Thinning of the Veil, Navigating the Dark Season

Night Vision for Transformation During the Dark Season

There is something about autumn that naturally turns our attention inward. The light changes and leaves reveal their colors before falling. The landscape becomes increasingly bare, and eventually we find ourselves standing at the threshold of winter.

This season has long been associated with the thinning of the veil; the mysterious boundary between what we can see and what exists beyond ordinary perception. But what if our relationship to the veils that are thinning can be useful in our overall development?

We all perceive life through something: past experiences, beliefs, emotional memory, expectations, wounds, identities, fears and even the stories we've repeated about who we are. Sometimes those lenses are so familiar that we don't realize we're looking through them.

Thinning of the Veil is a five-week journey into developing your own night vision, which is the ability to recognize yourself, your energy and your experiences beyond the familiar stories that can influence what you see and how you respond.

We’ll use the natural rhythm of autumn as our teacher, exploring what becomes available when we allow ourselves to see what has been hidden, create the right energetic environment for transformation, become more comfortable with silence, and practice living from what we now recognize.

Throughout the course, you’ll also explore your sensory relationship with energy, learning to notice what you’re experiencing through thought, emotion, the body, intuition and subtle energetic perception. While the veil can thin through extraordinary experiences, you can also learn to realize it through practice. This where things get interesting…join me.

Thinning of the Veil | Night Vision for Transformation During the Dark Season

October 7th - November 4th

Wednesdays: 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT / 12am UK

*enrollment includes access to class recordings - it's okay if you cant attend live

WEEK I: DARK GODDESS, LET IT BE SEEN

Seeing Beyond the Story: October 7th

Autumn begins revealing what is ready to change. Leaves shift color before they fall, the light diminishes, and what was once concealed by fullness begins to become visible. The thinning veil of this season can also symbolize the illusions within our own perception becoming easier to recognize.

This first week is about learning to see differently. We will explore wounds, old identities, emotional patterns, and the stories we have created around our experiences. Instead of immediately trying to heal, release, or change what we discover, we begin with acknowledgment. What happened shaped something. A belief, behavior, defense, or way of seeing yourself may have once served an important purpose. Can you recognize that without judging the person you were when it developed?

Frequency First: October 14th

Transformation is often approached through effort: How do I get rid of this? How do I change myself? Why am I still doing this? Resistance carries a frequency of its own. This week explores an essential principle of energetic alchemy: frequency first. Before attempting to transform a pattern, emotion, belief, or relationship, we consider the energetic environment in which transformation is being asked to occur.

Fear creates one environment. Judgment creates another. Urgency creates another. Presence, compassion, safety, curiosity, and coherence create very different conditions. Alchemical purification becomes the practice of tending to our energetic environments so that what’s ready to transform has less resistance to move through.

WEEK III: WHERE THERE IS SILENCE, LET IT BE EMPTY

Developing Night Vision: October 21st

As we approach winter, nature becomes quieter. Silence can feel uncomfortable when we are accustomed to filling empty spaces with thought, prediction, worry, planning, explanation, and story. Yet there’s intelligence available beneath that noise.

This week explores witnessing from a higher vantage point; the ability to remain present long enough to recognize what exists beyond our immediate fear, emotional reaction, or familiar interpretation. Emptiness becomes a space where we temporarily stop insisting that we already know what something means. This is our preparation for the Dark Season, to become comfortable enough with silence that we can perceive within it.

WEEK IV: THE ENERGETIC ALCHEMIST, LET IT BE EMBODIED

Becoming a Conscious Participant: October 28th

Recognition changes what we can see. Transformation changes our relationship with what we have seen. Embodiment asks us to live from what we now recognize. The Energetic Alchemist represents conscious participation: awareness becoming choice, and choice becoming expression.

This week explores embodiment through three practical territories: perception, choice, and conscious communication. How do you perceive an experience now? What choice becomes available from this new perception? How does that choice move through your words, behavior, boundaries, relationships, and energetic expression?

WEEK V: INTEGRATION AND ILLUMINATION, LET IT BE

Honoring Where You Are: November 4th

Transformation doesn’t require us to immediately become someone else. After weeks of seeing, transforming, witnessing, and practicing embodiment, our final work is to honor what IS. The Dark Season reminds us that much of what is becoming is not yet visible. Seeds develop underground. Nature becomes quieter. Energy consolidates rather than constantly producing evidence of growth.

This final week is about recognizing what has changed without demanding proof, honoring what remains unfinished, and appreciating the version of yourself standing at this particular threshold. There are gifts here, too. Integration gives transformation somewhere to land.

In gassho and gratitude,
Yolanda

*If you are a 2026 member of The Alchemy Circle or Path of Self Mastery, you'll have automatic access to this course