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Today, with my indispensable crew @salttrailsphilly, we grieved. What a gift to be able to just feel all the hard things, not have to figure anything out, and to be with others in it all.

“The future of our world depends greatly on the manner in which we handle our grief.” ~ Sobonfu Somé

“Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through acknowledgement, validation and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing.” - Sobonfu Somé

Grief is part of our liberation. No one is free til we all are.

And all the while the river flows, and knows.

I gave Lenape Sipu (the Delaware River) the petal in that first slide. It’s wet from my tears, shimmery from my makeup, and Red-like from the dream of the Zinnia.

Let’s take care of each other the best we can. We’ve got miles to go before we sleep. 💞 by @centauress

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What does it mean to wear your grief?

For some, it may be a patch with a name or phrase. It may be a loved one’s shirt, jewelry, or another treasured object. It may be a color, a texture, flowers, handmade adornments, or something that only makes sense to you. It might mean symbols like tears, religious iconography, beings from nature, etc.

There is no single right way to express grief—and you do not need to wear anything at all. Your grief may be visible, subtle, private, changing, or beyond words.

For this year’s Carrying Our Grief community processional, we re-invite you to wear or carry what your grief calls for, with care for the cultures and traditions that are not your own. Draw from your own memories, relationships, and experiences rather than imitating sacred symbols or mourning practices from another community. Draw from the brilliance of the many expressions of grief we have witnessed and worn together in year’s past.

Join us October 17 from 1–3 p.m. at Race Street Pier in Philadelphia. Rain date: October 18.

#WearYourGrief #GriefProcessional #CommunityCare #CollectiveGrief #PhiladelphiaEvents by @centauress

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Everywhere we walk, our feet fall on ancestors.

How often do you remember this?

What happens to our relationships when we infuse them with gratitude?

We all have such busy lives that it’s important to carve out time for a deep feeding of those who have gone before us - not only human, but plant and animal, and elemental as well.

In these times of ritual rememberence, I am so excited to have a place to make offerings and to DANCE for those lost, those living, and those yet to come.

Join us for the ancestor ball and re-member yourself to your soul.

Tickets via link in bio

#ancestorball taken in Summit Presbyterian Church by @centauress

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Our annual community processional takes place next month!

Together we honor the shared weight of sorrow through movement, music, and ritual. Rooted in collective care, this gathering invites participants to walk together in remembrance, solidarity, and the sacred act of grieving in public.

Grief does not look the same for everyone. It may be expressed through silence, song, movement, tears, conversation, prayer, art, memory, or simply the choice to show up. This gathering welcomes the full range of those experiences. We invite people of all ages, racial and cultural identities, genders, sexualities, faiths, abilities, and relationships to loss. We welcome you wherever you are in your grief, whether it is silent and still, or loud and moving.

We ask everyone to help create a space where grief is treated with dignity.

💧Sixth Annual Grief Processional

🗓️Saturday, October 17, 2026, 1–3 p.m. [
Rain date: Sunday, October 18, 2026, from 1–3 p.m.]

📍Race Street Pier, Race Street and North Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19106

🪻Free to attend (donations welcome)

💀You are invited to “wear your grief,” however you interpret doing so. All griefs are welcome.

More details, including information on accessibility and parking, can be found on our website:

https://www.salttrailsphilly.com/writings/carrying-our-grief-together-6th-annual-community-grief-processional

#salttrailscollective #grievingtogether #griefprocessional #griefritual #carryingourgrieftogether by @centauress

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The Equinox is a threshold, a moment of balance between light and darkness, and an invitation to pause and recognize the turning of the seasons. As the natural world begins its movement inward, we too can take a moment to reflect, release, give thanks, and consciously choose what we want to carry forward.

Together, we will create a Despacho, a traditional Andean offering made with intention, gratitude, and prayer. Through the creation and offering of the Despacho, we will bring our individual intentions together with those of the community, honoring our relationship with the Earth, the elements, and the larger web of life that holds us.

Coming together to honor these moments in time allows us to anchor into a bigger rhythm, one that can peacefully hold all that is unfolding within us and around us.

Let’s slow down. Let’s gather. Let’s give thanks.
And let’s honor the turning of the seasons, inside and out.

Location

Phoenixville, Private Residence
Location provided upon registration

Date & Time

Tuesday, September 22, 2026
7:30 to 9:30 PM
On the Autumn Equinox

Link in bio or at VillageWellness.net taken in Valley Forge Mountain by @centauress

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What is an ancestor of soul?

Have you felt a strong connection to a place, a spiritual practice, a teacher, something that you FEEL belongingness in yet society tells you it's not yours? this may be a soul lineage that is your destiny to integrate and embody in these syncretic times.

Join us at the ancestor ball on Halloween night to honor these ancestors of soul.

🕯️ Limited tickets available.

Bring a beloved and save $5 off your ticket with code BELOVED

Link in bio

#AncestorBall
#AncestorsOfBloodAndSoul
#SoulLineage
#SyncreticSpirituality
#PhiladelphiaEvent taken in Summit Presbyterian Church by @centauress

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LOVE IS MY LINEAGE. 🌿❤️

I love this phrase, “Love Is My Lineage.” I heard these words through the work of Lama Rod Owens and indigenous activist and teacher, Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset), and they have stayed with me.

For me, the phrase speaks to a simple but profound question:

What do we choose to inherit, and what do we choose to carry forward?

Our lineage is more than our bloodlines, our names, or the stories of those who came before us.

It can also be the love, wisdom, relationship, and responsibility that we choose to embody and pass on.

Love is where I come from.
Love is what I carry.
Love is what I leave behind.

50% of proceeds from every shirt will support forest restoration in the Amazon through @caminoverdetambopata , an organization working with Amazonian communities to regenerate forests, restore biodiversity, and create sustainable futures.

Because our lineage isn’t only about where we came from.

It is also about what we leave behind.

🌎 LOVE IS MY LINEAGE

Purchase your shirt through Transcendent Tees. Link in bio. or at villagewellness.net/lovetee

And please share this post. ❤️🌿

Lots of love,

Lance & Amy

#LoveIsMyLineage #AmazonRainforest #ReforestTheAmazon #ForestRestoration #Regeneration

@centauress @acupuncturelove @the_heart_of_the_healer taken in Village Wellness by @centauress

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Join Amy Mermaid Isakov for an ongoing series of experiential evenings devoted to shamanic practice, relationship with the unseen world, and the cultivation of deep listening.

This month: August 19 – How to Talk to Rocks
A playful and profound exploration of communicating with the land and the wisdom held within stones.

Shamanism is not something learned only through reading or theory. It is a living practice that grows through attention, relationship, and experience.

Each gathering offers a welcoming space to learn, practice, and deepen your connection with the more-than-human world. Some evenings introduce foundational practices, while others explore specific aspects of shamanic relationship and wisdom.

These evenings are open to both newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Together we practice, listen, and remember the ways of connection that help restore balance between ourselves, our communities, and the living world.

#howtotalktorocks #shamanism #pachakutimesatradition @the_heart_of_the_healer taken in Valley Forge Mountain by @centauress

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Hosted by Amy Mermaid and her crew of beautiful mischief makers, we’ll dwell beyond words where the sacred and the playful dance together.

Holiness can be found everywhere, if you know how to look.
Let’s bring reverence to the ridiculous and ridiculousness to reverence.

Let’s bring extra to the ordinary and wonder to the unexpected.
Because sometimes the deepest truths arrive wearing wings, rags, antlers, glitter... or a really good costume.

What beautiful mischief might you conjure this Halloween? by @centauress

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#beaupart by @centauress

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Who are the ancestors of your soul?

Not everyone we call an ancestor shares our DNA.

Some ancestors gave us our blood, body type, and hair color.

Others gave us our love of a place in the world maybe you’ve never been or the memory of why birds sing.

A beloved grandmother.
A devoted teacher.
A garden.

Some are cultural ancestors whose lives changed the course of history. We share many of these.

Some are mythic ancestors, the stories, archetypes, and beings that have guided humanity for generations.

Does your soul tremble with familiarity to think of Athena?
The Green Man?
White Buffalo Calf Woman?
Kuan Yin?
The Crow?
The Jaguar?
The Cailleach?
Oshun?

At the Ancestor Ball, we honor the ancestors of blood and soul - we honor the story of the body and that of the Mythos. We remember that stars and stone and mushrooms are responsible for our lives just as much as mom and dad.

Who is an ancestor of your soul? What is your relationship to mythic remembering?

Share below.
We’d love to know who walks beside you.

🕯️ We’ll meet where the veil grows thin.

#AncestorBall
#HonorTheAncestors
#HalloweenNight
#mtairyphilly
#illadelph taken in Summit Presbyterian Church by @centauress

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When life turns upside down, try and enjoy the ride. @acupuncturelove and I having good times at the @museumofillusions_philly by @centauress

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