Autumn Equinox: Threshold of Release | Celtic Wheel of The Year

There's a version of you that's already over. You can feel it in the quiet dread of playing a role that stopped fitting somewhere along the way. What you haven't done yet is give it a proper ending.

In this sixth episode of The Soul's Eight Thresholds of Transformation, Nina Hirlaender OFS takes you inside West Kennet Long Barrow — a 5,000-year-old Neolithic chamber in the English countryside — to explore the Autumn Equinox, the Celtic threshold of release. Through the story of Helen, a professor who spent two years carrying a devastating institutional betrayal entirely alone, Nina traces what becomes possible when you finally set down an identity that's already run its course. Drawing on Thomas Merton's theology of the true self and false self, somatic body wisdom, and the rhythms of autumn itself, this episode offers a grounded path from exhausted performance to genuine, recovered selfhood.

What You'll Learn:

• The somatic signals your body sends when an identity has expired — and why the tiredness you feel isn't physical 
• What Thomas Merton's theology of the true self reveals about which roles actually belong to you and which are performances you've been maintaining out of fear
• How mature, conscious release differs from clinging to what's expired or letting go in a panic — and what it feels like when grief and freedom arrive together
• A 5-minute practice for releasing the false self and returning to the true self that remains underneath

Your Next Steps:

• ONE SPOT LEFT! Register for the final Celtic Shamanism in England pilgrimage (May 23 – June 2, 2026): https://dancingspirittours.com/journeys/england/