants will explore a superlative flight of teas, rich in L-theanine, known to heighten theta wave activities. As attendees indulge in these teas supporting easeful, intuitive, and flowing creativity, Mimi will channel personalized messages for the group based on the doodles they create. This deeply psychic and divinatory session promises insights into both the 'Whats' and 'Hows,' providing valuable guidance for participants' next steps.