If you've been burned out.
If you haven't been able to find the time in your own calendar, and are craving community support and accountability.
If you are curious about introducing more spirituality into your creative work, but aren't sure where to start.
If you do better as an artist when you're doing a program.
If you are looking for a long-term space in which to build supportive routines and condition your creative muscles.
Then this is for you: a long-term container in which to dedicate yourself to the spiritual practices that support your creative work. You'll be held by us, by the other participants, by your commitment to doing this for six months.
We are going to spend half a year together, with our activities, lectures, and rituals organized around a gardening, grove-tending theme:
Before the Container: Stake Your Plot
Month 1: Examining the Soil
Month 2: Choosing Our Seeds
Month 3: Distributing Fertilizer
Month 4: Time to Water
Month 5: Assessing Weeds
Month 6: Harvest
the recording of our zoom vid & chat!
(aka, what you get)
Every month is organized around a different theme (see above, e.g. "month 1: examining the soil"). Within that theme, we will have check-ins that you can opt into every week:
A live beginning-of-month intention setting & guided meditation
Two live accountability work sessions a month (akin to Jeanna's Showing Up to the Work containers)
One recorded lecture/workshop per month, which may also include suggested spells or tarot spreads, to be explored on your own time, at your own leisure
A private Discord community/server, moderated by us, open 24/7
For anyone who wants to bring more explicit, intentional spiritual and magical practices into their creative practice.
Maybe you believe in the magical while living in the mundane, but haven't been sure of where to start — or of how to connect it to your creative work. We can help. (*and please know that "artist" doesn't mean you're full-time with your art! if you do art, you are an artist!)
Whatever your medium, goals, or dreams, your commitment is enough. You don’t have to be a working artist or a creative professional to join The Grove.
Maybe you have other artist/photographer/writer friends, but maybe they don't get this part of you — the part that craves ritual, that wants to connect with the other-than-human and divine.
Meg Jones Wall is the creator of 3am.tarot, author of Finding the Fool (with two more tarot books forthcoming), and a lifelong learner and writer. They have worked as an events production assistant, still life and hospitality photographer, and for a variety of food startups, among other pursuits. As a Gemini rising, Meg has many artistic interests and hobbies, and uses tarot as her primary tool to engage with them.
Jeanna Kadlec is the creator of the longest-running astrology newsletter on Substack, Astrology for Writers. She's a working astrologer who specializes in counseling artists because she is one herself — she's a lifelong writer and is the author of the hybrid memoir Heretic (HarperCollins, 2022). In her past career life, she founded a lingerie boutique, Bluestockings, that was geared to the LGBTQIA+ community. She's an Aquarius rising with a first house Venus dedicated to doing art (and artistic community) differently.
Together, we are a soon-to-be-married, friends-to-lovers queer couple who both grew up in the restrictions of evangelical Christianity and have found freedom in animistic witchcraft. We are passionate about the importance of art in these Unprecedented Times, and about teaching others how to use our spiritual modalities (tarot, astrology) to deepen and support their creative lives.
What if I can't come to every single live thing?
That's more than okay! The idea of doing a really long group container together is that the structure of it still supports you even as real life (sick kids, doctors' appointments) crops up.
The intention setting sessions, in particular, will definitely be recorded and distributed to all participants, and one of the weeks of the month is designed to be pre-recorded for everyone for asynchronous listening/watching! Plus, the Discord community will also be there for folks to check in with each other and connect over their creative work throughout the week.
This looks so cool, but I can't afford it. Will you be offering scholarships?
We plan to open up one scholarship slot for every [certain number we aren't sharing publicly, thanks for understanding!] of regular sign-ups. We do optimistically want to have at least a few openings available for financially stressed folks, but we also do want to gently remind folks that this is our livelihood and needs to pay our (very expensive NYC rent) before we can give as generously as we'd like.
I'd love to sponsor a spot for a [financially underprivileged / LGBTQIA+ / BIPOC] person. Can I do that?
YES! Email jeannakadlecauthor [at] gmail [dot] com to discuss details.
Timing & Scheduling
The Grove officially opens with our first live meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 with our Happy Hour Meet 'n' Greet on the New Moon in Aquarius. The Grove will close at on July 29th with a live closing ritual on Zoom.
Participants will have access to tarot spreads and preparation resources in mid-January, before The Grove begins, to support your easing into our collective time together. The Discord will also open in mid-January.
The last day to sign up is January 28, 2025.
for all of the live events
OPEN & CLOSE
The Grove Meet 'n' Greet / Zoom Happy Hour: Wednesday, January 29th 7-8pm (it's the New Moon in Aquarius, too good to pass up)
The Grove Closing Convo & Zoom Happy Hour: Tuesday, July 29th 7-8pm
MONTHLY THEME OPENERS / INTENTION SETTING RITUALS (***recorded; these are occasionally not on the 1st of a month so as to accommodate as many people as possible while still being around that end of / beginning of monthly transition)
Saturday, February 1st 2-4pm ("examining the soil")
Saturday, March 1st 2-4pm ("choosing our seeds")
Monday, March 31st 2-4pm ("distributing fertilizer")
Friday, May 2nd 2-4pm ("time to water")
Sunday, June 1st 2-4pm ("assessing weeds")
Monday, June 30th 2-4pm ("harvest")
COWORKING SESSIONS
Monday, February 3rd 2-4pm
Monday, February 10th 10am-12pm
Monday, March 3rd 12-2pm
Saturday, March 15th 10am-12pm
Saturday, April 5th 2-4pm
Sunday, April 13th 12-2pm
Sunday, May 4th 2-4pm
Sunday, May 18th 10a-12p
Saturday, June 7th 10a-12p
Sunday, June 15th 12-2p
Monday, July 7th 10a-12p
Friday, July 18th 12-2p