Perdita Finn
What if the struggles, relationships, and turning points in your life are part of a much older soul pattern — one you finally have the power to change?
Discover how to recognize the repeating patterns and recurring dynamics moving through your life — across generations and even lifetimes — so you can make more conscious choices and claim a deeper sense of meaning, direction, and belonging.
Have you noticed how certain experiences in your life repeat — even when you’ve genuinely tried to choose differently?
Maybe it’s a relationship that starts with hope and ends in the same familiar place. A decision you thought you’d resolved, only to find yourself second-guessing it… again.
Or a persistent sense that no matter how much you change on the surface, something underneath keeps pulling you down the same path.
You may tell yourself you should be further along by now… or that if you were wiser, stronger, or more healed somehow, you wouldn’t keep finding yourself here again.
What if the patterns, longings, prayers, and questions that shape your life didn’t begin in this incarnation — and will follow you into the next until something essential changes?
In her work, masterful storyteller Perdita Finn, author of Take Back the Magic and Mothers of Magic, offers a radically different way to understand your life — not as a single line from birth to death, but as part of a longer, cyclical story that unfolds across lifetimes.
Join Perdita for this 7-week live video journey, where you’ll learn how to recognize the hidden threads shaping your life— so you can interrupt old cycles as they arise and begin choosing a different path forward.
Instead of asking, What’s wrong with me? You may begin to ask:
What if this heartbreak, this illness, this impossible pattern isn’t random?
What if it’s connected to the energy I’ve been putting into the world?
And what might become possible when I stop seeing my life as punishment — and begin seeing it as part of a much larger conversation?
Through guided practices, storytelling, and deeply grounded exercises, Perdita will help you recognize the deeper wisdom, emotional inheritances, and unfinished questions that may have followed you from one life to the next — and begin working with them consciously in your everyday life.
You’ll begin to recognize that your longings, fascinations, and callings may be pointing you toward something your soul is finally ready to live fully.
Perdita will guide you through powerful tools — creating your own labyrinth, building an ancestral altar to deepen your relationship with the stories and inheritances that live within you, writing prayers you can carry forward, and learning how to read the natural world as a source of guidance — so you can better understand the forces, impulses, and repeated experiences shaping your path.
You’ll begin to recognize your challenges or yearnings as part of a larger unfolding that may be guiding you toward the life you’re meant to live.
You may find that you’re less reactive in moments that used to pull you in. That you can interrupt habitual behaviors before they take over. And that you feel more connected — not just to your own life, but to a more profound sense of belonging with your ancestors, the earth, and the long arc of your own becoming.
And perhaps most importantly, you’ll likely feel that your life has direction — not because everything is planned, but because you trust where you’re placing your next step.
During this immersive course, you’ll:
- Create and work with your own labyrinth as a living map to help you navigate decisions and turning points
- Build a relationship with your ancestors and the natural world — so you feel supported, connected, and less alone on your path
- Develop simple, practical rituals that strengthen your intuition — helping you recognize and trust guidance from ancestors, dreams, and the earth
- Explore what it means to become your own ancestor — making choices that improve not only your life now, but all your lives to come
- Reconnect with what you truly want by identifying the deeper desires and prayers that have informed your life across time and space
- Experience time more spaciously, stepping out of urgency and into a deeper sense of meaning and possibility
- Learn how to “time travel” through memory, imagination, and reverie — gaining insight into your life from beyond the present moment
- Clarify what you want to carry forward into future lifetimes — including writing the prayers you want remembered and lived forward
- Feel less alone by experiencing yourself as part of something ongoing and interconnected
- Explore the nuances and complexities of working with oracles — including astrology, tarot, dreamwork, and psychics — while discovering how they reflect your own intuition.
- And much more
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-week transformational course, Perdita will guide you through the wisdom and exercises you’ll need to see your life as part of an ongoing story that stretches across lifetimes — and step into a more conscious role in how that journey continues.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Perdita and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Perdita’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2026-07-14 1:00:00 pm.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Perdita. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to shift from seeing your life as a single path to experiencing it as part of a much longer, fluid story — one you can begin to participate in, influence, and carry forward..
Module 1: Imagining Multiplicity: Begin to Access the Wisdom You've Carried Across Lifetimes (2026-07-14 1:00:00 pm)
To recover the long story of your soul, you'll begin to imagine your life as a series of circles rather than a single line - circles of becoming and belonging, and cycles of return and reunion. Perita will help you explore questions like: Who are you? Who have you been? And how can you claim the gifts and treasures carried across a multitude of incarnations? As you shift out of linear thinking, you may begin to sense that you hold far more wisdom, memory, and resources than you've been taught to recognize. You'll begin the process of reconnecting with all that you are.
In this opening session, you'll:
- Explore a variety of modalities for conceptualizing reincarnation beyond linear and patriarchal frameworks
- Create your own personal labyrinth to reflect the twists and turns of your soul's long story and guide your journey throughout the course
- Tap into your deepest intuition about who and what you've been - and how your oldest knowings can inform your life today
- Recover the deep ecological truths that inform your understanding of what it means to be a soul finding its way through time and space
Module 2: Summoning the Old Ones: Reconnect With Your Ancestors & Deepen Your Sense of Belonging (2026-07-21 1:00:00 pm)
Every life you've lived has been born of a mother, into an ecosystem of plants, animals, and land that remembers all that you really are. Perdita will share how the very ground beneath your feet holds the long story of your soul - and how it can help you remember why you are right where you are. As you begin to reconnect with those who came before you, you may feel a growing sense of belonging and kinship with the Earth and all that is.
In this session, you'll:
- Assemble a litany of the dead from your past lives
- Create an ancestral altar to honor the many mothers who love you still, and make space for their presence
- Use summoning spells to invite your ancestors to help create magic and miracles in your life
- Explore how the land where you live can be understood as an ancestral altar
Module 3: Desire Is Your Guiding Star - Reclaim What You Truly Want & Let It Guide Your Life (2026-07-28 1:00:00 pm)
To find your way through the dark mysteries that surround your life, you must begin to tap into the guidance of your soul. Perdita will invite you to reflect on questions like: What have your prayers been, lifetime after lifetime? And how might this life already be answering them? What prayers would you carry forward incarnation after incarnation? As you begin to recognize the desires that have quietly guided you across time, you may start to see that this guiding star is the center of your labyrinth, the center of your heart - always showing you where to place your feet next.
In this session, you'll:
- Claim the quest of your soul across many lifetimes
- Create a daily prayer your ancestors can hold for you - one that expresses what you truly, deeply desire
- Explore what it means to live within Mystery traditions and find faith in the unknown as fertile and life-giving
- Establish personal rituals that help you stay connected to both your basic needs and your sacred longings
Module 4: Karmic Complications & Opportunities: Turn Setbacks Into Insight & New Possibilities (2026-08-04 1:00:00 pm)
Why do bad things happen to good people? You'll examine how catastrophes, obstacles, and failure can be an essential part of your soul's journey. Perdita will guide you to look at what becomes possible when you feel stuck, lost, or hopeless - and how the dead can see in the dark even when you can't. As you begin to shift your perspective, you may discover how even the most difficult moments can become an invitation toward something unexpected.
In this session, you'll:
- Identify places where you've been getting stuck across lifetimes - and begin to see how these patterns repeat
- Work with the twists and turns of your own labyrinth to recognize how obstacles may be guiding you rather than blocking you
- Rewrite your own story by uncovering the hidden teachings within disappointments, rejections, and failures
- Claim the unopened gifts of your past selves to expand your awareness of where you're headed and what it may take to get there
- Empower yourself to manifest the wild desires of your heart
Module 5: Receiving the Blessings & Wisdom of Your Ancestors: Trust Your Intuition & Receive Clear Guidance (2026-08-11 1:00:00 pm)
Receiving messages from the other side is essential on this journey - but how do you trust what you're hearing, and what it means? You'll explore the nuances and complexities of working with oracles - including astrology, tarot, dreamwork, and psychics - while discovering how they reflect your own intuition. You'll also reconnect with nature as your most immediate and reliable guide, learning what it means to let the earth be your oracle again. As you deepen this relationship, you may begin to experience a more grounded sense of belonging and trust in your own knowing.
In this session, you'll:
- Identify a personal oracle and establish its resources and pitfalls
- Engage in exercises and rituals that help you read the natural world as an oracle - noticing how weather, plants, and animals can offer guidance in your daily life
- Use your dreams and reveries as meaningful resources on your journey
- Transform fear and uncertainty into a deeper sense of trust and faith
Module 6: Intimations of Immortality: Expand Your Imagination & Experience Time in a New Way (2026-08-18 1:00:00 pm)
Time travel narratives have become ubiquitous in the modern world. Perdita will show you how you can become the kind of "time traveler" the earth may need right now. You'll look at what quantum physics suggests about time and space, how precognitive experiences may be guiding you, and what it means to directly experience the possibilities of imaginative time travel. As your perspective shifts, you may begin to sense time as layered rather than fixed - opening new possibilities for how you understand your life and your role within it.
In this session, you'll:
- Expand your empathic imagination and your ability to perceive beyond linear time
- Write your own time-travel story and consider where you'd most like to travel
- Explore time travel literature and media as resources for understanding your incarnational journey
- Discover how the long story of your soul can offer an antidote to all of civilization's worst ills
Module 7: Reborn Into Belonging: Clarify the Life You're Moving Toward & the World You'll Return To (2026-08-25 1:00:00 pm)
We're all coming back to the world we've made. In this final session, you'll explore what you want for yourself in your next incarnation - and what you want for the world you'll return to. Perdita will share how this knowing can begin to shape your daily actions, guiding your feet toward what truly matters. As you begin to carry these intentions forward, you may feel a deeper sense of continuity, purpose, and belonging in the life you're living now.
In this session, you'll:
- Write a letter to the mothers of your next incarnation, expressing the prayers you want carried forward
- Create a collective vision of the world you want to be reborn into, and the life you hope to return to
- Identify personal "finders" who might recognize and guide you in your next life
- Explore what it means to become your own ancestor, and to carry your intentions across time
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-06-28 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Perdita ’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Becoming the Animate Everything With Sophie Strand
Video Teaching With Sophie Strand
Sophie Strand, acclaimed author of The Flowering Wand, The Madonna Secret, The Body Is a Doorway, and Make Me Good Soil, summons the wisdom of nature to express profound truths about the world we live in - through poetry, essays, and historical fiction. Growing up with Perdita Finn as her mother, she was immersed in a belief-sphere that recognized how each of us holds more selves than a single human life. Before she writes each morning, Sophie gathers her other-than-human counsel to help guide her voice, direct her steps, and align her creative imagination with this wild Earth. In this session, she invites you to explore how this practice emerged from the spiritual devotions of her upbringing.
Writing With the Ancestors: The Power of the Pen to Summon the Unseen
Video Teaching With Kate Below
Kate Belew, author of the acclaimed invitation to writing, Word Witch, helps put the spell back into your words. As Kate shares, the best writers have always known that they're summoning those from the Other Side to enliven and guide their creativity - call it the duende, the muse, or simply inspiration. In this practical session, she offers tools for collaborating with the unseen as you write and create, drawing on her unique gift for making the invisible visible, the impossible possible, and the magical real. Join her for this special exploration and discover new companions and inspirations for your own creative journey.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Time Traveling
Video Teaching Hadas Knox
Everyone is psychic-but some of us hide our psychic "knowings" beneath the veil of fiction. In this powerful session, historical fiction writer Hadas Knox (The Dove in the Iron Cauldron) will share why she was called to immerse herself in the spiritual flowering of the 19th century in America, how her intuition guided her research, and she will reveal how often she knew things before she researched them. We each have stories within us waiting to be told in one way or another. Hadas will offer us a blueprint for bringing them into the world. And share a special reading from her page-turning novel! Everyone is psychic, but some of us hide our psychic "knowings" beneath the veil of fiction. In this engaging session, historical fiction writer Hadas Knox, author of The Dove in the Iron Cauldron, shares why she was called to immerse herself in the spiritual flowering of 19th-century America... how intuition guided her research... and how often she discovered she knew things before uncovering them in historical sources. She offers a blueprint for bringing the stories waiting within you into the world, and concludes with a special reading from her page-turning novel.
The Shapeshifting Soul
PDF Excerpt from Perdita Finn's Next Book
You'll read it here first! In this exclusive excerpt, Perdita shares a top-secret glimpse of the book she's currently writing - which likely won't be available for another two years. Her next book explores the wild, dark pilgrimage of prayer: what happens when prayer leads us into unseen realms, carries us on journeys that are both transformative and terrifying, and ultimately changes who we imagine ourselves to be - and who we're becoming.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Perdita Finn
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Perdita Finn — author and co-founder of The Way of the Rose, a Feral Fellowship of Friends — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to step into the long story of your soul — where your choices are no longer just about this moment, but about what you carry forward across lifetimes. Course sessions are on 2026-07-14 1:00:00 pm.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Long Story of Your Soul
We feel honored that Perdita Finn has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an author and co-founder of The Way of the Rose, a Feral Fellowship of Friends whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about experiencing your life as something ongoing and interconnected — where what you choose now shapes not only what happens next, but the path you continue walking over time, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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More Praise for Perdita Finn
Author of Tarot as Questions
Author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy
Psychic medium and author of Spirit Seeker
About Perdita Finn
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Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of The Way of the Rose, the feral fellowship that inspired their book, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.
In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, spirit workers, and healers, Perdita apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic.
In her popular workshops on getting to know the dead, participants are empowered to activate the miracles in their own lives with the help of their ancestors and recover their own intuitive magic. Her book, Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, is an intimate journey through her recovery of these lost ways. She is also the author of the forthcoming The Story of Our Mothers: Embodying the Power of Our Ancestors Before Patriarchy.
Perdita speaks widely on how to collaborate with those on the Other Side, on the urgent necessity of a new romantic animism, and on the sobriety that emerges when we claim the long story of our souls.
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