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You Are Invited To Goddess Prayerathon!
A Goddess Prayerathon, Benefiting The Temple of Isis as we raise funds to help cover the costs of the storm damages here at the Isis Oasis Sanctuary!
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Holiday Harp Concert & Solstice Celebration!
You are invited to partake in our Holiday Harp Concert & Solstice Feast! A magical evening of fabulous food & holiday music from around the world celebrating the Winter Solstice, Christmas and all Winter Holidays!
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Help Us Keep The Temple Doors Open!
As we try to recover from the last three years of on an off again shutdowns and ongoing financial struggles, we have kept the sanctuary gates open to all those in need. On that note, we have expanded our charitable outreach by hiring a Parish Nurse to help all temple members in need, and we now have a therapist who comes to the temple monthly to do health checks for all those in need.
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Inner Sanctum Symposium + Beltane via Zoom / April 29th – May 2nd, 2022
You are invited to our annual Inner Sanctum Symposium, a spiritual gathering that dives into mysteries of the Sacred Feminine. This year’s gathering will include a celebration of Beltane, focusing on bringing forth the nurturing elements of Summer.
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Who is Astra?
As seen in “The Handmaid’s Tale” For more than 30 years, Oberon Zell’s “Astra/Star Goddess” has touched a deep place in the collective psyche for many contemporary women, who wear it as pendants, brooches and earrings. Inspired by Doreen Valiente’s powerful poem, “The Charge of the Star-Goddess,” Oberon created the Astra/Star Goddess design in 1987 for his beloved Lifemate Morning Glory, representing the sanctity and the power of women’s connection to the cyclical rhythms of the Earth and the Heavens. Oberon’s Astra has become an iconic image of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, as a symbol of epiphany, empowerment, liberation and self-honoring for Goddess-oriented women reclaiming a sense of the feminine…
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The Goddess in The Handmaid’s Tale
In 2017, MGM and Hulu produced a television series adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Unbeknownst to Oberon Zell, they used Morning Glory’s personal sigil named the “Astra, Star Goddess” in the set and costume design as the symbol for the oppressive Red Center where kidnapped women are indoctrinated to sexual and reproductive slavery for use by the male elite of the intensely patriarchal regime of Gilead. This contorted subversion of Morning Glory’s design caused considerable distress to the pagan community, as her symbol was created to express the power and beauty of women’s sexual and spiritual empowerment, the opposite of the fictional Red Center.
