A True Names Workshop Retreat
Brownsville, Vermont · September 18–20, 2026: Limit 8 participants
Think of this weekend as a waypoint on your journey. Tom Bombadil and Goldberry welcoming you in for berries and bread. The proverbial inn at the forest’s edge with fluffy beds and hot baths before you continue, pack full of restocked provisions. A necessary refueling for the next step of your journey.
You’re getting stretched thin, stressed more often than you’d like, and/but/also undeniably excited for what’s to come. You know this is a short season as you transition to your next chapter. A sharp uphill climb before the next wide plateau. You do not regret the path you are charting, but you do wonder sometimes if you have the energy you’ll need to get to the other side of this threshold.
The Waypoint is two and a half days at a beautiful timberframe Vermont retreat, less than two hours from Burlington. This is my native landscape, the mountain I grew up with, and I’m excited you bring you into their quiet peace and aliveness. I have oriented this whole weekend around an opportunity for deep rest and reflection, and time to resource ourselves for the next leg of each of our journeys.
What that will look like: You will arrive to meals prepared by an experienced chef; nourishing, fresh, delicious, easy on the body, unfussy in exactly the right ways. To further your effort in choosing intentional moments of care, you will receive a beautiful botanical skin ritual and guided self massage to restore radiance and assist in nervous system regulation, tending to both your outer and inner self, prepared for you by Krista Vincent of Botanical Bodywork & Beauty, a licensed cosmetologist and massage therapist. You will have evenings free to soak in the hot tub under a September sky, to talk with the other people there in the way you can only talk when everyone in the room is navigating something big and new, and there’s no implied “polite” need to be modest or shrink how big what you’re moving through really feels for you.
Weather permitting, we will take one outing together a fifteen minute drive away to the ethereal Saint-Gaudens. Saint Gaudens is the former grounds of a gorgeous 1930s artist’s colony turned National Historic Park, all glorious gardens, graceful sculpture, columned galleries, and gorgeous woods, There will be an optional short hike up Ascutney Mountain Sunday morning; long enough to move any new ideas through your body & get to some incredible views, short enough that you return energized rather than spent.
And woven through all of it, there is the work that will continue to hold you once you leave our cozy bubble of time and space.
Before you arrive, I will have spent significant time with your birth chart, conducting a detailed excavation of the story that has been your life since before you had language for it. The early experiences that shaped you, the years of building what felt like it should be have been enough, and the moment when something in you refused to keep pretending it was the end goal. I’ve found what any given chart points to, when you look at it as a whole, is that what feels like a crisis or a break in your reality is in truth its natural continuation. The next paragraph on a page that started being written the day you were born.
We’ll do that work together over the weekend, using your chart, tarot, and the archetypal story frameworks I’ve spent the last five years developing, alongside seven other people doing the same, talking it through together in the pauses and walks. Watching someone else’s chart reveal that same essential truth, this was always where you were going, has a way of making you believe it about your own.
You will also leave with something to take home: a private equinox ritual, assembled piece by piece from the materials of your own story as it comes into focus over the weekend, designed to be performed on September 22nd, two days after we part. The autumn equinox is a threshold the natural world provides for our good use: This is an invitation to mark it deliberately in a symbolic language that belongs to you.
You will leave (better) rested. You will leave with a story that is true and specific enough that your nervous system can begin to settle into it. You will leave knowing that what you are doing makes sense, because you saw the whole shape of your own life, and recognized it.
Friday evening: arrive when you can, dinner ready, no agenda but to rest
Saturday: Breakfast, chart work & discussion starting at 10am, Saint Gaudens Field Trip with picnic lunch, breathing room, dinner together, evening for relaxing and processing
Sunday morning: optional morning Mt Ascutney hike, story sessions, brunch, integration, the ritual taking its final shape to go home with you by afternoon.
Limited to eight participants. Brownsville, Vermont. September 18–20, 2026.
Astrological weather report: Uranus will be settled in Gemini, the sign of stories, language, narrative. Late degrees of Virgo perfect for getting thoughts organized.
Investment:
Early Bird Rate: $550
After 5/14/26: $650
Lodging and meals included. This price reflects that your presence at the retreat is part of what will build the space, and create the needed environment for everyone else there. Your personal contribution is factored into the cost, like any other service provider.
