The Balance- Autumn Equinox Container

THE BALANCE
An Autumn Equinox Container with Sarah Fox & Sam Gravestock

17th–24th September

Live gatherings: Thursday 17th & Thursday 24th September
6.30pm–9.00pm on Zoom

plus daily WhatsApp practices and prompts throughout the week.

€144

Efen (Old English) / Cothrom (Irish)
even • equal • level • in balance

Eorðlufu (Old English) / Tenalach (Irish)
earth-love • kinship with the land

At the Autumn Equinox we reach a brief moment of evenness.

Day and night meet before the balance tips and we begin our descent towards the darker half of the year.

But what can the living world teach us about balance?

Perhaps balance is not something fixed that we finally achieve. Perhaps it is a continual conversation between fullness and emptiness, light and darkness, activity and rest, harvesting and sacrificing.

What restores balance?

What must be gathered?

And what must be surrendered?

A week lived through the Equinox
The Balance unfolds over a full week, held between two spacious evening gatherings with Sarah and Sam.

We will meet together for five hours of live teaching, storytelling and practice.

Between those gatherings, Sarah and Sam will alternate simple daily offerings through a private WhatsApp group.

Some will ask you to notice something.

Some will invite you to forage, make or taste.

Some will lead you into story, meditation or sensory practice.

Some might simply send you outside.

We give you the invitations.
You wander off and see what happens.

There is no need to spend your Equinox week glued to another screen.

The space between the teachings is deliberately yours: to walk, gather, make, contemplate, experiment, rest and encounter the season in your own landscape.

Get your hands involved
In a world of screens, scrolling and increasing disconnection from how things are made, there is something powerful in returning to the intelligence of our own hands.

Sam's teachings will bring us into practical relationship with the autumn landscape through foraging, traditional skills, craft, preservation and the everyday usefulness of the plants around us.

September offers its own abundance, and we will work with what the hedgerows are actually giving us.

Rosehips and elderberries into syrup.
Blackberries into vinegar and fermentations.
Haws into medicine and preserves.
Fruit leathers, infusions and jams.

We will forage. Make. Preserve. Taste. Walk. Listen.

These are simple technologies, but they carry knowledge: ways of meeting the land through direct participation rather than simply learning about it.

Story, myth and the inner landscape
Alongside this practical work, Sarah will lead us into the contemplative, imaginal and animist dimensions of the Equinox.

Our stories will include Cormac's Cup, where falsehood breaks the vessel and truth restores it; Demeter and Persephone, and the movement between the upper and lower worlds; Amaterasu and the Cave, withdrawal, darkness and emergence; and An Cailleach, as the land begins her turn towards winter.

Through story, meditation, herbal medicine, embodied and sensory practices, we will ask what these old patterns might illuminate within our own lives.

We will also explore the Irish Three Cauldrons, asking what fills us, empties us and turns us, alongside the Three Worlds and our own place within a living cosmos.

For the Equinox, we're interested in balance not as something rigid or permanently achieved, but as something living.

The balance of taking and giving.

Doing and resting.

Ripening and decay.

Holding on and relinquishing.

Harvest and sacrifice.

We will also work with Eorðlufu, earth-love, and Tenalach, kinship with the land: ways of approaching our relationship with place, season and belonging.

Because perhaps our own balance cannot be entirely separated from the places to which we belong.

The space between is yours
There are two live gatherings.

But The Balance is what happens throughout the week between them.

Time to walk.

Time to gather.

Time to make something with your hands.

Time to return to a beloved place.

Time to notice what is abundant.

Time to notice what is ripening.

Time to notice what is already beginning to fall away.

You don't need to complete everything.

You don't need to keep up.

We give you the invitations.
You wander off and see what happens.

Join us for a week of practical animism through the Autumn Equinox.

THE BALANCE
17th–24th September
Thursday evenings, 6.30pm–9.00pm on Zoom

Daily WhatsApp practices and prompts
€144

Payment & Refund Policy

Payment in full is required upon commitment to secure your place.
Due to the limited number of spaces and the nature of this work, all payments are non-refundable.

If you are no longer able to attend, your place may be offered to another participant. If your spot is filled, a refund may be issued at my discretion, minus any administrative costs. However, this cannot be guaranteed.