Welcome to the Temple of
Inanna
What Can be Uncovered Here?
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This is Inanna's story—her story, her (Her)story. Here we explore the mythology that has survived, while looking beneath the surface for the symbols, patterns, and hidden threads that still speak to us today. Inanna's descent becomes more than an ancient story; it becomes a mirror through which we can explore power, identity, surrender, and what remains when everything we've used to define ourselves is stripped away.
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the Meeting Inanna video - this is just a little brief intro.
Take a moment to connect with Innana. Hit play on the music and sink in to her story.
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Take a moment to work intentionally with Inanna. Allowing yourself to open to her, her wisdom, and reconnecting with this in you.
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This type of witnessing and curiosity can be intense. True transformation happens through the body, not the mind. These practices are here to help you anchor what you experience in working with the Goddesses.
There is also the body temple with even more practices to work with on your journey to embodiment.
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A break down and introduction of the 5 pillars and how to work with them. These are the foundations of Inanna!
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Choose a Pillar and inside is the foundation of that pillar, themes within it and practices, reflections, card pulls and more.
Do one, do all. Trust your process
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Work with me for a 1:1 session called “the seven gates reading” where we look at what gate you are standing at currently and uncover what Inanna wants you to know right now.
(Her)story
Inanna is known as the Queen of Heaven and Earth — the Sumerian goddess of love, power, war, fertility, and sovereignty. She is radiant, adorned, worshiped. A goddess who knows her influence. A woman who wears her authority openly.
And yet… she chooses to descend.
There are many tellings of her story. Some say she journeyed to the underworld to attend the funeral of her sister, Ereshkigal. Some say she went to challenge her sister’s power. Others believe she was seeking something she could not yet name — a deeper truth hidden beneath all she had become.
But what is remembered most clearly is this:
At each of the seven gates of the underworld, Inanna is required to remove a symbol of her identity. Her crown. Her jewels. Her breastplate. Her royal garments.
With every gate, another layer falls away.
By the time she stands before her sister, she is stripped of everything that once declared who she was. And still, she does not turn back.
She is judged. She is undone. She is hung on a hook in the underworld — suspended between death and rebirth. And yet, through devotion and divine intervention, she rises again.
But she does not return unchanged.
Here is what I know from working with her:
Inanna is not the goddess of comfort. She is the goddess of sacred dismantling.
She teaches that power worn externally is not the same as power embodied. She reveals where identity has hardened into armor, where performance has replaced truth, where survival has become mistaken for selfhood. She strips away what is false so what is essential can finally breathe.
She surprised me. And I think she will surprise you too.
Working with Inanna is an initiation — a walking through the gates of your own life. A surrender of roles, expectations, personas, and protections that once defined you. A remembrance of who you are without ornament.
She does not descend because she is weak.
She descends because she is ready.
Setting an intention with Inanna
Before stepping through Inanna’s gates, pause and listen inward. Notice what feels ready to shift, what feels heavy to carry, and what part of you is quietly asking to be seen more honestly. Inanna’s path is one of sacred unraveling — not to diminish you, but to bring you closer to your essence.
Set your intention gently. You may wish to ask: What am I ready to release? What truth am I being called to face? What remains when the masks fall away?
Move slowly with this work. Let yourself soften into the process. Inanna does not ask you to become someone new — she asks you to remember who you are beneath everything you thought you had to be.
Take some time to sit with the energies of Inanna. Let the music awaken her magic and wisdom within.
Integration + Care
Working with Inanna is not simply a journey of insight — it is an initiation of dismantling. At each gate, something falls away: a role, a protection, a story you once believed you needed in order to survive. But true transformation happens not just through understanding the descent, but through allowing yourself to live it.
This is where integration becomes sacred.
As identities loosen and old layers dissolve, your nervous system needs care just as much as your soul does. In this section, you’ll find grounding practices, reflections, and embodied rituals to support you through the unraveling. Let them remind you that being stripped is not the same as being diminished.
Inanna does not take your power away.
She reveals who you are without the armor.
There are even more practices found in the body temple
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Every initiation begins with a choice: to answer the call into the unknown. The courage to descend is the willingness to step away from certainty, status, and surface identity in order to discover what lies beneath. It is not fearlessness — it is trusting that your soul knows where it is leading you, even before your mind understands.
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At each gate, something is removed. Reclamation through loss is the sacred stripping of roles, masks, and identities you once believed you needed in order to survive or be loved. What falls away may feel like grief, but what remains is truer than anything you could have performed.
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After the unraveling, you cannot return to who you were. Initiation into authenticity is the rebirth that happens when the mask no longer fits and you begin living from what is real instead of what is expected. It is vulnerable, yes — but it is also the first breath of a life aligned with your truth.
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You do not rise from the underworld unchanged. Resurrection with wisdom is the integration of what you learned in the dark — especially the difference between fear and intuition. Here, your inner authority anchors, and you begin moving from discernment rather than reaction.
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The journey culminates in embodiment. The Claiming is the moment you fully inhabit the woman you remembered beneath the stripping, the descent, and the rebirth. When you choose to live as her, energy reorganizes around you — and what is aligned remains.
The 5 Pillars
Each Goddess carries a different current of feminine power. Here, in Inanna’s Temple, the path is one of sacred dismantling — the walk through the seven gates where what is false, inherited, or over-identified is asked to fall away.
This is not the underworld of disappearance.
This is the underworld of exposure.
Inanna does not guide you to soften into shadow. She invites you to stand at each threshold and choose what you are willing to lay down in order to know yourself without ornament.
These five pillars form the architecture of this temple. They are the gates she opens. The initiations she asks you to walk consciously. The layers of identity, devotion, power, voice, and sovereignty that she reshapes from the inside out.
Each Temple has its own design — its own rhythm of becoming. These are the pillars Inanna has chosen for this space. The lessons that strip you clean. The thresholds that return you to your essence. The path that teaches you power not as performance, but as presence.
Together, they hold you steady as you are undone… and as you rise without what you never truly needed.
Work With Inanna More Deeply
The Courage to Descend - What if the reality you've built your life around isn't the whole story? This pillar invites you to question inherited beliefs, challenge illusion, and take the first courageous steps into the unknown.
Resurrection with Wisdom - The descent changes you. This pillar explores the wisdom, discernment, and self-trust that emerge when you stop searching outside yourself and begin listening within.
Reclamation Through Loss - At every gate, something falls away. Explore the identities, roles, and masks you've mistaken for yourself—and discover what remains when they are released.
The Claiming - Remembering is only the beginning. The Claiming is the embodied choice to live as the woman you discovered in the dark—and allow your life to align around that truth.
Initiation into Authenticity - Who are you when no one is watching? Journey beyond performance, approval, and expectation to reconnect with the truth of who you are beneath the mirrors.
Work with me 1:1 at The Gate You Are Standing At
Every descent is personal.
In the myth, Inanna passes through seven gates, and at each one something is removed. But in real life, we are rarely standing at all seven at once. There is usually one gate that feels charged — one layer that is ready to loosen, one identity that feels tight, one truth pressing at the surface.
In a 1:1 Seven Gates Reading, we begin there.
Together, we identify the gate you are currently standing at — the one asking for your courage. Using your astrology, your Human Design, and intuitive channeling, we trace the energetic pattern beneath it. Where did this layer begin? What role has it played? What is it protecting? And what might be waiting underneath it?
This is not about forcing a stripping. It is about conscious initiation.
When you choose a gate, you are choosing depth. We work with the archetype of Inanna as guide — not to take something from you, but to help you see clearly what is ready to be released and what is ready to be reclaimed.
The descent becomes intentional. The unraveling becomes sacred.
You do not walk through the gates alone.
An Alternate History…
The Forgotten Mystery of Inanna
Rather than “What if Inanna wasn't who they told us she was?”, I think hers begins:
What if we have forgotten how enormous Inanna actually was?
This is where we establish the woman/goddess you're reclaiming.
She doesn't fit neatly into one expression of femininity. Lover. Warrior. Queen. Sexual. Powerful. Beautiful. Ferocious. Heavenly. Underworld traveler.
And unlike Persephone, Inanna already knows who she is.
She possesses power. She wears the crown. She holds her identities and symbols of authority.
And still—
she chooses to descend.
The Feminine Initiation Hidden in the Myth
The seven gates are not simply about losing things.
They ask a much deeper question:
What remains when identity is stripped away?
Inanna asks:
Who am I when everything I have used to define myself is gone?
The job, motherhood, marriage, beauty, success, spiritual identity, healer, priestess, good woman, strong woman.
The woman who always fucking handles everything.
What happens when the identity that carried you this far cannot pass through the next gate?
Inanna reminds us:
Sovereignty is not the crown.
The crown is something that can be removed.
Sovereignty is the woman underneath it.
Sometimes we know something needs to change, but we don't yet know what comes next.
Sometimes we are standing at Gate Four desperately demanding the answers waiting at Gate Seven.
Sometimes the initiation is staying exactly where we are long enough to tell ourselves the truth.
Where am I still pretending?
What am I still carrying because I believe it defines me?
What am I afraid will happen if I finally put it down?
Perhaps we cannot cross certain thresholds until we are willing to surrender what can no longer come with us.
The Ancient Echo — Descent, Death & Resurrection
Descent.
Stripping.
Death.
Three days.
Return.
Long after Inanna's descent entered the ancient imagination, another sacred tradition would center death, descent, and resurrection around a three-day passage.
And standing at the threshold of that resurrection is Mary Magdalene.
What if these stories carry fragments of an initiatory mystery far older than either name?
What if descent and resurrection were never exclusively masculine mysteries?
What if women had been walking the path of descent, death, transformation, and return long before the story was placed upon the body of Christ?
Within the esoteric Magdalene traditions I have been studying, the seven demons removed from Magdalene are interpreted as seven obstructions within sacred gateways of womb consciousness. Magdalene herself becomes intimately connected with the mysteries of descent and resurrection.
Seven gates.
Seven obstructions.
The womb.
The underworld.
Death.
Return.
Different stories. Different cultures. Different times.
And yet the symbols continue to call us back toward the threshold.
What if the underworld was not always understood as a place of evil?
What if descent was not punishment?
What if it was initiation?
The Magdalene Lineage — The Woman as Gateway
Within the esoteric traditions I have been exploring, the ancient priestess does not simply worship the goddess.
She seeks to embody her.
The red priestesses described within these traditions sought to become Inanna through ritual—to embody the dragon, serpent, mermaid, spirit-bird, and lioness.
The woman becomes a vessel for the divine.
And through this lens, Inanna's seven gates become more than doors leading into an underworld.
They become womb gateways.
Woman herself becomes a threshold between worlds.
Body and spirit. Seen and unseen. Life and death. Earth and cosmos.
There is another thread here that has followed me for years:
Red and white.
Red—the body, blood, sexuality, earth.
White—libation, spirit, cosmos.
Two expressions of a feminine mystery I have continued to encounter through symbol, story, intuition, and my own work with the Magdalene.
But that belongs to another Temple. (You will find more in the Magdalene Temple).
The Hidden Lineage: Inanna → The Priestess → Magdalene
Before Magdalene stood at the tomb, before Christianity told its story of descent and resurrection, Inanna descended.
Perhaps what survived across time was not one perfectly preserved priestesshood we can neatly trace through history. Perhaps what survived were fragments carried through story, symbol, ritual, and remembrance: the rose and the blood, sacred libations, serpents and dragons, lionesses and mermaids, seven gates, the womb, the underworld, death and resurrection.
Again and again, we find the woman standing between worlds.
What if these aren't random fragments? What if they carry echoes of an older understanding of feminine initiation, where woman herself was seen as a numinous gateway between worlds?
Within this Alternate History, Magdalene becomes another carrier of these mysteries through embodiment, sexuality, devotion, descent, resurrection, and feminine spiritual authority.
And perhaps this is what Inanna is asking us to remember.
She does not teach us how to become powerful because she was powerful before she ever reached the first gate. Her initiation asks a harder question: What happens when a woman who knows exactly who she is reaches a threshold where the identity that carried her this far cannot carry her any further?
The crown can be removed. The name can change. The woman we once knew ourselves to be can fall away.
And still, Inanna remains.
She descends, she is changed, and she returns—not because she finally found her power, but because her power was never the thing she was wearing.
The Tidal Current
The Tidal Current
Welcome to The Tidal Current
The private community space of The Rose Legacy Temple—a place to connect, share what you're experiencing, leave voice notes, ask questions, and be witnessed in the moments between the deeper work of the Temple.
Come as you are. Share when you feel called. Listen when you don't. Nothing about you needs to be performed here.
I'll spend time in this space too, sharing, connecting, answering questions, and posting upcoming gatherings and Temple updates. The Tidal Current is not an emergency or crisis-support space, and I am not available here 24/7.
A place to connect. A place to exhale. A place to land. 🌹
