First Timers:  The High Priestess and The Empress class is a sample of the fourteen-part series on working a magical practice with the Tarot and The Four Directions. You may also experience the Intro Class to the Alchemy 101 Course for FREE. The rest of the course is available by scaled donation of your choice. For further details check-out the registration page for the — ALCHEMY 101 COURSE.
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Live online semester students:  If you cannot attend the live class, please watch the recorded lecture below. I will essentially be covering the same material. You may also choose to watch ahead of the class and formulate your questions. Also, please have performed the stones activations/ritual for The High Priestess and The Empress before hand.

honouring the divine feminine

Welcome the sacred cult (hidden mysteries) of Demeter and Persephone, mother and daughter, maiden and crone, Priestess and Empress. Together they offer us the rites and rituals of death and rebirth — the spirit of wisdom and the knowledge of creation. They are the movement of spirit, the divine mother, a creative energy from above made manifest on Earth — The Holy Spirit or Divine Sophia.
You Must be Born Again? Say what?
3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” — John 3:1-8 ESV New Testament
In the Eleusinian Mysteries, during the festival of Demeter and Persephone (the secret religious rites of ancient Greece), an initiate would sacrifice a suckling pig on the morning of the third day and ritually cleanse themselves in the river. As horrendous as this would seem, there are hidden understandings to these rituals:
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  1. The sacrifice depicted a severing of the lower nature of the self.
  2. It honoured the Path of the Moon (as the morning of the third day did not equate to three full days but was, in fact, two and a half) for the moon travels through each 'zodiac' sign every two and a half days.
  3. To participate in these acts was a measurable commitment to become 'reborn,' represented by the cleansing 'baptismal' waters of the river, a sign of washing away the past.
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These rituals were an act of returning to the womb to be made anew through the moon. At every festival and initiation, Persephone and Demeter's mythos was acted-out; this was the introduction to awaken the initiate to the moon's powers and her creative forces with Mother Earth — to welcome them into the Eleusinian Mysteries.
"The cosmic feminine consciousness is known in the world by a myriad of different names. She is worshipped by some as Mother of the Universe, by others as Isis or Sophia or Mary or the divine Shakti. But behind every form and name, there is one, singular Divine Reality. She is One Power, the Wisdom of God, transcendent and eternal. Her holy presence bathes us with a magnetic purity and Her radiant light unfolds in every woman and man upon the earth. Through Her presence, the Light and Love of God is descending upon humanity."
— Robert Arsdale, Diana Van Arsdale

PRE-CLASS VIDEO

CLASS PDF's

the_empress.pdf
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the_high_priestess.pdf
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stone_activations_ priestess_and_empress.pdf
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THE HIGH PRIESTESS

​​additional links and follow-up material​​
RESEARCH NEW and FULL MOON DEGREES​ for 2021 HERE
Ephemerides for tracking planetary position in the past and future Astrotheme.com
Book Mysteries of the Bridechamber: The Initiation of Jesus and the Temple of Solomon, Victoria Lepage
Book The Nag Hammadi Scriptures; The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete
Book The Kybalion; Three Initiates — The Seven Principles
I AM THUNDER, "The Thunder, Perfect Mind" — full treaties Nag Hammadi Codex VI:2
ADDITIONAL VIDEOS
*Although the video below presents fascinating ideas, I do not make any claims about what, where or how the moon came to be. And some of their theories are straight-up conspiracy, so for now, the moon will have to remain a mystery!

THE EMPRESS

​​additional links and follow-up material​​
RESEARCH PLANETARY RETROGRADES​ for 2021 HERE
Ephemerides for tracking planetary positions in the past and future Astrotheme.com
Book; A Little Book of Coincidence: In the Solar System, John Martineau
ADDITIONAL VIDEOS

STONE RITUAL FOR THE NEXT CLASS
*please perform the stones activations and ritual for The Emperor and The Hierophant cards before the next class.

stone_activation_emperor_and_hierophant.pdf
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