A 13-Lunation Year-and-a-Day Initiation in Somatic Medicine, Ancestral Folk Craft & Biofield Containment
Embodied Witch Academy
Opening Fall 2027 | Trumansburg, NY & Hybrid Online
The word witch has historically belonged to the animists, the herbalists, the mid-wives, the boundary-keepers, and the practical community healers.
This school is not a flight away from the earth, but a deeper descent into the soil, the seasons, the soma, and the bloodlines.
Much of modern spirituality has severed us from the land beneath our feet and erased the memory of our ancestors. We have been taught to seek wisdom through commercialized, disembodied practices that leave us feeling rootless, exhausted, and disconnected from our own heritage.
The Embodied Witch Academy is a return to root, hearth, and bloodline.
This year-round, 13-lunation initiation is designed to re-weave you into the natural intelligence of the earth and reconnect you with the traditional folk-healing practices, protection lore, and seasonal wisdom of your own ancestral lineages. Through land attunement, elemental alliance, threshold warding, and hearth craft, this academy offers a grounded, decolonized framework to reclaim your innate lineage gifts and inhabit your life with intention and quiet sovereignty.
The Three Pillars of the Academy
Seasonal Attunement & Land Rhythm
Learn to listen to the subtle shifts of the soil, light, and seasons. Align your home, energy, and daily practices with the 8 threshold gateways and the living cycles of the moon rather than linear output.
Ancestral Healing & Folk Craft
Reconnect with the traditional folk-healing practices, protection lore, hearth craft, and herbal wisdom of your own bloodlines. Unearth decolonized root traditions, lineage repair practices, and the ways of the cunning folk.
Energy Alignment & Threshold Magic
Master foundational folk protection, space cleansing, candle lore, pantry herbalism, threshold warding, and practical divination tools to build an authentic, contained, and sovereign practice.
The 13-Lunation Academy Calendar (2027–2028)
Every Gateway spans an exact 29-day lunar cycle, centering the seasonal Sabbat at its peak:
Gateway I: The Ancestral Threshold (Late Autumn)
Dates: October 18, 2027 – November 15, 2027
Apex Anchor: Samhain / Halloween (October 31–November 1)
Core Focus: Lineage reverence, veil-work, ancestral altar craft, and threshold warding.
Gateway II: The Deep Freeze (Mid-Winter Entry)
Dates: November 16, 2027 – December 14, 2027
Apex Anchor: Late Autumn Frost / Blood Moon Threshold
Core Focus: Hearth magic, candle lore, guarding the internal flame, and winter stillness.
Gateway III: The Solstice Stillness (Mid-Winter Peak)
Dates: December 15, 2027 – January 12, 2028
Apex Anchor: Winter Solstice (December 21)
Core Focus: Acoustic drum journeying, dark-moon rest, winter tree alliance, and quiet reflection.
Gateway IV: The Sap-Rising (Late Winter)
Dates: January 13, 2028 – February 10, 2028
Apex Anchor: Imbolc / Milk Tide (February 1–2)
Core Focus: Water medicine, lustration rites, hearth purification, and tuning to rising vital currents.
Gateway V: The Awakening Ground (Early Spring)
Dates: February 11, 2028 – March 10, 2028
Apex Anchor: Late Winter Thaw / Snow Melt
Core Focus: Spring floor washes, clearing dormant home energy, and awakening soil connection.
Gateway VI: The Equinox Balance (Spring Equinox)
Dates: March 11, 2028 – April 8, 2028
Apex Anchor: Spring Equinox (March 20)
Core Focus: Seasonal Tarot, elemental balance, seed blessing, and kinetic spring rites.
Gateway VII: The Vital Force (High Spring)
Dates: April 9, 2028 – May 7, 2028
Apex Anchor: Beltaine / High Spring (May 1)
Core Focus: Plant spirit communication, vital force activation, land offerings, and bloom sovereignty.
Gateway VIII: High Summer Expansion (Early Summer)
Dates: May 8, 2028 – June 5, 2028
Apex Anchor: Pre-Solstice Bloom
Core Focus: Sustainable wildcrafting, local plant allyship, and summer sun practices.
Gateway IX: Peak Light (Summer Solstice)
Dates: June 6, 2028 – July 4, 2028
Apex Anchor: Summer Solstice (June 20)
Core Focus: Solar magic, astro-seasonal mapping, solar herbalism, and honor rites for the light.
Gateway X: First Harvest (Late Summer)
Dates: July 5, 2028 – August 2, 2028
Apex Anchor: Lughnasadh / Grain Harvest (August 1)
Core Focus: Food and bread medicine, grain lore, kitchen witchery, and intentional tea formulation.
Gateway XI: The Ripening Soil (Mid-Harvest)
Dates: August 3, 2028 – August 31, 2028
Apex Anchor: High Harvest Heat (August 17)
Core Focus: Land gratitude rites, harvesting roots, processing yield, and preserving folk remedies.
Gateway XII: The Second Harvest (Autumn Equinox)
Dates: September 1, 2028 – September 29, 2028
Apex Anchor: Autumn Equinox (September 22)
Core Focus: Traditional home/property protection using iron, local herbs, and physical seals; diagnostic divination systems.
Gateway XIII: The Dark Return & Lineage Completion (Year-and-a-Day Completion)
Dates: September 30, 2028 – October 28, 2028
Apex Anchor: The Dark Moon leading through Samhain Rites
Core Focus: Bloodline lineage repair, ancestral blessing rites, and sovereign practitioner completion.
WHY WE TEACH IN LUNAR RHYTHMS
Modern culture measures time in a straight, unyielding line—demanding constant productivity, endless output, and non-stop exertion. But the earth does not move in a straight line, and neither did our ancestors.
In The Embodied Witch Academy, we reject linear burnout culture. Instead, we anchor our entire year-round curriculum in 13 distinct 29-day lunations. Every single Gateway breathes with the natural waxing and waning of the moon, giving you a structured, predictable rhythm that honors how human beings actually learn, heal, and integrate deep wisdom.
How a 29-Day Lunation Works
Inside every Gateway across the year, your study moves through four distinct phases:
Waxing Moon (days 1-13)
The Seed → Study, Grimoire Manuals & Audio Transmissions
Full Moon (days 14-15)
The Apex → Live Seasonal Gathering, Sabbat Rites & Drum Journey
Waning Moon (days 16-24)
The Practice → Lineage Research, Hearth Craft & Home Warding
Dark Moon (days 25-29)
The Fallow → Complete Rest, Integration & Quiet Soil
How This Rhythm Directly Benefits You
An Antidote to Spiritual Burnout
Many spiritual programs overwhelm you with endless videos, daily homework, and high-pressure deadlines. By building a guaranteed 5-day Fallow Period into every single month, we give your mind and nervous system explicit permission to rest. No new content is dropped, no live calls are held. You are given space to simply be, allowing the medicine to settle into your bones rather than remaining an intellectual exercise.
Practical Integration at Your Own Hearth
Wisdom that stays in a notebook is useless. Our 4-phase monthly cadence gives you dedicated space during the Waning Moon to take what you’ve learned out of the classroom and apply it directly to your home. You will have unhurried time to unearth your family history, scrub your doorposts with protective herbal washes, brew pantry remedies, and set up ancestral altars without feeling rushed.
Alignment with True Folk Tradition
Pre-industrial folk healers and cunning folk never worked at maximum capacity 365 days a year—they worked with the light of the land and sky. By practicing within this 29-day breathing cycle, you aren't just studying earth-based spirituality; you are actively living it. You learn how to ride expansion when energy is high, and how to retreat into darkness when it is time to restore.
Deep, Safe Processing for Lineage Repair
Unearthing bloodline history, recovering forgotten ancestral traditions, and processing generational patterns can be profound and emotional work. The built-in containment of the monthly Dark Moon ensures you always have a safe, predictable harbor to digest ancestral realizations, ground your energy, and return to center before the next cycle begins.
You do not need to alter your busy life to fit into the Academy—the Academy is designed to bring natural rhythm and peaceful containment back into your life. Through this 13-moon framework, you will graduate
not only with a deep mastery of ancestral folk craft, but with a sustainable, lifelong rhythm that keeps you grounded, rooted, and nourished for years to come.
A Note on the Fall 2027 Academy Launch:
Our upcoming 2-hour Sunday Intro Workshops (Fall 2026 – Spring 2027) serve as standalone previews of the practices taught in our flagship 13-Lunation Initiation opening in Fall 2027. We are currently offering these introductory workshops in both in-person and virtual formats to gather our community and shape the upcoming cohort experience. Official format details and application dates for the 2027–2028 Academy will be announced in Early 2027.
Join the Fall 2027 Academy Waitlist
Enrollment for the inaugural 13-Lunation Embodied Witch Academy cohort opens in Summer 2027. Space is strictly limited to ensure high containment and intimate processing.
Join the waitlist below to receive early priority enrollment, preview curriculum drops, and receive invitations to upcoming seasonal Sabbat circles.