Some things can't be found by staying on the surface. Journey through seven gates, releasing the identities, armor and old stories that no longer serve you to discover what has been buried underneath.
You don't go into the dark to stay there. You go to discover what you're ready to carry back.
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.
Why make this journey
You do this work when the version of yourself you have been performing is no longer sustainable.
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.
This journey is for the woman who has already done everything right and still feels something missing.
It is for the one who is tired of being all logic and no magic.
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
By the end of this journey, you will have a clear name for the parts of yourself you have been avoiding, a felt sense of your own buried power, and a set of practices you can return to whenever life asks you to descend again.
You leave with more than insight.
You leave with a relationship to your own depths that you can trust, rely on and believe in.
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 Self-Guided Tour of the Underworld
Your pace, your timing, your terms. A series of podcast episodes will guide you to and through your Journey to the Underworld. The same seven gates, the same ascent, on your own terms.
$333
The Journey in Community
A 3-month guided cohort through the seven gates, in community with fellow Dark Goddesses.
$3,333
Private Guided Journey
Deep 1:1 work customized over several months.
Pricing dependant on customization
What this work is — and what it isn't
This is a safe, intentional and contained experience for spiritual healing and growth. It includes a series of immersive guided meditations, rituals, somatic work, journaling and art. If something intense comes up, we will pause and return you to a place of safety until you are ready to resume.
This is not therapy, it is not support for ongoing trauma and it is highly recommended that you join from a place of mental, physical and emotional health.