Ritual Theatre for What Ails You by Caryn MacGrandle

Tanishka the Moon Woman at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August in Scotland

The power of the Eleusinian Mysteries: “so powerful that ‘people in Greco-Roman civilization came to Eleusis to be initiated every fall for almost 1300 years.”  The greatest “mystery” about the Mysteries is that they were secret; only the initiates knew what had happened there.”*

Yesterday, I spoke with Tanishka Moon Woman.  I have known Tanishka’s work since I began the divine feminine app a decade ago.  It was wildly popular.  I believe she had about 400,000 in her facebook group.  Tanishka has 27 years of writing books, hosting and teaching Red Tents amongst other online and in person offerings.  She travels extensively between Australia, Bali and the UK. 

She spoke yesterday about ‘Mom handing her a new assignment.’

She is not the first woman that I have spoken with lately and heard these words that they are following ‘new directions from Mom’.  Debs Stanley of Deva Pathways who hosted off grid retreats for a decade but is now being called to ‘Avalon’ (Glastonbury) to be hosting Womb Awakenings helping women fully step into their power in this Sacred Feminine movement.

Yes, this movement we are in.

‘She’ is stepping fully back into her power, and ‘She’ is calling us back to ancient ways.

Tanishka during a Red Tent had a vision of herself on stage, naked.  Yes, she will be baring her ‘Psyche’(soul) at the upcoming Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in August during this triple Lion’s Gate as she re-enacts Ishtar’s return from the Underworld.

We are all returning.

I spoke to a Greek friend of mine who related a story to me about her yoga class meeting on the lawn by the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.  The guards came over and made them leave as yoga stances and drumming are not allowed anywhere near the Acropolis.

Clearly the ‘powers that have been’ these past few thousand years are aware of what embodiment and ritual can do.

Also in Aidan’s book quoted above, he mentions: [the] “psychological transformation by one’s experience in the ritual.”

[t]hat if it did happen to enough people, perhaps to a majority of people, the nature of human society would metamorph into the longstanding vision of what humanity might, one hopes, become.  …Given that hope, one can wonder whether it might be possible to somehow enable more people to have that experience, not have it always be spontaneous, unexpected, but instead purposely induced.

The Edinburgh International Festival began in 1947 and at the same time, the Fringe Festival began when eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival.  ‘High’ and ‘low’ theatre offerings resulted.  The ‘official’ Festival offering higher ticket prices, larger venues and more mainstream while the Fringe Festival complemented with free and more wild shows.  This tension between the ‘official’ and the Fringe festival lasted decades until they realized they should take advantage of what each offers and began to work together in the past decade to turn Edinburg Scotland in to an Artistic Paradise in August offering something for everyone.

Might that not be what is happening in the world at large?

If you are anywhere near Scotland in August of 2024, you will want to get a ticket to Tanishka’s Yantra performance.   If not, register free on the divine feminine app so that you will get the weekly email of any ritual theatre by you.  Be sure to also check out Tanishka’s single debut on Spotify.

*Aidan Kelly To Celebrate the Mysteries: A Reader on Things Eleusinian