This one wasn’t a monthly thing. It was a single, sold-out evening — Tuesday 3 March, Black Box Theatre, inside this year’s Orana Every Woman Festival — and it’s really a story about sisterhood.

From 6.30pm to 8.30pm, a room at the Black Box Theatre settled in for a night that moved from grounding, to ritual, to sound. Full Moon & The Divine Feminine was hosted by Social Gain as part of Free @ The Greens week — and it brought together two women who, on paper, work in completely different worlds.

The night, hour by hour

• 6.30–7.00pm — Welcome Grounding. Settling practices with local meditation and sound healer Karen Hamilton.
• 7.00–8.00pm — Full Moon Ritual and Discussion. Yasmin Boland connected live from London to lead a soulful full moon session blending astrology, ritual and reflection.
• 8.00–8.30pm — Full Moon Sound Bath. Karen Hamilton closed the evening with a sound bath under the full moon.

Two sessions, one thread

Full Moon & the Divine Feminine sat inside the same festival week as the rest of the Every Woman program — two very different practices, side by side, under the one banner. Karen “Kaz” Hamilton, of Harmonious Heart, is the same end-of-life doula who guided our Taco’Bout on death and dying. Yasmin, astrologer and bestselling Moonology author, joined the festival too, beaming in from London. Neither is a one-woman act — both are part of a much bigger web of women who keep turning up for each other.

The sisterhood thread

I knew Yasmin before she was a proper rockstar in astrology. These days she zooms in for the festival — and that’s the whole point of this post. It’s not about one recurring event. It’s about how the women around Social Gain stay connected across years and across projects: better together, not in competition.

Kaz’s own thread runs deep too. Alongside her end-of-life work, she and her friend Sharon Bonthuys run the Dead End Coffee Club in Narromine — a space to sit with grief and mortality over a cuppa. She brought that same steadiness to What We Learn When We Talk About Death, one of the most-talked-about Taco’Bout nights we’ve run.

And Yasmin’s thread reaches into the Sydney Mum years too — she’s one of the mums featured on that project, long before Moonology made her a household name. Read her story on the Sydney Mum page.

Full event details, the guest bios and the agenda are still up on Humanitix.

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The Orana Every Woman Festival: Every Woman — we are, came before, and is yet to come.