Moon Shadow in Cancer

The Samhain Society | Online Ritual

A Dead Good Festival Event

📅 Saturday 3rd October
⏰ 19:00 – 20:00
📍 Online · £15
🎥 Session is recorded for catch-up

Moon Shadow is a monthly online ritual held at the Third Quarter Moon, the lunar phase of reckoning, release, and honest inner recalibration. This is the Moon that invites us to look beneath the surface, confront what has been hidden, and gently release patterns that no longer align with who we are becoming.

The Third Quarter Moon in Cancer brings shadow work into the realm of the heart, the home, emotional memory, belonging, and the deep inner waters of the psyche.

Cancer is the archetype of the Mother, the Guardian, the Ancestor, the Keeper of the Hearth, and the Tidal Soul. Ruled by the Moon, Cancer is intimately connected to our emotional rhythms, our instinctive responses, our need for safety, and the places we retreat to when the world feels too much.

Its medicine is tenderness, nurturing, intuition, emotional honesty, protection, belonging, and the wisdom of allowing ourselves to feel.

But within its shadow lives the wounded protector: emotional defensiveness, fear of abandonment, over-attachment to the past, guilt, people-pleasing, over-nurturing, difficulty with boundaries, and the tendency to retreat into the shell rather than risk being seen.

Cancer remembers. It holds the stories of our childhood, our family, our ancestry, and the emotional landscapes that shaped who we became. Sometimes those memories nourish us. Sometimes they become invisible rooms we continue to live inside, long after we have outgrown them.

Under this Cancer Moon, shadow work becomes an invitation to return to ourselves — to explore what we carry, what we protect, what we long for, and what we are finally ready to put down.

This alignment invites us to explore:

• The emotional patterns and family stories that continue to shape your life.
• Where you may be confusing emotional familiarity with genuine safety.
• The wounds around belonging, rejection, abandonment, or not feeling at home in yourself.
• Where you have become the caretaker, rescuer, or emotional container for others at your own expense.
• The difference between nurturing and neglecting yourself.
• Old attachments, memories, and loyalties that keep you tethered to the past.
• The protective walls you have built around your heart — and what lies behind them.
• Where guilt, obligation, or fear may be influencing your emotional choices.
• Your relationship with home, family, roots, and the feeling of belonging.
• The ancestral patterns you carry, consciously or unconsciously.
• The parts of yourself that need compassion rather than criticism.
• Learning to honour your sensitivity without allowing it to become a prison.

Cancer shadow work is not about forcing yourself to let go of the past or turning away from your feelings. It is about creating a safe enough inner space to meet what hurts, honour what has shaped you, and decide what deserves to come with you into the future.

When we bring awareness to our emotional patterns, we can begin to distinguish between intuition and fear, care and self-abandonment, protection and avoidance.

The shell becomes a sanctuary rather than a prison. The tide becomes a teacher. The inner child is given a voice. The heart, once guarded, may begin to soften.

A ritual of emotional release, belonging, and coming home to yourself

Led by author, Transpersonal Therapist, and High Priestess Witch Tree Carr, Moon Shadow is a one-hour guided ritual weaving together:

• Meditation and altered-state journeying.
• Cancer-aligned shadow work and archetypal exploration.
• Ritual and spellwork for emotional release, protection, healing, and renewal.
• Reflective practices for inner-child connection and emotional integration.
• Tarot as a mirror for self-discovery and inner guidance.
• Sacred space-holding and opportunities for deep personal reflection.

This Cancer Third Quarter Moon ritual focuses on:

• Releasing emotional patterns that no longer serve you.
• Exploring the relationship between safety, vulnerability, and trust.
• Meeting the parts of yourself that have learned to hide, protect, or over-give.
• Honouring your emotional needs without shame.
• Exploring family dynamics, ancestral stories, and inherited emotional patterns.
• Creating healthier boundaries around your time, energy, and care.
• Reconnecting with your inner sanctuary and your sense of belonging.
• Making peace with aspects of the past without allowing them to define your future.
• Learning to nurture yourself with the same tenderness you offer others.
• Making space for a new emotional cycle.

This ritual invites you into the liminal space between holding on and letting go — the quiet waters where memory, feeling, and intuition meet.

Here, we can ask:

What am I still carrying that was never mine to hold?

Where am I longing to come home to myself?

What would it mean to feel safe enough to soften?

What am I ready to release, so that something new can take root?

Come as you are. Bring a candle, a journal, a bowl of water, and anything that helps you feel held and grounded. You may also wish to bring a photograph, a meaningful object, or a symbol of home, ancestry, or something you are ready to release.

Allow the Cancer Moon to illuminate the emotional stories you carry, the places where you have built protective walls, and the parts of yourself waiting to be welcomed home.

Cancer reminds us: you do not have to carry everything to prove that you care. Sometimes the most sacred act of love is learning to care for yourself.

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ABOUT YOUR GUIDE

TREE CARR

Tree is a published author, TEDx speaker, transpersonal psychology therapist and Death Doula whose work explores dreams, death, altered states of consciousness, creativity, and psychedelic integration. For over three decades, she has worked at the intersection of mysticism, psychology, storytelling, and the arts, helping people navigate the liminal spaces of dreaming, transformation, and meaning-making.

She is a graduate of Alef Trust’s programme in Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology, where she studied with Dr. David Luke, and has undertaken further study at MetaIntegral Academy in California with Dr. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens. She holds a Crossfields Institute Diploma in the Quality Marked-endorsed programme The Living Well Dying Well Person-Centred Approach to Death & Dying. She has also studied Ecology, Spirituality and the Paranormal with Dr. Jack Hunter at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, alongside Mediumship and Creativity at the renowned Arthur Findlay College.

Tree is a public speaker, educator, and facilitator who teaches dreamwork, lucid dreaming, quantum dreaming, and consciousness studies at The College of Psychic Studies in London. She has lectured and facilitated workshops for organisations including The Psychedelic Society UK and has guided students at the Royal College of Art (RCA) through lucid dreaming practices designed to support creativity and artistic inspiration. Alongside institutional teaching, she leads her own immersive courses, retreats, and one-to-one sessions exploring dreams, ritual, and altered states.

Tree has spoken at a wide range of cultural and consciousness-focused institutions and events, including Tate Modern, The Freud Museum, Breaking Convention UK, Mind Body Spirit Festival UK, Dream Palace Athens, Guerrilla Science, the Barbican, and other spaces dedicated to creativity, psychology, mysticism, and altered states. She has also delivered lectures on lucid dreaming at New York University (NYU), where she worked with creative writing students to help them connect with the inspiration, symbolism, and imaginative potential of their dreams.

Before stepping fully into transpersonal and therapeutic work, Tree spent decades immersed in the creative industries. Since the 1990s, she has worked as a musician, filmmaker, writer, and cultural curator. A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, she has collaborated with a wide range of musicians and artists, including psychedelic pop musician Tess Parks. From 2002–2012, she founded and ran the cult East London video store, film club, and production company Today Is Boring, a beloved counterculture hub dedicated to underground cinema, esoteric film, and experimental art. Through screenings, events, and productions, the project became known for its distinctive blend of outsider culture, film history, and alternative community.

Tree is the author of eleven publications spanning dreams, magic, death, culture, creativity, and consciousness:

• Dreams (Octopus Publishing, 2018)
• Conscious Dreamer (Quarto Publishing Group, 2021)
• The Artists’ Oracle (White Crypt, 2021)
• This Girl Is Super: North American Rave Culture 1990–1995 (TGIS, 2020)
• A Spell A Day (Watkins Publishing, 2023)
• Dreamwork (Innerwork Project, 2024)
• The Witch’s Cat Tarot (Watkins Publishing, 2025)
• Accused! The Witch Trials of Britain (Herb Lester Associates, 2025)
• Technomancy (Watkins Publishing, 2026)
• Into the Pines (Herb Lester Associates, Sept 2026)
• Re-Enchanting Death (Cunningfolk Publishers, Dec 2026)

As a psychedelic integration therapist, Tree supports individuals in making sense of altered-state experiences through reflective, person-centred sessions. Her approach combines storytelling, meditation, dream inquiry, mind mapping, art therapy, and creative expression to help clients integrate unconscious material and navigate personal transformation.

As a Transpersonal Dreaming Guide, Tree works with people seeking to deepen their relationship with the dream world through practical methods, symbolic interpretation, lucid dreaming, recurring dream work, and ritual-based practices. Her workshops, retreats, and courses have been offered across the UK, Europe, Canada, and the USA.

As a Death Doula, Tree provides spiritual, emotional, existential, and practical support at the end of life. Her work centres on holding compassionate space for grief, healing, reflection, and peace during the profound threshold of death and dying.

A High Priestess Witch, Tree also works within ritual and esoteric practice, facilitating circles, ceremonies, and moon rituals with London-based platform She’s Lost Control, alongside collaborations with organisations such as The Samhain Society, Weird Walk, and NeoAncients.

She is also co-creator and facilitator of WITCH, a unique retreat experience exploring consciousness, ritual, creativity, dreamwork, and connection to land. Hosted in collaboration with UK singer, activist, and television personality Charlotte Church, the retreat takes place at Charlotte’s retreat centre The Dreaming in Wales. WITCH offers an immersive exploration of altered states, myth, and nature-based practices, inviting participants into a deeply experiential journey of self-discovery and embodied transformation.

Her writing and commentary have appeared widely across media and culture publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Stylist, VICE, Grazia, ES Magazine, and Sky History Channel. 

Born in 1972, Tree spent her early childhood living on a commune in the southern United States and often credits this unconventional upbringing as the origin of her lifelong fascination with consciousness, the unseen, and the mysteries that exist between worlds.