The Five Seeds

1. The Seeding Ritual 🌱

Plant one literal seed (in soil, in a pot, in a cup on your windowsill). As you press it into the dirt, speak one sentence about why you’re here, what calls you to this work. Water it as you would water your devotion. Watch it grow as the Keys unfold.

2. The Cemetery Field Trip 🕊️

Visit a local cemetery. No agenda, just be there. Walk slowly, read names, sit on a bench, listen. Notice how it feels to simply keep company with the dead. Bonus: bring a notebook and jot down anything that stirs.

3. Death Work in Your Hands ✋

Make something small and handmade, a drawing, a stitched scrap, a pressed flower, a wax seal, that feels like an offering to your future death work. Tuck it into your Guidebook as a charm.

4. The Listening Walk 👂

Take a slow walk near where you live, woods, streets, fields, wherever, and listen for what feels old, what feels forgotten, what feels alive. Imagine you are walking with death itself beside you.

5. Future Self Glimpse 🔮

Sit quietly for five minutes and imagine yourself a year from now, moving through the world as a death worker. Notice what you’re wearing, how you’re standing, how your face looks when you’re doing the work. Take note!