THE 12 SACRED NIGHTS

ONLINE DEVOTIONAL CONTAINER

This devotional container is an invitation to step into the ancient stillness of midwinter and rekindle the forgotten practices that once guided our ancestors through darkness, dreaming, and renewal.

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Do you hear the call of the old ways?

Do you feel the remembrance stirring in your bones?

Reconnect & Return to the old ways of Europe. Remember the ancient traditions of honouring the 12 sacred days, threshold of Winter Solstice, Rauhnächte. For twelve nights, from the Winter Solstice through the turning of the year, we journey together through myth, ritual, divination, and the quiet magic of the season. Each night reveals a threshold: a pause where the veils between worlds thin and the voices of the unseen grow near.

I hear the call

The 12 Sacred Nights - also known as Rauhnächte in the Germanic tradition of old Europe. A traditional time to that links us to non-patriarchal times of honouring the feminine power to give, nurture and regenerate life. A practice that is so desperately needed to be remembered in our modern times.

Two transformative weeks of daily ritual, live ceremony + sacred plant kin immersion. 𖦹

You have heard the call of The Cailleach, you have been called to encounter the Great Mother in her spiral centre of winter’s womb.

Beginning - Mother’s Nights 20th December
Opening ceremony

Ending - January 3rd
Closing ceremony & intergration

For the 12 nights we will Journey together through Ritual :

Daily —Dreamwork, visioning + divinatory practices

Animistic roots of the winter solstice, Yule + Christmas.
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Fire + Hearth magic traditions of old
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Herbal Saining rituals with foraged juniper, mugwort + pine

European folk herbalism seasonal allies + ancestral medicines

Plant spirit communion with Amanita Muscaria, Mugwort + Ceremonial Cacao

Dream weaving + lucid dreaming with mugwort + cacao

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Ancestral guidance + seership
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Mother/Goddess Cultures of old, Matriarchal religion, Herstory + Folklore, Deer Mothers, The Cailleach, Berchata + Baba Yaga

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Folklore, animism + the old ways
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Mother Night Ritual
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Cailleach Journey
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We will explore :

Incense suggestions and how to create healing smoke

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The Scottish Ritual of Saining
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The Germanic tradition of the 12 holy nights, known as the rough, smoky and prophetic Rauhnächte

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Winter Solstice Ceremony
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Sharing container to hold you through the depths of winter and the inner child themes and family dynamics that may surface during this season

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Theme + Archetypes for the 12 nights
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Journaling prompts, workbook and live questions

Divinatory practices + seeding for your next year to come

Work with + explore your unconcious mind, intuition, energetic womb and inner oracular vision

Inner work with Cacao + heart opening softening sovereign medicine

Fly agaric mushroom folklore, her story + medicinal qualities

The winter time and preparation towards the winter solstice is a deeply feminine time.

Time of the wise women, the Bean feasa, death doulas, midwives of new life, sorceresses of healing and transformation, goddesses of fate, female ancestors, and protector spirits of the collective.

A traditional time to commune with plant kin, as lucid dreaming allies, ancestral connection, womb tonics and mood enhancers.

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Meet your guides…

Co-creatrix

Freya Broad
Creator and folk herbalist of Sacred Roots Apothecary, Ceremonialist.
Freya has dedicated her last 15 years to communion with ancestral plant kin, bio-regional folk herbalism, ancient ways of Scotland, folklore, tradition of land based ceremony. Freya weaves her connection to the land, plants and womb, devotion to Scottish mythology and passion for remembering the old ways into this offering. She will hold you in your unravelling as the Cailleach strips you bare to the truth in your bones.
Co-creatrix

Laura Durban
Writer, Teacher, Sovereign Sorceress
Laura’s work as a guide and mentor of cacao ceremonialists and priestesses of Avalon has always been anchored in sovereignty and integrity. She will guide you in her Archetypal inner work and mythopoetic alchemy as you step into your most desired rebirth. Laura gre up practising her ancestral tradition of the Germanic Rauhnächte, the 12 sacred nights rituals guided by her Grandmother.

RITUAL BUNDLE INCLUDED WITH THE FIRST TEN SIGN UPS!

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Join before the 15th of December to be the first 10 participants to receive a free handmade herbal ritual bundle to guide you through this journey.

(Worth over £50)

Ritual Bundle Includes :

Wildcrafted Scottish Mugwort or Amanita Muscaria tincture of your choice for dream work & divination
12 full daily doses of Ceremonial Grade Cacao from the original Guatemalan Cacao
Handmade beeswax candle to light your dark nights in ceremony with the sacred dark
Glass jar of wild foraged traditional herbs for sacred smoke, Saining & cleansing rituals
Ritual card for your altar