The Clearing poetic medicine circle is a place to pause. To listen. To find words for what has been difficult to name. To encounter yourself in the company of others.Over twelve evenings, we will walk through a carefully held seasonal journey.We begin with arrival.We move into the darker ground: grief, loss, what has been left unspoken, and the parts of ourselves we sometimes keep from the light.Then we turn.Towards mercy. Towards hope. Towards homecoming.And finally, towards joy – arriving there as the year itself begins to turn back towards the light.The journey is not about forcing ourselves towards a particular outcome. It is about making space for whatever is present, and allowing poetry to become a companion along the way.