A Personal Year-Long Curriculum
The curriculum moves through the wheel of the year: from the waking world of spring, through the long light of summer and the thinning veil of autumn, into the deep of winter. Each season pairs one non-fiction text with one work of fiction, and provides six writing and creative exercises, weekly plans, an outdoor outing, and a closing reflection essay.
Origins · Sacred Landscape · The Other Beneath the Surface
The first season digs into the deep soil of the English landscape. You learn to read the land as a palimpsest — layer upon layer of belief, practice and presence. You draw the foundational map of your invented world and name its first sacred place, tracing the legend at its origin.
Mythology · The Divine Feminine · The Hero Who Is Not A Man
The second season turns the gaze upward and outward — toward the great structural patterns that underlie stories. You move into comparative mythology and fiction that rewrites the expected heroic arc. Your invented world gains its gods, its founding myths, the stories its people tell to explain why things are the way they are.
Folk Magic · The Liminal · Tradition & Transgression
The third season moves into the hidden world of cunning folk and rural practice. You study the secret societies and folk magic traditions of the English countryside, and bring a cunning person into being inside your invented world, grounding their practice in real historical tradition.
Time · Memory · The Self Across History
The final season is a time of synthesis and completion. You explore the nature of time, memory and pattern in both building and story, and write the deep history of your invented world. The year closes with a reflection — musing on everything you have read, made and understood across the four seasons.