Mother Magic Recovering the Love at the Heart of the World

ATTUNE TO THE SACRED MATRISPHERE

We have more mothers than we know. All of our mothers, from all of our past lives, are waiting to guide us and hold us. All of our mothers from all of our past lives are waiting for us to remember who they are—and remember who we really are.

In this weekend intensive, we will summon the wisdom of our ancestral mothers, heal the disappointments and frustrations of our biological relationships, and step into the miracles of the matri-sphere where we are circled by love beyond our imaginations.

Human history, the story of civilization, is a violent story of slavery, misogyny, and war—war against each other, war against the earth, and most of all, war against the mother. Our species has traumatized itself by turning away from the bodies that birthed us, the land that feeds us, and the maternal darkness to which we all return. No wonder so many of us feel lost, bereft, anxious, and alone.

But human history is not the only story. In the long journey through deep time we once knew how to turn to, honor, and find the mothers wherever they were. Not just the human mothers, but the bird mothers, the mountain mothers, the ocean mothers, all the mothers of magic and mystery.

What if we could descend into the land of the dead and find our mothers again, all of our forgotten mothers, who have loved us and love us still? These ancient mothers and grandmothers are waiting to hold, guide, heal, and welcome us home. They are ready to show us, too, male and female, young and old, those with biological children and those without, what it means to be mothers in the world.

In this retreat, we will:

• Explore rituals for accessing the wisdom and guidance of our ancestral mothers—and meet the mothers of old before civilization diminished their powers.
• Re-narrativize the stories of our own families so that we can alchemize failure and fury into personal power and collective joy.
• Envision a rebirth of embodied animism that allows us to experience the entangled embrace of all that is from which we can never be parted and to which we will always belong.

The sessions appear as follows:

• Session 1: Our Lady of the Beasts: The Mother Before Patriarchy
• Session 2: Our Lady of Sorrows: The Mother Within Patriarchy
• Session 3: The Valium Virgins of Modern Motherhood
• Session 4: The Black Madonna: The Mother After Patriarchy
• Session 5: The Return of the Grandmothers 

Join us for a rejuvenating weekend of healing and connection.