Garden of the Great Mother
An invitation to sit in Eternal Harmony
at the Heart of Creation
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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