Temple Gates are offered to assist you in emptying stray thoughts, emotions, nervous energy etc. so that you can actually enter EMPTY into the temple. You would prepare for this offering as you would for any ceremony by using an anointing oil to anoint yourself, lighting a candle, meditation, intention setting etc. If you wish to have a chalice of a libation, please bring it.
The First gate will be the anointing gate, (If you are taking in through live stream, it would be helpful to have an essential holy oil ready to use for that purpose.
The Second gate is for further emptying out, resonating with the Gate of Empty Presence.
The Third gate is: I AM THE GATE OF THE UNDERWORLD. What has brought you here? What has brought you to your knees this year, with the darker faces of love? Is it loss, grief, illness, death? What would be most important for you to shed in the Underworld during the potency of this ceremony?
The Fourth Gate: I am the Gateway of Serpent Power: What do you still fear in your own power?
Then prepare to sit in meditation quietly until the people who are in person are ready to join us virtually together. Thank you for your preparation. The difference between a powerful mythic enactment and just going through the motions in the ego/mind is the quality of your intent.
In Devotion.. ariel