A year-long initiatory journey for young women moving through the threshold from girlhood into conscious adolescence. Nature-rooted, community-held, guided by women who have walked before. Now in its third year.
13 Moons is a year-long initiatory journey for young women ages 11–14. It is not a camp, not a curriculum, and not a girls empowerment program. It is a circle of women who have done their own interior work, standing alongside a cohort of girls through the four seasons, through ceremony, through wild places, and through honest conversation about what it means to be crossing from girlhood into young womanhood.
The 13 moons are the thirteen lunar cycles the feminine body mirrors across a year. That is not decoration. That is the curriculum. The program moves through the seasons with the land, the moon, and the mystery of what is already alive in each girl.
A girl who completes this year will know more about who she actually is. She will have stood alone in nature with a question she did not yet have an answer to. She will have been witnessed by a circle of women who have nothing to gain from flattering her. She will have learned that her body is not a problem to be managed but a living intelligence to be listened to.
Now in its third year of delivery, 13 Moons is an active, living program with girls currently moving through the arc of the year.
“The river does not force its way. It finds the path that is already there.”A guiding image of 13 Moons — receptive, rooted, and always moving
Roots. Belonging. The body of the mother. What holds us. The first circle, the altar built from home objects, the sit spot assigned, the moon cycle tracking begins.
Emotion. Flow. The blood mysteries. What moves through us. The Red Tent conversation. Body literacy. The mysteries of the feminine held with reverence and honesty.
Courage. Transformation. Meeting difficulty. What burns away. Grief tending. Solo time extending. The ancestors and what the women in our lineage have carried.
Voice. Breath. What we carry forward. The final ceremony. Letters read aloud. The altar honored or returned. A girl welcomed home as someone who has been genuinely changed.
Santa Cruz Mountains · Old-growth redwood · Creek and sky
13 Moons is led by Jodi Beth Jackson, co-founder of Wild Souls Pathways, who has held the girls circle for three years. The program is now building its mentor council, a circle of Village Aunties who bring diverse gifts: elder wisdom, herbalism, storytelling, ceremony, wilderness skill, and the lived experience of having crossed this threshold themselves.
The mentor team is not a staff. It is a community of women who have agreed to stand at the edge of something sacred and hold it carefully.
Explore the full year, meet the circle, see the current program dates, or reach out if your daughter has been invited.
