This website has ads, despite my ublock extension, and threw a full-page interruption at me asking for my email address twice while I tried to scroll. I gave up before I even got to the content. That’s some user-hostile bullshit.

It is an unfortunate thumbnail.

Yeah once every 3 months seems to be about the sweet spot for me. The Solstice/Equinox thing is mostly just a way of preparing myself mentally. It flows with the changing of seasons and gives a naturally occuring cadence to it.

It can do wonders. I have a (semi) quarterly ritual - one I’ll be partaking in soon to coincide with the Vernal Equinox - of taking a large dose of psilocybin and diving into my own psyche for an afternoon. Its hard to explain the way it helps to change thought patterns.

With the right set going in you can really see the harmful ruts you’ve fallen into, recognize their manifestations and reroute. My last trip, during the winter solstice, snapped me out of a depressive episode I’d been battling for a year. It helped me see that I’d been spending my time and effort trying to live a life I’d long since stopped being excited for, for reasons unrelated to my depression, and it helped me feel empathy towards myself, so I could move forward on a new path, at peace.

It wouldn’t have happened had I not been working on getting myself out of that rut for weeks prior through art, self reflection and seeking support, but it truly came to fruition after breaking down the barriers of my mind, destroying my ego for an afternoon, travelling through time and space and coming out the other side renewed.