CEREMONIE, Richmond, BC (2026)

01/01/2026

As we approach the end of 2025, I’ve been thinking about travelling at the edge.

Not necessarily the literal destinations themselves (though it certainly does include them), but the in-between spaces of airports, planes, trains, unfamiliar beds, where nothing belongs to you and yet, briefly, the space was granted to you.

Those moments ask very little of us. We follow signs. We carry what we need. We shed our usual roles and become, for a time, simply a being in motion. I notice how easily the mind loosens there. How perspective widens without effort. Mundane things are extraordinary. Travel brings the blessing of releasing the grip of unexamined habits. In other words, we learn to become unburdened. We are willing to be changed by what we encounter.

At this near-end, we are between departures, between years, between versions of ourselves, between the various literal and tangible places that hold our renewed and multi-selves.

If you follow the Gregorian calendar, may we carry less with the assistance of the Yin as 2026 greets us. And as we step through this Gregorian threshold, may we uphold the humanity in each other yet still be open to new discoveries of who we each are.

And if you follow the Lunar calendar, the Fire Horse arrives February 17, seven weeks from now. It will be a momentous year, one that is best stepped into with a sense of preparedness. When I mean by prepare is one rooted in acknowledgment and respect rather than control, as one would respect rain and pack an umbrella, or to dress appropriately before stepping into a temple. This Red Horse will either refine capacity or fracture it, depending on our willingness and responsiveness. (More on this in my January newsletter — will be sending it out once I recover enough from jet lag 😆; soon!)

To all, I say gratitude to each of you. Thank you for walking with me, and as we navigate this bridge of 2025 to 2026, may we exhale, hold one another, and celebrate that we’ve done the hard work of shedding, with blooms to come. 🌹

Mimi ⭐️

12/18/2025

I come back to a land that knows me before I knew myself.

I look like everyone else here on my visit / return to Taiwan for three weeks. The cadence of my body remembers how to move here. Street corners recognise my gait. The food does not ask me to explain myself. There is a kind of welcome that lives in the bones.

And still, I am not entirely at home.

Because belonging, once stretched across oceans, never returns to its original shape. As the proverb goes, we cannot step in the same river twice. I speak fluently, I pass as local, yet feel the faint static of beyond-language translation somehow.

The land receives me as kin and yet also knows that I am not a resident. This is the Third Culture’s child ache; diasporic longing fundamentally Yin in nature.

Yin knows this in-between, my in-between. Maybe yours, too. 💔

This is the shadow side of return. The tenderness of being neither guest nor citizen, neither fully claimed nor fully lost. And yet Yin prompts me not rush to resolve the contradiction. Let the feeling have its full, unglamorous weight. The pain and the beauty. The pride of being Taiwanese Canadian.

And this year, the Snake moves through us.
The Snake does not perform belonging. A year that has taught me identity is not proven by proximity, but by what we are willing to release. The Snake reminds us that home is not always a location because it is a state of inner alignment that must be re-entered slowly, skin by skin. It is a habit of self-belonging. How we love ourselves.

If you have also been yearning,
If you are living inside a threshold, If your power is coiled inward, waiting…

Join me for Within Yin: An E-Gathering with the I Ching on Thursday, December 18, from 6–8 PM PST

Is a time and e-space where we gather to sit with Yin as it truly is: discerning, subterranean, exacting.

If you are tired of explaining your ache for home. Tickets via my 👆🏽🔗

Mimi ♥️

Shown first is a photo of the Buddhist columbarium where my Yeh Yeh and Nai Nai’s ashes rest

12/17/2025

Many of us felt this year was a massive shedding process, and are reeling from its effects, raw and yearning the consoling quality of having a direction.

But when the shadowy and liminal are upon us, that is, when Yin is having her way, as this Wood Snake Year has been, the idea is to surrender to her so we can orient (attune deeply) instead of interpret (finding the/a direction). Because the lunar year will be the Fire Horse, who will be focused on not only direction, but the momentum of it. If one hasn’t done the important work of inner orienting, of inviting and allowing Mystery to shape oneself, then one may need to take precautions against grasping at any direction for the sake of fall security.

I am noticing within myself and within many others around me (clients, friends, and family) that part of this re-orienting process is to physically, emotionally, psychically, prepare our self to change form, into a shape that we may not fully understand yet, into someone we would only dare to recognize in the most fantastical dream.

But it is scarrrry to let our old self die. We might fear that what we are about to become will lose out or will have to pay a terrible price. And yet, how can an acorn ever imagine that it one day will grow to be a monumental tree? Yin asks us to trust in our nature.

Join me this Thursday night from 6-8PM PST for our annual Winter Solstice E-Gathering in reference of the Yin. Sliding scale tickets; free for Homing Coven mates.

Mimi 🖤

12/14/2025

Really wanting to defy the West’s oversimplification and reductive “understanding” of the Yin principle, and how this relates to magical workings, divination, and spirit work.

Here are some excerpts from one of my December blog posts, “Yin Magic: How Rituals, Divination, and Protection Change in a Yin Cycles”.

Join me for an in-depth experiential instruction in my upcoming FINDING I CHING CLARITY, a slow and substantive series launching in February 2026. Sliding scale, tuition payment plans available. More on shopceremonie.com or my 🔗👆🏽.

12/12/2025

I’m currently on travels to the subtropical island of Taiwan, where I was born and lived before emigrating. While here, I’ve been spending time with family and the very grounds that seem to recognize me. (More to come on this as well as in my stories). The notion of Yin-based spirit relations seem to be enpointe for me to continue to share… The full 4-part series is via my blog (🔗 in bio 👆🏽)

If you’re into what I’ve been writing about, that is, if you also find the peripheral is more provocative than what is dead center, then you may also be feeling the call of Yin, consider signing up for the Winter Solstice e-gathering on 12/18 from 6-8PM PST or my Finding I Ching Clarity series in February.

Mimi 🖤

12/08/2025

Yes, if we’re talking about Yin-based magic.

December’s blog articles, along with FINDING I CHING CLARITY (starting in February) are invitations to rethink exhaustion. Rather than associating it with failure, burnout, or a something that lacks the ability to push through, from a Daoist perspective, it can also be seen as a shift in spirit governance.

Head to shopceremonie.com for more 🖤

12/03/2025

The unassailable Yin 🕳️

Two Yin offerings:

🖤 Join me for WITHIN YIN: A Winter Solstice E-Gathering
12.18.2025 from 6-8PM PST
What to expect:
• The meaning of Hexagram 24 and its Winter Solstice connection
• How Yin holds the seed of Yang and why “Return is the movement of the Tao” (Xi Ci, the second section of the commentary to the I Ching)
• Bilateral drawing to embody cyclical renewal
• Pendulum divination to ask questions of “return”
• Transforming the trigram Thunder ☳ into other trigrams for divination, along with Mimi Young providing ticket holders mini-readings
• Fire scrying, as part of the Winter Solstice ritual

🖤 Join me for FINDING I CHING CLARITY
This is a practice-led apprenticeship that teaches you to read hexagrams as living patterns. It is not something to memorize. Each month includes live sessions, guided practice, group case studies, and real-world application so you can use the I Ching immediately and consistently. Within this series, we learn how the Cosmos is Yin-first.

Starts in February 2026.
Sliding scale tuition. Payment plans available.

11/26/2025

Due to popular request, the Within Yin: A Winter Solstice Gathering with the I Ching is now moved from the Friday to Thursday, December 18 from 6-8PM. In this two-hour live-stream gathering, we will be working with the energy of the I Ching hexagram 24 (Return) through bilateral drawing, pendulum divination, trigram transformations, and fire scrying.

I also wanted to clarify what the Yin principle is. I’ll be going much deeper with this exploration in my upcoming FINDING I CHING CLARITY series starting February 2026, but as a summary, Yin is far more than a “feminine principle”.

Instead, in my occult work with Yin, and experiencing her within the I Ching, I’ve been shown that Yin is not a single, unified force but an infinitely complex field of shadows, which can include subtle inflections of rest, stillness, concealment, and interiourity that operate across bodies, objects, sensations, images, and states of mind. Yin alters whatever it touches not through drama but through modulation: the dimming of brightness, the slowing of pulse, the thickening of atmosphere.

Yin gathers in thresholds. Dusk, winter, the cave, the undercurrents of emotion, these are all part of her shadowy domain, where it conditions the pace and texture of experience. Nothing remains the same once Yin settles in; its presence shifts perception toward depth, receptivity, and the unseen currents beneath form, and accepted truths.

In this way, Yin is dangerous. She is subversive. She does not accept truths as final possibilities. Death always has the final word, and Death just one expression of Yin.

Yin gives rise to altered identities, altar egos, the oracle, the dreamer, the destroyer, the rival, the empowered submissive. As a methodology of subtle transformations, Yin operates through coolness, slowness, silence, shadow, and the generative dark. She holds both the creative potential of the seed and the dissolving pull of decay. In this way, Yin is neither passive nor inert, but a creative-destructive force that reveals what has been overlooked and invites what is latent to take form.

Anyway, as I said, far more than just a feminine principle!

11/23/2025

Each time I host a retreat, I think to myself: I can’t believe people (in the case of this year, 14 of them) cleared their calendars, gathered materials and supplies, squished it all into backpacks, duffels, or suitcases, drove and took ferries, and for some, also lined up through airport security and took planes that flew through time zones, crossed borders, and then spent five days with me.

There is also this very special moment when clients and friends I’ve only ever seen on Zoom for the past five or so years finally step out of a rental car on the grounds at the retreat centre (), and I’m noticing how the light hits their beautiful faces, the hue of their eyes, the way their laughter is real and registers in my ears as love, as excitement, as delight to be alive and to have created community together.

In a way, a retreat is so much more than me “holding a container” or “instructing on esoterica.” Yes, I do those things, but it’s also about humans gathering together. Many come not knowing anyone else, and they do it anyway. They make time to travel. They take time to learn. Attending a retreat is, in many ways, inconvenient. Humans taking risks of time, of the unknown, of being with one another.

When we say “humans being humans,” we tend to think the worst of our species. But humans being humans can also be, and often is, profoundly beautiful, adorable, and easy to love. Each retreat reminds me how lucky I am to witness and experience that beauty up close.

To say I am brimming with gratitude would be an understatement.

Mimi 🥹❤️

PS. I’ve said this will be my last retreat for a while, though I’m open to being wrong about that. ☺️

📸: first photo shared by

11/19/2025

I’ll be bringing my ritually crafted wares to ART SOCIAL at as part of on Nov 21, 5–10pm 🦇 (Free entry!)

This is a sweet chance to shop in person, save on shipping, and access special market pricing before I pause orders for December and resume again in January. You’ll also get to meet other rad, local artisans who are part of the evening.

My wares support workings to:
• Cleanse
• Protect
• Banish
• Hex
• Attract
• Materialize
• Open
• Render Energetically Invisible
• Accelerate
• Seduce
… and more.

What I’ll have on the table:
✨ Aura Mists
✨ Hexagram Conjure Oils
✨ Black Planetary Inks
✨ Premium Essential Oils

Mimi 🖤

11/16/2025

I’ve been hosting late fall and winter retreats for a decade. They are, in my humble opinion, the dreamiest months.

Arriving early to Bowen to make space, so I can hold space with care, I’m inviting the ocean, the forest, the wind to prepare me to be fully present, to have presence like them. This approaching week will be about foundational theory and making of ritual supplies, and more importantly, for all 15 attendees to rest and make sense of the things of their lives, whether at sweeping scale or tender detail.

Very excited to begin (the sold out!) Bottled Wisdom Retreat! See you soon on Bowen, friends!

Mimi 🖤

📸: some images by .agnew, some by me!

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