About Thresholds

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Thresholds is a newsletter for the sacred middle. For those on the precipice of what has been and what’s emerging. A liminal space where creativity, psychology, and spirituality meet.

Formerly known as The Dreamer, this online space has always been a container for the liminal; for essays, rituals, resources, and the often invisible processes of transformation. Then—as with all thresholds—a shift arrived. Now we find ourselves across the line, with a new name and a deepened intention.

I’m Jerico Mandybur, AThR. I’m a registered experiential and creative arts therapist and the author of five books and tarot/oracle decks. I’m also an award-winning coach for creatives.

I’m in the midst of a personal and professional transformation too. I’m about to launch Virgil Therapy, my private practice dedicated to honouring and exploring the cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of being—through the arts, the body, the natural world, and the therapeutic relationship.

Thresholds is not a substitute for therapy and it doesn’t represent “Jerico the therapist” nor “Virgil Therapy the practice”. It’s just an imperfect offering, from one human being to another. It’s a place to reflect, ask questions, and practice who we’re becoming. You and me, both.

This Substack is for you if you’re:

• Sitting in the tension of the unknown and in-between.

• Speak the language of creativity, psychology, and the spiritual all at once.

• Craving community and gentle practice that doesn’t rush or overwhelm.

• Longing for beauty, depth, and a sense of the sacred in daily life.

Here you’ll find:

• Reflective essays and personal letters

• Seasonal rituals and many tarot + journalling prompts

• Poetic meditations and practice invitations

• Gentle guidance for creative and existential thresholds

Jerico’s work is informed by:

• Emergent, multimodal, relational arts practices and processes.

• Phenomenology and lived experience.

• New materialism.

• Depth psychology and archetypal approaches to tarot.

• Mindfulness and somatic practice.

• Nondualism, classical tantra, and psychological astrology.

• The autistic / ADHD, chronically ill, first gen settler experience.

If you wish to go deeper, paid subscribers gain access to exclusive offerings like:

• The Seasonal Threshold: Zodiacal creative guides to each new season.

• Ritual Full Moons: Monthly tarot-based reflections.

• The Crossing Column: Advice for the in-between.

• And intimate co-working and gathering spaces like The Quiet Room and Practice Circle (for Founding Circle members).

This is a resting place. A remembering space. A place for tending—to your creative life, your inner knowing, your curiosities, and the parts of yourself that don’t fit into a tidy timeline.

If The Dreamer spoke to you, Thresholds will meet you here with a deeper presence.

Still dreaming. Now walking the path alongside you.

With care,
Jerico
@ Virgil Therapy