a year-long pilgrimage into your wisdom
a steady, self-paced mystery school
“..they found messages everywhere: the pattern of birds’ wings, the way a stick fell or a leaf rode the current of a stream. They gazed into wells and skies. And because they were paying attention, the earth, the water, and skies, animals and birds yielded secrets.”
from Red-Robed Priestess by Elizabeth Cunningham
The Mystical year
The Mystical Year is a mystery school.
It will empower you with information about ritual, archetypal wisdom, and the rhythms of the Wheel of the Year.
You will learn tools and symbology that help you understand your process, get your feet onto the actual earth of your life’s path, and enjoy it.
Whether you’re tending your creativity, investing in self-awareness, or answering a mystical call, the “language” of the Darkwood archetypes will help you express, explore, and evolve.
Spend a year
- learning the symbolic language of the Darkwood archetypes
- learning the Wheel of the Year
- learning ritual craft
- practicing rituals for anointing and seasonal honoring
- living a consistent rhythm
- building self-awareness
- befriending Nature
- practicing divination
- living your wisdom
ClassES & Workbooks Included
- 2026 Darkwood Almanac (pdf)
- Year Ahead Oracle Spread workbook pdf and class recording
- Archetype Walk workbook pdf and class recording
- The Materia Mystica (pdf) plus
- Seasonal Primer workbook (pdf)
- Seasonal Altar Craft (pdf)
- Steady support each season
- 5 weekly audio recordings
- daily writing prompts emailed to you
- Seasonal calendar class recording
- Seasonal Year Ahead oracle card class recording
- Seasonal Wisdom class recording
- guided meditation
- playlist
- Access to digital Student Library of all course materials, class recordings, and Student Resource List, which are downloadable
- Fundamentals class (includes Archetypes 101, Anointing 101, The Wheel of the Year 101, and Sensory Wisdom 101)
Testimonials
“Katie has such a special way of helping us all see the archetypes in us. I learned to know myself in 7 new lights, with 7 new dimensions. Katie is a master at holding space. I love when she gets into a channeling mode and just takes us down the path with her. It’s beautiful to witness. The content is unique but feels so familiar. Like I’ve known these archetypes, but they were hiding from me and Katie helped me find them. Her intuition is divine.
— Ally Karge, 2023 graduate of The Mystical Year & Awaken the Wheel
“After studying with Katie for a year, I am more attuned to what is real, to nature, and to women. I have normalized a part of myself that’s been hiding for some time. These teachings are a heritage that Katie has eloquently put words to. Having words to describe our experiences is all-important. I would recommend Katie’s work to every 20 something year old girl ever. It’s natural, a coming-of-age ceremony. Katie’s a rockstar.”
— Lily Ray, 2023 graduate of The Mystical Year & Awaken the Wheel
“In The Mystical Year, the archetypes really gave each season some character and additional medicine that I will take with me and make my own. The way in which Katie taught the archetypes and provided guidance on how to engage with their special magic was like being introduced to a wise being each season, allowing us to be with their wisdom and learn their song of the season. It felt poetic and personal and made a profound impact on me and my mystical practice. I cannot imagine the years of my life to come without the rhythm of the wheel of the year.”
— 2022 graduate
Read more testimonials HERE
Tuition & enrollment
Tuition:
- Early Bird discount paid in full by Dec 19, 2025: $900
- Monthly: $92 due upon enrollment, then 11 monthly payments of $92 beginning January 1, 2026
- For monthly payments, please email our admin goddess, Jess, and she will get you all set up.
Details & FAQ’s
is this an introductory class?
Yes! And no.
The Mystical Year is a comprehensive course designed to teach you the “language” of The Darkwood School, which includes the seven Darkwood archetypes, the eight seasons of the Wheel of the Year, specific anointing practices, and seasonal rituals.
You will learn about each of the 7 archetype anointing oils and how to use them as tools for alignment, intention, and divination.
But!
The Mystical Year is also designed to be the “bass player” for those who have been studying the Darkwood pedagogy for a while now. It will keep you connected, inspired, and in harmony with the rhythms of the archetypes and seasons that you have grown to know and love.
Think of The Mystical Year like a subscription to your favorite magazine — themed content designed to enliven and inspire you year after year.
The Mystical Year will help you create a foundation for clarity, self-expression, and personal evolution for years to come.
how often is The Mystical Year offered?
Once a year. Enrollment for 2026 is open. Enroll HERE.
what are the online classes like?
Classes are recorded each season, so they are timely and relevant. Recorded classes accommodate busy schedules, various time zones, personal rhythms, lone wolves, that wonderful human tendency to want to be together alone.
Each class focuses on the season’s archetypal wisdom and how to apply it to your life, rituals, Work, and creative process.
Classes will be around an hour long. Weekly recordings are usually around 30 minutes long.
what do you mean by “8 seasons”?
The Mystical Year program is based on an ancient European calendar called The Wheel of the Year. In this calendar, there are 8 seasons as defined by solstices, equinoxes, and their midpoints.
The Darkwood archetypes correspond with these 8 seasons.
but there are only 7 Darkwood archetypes and anointing oils, where is the 8th?
Winter Solstice, or what we call “The Dreaming” in The Mystical Year, is a time of deep rest and stillness, a holy hibernation, a sacred void. To honor this time of “no-thing”, there is no oil and no archetype, aside from Dreaming.
does Dreaming season get the same seasonal support, like audio recordings?
No.
To honor restful nature of The Dreaming season, we’ll pause the seasonal support. But rest assured, you’ll still get The Dreaming chapter of the Materia Mystica, as well as a Year-Ahead seasonal card class for your Dreaming season card.
when are The Mystical Year classes, in general?
All classes are recorded and will be emailed to you in a timely manner. We will also put them a Dropbox folder so you can access classes and workbooks throughout the year.
what’s the attendance policy?
None!
You can engage with the course material at your convenience. You will get out of this program what you put in, so be your own accountability buddy.
what’s the refund policy?
There are no refunds. Enrollment means a commitment to pay the entire tuition.
who participates in The Mystical Year?
Participants are all interested in self-awareness, self-expression, and applying their wisdom.
The Mystical Year participants are interested in growth and personal evolution. They are interested in ritual, symbolism, and Nature. These participants have a natural aptitude for study, application, writing, and archetypal symbolism. They are accountable to themselves, and maintain enthusiasm for programs they’ve invested in.
can I teach what I learn in The Mystical Year?
No.
But The Mystical Year is the pre-requisite for the Practitioner Training.
I offer the Darkwood Practitioner Training for folks interested in deepening their experience with my scent divination techniques. If you are interested in offering the Darkwood divination techniques like Archetype Readings, Archetype Mapping and group Archetype Journeys, click HERE.
Intellectual Property: students will enroll with a clear understanding that The Mystical Year is not a teacher training, and that participating in the program is not permission or preparation to teach or practice this material.
Student Contract: before acceptance into The Mystical Year, all students will sign a contract clearly outlining requirements, rules, and agreements.
Tuition & enrollment
Tuition:
- Early Bird discount paid in full by Dec 19, 2025: $900
- Monthly: $92 due upon enrollment, then 11 monthly payments of $92 beginning January 1, 2026
- For monthly payments, please email our admin goddess, Jess, and she will get you all set up.
