THE PORTAL
Samhain is the first threshold of the Wheel.
The outer light withdraws, the year turns inward, and a different law begins to rule: release.
This is where the descent starts — not into fear, but into truth — and where courage becomes the entry price.
THEME
Samhain carries the force of release and descent.
It is the moment when what has been lived, accumulated, and carried forward is brought to an end.
Not through collapse, but through conscious letting go.
This portal calls for the courage to face what is no longer alive: old identities, unresolved wounds, inherited patterns, and attachments that drain strength. Here, energy withdraws from the outer world and returns to its source, stripping away excess until only what is essential remains.
Samhain is a purification of force.
By honoring death — personal, ancestral, symbolic —
a man regains access to raw presence, depth, and integrity.
What is released here becomes the ground
from which a new cycle can later arise.
THE ENERGY
The energy of Samhain is dense, grounding, and uncompromising. It slows movement, quiets impulse, and draws awareness downward. This is not stagnation, but gravity: the pull that brings everything back to what is real.
In this portal, there is no momentum forward. Energy turns inward, asking to be felt rather than used, held rather than expressed. What is false loses strength; what is essential becomes undeniable.
Samhain carries an irreversible quality. What is seen clearly here cannot be unseen. What is released does not return in the same form.
This energy teaches a man to remain present with endings, to stand steady in the face of loss, and to discover that depth, silence, and integrity are forms of strength.
ENTERING THE PORTAL
The work of Samhain begins before the gathering itself.
In the ten days leading up to the retreat, you enter Mauna for two hours a day: silence, inward focus, a deliberate clearing of noise.
On Saturday, the 10th day, Mauna is broken together through a ritual sauna and chants, awakening the body and preparing the field for the descent.
Arriving in this state, the gathering becomes a deeper initiation.
Expect moments of clarity, moments of resistance, and the unmistakable sense of standing at the edge of something old.
This is a passage through the darkness — not to collapse into it, but to meet it with presence, so that what must die can die,
and what wishes to be reborn can find space.
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