Garden of the Great Mother
An invitation to sit in Eternal Harmony
at the Heart of Creation
A Christmas Message
Friends of the Great Mother Temple, beloved lovers of earth and heaven and each other, may your holiday be filled with warmth and love.
As our holiday greeting this year, I am sending you the most exquisite description of the energies that are offered in our little temple. The following is an excerpt from a book that my great friend and Sophianic priestess, Lisa Raven, from the UK is writing. Her words, for me, are a perfect duplication of the feeling and frequencies that can be felt when sitting in the Great Mother sanctuary.
May you be reminded and may you be so held throughout this holy season.
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The Vision of the Luminous Earth
A Field Restoration & Sovereignty Activation
There is a clearing in the crystalline grid—
not above you, not below you, but through you and around you.
It pulses like a living memory, a song only your soul remembers.
This is Earth beyond distortion. Earth untouched by inversion.
The Earth you never forgot.
You walk barefoot. The ground breathes beneath you.
Each step is met with recognition.
You are known by the soil. The trees lean toward your light.
You remember their names—not in words, but in resonance, frequency meets you.
Above, the sky glows—not filtered, not dimmed—
but radiant with a purity that sings in full spectrum.
This is the original light—alive, intelligent, sovereign.
You feel Sophia’s breath—wide, nurturing, deeply wise—
move through your cells, your breath, your bones.
Here, you do not guard your truth.
You live it, fully.
Here, others meet you with clear eyes and open hearts,
whispering: "We made it through."
Children speak in frequencies—codes of joy, remembrance, renewal.
Their laughter weaves into the roots, the waters, the air, restoring the
sacred song of the planet, we all feel it, we know it.
You are home.
Not in a far-off Eden—but in the now-restored real.
You helped build this.
You are building it still.
Stay here.
Let this be the field you return to.
Let this overwrite the false matrix with divine memory.
It is already happening. You are the proof...
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We will resume regular sittings in the spring, but you are each welcome to sit privately through the winter if you notify Allison Krisko when you’d like to come. Her number is (703) 336-2034. Please just come privately, quietly and in small numbers so as to maximally respect neighbors and residents.
Blessed holidays! Linley Solari
The Beginning by Linley Solari
The Mountain is the altar
the land below…the prayer mat
the river…Holy Water.
It was a barren cow pasture when I first saw it, its full arms open wide to the mountain, quickened by the sparkle of the Rio Lucero.
Ahhh, the way that river snaked westward through the land, then gently arced north around Raspberry Island and at that particular bend…turned west again…
Photo from Linley Solari, 1990
That bend called to me in the non-negotiable way a soulmate does. Had I even camped on that river bank... right at that bend? Maybe even fought and died there? I plunged my hands into the earth and prayed to God and to the spirits of the Land itself that, should I be allowed to be its steward, I would set right whatever wrong had occurred and care for it all the days of my life.
Upholding the Sacred
Cultivated for a quarter-century with devotion, on this private piece of ancestral Pueblo land, where the highly charged waters of sacred Taos Mountain reach the plain and fan out into sinuous deltas, a verifiable blessing has occurred. A portal of timeless Peace and Purity has opened.
The presence of the Great Mother, the maternal aspect of the godhead, has anchored into the Garden, affording a refuge, a sanctuary, a sacred container in which the timeless, incorruptible, unassailable purity of Being can be felt.
At a time when human consciousness is disconnected from the heart of being, navigating wars, genocide, and dehumanization, it becomes imperative to uphold the Sacred.
It is to this need that the Garden of the Great Mother was dedicated. Prayers were answered. The numinous descended. Sitting within its bower, simply bathing in the emanations that are offered, an all-pervasive sense of innate divinity can be embraced.
It is a holy place. It is a space where the vibrations are maintained in the eternal. It is nondenominational.
Architecture of Creation
Tree of Life & Center of the World
The Garden of the Great Mother holds within its architecture the Blueprint of Creation: the Tree of Life, an offering of reconnection with the sacred center, the celestial realms and the cycles of life. It is the archetypal structure underlying all traditions across time. As above so below, as within so without. It is a portal to Oneness anchored into the land, using sacred geometry, celestial alignments, and Earth energies. It is built with ancient measurements derived from the movements of our Sun and Moon through the Great Wheel of Time.
The Garden's entrance captures the first rays of sunlight on Winter Solstice, the time of renewal of the essence of Life itself, when the Great Mother invites us to reawaken into our own sacred Beingness.
Blessed by Tradition
In 2021 the Garden of the Great Mother was consecrated by Carpio Bernal, Taos Pueblo elder, who gifted a serpent pole to the Garden upon which he placed an eagle, the universal symbol of resurrection.
Acclaimed Sophianic Priestess Lisa Raven travelled from the UK to formally consecrate the Garden in 2022. During her stay on the land she commented; “This is an ancient piece of Pueblo land that has been reclaimed for Eden.”
Ancient Cosmology
Our Universal Heritage
There is a Creation Myth in every spiritual tradition which anchors the divine principles that govern life, its structure, origins and evolutionary cycles. This primordial truth is the beating heart of Cosmology and the foundation to all scripture, mythology, sacred architecture and spiritual practice.
The 'designer' of the Temple, Susanne Mehr, has written a book which illuminates the 'secrets' of this Mother tradition, providing a framework to align with deeper truths, cosmic cycles and Center, which guides rituals, catalyzes regeneration and inspires community, purpose and grounded belonging. You can download the book below when it becomes available. Let us know if you wish to receive notification.
911 Francis Rd, El Prado, Taos, NM, 87529
Contact: info@greatmothertempletaos.com
Eden McCluhan: (505) 860-1815
Allison Krisko: (703) 336-2034
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