Mystics of Secrets

The Temple of Mysteries invites you to explore how your guilt, shame, and fear - your secrets - hold you back and how bringing that darkness into the light can enable you to experience a higher level of love and intimacy with yourself, your loved ones, and the Divine.

As Mystics of the Temple of Mysteries, together we will embrace the darkness within us; the hidden places that harbor our wildest desires, our most intense fears, and all of the unspoken thoughts that linger within our heart. Secrets of love and hate, fear and courage, joy and pain, guilt and shame, all find their place within this Temple, recognized and honored as sacred by Venus.

The Mystics of the Temple of Mysteries will create a safe haven for all to uncover their darkness and their light. We will challenge each other to be fully aware and in the present moment, to share sacred Mysteries, and to honor and guard the shared secrets of fellow mystics as sacred. As Mystics of Mysteries we will share our deepest longings, our fantasies, and our hidden truths. We will be open to exploring our sensuality and sexuality with a lover, many lovers, or in self-love within the luxury of safe and sacred space. As Mystics of Mysteries we will encourage each other to seek our true divine nature by speaking, emoting, or acting out our truths in the way that our soul is calling us to. We will push past our boundaries, into the stillness of our soul where our Spirit knows only what is real, what is true... what is Sacred.

But what are we going to do?

In the light of day, we will explore ways to create open connections and facilitate sharing. Through discussion, meditation, and fun, we will dive into the reasons why we keep secrets, why we share secrets, and how releasing our secrets can lead us to healing, connection, and empowerment. We will also explore the positive effects of keeping or sharing secrets with those whom we trust and also the dangers, sometimes hidden, behind keeping negative secrets bound up tightly inside of us.

In the darkness of night, we will bring forth whatever we have to hide, unearth it, and offer it in sacred sacrament to Venus, encouraging our Community to do the same and leading by example through embracing our vulnerabilities.

Keepers of the Temple of Mystery
Mysteries Keeper Kate spends her days doing lots of logistical planning, and her weekends making sure others have the resources they need; one might think this "grounding" thing is a calling - and so it is. She is a Priestess, a magician, a lover, a partner, and a student of the Universe. She has experience working with people of many spiritual paths, with a particular interest in rites of ordeal, rites of passage, peer, and grief counseling. Kate is an eclectic artist, and enjoys crafting rituals of many kinds. She serves in the Temple of Venus as Keeper of Mystery, and as a fire-spinner and fan-dancer.
As a sacred ritual creator and facilitator, Nikki strives to personalize and strengthen individual experiences tailored to all involved. A practicing Pagan priestess since 1996, she has spent the years in between learning, leading, and always growing through her personal investment in education, ritual production, and community focused involvement. Serving as both Treasurer for Sacred Mark Sanctuary and Steering Committee member for TNG Baltimore, her primary interests lie in spiritual connection through sacred sexuality, BDSM and kink-aware advocacy, ordeal path ritual, group dynamic facilitation, and furthering the general understanding of alternative lifestyle psychology.