GaianRhythm

To everyone who came out and honored summer with us across both weekends and the deepening in between, thank you.

You showed up. You sat in the circle. You did the work that doesn't photograph, the quiet interior kind that no one else sees. And somewhere in there, this became a real community, not just a group of people who happened to book the same dates.

We watched strangers become the kind of people who hold each other's hardest moments without flinching. We watched the land do what the land does. We watched summer move through all of us.

These photos hold a fraction of it. The rest lives in you now, and it comes home with you.

With so much love and gratitude. Until the next turn of the Wheel.

Summer is just beginning and we already have three ceremonial containers on the horizon in Michigan.

Summer Solstice — June 19-21 and June 26-28 (with an optional 5-day deepening before the second weekend)
Women's Retreat — July 31-August 2
Lammas — August 7-9

Each retreat includes three ceremonies, fresh meals, integration support, and seasonal workshops. Starting at $900 with a tiered contribution structure.

Registration is open for all three.

https://www.gaianrhythm.com/ayahuascaretreats

We speak often of the four seasons. But if you have been to one of our seasonal alignment workshops, you know that each of those four seasons contains three distinct chapters. We are entering one of those chapters now: Gemini season, the mutable spring, the hinge between the fullness of spring and the arrival of summer.

It doesn't get enough credit.

Gemini gets called scattered, restless, too-many-tabs-open energy. And sure, that's part of it. But Ptolemy wasn't describing a personality flaw when he called Gemini bicorporeal. He was describing a structural position on the wheel. A sign cosmologically designed to hold two weathers at once, because the moment it occupies requires exactly that.

Mercury rules both thresholds where the sun turns toward darkness. Gemini and Virgo. The mind stands at both doorways. The ancient world understood the threshold as the most sacred location there is. You didn't cross one without bringing your full attention.

We went deep on this one. The full essay is on the Spiral Journal, link in bio.

The season is open. The mind is awake.

Our Mid-Summer Retreats are now open, including our 2nd annual women's retreat. Links below for details.

Womens Retreat: https://www.gaianrhythm.com/blog/womens-ayahuasca-retreat-michigan-2026

Mid-Summer Retreat: https://www.gaianrhythm.com/blog/lammas-ayahuasca-retreat-in-michigan-august-2026-weekend-ceremony