Winter Solstice - Warrioress Whispers

Akhalita Makoto
Jun 20
7 min read

Updated: Sep 28

Dearest Sister,

As the wheel of the year turns and the inner seasons shift, we welcome you into a new cycle of Warrioress Whispers—a seasonal newsletter from the heart of the Amazonian Arts.

This first whisper comes to you with deep reverence, marking not only the rhythm of the season, but a reawakening. Our sacred space has moved into a new form—our website has been reborn—and with it, a fresh invitation to step into your inner temple and continue the journey.

Here, you’ll find reflections from the pathway we’re currently walking, seasonal insights, offerings from the Warrioress Clan Mothers, and soulful practices to support your unfolding. Whether you’re just beginning or deepening your path, these whispers are a way to stay connected to the pulse of this work.

You are not alone on this journey. You are one of many walking the spiral—each in her own timing, each discovering her own medicine. May these words find you at just the right moment. In this offering you will find:

Seasons Within ~ The Amazonian Arts Newsletter

Here’s a glimpse of what’s inside this seasonal offering.

🔮 Astrology Bites

A taste of the current cosmic weather.

🔥 Walking Between Archetypes: Alchemist to Protectress

A reflection on the path we’ve been walking together.

📸 Opening Circle Gallery

Take a peek inside our Opening Circle held in Dorrigo in April.

❄️ Winter Solstice Ritual

A simple yet potent practice to anchor you in the stillness.

📌 We’re Now on Pinterest!

📖 Journal Launch

The first in our printed series has arrived!🌸 Community CornerA heartfelt share from one of the women walking this year’s journey.

💫 Which Warrioress Walks With You?

An invitation to discover your guiding archetype at this time.

🎴 Tarot Tales with Tracy-Lee

A new video series — one card drawn for each archetype.

Above Us & Around Us

Jupiter, exalted in Cancer and conjunct the Sun, amplifies themes of emotional nourishment, self-care, and deep connection. This alignment encourages us to spend time with those who feel like home—whether by blood or resonance—and supports healing and spiritual awakening. It also opens the door to expanded cosmic awareness, inviting us to align with more compassionate, community-oriented values.

This is a potent time to reassess your beliefs and the way you show up for yourself and others. As inner transformation takes root, it mirrors a broader societal shift. Embracing authentic change can support both personal growth and collective evolution, especially as we move toward more inclusive and heart-centered ways of being.

However, tension arises as Jupiter squares both Neptune and Saturn. These aspects may stir confusion, inflated expectations, or inner conflict between dreams and reality. With the Sun now in Cancer and a stabilizing trine between Mars and the Moon, June 21, 2025, invites us to balance introspection with practical action—holding our visions gently while grounding them in realism and responsibility. your aspirations and the structures needed to bring them into being.

The Alchemist & The Protectress

It’s been more than 6 months since our last newsletter... In April we began a new 18-month cycle, gathering for an introductory weekend to meet and greet each other and dive into the bones of the work ahead.

In May we journeyed with the Capricorn Alchemist and this month of June we are walking with the Cancer Protectress. One of the things we speak about on the shamanic path, is how the archetypes show up for us even when we don’t ‘do all the homework’. There is something magickal about beginning a journey together, making commitments, creating an intention for the 18-months, in which you could say the group ‘quantum entangles’. As we collectively attune and train the subtler senses, the signs and omens begin to reveal themselves more and more. And, because there are no coincidences in the shamanic world, the fact that you are here reading this now invites the question of what did you notice yourself about the month of May?

Many of our journey-women spoke about the ‘endurance’ required and how they were physically challenged (Earth element of Capricorn) through a real ‘underworld’ experience that month, along with how the ‘father’ archetype showed up in its distortions as we worked through the Alchemist shadowlands (Pluto was also retrograding in Capricorn that month suggesting a time of review). Then in June, Cancer season, there has been such a collective outpouring of emotion (Water element of Cancer) and discussions around self-nurture and caring for the inner child. What are you noticing yourself this month? Below, two of our Clan Mothers — Elvina and Eve Oak — have come together to offer a video update. They speak from the heart of the current journey, sharing insights, reflections, and what is stirring within the collective field.

A few images of our opening circle - April 2025

We are the ones we have been waiting for...

Warrioress Practice - Winter Solstice

Winter solstice, also known as Yule, guides us inwards, and in the sign of Cancer, we can bring our heightened emotional sensitivity and intuition to this introspection. Invoke our Protectress archetype who holds the medicine of belonging – whether to your blood family, or family of frequency. For at Yule, the veil between the worlds is thinner, and connection with the ancestors more accessible. Perhaps you can visit the grave of a loved one at this time, light a candle, make an offering (such as incense), and take some time to ‘remember’ them. This may be simply listening to the sounds around you, attending to your breath, and calling yourself fully present. Or it may be sharing where you are in your life now or letting this ancestor/friend know what the relationship meant to you. Allow yourself to deeply feel the experience, and if emotion moves through you, welcome that medicine. Another invitation for this time is to create your own gathering with family or friends and invite discussion about those who have passed over. Our leadership group this year will be sharing stories of ‘a death that has touched us’. Share a meal created from the Samhain harvest of pumpkins or garden root vegetables and make it a special occasion to deepen connections with those you love at this time of Yule.

We’ve opened a new portal of inspiration...

The Amazonian Arts is taking shape on Pinterest — a curated sanctuary of archetypal imagery, seasonal rituals, plant allies, sacred tools, and all things Warrioress.

Whether you're walking the Pathways or simply drawn to beauty that speaks to the soul, our boards are woven with visual magic to stir your inner knowing and support your unfolding journey.

Journal Launch

A huge undertaking of love and commitment from the Vision Mother and a number of the Clan Mothers has inspired the creation of the 13 Warrioress Journals.

What began as sacred companion pieces to the online journeys soon revealed themselves as powerful tools in their own right — gateways into the archetypes, designed to meet each seeker exactly where she is.

We are currently setting the 13 facets, one by one. Like a spiral, the creation is slow and intentional — echoing the very path they seek to illuminate.

A sacred tool for self-paced transformation. Designed to work alongside of OR independently of the online course work. Move at your own pace, in your own rhythm, and begin whenever you're ready.

Get Your Copy

Community Corner

Hello, my name is Luna Lyn, and I am in the second degree, apprenticing with the Amazonian Arts. My life has recently taken a very difficult route, and as we are encouraged to do in the AMA, I found myself following signs and omens that led me to a practitioner offering sessions in soul retrieval.

Serendipitously, I then found myself face to face with the Warrioress that we are journeying with this month: the Protectress. She is the fierce Mother, and she showed up in the inner work I undertook that was deep and elemental. I travelled within - my healer singing in her Gaelic ancestral tongue stirring up the kundalini in my spine. I could see a fire and as I kept looking, I started following. I travelled deep down soft tunnels possibly intestines into my abdomen then uterus. I felt minor pain in knees, uterus and kidneys but felt being guided. Suddenly I was a child again aged about 8. Dad was in one of his rages and belting us with his army belt coming down again and again. My mum was screaming “stop!” but it continued. Being guided I as an adult I was now able to protect her (me as a child) and brought her into me where I nurtured her and protected her and loved her. She is now always protected and safe with me. I feel whole again and alive.

This is the very real way in which the archetypes can manifest in our lives. Thank you for witnessing this raw window into my story. Ashe (so be it).

Luna Lyn - Lore Keeper

An Invitation - Which Warrioress Walks With You?

She is already within you — the fierce, wise, wild one who has been whispering through your choices, your challenges, your dreams.

Through the lens of the Fierce Feminine, we invite you to discover which of the 13 Warrioress archetypes is walking beside you at this time. This is not just a quiz — it is a soul-mapping. A sacred, intuitive exploration where your birth chart becomes the canvas and the stars, your guides.

Blending astrology with intuitive patterning, we cast a loving gaze over your unique place in the cosmos to reveal the Warrioress whose medicine is most alive for you right now. The one who is calling you deeper into your becoming.

This is a remembrance.

A reclaiming.

A doorway.

Are you ready to meet her?

Begin Your Discovery

Tarot Tales with Tracy-Lee

As we cross the sacred threshold of Winter Solstice, we step into the deepest part of the wheel — a time of quiet power, unseen transformation, and gentle becoming.

These cards have been drawn with the intention to bring you added insight and knowing through the months from Winter Solstice to the Spring Equinox.

So as you receive your reading today:

Pay close attention to your Warrioress Archetype (if known)
Also consider your Sun and Moon signs as additional guides.
If you don’t know your archetype yet, you're invited to take the Warrioress Questionnaire — or simply feel into the signs that speak to your story right now.