Samhain Necromancy: Yin Rites of Bones
In this two-hour Samhain e-gathering, we'll explore necromancy, bone divination, and ancestor practice, weaving them into one working for meeting and keeping the dead. Through the doctrine of Jing and marrow, the history of oracle bone divination, and guided writing and ritual work, we'll practice reading what the bones already know, led by occultist and psychic medium, Mimi Young.
Winter Solstice E-Gathering: Yin Rites of Dark Matter
The winter solstice marks the year's most complete dark. This darkness, read by both Daoists and astrophysicists, is anything but empty. What Daoists call xiantian yin and physics calls dark matter is the same, Yin is the majority of the universe's mass, invisible yet present everywhere, confirmed by decades of converging evidence.
What happens at this Winter Solstice gathering?
In this two-hour live-stream gathering, we'll sit with what Daoist cosmology named over two thousand years ago, xiantian Yin, the primordial Yin before her contact with Yang. Astrophysics is only now arriving at the same understanding, termed dark matter, confirmed by recent decades of converging evidence and still never directly seen. But what are the implications of xiantian Yin? Mimi Young, occultist and psychic medium presents Daoist principles and facilitates writing, discussion, and ritual.
YEAR OF FIRE HORSE PREDICTIONS
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…
SUMMER SOLSTICE SÉANCE with the Wood Snake, Fire Spirit and Our Beloved Dead
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.
MYSTERIES OF THE HARVEST - A Fall Equinox Celebration with Animist Wisdom of The Earth and Metal Elements of Taoism
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.
MYSTERIES OF THE FIRE ELEMENT - Honouring the Yang on Summer Solstice
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.
MYSTERIES OF THE WOOD ELEMENT
MYSTERIES OF THE WOOD ELEMENT
Originally offered as a live-stream to usher in the Wood Season, also known as the Spring, according to ancient Chinese traditions, the wisdoms and rituals shared in this pre-recorded e-course can be practiced and observed at any point of the year, especially when one is working with the Wood Element as an ally, or if one is navigating a Wood phase in their life.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens on Spring Equinox, and how to honour the Spring Equinox, it’s a time where the cycles renew, and an occasion to celebrate the Wood Element’s return. The Wood Element is long found in the mythological, cosmological, and magical traditions that is found in Taoism (also spelled as Daoism). Wood is the phase that corresponds with the Spring season, the direction of the East, the planet Jupiter, and the Liver organ since Wood speaks about re-emergence, mobility, and new perspectives. Mimi Young, animist spirit medium shares how to approach and relate with the Wood Element as an ally and without the distortions of a hyper-productive society, through these key Wood wisdoms that is foundational to Chinese astrology and the I Ching.
Rooting to Rise – Wood’s archetype is the Sacred Fool. Wood invites us to step into literal and metaphorical wilderness, to step into new ground, embrace the unfamiliar, and play with experimentation and adventure, all while remaining rooted in our ancestral connections, and devoted in our spiritual practices.
Body Awe – Wood invites us to honour our emotions through movement rather than reflection alone, embracing the potencies and pace of our muscles, our bones, and our skin.
Following the Tao – Wood invites us to not rely on anxiety, stress, or anger alone to get work done, but instead, to follow the winds of the Cosmic Life Force, the Tao. In addition to this, by relating with the Liver in ways the organ truly desires, we can honour our voice, limitations, and frustrations in a way that can prompt creativity and heart-felt inner drives.
Through sympathetic magic, listeners can learn and follow along how to cast animist spells and ritualized practices that conjure and reflect the energies of Wood.
Participants have noted how the course has helped them:
Regained clarity and joy as they navigate new starts and transitions, after the literal and symbolic season of Winter
Gained practical clarity for their situation or next steps
Grew a deepened animist connection with this Element
Embraced the Spring in a paced manner that honours oneself
Renewed into a vivid authenticity, moving from the perspective of time as terror (“I should”) to honouring our unique, innate rhythms (“I want” and “I am”).
Became more comfortable with experimentation instead of staying in stale but familiar spaces
Enhanced greater intuition and psychic skills, and harnessing the mood-affecting properties of Earth’s position with the Sun.
Materials to have available:
pen
paper
candle
cleansing plant such as dried rosemary, mugwort, or CEREMONIE’S SACRED PLANTS CLEANSING MIST (optional)
blanket (optional)
hot tea of choice (or other type of beverage of your preference)
Duration:
~2 hours
TICKETS
$88
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