Presenting

40 days
of
 goddesses:

40 living altars


wisdom wildness wonder

August 29 to

October 7, 2025

 

This 40-day journey is designed to recalibrate your psyche from within. Through myth, image, and embodied ritual, we invoke the goddess in all her forms.

In a world unraveling at the seams, where the psyche is under siege and the feminine soul exiled, 40 Days of Goddesses-40 Living Altars offers a sanctuary of return.

 

For forty days, we will walk side by side.
 a Jungian alchemical descent into the deep wells of psyche where the Goddesses have always lived: in the dreams, the shadowlands, the thresholds of grief, rage, beauty, and erotic knowing.
an immersion with one goddess per day, totaling forty archetypes of the sacred feminine from across cultures and mythologies — each holding a key to an inner transformation awaiting in the chambers of your soul.

Whether you are navigating personal upheaval or sensing the larger tremors of a collective dark night, this is a time that calls for spiritual discipline, poetic devotion, and daily intimacy with the archetypes who refuse to be forgotten.
You will not be the same.

This 40-day journey is designed to recalibrate your psyche from within.
Through myth, image, and embodied ritual, we will begin to dissolve the false constructs imposed by a culture that has long been at war with the feminine—and reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to fear, silence, or exile.

Let this be your personal devotional revolution.
Let it be your reminder that the Goddesses were never lost.
Only waiting to be remembered.

The 40 Goddesses span the mythological, tantric, psychological, and global feminine archetypes.

 

  • Lilith – The exiled feminine, shadow integration, sacred rage. “Writing out Your Banishment,  Automatic Writing Ritual.

 

  • Kali – Destruction, time, ego death, liberation. The Scissors and the Mirror: A Ritual of Ego Death

 

  • Durga – Fierce protection, boundaries, sacred warriorship. Circle of Salt, Line of Fire: Drawing the Sword of Boundaries

  • Parvati – Devotion, sacred union, mountain of stillness. 

  • Saraswati – Wisdom, creativity, speech, music, purity. Ink as Offering: Stream-of-Consciousness Invocation

  • Lakshmi – Radiance, prosperity, sensual beauty, abundance. Gold Leaf Offering: A Ritual of Abundance Alignment”

  • Inanna – Descent, transformation, underworld rites.

  • Ereshkigal – Shadow queen, grief, hidden truths. Grief Bowl: Feeding the Dead with Ink and Ash

  • Isis – Magic, resurrection, sacred motherhood.

  • Sekhmet – Solar rage, protection, sacred fire.

  • Hathor – Love, dance, joy, embodiment. Dance as Devotion: Embodying Joy Through Sound and Silk

  • Aphrodite – Erotic intelligence, beauty, intimacy. Mirror Magic and Rose Water: A Ritual of Erotic Self-Anointing

  • Artemis – Wilderness, autonomy, lunar instinct. “Lunar Tracking: An Archery Spell of Intention”

  • Hecate – Crossroads, witchcraft, thresholds, liminality. “Keys at the Crossroads: A Threshold Candle Ritual”

  • Persephone – Seasonal descent/ascent, innocence turned sovereign. Pomegranate Poetry: Writing from the Season of Descent

  • Demeter – Mothering, grief, cycles of return.

  • Medusa – Protection, petrification, Stone Eye Sigils: Protection Spells for the Monstrous Feminine”

  • Brigid – Poetic fire, healing waters, sacred forge.

  • Morrigan – War, prophecy, shapeshifting. “Ink and Raven Feather: A Ritual of Shape and Shadow”

 

  • Freya – Magic, war, love, seiðr sorcery.“Spellbinding with Seiðr: A Love and War Charm”

  • Frigg – Matron of the hearth, fate weaving.Thread and Flame: Weaving the Invisible Fate Line

  • The Black Madonna – Hidden wisdom, miraculous emergence.

  • Sophia – Divine wisdom, gnosis, cosmic knowing.

  • Shekinah – The indwelling presence of the Divine Feminine.

  • Tara (Green) – Swift compassion, protection, overcoming fear.

  • Tara (White) – Peace, longevity, serenity. Breath of Light: A Longevity Prayer Practice

  • Quan Yin – Mercy, infinite compassion, listening heart. The Listening Bowl: A Ritual of Mercy and Receiving

  • Pachamama – Earth as womb, ecological body, sacred reciprocity.

  • Ix Chel – Mayan moon goddess, fertility, creativity, midwifery. Moon  Bowl: Midwifing the Creative Tide

  • Coatlicue – Aztec earth goddess, life-death-rebirth. The Serpent Drum: Shedding Skins of the Past

  • White Buffalo Woman – Sacred pipe, peace, prophecy.

  • Spider Woman – Weaver of worlds, Navajo creation, destiny threads.

  • Amaterasu – Sun goddess of Japan, light emerging from darkness.

  • Uzume – Laughter, dance, breaking the spell of shame.

  • Erzulie Dantor – Fierce protector of women and children. “Knife and Mirror: Love’s Protective Spell” 

  • Yemaya – Oceanic mother, healing, sacred waters.

  • Oshun – Sweetness, seduction, love, river of joy. “Honey on the Tongue: A River Ritual for Pleasure and Praise”

  • Baba Yaga – Wild wisdom, the forest crone, bone mother. Bone Reading by Candlelight: The Witch’s Pathfinding”

  • The Cailleach – Winter hag, cycles, initiator of death and rebirth. “Walking the Winter Threshold: A Death-Year Oracle”

  • Anima Mundi – The world soul, feminine consciousness pervading all Smoke and Soil: A Breath Ritual to Remember the World Soul.

 

We begin on the Leo New Moon in Magha Nakshatra and travel through the sacred corridor of eclipse season, spanning the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius and the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Virgo.

 

 

This 40-day pilgrimage will close during Navaratri, the 9 Nights of the Goddess, a time when the veils thin and the Great Mother is honored in all her forms—Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.

From eclipse to altar, from shadow to source—we move together!

This 40-day journey is designed to recalibrate your psyche from within. Through myth, image, and embodied ritual, we will begin to dissolve the false constructs imposed by a culture that has long been at war with the feminine—and reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to fear, silence, or exile.

Let this be your personal devotional revolution. Let it be your reminder that the Goddesses were never lost. 

 

What is a Living Altar?


A Living Altar is not made of stone.
It is not hidden in a temple or locked away in a sacred text.


It is built of breath. Of longing. Of blood memory.


It lives inside your rhythms,
How you rise, how you speak, how you tend the unseen.

Every day in this journey, you will create one.

Not under the pressure for perfection. 
But to remember.

A cup of water. A broken shell. A dream fragment.

 


These are altars.

Some you’ll build on a table.
Some you’ll build in your spine.

Each day, we meet a new Goddess as a mirror of a facet of your own wild, luminous psyche.


She rises through you—through your hands, your longings, your silence, and even your resistance.

 

 

We are living in an age of forgetting. The feminine has been fractured into roles, commodified into identities, and buried beneath the psychic debris of a culture that fears her power. 40 Days of Goddesses is an offering to the soul—a return to the deep, instinctual knowing that lives beneath surface appearance..

This is a daily spiritual rhythm—a lived pilgrimage into the unconscious. Through writing, ritual, embodiment, and symbolic action, you will invoke a feminine intelligence that speaks to your specific life, body, wounds, and longing.

What You'll Receive Over 40 Days

Each day you’ll receive a love letter of invocation—a goddess transmission paired with ritual, reflection, and creative embodiment. This will arrive directly to your inbox as a sacred beginning to your day (or night).

Included each day:

  • ✧ A channeled transmission of one Goddess (myth, symbolism, psychological power)

  • ✧ Jungian reflection + journaling prompts for integration

  • ✧ Ritual suggestion or symbolic act (altar work, candle practice, creative expression, dream incubation)

  • ✧ Tarot or archetypal theme guidance (some days include card spreads or dream sigils)

  • ✧ Audio or poetic spell (select days) to deepen the mood and allow you to feel Her

  • ✧ Optional: private group container for sharing, witnessing, and sacred sisterhood


    This is for you if…

  • You are feeling psychically exhausted or disconnected from your feminine source

  • You crave daily sacred structure that nourishes your soul and rewires old psychic patterns

  • You have been in a long descent and are seeking mythic guidance to help you re-emerge

  • You want to work with the shadow side of the feminine (rage, exile, grief, lust, power) without shame

  • You are ready to re-awaken your erotic, intuitive, and creative voice

  • You want to meet the Goddesses not as distant deities—but as living archetypes in your own psyche

  • You’re craving spiritual discipline, beauty, magic, and mystery in a chaotic time
     

    Themes We Will Touch Throughout the 40 Days

  • Descent and resurrection (Inanna, Persephone, Ereshkigal)

  • Sacred rage and justice (Kali, Sekhmet, Morrigan)

  • Healing the mother wound (Demeter, The Black Madonna, Yemaya)

  • Erotic sovereignty and creative fire (Lilith, Aphrodite, Oshun)

  • Grief and the alchemy of sorrow (Isis, Kuan Yin, Coatlicue)

  • Magic and mystery (Hecate, Isis, Tara, Spider Woman)

  • Shadow work and feminine power (Medusa, Baba Yaga, The Cailleach)

  • Voice and body reclamation (Saraswati, Brigid, Parvati, Lakshmi)

  • The World Soul (Anima Mundi, Shekinah, Sophia)

    Format + Flow

  • Daily emails for 40 days: one goddess per day

  • Optional group connection space (private forum or signal/telegram thread)

  • No pressure to complete in real time—this is a timeless archive you can return to again and again

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  • Optional Add-Ons (If Applicable)

  • Personal archetypal goddess chart reading (based on your astrology)

  • Live weekly salons or integration circles (if you choose to join the full immersion)

  • Access to a shared altar space where collective rituals are held on specific days (e.g., dark moon, Venus portal)

Let This Be Your Return

The path of the feminine is intuitive; she spirals, she coils, she burns. She heals in mysterious ways. 
This is not a self-help course. It is a devotional reclamation.
A remembering of your soul’s original language.

Come as you are. Bring your grief, your devotion, your longings, your rage, your dreams.
The Goddesses are already waiting.

REGISTER NOW

40 days of goddesses:
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To honor the integrity of this sacred space, and because space is truly limited, all sales are final.

The High Priestess

For those ready to transmute deep personal material, guided closely through the 40 days.

Everything in the Initiate plus:

Personal Lakshmi Puja for prosperity, abundance and blessings of fortune in your name.

40 Days of real-time love letters devoted to a different Goddess and Living Altar. 

A personal 60-minute 1:1 Goddess Archetype + Astrology Reading with Sherene

Personalized ritual and altar suggestions based on your natal chart

Access to exclusive audio recordings and guided active imagination meditations

Private Q&A thread to ask questions directly to Sherene during the 40 days

For the devotee who is ready to enter the holy fire of self-transformation and rebirth.

Total Value ($997) but you only pay: $555

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The Oracle

For those desiring a deeper alchemical dive and community support.

Everything in The Initiate

Weekly integration prompts with deeper Jungian themes

Invitation to 3 live Zoom calls (one each cycle: Opening Ceremony, Midpoint Check-in, Closing Eclipse Integration Ceremony)

Access to private discussion thread for witnessing, reflection, and mutual support

For those ready to engage ritual, myth, and psyche in a supported sacred circle.

Total Value ($497) but you only pay: $333

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The Initiate

Perfect for those ready to begin or return to their devotional practice.

40 Goddess transmissions via email

Daily myth, reflection, and ritual prompt

Lifetime access to all content

Optional private altar prompts (in select emails)

For the quiet seekers, the creative witches, the shadow workers, and the solitary mystics.

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For those currently unemployed or in true financial need. 

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Sherene's knowledge of the stars and the human heart always astounds me. As a teacher of the divine arts, she conveys the kind of wisdom that can't be found in books.
BILLY CORGAN (CHICAGO)

This has been some of the most profound work, if not *the* most profound work I have done and will continue to do in this lifetime.

Thank you, Sherene!
MICHELLE MARLENE YORK (NEW YORK)

Joining the  group was like entering into a sacred architecture where my dreams were allowed to have the space and life necessary to be present in waking life. There was an undeniable power in joining this synergistic group on an inner journey together, fellow travelers united in our mission.  I have never remembered my dreams so well nor been so connected to the riches of my own subconscious. It truly felt like just the beginning of a new inner dialogue. I highly recommend you treat yourself to this rich experience.
ANDREA WALKER (SEATTLE)

This has been life changing! Thank you so much for leading this group and providing us with such challenging work on these topics. It’s inspired a lot of deep digging. 
MANDY MASON (CHICAGO)

Sherene Vismaya

Sherene Vismaya, M.A. is a Jungian astrologer and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC and San Francisco for the past eighteen years consulting, writing and teaching. Her own Priestess Path started around age five bellydancing on the road with her mother which brought her into contact with the powers of ritual and an embodied relationship to the Goddess. She specializes in depression, shadow work, anxiety, creative blocks, eating disorders, and relationships. Sherene has pioneered her own unique approach to Jungian and somatic healing modalities combined with her background in metaphysics inspired by her yearly pilgrimages to India.

She is the author of several books including collaborations on: Speculation Now; Transpersonal Astrology: Explorations at the Frontier, & Surviving Saturn's Return (McGrawHill), Dog Stars, and Fate of your Date.

She holds a Master's Degree from New York University in Clinical Psychology, a Masters in Developmental Psychology from Pace University and post-graduate work in psychoanalytic studies from The New School and ISAP, Zurich. She has been the resident astrologer for Elle Magazine for the past decade. Sherene teaches classes and workshops internationally.

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