Midwinter Mundane Magic
Presents
THE NADIR
While the landscape of healing and personal growth is booming with opportunities for altered states, peak experiences, and epic journeys, we often act like these experiences are totally set apart from everyday reality.
Last year, inspired by the timeless wisdom of an internet meme (“everyone wants to do ayahuasca but no one wants to do the dishes"), a group of us witchy practitioners joked about making a conference about the boring, practical parts of spirituality—and Mundane Magic was born.
Mundane Magic is an act of anarchic alchemy to integrate our relationship to Mystery alongside folding laundry, exchanging soup recipes, and other ordinary intimacies of daily life.
This year, Mundane Magic is back again for another twirl through the material plane.
Because you can’t just do the dishes that one time…
This gathering is the opposite of a "summit."
The one thing that kept niggling at us last year during the Mundane Magic gathering was the erroneousness of calling this a "Summit." Even with our commitment to the sacredness in the mundane, we still found ourselves pulled by the dominant culture energies of productivity, finding it difficult to access a sense of pacing that allowed for our own integration as practitioners in the midst of the intensity.
This year, as we met to begin visioning about a 2025 gathering, a very specific energy came roaring in to respond to this. Deep rest within primordial darkness. A supported journey through the death portal of midwinter. Dreaming in the lap of the Crone. We realized that this gathering was to be called a "Nadir."
the nadir invites us into presence with the lowest point,
dissolving identities and shapes of the familiar.
honoring this kairos-moment-threshold into the unseen.
Attuning to the energetics of Nadir invites us to consider our relationship to dissolution and unravelling. Within this culture, we fear experiences of disintegration, breakdown, and collapse. But what if the collapse is also a part of the medicine? There are openings and cracks in times of breakdown, windows into other worlds.
“I have come to believe that the great unraveling always begins with a turning inward,” says Liz Koch in Stalking Wild Psoas. “Curling within, leaning toward, collapsing into, landing upon, and diving through are all gestures of return. They denote a vital longing to come home.”
When we fully slow down, we sink into the imaginal, into the felt sense intelligence of our bodies. From this slowness, we begin again to feel the sacredness of time, its spiral nature, those dilations into other worlds in which deeper knowings from earth and the sacred emerge.
Bring your body to this space of holding in which you can lay down your bones with a great sigh, really feeling yourself supported within a wider context of belonging.
Mundane Magic is a live immersion online event over zoom that attendees can weave in and out of according to desire. Participants will also receive access to the Mundane Mycelium online learning portal which will host a community forum and a workshop recording library.
Tickets are available at three tiers so that you can assess your own capacity to contribute with ease.This year in solidarity with members of our community, we are committed to donating 10% of our profits to mutual aid efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Mundane Magic is different from every other event in this field because we commit to providing our presenters with a base rate of pay for their time and service. It may seem obvious but the norm in the field is to ask folks to offer their skill and experience for exposure and that is just not the way we choose to value folks.
Any profits that the event accrues after we’ve met our expenses and mutual aid commitments is split equally between the team.