after facilitating the first season of Labyrinth Library last year (which I wrote about here), I’ve been reflecting on how the way that I structured Labyrinth — to be a non-linear journey, a spiraling unfolding, a choose your own adventure, an infinite feast — feels similar to being given a hiking trail map.

you can decide which trail to go on — a solitary hike, or a group hike? engaging with the materials, or working on your own practices? you don’t have to commit to the entire trail. you can move in between them, as it best supports your creative life.

some participants inside Labyrinth felt nourished by showing up for the weekly discussion sessions. others engaged with the workshops and artifacts on their own time, and left comments in Notion. I was pleased for any variation of engagement, as long as it served them.

here’s how I envision these 4 trails.

each has elements that are synchronous/live and asynchronous.

you can read more about each specific element here.

community

the community trail is really about contributing to — and allowing oneself to recieve — shared resources — that is, the resource of our collective wisdom, experiences, feelings, perspectives, values, insights, ways of being in relation to the world, and our creative practice. the people attracted to labyrinth tend to be passionate, multi-dimensional, conscientiously thoughtful, creatively abundant, deep feeling, empathetic people. they come with an abundance to give, and share.

being a part of the community is bringing an offering — a question, a challenge, a practice, a process — to the group, and allowing the conversations that unfold within that sharing BE the alchemical process.

the way we do this is through **weekly discussions (live), **an ongoing group chat, and **show & tells (live + recorded), **where members share their work and process, and we let that feed our discussions.

practice

practice is being in the process of creative work. I’ve designed “treks” — or 1-2 week containers within the seasonal container of labyrinth — as structures of daily accountability for working on individual creative practices or projects. treks are fully adaptable to wherever you are in the season, and whatever intentions you have.

you can work with these treks privately — or contribute to a shared community trek journal. the personal journals offer a place that each member can inhabit and take up space in the messiness of their practice and process — and be witnessed by others in the community.

the intention here is so that our individual processes (as I’ve done on this web world) can nourish the collective. we can be in the process together.

materials

I create artifacts for each week of Labyrinth, and lead two workshops — potential topics which I share with the group, and let the questions I receive shape the teaching.

artifacts are metaphorical/poetic/practical tools that address one aspect of working with the uncertainties of the creative life. artifacts contain prompts, practices, and processes. they are structured around the themes of the astrological season (see the itineraries here).

all materials are designed to be modular and non-linear — so even if one topic doesn’t resonate immediately, my hope is that it’ll serve you as an ongoing resource, sometime in the future.

all Labyrinth members have forever access to whatever was created during their season, and 3-month / seasonal access to the entire Labyrinth archives.

mystery

last but not least, is my mystery trail. here is a space where spontaneous, emergent things can grow — I call this the wilderness trail, where I might add things like:

my personal process notes

work in process / project notes

tarot diaries

unreleased podcast episodes

paper systems & experiments

inspiration log

anything else I think of

new ideas & things I’m incubating

the whole purpose of a mystery trail is that it’s messy, liminal, and fertile — it exists somewhere between my personal journals + this public web world. it is a private, secret garden that I invite my community members to visit.

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I expect that each season of Labyrinth will be a little (or very) different — a reflection of that season’s individual and collective energies, obsessions, desires, intentions. I am very different each season, and I wish for this community space to hold us as we change and evolve, alongside each other.

if you join a season of Labyrinth, my hope is that you’ll infuse the season with your percolating questions and thoughts — and it’ll sink into the soil of our community garden.