Ready to journey into the dark?
The Dark Goddess is the part of us that holds our power, our grief, and our deepest hidden truths. She is not a metaphor. She is the oldest story we have.
Inanna, Queen of Heaven, descended into the underworld to face her sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Dead. At each of the seven gates, she was made to remove one more piece of her crown, her jewels, her royal garments, until she arrived below with nothing. Naked. Stripped. Undefended. And it was only there, with nothing left to perform, that her true transformation began.
This is that journey.
We descend through seven gates together, removing what no longer serves so we can find what has been buried beneath it all along. This is not a metaphor for healing. This is the practice of it.
You've done everything right.
Something is still missing.
The version of you that got you here isn't sustainable anymore.
You're tired of being all logic and no magic.
Why make this journey
When you sense there is a deeper truth underneath the achievement, the title, the armor you built to survive rooms that were never built for you. When you are ready to stop managing your life from the surface and start living it from the root.
It is for anyone ready to meet the parts of themselves they have kept hidden, even from themselves.
The seven gates
Each stage of the journey mirrors one gate of Inanna's descent, one layer removed, one truth uncovered
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What are you ready to put down?
We name what you are ready to release, and you begin to see the crown you have been wearing that was never really yours.
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What protected you then but confines you now?
We examine the armor you built to survive, the roles and identities that kept you safe but now keep you small.
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What have you never been given space to feel? We meet your grief directly.
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What does your anger want to build?
We face your rage, the fire you have been taught to swallow, and learn what it actually wants to build.
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What have you decided you're not allowed to want?
We sit with your shame, the stories you have told yourself about what you are not allowed to want.
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Who are you when there's nothing left to prove?
We strip away the last defenses, the final performances, until what is left is simply you.
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What has your power been trying to tell you?
You arrive at the bottom. Naked, undefended, and finally able to hear what your own power has been trying to tell you all along.
You sit here. You listen. You hear with every sense. You learn. Maybe you paint, maybe you draw, maybe you journal, but you explore and record through your senses.
And only then does the ascent begin. We do not leave you in the underworld. We build the path back up together, and you emerge carrying what you found.
What You Leave With
TRUTH
A clearer understanding of what you've been avoiding.
POWER
A deeper relationship with what has been buried.
PRACTICE
Ways to return to yourself when life asks you to descend again.
You leave with a relationship to your own depth that you can trust.
Choose Your Journey
There is more than one way to descend.
Whether you move through the seven gates over one immersive weekend, across several weeks with a small group, or privately at your own pace, the journey follows the same arc: descent, discovery, integration and return.
The Dark Goddess Weekend
An immersive group experience
Move through all seven gates in a concentrated weekend of guided reflection, ritual, conversation and creative exploration.
This shared seasonal experience is for women who want to step out of ordinary life for a moment, go deep together, and emerge carrying something new.
The Dark Goddess Journey
A guided small-group cohort
Move through the seven gates over seven weeks, with time between each gate to notice, reflect, integrate and live with what you uncover.
You'll journey alongside a small group of women doing their own work at the same time, with guided sessions, ritual, reflection and space to witness and be witnessed.
Private Dark Goddess Journey
A one-on-one descent
For women who want to move through the seven gates privately, with the journey shaped around what is unfolding for you.
Our work is paced more intentionally, giving us space to stay with what needs attention rather than moving according to a group schedule. Depending on the work, a private journey may unfold over several weeks or several months.
Want to journey with your own group?
Private Dark Goddess experiences are also available for existing groups who want to move through the seven gates together on a shared timeline.
What this work is — and what it isn't
The Dark Goddess Journey is a guided coaching and reflective experience that may include ritual, tarot, journaling, creative practice, conversation and other forms of reflection.
It is not psychotherapy, trauma treatment, or crisis support, and it is not a substitute for working with a licensed mental-health professional.
If something surfaces that needs a different kind of support, we honor that. The work is not to force your way through every door.
Sometimes the work is knowing which door is yours to open — and which one isn't.