We invite you to join us this Samhain for Living Love Revolution Sanctuary’s Temple of the Dark Mothers!
$555 / $777 / $999 / $1,666 sliding scale
~ payment plan & work trade options available ~
Beloved Potential Temple Celebrant,
At this sacred time of year the veils thin, and our ability to connect with dark deities and do shadow work is at its most powerful. Join us this Samhain for the Temple of the Dark Mothers, a unique and exquisite healing retreat taking place November 1 – 3, 2024 near Portland, Oregon.
The Temple of the Dark Mothers is a Living Love Revolution Sanctuary (LLRS) service that serves as an initiation into Aphrodisiacal culture–an alternative to the patriarchal, capitalist Fading Uber Culture. The LLRS is a queer, gynocentric, poly normative organization that envisions and works towards a liberated, embodied culture that honors the interconnection of all life and provides access to Self-Love and Immanence.
At this Temple, you will:
- Ground into ritual and walk the path of the Divine Dark Mothers to examine what no longer serves you
- Explore the shadow materials that obscure your sexual sovereignty
- Dive deep and access your authentic desires through trance, magic, art, divination, and pleasure
- Embrace the liberation of the Dark Mothers and freedom to explore love, sensuality, and sex within this sacred and consent based environment
- Free yourself from the restraints of the Uber Culture that keeps us in place
- Co-create an Aphrodisiacal sacred autonomous zone and experience our birthright of great oneness of being
- Feel Golden waves of acceptance, friendliness, openness, and curiosity through your own body’s felt experience and intentionally send these waves out into the rest of the world
- Know that you are Love and love is powerful
IF THIS CALLS TO YOU, APPLY FOR REGISTRATION NOW!
Temple Theme: Dark Mothers
The fading Uber Culture actively works to control and limit everyone and in particular women, queer people, BIPOC people, and anyone that is kept on the edges and othered. But witches love edges. Edges are where magic happens. The Fading Uber Culture threatens to banish and exclude us if we do not submit to the constraints that keep us in our places. Constraints like how one has to look to be sexual and who one can be sexual with, even what being sexual is. By controlling sex the fading Uber Culture maintains control of everything and restrains the life force which is love.
Ah, but the Dark Mothers are fearless and not daunted by banishment. The Dark Mothers walk away from false constraints unapologetically. The Chthonic feminine revels in rebellion. In being exactly who and what they are, and by being absolutely clear on what they do and do not desire. Who better to free us from our limitations. As we liberate ourselves we become agents of sovereignty. We become dangerous because like the Dark Mothers we begin to show others the possibility of unapologetically doing exactly what we want.
Set, Setting, and Intention
In the temporary autonomous zone we create together, we make space to become a functional, satisfied group of people who are dedicated to developing themselves as a resource of Transpersonal Love. In a world ruled by separation and isolation this is revolutionary. Inside the culture of LLRS Temples everyone is present and aware of their interconnection, thinking well about each other, and offering their love and care to each other. Our sacred LLRS set and setting also asks us to extend that aware loving kindness outside us into our lived environments. We do this in a manner that also allows each of us to maintain our individuality, autonomy, and authenticity. The Temple of The Dark Mothers leans into these intentions with magickal practices developed and tested over the last 30 years by our beloved Creatrix Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi, MSW.
So, are you called to the Temple of The Dark Mothers? Do you dare to tear down the structures that trap you and keep you from living your one precious life? Or are you intuitively feeling the pull to pass the invitation on to someone who may be needing this work? We encourage privately inviting new people to participate in our community; thank you. Please do NOT post on social media about our events yourself and know that all new participants need to have an LLRS Event Interview (more info on this below).
Where and When
The Temple of The Dark Mothers will be taking place at a beautiful property known as The White Oak Center, located near Portland, Oregon. We will send the exact location with instructions on how to get there in your confirmation letter.
Programming begins at 11am on Friday the 1st of November. Programming completes approximately 3PM on Sunday the 3th of November.
Interested in Attending?
If this is your first temple…
We invite you to consider the tender nature of creating space to nurture the ideas expressed above. Rev. Ciacchi and the life’s work she is sharing here can loom large and seem intimidating. But we are fragile too, searching for cracks in the cultural pavement in which to take root and strengthen mycelial networks.
For this reason we require a screening interview with representatives from the presiding priestess body1 2. We hold the trust of our participants as guardians of safer space for transpersonal growth, and must use discretion when inviting aspirants3 into the acolyte4 roll.
The screening session will take approximately 30 – 60 minutes. During that time, two priestesses will explain the event in greater detail, ask you questions designed to assess your comfort level with the programming, and create space for you to ask questions. The members of the priestess body will then make their best assessment based on available information, and our belief that the potential participant is able to understand and commit to upholding the LLRS 2023 Safer Braver Space5 foundational document. Notification will be provided within 2 days. If it is found that we are not ready to invite you to this temple event, feedback will be provided. In some situations, other avenues for connecting will be offered. It is part of our ministerial mission to continue creating space for those who come seeking personal gnosis with their own eminence, and we are at times able to provide a pathway towards further connection in the LLRS culture.
For this service, and in respect of the participating priestess’ time commitment, a non-refundable $100 donation to the Living Love Revolution Sanctuary6 will be required. If after review of the consultation all parties are experiencing an enthusiastic “YES!” the $100 will go towards your registration tuition.
If you would like to be considered for attendance at this LLRS temple, please follow this link to the intake form.
For Returning Acolytes:
If you have attended a LLRS Temple, retreat or class since 2022, or had a pre-temple interview between 2019 to 2022, you may not need a screening call. Fill out your application here and pay the $100 deposit to reserve your spot.
A Love Note about Tuition
Tuition for the Temple of the Dark Mothers includes our exquisite and unique programming, 6 lovingly made delicious and nutritious catered meals, and your accommodation at the lovely White Oak Retreat Center.
The full tuition for Temple is based on an economic justice sliding scale. View the graphic below to see where you fall on the scale. We will be discussing your proposed contributions to LLRS for this Temple Service in our screening interview with you.
The sliding scale is as follows (includes the $100 application deposit):
Bees Path – $555 USD / $750 CAD
Mycelium Path – $777 USD / $1,050 CAD
Stardust Path – $999 USD / $1,350 CAD
The Cosmos Path is also available for $1,666 USD / $2,250 CAD. Choosing this path will help support our future work and allow us to offer financial options to those in need.
Spaces are limited to 18 attendees. Attendees will be registered in order of deposit payment and completion of the Registration Form.
We are committed to making Living Love Revolution Sanctuary services as accessible to people as possible, so we offer limited entry opportunities using Fair Energy Exchange and payment plans. Those paying less than $555 USD / $750 CAD will be requested to make up the difference in work trade. You can speak to Bramble or Sissily about this in your interview and we will co-create a contribution that works for both you and us. Tuition is due in full by October 25, 2024.
If you have any questions about setting up a screening call, the venue, the process of registration, requesting a payment plan, or anything else, you may contact the Temple Manager Sissily at sissly.sevenstar@proton.me.
Covid-19 Protocols:
We require that all attendees bring a rapid antigen test with them. We will then administer the test to you in our presence immediately before you enter the venue.
Additional requirements may be needed to cross the US/Canada border. Please do your due diligence to understand and comply with these requirements as we will not be refunding your financial contributions if you cannot attend because you fail to meet them.
From the team at LLRS, we are so very excited to have you join us for this unique healing retreat!
With Golden Waves of Love and Ecstacy,
Reverend Bramble Drewitt, High Priestess & Program Lead
Addison Kavish, Program Lead
Sissily Sevenstar, Temple Manager
Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi MSW, High Priestess
1 A word here on terminology: As we move through this inherited world of mayhem, we have found it empowering to create a shared language of meaning. In LLRS writings, you will notice words we have chosen to describe certain aspects of our work. Please see the following footnotes for a few definitions.
It is our desire that participants and interested parties see these words as necessary weavings as we attempt to define the experience of personal gnosis. We hope you can hold them as markers on the pathway it is our work to reveal.
2 The priestess body consists of those who have worked closely with Rev. Ciacchi and LLRS, and are actively participating in the ministerial mission. Priestesses have a long history of holding space for larger community as they traverse life’s larger moments. We honor those untold generations of adherents, and their work feeding the archetypes of compassion, desire, ecstasy, and grief.
3 Aspirant has been chosen as a word to hold those who aspire to initiation into our temple rites. Our path is one of traversing liminal spaces. Aspiration is required to strengthen the heart for such travails.
4 Acolyte is derived from the Greek word kéleuthos, meaning path. Rev. Ciacchi traces her lineage through Magna Greaca, and feels it is a fitting term for those who support this work as we walk this path together.
5 Available upon request
6 If the $100 donation presents a hardship based on the Green Bottle Sliding Scale, found in the Tuition section above, please contact our temple manager for discussion around accommodations – sissily.sevenstar@proton.me