Rev Amy Beltaine

Four People Who Might Be Exactly Who You've Been Looking For Meet four student spiritual companions offering free companioning: Scott, Cedar, Helena & Mysti. Earth-based, multi-faith. Book a free intro session.

Four student spirit tenders. Free companioning April '26–Feb '27 through Cherry Hill Seminary.

One of them might be who you've been looking for.

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Embark on a Spiritual Journey with Free Student-Offered Guidance Seeking a deeper connection to your inner self and a more meaningful life? Free spiritual direction sessions available through student companions!

Your spirituality doesn't fit the usual containers, and you deserve companioning that doesn't either.

Free spirit tending with trained students from Cherry Hill Seminary. Meet them, book a quick hello, see who feels right.

#SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending
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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.

Two days left to apply. 4 spots remain in our March cohort - spiritual direction training for earth-based, pagan & multi-religious communities. Is this your calling? 🌙 #SpiritTending #CherryHillSeminary #SpiritTending #SacredListening #SpiritualCompanion

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Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.

“Some of the most spiritually enriching experiences I've ever had occurred outside of institutional religion. This course was one of those experiences."

Apply now: earth-based spiritual direction training. Feb 15 deadline.
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Wow

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First lessons endure: Why Am I Talking? 🌙

Our March cohort learns to witness sacred unfolding, not fix it. 24-month spiritual direction certification for #earthbased & #Pagan communities. 6 spots left.

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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

Thunder Candles and Ginger Cookies: Reclaiming My Grandmother’s Light Honoring Slovak traditions lost & reclaimed: Gromnica, thunder candles, & reconnecting with ancestral spiritual practices through Feb's light.

My Slovak grandmother's legacy: ginger cookies, warm hugs, and traditions she was embarrassed to share. In her 70s, she went back to Slovakia. It's never too late to find your way home to what your people knew. 🕯️

#Gromnica #AncestralHealing #witchsky

When Relationships Change Us: Why Justice Workers Need Spiritual Direction Relationships change us. Why activists and justice workers need spiritual companions. March certification cohort forming—applications close Feb 15.

Relationships change us. A MAGA podcaster is calling out Trump's DHS. Is it because he's now a father? That's the work spiritual companions tend. We need relationship building skills in justice spaces, not just church basements and offices. 🌙✨

#SpiritualDirection #JusticeWork #SpiritTending

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

Yes

We need to pay attention to what is true. And…

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Authoritarianism thrives on brittle spirits. This helps. Become flexible, grounded, unshakable.
This isn’t self-care fluff, it’s infrastructure for resistance.
Training skilled companions for earth-based communities. March cohort forming.
#SpiritualDirection #WitchesOfSky #SacredResistance

Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!

Finding Your Guide: Understanding Spiritual Companioning vs. On our life’s journey, we often seek guidance and support. But with so many support options available, it can be confusing to know which…

When you're seeking a guide for the journey, it helps to know the terrain. Spiritual companioning, coaching, therapy, mentorship—they each offer something different. Here's how to find your fit. 🌙✨ #SpiritualCompanioning #Guidance #InnerWork

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Divination in Spirit Tending: Choose the Tool Explore ethical divination practices for spiritual companions. Learn which tools avoid cultural appropriation and how to create sacred spaciousness.

January in my course is discernment month: when we learn which divination tools honor lineages & which cause harm. tarot? complicated. sortilege? accessible. if you’re discerning your next step, try some new practices. deadline to join the course-2/15 💫

#divination #spiritualdirection #witchsky

Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.

Having the best conversations with people answering the call to train as spiritual directors.
If people come to you with spiritual questions, let's talk! Is this training right for you?
2-year program. Earth-centered, trauma-aware, fiercely inclusive.
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Ryan O'Leary (@RyanO_ChosenCoy) lol We are speed running regional destabilization. Kidnapping a sitting head of state with family and fucking off is probably the opposite of intelligent. But I guess we will see. Quoting The White...

In another act of depraved immorality Trumps military attacked a capital city, kidnapped the president & wife. This act of war was not approved by Congress. deep concern for the people of Puerto Rico who are the likely locus of Venezuelan retaliation.

January with Janus: Facing Back to Face Forward Facing This Moment

New year with Janus
The two-faced god Janus teaches us: look back to remember your strength, face forward with love and commitment. We don't build resilience alone. 🔥✨

Your spiritual practice IS your resistance practice.

#witchsky #CollectiveResilience #JanusMagic

#oneofthetwo #mask I mask because I care about other people. I mask because I am immunocompromised, and I don’t want flu or other diseases. I mask because long COVID sucks. I mask because I want to safely visit friends and family who are undergoing cancer treatment. Why do you mask?

Grounding Meditation: Gathering at the Communal Hearth A winter solstice meditation at a communal hearth, sharing warmth and connection through the longest night. Grounding practice for sacred community.

On the longest night, we gather at the hearth. 🔥

A #WinterSolstice grounding meditation for tending the communal fire—the warmth we create together that carries us through the dark.

For your #solstice circles, personal practice, or quiet ritual tonight.

#PaganSpirituality #meditation #witchsky

Deep Listening: While You WAIT Explores deep listening as contemplative practice in spiritual direction-attending to explorer, self, and Spirit through embodied presence and silence

Deep Listening: While You WAIT
Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.

Ethical Foundations in Spirit Tending Spiritual direction rests on sacred trust. A seeker invites us into the tender landscape of their spirit, and our response must be both…

Explore consent-based ethics in spiritual direction: trust, accountability, and power named as sacred practices of care and integrity. medium.com/@abeltaine/e...

Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for Trans Day of Remembrance. This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop. For all who died this year—whether from violence, suicide, or neglect—wishing you an easy rest. May you go forth shining. — Thorn

Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for
Trans Day of Remembrance.

This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop….

#TDOR

starts Mar ‘26 For earth-centered, UU, & spiritually independent listeners & leaders. Deepen your practice and support others on their spiritual journeys.
rolling admissions. Max of 14. deadline Feb 15, ‘26.

Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.

I'm excited (and ridiculously proud): NOW accepting applications to the next cohort of the 2-year Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary.
Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.

YouTube video by Amy Beltaine The First Jack o Lantern, by Stephen Posch

It's Samhain! This is an offering of a fantastic story by Stephen Posch: The story of the First Jack-o-Lantern. youtu.be/GndxOD6SvGo

A guide for spiritual companions on attending to death, dying, and grief with compassion, ritual, and presence.
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