05/03/2026
May 15th 2026
A Mythic Dining Experience featuring multi course Greek cuisine, on Oak Creek 🌙
in Sedona Arizona
https://www.astrologyclubsedona.com/demeter-dark-moon-feast
"The Eleusinian Mysteries were the most famous initiation rites of the ancient Greek world. Rooted in the myth of Demeter and Persephone, the Mysteries offered participants a ritual journey through symbolic death and rebirth, transforming their understanding of life, suffering, and the afterlife. These rites were active through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, known not as secretive cult practices, but as state-supported traditions in which thousands of Athenians participated. The Mysteries did not promise literal immortality but offered release from the fear of death, revealed the meaning in suffering, facilitated an inner rebirth of reunion with divine order."
When I visited Eleusis in Greece, the cult site of Demeter, it touched my soul instantly, like coming home. I felt the stones and received visions in my mind of the old traditions. I saw the manipulation of light, sound, smell, touch, inebriation, theatre, and sacred tools that created the portal of hell that becomes illumination. I have sat in ceremonies such as these, brought to my absolute knees and then fully softened into the arms of god. Expanding my perception upwards so that I could glimpse what heaven sees when it looks down upon us. These precious moments filled with the ultimate beauty and hellish pain, intertwined.
Although no one is initiated at Eleusis anymore, many of us have faced terrible suffering that has ultimately liberated us. In the cave of Pluto, grief and release felt so welcomed. Another level of homecoming and familiarity. I sat with the spirit of my brother. I left half of the trinket we share, my north star at Eleusis with the other offerings. How rare are spaces that fully welcome our grief?
If these themes are powerful for you too, we welcome you to join us at our Demeter Dark Moon Feast on May 15th. This is a space of deep roots and celebration. We shall spend less time with Hades and more time with the soft and decadent Ta**us New Moon. This lunation is conjunct Ceres (Roman for Demeter). My heart is overflowing to offer this mythic dinner. The beauty will be sure to touch your heart!
Learn more here: https://www.astrologyclubsedona.com/demeter-dark-moon-feast