THE MYSTERY SCHOOL PRESENTS
Sacred Tools Ceremonial Workshop
Altar Brooms
A ONE-DAY CEREMONIAL SPACE TO HONOR OUR SHARED LINEAGE
Saturday, June 27TH ✦ Outdoors Portland Or. ✦ All materials included
She is the icon. The woman with the broom.
And yet — do we really know what she's holding? The power of it. The history of it.
The broom is older than we realize.
Older than the word ritual.
In ancient Rome, there was a goddess named Deverra — from the Latin deverro, to sweep away. She protected midwives and women in labor. Her symbol was a broom. She also governed the brooms used to purify every temple before worship could begin. Before the sacred could enter, the space had to be readied.
The broom was her sacred tool.
Make one with us. And connect to these ancient roots.
One of the oldest symbols of the sacred feminine
Across European lineages, it has been a symbol of the matriarch, the traditional keeper of the home.
The one who understood that to sweep a space was to protect it — and the one who held the broom stewarded the energy of the home.
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✦ Many people feel a pull toward sacred practice but haven't yet found the right doorway in.
✦ Others have been walking a path for years and are ready to go deeper — to hold something ancient in their hands, made by their own hands.
THIS WORKSHOP WAS CREATED FOR BOTH - AND ALL OF US.
In folk traditions across Europe, brooms were placed near the cradle to protect newborns.
Paths have been swept as a spiritual practice; think of the Zen garden.
The act of sweeping after illness, after grief, after marriment brings a fresh reset and aliveness to our homes and room to breathe again.
Everyone who has ever picked up a broom and swept with intention was doing what their ancestors did.
This is lineage. This is remembrance.
So much of modern life pulls us away from presence. Sacred tools remind us to return — to our hands, our prayers, our creativity, our ancestors, and the deeper rhythms underneath the noise.
“I have a practice of sweeping after each healing session, clearing all that has been cleansed to renew my space for the next person.”
The day:
CEREMONY: Amber Jane opens the space — We settle. We arrive. We write the intention that will live in our brooms before a single fiber is bound. We’ll connect to your loving ancestors, the nature spirits that provided for our broom, and the sacred lineage you are stepping into.
CRAFT: Cass guides us through the making — expertly, unhurriedly, with care. There will be breaks. There will be conversation. The kind that happens naturally when hands are busy, and hearts are open.
We close in ceremony. You leave with a finished broom in your hands.
All of our ancestors made brooms. Every one of them. Brooms for floors, porches, cobwebs. Brooms for ritual, for birth, for threshold blessing.
When you sit down to bind fiber, you are doing what they did. You may feel them come close. Something in your hands already knows this — even if your mind hasn't remembered yet.
The Materials
You'll be making an altar broom from turkey tail fiber and tampico. It will have a soft fan shape, no wooden handle.
And be altar-ready from the moment you set it in place. You might decide to hang it on the wall. Either way, it looks as though it has always been there.
All materials are provided.
Bring your own lunch or explore what's nearby.
This is for you if…
You love to craft, especially ancestral and indigenous tools
You want to connect with lineage wisdom through your hands
You're ready to create something beautiful and powerful for your altar
You're a healing practitioner deepening your toolkit
You're a lifelong student, and finding your way to a mystery school
What you'll do with it long after you leave
ALTAR OBJECT:
Rest it on your altar as a symbol of what you are able to make — and a quiet keeper of the energy you tend.
SPACE CLEARING:
Sweep the energy of a room or altar space — clearing what's stale, refreshing what's sacred, creating a clean slate.
CEREMONIAL/RITUAL USE:
Use it to prepare sacred space before ceremony, ritual, or altar practice — the way it has always been used.
LINEAGE PIECE:
This altar broom can be handed down. It can become a lineage object in its own right.
Your Teacher
Cass Estes
An intuitive coach, shamanic practitioner, and maker whose work lives at the intersection of healing and creation. She blends neuroscience with spiritual practice, bringing beauty and care to spaces where making becomes a pathway to presence and intuitive knowing. Through 1:1 sessions, gatherings and classes, she invites people into deeper connection with their bodies and inner wisdom.
Alongside her coaching and facilitation, Cass creates sacred tools and intentional garments, including snake-inspired pieces designed as symbolic allies for transformation, power and sensual self-expression. Through her work, she supports people in cultivating embodiment, creative expression, and trust in their own intuitive knowing. Her work is grounded in the belief that we are sensual beings who thrive through creativity, connection and joy. ✨ https://www.cassestes.com/
Your Ceremonialist
Amber Jane Arquette
Is a ceremonialist, healer, and founder of the Mystery School. For many years she has guided students and clients through ceremony, energy medicine, and ancestral reconnection. Her training includes Lakota traditions of song, honoring the Medicine Wheel, and working in relationship with helping spirits and ancestors.
Through her healing practice and teachings, Amber Jane helps people reconnect with their own spiritual authority and the deeper wisdom within their lineage. Her mission is to support sovereignty in humanity—offering practical and ceremonial pathways for those who feel called to bring more light, love, healing, and joy into the world. She is devoted to helping people step into their path with confidence, support, and empowered presence.
Investment
$166 for the day
Two sliding scale spots available $222-$333
Limit to 16 people
SACRED RATTLE CLASS
About the Mystery School
A school devoted to making spiritual power real — and lived.
Founded by Amber Jane Arquette, the Mystery School exists for those who feel called to walk a deeper path. Not just to study it — but to embody it.
Through self-mastery, energy mastery, and reconnection to ancient wisdom, these teachings offer practical, ethical, and embodied pathways for people who are ready to step into their own spiritual authority.
Sacred skills are taught here with reverence for lineage, relationship, and responsibility. Cass Estes has been invited to bring her wisdom, skills, and warmth to these sacred tool workshops, offered throughout the year.
This rattle workshop is one of many pathways into embodied remembering.
There is more coming. You are welcome here.
Coming up this year
Drum making ~ Feather fan making ~ Broom making ~ Smoking bundle
Workshop Refund & Cancellation Policy
Because our Sacred Tools workshops have limited seating and require advance preparation of materials and supplies, we maintain the following refund policy:
3 Weeks Before the Workshop
Full refunds are available up to 3 weeks prior to the start of the workshop, minus a 10% processing fee.
Within 7 Days of the Workshop
Cancellations made within 7 days of the workshop are eligible for a 50% refund, due to the limited number of available spots and preparation costs.
However, if we are able to fill your spot from the waitlist, we will gladly offer a full refund minus the 10% processing fee.
After 7 days prior to the event, all registrations are final. If you are unable to attend, no refunds will be issued, as your space and materials have already been prepared.
Your ticket may be transferred to another person or donated.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you.