You're invited: Year of the Bear circle this Saturday
Published 19 days ago • 1 min read
The bear was never called by its name. To speak it was to summon it. Instead, they used hundreds of other names: Honey-paw. The golden king of the forest. The apple of the forest. The old man.
The bear was feared. Never named directly.
And yet it was respected, and part of everything. The rhythm of the year. The turning of seasons. The boundary between the human world and something older and larger.
Hunters found the bear by circling. They would start wide, a vast area of forest and slowly, patiently narrow the circle. Never approaching directly. Moving closer and closer until the den revealed itself.
I keep thinking about that image. And because it's just how my brain works, I link to it to our inner world:
Most of us have an inner bear. A place where our own strength lives. The wisdom, the power, the part of us that knows things before we can explain them.
And sometimes we end up circling it.
We get close sometimes. We feel it. A flash of real confidence, a moment of knowing exactly who we are and what we're capable of. And then we back away. We make ourselves smaller. We decide it was a fluke. The bear gets too real.
The fear of what happens if you stop circling and actually meet it. Claim it.
On Saturday the 30th of May, I'm hosting a free live circle: Year of the Bear.
We'll explore the ancient bear and how the Finns built their undertanding of time around the rhythm of this one creature.
And then we'll turn inward.
A guided visualization journey to find your own inner bear: the strength and wisdom that's been there all along, waiting for you to stop circling and come closer.
In this circle you will:
→ Discover the ancient Finnic Bear Year
→ Meet the bear as a mythological and cosmic being
→ Travel inward on a guided visualization journey to meet your inner bear
→ Explore what it means to stop circling your own power and finally approach it
→ Share your experience in a small group of kindred spirits
Saturday 30th May
19:00 EEST (Helsinki) · 18:00 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin) · 12:00 EDT (New York) · 9:00 PDT (Los Angeles)