Sundays February 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 2-3.30 pm EST/New York City time
Admission: $130 Patreon members / $150 General admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that timeStudents can register after the start time and receive a streaming link to class recordings via email.

“If you knew what the dead had to teach you, you would know how to live.” —Our Lady of Woodstock

Beneath our feet is the soil of our lives, the ancestral wisdom of the dead, out of which all beings emerge and grow. This is the idea at the core of ancestor veneration, practiced by people around the world for millennia. Drawing on these traditions, this four-week class aims to put us in touch with lost rituals to enable us to access the nourishment that comes from our own roots.

Over the course of this class, we will learn about the art of offerings, summoning spells, miracle cultivation, the guidance of animal allies, and the power of connecting with the subterranean rivers of renewal and rebirth within our own psyches. What does it meant to collaborate with our ancestors beyond patriarchy, beyond anthropocentrism, beyond time itself?

Each week will include an interactive Zoom workshop (recorded) and daily assignments, conversations and explorations as part of a private Facebook group. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and storytelling.

Week 1: Summoning the Dead: Opening the Conversation

Who are our dead? How do we identify them? How do we move beyond patriarchal lineages into the complex entanglements of karmic and biological root systems? How do we invite the dead into our lives? How do we recognize them when they show up?

Week 2: Collaborating with the Dead: How to Grow a Miracle

How do we create beneficial relationships of healing and empowerment with the dead? Why do we have to give the dead something to do? What kind of assignments are appropriate? How do we work with the difficult dead, those beings with whom we are still angry or mistrustful?

Week 3: Communicating with the Dead: Animal Allies as Oracles

How do the animals in our lives act as messengers from beyond the veil? What do they have to teach us about death and dying? What does it mean to be an animal again in our relationship to the unseen world?

Week 4: Becoming the Dead: Rebirth, Renewal, and Reunions

What happens in our lives when we reconnect with the long story of our souls? How do we do this? How does reincarnation “work?” Who have we been? Who will we be? What does it mean to recognize ourselves once again as the dead?

Perdita Finn is the co-author of The Reluctant Psychic (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) and, with her husband Clark Strand, The Way of The Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary (Spiegel & Grau, 2018.) Her book Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead (Running Press) will be published in Fall 2023. A longtime devotee of the earth, Perdita has studied with mystics and shamans, Zen masters and naturalists, but her greatest teachers have been the dead themselves. She is the co-founder of The Way of the Rose, an international rosary fellowship dedicated to the earth and the Lady by any name you like to call Her. You can find out more about her work at wayoftherose.org

Image: Fatalisme, Jan Toorop, 1893