“Therapy isn’t enough I need them to put Mary Magdalene back in the Bible.”-softmoonrose

People be out there raw-doggin’ life with no ties to ancient lineage and ancestral wisdom — it makes sense we’re frozen and feeling like shit all the time. (Apply to come to India with us if you’re called.)

It’s natural to suffer as humans, period. It is also natural as mystics to learn how to relieve that suffering, as witches to cast out what isn’t ours, and as lovers to digest what is — and make something with it.

Since last November, I’ve been working with the myth of Inanna in our community — in both subtle and very real ways — to give us the lineage (context) to change how we are relating to what is dying and being reborn, inside and between us in our relationships.

Enjoy this episode of Mother of the Sword where I interview some of the initiates in our last couple prayer-formances of Innana’s Journey wiht a Jersey Twist. It’s fascinating the ways the characters they embodied and worked with played out in their lives. Plus you get some tips on how to set the appropriate boundaries when working in this way, which usually only comes from trial and error. Thanks to Nico Nelson, Alli Fischenich, Tammy Chow, Sydney Johnson and Raquel Panthera!

The way that we share ritual theater is more of a portal than a performance.

It’s the sacred space where we get to become the myth — not just read about it, not just talk about transformation, but walk it. To die and be reborn on purpose, with witnesses, with music, with our ancestors behind us and our grief made holy.

Working with archetypes — like Inanna, Magdalene, the Dark Mother, or the wild Fool — gives the psyche something to hold onto when everything else is falling apart. It gives shape to the shapeless. It’s not just metaphor. It’s somatic resurrection.

ow what pops in to your imagination in reading this. How do the personal stories that you carry inside create your perception, and how can we support your process of death and rebirth in real time?

Thanks to Jeff from Cosmic Cousins for supporting us with the editing this epic episode!!!

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Grief, Rage and Ritual Theater