by Mary Diggin Ph.D. | Dec 11, 2024
Celebrating Light in the Darkness: An Online Winter Celebration
Fee $0
All are welcome. No imagery experience needed.
Register on Zoom to receive the event link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUude2rpj0qGdfQ3pzN9z4f6ECOfd9_18S4
As the Winter Solstice approaches, Mary invites you to an online gathering to honor the timeless themes of light, hope, and renewal. This short online workshop goes beyond stories and traditions to focus on an inner journey—an opportunity to connect deeply with your own light through the transformative practice of imagery and visualization.
Throughout history, fire and light have symbolized warmth, resilience, and transformation, guiding and uniting people across cultures during the darkest days. From ancient bonfires to modern celebrations like Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, and Kwanzaa, light has been a universal emblem of hope and renewal. These traditions remind us that even in times of stillness and shadow, the cycle of rebirth is always underway.
In this celebration, we will reflect on the ways diverse cultures embrace light as a symbol of faith and festivity. More importantly, we will embark on an inner experience through guided imagery, exploring how to nurture and rekindle our own inner light. This visualization practice will help participants connect with their deeper selves, fostering resilience, wholeness, and a renewed sense of purpose as we move through the year’s darkest season.
Join us for storytelling, reflection, and a collective moment of radiance as we honor the sacred energies of the season. Bring your favorite candle or light source to illuminate our shared journey as we kindle optimism, connection, and gratitude together.
Celebrate with us as we cherish the power of light, the promise of renewal, and the magic of inner transformation during this enchanting season!
Register on Zoom to receive the event link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUude2rpj0qGdfQ3pzN9z4f6ECOfd9_18S4
by Mary Diggin Ph.D. | Sep 29, 2024
November, historically, is a time to remember our ancestors and to engage with any healing our relationship with them needs.
Families carry histories, traumas, cultural ideas; they carry stories of joys and fears, of what is correct and what is taboo. We are born into already created worlds and sometimes need to sift through the ancestral influences to come home more fully to ourselves.
Positive or negative, ancestral influences can impact our lives deeply.
They may give us a sense of belonging, of being held by a long line of people who walked this earth before us and thus increase our sense of self-worth here and now. In other words, they gift us with something enduring and healing.
Or, there may be injuries and hurts, in the family lineage, that have not been healed, and that still impacts who we are. The need to heal the apparently ‘negative’ impact from ancestral injuries can be a gift from our ancestors. Through working with and through these events we can gather our power. By fully ‘digesting’ whatever we have been born into, by healing it so that it doesn’t pass on to others, we can become more completely ourselves, no longer caught by unresolved ancestral or cultural energies and supported by our family line.
In this circle, we will journey to whatever ancestral or cultural event is most in need of our attention and is ready to heal.
Everyone is Welcome
by Mary Diggin Ph.D. | Sep 29, 2024
This presentation will be given during Imagery International’s 2024 Conference: Birthing a New World through Imagery. Visit ImageryInternational.org for information
A Journey to the Celtic Otherworld epitomizes the birthing of new realities and new worlds through imagery. Otherworld Explorers encounter realms of richness and abundance and return transformed with gifts that facilitate self and cultural renewal, allowing their (re)birth, return, re-emerging into a new
existence.
This workshop delves into the rich mythologies of the Celtic Otherworld, where journeys to realms of renewal and transformation are central. Celtic lore features diverse Otherworlds accessible to humans, often depicted as paradises abounding with music, feasting, and eternal youth. Participants will explore entrances to these realms, focusing on the transformative gifts obtained from such journeys.
In tune with the theme of birthing a new world, participants will have the chance to identify what needs (re)birthing and renewal in themselves. They will have the opportunity to uncover their personal symbolism of psychopomps, gateways, and transformative gifts inherent in these experiences. Through guided visualization, participants will embark on an inner journey to retrieve gifts crucial to their current and future needs. The workshop intertwines Celtic narratives with personal exploration, offering insights into the timeless themes of (re)birth, regeneration, and the quest for wholeness inherent in the Celtic Otherworld tradition.
