The Sanctuary - Sacred Paths

04/25/2026

Hey friends, new essay just dropped 🦌🔥

It's called "The 5 Fires to Tend in 2026" and honestly it might be the most practical thing I've written in a while. Five ancient fires, each with a practice, and a printable pocket guide at the end you can stick on your fridge or your altar or wherever your eyes land when the week gets heavy.

Wrote it at 6am after making the mistake of opening my phone before the shutters. The world is a lot right now. But so are we.

Here it is: https://angelldeerwisdom.substack.com/p/the-5-fires-to-tend-in-2026

Share it with whoever needs it.

Prayers for all of us in these wild times.

An animist field guide for those of us still awake, still feeling, still here.

04/14/2026

This Thursday we gather for the Wild Hearth, our monthly online circle with Rose Wollf. Two hours by the fire together. If you've been carrying something heavy and need a place to set it down, even just for one evening, come sit with us.

It’s ONLINE live and recorded (in case time don’t work for you)

https://www.sacredpaths.earth/rituals-and-rebellion

04/09/2026

Hey everyone,

I just published something I've been sitting on for a while.

A free guide called Five Truths They Never Told You About Turning Your Gifts Into a Living. The visibility wound. The money wound. Why your business needs to be an ecosystem, not a desperate single crop. All of it.

If you know a healer, a practitioner, a teacher who's carrying real gifts and struggling to make it work, send it to them.

That's who I wrote it for.

👉 https://www.sacredpaths.earth/sacred-business-mastery

03/28/2026

The Animist’s Field Guide (For you, and yes, free).

Seven animist practices for remembering your relationship with the living world. Written from our farm in Burgundy. No fluff, no spiritual bypassing, no theory. Just 7 real doorways you can walk through, and that I believe will bring you deep support (we need support right now…).

- Greeting the land.
- Making offerings.
- Sitting with a tree.
- Reading signs.
- Listening to the more-than-human world.
- Tending your ancestors.
- Protecting your sacred space.

For you. Restack this post for friends to find it too :)

Let it change you.

https://www.sacredpaths.earth/sacred-paths

03/18/2026

Between worlds, tonight.

New Moon. WildHeart Shamanic Circle with me and Rose Wollf.

We journey. We remember. We circle.

Today/Tonight — 2PM EST / 11AM PST / 6PM London

Recorded if you can't make it live.

Something is trying to reach you. Let it.

JOIN HERE →https://www.sacredpaths.earth/rituals-and-rebellion

03/14/2026

🔥 LIVE TODAY (with me) — "Nourishing Strong Roots in a World That Spins" (7 PM London - 3 PM EST - 12 PM PST)

This is our first Substack live together. And I didn't want to start with something clever. I wanted to start with what's real.

The sad reality is that the world is spinning faster than our nervous systems were built to handle + the news tightens our chest + the scroll never ends + the ground keeps shifting. Have I said enough?…

Most of us are trying to process it alone, in our heads, at 2 am, like we can think our way to safety.

We can't.

So today I want to sit by the fire with you and talk about roots.

What I'll share:

→ What the spinning world is actually doing to your nervous system (and why you're not broken, your inputs are)

→ What "roots" really mean from an animist perspective, the oldest technology on Earth

→ Why the Empire runs on uprootedness and why choosing to root is one of the most rebellious things you can do right now

→ A simple somatic practice you can take home and use tomorrow morning before you pick up your phone

→ Open fire circle — your questions, your voice, real conversation

One hour together :)

Also, I've been writing something big. A full map for the decade ahead. Eight territories. It will drop in your inbox very soon. Today is the doorway in.

Join live or catch the replay.

See you at the fire. 🦌
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/124691

02/04/2026

A few years ago, my wife and I made the kind of decision that doesn’t look “reasonable” on paper.

We carried a vision: a humble hostel rooted in a wide stretch of land, permaculture in the soil, a retreat center, a home for ancient wisdom, community, and the slow rewilding of our lives and our world.

For nearly a decade, we’d been dreaming about what is happening in the world right now. Not as headline but more like a drumbeat in the depth of our chest.

And we knew that if we were serious about the prayers we speak and the world we claim we want, we couldn’t keep postponing the leap. We had to act. We had to risk. We had to choose discomfort over numbness and procrastination.

So we did the hard thing: we left the U.S. and moved to Europe last year.

It hasn’t been tidy. Most days, I’m carrying some mix of exhaustion, uncertainty, and that strange pressure of responsibility that comes when you build something that actually matters to you. And still, under all the mess, under all the work, I feel a devotion that won’t let go.

Today, something beautiful happened: La Ferme du Cerf Bleu , our hostel, in the photo, was awarded a national travel award.

I’m not sharing that as a victory lap. I’m sharing it as evidence, especially for the part of you that keeps whispering, “Maybe my dream is too big. Maybe I’m too late. Maybe I don’t have what it takes.” That voice is ancient. It’s also a liar.

Dreams often feel impossible from the ground. The “what if” mind can freeze us in place, rehearsing failure like a sacred ritual. But when we stay connected to the bigger prayer—the long view of seven generations, the wide gaze of Eagle, the slow and stubborn holiness of one day at a time—we inch closer to our vows. By fidelity to soul and life.

I’ve spent years, and still do, guiding people through ancient and modern paths—helping them remember their sacred purpose, build their sacred work, and live with integrity inside a world that rewards the opposite. And for me, this move, this land, this place… It’s the part where teachings stop being ideas and become muscle. The embodiment part. The “walk your talk” part. The part where Spirit gently asks, “Do you mean it, though?”

May we remember our dreams before they calcify into regret.
May we risk telling the truth of who we are.
May we unleash our stories and sing our songs, even with shaking hands and big unanswered questions.

Angell
https://www.sacredpaths.earth/sacred-business-mastery

02/01/2026

Good day everyone and blessed Imbolc,

Wanted to send you a quick update in case you missed the email:

1. I just released an essay “A Candle to defeat the Empire” for today’s Imbolc ritual / Brigid connection.
https://angelldeerwisdom.substack.com/p/a-candle-to-defeat-the-empire?r=19s10u

2. ⁠Our upcoming Monthly Online Gathering / New Moon Circle is coming up on Feb 15th. Check more info here.
https://www.sacredpaths.earth/rituals-and-rebellion

3. ⁠I just opened 3 seats in the Sacred Business Mastery Program (one was just claimed since email was sent)
https://www.sacredpaths.earth/sacred-business-mastery

With today’s Full Moon in Leo and this special portal, there are beautiful fiery energies moving in connection to our purpose, how we shine our light in the world and our sacred path.

May those offerings support your Sacred Paths,

Angell Deer

01/20/2026

“Your book, 'Becoming the Medicine, ' made me beautifully uncomfortable. Uncomfortable because it asked me to look straight into places I’d been avoiding—places I didn’t even realize I hadn’t named yet. Beautiful, because in that honest friction it handed me a few gems I’ve been searching for—quietly, stubbornly—for decades.” Jonathan P.

That message I received today really made me smile, because it names the real assignment of this book better than any pitch ever could: beautiful discomfort. Not shame. Not punishment. Not “fix yourself” spirituality. The holy friction that happens when the anesthesia wears off, and you can’t keep floating above your own life, your grief, your hunger, your patterns, your prayers, your body, your relationships with the seen and unseen. The kind of discomfort that doesn’t humiliate you… it just tells you the truth.

We live in an age that sells soothing, and I am really aware of that, yet I still often fall for it. Even the sacred gets packaged into soft-focus promises: quick healing, tidy mantras, love-and-light slogans that make you feel better while nothing actually changes.

I didn’t write Becoming the Medicine to be a spiritually soothing balm. I wrote it as a fire and a mirror, sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce, because the medicine I trust isn’t comfort-as-sedation. It’s comfort-as-relation.

And the “gems” that the reader named? Most of the time, they aren’t shiny new concepts. They’re ancient truths we already knew before the world trained us out of knowing: your body is an altar, grief is love with nowhere to go, prayer is relationship (not wishing), the Earth is a Someone (not a something), and healing isn’t perfection—it’s presence. It’s coming back. It’s refusing to abandon ourselves.

So yes… if this book makes us beautifully uncomfortable, it’s probably doing a good job and that makes me really proud :)

https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/869321-becoming-the-medicine

01/15/2026

Our New Moon Ceremony is coming up this Saturday.
Online - Live - Recorded

This is a new offering, a monthly new‑moon council for clarity, courage, and practical magic.

Each new moon, we meet at the hearth, an online circle to remember what is real. We tune to the season, listen for the month’s medicine, journey together, and craft a simple plan you can actually live.

This is a commons for clarity and courage: grounded ritual, nervous-system care, community counsel, and the small acts that change our days. We laugh, we grieve, we aim our prayers.

As the world spin too fast, we, Rose Wollf and I, look forward to having this essential community time together.

More info & RSVP at https://www.sacredpaths.earth/rituals-and-rebellion

01/10/2026

The world feels increasingly unstable. Empire is rotting while pretending it can keep devouring people and land. Poison in the waters. Poison in the mind. Colonialism is an illness—a cancer that spreads by teaching separation, control, and domination.

In contrast, ancient wisdom and animist ways don’t ask us to rule over life. They teach us how to belong, how to be with—without harm, without extraction.

This is what Becoming the Medicine was written for. This is the ancient doorway.

Today marks 60 days since the book entered the world. It has now traveled to more than 20 countries, finding its way into many hands, many homes, many thresholds. And the messages arriving back to me have been humbling beyond words.

One reader wrote to me:

“This book didn’t teach me something new. It reminded me of something ancient I had forgotten, and it changed how I walk in the world. I have read a lot of book on ancient wisdom, this one hits deep.”

And receiving this blessing in the book from Sandra Ingerman still stops me in my tracks:

“Angell Deer is an incredibly articulate writer and storyteller. He knows how to transform powerful shamanic wisdom into grounded practices that address the times we are living in. ‘Becoming The Medicine’ is a beautiful heartfelt guide to inspire you and will help you remember your deep connection with Spirit and the Earth.” —Sandra Ingerman, MA, international shamanic teacher and award-winning author of 13 books including Soul Retrieval and The Book of Ceremony

Not answers. Not control. But remembrance. Relationship. A way of standing inside collapse without becoming what is collapsing.

Thank you to everyone who has welcomed this book, shared it, lived with it, and let it work on you quietly during this long winter.

The medicine doesn’t belong to me. It never did.

🦌🌿

P.S. If the book is calling, it’s available through my publisher (Hay House/Balboa Press) and on all major online & brick & mortar retailers:
https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/869321-becoming-the-medicine