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From Grit to Grace: A Sacred Winter Solstice Gathering

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Dec 20

5:30 pm PDT

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A sacred in-person Winter Solstice gathering in San Rafael, CA. Join us for a mythic evening of ritual, sacred theater, song, anointing, and remembrance—where we transmute shadow into light and weave our Robes of Grace together.

✧ The Pearl Within the Grail: A Winter Solstice of Sacred Remembrance ✧

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025 AT 5:30PM PST

SAN RAFAEL, CA

 
 

 

From Grit to Grace: The Grail, the Pearl, Our Robes of Light

Saturday, December 20th, 2025

REGISTER NOW

“In the heart of the darkest day of the year,

a luminous pearl is forming within the living Grail.

Join us for a sacred turning.

From grit to grace. From darkness to living light.”

We are living through a collective dark night of the soul—

an initiation not meant to break us, but to awaken us.

In the heart of the longest night,

a luminous pearl is forming within the living Grail.

Our Robes of Light are being woven from the very shadows we’ve survived.

Together, we are called to activate a deeper alchemy.

Through our prayers, our breath, and our bodies,

we transmute the weight of the world—

remembering it as a place of beauty, love, and light.

This is a mythic act of remembrance.

The pearl—born of pressure, friction, and pain—

shimmers with the radiance of Spirit made flesh.

We gather as love that does not withdraw in the face of shadow,

but grows ever more luminous.

We are becoming living pearls—

holding the signature of wholeness amidst fragmentation,

carrying the medicine of beauty amidst despair.

Together, we awaken the Grail as it pours forth its golden elixirs.

Join us.

Let this Winter Solstice be a sacred turning.

Let us move from grit to grace—together.

An intimate ceremonial enactment you are invited to co-create!

This is a living temple offering, and your presence matters.

Join us for a sacred evening of Mythic Enactment, ceremonial ritual, sacrament, and heartful communion in person as we turn the sacred Wheel together on the longest night of the year.

We will close the evening with blessed libations, soul-nourishing appetizers, and joyful connection—a time to share, reflect, and celebrate with our Sanctuary Light Family.

✧ WHEN ✧

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Gates Open: 5:30 PM

Ceremony Begins: 6:00 PM sharp

✧ WHERE ✧

San Rafael, California

Exact address will be provided upon registration.

✧ WHAT TO EXPECT ✧

We will offer:

✦ A Sacred Theater Mythic Enactment of the Grail and the Pearl

Participatory ceremonial process rooted in ancient remembrance

Sacramental offerings and blessed libations to nourish body and soul

Light appetizers and sweet treats for post-ceremony connection

A Sacred Commerce Table with meaningful ritual gifts and offerings

This year’s celebration includes the joyful unveiling of our 2026 13 Moon Oracle Lunar Calendar—a long-awaited temple treasure, now birthed and ready to be received.

✧ WHAT TO BRING ✧

If it brings you joy, we invite you to bring a homemade sweet treat to share with the community after the ceremony. Contributions to the post-ritual table help us weave a field of heartful generosity and celebration.

✧ WHY WE GATHER ✧

We come together in this sacred way not just to celebrate the turning of the Wheel, but to embody it. This is a living, participatory ceremonial experience rooted in deep intentionality and mythic remembrance.

Through Sacred Theater, archetypal ritual, silence, and shared presence, we generate a coherent energetic field—one that allows us to collectively release, remember, and reweave. In our unified attention, we send a wave of alchemical prayer into the collective mindfield of Earth.

To support this, we invite you to enter the space with reverence, openness, and presence. The opening ceremonial gates offer a moment to release the everyday pace and drop into a more contemplative, meditative field. You are encouraged to arrive early, settle in silence, and tend your inner altar before we begin.

In that liminal space, you may wish to reflect on this invitation: “What outdated pattern or fear am I willing to release in this ceremony, in order to more fully receive the luminous pearl forming in the Grail of my life?”

Together, we will honor the darkness, welcome the Light, and emerge clothed in new Robes of Radiance.

✧ ENERGY EXCHANGE ✧

Due to venue and production costs, we ask for a minimum heart offering of $50.

All additional donations are gratefully received to support the continuation of these temple offerings.

✧ PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE ✧

Your registration helps us prepare the materials, the sacrament, and the temple with care and accuracy. Thank you for honoring the ceremony through your timely response.

We ask that all guests arrive on time and enter with reverence. The temple gates will close once ceremony begins.

We are honored to co-create this mythic rite of beauty, remembrance, and renewal with you.

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About the Sanctuary:

The Sanctuary of the 13 Moon Mystery School, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

We are a Sanctuary that nurtures the illumination of consciousness through honoring the re-balancing of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine, celebrating the beauty and sanctity of the natural world and the embodiment of our Essential Selves, through the Wisdom teachings of the Divine Feminine.

We are planetary midwives celebrating Unity Consciousness. Joyously following our sovereign paths, we join in unified service to unconditional Love and heart-centered awareness.

We delight in focusing on the mythic, archetypal, and soul-directed dimensions of being. We hold sacred Temple space where creativity, connectedness and cooperation vibrantly flourish. We envision stewarding physical Temples in devotion to Love. With all sentient life, we rise in Love, in peace, for nature and each other.