Join us to prepare for and give honour to the arrival of the Fire Horse, a double fire year, since Fire is also the Horse’s native element. Expect the year to feel highly excitable and hot blooded.

Here’s a glimpse of what we’ll explore in our 2026 Lunar New Year online event for the Chinese Year of the Fire Horse (note other east Asian traditions also follow the lunar calendar, but I will be exploring this within the context of Chinese astrology):

Spark and Scope: Igniting Creative Charge

We open with art mediumship and automatic writing to name the year’s core desire and define scope. We’ll discuss the need to cultivate momentum with guardrails to avoid burnout or simply travelling quickly in the wrong direction. Techniques focus on stabilizing inspiration, transforming bursts of enthusiasm into sustained creation, while honouring the Horse’s instinct for freedom and passion.

Cadence and Capacity: Building Momentum Without Burnout

Horses move in gaits, and Fire moves in phases…

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.

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.

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.