ABOUT
the Ministry of the Eternal Rose & The Temple of Sacred Arts
Our Why
We are devoted to restoring sacred relationship at every scale, reclaiming the sacred feminine, healing ourselves and serving Mother Earth, so that all life on Earth may flourish and we may experience the full beauty and power of Love's majesty.
Our Just Cause
We imagine a world where humanity lives in right relationship with the Earth — walking the Beauty Way, in service to Love and the Circle of Life.
That's the big vision.
In plain terms: we believe the modern world took a "wrong" turn — toward extraction, domination, and disconnection — and that people are hungry for a graceful way back. We're rebuilding that path: recovering our ancestral roots, our bond with the living Earth, and our connection to each other.
For you, that might look like coming to a full moon circle. Learning to trust your intuition. Grieving what was never grieved, with witnesses who know how to hold it. Finding friends who see the real you. Over time, it becomes something larger — a different way of living entirely, and gently a new culture emerges.
We start where the wound is deepest. For thousands of years, the feminine — the body, the Earth, emotions, the cycles of life — has been devalued and suppressed. When all people, regardless of gender, reconnect with the feminine within and around them, what's restored is the balance everything depends on.
The healing of the feminine is the healing of the whole.
Who We Are
The Ministry of the Eternal Rose is a private ministerial association — a womb church and a feminine mystery school — devoted to the restoration of harmony between the masculine and feminine. Led by priestesses rooted in earth-based wisdom and the intelligence of our soma, we host ceremonies, circles, initiatory programs, and rites of passage that mark the great thresholds of a human life, and the turning of the seasons.
We are the stewards of the Temple of Sacred Arts.
The Temple of Sacred Arts is
- a physical sanctuary space in Seattle
- an in-person and digital private member's community
The physical Temple space in Seattle is where our local spiritual community gathers for workshops and sacred events. Our digital members' area is a digital sacred space for our broader spiritual community (including non-local members) to gather, and access teachings, practices, and connection.
And will one day, become a land-based Temple community, regenerative living pilot project, and healing center.
Our Lineage
I am the voice speaking softly. I exist from the first. I dwell within the Silence, Within the immeasurable Silence. I descended from the midst of the Underworld. And I shone down upon the darkness. It is I who poured forth the Water. I am the One hidden within Radiant Waters… I am the image of the Invisible Spirit. I am the Womb that gives shape to the All.
— Trimorphic Protennoia, Nag Hammadi Codex 13
The ancients knew the womb as the throne of creation — the dark that births all life and holds the power of rebirth. These mysteries were buried for centuries. We are among those picking up the pieces and weaving them back together.
Our teachings are rooted in the ancient lineage of the Rose path tracing all the way back to ancient Egypt, and the spiritual understandings of the modern Womb Awakening lineage shaped by living teachers, such as Seren & Azra Bertrand, as well as Indigenous Wisdom-Keepers who never lost their communion with the Earth. Our fuller cosmology unfolds within temple membership, at the pace of trust.
We Believe...
The Body is Sacred
The body is a temple of the Divine. It is a conduit for divine connection and intelligence. Pleasure and pain are ways the body and spirit communicate and guide our path. The body deserves respect. We are here to listen to the wisdom it carries, come home to ourselves, and rebuild a sense of safety and belonging in our physical vessels.
Reclaiming the Feminine will restore balance
The feminine has been suppressed for millennia. This has lead to the rejection of many aspects of ourselves, that creates division in our relationships, an abusive relationship with the Earth, and a fractured sense of wholeness within. Reclaiming the sacredness of the feminine aspects of ourselves, will restore health & harmony.
Sexuality is Holy & Innocent
Sexual union is the origin of all creation, the creation of ALL life, and thus, is it inherently sacred. We are here to help us reconnect to the sacredness of our bodies, through the release of shame, the reclamation of respect and integrity, the practice of consent, education, and by restoring the vital connection between heart and body.
The Earth is Sacred
The Earth is our first mother, the ground of all being. She is not a resource to be extracted, but a living being to be revered — the original temple, older than every religion. We are not separate from her; we are her body, her breath, her children. Returning to reverence for the land is returning to reverence for ourselves, and for all life.
Plants are Medicine
Our plant kin have been our healers, teachers, and allies since the beginning. Every leaf, root, and flower carries an intelligence shaped by millions of years of symbiosis with our bodies. We honor the wisdom of the plants, and we honor the traditional keepers of that wisdom — the herbalists, the grandmothers, the indigenous lineages whose relationship with plants was never lost, only buried. Healing ourselves in partnership with the plants is healing our severed relationship with the living world.
Community is our Birthright
We did not evolve to live alone. Our ancestors knew how to gather, to celebrate, to grieve, and to raise children together — and our bodies still ache for it. The radical isolation of modern life is not natural; it is engineered. Belonging is not a luxury to be earned, but a birthright to be reclaimed. We are rebuilding the village — a place where you are known, held, and loved for exactly who you are.
You are Sovereign
No one outside of you is your authority. You are the authority over your own being. You have your own inherent capacity to connect with the Divine. You are a child of the Divine. Reclaiming our sovereignty is essential for dismantling the abusive power structures in place today.
We must restore Right Relationship
We acknowledge there are deep wounds and harms that have been done to black and indigenous peoples around the world, predominately by "white" people of European descent and certain religious groups. We hold the intention in our hearts to do our part, to learn, practice humility, take responsibility on behalf of our lineages, and to help heal the wounds of colonization and restore right relationship.
We Must Re-indigenize Ourselves
Before the cities, before the empires, before the asphalt and the algorithms — every one of our ancestors lived in intimate communion with a beloved piece of Earth. Everyone alive today descends from Indigenous peoples: from those who spoke to the spirits of their rivers and who harvested with the moon.
Colonization devastated Indigenous cultures around the world, but it also who amputated the ancestral memory, songs, earth-ways, belonging of those who no longer identify as indigenous - those who have been severed for so long, they may not even remember where they come from.
Many of us, became peoples without place, and that rootlessness became the engine of extraction, domination, and endless consumption — consuming lands and cultures that belong to others because of our own cultural and ancestral impoverishment and our disconnect from ourselves, our bodies and the sacred.
Re-indigenizing is not claiming the identity of the Native peoples who have survived genocide and colonization and whose cultures remain alive and sovereign — that story is theirs, and their struggle continues in the face on ongoing violence, disrespect, and colonization.
Re-indigenizing is the humble, lifelong work of recovering the severed roots our own lineages: digging beneath colonial Christianity, colonial capitalism, and colonial amnesia to find the Earth-honoring wisdom our ancestors carried before it was burned, banned, and buried. It is learning the name of the land we live on and rebuilding our intimacy and connection with the natural world. It is eating with the seasons, tending the soil, honoring the waters. Practicing reciprocity instead of extraction. Raising our children with place, not just on it.
A people who remember where they come from do not destroy the places they belong to. Remembering our belonging to the Earth is the medicine.
We are the Creators of Our Reality
We believe in radical self-responsibility and the sovereignty of each being. We believe we have the power to transcend victim consciousness. We have the power and the responsibility to create a more beautiful world - a safe and beautiful future for the children.
We have to Heal Ourselves to Heal the World
The world is a holographic mirror. As within, so without. As above, so below. If we heal ourselves, the world will in turn heal. Everything originates from our relationship to ourselves. We have inherited a great deal of collective and ancestral trauma that is our responsibility to transform and release.
Emotions are Teachers
Each emotion has something to teach us. None are bad, wrong, or forbidden. We have the power to learn how to work with emotions in a safe way with integrity and respect for each other. Building emotional intelligence is absolutely essential for healing our world.
You are Your Own Healer
While for simplicity sake, we may call ourselves healers, the Truth is that you are your own healer. We are merely guides, mirrors and helpers. But healing is fundamentally an inside job, that you are in command of. The power is inside you.
Trauma Healing is our Sacred Duty
Trauma is not a personal failing — it is an inheritance, passed hand to hand through generations of displacement, suppression, and silence. What remains unhealed repeats. And what is healed, heals forward. Tending these wounds is not self-indulgence; it is among the most sacred work a human being can undertake — for ourselves, our ancestors, and the children not yet born. We believe every being deserves a safe space to unravel, remember, and come home.
Shadow Work is Evolutionary Technology
Within each of us lives everything we have exiled — the grief, the rage, the shame, the power we were told was too much. The shadow is not evil; it is merely our unloved & unintegrated parts that haven't found right relationship. The traditions of conscious shadow work are the ancient technology for retrieving this buried treasure, integrating what was cast out, and becoming whole. What we refuse to face, we project onto the world. What we dare to face, we free.
Where We're Headed
Today, we're a humble sanctuary, nestled in the city.
Tomorrow, with your help, we'll be roots in the ground, with an opulent healing temple and land-based sanctuary to inspire our hearts, that we can pass down to future generations.
The Ministry is working toward a permanent home: roughly a hundred acres on the Olympic Peninsula, stewarded as a sacred sanctuary — a temple and retreat center, a permaculture farm, and a micro-village of regenerative homes with room for 12 families. A place where land, water, and community are held in trust for the generations to come, in partnership and reciprocity with the local tribes whose homelands these are.
We aren't there yet. We're building toward it with intention and patience. Funded by the work itself and members of our temple community, grown from through the relational fabric of magic we weave together, grounded in our shared values above. When you attend a circle or join the membership, you aren't just receiving — you're helping us accumulate the funds necessary to build this sanctuary.
Some Inspo
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"We are weaving a new way
stitching together the lost ways
Spinning new worlds from our wombs
Dreaming back the wild edges of our souls
Calling forth that which has been lost
We are women of the womb
Maddened by love into action,
We are men of the heart,
Softened into surrender,
Afraid only of not feeling,
We are thinking in a web,
Your thread holds mine together
We are tale-weavers and troubadours,
Birthing stories to steward our becoming
Telling the words that were broken,
Singing the songs of longing.
We are weaving a new way,
Gathering the thread of pain,
Spinning it back into gold. "
- Womb Awakening
