Revelation of the Black Rose

Revelation of the Black Rose took place over Samhain week in Sebastopol, Nevada City, and Ashland.

It began as a collaborative vision with Isis Indriya, Marya Stark and Swan Sedona, three gathering together bringing different elements and ideas to the table. Through casting a divination, we then created the ceremony that took place in Nevada City in collaboration with Academy of Oracle Arts, featuring 60 performers, an immersive tree of life altar experience, a reunion of the 9 aspects of the Mother, and a ritual for resurrecting the fallen king to become a protector of the sacred. 

Entering The Ritual Space

Academy of Oracle Arts gathered for a week long intensive for Da'ath, culminating in the community ritual theater production. Oracle Arts Clan created interactive altar stations with oracles at each space representing the spheres of consciousness of the tree of life. As people came in, they were greeted and encouraged to have a direct experience with each sphere to prepare for the ritual.

Oracle Arts led the processional opening with 40 Back Madonna's invoking the directions and setting the container.

Sisters of the Mystery

Communion with the 9 aspects of Venus, the 9 sisters of the pleiades, carrying the lanterns and opening the Ishtar Star of 8 directions, the wheel of the seasons, and the 9 center point opening the wheel betwene worlds for completions and new beginnings

Calling the Fae and Acknowledging the Wheel of Knives

We then invoked the Fae and Presenced the wheeel of knives, the great suffering that those trapped in the realm have faced

Uncover the Well

We then created space for the liberation of the waters, the emotional voice of the feminine trapped beneath the concrete slabs of patriarchal control

Thunderhands and the Grieving Heart of the Feminine

Ruby Ray and the Nagini's

The Kings Ritual

The Lady on the Bridge

Black Rose Raven Rising

Closing Celebrations
Ruby Chase Dance Party

Artist Credits

Marya Stark, Swan Sedona, Isis Indriya

 Black Rose Ritual Dancers -Ennana Honey, Iverine Anderson, Ixchel Salazar Jelly Rey, Phoebe Fae Sakari Sun, Stephanie Teazis, Trish Holstein

Balladir, Rev Fa Jun, Daniel Berkman
Delana Motter, Elaine Kalilah
Roxanne Ruby, Maz Alice
and special guest Ruby Chase

Site credits:
Photography: Tyler Nilson and Chelsey Hunt
Video: Ryker Kay

Special Thanks to our Additional Artists from Bay Area and Ashland Shows:
Halo Seronko, Forest Schrodt, Lindy Kehoe, Graellyn
and the Ashland Goddess Temple Priestesses