MoonPhase Awakening Arts
Guided experiences for women moving through meaningful endings, beginnings, identity shifts, and life transitions.
Where Meaning, Imagination, and Possibility Meet
MoonPhase Awakening Arts is an invitation to explore the seasons of your life through reflection, creativity, symbolism, and ritual.
Some moments arrive as a whisper. Others announce themselves with a roar. Here, there is room for all of it—for questions, knowing, curiosity, desire, celebration, grief, and whatever is taking shape within you.
Together, we can create space to notice what is calling for your attention, honor what has been lived, and explore what you want to bring forward.
MoonPhase Awakening Arts offers nonclinical experiences that are separate from psychiatric care and nurse-led health education.
Some seasons invite us to listen more deeply, claim what feels essential, and give shape to what is emerging.
Why This Space Matters
There are moments in a woman’s life that invite attention, meaning, and space to be witnessed.
At MoonPhase, there is deep value in women holding space for women—whether through a single conversation, a shared ritual, a small circle, or a more intentional rite of passage.
Here, there is room to name what is changing, what is being reclaimed, what is calling for expression, and what you wish to bring forward. The form may be simple or ceremonial; the experience is shaped around what matters to you.
Ways to Explore MoonPhase Awakening Arts
Women’s Rites of Passage
Mark a moment. Honor its meaning.
A personalized experience created around a transition, milestone, or moment that matters to you. A rite may take the form of a written practice, a guided experience, or a more involved gathering.
13 Moons
Explore the seasons of becoming.
An emerging reflective journey inspired by lunar symbolism, archetypes, tarot and oracle, and the many ways a woman comes to know and create herself.
Awakening Sessions
Follow what is calling your attention.
An individual conversation and reflective experience centered on a question, transition, creative longing, or part of yourself you wish to explore.
Gatherings & Workshops · As available
Explore and create in community.
Shared experiences that may bring together conversation, writing, creativity, movement, symbolism, and ritual.
Ways to Explore MoonPhase Awakening Arts
Women’s Rites of Passage
Mark a moment. Honor its meaning.
A personalized experience created around a transition, milestone, or moment that matters to you. A Rite may take the form of a written practice, a guided experience, or a more involved gathering.
13 Moons
Explore the seasons of becoming.
An emerging reflective journey inspired by lunar symbolism, archetypes, oracle and tarot, and the many ways a woman comes to know and create herself.
Awakening Sessions
Follow what is calling your attention.
An individual conversation and reflective experience centered on a question, transition, creative longing, or part of yourself you wish to explore.
Gatherings & Workshops · As available
Explore and create in community.
Shared experiences that may bring together conversation, writing, creativity, movement, symbolism, and ritual.
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Meet Your Guide
Women’s Rites of Passage is facilitated by Michele Whitaker, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, C-RYT, drawing from advanced training and experience in women’s mental health, reproductive transitions, integrative wellness, yoga, reflective practice, and group facilitation.
These offerings are nonclinical and are separate from MoonPhase psychiatric care and nurse-led health education.
They may be offered individually, in small groups, through workshops, or as part of retreat-based experiences developed independently or in collaboration with aligned organizations and facilitators.
What’s Calling for Your Attention?
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For women reclaiming authorship of their lives, clarifying boundaries, redefining identity, or choosing what they will and will not carry forward.renew reclaim remember
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For women intentionally marking the transition into elderhood, cronehood, or a later-life identity grounded in experience, discernment, freedom, and self-possession. -
Creating space for identity shifts connected to becoming a mother, changing family roles, children leaving home, caregiving, or redefining yourself beyond familiar roles. -
Honoring the emotional and symbolic significance of loss, endings, separation, or the closing of an important chapter. -
Marking changes in body, identity, sexuality, energy, relationships, visibility, or sense of self that may accompany midlife and menopause. -
Making space for changes in body relationship, sexuality, desire, sensuality, and personal agency across different life stages. -
Reflecting on what has ended, what is being reclaimed, and what you want to carry forward into the next chapter. -
Exploring transitions in work, purpose, leadership, retirement, or the ways identity can change when a long-held role shifts. -
For moments when something new is emerging—a project, identity, relationship to self, spiritual orientation, or way of living that deserves intentional recognition. -
Righteous Rage
A rite for women who are tired of swallowing anger shaped by patriarchy, silence, expectation, dismissal, and the demand to remain agreeable. A space to give rage voice, movement, witness, and expression—to honor what has been endured and what can no longer remain unspoken. -
A rite for honoring the people, stories, traditions, and inheritances that came before us—making space for gratitude, grief, continuity, and discernment around what is carried forward, what is transformed, and what may be allowed to end.
How MoonPhase Awakening Arts Pathway May Be Held
13 Moons and Women’s Rites of Passage may be offered in different forms depending on the transition, setting, and intention of the work.
Offerings may include:
Individual guided sessions
Small-group circles
Reflective writing and storytelling
Movement, breath, or embodied practices
Symbolic or ritual-based practices
Personal ritual design
Workshops and facilitated group experiences
Retreat-based offerings
Collaborative programs with aligned facilitators or practitioners whose expertise complements the experience
Some rites may be developed as specialized packages that include more than one session, preparation before the rite itself, and integration afterward.
When appropriate, MoonPhase may also collaborate with other practitioners or facilitators whose skills are relevant to the particular passage being honored. Their roles, scope, and participation would be identified separately.
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Begin & Take Shape
Tarot & Oracle-An image, symbol, or question that opens a conversation, exploration, meaning making and a new approach to keeping journal
New Moon -A space for intention, curiosity, and what wants to take root
Full Moon -A space for illumination, expression, and reflection
Movement & Embodied Practice- A way to explore through breath, movement, and the senses
Ritual & Rites of Passage- A way to mark, honor, or give form to a meaningful experience
Seasonal Explorations -Time to follow a theme or transition through a season
The 13 Moons Journey- A longer journey through lunar cycles, archetypes, and personal discovery
These can be both standalone invitations and elements woven into a longer experience. You might come for one oracle -inspired session, choose new- or full-moon session(s )for a month, or explore several of these practices across a season or cycle.
Tarot & Oracle: The Images That Speak
A card can offer an image, a question, or an unexpected way into a conversation. Tarot and oracle are used here as tools for reflection and imagination, with space for your own meaning and interpretation.
New Moon: What Wants to Begin? 🌑
An invitation to pause with what is stirring—an idea, a desire, a question, or an intention you want to explore. Through conversation, symbolism, writing, or ritual, we make space for what you wish to bring forward.
Full Moon: What Wants to Be Seen? 🌕
A space to illuminate what has gathered your attention. Together, we might explore what you are noticing, expressing, celebrating, questioning, or ready to understand more deeply.
Movement: Listening Through the Body
Sometimes movement, breath, or stillness offers another way to explore an experience. These practices can be gentle, expressive, structured, or spacious, shaped around your preferences and comfort.
Ritual: Giving Meaning a Form
A ritual can be as simple as choosing a word or as elaborate as a personalized ceremony. Together, we can create an experience that honors what matters to you.
The 13 Moons Journey: An Exploration of Self 🌙
A longer journey inspired by lunar cycles, archetypes, and the many ways a woman comes to know and create herself. Across thirteen moons, there is room to explore the questions, stories, desires, transitions, and possibilities that arise along the way.
Creating Your Experience
MoonPhase Awakening Arts offerings may be experienced individually or combined into a more in-depth, personalized journey. You might choose a single session, a series of lunar sessions, a seasonal exploration, or a custom rite of passage.
These experiences may complement your existing therapeutic support or be explored alongside care with Michele, when appropriate.
MoonPhase Awakening Arts may also be developed into a workshop, professionally designed program, conference offering, or retreat experience for groups and organizations. Collaborations are shaped around the intention, audience, and setting.
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What 13 Moon’s and Women’s Rites of Passage Is For
Some transitions are more than events. They can mark the ending of one identity, the uncertainty of a threshold, and the beginning of something not yet fully known.
Women’s Rites of Passage offers guided, nonclinical space for reflection, meaning-making, and intentional transition. Sessions may include conversation, writing, storytelling, symbolic practices, movement, ritual design, or other reflective approaches shaped around the woman and the transition she is moving through.
No particular belief system is required. The focus is on creating a thoughtful structure for acknowledging change, marking what matters, and supporting a more conscious passage into what comes next.
This pathway is not psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, or medical care.
Initial Rites Consultation
60 minutes
This exploratory session creates space to understand the transition you are moving through, what you hope to mark or honor, and what kind of experience may feel meaningful.
Together, we may explore the intention of the rite, preferred setting, timing, level of ceremony or ritual, individual or group participation, and whether additional facilitators, practitioners, materials, or preparation may be appropriate.
Custom Rite Development
Following the consultation, MoonPhase may propose a custom written rite, guided rite, series, workshop, or retreat-based experience.
A written rite may be created for a woman who prefers to move through the experience privately, independently, or at a time and place of her own choosing. It may include reflective prompts, symbolic actions, readings, movement, writing, or other elements shaped around the transition being honored.
Scope & Planning
The proposed scope will outline the anticipated format, timeline, number and length of sessions when applicable, level of support, preparation, materials, integration or follow-up, collaborators when applicable, and associated fees.
Because each rite may vary in complexity, duration, setting, materials, number of participants, level of support, and facilitator involvement, the cost of a custom experience is determined after the initial consultation and agreed upon before the work begins.
Completion & Integration
A rite is not only the moment of ceremony. When appropriate, the experience may include preparation beforehand and a final integration or closing session afterward.
The closing provides space to reflect on what was witnessed or marked, consider what is being carried forward, and formally complete the agreed-upon experience.
any of these services can be packaged together for a more indepth personal experience, a workshop, professional conference and or retreat experience.
Availability & Payment
MoonPhase Awakening Arts offerings are self-pay, nonclinical experiences separate from MoonPhase psychiatric care and nurse-led health education.
You may choose to participate in Awakening Arts alongside psychiatric care or health education with Michele, when appropriate. Each service has its own purpose, scheduling, fees, and applicable agreements. Together, we can discuss which combination of services is a good fit for your needs.
That keeps the door open for a woman to experience more than one part of MoonPhase, while helping her understand what she’s choosing.
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Offerings may be available virtually or in person depending on the type of experience, location, facilitator involvement, and format selected.
Individual consultations and written rites may be available more broadly, while in-person circles, workshops, retreats, or collaborative experiences may be limited to specific locations or dates.
Because custom rites vary in format and scope, final fees are established after the Initial Rites Consultation and agreed upon before the experience begins.
Payment terms, cancellation policies, and any additional costs related to materials, travel, venue, collaborators, or retreat participation will be outlined in advance when applicable.
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Understanding the Service
Women’s Rites of Passage is a nonclinical offering designed for reflection, meaning-making, ritual, and intentional transition.
It is not psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, medical care, or crisis support, and it does not include diagnosis, prescribing, or treatment of mental or medical conditions.
A rite may incorporate reflective, symbolic, embodied, spiritual, or ceremonial elements, but no particular belief system is required. Participation is always shaped around the woman’s preferences, boundaries, and the purpose of the experience.
When a concern appears to require clinical assessment, treatment, or a higher level of support, MoonPhase may recommend that you connect with an appropriate healthcare or mental health professional.
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What Happens Next
Submitting a Women’s Rites of Passage request does not automatically schedule a rite or commit you to a custom experience.
Your request will be reviewed to determine whether this nonclinical pathway appears appropriate for what you are seeking and whether the format you have in mind is currently available.
If it appears to be a good fit, the next step is the Initial Rites Consultation — 60 minutes | $175. That consultation is used to explore the transition, intention, preferred format, timing, level of support, and whether a written rite, facilitated experience, series, workshop, retreat, or collaborative offering may be appropriate.
If a custom experience is proposed, the scope, timeline, fees, collaborators, and any additional costs will be outlined and agreed upon before the work begins.