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Free Online Event · Ostara: Threshold of Becoming — A Spring Equinox Ritual of Rebirth with Selena Madden
DATE TBD, 2026
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
At the Spring Equinox, light and dark stand in rare equilibrium. The earth softens. Seeds stir. Something long held beneath the surface begins to quicken.
In contemporary Pagan traditions, this seasonal threshold is called Ostara — a festival associated with balance, fertility, and renewal. Yet beyond debates about historical origins and reconstructed goddess lineages lies something more enduring: the archetypal movement from dormancy into becoming. Across cultures, spring marks a return of vitality, a loosening of winter’s austerity, and a reanimation of the imaginal and erotic pulse of life itself.
The equinox is not only a change in weather. It is a psychic and somatic shift. This time of transition invites us to consider where we have been conserving energy, gestating in darkness, or protecting something fragile within. The symbols of the season — the egg, the hare, the rising sap, the lengthening day — speak in a mythic language of potentiality, risk, and emergence. To crack open is to be vulnerable. To sprout is to be seen.
In this lecture-ritual, mythologist Dr. Selena Madden will weave folklore, depth psychology, and living witchcraft practice to explore how seasonal rites can function as containers for transformation. Participants will reflect on the balance of light and shadow within their own lives and examine the deeper patterns of renewal that shape both land and body. What is ready to germinate? What requires tending? What must be left in the soil?
Rooted in the spirit of Witch’s Circle work, this gathering honors the body as a site of seasonal intelligence and sacred becoming. It is not limited by gendered assumptions of fertility or rebirth, but instead invites all participants — of all genders and spiritual backgrounds — to engage the equinox as a universal threshold: a moment when equilibrium gives way to momentum.
The evening will conclude with a gentle, inclusive ritual designed to attune participants to their own emerging edge — honoring balance, renewal, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
Dr. Selena Madden is a mythologist, educator, and ritualist whose work lives at the threshold—where story opens the psyche and ritual rekindles the sacred. She has devoted her life to listening for the old patterns moving beneath modern experience: the descent and return, the dark fertile ground, the ember that endures.
A practitioner of witchcraft and spiritual traditions since her teens, Selena approaches ritual as both discipline and devotion. Her background in dance and martial arts informs her teaching not merely as movement practices, but as somatic pathways—ways the body learns courage, surrender, rhythm, and power. For her, myth is not abstract; it is lived through breath, muscle, gesture, and stillness.
Through seasonal rites, symbolic practice, contemplative storytelling, and embodied work, she creates spaces where participants enter myth as experience. Her work invites the soul to slow, the body to listen, and the individual to remember their place within the living rhythms of the natural world.
DATE TBD, 2026
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
At the Spring Equinox, light and dark stand in rare equilibrium. The earth softens. Seeds stir. Something long held beneath the surface begins to quicken.
In contemporary Pagan traditions, this seasonal threshold is called Ostara — a festival associated with balance, fertility, and renewal. Yet beyond debates about historical origins and reconstructed goddess lineages lies something more enduring: the archetypal movement from dormancy into becoming. Across cultures, spring marks a return of vitality, a loosening of winter’s austerity, and a reanimation of the imaginal and erotic pulse of life itself.
The equinox is not only a change in weather. It is a psychic and somatic shift. This time of transition invites us to consider where we have been conserving energy, gestating in darkness, or protecting something fragile within. The symbols of the season — the egg, the hare, the rising sap, the lengthening day — speak in a mythic language of potentiality, risk, and emergence. To crack open is to be vulnerable. To sprout is to be seen.
In this lecture-ritual, mythologist Dr. Selena Madden will weave folklore, depth psychology, and living witchcraft practice to explore how seasonal rites can function as containers for transformation. Participants will reflect on the balance of light and shadow within their own lives and examine the deeper patterns of renewal that shape both land and body. What is ready to germinate? What requires tending? What must be left in the soil?
Rooted in the spirit of Witch’s Circle work, this gathering honors the body as a site of seasonal intelligence and sacred becoming. It is not limited by gendered assumptions of fertility or rebirth, but instead invites all participants — of all genders and spiritual backgrounds — to engage the equinox as a universal threshold: a moment when equilibrium gives way to momentum.
The evening will conclude with a gentle, inclusive ritual designed to attune participants to their own emerging edge — honoring balance, renewal, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
Dr. Selena Madden is a mythologist, educator, and ritualist whose work lives at the threshold—where story opens the psyche and ritual rekindles the sacred. She has devoted her life to listening for the old patterns moving beneath modern experience: the descent and return, the dark fertile ground, the ember that endures.
A practitioner of witchcraft and spiritual traditions since her teens, Selena approaches ritual as both discipline and devotion. Her background in dance and martial arts informs her teaching not merely as movement practices, but as somatic pathways—ways the body learns courage, surrender, rhythm, and power. For her, myth is not abstract; it is lived through breath, muscle, gesture, and stillness.
Through seasonal rites, symbolic practice, contemplative storytelling, and embodied work, she creates spaces where participants enter myth as experience. Her work invites the soul to slow, the body to listen, and the individual to remember their place within the living rhythms of the natural world.