Nine-Day Retreat
Awaking in the Matriversal Reality of WE/HERE/NOW
Guided by the Magoist Calendar of the 13 Months & 28 Days
The Nine-Day Retreat is an invitation to self-disillusioning, self-healing, and self-discovering to be guided by the Magoist Calendar of the 13 Months and 28 Days. The (the Reality of WE/HERE/NOW). This may be virtual or actual retreat. If you want to hold it in the Mago Academy Center, located in Lytle Creek, California, contact Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com) for the desired time and facilities. Mago Academy Center will offer a residence for retreat and intensive courses on Ceto-Magoism from 2025.
Facilitator: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
When: Dec. 30th – Jan. 7th 2025 (first round) or a set of nine days at your convenience around the year
Why the Magoist Calendar?
By following the Magoist Calendar of the 13 months and 28 days, one rekindles the Reality of WE/HERE/NOW. That ALL are running in regularity and synchronicity from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic like seamlessly interworking cogwheels is the foundation of our lives on the planet. The Magoist Calendar visualizes the stability and the harmony of ALL in the Matriverse. That is where our happiness, wholeness, and healing are derived from. By tuning with the Nine-Way of the Cosmic Music, we humans are entering the realm of wholeness and creativity in harmony with all else.
Texts: Mago Almanac Year 8 and previously and newly published essays on the Magoist Calendar by Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Method: The retreat takes place individually via daily email and one Zoom meeting (60 minutes, date and time needs to be determined) with all participants or individually. There is no email group discussion during the period. Participants opt to join a post-retreat email discussion group or another relevant email group upon completion.
I: Follow sub-themes for nine days: Dr. Hwang will provide sub-themes with guiding questions for each day. Use both tracks of questions in the chart below as a guideline. Daily Prompts, which include Dr. Hwang’s guides (a section or the whole of her essays), will be provided a day in advance.
II: Keep a daily journal: Keep a journal for each day about the sub-theme assigned and the night’s dream, if you remember it, as many times as possible. Engage yourself in a project that uses your body such as walking, making something, doing dishes etc. Do it alone. Expressing through poetry and/or art are optional.
III: Communicate with the facilitator: It is not mandatory to share a part or the whole of your daily journal with Dr. Hwang. If you choose not to share the journal, Dr. Hwang will provide some questions for you to answer about the day’s reflection theme. Dr. Hwang will read and acknowledge your communications to her and convey the message that she is with you for each day. She may provide some guides in response to your sharing, whenever necessary.
IV: One Zoom session with the facilitator for 60 min on 9th day, time TBA (to be agreed by all participants)
V: Optional: You are invited to join Mago Academy’s events that may fall on, during, or after your retreat days. Events include Welcoming Ceremony New Year & Solstice (according to the 13-month, 28-day calendar, see Mago Almanac (13 Months & 28 Days) with Monthly Wheels); S/HE Divine Studies Online Conference, S/HE Divine Studies Online Forum, Salons for the Movement of Goddess Feminist Activist Spirituality.
Two Tracks of Daily Themes, subjected to a revision (follow the day sequence in a snake-like curve line)
| Day 1: What molds my mind? (Probing my internalizations I) ——————— Understanding the Basics of the Magoist Calendar | Day 6: What do I desire? (Restoring my crushed dreams III) —————————-How does the Nine-Way manifest? | Day 7: Let-go and Let-be (Riding the currents I) —————-Discovering the Nine-Way |
| Day 2: What molds my mind? (Probing my internalizations II) ———————Great Unity of ALL in the Cosmic Mother | Day 5: What do I desire? (Restoring my crushed dreams II) ——————————The Nine-fold Cosmic Music | Day 8: Let-go and Let-be (Riding the currents II) —————–Wholeness, Healing, and Creativity |
| Day 3: What molds my mind? (Probing my internalizations III) ———————Reality of WE/HERE/NOW | Day 4: What do I desire? (Restoring my crushed dreams I) ——————————-The Original Trinity |
Day 9: Let-go and Let-be (Riding the currents III) |
Fees: Recommended donation $75-200 or donation.
(Paypal to ninemagos@gmail.com) or use below link:
Registration: Open until Dec. 28th. Please fill out the following in your email with “9-Day Retreat” in the subject:
1. Your name and country of residence.
2. What made you choose to take this self-guided retreat?
3. Questions and/or comments.
About Dr. Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
Dr. Hwang is the researcher, writer, publisher, philosopher, visionary, and advocate of Magoist Cetaceanism, the matriversal consciousness of cetacean veneration embodied in the socio-historical-cultural expressions of traditional Korea and beyond. After earning her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA., she pursued M.A. degree at UCLA, CA. She has made herself a gardener of a mini-forest by the name of Moon-lit Rock Garden in Lytle Creek, California. She, with Mary Ann Beavis, co-founded S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies. Currently, Dr. Hwang has been the leading co-editor of the S/HE journal since 2022. Mago Academy convenes an annual online S/HE Divine Studies conference beginning in 2024. Hwang’s authored and co-edited books include Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess, Goddesses in Myth, History and Culture, Mago Almanac, The Mago Way, She Rises trilogy, Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess, She Summons (Volume 1), The Budoji Workbook (Volume 1), and Return to Mago E-Magazine.
Words of Kindness by Beth Raps, Ph.D. (2024 9-Day Retreatant)
I wanted to say why this retreat is important to me. I have long done inner practices during the deep Winter season of December but never guided. And I was never guided into the depths of not just understanding but experiencing the presence of the Cosmic Mother, Mago. You are the right guide for me, and I’m grateful you’ll take precious time to do this with us during the 9 days of the retreat, starting on December 9 and culminating on the 17th. I’m also grateful I can do this at my own pace, and give to it what I am able to bring to it, with your support.
I embrace your invitation to this “self-disillusioning, self-healing, and self-discovering” so necessary now, and so potent with possibility for us. I know others will join as they feel moved; I just wanted to raise my hand and witness to the power of what you’ve created and are offering.
Thank you.
Beth