Here Comes The Sun

Year One, Article 3

BLACK BUTTERFLY TEMPLE COMMUNITY UPDATE March 2026

I'm writing this from the land.

It's still cold en

ough to feel it in your bones. The build hasn't started yet. Most of what I'm carrying is still in the form of plans and proposals and conversations that haven't fully landed yet.

And also — a lot has moved. More than I realized until I sat down to write this.

Let me catch you up.

THE FOODSCAPE CLASS IS DONE.

We ran it. It happened. And it was exactly what it was supposed to be — real information, practical application, no fluff.

We talked about what foodscaping actually is, how to work with your zone, how to feed your household from your own land, and what it looks like to start now — not someday when you have the perfect setup.

If you missed it, the full framework lives in the ebook: What If Your Yard Fed You? — Iowa Zone 5 foodscaping guide.

DID YOU KNOW 2026 IS A FIRE HORSE YEAR?

The Fire Horse doesn't wait for you to feel ready. It moves. And if you don't know how to ride it — it rides you.

Year of the Fire Horse is the framework for working WITH that energy instead of getting dragged by it. Community organizing as a healing practice. Movement after stagnation. Direction without destruction.

Get your Year of the Fire Horse Guidebook now!

Ride the horse or get run over. Your call.

INTRODUCING: BLACK BUTTERFLY CIRCLES

This is the one I've been building toward. And it's almost here.

Black Butterfly Circles are weekly Zoom gatherings. $50/month. Open to anyone, anywhere.

Here's what makes them different: you show up with a nom de plume — a chosen name, not your real one. You get placed in a small breakout room with a handful of other people. Everyone gets floor time — short, specific, witnessed without being fixed, advised, or redirected. Then we open into conversation. Then we close the circle.

No performance. No homework. No one trying to save you.

Just being seen, on purpose, by people who showed up for the same reason you did.

This is for people who are doing the work and still feel alone in it. For people who have outgrown the spaces they used to fit. For people who need somewhere to land.

More details coming very soon — including how to get in before the doors open to the public.

THE APP IS COMING.

We are building out the Black Butterfly Temple app — and it is going to hold everything. Circles. Meditations. Programs. Community. Video content. All in one place.

Launch target: May 5.

Founding Pillar members get in first — before the public, before the doors open wide.

THE LAND. THE BUILD. THE INFRASTRUCTURE.

Eleven acres in Glenwood, Iowa. Three tiers. A pond. A ceremonial space. A vision that is actively becoming a plan.

We have a builder meeting coming up to get contractor quotes on the Temple Teaching Office — Phase One of the campus build. That quote unlocks the grant applications. The grant applications unlock the funding. The funding breaks ground.

We are building this the right way — fully funded before we touch the earth. And it is moving.

FOUNDING PILLARS — 100 SPOTS. CLOSES MAY 5.

$300 minimum. One hundred people. That's it.

Your name goes on the land — literally, on the Founders Plaque. You get early access to everything: the app, the programming, the retreat. A numbered digital certificate. An invitation to the Phase One Dedication when we break ground. One free weekend retreat in the first operational year.

You are part of this from the beginning. Not after it's already built.

This closes May 5 and it does not reopen.

Go to blackbutterflytemple.org to claim your spot.

WHO HOLDS THIS TEMPLE

Black Butterfly Temple doesn't run on one person. It runs on three.

Staci Christianson — Founder & Executive Director, Steward of Ritual & Doctrine More than 20 years in education and community building. Shadow work is not her hobby — it's her life's work. She guides the vision, the programs, the doctrine, and the build. She's also the one living off-grid on the land making all of this happen in real time.

Tracy Astorino — Co-Founder, Steward of Healing & Inclusion 25 years in healthcare. 500-hour certified yoga teacher. Sound healer trained in Sedona. Tracy creates the spaces where your nervous system actually gets to rest. She blends yoga, mindfulness, and sound healing in a way that doesn't perform wellness — it delivers it.

Emily Garry — Co-Founder, Steward of Healing & Inclusion, Master Reiki Practitioner with over 11 years in energy healing. Trained in Reiki and shamanic practice, specializing in soul retrieval. Emily holds the space where the deepest work happens — and she makes sure nobody has to do it alone.

Three stewards. One mission. Come find your people.

We're not waiting for perfect conditions. We're building in the cold, with limited power, with proposals in the mail and seeds in the ground and a whole community of people who are ready for something real.

Thank you for being here.

— Staci

Black Butterfly Temple Glenwood, Iowa

blackbutterflytemple.org

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