Recognizing the Dark Night
Understand why life sometimes falls apart before it comes back together. Explore awakening versus collapse and learn to recognize the signs that you may be moving through a Dark Night.
The Blood Moon Initiation Series · Class 1
The Dark Night Portal
Understanding the Collapse Before Awakening
You’re not lost. You’re planted.
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Most people have heard of the Dark Night of the Soul. Few people talk about what comes next.
There is a season where your old identity has fallen away, but your new life has not fully emerged. Nothing appears to be happening—even though everything is changing.
I call this The Dark Night of the Soil.
Because roots grow before trees.
This workshop introduces a new framework for understanding the quiet, unseen phase between collapse and renewal—and recognizing that nothing you have experienced has been wasted.
Registration Is Open
Sunday
September 27, 2026
September 27, 2026
2:00–4:00 PM
Eastern Time
Eastern Time
Live
on Zoom
on Zoom
$44
🐇 Down the Rabbit Hole
What if everything falling apart was not the end—but an invitation?
The Dark Night Portal is a transformational online workshop for anyone navigating uncertainty, identity shifts, spiritual awakening, or a season of profound change.
Through teaching, reflection, shadow work, breathwork, inner child integration, and practical guidance, we will explore what is breaking down, what is asking to be seen, and what may already be growing beneath the surface.
🌙 What You’ll Experience
Meeting the Shadow
Explore the emotions, identities, patterns, and fears that are ready to be acknowledged, understood, and released.
The Dark Night of the Soil
Discover the hidden phase between collapse and renewal—where growth begins long before it becomes visible and the old self becomes nourishment for the new.
Transformational Breathwork & Inner Child Integration
Move beyond intellectual understanding through a guided breathwork journey that concludes with an inner child visualization supporting emotional release, reconnection, and integration.
Restructuring Your Life
Begin rebuilding from authenticity, purpose, and alignment rather than recreating a life you have already outgrown.
✨ What’s Included
✓Two-hour live online workshop
✓Digital workbook
✓Guided shadow-work exercises
✓Reflection and journaling prompts
✓Transformational breathwork
✓Inner child visualization
✓Planting the Phoenix ritual
✓Replay access
✓Post-workshop integration practice
🗝️ Your Journey Through the Portal
I
The Dark Night Portal
- What is a Dark Night?
- Awakening versus collapse
- Why identity sometimes has to dissolve
- Recognizing the signs that you are in one
- The astrology surrounding this moment
II
Meeting the Shadow
- Guided reflection and emotional awareness
- Releasing outdated identities
- Discovering what is asking to be seen
- Exploring what you may be resisting or avoiding
III
The Dark Night of the Soil
- The dream that inspired this teaching
- Why nothing is wasted
- Roots before trees
- Hidden growth
- How the collapse becomes the foundation
IV
Planting the Phoenix
- Journaling and intention setting
- Preparing the ground for what wants to emerge
- Introducing the Planting the Phoenix ritual
- Moving from understanding into embodiment
V
Phoenix Rising
- Transformational breathwork
- Inner child visualization
- Emotional integration
- Taking your next aligned step
🌱 Why This Workshop Is Different
Most teachings stop at the Dark Night of the Soul.
This workshop explores what comes next.
The Dark Night of the Soil is a framework for understanding the often-overlooked period between collapse and renewal.
Instead of interpreting this season as failure, stagnation, or evidence that you are lost, you will begin recognizing it as preparation.
What broke down can become the foundation.
The old identity can become nourishment.
Some transformation happens in the soil before anything is seen above ground.
The old identity can become nourishment.
Some transformation happens in the soil before anything is seen above ground.
🌕 Why This Moment?
This workshop takes place immediately following the September Full Moon, during the beginning of Libra season—a symbolic threshold between culmination and restructuring.
The Aries–Libra axis brings attention to the balance between the authentic self and the identities, roles, and relationships we have built around other people.
With the Sun in Libra opposing Neptune in Aries while forming supportive connections with Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, the astrology reflects themes of dissolving outdated identities, awakening to new possibilities, reclaiming authenticity, and rebuilding life from a more aligned foundation.
Several slower-moving planets are also retrograde, symbolically turning attention inward and inviting us to revisit the structures, beliefs, dreams, and collective patterns that are ready to change.
Signs of Transformation in Your Own Chart
We will also briefly explore astrological indicators that may suggest you are personally entering—or already moving through—a profound period of transformation.
- Major transits from Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, or Chiron to your Sun, Moon, Rising sign, chart ruler, or personal planets
- Transits activating the angles of your chart: the Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, or IC
- Eclipses or lunar nodes contacting important natal placements
- Strong activation of the 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, or 12th houses
- Saturn returns, Uranus oppositions, Chiron returns, and other major developmental cycles
- Repeated themes involving identity, home, relationships, purpose, endings, rebirth, and spiritual awakening
We will consider both the personal story in your natal chart and the larger collective cycles unfolding around us. You do not need previous astrology knowledge to participate.
Astrology is used in this workshop as a reflective and symbolic tool for self-exploration.
🪞 Is This Your Invitation?
This experience may be for you if you are navigating:
- A major life transition
- Identity shifts
- Spiritual awakening
- Loss or uncertainty
- Feeling caught between an old life and a new one
- A relationship, role, or direction that no longer fits
- Patterns or emotions asking to be acknowledged
- A desire to rebuild with authenticity and purpose
You do not need astrology experience or a perfect understanding of shadow work.
You only need to feel that something is changing—and that you are ready to understand what it may be asking of you.
You’re not lost.
You’re planted.
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The Dark Night Portal
Understanding the Collapse Before Awakening
Sunday, September 27, 2026
2:00–4:00 PM ET
Live on Zoom $44
Step Through the Portal
2:00–4:00 PM ET
Live on Zoom $44