In ancient tradition, it was Hecate who stood at the crossroads and held the torch for those making the return journey. She is our guide at the threshold.

If you have been through something that changed you — grief, loss, upheaval, menopause, a long season of inner work — and you know, even if tentatively, that something has shifted, this is for you.

The Return is not shadow work. It is not more descent. This is the work of emergence: integrating what the journey gave you and learning to stand fully in the light of your own becoming.

Because here is what so few resources address: there is little that serves as a guide for the woman returning from her underworld initiation. We have countless tales of descent. We have almost no maps for the way back- although every return is unique.

The Myth at the Heart of It

The Return draws on the story of Persephone and Demeter — the descent, the disappearance, the eventual return to the world bringing the power of fertility with her. And it invites Hecate, keeper of the threshold and woman of the crossroads, as its presiding guide: the one who holds the torch, who walks the paths, who has crossed through and knows.

This is not a one-time journey. The pathway between inner and outer world spins on a spiral of becoming. Each time we descend and return, we bring more of ourselves — more of our gifts, more of our power — until we can take our place in the world authentically, as all that we are.

Five Workshops

1. The Return — Recognising when the underworld journey is complete, or complete enough, and we are being called back to the world. This is the moment Persephone chooses to leave and return to the living, bringing fertility with her. Knowing when to stop descending and turn toward the surface.
2. The Threshold — The liminal state between the inner world and the outer one. This is Hecate’s domain: neither here nor there, betwixt and between. Learning to stand at the crossroads without collapsing into old ways of being or rushing to false safety — and beginning to build the structures that will support your integration.
3. Reclamation — What did you bring back? What did the journey give you, transform in you, reveal? This is the integration of what you found into your conscious identity — returning not broken, but knowing, having built your own inner structures of self-respect and self-love.
4. Emergence — Taking your place. Not performing a role, but offering your authentic self into the relational, collective world. What you have lived and what you now embody cannot be taught by any teacher or book — it is yours, and the world needs it.
5. Restructuring — After the long undoing, the psyche needs to know it can hold itself. The old foundations didn’t survive the journey — they weren’t meant to. This final workshop is about building something new: not a return to who you were before, but an architecture built from everything the descent revealed.

Why This, Why Now

This is the next chapter for anyone who has walked with me through The Alchemy of Menopause, or for anybody surfacing from a period of inner work or change. That offering (TAOM) helped us navigate the crucible. The Return is what comes after — the rubedo, the reddening, the stage where the transformed self becomes fully itself: luminous, useful, present in the world.

And for anyone in the post-menopause transition specifically — this reframes it not as an ending, but as emergence into full power. Hecate herself is post-menopausal. The crone is not diminished. She is the one who has crossed through.

Details

A five-week live journey, held in a small circle so the alchemy of women witnessing one another can do its work.

Cohort size: 12–20 women

Price: £180 founding member price

What’s included: Live recordings of all sessions sent to your inbox; recap of previous session and preparation for following the session, including homework and suggestions for reflections and embodied practice; workbook or journal prompts; a safe and private group space; 25% discount on 1-1 sessions. We will actively be working with the astrological placements of asteroid Demeter, Hecate and Persephone in our own natal chart; and there is an opportunity to contribute your “Return” story to a small, published anthology.

A note from Karen: This offering comes out of my own return from an intense period of transformation, guided by years of working with women in this same territory, and by the astrology, myth, and dreamwork that underpin everything I offer. I created this because when I went looking for a guide for the way back — not the way down — I couldn’t find one. So I made it.