The Solstice Oracle: A Ritual of Creative Awakening

Creative energy thrives in the dark season—when the light thins, the dark deepens, and the inner world grows brighter than the outer one. The Solstice invites us into the winter cave, away from the rush, where what feels dried out, stretched thin, overwhelmed, or creatively muted can finally be met..

Through the striking symbolic images of Kim Krans’ Wild Unknown Archetypes as our portal into what’s ready to be released and what’s asking to be reclaimed. Because archetypes tap us into the collective field—igniting creativity bigger than the personal self—we move intuitively and write from the body, letting sensation and image lead. The writing becomes a flame: warming what’s frozen, revealing what’s buried, and opening a deeper imaginative channel. Moving between page and movement, stillness and expression, witnessing and being witnessed, we tend the small creative fire that survives even the longest night before closing in Solstice ritual—honoring what’s ending, what’s beginning, and the light you choose to carry forward.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Archetype card pull to evoke and awaken creative energy
• Embodied creative writing
• Partner and Group Witnessing
• Intuitive, guided movement to regulate the nervous system and open the creative channel
• Embodied Astrology
• Seasonal ritual and holding aligned with the thresholds of the Solstice
• Time on the land between sessions for integration and creative play/flow/writing time

YOU WILL LEAVE WITH

• Fresh access to your creative energy
• A deeper ability to hear yourself clearly—in relationship with others and the Earth
• A surprising piece of writing that reveals hidden layers
• Clarity around what you’re ready to call in creatively for the new year
• A grounded reset from the holiday overwhelm, with practices to return to yourself in the year ahead

Agenda:

Light Session: 1:30–3:30

Land Integration/Break: 3:30–4:30

Dark Session: 4:30–6:30

EXCHANGE

$88

A limited number of reduced-rate spots are available. If you’re feeling called to this gathering but cost is a barrier, please reach out to me personally at kellyjocreativehealing@gmail.com so we can hold a place for you and meet you where you are.

BRING

Clothes you can move in, a journal, a pen, and an object that connects you to your creative energy for the artists altar(you leave with it we don’t keep it)

FACILITATED BY

Creative coach and guide Kelly Jo Lillianwith Art Tonrasol, Diviner & Ritualist

WHERE

Crescent Farm Studio1201 Bruynswick Rd., Gardiner, NY(Please park in the adjacent driveway one north toward New Paltz.)

Your Guides:

Your Guide

Kelly Jo Lillian is a writer, creative guide and coach, and trauma-informed educator and space holder with over a decade of experience helping people reconnect with their voice, creativity, and sense of aliveness. Rooted in her background in theater, poetry, and 11 years of trauma-informed teaching in the South Bronx, she now blends writing, movement, and spiritual practice to create spaces of deep transformation. Currently training as a Body Temple Dance teacher, Kelly Jo guides individuals to awaken and unblock their creative energy, align with their gifts, and rediscover the joy of expression in service of themselves and the collective.

With: Art Tornasol (they/them) is a diviner and ritualist whose work weaves astrology, somatics, shadow exploration, erotic wisdom, and the playful mischief-making of the trickster. After a decade of moving through healing spaces with curiosity as their guide their offerings center care, reclamation, and the alchemy that unfolds when the seen and unseen meet, drawing from earlier experiences co-creating ecstatic dance circles, sharing yoga, offering readings and Reiki energy work, and holding intimate ritual spaces that invite participants to meet thresholds like the solstice with presence, wonder, and re-enchantment.