FREE TEACHING AND RITUAL GUIDANCE
The Sacred Pause - Entering The Dark
A Free Live Gathering with Ro Marlen
December 12, 2025 • 90 minutes • Online
Winter Season’s Invitation
The Inhale Before Stillness
The Earth is inhaling, and in the trees and plants, sap is being drawn down into thickening roots. Animals are gathering what they need for winter’s deep sleep.
We are meant to move with her, too - preparing heart and hearth for the long rest to come.
This side of Winter is alive with quiet industry: baking and sweeping, sorting and blessing, clearing space for the dreamtime that begins at Solstice.
Winter Solstice. Our ancestors called this the Sacred Pause - the turning point at which every action begins to slow into prayer.
We are descending toward the still point. Down toward the moment when the Sun will seem to stand still, and the deep breath of the Earth will settle into the great pause of rest.
Our earth-honoring ancestors know that to prepare is holy work.
To clean, to bake, to bless the home, and to tend the body - all of this warms and nourishes the soil for the seeds of the new year.
This gathering is a remembering of how to meet that threshold consciously - to allow the pace of doing to slow and the soul to ready itself for dreaming destiny into becoming.
Winter’s Goddess Holle: Keeper of Seeds and Souls
In the old European calendar, these days belonged to Holle - the ancient goddess of seeds, souls, and winter’s cauldron of transformation.
She teaches that death and decay are renewal. That the bustle before stillness is part of gestation. That tending the ordinary within our homes, hearths, and bodies, is a sacred act of world-making.
When the snows fall, the old tales say, it is Holle shaking her feather bed - sending the blessing of rest across the land.
We enter her season by preparing the ground.
What We’ll Explore Together:
In this free 90-minute class, we’ll enter the wisdom of winter’s inhale and prepare for the sacred pause that follows.
Together we’ll explore:
How the Earth’s natural rhythm between Solstice and Perihelion mirrors the breath of the body - movement into stillness, stillness into renewal.
The mythic and practical teachings of Holle, and how they guide us to honor rest as generative.
Old European customs of preparation: the advent fires, evergreen blessings, and household rituals that clear space for dreaming.
A gentle somatic practice for syncing your inner pace with the Earth’s rhythm, calming your nervous system, and opening your field for deep insight.
How this preparation lays the foundation for The Twelve Nights of Winter- the dreaming of destiny between the Solstice and Epiphany.
The 12 Nights of Winter
This free teaching is an introduction to the themes we’ll deepen in:
The Twelve Nights of Winter: Dreaming Destiny in the Sacred Pause
A 12-night guided immersion beginning December 21, 2025.
Together we’ll cross the threshold between Solstice and Epiphany— attuning to the cosmic stillpoint, tending the seeds of our becoming, and learning the ancestral practice of listening for destiny in the dark.
Through daily rituals, guided meditations, and ancestral wisdom, you’ll align your inner rhythm with the breath of the Earth and open to the guidance that the new year is already whispering within you.
Your Guide
I’m Ro Marlen, a threshold walker and wisdom teacher rooted in the European Wise Woman tradition. Since 1997, I’ve been guiding sensitive, spiritually attuned people back into the rhythms of body, land, and ancestors - drawing on decades of study with earth-honoring healers, mystics, and traditions across the globe.
But long before the trainings and teachings, my life was shaped by conversation with the unseen - by a lifetime of walking and speaking with the dead, with the spirits of place, and with the beings of land that still exist and need our tending.
My work comes from lived experience: spontaneous healing, radical awakening, sacred illness, and the long return to ground.
I am here for those who feel too much, who live at the edge, and who know they are called to another way of being.
Enter the Circle
The Sacred Pause – Entering the Dark
is a free live offering and prelude to:
The Twelve Nights of Winter
A guided 12-night immersion beginning December 21, 2025
If this gathering feels like an exhale you’ve been waiting for, the Twelve Nights will take you deeper into the dreaming of destiny -where stillness becomes creation, and the seeds of the new year begin to shimmer.
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