The Sacred Letting Go
Reclamation Through Loss
Practices
Rituals
Embodiment
Writing Practice: The Woman I Am Ready to Release
Before something can be reclaimed, something must be acknowledged.
This practice is not about shaming who you’ve been. It is about telling the truth. There are versions of you that were necessary. Roles that kept you safe. Identities that earned you love, approval, belonging.
But some of them are no longer true.
Take a deep breath before you begin. Place your hand on your heart or your belly. Let your body settle.
Then begin writing from this prompt:
“I am ready to stop being the woman who…”
Let it be raw. Let it be messy. Do not edit yourself. Do not make it pretty.
I am ready to stop being the woman who over-explains.
I am ready to stop being the woman who says yes when she means no.
I am ready to stop being the woman who shrinks to keep the peace.
I am ready to stop being the woman who performs strength but feels alone.
Keep going until something cracks open.
Then shift.
Write:
“The truth is…”
Let the truth rise underneath the performance. What have you been upholding that feels heavy? What image are you maintaining? What expectation feels suffocating?
This is the energy opener.
This is the unclasping.
When you are finished, read what you wrote out loud softly. Not to dramatize it — but to witness it. Notice where your body tightens. Notice where it exhales.
Close by writing one final sentence:
“I honor her. And I release her.”
You are not destroying a version of yourself.
You are reclaiming the energy that has been bound up in maintaining her.
Three-Card Pull — At the Gate of Release
Loss is rarely about absence. More often, it is about truth surfacing. At this gate, you are not being asked to diminish yourself — you are being invited to loosen your grip on what is no longer aligned.
This three-card pull is a moment of conscious witnessing. Not to predict what will fall away, but to illuminate what is already shifting beneath the surface. Before you shuffle, take a few steady breaths and ask:
What is ready to be released so that I may reclaim my truth?
Let the cards speak to the layer that feels heavy. Trust that whatever rises is part of the reclamation.
The Spread
Card One — The Identity I’ve Outgrown
What role, belief, or image am I still carrying that no longer reflects who I am becoming?
Card Two — What It Has Protected Me From
How has this version of me served me? What did it keep me safe from feeling, risking, or losing?
Card Three — What Is Reclaiming Me Now
What truth, desire, or strength is waiting underneath this release? Who am I without this layer?
When you’re finished, sit quietly for a few moments. Notice what feels tender. Notice what feels relieving. Notice where your body softened — and where it resisted.
Journal what made sense immediately and what felt unclear. Sometimes the most powerful insight is the one that unsettles you gently. You do not need to rush into action. Reclamation unfolds in layers.
Honor the version of you that carried what you are releasing. She was necessary. And trust the woman emerging beneath her.
She is not smaller. She is truer.
Bonus Practice
Inanna’s Seven Gates & the Seven Chakras
1st Gate – Crown (Removed) → Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
“She removed her crown of rulership.”
This represents surrendering the ego's claim to divinity.
Releasing the idea that you are in control.
It’s the death of the spiritual persona or superiority.
Trusting the divine even when you feel disconnected from it.
Journal Prompt:
What illusions of control or spiritual identity am I ready to release?
2nd Gate – Necklace → Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)
“She removed the necklace from her neck.”
This speaks to intuition clouded by illusion or external validation.
Surrendering the need to "see" what’s next and trusting the unseen.
Releasing psychic overload or trying to always "know the answers."
Journal Prompt:
Where am I trying to foresee or control the future instead of trusting it?
3rd Gate – Breastplate → Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)
“She removed the double strand of beads from her breast.”
The breastplate covers the heart and voice.
Here, you surrender performative expression
— speaking to please, to protect, or to be accepted.
Finding your true voice, stripped of filters.
Journal Prompt:
Where am I not speaking my truth? What would I say if I trusted my voice?
4th Gate – Breast coverings → Heart Chakra (Anahata)
“She removed her breast coverings.”
The heart laid bare.
This is about vulnerability —
surrendering self-protection and emotional armor.
Grieving, releasing old love stories, opening to divine love.
Journal Prompt:
What grief or love am I still guarding in my heart?
What needs to be felt to be freed?
5th Gate – Belt → Solar Plexus (Manipura)
“She removed her golden girdle.”
The belt is power, identity, and self-worth.
This is the dismantling of ego and releasing the illusion that worth is earned through action.
Power through being, not doing.
Journal Prompt:
Where am I defining my worth by what I achieve or produce?
6th Gate – Bracelets/Rings → Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)
“She removed her lapis lazuli bracelets and rings.”
Jewelry = adornment and sensuality.
Releasing attachment to appearance, desirability, relational identity.
Reclaiming sacred sensuality beyond objectification or shame.
Journal Prompt:
Where have I been outsourcing my pleasure, beauty, or emotional intimacy?
7th Gate – Robe → Root Chakra (Muladhara)
“She removed her royal robe.”
The final gate. Total exposure. No protection.
Surrender of all attachments to safety, status, and material security.
Trusting in the root of your being — even in the void.
Journal Prompt:
What false senses of safety am I still clinging to? What root truth is trying to emerge?
Reflection/Journal Prompts — The Gate of Release
Letting go is rarely about force. It is about recognition. There are versions of us that were built from necessity — shaped by love we wanted, safety we needed, expectations we absorbed. This reflection space is not about condemning those versions. It is about meeting them with honesty and deciding what no longer belongs.
Move slowly. Answer what feels charged. Notice where your body tightens or softens as you write. Truth often lives in the sensation before it lives in the sentence.
Journal Prompts
What feels heavy in my identity right now?
Where do I feel like I am maintaining something rather than living it?Who did I become to survive a season of my life?
Do I still need to be her?What image of myself am I afraid to disappoint?
Who benefits from me maintaining it?If no one were watching, who would I stop trying to be?
What have I outgrown but haven’t admitted yet?
What am I afraid will happen if I let this part of me fall away?
Is that fear current — or inherited?What would reclaiming my energy from this identity make possible?
What might open up in its place?
Embodying the Frequency of Release
To embody the frequency of Reclamation Through Loss is to move through your day with gentle honesty. It looks like noticing when you are performing and choosing to soften instead. It feels like a loosening in the chest, a deeper breath in moments where you would have once braced. You may feel grief rise unexpectedly — a tenderness for the version of you who worked so hard to hold everything together. But alongside that grief is relief. A subtle lightness. A quiet knowing that you no longer have to carry what isn’t yours.
On a day-to-day level, this energy shows up in small but powerful choices. You stop volunteering for roles that drain you. You let a conversation end without over-explaining. You allow someone to misunderstand you without scrambling to correct it. Your nervous system begins to recognize that you are safe even when you are not upholding an image. Inanna, at this gate, is not demanding sacrifice — she is witnessing your willingness. Each time you set something down with awareness instead of force, you reclaim a piece of your own power.
As you move through this work with Inanna, remember that transformation is not just mental — it is physiological. You are not only shifting beliefs and identities; you are rewiring patterns in your nervous system, softening the pain body, and asking your physical form to hold new levels of truth. Long-lasting change happens when the body feels safe enough to sustain it.
Rest. Hydrate. Move slowly. Breathe deeply. Take advantage of every supportive tool available to you. If something feels tender, that is not weakness — it is integration unfolding.
Return often to Integration and Care section, and when you’re ready to go deeper into somatic support, visit The Body Temple. Your body is not separate from this initiation — it is the altar where it becomes real.
The Tidal Current
The Tidal Current
Welcome to The Tidal Current — a space where nothing about you needs to be edited, softened, or made palatable.
This is the chamber where your truth is allowed to exist exactly as it is: raw, holy, tender, messy, sacred, angry, grieving, expanding, contracting — all of it welcome.
This is not a place for performance.
This is not a place to be “good.”
This is a place to exhale.
Here, you get to show up in the exact moment you’re in — not the moment you think you should be in.
Your voice belongs here.
Your experiences belong here.
Your process belongs here.
This space is for release.
For connection.
For sisterhood.
For the in-between moments while you move through the Temple and your own becoming.
Take a breath.
You have a place to land now.