Turning Night - LIMITED TIME AND SPOTS

A Once-Only Wild Magic Working

There are some things we can be patient with! And then there are things that have simply gone on for too long. I know many of you know exactly what I mean.

A situation you have thought about a hundred times. Something you have tried to understand, repair, wait out, reason with, forgive, push forward or somehow find your way around.

A relationship that keeps slipping back into the same place.

Money that never seems to move.

A decision that will not come.

A home, a job, a conflict, a period of bad luck, a closed road, a situation that has gathered so much weight that you can almost no longer remember what it felt like before you were carrying it.

Sometimes we need patience or healing or all the other things. And sometimes, sweetheart, something simply needs to turn.

That is what I am opening this work for. At the end of October. This is one of my favourite times of the year to work outside. And this is not just because it's pretty, beause of course it is.The copper leaves, the low light, the mist hanging over the fields in the morning. But by late October, something else begins happening here. The softness disappears.

The last green things begin collapsing back into the ground. Leaves that held tightly to the trees only weeks before are suddenly everywhere under my feet. The earth smells darker. The wind has teeth in it again. Rain comes sideways across the fields, and by late afternoon the light is already disappearing.

Everything is letting go. Summer does not slowly negotiate with the trees about whether they are ready.

I have worked through this change for many years, and some of you have been with me through more than one of these autumns already.

You know that I have always paid attention to what is happening outside around my work. The things growing and dying. The strange quality some places take on for a few weeks and then lose again. The living world is part of the work.

And this year, during these final days of October, I want to use this great natural turning for something I have not offered before. The Turning Night. 

I am opening a limited number of places in one large Wild Magic working.

Each person may bring me one situation that needs to change direction. That is all.

It can be about love. Money. Work. A conflict. A decision. Luck. A relationship between people. Something you desperately want to move toward you. Something you desperately need to stop moving away. Something that keeps repeating. Something you simply cannot continue living inside in the same way. You do not have to decide which kind of spell it would normally belong under.

Just tell me:

What needs to turn?

And:

Which way do you want it to move?

That is enough for me. 

What I will do

I will take every person into the work individually by name and intention, but The Turning Night itself will be performed as one large ritual outside. I have not chosen every detail yet. And I do not want to.

I know the structure of the work. I know what I am going there to do. I know the forces I want to work with. But I also want the night itself to have a say. I will choose the final place according to the weather and what the land feels like in those last October days. I want cold. I want wet earth beneath me, darkness around me and the smell of leaves breaking down into the ground. There will be things carried away, things turned, things released and things asked to move in another direction.

And there will probably be parts of the ritual I do not know until I am standing there. That is normal in my work. Sometimes I feel very clearly that I am not to do a particular thing, and I leave it alone. I have learned over the years not to argue with that.

This is one of the reasons I cannot give you a neat list beforehand of every object I will use and every action I will take. You are not buying instructions. You are giving me something to work with.

And I will do the working.

Do not write me a novel. You may write a few sentences. Send your information in the same way after purchase in ONE e-mail at alva_spells@hotmail.com 

Many of you have trusted me with very personal parts of your lives over the years, and I do not take that lightly. I know there are stories behind these few sentences. I know sometimes an entire year of grief, anger, hope or frustration can sit behind one simple line.

You do not have to prove any of that to me. Tell me what I need to know. Then let me carry it into the work. I will take care of the rest.

What can be brought to The Turning Night?

Maybe you have been waiting for someone to make a decision.

Maybe you have been trying to get your finances out of the same exhausting cycle.

Maybe something in your work or business has stalled.

Maybe a relationship has become locked in a pattern neither of you seems able to break.

Maybe luck itself has felt strange lately, as though every small thing has been moving against you.

Maybe you need something that has been fading to turn back toward you.

Or something that keeps returning to finally turn away.

Maybe you cannot even explain why a particular part of your life feels wrong anymore.

You simply know: I cannot keep doing this in the same direction.

Bring me that.

This work belongs to one night When the night is over, the work is finished. I do not know if I will offer The Turning Night again next year. Perhaps I will. Perhaps something entirely different will be waiting for me then.

Afterwards: 

After I have completed the ritual, I will send you photographs from the night and a written message from me about the working, what I did and how I approached it. And then I want you to let it move.

This is limited to 20 spots.