13 Moons: A Year in the Temple
A Year-long Soul Journey for Women to Build Courage, Wisdom and Clarity to Step forward into Sacred Leadership
Guides: Jonah Ruh Roberts and Katherine Allen
We continue to be emerging from a culture founded on rape and domination of the earth, indigenous peoples and the feminine. It is this untempered, adolescent, ego-centric masculine that has brought us to this point of eco-degradation, abandon of care for the web of life, for the water, for the future generations. Vision after vision has shaped me to devote my life to nurturing women back out from hiding. Yes, we need healing and wholing for the masculine, yes we need healing and wholing for people of color, yes we need to protect what indigenous cultures are left, yes we need activists protecting the still wild places. There is so much to devote to in this Great Turning and a place for all with heart to lean in. My place is in the temple remembering women to Gaia, to their voice, to their power and to their medicine.
I am appalled that young women are still being unprotected, untended, untaught about the beauty and gifts of the feminine during adolescence. I grieve seeing the self doubt, isolation, overwhelm and unnurtured soul beauty in so many women when I see how it could be. I see the depth and richness of the web of women tending the hearth, the maidens delighting the children, the mothers turning the very wheel of life at the center of community, the wild women shedding their roles and walking in communion with the forest and mystery, the medicine women bringing soul food to her people and the crone holding the pillar of the worlds in view and the keel of her people steady between the ancients and the future ones. There is so much to reknit, remember, unearth. And we develop trust, courage, and vision to find our place in the cloth through following our heart on the soul journey.
The Soul Journey is long and arduous, with dark stretches through rubble and bones, and rapturous ascents when the epic landscapes traversed, and the awesome patterns of the Great Tapestry come into view.
I am devoted to supporting the soul journey for women and reweaving the web of sacred culture.
13 Moons is year-long journey to free ourselves from the bounds of colonization by the patriarchy. It is to love and witness ourselves back into wholeness. It is to clear our temples of the voices, beliefs and narratives that are not ours to carry anymore and to reconsecrate our temples to soul.
This is a journey to clear any shame and self objectification of our bodies, our sensuality, our sexuality and reclaim sovereignty in our creative power. It is a journey to rewhole the fragments of our authenticity that society did not accept or encourage when we were young. It is to reclaim our gifts from the shadow and unfurl in our wholeness. This is a journey to enter the mysteries and court soul- for our medicine gifts for the world to be uncovered. It is to see and traverse together the exquisite beauty of the journey of life, of the rhythms of Gaia and the aliveness of the unseen. It is to touch the truth below all that is on the surface and enact a rite of passage into the next stage of your journey of becoming.
Through ceremony, council, journey, wanders in the forest, dance, deep tracking and reflection we spiral together through the archetypes of the wheel of the year, the cycle of the moon and the life of woman in a vessel of deep sisterhood.
Are you longing to journey with beautiful courageous sisters to find your voice and awaken the passion and power to live your gifts into the world?
Are you longing to dive deep into Mystery to enter the liminal veil between the seen and the unseen to look into your soul mirror to see who you truly are?
Are you longing to come home to deep loving reciprocity with Earth and her precious web of life?
Are you longing to free yourself from colonization by the dominance, patriarchal culture, and experience the exquisite beauty, power and life-force of the divine feminine?
Do you know in your bones that you are an agent of cultural regeneration?
Then join us. The journey begins March 22, 2024
The Journey
Entering the Temple
Spring Equinox – Child of Promise
Entering the Temple – Accessing All Possibility
Here we re-member ourselves into the natural order of things, the rhythms, Earth, sisterhood, the sacred. We open our hearts to accessing the pure and luminous potential of All Possibility that is below any wounds, conditioning or trauma we have experienced. We remember the temple, the reflection of the sacred feminine, the Goddess. We come home to Gaia as Mother, resource, home.
Foundation
Beltane – Maiden
Resetting the Foundation Stones of Self Knowing
Here we begin the work of restoring self love, self care, self trust, boundaries and discernment that in a healthy culture guided by strong women we would have been raised with. We begin the work of healing and wholing the Maiden. We open our voices and expose the wounds of the patriarchal colonization of young women. We begin to clear and reconsecrate our personal temple.
Embodied Empowerment
Summer Solstice – Shakti
Sourcing our Creational Power
Here we unlock our mystical and physical sensuality to feel the exquisite gorgeousness of our life giving, love making, creative potential. We access Gaian eros to reconnect our kundalini with the kundalini of Gaia. We release the objectification of our bodies, shame and the colonization of our sexuality, wombs and creational powers. We come home to a belonging in our bodies as intrinsically and orgasmically belonging to Earth.
Wholing and Healing our Inner Protectors
Lughnasadh – Mother
Sourcing in the Compassionate Embrace of the Mother
Here we allow ourselves to be held in the deepest compassionate love to melt away self limiting inner voices and deepen our capacity to resource ourselves. We access our divine mother to know unconditional love, self compassion and tender inner generative guidance so that we can track internal constrictions- the inner critic, lion tamer, victim, conformist- that can keep us from following our heart and living from strength and wholeness. Here we learn how to love these wounded parts and rewrite the subconscious patterns that limit us.
Entering the Mystery
Fall Equinox – Wild Woman
Descent into the Underworld
Here we begin our descent into the underworld, to walk beyond the village walls, to become available to Mystery to show us who we truly are. This usually entails a massive shed of conformity, of roles and ways we previously showed up in society. This is the time we walk in two worlds, deepening trust in the unseen, in dreams, in soul. Here we court the Muse, we look into the shadow, we collect bones, we molt.
Shapeshifting
Samhain – Medicine Woman
Connecting to our Ancestors
Here we continue our descent by deepening our roots into the rivers of our ancestors to receive a deeper wisdom and knowing of the particular medicine we carry in our bones. We continue to make ourselves available to Mystery, to deep time, to the future ones, seeing the dominant culture from outside the village. If we are ripe and are in this stage of life, we may receive a vision that becomes our gift for our people.
Deep Time
Winter Solstice – Crone
Turning Experience into Wisdom
Here the sacred rhythms, learnings and findings of the year integrate while sitting before Crone. Here turns experience into wisdom, letting a metamorphosis happen in our depths. Soon we feel a ceremony want to emerge- a ceremony of shedding, of shapeshifting, of claiming. Here we receive a taste of the medicine of Crone, the wisdom keeper who holds the keel and sacred keys of her culture and walks the long road in devotion and integrity.
Rite of Passage
Imbolc – Threshold Crossing
Enacting a ceremony of emergence
Here we raise the temple, each of us as priestesses serving each other and enacting our own Rites of Passage. Whatever stage of life you are in, you design and enact a ceremony to claim and make visible the truths that are ready to emerge.
The times for new vision and living our truth are here. We cannot afford to wait for a beautiful culture to be created for us. We must be the change we seek in the world. What are we creating? How are we living? What seeds of culture, reverence and knowledge are we planting now for the future ones?
Details
The 13 Moons Immersion meets for 8 weekends over the course of one year from March to February. Weekends are 5pm Friday – 5pm Sunday with two three day gatherings (5pm Thursday to 5pm Sunday).
Our gatherings include teachings, council, journey, ceremony, dance, forest time and crafting of several sacred tools.
In addition, we will have:
Online new moon circles to continue our weaving between gatherings
3 one-on-two mentoring calls with KaDi and I.
Commitment
This path is for those committed to accessing and empowering soul and it requires a good amount of time to practice and gain personal experience between sessions. Expect to devote at least 2 hours a week to your practice.
It requires a commitment to attend every weekend no matter what else arises during the year.
This is a sacred contract with your soul and with the circle. And we ask you to acknowledge this commitment before you are accepted into the program.
2024 Dates
Spring Equinox: March 22-24
Beltane: May 3-5
Summer Solstice: June 21-23
Lughnasadh: July 25-28 (Thursday 5pm – Sunday 5pm)
Fall Equinox: Sept 13-15
Samhain: Oct 25-27
Winter Solstice: Dec 13-15
Imbolc: Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2025 (Thursday 5pm – Sunday 5pm)
Summer Dates will be held in the Herb Gardens and Sanctuary of Unity Mountain Herbs in Unity, NH.
Winter Dates will be held at the Orchard Hill community house in Alstead, NH.
Limited to 13 Women.
Courtship for the 2024 circle is now open!
The journey begins March 22, 2024
How to apply:
Rather than have a written application we invite women who feel a strong call to this journey to join us on zoom for tea and a vision call. We want to hear where you are on your soul journey and what threshold you are standing upon. There are many women’s circles you could choose to be part of. 13 Moons is not just a women’s circle, it is an activation and we are devoted to women who are clearly motivated to break the cycles of smallness and limitation and step into their own sacred wisdom. This call is an opportunity for us to hear from you, and you to hear from us to see if this is the medicine path for you. If you are feeling undeniable magnetism to the words shared on this page, then you likely are meant to be part of this circle and we invite you to schedule a call with us!
“I have never felt so safely held and welcomed in all aspects of myself, nor have I encountered teachers who I’ve resonated more deeply with. I am so incredibly grateful that past me chose to say yes to this and I feel completely blessed for this unique and life changing experience..”
– Gabby C.
“This is a life changing experience! If you’re looking for a safe container to do some deep soul work, build a community with sisters, be in a safe place where you can share and witness others sharing, deconstruct harmful societal conditioning, and cultivate relationship with self and nature then this is the place for you!! It is a place to discover your own magic, your medicine and be part of witnessing others discover and cultivate theirs as well. It is the ultimate place for so much support and love and growth. There are not many places where we in this society can tap into the wisdom of our elders so if you get a chance to join a circle like this, I can’t recommend it enough!”
– Aubrie G.
“13 Moons teaches you that the values and beliefs you have always held in your bones are real. These teachers will give you ways to move the bullshit that isn’t yours out of the way to allow for those sacred wholesome ways of living to emerge. This journey will help you connect to your true self. It will provide medicines and resources that will help carry you with through the broken world with strength and resiliency. It will help you love yourself in the ways that the world has not, validate your emotions instead of stuffing them away, and help you to understand them as gifts, sacred gifts, that may be your true way of being in the world.”
– Kate B.
“13 Moons moved me completely out of my comfort zone which cracked my shell open exponentially. It gave me so much opportunity to uncover and share my truth, peel back the layers and masks to reveal my authentic self and step into my sovereignty. This journey helped me clear away the rubble and realize I am not a broken human, I’m just living in a broken world.”
– 2021 Participant
“This is a rite of passage into divine purpose. In order to step into our purpose and our power we need the intimate support of community because what we set out to do in this world is truly cutting edge. It is pushing culture and consciousness forward in really important ways and it is also challenging work that we need to be supported in by sisterhood. It is a profoundly healing space, and you will find places in yourself that need to be healed and learn how to become whole again, as a practice. You will learn sovereignty, and by that I mean you will learn how to hold yourself through life, and be held by spirit. Through this journey you will learn how to listen more deeply to Mama Earth and to dream with her in harmony and commitment.”
– Rebecca M.
