A Season of Dark and Dreaming
Wheel of the Year Ritual Course
Honoring Winter Solstice & Imbolc
An 3 month, live-online course guiding you to learn, honor and hold community ritual for Winter Solstice and Imbolc, based in rekindled European ancestral ways
November 12 - Feb 9th
(We know life is full, so all calls will be recorded if you cannot make it live)
Our ancestors built culture through together honoring the rites-of-passage of the Earth - her shifting seasons, her endless cycle of death and renewal.
Each threshold was both opportunity and obligation: a time for ritual, story, craft, song, and feast to feed life and keep the great wheel turning.
The Wheel of the Year is an ancient inheritance found across the Earth: a pattern of festivals through which humans once moved with reverence, rhythm, and care.
These celebrations are at the roots of culture,
and calling to be remembered, reimagined and reclaimed!
The Wheel of the Year
For years I’ve been hosting local, seasonal Wheel of the Year celebrations in California and Colorado - gatherings rooted in my European ancestral traditions and carried by the living lands I call home.
And after being asked so much about how to hold these events, I’ve decided to now begin teaching these life-giving ritual ways to others.
Beginning November 12th, we’ll journey through five live gatherings - part mythic exploration, part seasonal teaching, part council.
Together we’ll trace the ancestral roots of these festivals and accompany one another in crafting community or family rituals that bring their magic into our modern lives.
Course Flow
Nov 12th - Hear a folk take, and overview of Winter Solstice (Yule) roots and how to plan a community ritual
Dec 10th – Council and feedback on your Solstice ritual plans
Jan 5th – Share stories from Solstice + hear a folktale and overview of Imbolc roots + ritual
Jan 26th – Council and feedback on your Imbolc ritual plans
Feb 9th – Share stories from Imbolc, integration, and course closing
*All calls will be 11am-1:30pm Mountain Time USA.
In this LIVE-ONLINE course you will Receive:
✴ Five guided gatherings that weave myth, seasonal teaching, and council through the deep winter arc from Samhain’s embers to Imbolc’s first light
✴ Teachings on the ancestral roots of Winter Solstice and Imbolc - how our forebears marked these thresholds with fire, feast, and devotion
✴ Support to craft meaningful home or community rituals that bring these ancient festivals alive in your modern life
✴ Stories, songs, and simple ceremonial arts to help you feed the sacred through the long dark of winter
✴ Seasonal practices to root you in rhythm, reverence, and relationship with the turning Earth
✴ Tools to connect with ancestry and place, even if those threads have been frayed or forgotten
✴ A soul-held container for cultural remembrance - reviving the integrity and joy of shared celebration
✴ Community council with kindred souls walking the path of cultural repair together
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AVAILABLE FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME
About your Guide
John Wolfstone is a Rites of Passage Guide, Initiatory Facilitator, Mythopoetic Educator, and Wilderness Ritualist committed to the remembrance of soul, culture, and Earth.
With over two decades of experience guiding transformative processes, John weaves myth, movement, and ceremony into immersive rites of passage rooted in ancestral wisdom and animist reverence. His work draws from deep study and mentorship in Earth-based lineages, wilderness initiation, and regenerative community practices.
John is the co-director of the award-winning documentary The Village of Lovers, and co-founder of the School of Mythopoetics - a training ground for soul initiation, cultural repair, and ceremonial leadership. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies at Ubiquity University, focusing on the revitalization of rites of passage for a post-industrial world.
Through his storytelling, ritual design, and grief tending, John guides individuals and communities across thresholds of transformation. His facilitation invites a return to deep belonging - with land, lineage, and purpose - offering maps for becoming trustworthy humans in a time of profound cultural transition.
You Might Have Some Questions
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No problem. Every call is recorded and sent out to all participants.
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What you put into this course is what you will get out of it! This is designed to support your learning of ritual craft around these seasonal celebrations. You get to decide how much work you put into your craft. Even just coming to receive is a worthy investment.
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This offering is a non-refundable investment. We trust you to make a wise decision that this training is the right fit for you.
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No worries! Most of us are coming from lineages of ancestral amnesia. We will work with this in the class and offering many resources to begin ancestral reconnection, even if that seems daunting!
Reconnecting with our ancestry can feel daunting. The past thousands of years have been marked by war, displacement, oppression, and trauma. Many of our ancestors both suffered and caused harm, and for many of us, the stories of where we come from are fragmented or lost.
We now understand that unhealed trauma does not simply disappear—it ripples forward through the generations until it is tended. Looking to our lineages can stir deep grief, yet within that grief lies an invitation: to begin the work of healing for those who came before us, and those yet to come.
A Season of Dark and Dreaming offers a way to root into meaningful ancestral practices - song, story, food, craft, and ritual -that build resilience and give strength to meet the grief when it arises.
There is space here for hesitation, overwhelm, and tenderness. While this course is not therapy, engaging in these practices begins to mend the amnesia we carry and offers balm for ancestral wounds in small yet profound ways—one offering, one song, one celebration at a time.
MY APPROACH
