GaianRhythm

09/04/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who joined our mid-summer Lammas and womens retreats! We appreciated all of the laughter and community, and we wish you all a peaceful integration process.

09/02/2026

We are very much looking forward to welcoming the autumn season in Southern Utah. Just a few weeks away, if you're feeling called we still have space available. Details below:

Shipibo-rooted ayahuasca retreats in Southern Utah near Zion. Two weekends Sept 18-20 and 25-27, 2026, with an optional 5-day deepening between.

07/05/2026

To everyone who came out and honored summer with us across both weekends and the deepening in between, thank you.

You showed up. You sat in the circle. You did the work that doesn't photograph, the quiet interior kind that no one else sees. And somewhere in there, this became a real community, not just a group of people who happened to book the same dates.

We watched strangers become the kind of people who hold each other's hardest moments without flinching. We watched the land do what the land does. We watched summer move through all of us.

These photos hold a fraction of it. The rest lives in you now, and it comes home with you.

With so much love and gratitude. Until the next turn of the Wheel.

06/25/2026

Registration is open for our Autumn Equinox Ayahuasca Retreats in Southern Utah, near Zion.

Two ceremonial weekends in red rock country as the year turns toward its darker half. The equinox is the balance point, light and dark held even before the tilt into winter. It is a natural time to take stock of what the year grew, release what has finished, and sit with the medicine in the quiet that autumn opens.

Sept 18-20 and Sept 25-27, 2026. You are welcome to join either weekend on its own.

For those registered for the second weekend, there is also the option to arrive early for a 5-day Deepening between the two. It draws on traditional Shipibo cleansing practices, where those seeking healing spend several days clearing and grounding the body before entering the medicine space. Purgatives, vomitivos, v***r baths, alongside shadow work, daily sound baths, and quiet preparation. A slower way in, for those who feel called to arrive before the first cup is ever poured.

Three ceremonies. Fresh meals cooked on site. Integration support before and long after. Limited space to keep the circle intimate.

Full details: https://www.gaianrhythm.com/blog/autumn-equinox-ayahuasca-retreats-in-southern-utah-near-zion-two-weekends-plus-a-5-day-deepening

06/21/2026

The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Most traditions did not stop there.

In Hellenistic astrology it is a threshold of sect. The Sun reaches its height and, entering Cancer, hands rulership to the Moon. In Neoplatonist cosmology, Cancer is the Gate of Men, where the Milky Way meets the zodiac and souls descend into matter. Porphyry and Macrobius mapped that descent through the seven planetary spheres. The Hermetica names the Sun the visible Logos, and sets its peak at the very moment the inner work begins.

This is what summer actually carries. Swipe through the full frame.

If ceremony is part of your path, we hold ayahuasca retreats at the solstice each year in Michigan

06/11/2026

Summer is just beginning and we already have three ceremonial containers on the horizon in Michigan.

Summer Solstice — June 19-21 and June 26-28 (with an optional 5-day deepening before the second weekend)
Women's Retreat — July 31-August 2
Lammas — August 7-9

Each retreat includes three ceremonies, fresh meals, integration support, and seasonal workshops. Starting at $900 with a tiered contribution structure.

Registration is open for all three.

https://www.gaianrhythm.com/ayahuascaretreats

06/08/2026

Before you sit, the medication question comes first. It is the number one cause of medical emergencies in ceremony, and the most preventable.

Ayahuasca is an MAOI, so anything acting on the same system needs a clear window before ceremony. Here is the general map, from SSRIs and Prozac to St. John's Wort, stimulants, and cannabis.

Every taper is set with your prescribing doctor, well before your retreat date.

Full guide at gaianrhythm.com.

Educational, not medical advice.

05/21/2026

We speak often of the four seasons. But if you have been to one of our seasonal alignment workshops, you know that each of those four seasons contains three distinct chapters. We are entering one of those chapters now: Gemini season, the mutable spring, the hinge between the fullness of spring and the arrival of summer.

It doesn't get enough credit.

Gemini gets called scattered, restless, too-many-tabs-open energy. And sure, that's part of it. But Ptolemy wasn't describing a personality flaw when he called Gemini bicorporeal. He was describing a structural position on the wheel. A sign cosmologically designed to hold two weathers at once, because the moment it occupies requires exactly that.

Mercury rules both thresholds where the sun turns toward darkness. Gemini and Virgo. The mind stands at both doorways. The ancient world understood the threshold as the most sacred location there is. You didn't cross one without bringing your full attention.

We went deep on this one. The full essay is on the Spiral Journal, link in bio.

The season is open. The mind is awake.

05/18/2026

Spring was still finding her footing when this group gathered. Blankets, robes, and wide open hearts. The weekend was chilly, but the sun came out and warmed us just in time for our daytime ceremony. It never fails. That kind of magic never ceases to amaze us. Beltane in Michigan, and we wouldn't have it any other way.

05/16/2026

Most people know the moon has cycles. Far fewer know what to actually do with that information.
In the ancient world, astrologers understood the new moon as a seeding point. Not a metaphor. A literal moment in time where the condition of the sky imprints itself on the month to come. The chart of the new moon was read carefully, the way you might read the ground before planting. What is here at the beginning shapes everything that grows from it.

This framework comes from Hellenistic astrology, the tradition practiced across Greece, Egypt, Persia and the Arabic world from roughly the 2nd century BCE through the medieval period. It is one of the most technically sophisticated astrological traditions ever developed, and it treated the lunar cycle as a living container of meaning. Every new moon opened a new container. Every full moon revealed what had grown inside it. Every dark moon cleared the ground for what came next.

Working with the moon in this way is less about rituals and more about awareness. It is about knowing what you are moving through, what the sky is asking of you, and what the season is already doing beneath your feet. It is about paying attention.

This month's new moon asks for a particular kind of attention.

The Sun and Moon meet at 25° Ta**us on May 16 in a conjunction with Algol, one of the most consistently feared fixed stars in the ancient tradition. Called the eye of Medusa, Al-Ghul by Arabic astronomers, it has been marked malefic across every tradition that encountered it. Uranus sits beside it at 28°. Mars and Saturn meet in Aries behind it. And all of this lands in the fixed earth of Ta**us, past Beltane, in the season that holds rather than scatters.

This cycle culminates in a Blue Moon on May 31, the third full moon of the spring season. What is seeded at the eye of Medusa reaches its fullest illumination under a moon that only comes around once. Whatever this month reveals, it will not be ordinary.

This is not a quiet lunation. It is a month that will ask you to look at something you have been avoiding. In the earth. In the body. In the material reality of your daily life.

We have written the full lunar guide on the Spiral Journal, including the mythology of Algol, the seasonal correspondence, what Mars and Saturn in Aries mean for the month ahead, and full horoscopes for all 12 rising signs based on whole sign house placements rooted in the Hellenistic tradition.

If you have been curious about working with the moon more intentionally, this is a good place to start. The guide is free and it is thorough.

Link in comments.