Rules of Engagement.
1) “Take Off Your Shoes.”
Remember how to enter
a Goddess Temple.
Please do not enter with the patriarchal pace and reckless haste.
Here, we have left that grave race & returned to the
Primordial Feminine pace,
which lives in nature’s slow, regenerative and healing pace.
Here you are asked to leave the patriarchal pace
and not bring the energy of the patriarchal race
into this
Sacred Primordial Feminine Space.
When You Come Into This Room:
slow down and slip out of your patriarchal shoes & costume
& retether to
The Great Mother in you.
Leave your patriarchal mind outside
& let your soul & body guide.
Don’t say “I think,”
instead say “I feel, I sense,
I know, or I believe.”
Before you ask out, ask in.
Before you say “I don’t know,”
Have you gone inside & asked the inner wisdom in the Great Below?
She Knows.
2) SLOW DOWN.
If there were one “race” in this space,
it would be this:
HOW SLOW CAN YOU GO?
HOW DEEPLY CAN YOU BREATHE?
HOW MUCH THAT WAS NEVER YOURS TO HOLD ALONE
CAN YOU RELEASE?
HOW WIDE OPEN CAN YOU BE TO RECEIVE,
THE WISDOM IN YOUR BODY, ALL AROUND YOU,
AND IN THE AIR YOU BREATHE?
Root yourself deeply back
into the earth of your body
and the body of the earth
like a great Mother Tree.
Root your energy down
and into the back of your body
and be open to both give
and receive.
In ceremony with others and me:
please make sure you
are in slow rooted response &
not reckless reactivity.
COME BACK TO THE LAP.
3) DO NOT FRACK THE FEMININE.
Patriarchal colonizer consciousness thinks it is entitled to take from the Earth & Mother without honor & reciprocity.
Patriarchy fracks Her to death,
until Her last breath.
I ask of you to be conscious of colonizer energy and to
honor the Feminine in you and me.
That I am a living breathing human and not a machine.
I am not a therapist
nor am I a store.
I am not a product
that is bought and paid for.
I am here to wake the Goddess in you. That is what I came to do.
RESTORING MATRIARCHY MEANS RESTORING
HONOR TO THE FEMININE IN YOU AND ME.
Do not barge into this Temple Space like a patriarchal white man.
Do not come in here just to take, to be centered, to dominate,
and to “rape.”
the Primordial Feminine Mother Again.
Do not come in here like patriarchal men.
Come with honor and reverence
for the Primoridal Feminine.
Come only in Honor +
Reciprocity
or Do Not Come to Me.
I have not resurrected
the temple of the mother
only to have it once again
patriarchally plundered.
5) NO SMALL TALK.
“The Goddess woke up in me,
and She won’t go back to sleep.
Before I could only crawl
on the shore,
Now I can only swim
where it is deep.”
Consider the outside of this Temple Space the shallow end, or the shore,
but here we are in search of
and remembering something
so much deeper and more.
When we chatter away without consciousness, we waste our precious time.
Speak from your Soul.
We are here to get to the Goddess inside.
5) STAY CLOSE TO THE FLAME
OF WHY WE CAME.
When we speak in the temenos (sacred transformational container) we speak through the lens of the work we came to do
which is resurrecting
the Primordial Feminine
& living in Matriarchal Consciousness Again.
Do not let your words wander in scattered thoughts away from the FLAME OF WHY WE CAME.
6) REMEMBER WHEN YOU COME TO THIS MOTHER WELL: EVERY WORD YOU SPEAK IS A SPELL:
In coven everything you say & all the work we do is energetically & Spiritually amplified
(it’s why covens became “illegal” in patriarchal time, the effect of women coming together holding the same vision was too powerful).
Be conscious of the programmed patriarchal negativity bias in your language.
Speak with Intention, and deep inner listening, for when you speak
you are spell-ing.
REMEMBER “THE words you speak become the house in which you live.” Hafiz
7) WE ARE ALL VESSELS.
WHAT ARE YOU CARRYING IN TO CIRCLE?
Please be conscious of what energies you are carrying in your body and into the space.
The Frequency of your energy will be the frequency you bring to the room and the others who sit with you.
Please be aware that our circles devoted to Her
Are sacred Rites of Passages & TEMENOS
Of death and rebirth
Speak only what you would bring into sacred spaces of spiritual death & rebirth of ourselves and this Earth.
8) NO UNSOLICITED ADVICE
the work in this space is to help women hear the wisdom that is already within them.
To hear ourselves
is to heal ourselves.
Please allow others to find their Inner Mothers & their wise guides inside & do not offer unsolicited advice.
9) MY CIRCLES ARE NOT SORORITES, meaning
WE DO NOT ALL HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER.
WE JUST HAVE TO LOVE THE SAME THINGS.
Returning to Matriarchy means centering LIFE, Earth, the Children, the Trees and the Seas, the vulnerable and the sacred and the elderly.
We don’t all have to like
each other
we just have to love
the same things.
CHECK YOUR INNER PATRIARCHAL MISOGYNY.
Please witness your thoughts about others in the circle & whether they are rooted in patriarchal misogyny.
Thoughts like “she’s bad, she’s crazy, she’s too this, she’s too that, are often rooted in the patriarchal construct of what “the Feminine is allowed to be.” Please allow yours and others Dark Primordial Feminine to get free. No policing.
Please trust that in our own ways we are all unraveling from patriarchy and there is no one right way to get free. It’s often messy.
10) THERE ARE NO PERFECT TEACHERS. THERE ARE ONLY PERFECT TEACHINGS.
Please do not pedestal me. The minute I make one human mistake I will be on the witches stake.
I, like you, am human
and not a machine,
I make mistakes and I bleed,
there are no perfect teachers,
only perfect teachings.