Online Immersion
The 12 Nights of Winter
CELEBRATE THE SACRED NIGHTS OF YULETIDE THE WAY OUR
EARTH HONORING EUROPEAN ANCESTORS DID
Winter Solstice December 21th - January 6th
This Season’s Invitation
Turn Inward and Receive Your Deepest Guidance
The Holidays Aren’t Meant to Be Hectic
The Yuletide season is meant for rest, reflection, stillness, and celebrating the return of the light. But instead of tapping into the depths of insight and wonder that deep winter holds, our culture of consumerism, productivity and perfectionism calls us outward into holiday expectations, events, and hecticness.
The energy of the 12 Nights of Winter draws us back into nature’s gift for us in this time: the opportunity to rest, rejuvenate and to align with what is to come by being still and listening for the guidance our Soul is holding ready.
Deep Listening
The 12 Nights of Winter is the time to allow
the seeds of our Soul that want to grow to emerge
Most goals we set are informed by what our culture has deemed important- But our Hearts don’t care about making more money, having more things or having our bodies look and perform a certain way.
Our Heart’s truest desire is what our souls long for- to be all of who we are and to bring that into expression in service to the rest of creation.
Earth honoring people from around the globe honor this sacred time of darkness, and use it to care for their spiritual selves, their body/mind and their loved ones. This time is a special opportunity to access both ancestral memory and primordial consciousness to deeply empower ourselves and prepare for the year ahead.
Between the Winter Solstice (December 21) and the Perihelion (January 3) is when the veil between the physical and spiritual realms is truly thinnest and the spirits and energies of nature, the more than human world, have more influence in the material world than at other times.
In this 12 Nights of Winter online immersion we are guided by the earth honoring wisdom and rituals preserved by middle European wise women.
We use this time to attune to the energies of the Sacred Pause. Through intention and guided meditation we re-align with our personal rhythm, the cosmic rhythms and clear the way to receive guidance and clarity from our own deepest knowing so that we can move into this new year deeply in tune with our own True Nature, not what society and culture tell us we must be and do.
Right Times.
Sacred Wisdom.
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Sacred Space-making
On December 15th - the 3rd Advent - I will send you an email with suggestions on how to create your sacred space and what kinds of altar objects are helpful and appropriate. I’ll share my favorite herbs to use for clearing and dreaming and give you inspiration on how to create your 12 Nights ritual.
I’ll also offer suggestions for art supplies and process to create your 12 Nights calendar.
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12 Nights Oracling
Beginning December 24th - Drawing on ancestral wisdom we’ll sink into the stillness of these 12 sacred nights to receive the energy and visions of what wishes to grow into expression over the course of the next 12 moons.
Each day you’ll receive an email with a guided meditation created and recorded by me and suggestions for self-reflection, divination, and dream work so you can access your deepest wisdom and innate gift of vision.
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Ceremony
December 21st - I invite you to pause and welcome the darkness. You’ll receive an email with a Solstice Story that may give you inspiration in celebrating honoring the darkness and holding the light safe.
On January 6th, we close our circle at the end of the 12 Nights with a Blessing Ceremony for your home, health, and livelihood for the year to come. This day’s email will include suggestions for this blessing and an invitation to engage with the information you received.
Ro Marlen
Wisdom Teacher
Deeply rooted in the European Wise Woman tradition
Ro Marlen is a folk healer and wisdom teacher who has been helping people recover from illness and create healing, stability, and vitality in their lives since 1997. She has studied with respected healers and teachers from around the world and spent a lifetime immersed in the rich tapestry of global cosmologies but her primary focus is on the wisdom handed down by her European ancestors. Her own healing journey has taken her from the miracles of spontaneous healing to the long and sometimes grueling process of recovering from trauma and mysterious illness. She’s particularly adept at teaching the concepts of how healing happens because everything she shares is grounded in direct experience.
Here to guide the ones who have a foot in both worlds
Ro's mission revolves around championing a world that values the beauty of a deliberate, intimately connected existence—one that thrives in slowness and embraces the power of the small. She is here to support those highly-sensitive, spiritually-attuned individuals who don’t fit into our fast-paced, extractive, power-by-domination culture and aspire to be of service and bring change. Ro is dedicated to guiding them through the crossroads of earth-honoring spirituality and culture-shaping to create a balanced threshold where profound transformation happens–for the individual and the world around them.
What People Are Saying About The 12 Nights of Winter
"For the past five years I have been following the 12 Nights of Winter program by Ro and I love ‘doing’ them. As I make my winter interior voyage, Ro’s voice and writings bring me peace, fill me up with magic, and help me feel where I should put extra attention. I feel grounded and in connection with my own body and the earth when listening to or reading these messages per sign and the daily process calms me down, helps me focus better on my day afterward, and helps me understand so much more about these signs and cycles of the year ahead. Each December I share this practice with the friends I feel who would be touched by it and I can’t wait to receive the new one soon!"
— Tamar Baruch , Paris, France
"For Christmas last year a friend gifted me a sketch pad and a set of pastels and shared Ro’s 12 Nights practice with me. My understanding of the Zodiac is minimal but I love how this dark time of year is so potent for reflection and was intrigued to add a little art-making play to the season of deep inward listening. What has blown me away is how "right on" the sketches that came out of the 12 Nights practice have proved to be! Each month this year I've been in awe of how perfectly what showed up on the paper illustrated what unfolded in my life during that Zodiac sign in 2019. From personal learning journeys to career clarity to discovering my partner--it's all there in pastel strokes. I'm so curious to see what shows up as I embark on Ro's 12 Nights this year!"
— Kai Madrone, Eugene, OR
