The Third Gateway

Womb of the Heart

The Crone — Practices, Recordings & Rituals

The Crone — Beloved Womb Pulse

Everything for this gateway, gathered in one place: the teaching, the recordings, the practices, and the rituals.

The Initiation

The initiation recording for this gateway, to return to as often as you like.

▶️ Watch the recording · about 47 minutes

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Beloved Womb Pulse

The healing balm of this gateway: she who knows when to say NO.

Before we walk further, feel the ground already crossed to arrive here.

The Maiden asked the world to confirm her. Am I doing this right? Am I enough? She moved by an ideal she had borrowed rather than lived, a shape held up before her own roots had time to form. This was not a fault. It was the remembering, the seed reaching toward light before it has grown anything of its own to stand on.

The Mother stopped asking permission. She committed instead, and stayed through what commitment costs. Not the idea of the child, the marriage, the calling, but its actual gestation: the years of trial and error that carve a channel no borrowed ideal could carve on its own. She did not believe her way into knowing. She lived her way into it. This was the sustaining.

Now the Crone. She is no longer asking what to sustain. Her question turns inward, into the cervix, the place that has already given so much, and it cuts closer to the bone: What must dissolve, so this new awareness can be held without losing it again? Not more giving. What can be released so that what remains is clear, not crowded. What needs to change. What, of everything gathered along the way, is essential, and what was only ever carried out of habit, or fear, or an old need to be seen as good.

We now walk together through the third gateway, the threshold of cleansing, releasing, menstruating, and laying to rest. This is the gateway of the Crone, the Wise Woman, the Medicine Woman, she who knows the cycles, she who has died and been reborn many times.

In this sacred passage, we are invited into the daily practice of letting go, in the great rituals and in the smallest, most embodied ways.

Let this week be a prayer of purification.

Let your shower become your sacred stream. As you wash your body, your breasts, your belly, your back, your thighs, feel the water and your touch clearing what no longer serves. Affirm I cleanse, I menstruate, I clear. Let the water carry away the invisible weight, the grief, the residue of stories long held in the flesh.

I release the silences I've swallowed.
I release the hold on my voice.
I release the fear of shining my light.

Let each glass of water be a blessing, I clear. Let every pee, poop, tear, and sweat be a sacred act of surrender, I release. Let your breath become the Crone's wind: clearing space, calling truth, making way.

This is the Crone's wisdom: that release is a form of love. This is the Medicine Woman's path: to listen, to cleanse, to clear the way.

Walk gently. Bless the mundane. Let the sacred flow through your everyday.

With you in the silence and the in-between. 🌹

Be Attentive

Be attentive. Where am I hiding from the old and ugly parts of myself? How much do I get caught in victimising myself? Can I sit in the discomfort without betraying my inner peace?

How long does the destruction actually take, once I take the apple from the tree? Rarely as long as the fear promised. This is where Holy Sophia meets you, wisdom that can see in the dark without waiting for the light to turn on. Can I see in the darkness?

And the inner addict, the one who takes over when the discomfort is too much? Watch the distractions creeping in, how we give into them, how we distract others, how we pull others into destruction with us. How many excuses. Be honest. The compulsions. Be attentive. Hear her.

Do not fall asleep waiting for Prince Charming to save you. If we fall asleep now, this is what will be carried over. Wake up.

Is there fear present? Welcome her. Is there anger present? Welcome her. How long do you want to run from yourself? That one is welcome too.

Release. Release control. Grieve. Be honest. Catch the escape artist. Catch the addict. Catch the excuses. Close the back door in the mind, the one that says, when it gets difficult, follow the escape plan, the one that means we are not fully committed to ourselves.

Feel the rage of confrontation. Feel the discomfort of being seen. Feel the one who wants to fight, to cause chaos, because she does not feel seen. Feel her. Feel the Crone, the Wise Woman who knows when to say No.

Here, it is not light. It is darkness. Remember your consecration, the vow you made when you said yes to this. Remember your sankalpa, your torch. Remember your Yes to Love. Remember who you are.

We are at a critical point of release. Death, destruction. Do not get confused. Stay focused.

The content is here to support you, not to take from you. It is a gift, for you, the one who said yes to being here. Sit through the discomfort of watching, of reading. Come back to your commitment to life. It is for you.

Boundaries: In Service of Discovery

The Crone's affirmation is she who knows when to say NO. A boundary can also be felt as an instrument of discovery, perhaps the way a shoreline reveals where the land actually is by meeting the sea.

You may not know where you end until something presses against you and you feel, clearly, not this, not here, not now. A boundary spoken can be a woman finding out, in real time, what is actually hers to carry and what was only ever borrowed, assumed, or handed to her without asking.

The Crone's NO may carry this exploratory quality alongside its protective one. Each time you find the edge of your own yes, something true about yourself may surface that agreement alone could not have shown you. The Maiden may discover herself by opening; the Crone, perhaps, by closing, and feeling what remains when she does.

There is an old Hermetic principle that may hold this simply: polarity. Two poles, held apart and both honoured, seem to be what lets something alive move between them. A boundary, felt this way, may not be the opposite of closeness. It might be the very thing that keeps two people from collapsing into one undifferentiated fusion, where neither is fully present anymore. Held clearly, a boundary can be what lets you keep meeting someone, rather than quietly disappearing into them.

A boundary held with resentment can harden into a wall. Held with clarity, it might stay closer to a door, one that knows how to close when closing is what is true.

Where, this week, might a NO reveal something, rather than only defend?

The Womb Regression

A 40-minute practice.

  1. Read this page.
  2. Listen to the recording.
  3. Practice the womb regression writing and worksheet.

Follow the guidelines of the ritual from the Crone document you received at the beginning of this portal.

🎧 Listen — Womb Regression (recording) · about 30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of writing. The music was curated by Shyam Lala to support the journey.

The purpose of the regression is to look, personally, at your own patterns, habits, and emotions. As you bring awareness to them, you can track how they have shaped you across your life. As we go deeper, you gain something beyond thinking about how these wounds affected you. Once we see the web of these imprints, we can begin to notice how the patterns, the programming, the projections are creating the reality of our lives, and there we have the chance to transform consciously.

To transform consciously is to give these contracts of false belief, felt as contractions, to the light of self-awareness. To become the witness of what holds us in form is to dissolve and be reborn. In this gateway we enter the subconscious, where creation submerges into the earth, dense, cold, and hard. Here we may re-lease the subconscious contraction, rather than carry the contract into the next moon cycle.

Afterwards, practice rapid writing or drawing. There is also a worksheet, below, that may help you remember. During the regression you will only remember what is useful to you.

Rapid Writing

At the end of the regression, rapid write for about ten minutes, or longer if you desire. If you go blank, keep writing, anything. If writing is difficult, you can draw instead. It would be very beautiful to share your insights with the group, as well as your drawings if you have any.

The Worksheet

You can do this worksheet before the regression, to feel into the gifts and wounds of this gateway.

Explore the 3rd Gateway Wounds in your life.

How do you see the wound patterns of the 3rd Sacred Gateway show up in your life? Black Magic, Manipulation, Hierarchy, Power-Over, Powerlessness, Pride, False Humility, Vanity, Worthlessness, Self-Reliance, Separation, Denial, Closed, Narcissism, Spirit-Influence, Self-Aggrandizing, Afraid of Ordinariness, Coldness.

Explore the 3rd Gateway Gifts in your life.

How do you see these showing up in your life? Wisdom, Intuition, Courage, Foresight, Prophecy, Soul Union, Power, Magic, Clairaudience, Communion with the Animal and Plant Kingdom, Power of Love, Eternal Now, Canniness, Directness, Transformation, Dream Walker, Psychic, Initiation.

Root Questions: What This Gateway Is Unearthing

The wounds and gifts above show you the shape of the pattern. This is not yet about repair. Repair comes later, at the earth. Here we are still in the deconstruction: stripping away what is not essential, until what remains is only what is actually important. This is surrender, not solution.

Sit with them slowly, one at a time if you need to. Let the answer rise from the body, not from the mind reaching for the right one.

Sh-Ka-Ra Meditation

The mantra of this gateway.

🎧 Listen — Sh-Ka-Ra Meditation · about 4 minutes.

Let the sound move through the womb. Toning, sighing, allowing.

The Playlists

Each gateway carries its own current. These playlists were curated in resonance with the energetic architecture of this gateway. Sound is not neutral: tone, rhythm, frequency, and atmosphere impress themselves upon the subconscious and take part in shaping perception, emotion, memory, and coherence.

As much as you can during the immersion, let these be your sound. You might set aside other music for now, especially music carrying strong nostalgic, romantic, or identity-based imprints, which tends to call the field back toward familiar patterns and timelines.

Let the music become atmospheric, elemental, almost ritual in its repetition. Listen with the body, the womb, the skin, the breath. Over time you may notice shifts in dreaming, sensitivity, emotional processing, inner imagery, and clarity. This is part of the purification: dissolving inherited noise so the field can grow coherent with what we are cultivating together.

The Practices — Building a Daily Practice

You now hold these practices for this gateway. Here is how you might build a daily rhythm. On average, a minimum of fifteen minutes a day. Transfigure this time as being with the Goddess that you are. I AM.

Consecration — centre in the heart.

Pelvic Presence — rewatch the full-moon practice as often as you feel to find the flow. Practising with the meditation playlist helps you drop in, especially when the mind is more distracted, and attune to the subtle dimensions through the five bodies. (10–30 min, at least once a week, ideally 4–7 days, no pressure.)

Yoni Asana — enter gently. You may practise the sounding in the posture, and the rocking, which is now with you. (~7 min with the sounding, use props.)

Yoni Mudra — hands in Yoni Mudra over the womb. Drop into stillness. Listen. Feel. (with the other practices.)

Pelvic Womb Mapping (track) — use the guided track to connect with the inner landscape of the womb and pelvis. Let the mapping bring awareness to held sensations, stories, memories. (at least once per gateway.)

Sounding for the Gateway — use your voice to activate the Beloved Womb Pulse. Let the sound emerge from the womb, no forcing. Tone your mantra, or sigh, sing, and vocalise the frequency of this gateway. (minimum 7 min a day.)

Ritual — the womb cleansing ritual. (7 days per cycle.)

Playlists — meditation and personification.

Now with you: Pelvic Rock & Shaking.

The extra practice for this gateway: Mula Bandha. The root lock. A gentle drawing-up of the pelvic floor, the perineum, a sealing and lifting so the energy rises inward rather than spilling out. It steadies the ground of the body and gathers the current at the root. It will be initiated on the full moon, in a live practice together. You may explore it softly before then, and we will deepen it on the full moon.

Reading — the ebook and extra material. (45 min or more per cycle.)

Mary Magdalene Reading & Meditation · Live

Wednesday, 22 July · 8:00 AM Mexico City

A reading and meditation for Mary Magdalene's feast day.

Your partners, or anyone else you feel to invite, are warmly welcome to join for this 8am reading, contemplation, and meditation.

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Meeting ID: 991 4471 1437

Passcode: 673078

Cord Cutting Ritual

Wednesday, 22 July · 9:00 AM Mexico City (suggested time)

The cord cutting ritual, to do after the reading and meditation.

What to bring:

Be by your altar, in a quiet place, alone.

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The Feast of Mary Magdalene · An Invitation

22nd of July — Feast Day of Mary Magdalene — there will be an additional offering on this day, which you are warmly welcome to join.

The first hour will be held live at 8:00am Mexico time. We will gather for a Mary Magdalene reading and Hridaya meditation.

After this, you will receive a pre-recorded cord-cutting ritual video to practice with. Although the cord-cutting ritual is pre-recorded, the invitation is to practice it together directly after the live meditation, beginning around 9:00am Mexico time, so we can remain connected in the group field and join the collective energy of the practice.

The Mary Magdalene reading and Hridaya meditation will be one hour, and the cord-cutting ritual video will also be one hour, so the full practice will be around two hours in total.

Why this day is potent

The feast day of Mary Magdalene carries a deep current of devotion, remembrance, love, purification, and liberation. It is a beautiful threshold to enter prayerfully into the heart, to listen inwardly, and to release old cords, attachments, grief, or patterns that no longer serve the soul's unfolding.

This year, her feast day lands within our 3rd Gateway, the gateway of the Black Madonna. This makes the day especially potent, as the Black Madonna carries the medicine of the holy dark: the womb beneath the womb, the cave of descent, the fertile soil where grief, shame, ancestral memory, old identities, and unseen cords can be received, composted, blessed, and released.

Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonna meet here as two faces of the feminine mystery. Mary Magdalene is the witness of resurrection, the one who remains at the threshold of death and rebirth. The Black Madonna is the Mother of descent, the one who holds us in the darkness until what is false can fall away and what is true can rise.

Together, they guide us into a ritual of release, not as rejection, but as liberation. We do not cut away love. We cut away bondage. We do not abandon the past. We release the hold it has had over the body, the womb, the heart, and the life-force.

The invitation to practice together at the same time, even with a pre-recorded ritual, allows us to remain in the shared field of the group. In this way, the ritual becomes not only a personal practice, but also a collective movement of release, blessing, and return to the heart.

Of course, this remains an invitation. As we are a collective of mothers and women with many different rhythms, responsibilities, and lives, please receive this in the way that is possible and nourishing for you.

With love 🌹

Extra Contemplation

A talk by Caroline Myss that speaks so beautifully of power, and of the qualities we associate with this gateway.

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Loving and adoring you, Shakti. If anything is unclear, just ask. 🌹