Wheel of the Year Wise Women Salon Teleclass Monday evening November 2, 2015 @8pm Eastern/ 5pm Pacific Cost $30.00
Inanna & Ereshkigal
I am beginning a series of mini-workshops based on The Wheel of the Year and the spiritual energies that are available to us at these 8 gateways of the year. We'll gather every 6 weeks to discuss the changing energies and the archetypes which shape the new season's energies. As we circle the Year, we'll begin a process of reclaiming ourselves and our energies from the grip of patriarchal thinking and expectations that keep us from our true natures and original blessings. As we reclaim our soul's vision, our life comes into alignment and we fulfill our life's purpose. We are meant to be happy and whole. We begin our series at Samhain, All Hallow's and the Day of the Dead, November 2nd, with our descent to the Underworld and the Dark Goddess. For this first gateway at the Death of the Year, we are called to let go of the Light and sink into the Darkness. We do this by going down into the Underworld consciously so we can reclaim a part of ourselves we've let languish there. Our ego vision has to die, though, to be able to accept what we find when we confront our Shadows. If we want to emerge with a new sense of ourselves and our place in the world next Spring, we have to participate in the sacred meaning of this first gateway. We have to die to be reborn again! We'll work with the ancient myth of Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, where she has to confront her dark sister, Ereshkigal. After that confrontation, she comes back stronger than ever. Inanna symbolizes the Father's Daughter, our ego identities which have been shaped by our culture. Ereshkigal symbolizes what we have to give up to be so shaped. We'll imagine and work with the energies of theses dual Sumarian goddesses, Inanna and Ereshkigal. Two of the most ancient goddesses we know of, they offer us a path of initiation, of going within to release and accept the rejected shadow energies of our psyches. Inanna, Great Goddess of the Heavens, travels to and back from the underworld. She personifies this transition between the world of the living and the dead. Her underworld sister Ereshkigal personifies her Shadow Side, the aspect of herself she has lost touch with and needs to reclaim. We will work with Inanna as our guide as we journey within to find Ereshkigal, those rejected emotions and energies which keep us stuck in our old routines and habits. As we let go of our old persona and descend to the underworld to face our Shadows, we'll have an opportunity to face our fears, our sorrows, our unlived desires, our rage, and our healing growth. The more we work with the energies of Earth's seasons, the closer we come to our original nature and our connection to Life. Join us for this Samhain Wise Women Salon as we begin to release old pain and behaviors so that at Winter Solstice we can truly give birth to a new identity and a new way of being in the world.
Wheel of the Year Wise Women Salon Teleclass Monday evening November 2, 2015 @8pm Eastern/ 5pm Pacific Cost $30.00
Please email me to sign up for the class. Once I know how many of us will gather, I'll set up a google hangout for us.
Blessings of the Harvest! |