The Mother
Devotion, Boundaries, Love
Foundations, Mother Mary, Durga Ma, Pachamama
July 15th to August 11th, 2024
Live Ceremonies July 28th & August 11th
Sexuality eventually ripens us into motherhood, either through the birth of a child, or through the maturity of becoming mothers to ourselves and our creations. As many of us have lived, motherhood can be a harsh awakening in a world that doesn’t honor The Mother in her true dynamism.
Fully blooming into motherhood we redefine The Mother on our own terms. We allow ourselves to be mothered by the wild herself as we learn to mother through our own wild instincts. We forgive ourselves the harmful expectations of mothers being needless, perfect, and inhuman, and we embrace the full spectrum of mother as dynamic and multidimensional.
Begin by watching our video below with an overview for our month together in The Mother. Then open our Foundations Module for our first week of practices.
Foundations
Trinity of Motherhood
July 15th to 21st
This week we cross the threshold from The Lover into the powerful responsibility of The Mother, through our Foundations.
Open our manual for a map of our journey throughout the entire month, and begin with our Foundations. Then listen to The Mother Herstory for our core teachings that open us into our practices together this month. Create your own intention setting ceremony with The Mother Invocation which takes you on a journey to receive insights directly from your own mother within.
In our manual you will discover a map for our journey with The Mother, including our Mother Mary, Durga Ma, and Pachamama modules. In each module you will find an outline of our practices as well as additional rituals and explorations. You may wish to print this guide and read it in physical form or download to journey offline.
In our Herstory with The Mother, I offer insights into the current landscape of Motherhood within our whole, and our journey this month together through three phases of Mother: being mothered by the Earth, mothering ourselves, mothering in the world, as well as the trinity of Mother through our Goddess guides. Read the transcript of the audio here.
This audio invocation is designed to support the opening of our journey with The Mother. Prepare a ceremony for yourself, lighting your candles, sitting or laying in meditation, and receiving our invocation through your being, and then allowing your intentions to move through you.
Art by Michelle Tarakihi Stewart.
Mother Mary
The Tender Mother
July 22nd to 28th
Our first Goddess guide is a woman. The woman who epitomizes the eternal Mother: Mother Mary. But rather than a saint, we explore a greater depth of her story, forgiving ourselves her “perfect” image. Receive our core teachings through listening to our Mother Mary Herstory, and reopening The Mother Manual (above) to our Mother Mary section with our three recommended rituals and practices. Our Mother Mary Embodiment and Vision Quest audios can be done once or daily this week.
In our Mother Mary Herstory we meet the archetypal “good” mother through the iconic virgin, and go deeper into her story as a womb priestess of the lineage of Isis and the mystery of the true father of Jesus, bringing more humanity to the journey of Motherhood. Read the transcript of the audio here.
MOTHER MARY EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
In this guided audio practice we create a safe sanctuary that holds us through our womb. We reclaim our personal space and boundaries through breath and presence. We then extend this womb of safety into our home or personal living space, and into our choices and boundaries within our lives.
This guided audio vision quest takes us into an ancient mystical forest where we witness our soul seeds grow into fruition. We also open into deep personal healing through forgiveness and through our ancestry.
Art by Kanayo Ede.
Live Ceremony
Sunday July 28th, 2024
9am PST, 12pm EST
In our first ceremony in The Mother, we’ll be gathering live to ask deeper questions, share our personal reflections, and open further into our own inner Mother’s invitations. Please do your best to explore as much of our Foundations and Mother Mary modules as you’re able before we gather in ceremony.
The Mother Ceremony I
Sunday July 28th, 2024
9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm GMT
Durga Ma
The Fierce Mother
July 29th to August 4th
As the seeming opposite of Mother Mary’s “goodness,” with Durga Ma we meet a mother’s necessary fierceness, to advocate on behalf of herself and her young. Receive our core teachings through listening to our Durga Ma Herstory and reopening The Mother Manual (above) to our Durga Ma section with our three recommended rituals and practices. Our Durga Ma Embodiment and Vision Quest audios can be done once or daily this week.
In our Durga Ma Herstory we meet the archetypal “fierce” mother through the Goddess who saved the world in battle when the demons had taken over. We meet a woman’s sacred rage as a necessary superpower that is an aspect of a mother’s love to protect the sacred. Read the transcript of the audio here.
In our guided audio practice we will source the element of fire up from the Earth, as we more fully and comfortably claim our power through our own body, and occupy as much space as we need to flourish and feel safe to open as love.
Our audio vision quest takes us on a journey to discover our inner Durga, vision the world we deserve to live in, trust ourselves in who we most truly are, liberate the demons that keep us from accessing our full lives and capacity to love, and welcome these demons to be received, healed, and redeemed back to the Mother of us All.
Art by Awaken the Mystic.
Pachamama
The Mother of Life
August 5th to 11th
Through tenderness and fierceness the wholeness of life can flourish, as the creative dynamism we call Nature, Mother Earth, Pachamama. With Pachamama we meet the seasons of life and remember how to mother within them. Receive our core teachings through listening to our Pachamama Herstory and reopening The Mother Manual (above) to our Pachamama section with our three recommended rituals and practices. Our Pachamama Embodiment and Vision Quest audios can be done once or daily this week.
In our Pachamama Herstory we explore Motherhood as a sustainable journey of creation rooted in feminine principles, which includes birth, life, and death, and the creating, sustaining, releasing cycles inherent in nature. Read the transcript of the audio here.
In our embodiment practice we will sense into the seasons, elements, and cycles within our wombs for wisdom on how we can Mother through the support of the greatest power in existence: nature. We will viscerally feel this cyclical nature in our bodies to move from that space in our lives.
This guided audio vision quest takes us on a journey to receive insights on what resources in the natural world we can more fully receive to support and nurture ourselves and our creations.
Art by Olivia Marie.
Live Ceremony
Sunday August 11th, 2024
9am PST, 12pm EST
At the end of our spiral in The Mother, we’ll gather live in ceremony for our shared celebration of the depths we have explored in our own personal practice, and offer ourselves a rite of passage into our womanhood through the treasures we reclaimed. Please prepare for our ceremony by reviewing your own journey throughout The Mother, and reflecting upon what feels most important and vital to share, release, or affirm for yourself.
The Mother Ceremony II
Sunday August 11th, 2024
9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm GMT