You want to hear about the free thing first, don’t you? (YES!)
Well, this Sunday I am going to be hosting a workshop for poet-friends to gather together in the abundance of the Autumn Equinox.
Consider it like a Poetry Party, with a little extra ritual, retreat and revision vibes.
Whilst this is a taster for my upcoming course The Enchantment it is also a wonderful opportunity, if you’ve been curious about the Poetry Party or have considered becoming a paid subscriber, to slip into time outside of time with me. It’ll be fun.
Read more below, and sign up already!
Equinox Workshop
Join Heather Mackay Young on the Autumn Equinox for a free poetry workshop as a taster session for the upcoming course The Enchantment (of ritual, retreat and revision). Bring your notebook, some loose paper, your favourite pen, and some fruit to celebrate the harvest.
Sunday 22nd September 2024
3pm UK | 7am Pacific | 8am MT | 10am EST (for 1 hour)
please check local timezones
This workshop will be held via Zoom and the link will be sent out a couple of hours before the call therefore you must register to receive the information you need to be
part of the magic my loves.
Register here
Stay with me, this is important.
Have you ever been in the abyss?
Of course you have.
In one of my oracle decks there is a card called ‘No-thingness’ which is essentially ‘the gap’ or ‘the space between’. Whatever we call it, it is a space of uncertainty, unknown, there is nothing to grasp, nothing to hold onto, you have to surrender to the darkness and inhabit that (uncomfortable) space of not knowing what is next. But that is the place of pure potential where magic is born.
The Enchantment came to me in this space, received as a ‘download’ channeled through meditation, with clear instruction (and a little bit of sass from my guides) to offer this as it was told to me. It almost arrived like a fully formed poem—a rare wonder for me, therefore trustworthy and super exciting. Why am I telling you this? Because The Enchantment is special. I want to be in it as much as you. If you bring your curiosity and wonder and wholehearted YES, I guarantee magic will happen—and not only to your poems during the alchemy of revision, but to you as the poet, and to the poem you are living in.
The Enchantment is rooted in nature—Land, Sea and Sky—taking you and your poems on an elemental journey. Revision will be guided by the elements: Spirit, Earth, Water, Air, Fire. Trust me, this is a whole new way to experience your poems and to enchant your poetic life.
I am in, sign me up (or keep reading…)
The Enchantment
Join Heather Mackay Young on an online course to experience the enchantment of ritual, retreat and revision, guided by the elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Spirit.
Turning inward with the season and cycles, you are invited into seven weeks of alchemy, beginning on the New Moon in November and sailing towards Winter Solstice, journeying through Land, Sea and Sky.
This is your time to light a candle, set an intention, honour the Wheel of the Year. It’s time to clear the clutter and take thoughtful action, to place energy on work-in-progress and experience the essence of who you are as a poet in the world by taking time to finesse poems that are tinctures for these times.
You will be held in a nourishing community alongside poet-friends, stirring the creative cauldron, distilling the essence and transforming catharsis into craft.
You will be guided and grounded. Your work, steered by poems and prompts, thoughtful feedback and revisions that invite your poems to become solid as stone, spacious as sky, wild as waves. Enchanting.
Read more and register here: The Enchantment
Note: Early bird price is valid until Friday 20th September. Limited spaces available. Ask me any questions in the comments section.