ESSENCE
PROGRAM AGENDA
November 12 - Mid-Month Gathering 11 am mtn 1 hr
November 23 - Monthly Session 11 am mtn 1 1/2 hrs
ELEMENT OF METAL: Fall/death, grief, loss, value, sense of purpose, spiritual being & janitor: lungs & large intestine. More on Metal here.
- ESSENCE - TREE, LEAVES FALLING, harvest, Value, mineral
- BREATH - 3-5 am
- shorter in, longer out regulates the
nervous system. Can aide in healing trauma
Five Elements Laws of Nature: Metal paired organs - The Lungs & Colon:
- Anatomy of the Lungs Illustrations
- COLON - 5-7 am
- letting go, making a clean/clear pathway for spirit to enter through lungs
FINDING TEACHER - JOURNEY TO UPPER WORLD
LISTENTING
- Listening to the Voice of Spirit Inside You
- Divination - I Ching (how to)
MORNING RITUAL - conecting with lungs & colon
- FIND A ROCK: Essence, minerals keep it and begin to dream with it.
- Stone as Ally & Meditation with Stone
- POWER PLANTS - Building a A Materia Medica
- How to Do A Plant Study
- Broadleaf Plaintain - Read this after the Journey
"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."
— Australian Aboriginal Proverb
NOVEMBER CLASS - 10-26-25
RECORDING
THE CIRCLE: A video for inspiration about the circle. Making your own Wheel of Life that represents you, to know who you are and who you are not.
Sociologist Émile Durkheim tells us communities don’t honor their dead because they’re nostalgic. They do it to reinforce who they are and the obligations that come with belonging. Memory isn’t just person; it’s social fabric. To remember your dead is to remember your commitments.
Theologian John Mbiti described ancestors as the “living-dead.” Not ghosts haunting the edges of life, but active moral presence. The point isn’t to dramatize the supernatural. It’s to anchor ethics in relationship. We are meant to behave in ways that will not bring harm to those who made our lives possible. (From Ancestral Medicine post)
CEREMONY RECORDING FOR October 31, 2025