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🌿The Handless Maiden Pt. 2: Restored by the Wild
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🌿The Handless Maiden Pt. 2: Restored by the Wild

Capitalism is glitching. Your creativity is the upgrade.
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Gemini kicks off “Ouroboros Season”

(A transmission from the eye of the storm.)

🧭 Before We Begin
We’ve entered a new phase inside the Midnight Scholar Society.

Last season, we recovered our creative instinct and started learning how to listen—through story, ritual, divination, and deep pattern work. This season, we’re moving from observation into participation.

We’re not just feeling the energy anymore—we’re calling it in, working with it, and letting it shape how we move through the world.

If you’re ready to deepen your relationship with planetary energy, archetype, and subtle power…
Season 2 has begun.

Scroll below for the full May course description.

🌀 1. Uranus, the Ouroboros, and the Astrology of Now

  • Uranus is the loudest planet this month — sitting at 28° Taurus, about to enter Gemini.

  • He’s the snake eating its tail, disrupting the system to reveal what’s next.

  • We’re all getting a download — but it won’t come in clean. You’ve got to pay attention to patterns, dreams, flashes, and “coincidences.”

How to align: Notice what glitches, what reroutes, what urges you to do things differently. That’s your trailhead.

🎨 2. The Shift: From Consuming to Creating

  • This is not about just buying less — it’s about putting your resources into experience and expression.

  • Buy the tools, not the trophies.

  • Take the dance class. Start the robot. Make your weird movie.

  • Uranus supports self-guided experiments — even if they’re messy, even if they fail.

“You’re not meant to just ‘enjoy’ life. You’re here to build it.”

😴 3. Rest Is Not the Recovery Button — It’s the Operating System

  • Rest wasn’t meant to get you back to the grind.

  • It’s what keeps you sane while the grind collapses.

  • Capitalism is glitching.

“You don’t need a 5-year plan. You need a nap and a glass of water.”

🛠️ 4. You’re Not Broken. You’re Upgrading.

  • This season is about using the tools you’ve already collected.

  • Your manual is coming through in dreams, gut feelings, and signs that find you.

  • If you feel overwhelmed, it’s because you’re receiving the next version of you.

  • Catch it. Anchor it. Don't let internet noise distract you.

👁️ 5. Watch Out: Distraction & Manipulation

  • The scammers, schemes, and hustle culture rebooters are loud right now.

  • They want your attention because your attention is your power.

  • Be ruthless about where your energy goes.

  • What you focus on this month becomes your blueprint.

🔮 6. Invitation: What to Ask Yourself

Journal prompts:

“Where am I spending to escape, and where am I spending to expand?”
“What have I always wanted to do — and what tiny way could I begin today?”
“What new thoughts or patterns are showing up again and again?”
“Where do I feel the buzz — the pull to try something I don’t fully understand yet?”

📆 Key Dates to Feel Into

  • April 27 – Taurus New Moon
    Ground into your body and truth. Set real, rooted goals.

  • May 12 – Scorpio Full Moon
    Let something die. Deep emotions rise. Power is reclaimed.

  • May 15 – Pivot Energy
    Uranus and Mercury heat up. Downloads come in fast — pay attention.

  • May 26 – Gemini New Moon
    Try on a new mindset. This is your test-drive moment for the next version of you.

✨ Season 2 Has Begun: Master of the Cosmos

Theme: From Novice to Mystic — Building Conscious Relationship with Energy
📅 Live Classes Begin Thursday, May 1st

In Season 2 of the Midnight Scholar Society, we’re moving from intuitive dabbling to conscious creation.

Last season, we focused on emotional and nervous system regulation, recovered our creative imagination, and got comfortable working with archetypes and divination tools. Now, we’re ready to build something more intentional:
a working relationship with the cosmos itself.

This isn’t just astrology—it’s learning how to recognize, collaborate with, and call in planetary forces like you would call a trusted friend. You’ll learn how to read energetic patterns in your day-to-day life and how to know which planetary “voice” is needed for the moment.

We’re also introducing subtle energy tools—like totems, plants, dreams, and familiars—so you can learn to carry, hold, and work with energy on your own terms. This is hands-on magic, built for everyday life.

Perfect for artists, mystics, witches, and deep thinkers who are ready to move from passive awareness to active co-creation.

🪐 Planetary Intelligence & Invocation

Building Relationship from the Outer Worlds In
🌀 May–July | Season 2 Course

You’ve studied the planets—now it’s time to speak to them.

This course guides you into direct relationship with the planetary intelligences—not just as ideas in the sky, but as energies you can call on and work with in your daily life.

Each week, we’ll focus on one planet. We’ll track its behavior, learn how to recognize its influence in real time, and practice calling it in using tools like ritual, journaling, movement, and telepathic alignment.

We’ll also work with totems—plants, fish, symbols, and subtle lifeforms—to help you hold and carry the energy in tangible ways.

Whether you’re navigating change, calling in clarity, or trying to get unstuck, this course teaches you how to match the moment with the right planetary support.

🔭 Details:

One planet per week (Pluto, Neptune, Uranus… then moving inward)
Live classes every Thursday at 5:00 PM MT
Replays + materials included
Guided exercises, journaling prompts, rituals, and energetic tools each week

🌌 Join us inside the Midnight Scholar Society to access the full course.

✨ Season 2 is already in motion. If you’ve been waiting for a sign—this is it.

📚Book Club Corner

📚 Book Club Reflection: The Final Descent We’re closing out Women Who Run With the Wolves this month, and it couldn’t be more aligned with everything above. As we descend one last time—through the final initiations of the Handless Maiden. These stories echo what many of us are moving through now: loss, solitude, transformation, and the sacred return.

🌒 Chapter 14 — La Selva Subterránea: Initiation in the Underground Forest

Myth: The Handless Maiden
An initiation story in seven stages — we are covering Stages 4–7

🌑 Stage Four: Finding Love in the Underworld

🗝️ Core Theme: Entering love before fully healing — learning trust while still wounded.

  • Myth Moment: The maiden, handless and exiled, is taken in by a kind king. He offers her sanctuary and marriage despite her wounds.

  • Symbolic Meaning: This is not yet "happily ever after" — it's the beginning of a new descent. Love is offered before integration.

  • Wild Woman Insight: Often, we begin relationships or new stages in life still wounded. This love is tender but incomplete — it brings joy and fear in equal measure.

  • Underground Forest: This realm is not outside of her—it is her inner wildness, not yet reclaimed, still shadowed.

Book Club Questions:

Have you ever entered love (or a new phase) before you were "ready"? What wisdom did that give you?

What parts of yourself felt unseen or untouched in that early stage of love?

🕳️ Stage Five: The Harrowing of the Soul

🗝️ Core Theme: Losing everything again — even love — to return to the self.

  • Myth Moment: The maiden is cast out again, this time with her newborn child, due to betrayal and deception.

  • Psychological Truth: Betrayal during vulnerable periods reenacts old wounds. It is part of the second descent—a deeper spiral.

  • Wild Woman Activation: This stage asks: Who am I when stripped of everything — again?

  • Selva Subterránea Parallel: She wanders deeper into the inner forest. This is the underground, the place where the Wild Woman lies waiting.

  • Key Lesson: Strength is reborn in solitude. The forest feeds her.

Book Club Questions:

What betrayal or loss drove you deeper into your own forest?

How did solitude begin to reshape you?

🌲 Stage Six: The Realm of the Wild Woman

🗝️ Core Theme: Receiving sustenance from the unseen; regrowth begins invisibly.

  • Myth Moment: Alone with her child in the forest, the maiden is nurtured by invisible hands—angelic, ancestral, archetypal.

  • Healing Begins: Her hands begin to grow back. This is the turning point.

  • Wild Woman Insight: The Wild Woman feeds us from the unseen — intuition, dreams, the forest itself.

  • Underground Forest as Temple: This is her sacred cocoon. No outside validation, no performance. Only being.

  • Reintegration Begins: She starts to re-member her strength, re-grow her agency, guided by archetypal feminine energy.

Book Club Questions:

What invisible forces helped you begin to grow again?

How do you know when healing is starting — even if others can’t see it?

💍 Stage Seven: The Wild Bride and Bridegroom

🗝️ Core Theme: Returning whole — the inner marriage of power and tenderness.

  • Myth Moment: The king finds her again. This time, she has hands. She is no longer the dependent girl — she is whole, and chooses reunion.

  • Sacred Marriage: This is the reunion of equals. The king represents the sacred masculine — not rescuer, but partner.

  • Wild Woman Completion: She has survived loss, betrayal, grief, and exile. Now she returns not as victim, but as sovereign.

  • Mystical Layer: This is the Hieros Gamos—not just with another, but within. The animus and anima within her are reconciled.

Book Club Questions:

How do you know when you’ve returned to yourself — not broken, but different?

What does a sacred union look like to you — with a partner or within?

🌿 Themes to Tie It All Together:

  • The Underground Forest is not exile — it’s initiation.

  • Loss is the crucible of self-becoming.

  • The Wild Woman is not rescued — she regrows herself.

  • Love without wholeness is possible, but reunion after transformation is sacred.

Next Up:🔮The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

In June and July, we’ll take our time with The Alchemist. We’ll read half in June and half in July.

In June, I’ll introduce Paulo Coelho, the background of the book, and walk us through the first half of Santiago’s journey. In July, we’ll explore the archetypes, the journey of the soul, and pull in insights from Women Who Run With the Wolves to deepen our understanding.

✨ More on that next month. For now, I can’t wait to close out Women Who Run With the Wolves together.

🔔 Note: This session is live only. No recordings. Be present with us in the ritual.
📆 Add Book Club to Your Calendar

🛠 What’s in My Witch’s Bag

✨ If you’re new here (hey, welcome! we’ve been growing steadily 👀)—or you’ve been lurking in the shadows, waiting for a sign—this is it.

Some of my best courses are still hanging around at $50 for a limited time.
Grab them before they shapeshift back to full price:

⚠️ Note: My one-on-one services are currently closed while I focus on teaching and building new magic with the Society.
If you’ve been thinking about working with me personally, keep your eyes peeled—my time opens rarely and fills quickly.

🔮 Final Note:

🌬️ Gemini Energy Done Right:

  • Gemini is an air sign — it gathers, observes, connects the dots, and asks better questions.

  • It’s curious, not calculating.

  • When done with ease, it leads to serendipity — the right info, people, or ideas fall into your orbit.

When Gemini energy is driven by scarcity or hustle (greedy eyes), it scatters and overloads the nervous system.
When Gemini energy is driven by play and presence, it becomes genius.

So… Is This a “Let Them Come” Month?

Yes — but not passive.
It’s engaged receptivity. Show up, share your ideas, go to the things, make the content —
but don’t chase. Don’t try to outthink the universe.

Opportunities will come, but they’ll come:

  • through conversations you almost didn’t have

  • through rabbit holes you followed just for fun

  • through things that seem unrelated, then suddenly click

This is “follow the thread” energy, not “lock the strategy” energy.

🔑 Bottom Line:

Let Gemini Season be your open window month —
fresh air, new ideas, interesting people, no pressure to make it all make sense yet.

Opportunities are tracking your vibe —
so stay light, stay awake, and leave room in your day for magic.

If you made it this far—you’re probably already walking this path. I’m so glad we’re in this season together. If you want to go deeper, the Society is open.

—Francina Simone
Founder, Midnight Scholar Society

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