Mater Medusa, PotniA Theron:
Mistress of Animals and Ecstatic Mother of Witch Initiation
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This is not an astrological workshop! If you’re looking for an astrological workshop on fixed star Algol, please click here.
Step through the hedge into a domain where ancient wisdom meets direct revelation. This isn't just learning - it's transformation through both scholarly illumination and spirit-led initiation.
Through carefully crafted audio teachings recorded in sacred space, supplemented by practical guides for your journey, you'll discover how to safely navigate the realms between worlds and become a sovereign winged serpent.
Your Journey Includes:
► THE CORE TRANSMISSION
3+ hour immersive audio workshop, recorded in sacred space at the threshold of worlds (AKA the Forests of Ireland)
Spirit-led oral transmission that bypasses the rational mind to speak directly to your deepest knowing
My eight years of intensive spirit-led research and direct experience, distilled into practical wisdom
Guidance for developing your own sovereign relationship with these powers
⚫ THE INITIATE'S COMPANION
80+ page practical initiation guide for developing your practice
Detailed protocols for safe spirit contact and flight
Precise timing guidelines for maximizing your work
Progressive framework for building spiritual sovereignty
Clear safety measures and boundary-setting practices
Sacred timing cycles aligned with stellar epiphanies and meteor showers
○ THE DIVINATION COMPASS
Specially crafted divination spread for determining your readiness
Clear guidance for spiritual discernment
Instructions for making tools for ongoing dialogue with these powers
Framework for tracking your development
✧ THE WRITTEN RECORD
Ability to cross-reference oral and written teachings
Detailed sourcing of historical and academic references
Practical guidance captured in written form
Within These Teachings You'll Discover:
How to navigate the delicate protocols of spirit etiquette with confidence and clarity
Ancient techniques for protecting your sovereignty while walking the spirit roads
Methods for developing clear discernment between genuine contact and illusion
Practical frameworks for maintaining balance between worlds
Ways to transform isolation into sovereignty through direct spirit contact
Tools for reading the language of omens
Practices for safe spirit flight and Otherworld navigation
Methods for building lasting, reciprocal spirit relationships
Mater Medusa calls those who are ready to lose their heads to gain true vision. If you feel the pull of her powers, if you sense there's something more waiting beyond the veil of ordinary perception, this transmission opens a doorway.
This isn't casual spiritual tourism. It's an invitation to profound transformation for those who are ready to walk between worlds with both power and discernment.
Are you ready to step through?
I'm guilty of passing up intriguing opportunities, but every so often, I regret my choices in time to fix my mistakes. This was one of those times. I wasn't particularly keen on Medusa's tale, it always felt wrong and utterly unfair, so I brushed this workshop off. Yet, it kept reappearing like a siren's song until I caved. And boy, was I in for a wild ride! Amaya's passion for Mater Medusa whisked me away, spinning me into a vortex of wonder and dropping me onto an isle where Medusa's voice echoes loud and clear. Sometimes it sounds eerily familiar, and other times, it's a new tune altogether. This workshop is best savored slowly. Engage with it intermittently and dive into a fascinating narration. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Amayas words echo through my imaginal world, but it was clear that I needed to take a pause every once in a while, to catch my own breath. If you are like me, each plunge will take you deeper and the lines between worlds will blend and blur beautifully as rich pigments in a sea-water aquarelle. Synchronicities will foam up from unknown depths and on each bubble: the gorgons reflection. But beware! This workshop harbors the paradox of the famished; the more you feast on it, the more your hunger grows. A hunger that might cost you your head. Luckily, Amaya offers a divination spread to those eager to bare their necks. I can’t wait to see where this journey will lead me. Heads are overrated anyways… - @birken_pech
To be honest, sharing this side of my work scares the life out of me.
Until recently, my public work regarding Medusa was focused exclusively on the astrology of fixed star Algol. Yet, the truth is that my private practice was not traditional astrological devotion or practice.
My personal practice deepened me into a wilder folk witchcraft through states of ecstatic spirit flight. It was unlike anything spoken about in the astrological source material.
It was spirit work, pure and simple. And like most witch work, there are times more empowered for certain activities. Mater Medusa instructed me to these timings with one of her omens--the fixed star Algol.
Still, this was not astrology or astrological magic or even astrolatry. It was a witchcraft practice given to me by the spirit Mater Medusa.
I was afraid that if I made this public, certain astrologers and occultists would dismiss my experiences because they weren't written in dusty old books. I worried that sharing my personal practice publicly would cheapen it. I worried about what others might think. Scared to become yet another scapegoat to someone’s projections of moral judgment and what was deemed socially acceptable.
She was insistent that I share what She has revealed. She haunted my dreams and caused chaos in my waking life. My daily divination screamed at me to use the courage She had given me, to draw the power She supplies to the tips of my fingers and tongue.
Yet, I continued to deny Her. I stuck to what felt “safe” to me. There are consequences to that.
Like… my computer began eating my work. Including the 200+ slide powerpoint for the original 2022 Algol workshop. Then my computer died. Then the dreams started. And, well… life lost its flow.
Even this Tower moment was a graceful initiation led by the Green Queen, Mater Medusa. Wading through destruction and near disaster, She worked overtime to remove the detritus standing in the way of my next shape.
When I entered the land of the Star, She helped me dip deep into the wells of inspiration. Through the spirit flight She induced, She guided me to new research and sources.
She helped me find strong comparative-based connections that supports my longtime hunch about Her pre-Greek origins. Research that makes me feel confident enough to share this work.
When She led me through spirit flight to forgotten sources and overlooked connections, I followed. Through eight years of intensive research, ancient texts began to whisper new secrets. Scholarly tomes cracked open to reveal hidden doorways. Every bibliomantic revelation was tested in the crucible of direct experience, every spirit-led insight verified through rigorous academic investigation.
This isn't dry scholarship or ungrounded theorizing – it's knowledge earned through both intellectual rigor and direct spiritual encounter. Like the ancient well-waters that hold both reflection and depth, this work weaves together thorough historical research, scholarly investigation, and vivid spirit-led revelation. You'll discover how archaeological evidence illuminates spirit practice, how historical sources mirror personal gnosis, how academic study can deepen your direct experience of power.
Each insight is double-verified – first in the library's hushed depths, then in the wild places where theory meets practice. You'll learn how Greek myths whisper practical techniques for spirit flight, how Scythian archaeological findings illuminate patterns in your own spirit encounters, how classical sources can help map your journey between worlds.
This is scholarship that breathes, research that pulses with life. Every historical connection serves as a bridge to deeper understanding, every academic insight opens new doors for practical work. Through this unique synthesis, you'll gain both intellectual framework and experiential knowing, both mental maps and direct guidance for walking the spirit roads.
Months after creating this course, my theory of Her origins confirmed by an eminent academic classical philologist and translator of ancient Greek and Roman languages.
Now that I travel through the land of the Moon--the meeting hall of the commons--it is time to share the journey she took me on, and the discoveries I made.
It’s time I serve as the herald of Mater Medusa, Potnia Theron: Mistress of Animals and Ecstatic Mother of Witch Initiation.
This is not an astrology workshop.
(If you’re looking for the astrology of fixed star Algol, check out my other workshop here.)
Mater Medusa is more than her Powerful omens, including the star Algol.
This is for the witches, the monsters, the mutations who exchange their marrow and blood for hollow wings and serpentine tails. The liminal ones who change shapes at will. The ones seeking a world within a fur-lined rabbit hole within a fiery egg within a glass mountain.
This workshop is for the ones ready for an initiation that utterly changes their world, forever. The ones ready to lose their heads to fully feel their beating wild animal heart that spans across worlds.
You've always known there was something more – a deeper current running beneath the surface of things. That feeling of being caught between worlds isn't a flaw, it's a signal. The Green Mother calls to those who dare to claim their own sovereignty, who are ready to shed the limitations of what others say is possible.
This is not about following someone else's path. Through spirit-led research and lived experience, you'll discover how to stand firmly in your own power, to become the sovereign of your own spiritual territory. Like Perseus before the Gorgon's gaze, you'll learn to navigate the razor's edge between worlds, to find your own way through the mists where others fear to tread.
Here, sovereignty isn't just a concept – it's a lived experience of becoming fully authentic, of claiming your place as mediator between worlds. Through carefully structured practices and direct experience, you'll learn to trust your own insight, to discern truth from illusion, to walk the spirit roads with confidence and clarity.
This is the path of the shapeshifter, the one who dares to lose their head to gain true vision. Through confrontation with Mater Medusa, you'll discover how to transmute the very things that have made you feel "other" into sources of power and wisdom.
Mater Medusa is ready to guide you.
To encounter Mater Medusa is to stand at the edge of a gossamer bridge spanning an unfathomable lake of crystal. Those who dare to cast their sweetened offerings into those depthless waters may find themselves welcomed into relationships that transform their understanding of what's possible.
This isn't about collecting spirit contacts like charms on a bracelet.
Through carefully structured devotional practices, you'll learn to build authentic relationships with clarity and discernment. Like finding your way through mists at twilight, you'll discover how to navigate the delicate protocols of spirit etiquette, how to recognize genuine contact from illusion, how to develop relationships that deepen over time.
The Green Mother teaches both through direct revelation and through the profound relationships she opens with her retinue - the spirits of water and storm, of threshold and transformation. You'll learn to read the language of omens in feather and bone, to hear wisdom in the dirge-like songs of the winds, to understand messages carried on threads of fate.
This is spirit work that grows you, in ways both monstrous and more profoundly human than you've ever been. Through progressive practices and clear frameworks, you'll develop your own unique relationship with these powers, learning to navigate different levels of spirit contact while maintaining healthy boundaries and clear discernment.
Here, crossroads become doorways, wells become passages, and the very air thrums with possibility.
But more than techniques, you'll gain the understanding needed to develop lasting, reciprocal relationships with spirits - relationships that continue to unfold and deepen long after the workshop ends.
The path of Mater Medusa shapes those who walk it into something utterly new.
Like a serpent shedding its skin, you'll undergo a metamorphosis that changes you from the inside out. This isn't gentle awakening – it's profound rebirth that transforms both spirit and bone.
Through states of ecstatic spirit flight and incubatio in the sacred dark, you'll experience the death of old limitations and the birth of new possibilities. You'll learn what it means to have your marrow replaced with starfire, to feel your bones dissolve and reform in patterns of power. This is the alchemy of the headless rite, where losing your head becomes the key to gaining true vision.
Each stage of transformation is both ordeal and revelation. Like the waters that spring from holy wells, you'll find yourself carrying both poison and medicine, both fierce protection and flowing creation. You'll discover how to transmute isolation into sovereignty, confusion into clarity, wounding into wisdom.
This isn't about becoming something you're not – it's about fully embodying what you've always been.
Through progressive initiatory experiences, you'll shed the constraints of what others think possible. You'll learn to move between forms with the fluidity of water, to carry power with the authority of storm.
The Green Mother strips away pretense, leaving only what is authentic and true. She demands absolute honesty but rewards it with profound transformation. Those who dare to undergo her initiation emerge with both deeper roots and wider wings, both more sovereign and more connected than ever before.
The voice of Mater Medusa echoes in the wild places between worlds, calling together those who walk the liminal paths.
Like water finding its way through stone, you'll discover connections that run deeper than ordinary fellowship. This isn't about joining a group – it's about finding your place in an ecosystem of power and possibility.
Through shared experience and direct encounter, you'll learn to recognize others who walk between the stones of worlds. You'll discover how to move through the mists that separate ordinary reality from the extraordinary, finding kinship with both seen and unseen allies. Like the mycelial networks beneath our feet, these connections weave through both visible and hidden realms.
Working with the Green Mother teaches us to recognize authenticity in all its forms.
You'll learn to sense the threads that connect the roiling earth to the storm-tossed heavens, to feel your place in the great spiral dance of creation and dissolution. Here, isolation transforms into sacred solitude, difference becomes strength, and being 'other' reveals itself as a gift rather than a curse.
This work creates bridges – between worlds, between experiences, between ways of knowing.
Through direct encounter with Mater Medusa's domains, you'll find your own unique way of being in relationship with these powers. Like the springs that burst forth from sacred ground, these connections continue to nourish and sustain long after initial contact.
The ones who hear her call often begin as solitary seekers, but emerge with an unshakeable knowing of their place in the great web of being.
Not above or below, but precisely where they're meant to be – in that fertile space between worlds where creation and transformation dance together.
so I may Fly the Heights & Slither the Depths
Workshop Framework
Mythic Groundwork
A review of the Medusa myth and it’s striking evolution. This Greek myth is unlike the other stories of monsters, and reveals many hidden truths about the sacred and powerful nature of Medusa’s witchcraft. After listening closely, you should be equipped with an inventory of the icons and implements central to this craft.
A snaking history
The pre-Greek origins of Medusa are a mystery to this day, and many an argument has been made about where she may have come from. Through compare and contrast, we look at her possible connections. I include the striking theory that Medusa led me to through a series of spirit flight visions and bibliomancy. These spirit-led research revelations have now been confirmed by an eminent classical philologist and translator of ancient Greek and Roman languages.
The Nest of Potnia Theron
What is the role of the Mistress of Animals in mythology and later folklore? Tracing the past to the present-day we look at the role the Mistress of Animals takes in witchcraft practice. More importantly, what path Mater Medusa lays for her initiates, should they heed her call.
On The Utility of Bonelessness
Decapitation is an ancient spiritual motif, going back to the paleolithic and proto-shamanism. It has carried through to modern occultism with a surprising strength. What is the point of boneless motifs in folklore and witchcraft? And what ecstasy does Mater Medusa lead us to, in our present-day contemporary witchcraft?
To Become A Flying snake woman
The follow-up materials (an 80+ page guidebook) for the workshop gives a loose framework for devotion and initiatory rites that the prospective initiate to form their own spirit relationship, pact, and practice with Mater Medusa. This includes a flexible suggested calendar based on the sacred stars connected and under the tutelage of Mater Medusa.
To walk between worlds requires both fierce courage and careful preparation.
Like Perseus seeking the Gorgon's domain, you'll be given specific tools and protocols before crossing any threshold.
This isn't casual spirit tourism – it's a carefully crafted journey into the depths of power and possibility.
The ancient well of Medusa's wisdom runs deep, and we approach with both reverence and readiness. You'll learn time-tested methods for establishing clear boundaries with the spirit world, ancestral techniques for protecting your sovereignty while walking the spirit roads, and specific practices for staying grounded while diving deep.
Each step of the journey is carefully structured, building your capacity gradually and safely.
From initial devotional practices to advanced spirit flight, you'll develop discernment that comes from both scholarly understanding and direct experience.
Like the aegis of Athena bearing Medusa's power, you'll craft your own protective shields and know exactly when and how to use them.
This isn't about fearfully tiptoeing around power – it's about approaching it with the wisdom of the serpent and the clarity of one who knows their own boundaries.
Through tested protocols and direct guidance, you'll learn to navigate the liminal spaces while keeping your feet firmly planted in both worlds.
The Green Mother demands respect, but she also teaches protection to those who approach with authentic intent. Her guidance provides not just techniques, but the wisdom to know when to advance and when to hold back, when to dive deep and when to surface for air.
The Mater Medusa workshop was vibrant. I don't think I've fully understood the echos of what the experience has offered me, as it put me in a state of trance, resonating beyond the intellectual. It put me in a meditative state is the best way I can describe the experience. I spent the entire 4 hours listening to the workshop and drawing from that space of meditation, without any filter. The information was so dense, I am looking forward to going back to it when called, but it's impossible to speak of the content without praising the form. The way the workshop was transmitted, orally from and in nature, was incredibly powerful in transmitting this information, and it made it connect to how personal the myth of Medusa is. As Pontiac greek, I jumped at the mention of Medusa's pre-hellenistic myths from the Black sea. It felt like the beginning of an encounter, and although daunting, I really can't wait to continue to learn from that journey. - E.T.
This is not an astrological workshop! If you’re looking for an astrological workshop on fixed star Algol, please click here.
Step through the hedge into a domain where ancient wisdom meets direct revelation. This isn't just learning - it's transformation through both scholarly illumination and spirit-led initiation.
Through carefully crafted audio teachings recorded in sacred space, supplemented by practical guides for your journey, you'll discover how to safely navigate the realms between worlds and become a sovereign winged serpent.
Your Journey Includes:
► THE CORE TRANSMISSION
3+ hour immersive audio workshop, recorded in sacred space at the threshold of worlds (AKA the Forests of Ireland)
Spirit-led oral transmission that bypasses the rational mind to speak directly to your deepest knowing
My eight years of intensive spirit-led research and direct experience, distilled into practical wisdom
Guidance for developing your own sovereign relationship with these powers
⚫ THE INITIATE'S COMPANION
80+ page practical initiation guide for developing your practice
Detailed protocols for safe spirit contact and flight
Precise timing guidelines for maximizing your work
Progressive framework for building spiritual sovereignty
Clear safety measures and boundary-setting practices
Sacred timing cycles aligned with stellar epiphanies and meteor showers
○ THE DIVINATION COMPASS
Specially crafted divination spread for determining your readiness
Clear guidance for spiritual discernment
Instructions for making tools for ongoing dialogue with these powers
Framework for tracking your development
✧ THE WRITTEN RECORD
Ability to cross-reference oral and written teachings
Detailed sourcing of historical and academic references
Practical guidance captured in written form
Within These Teachings You'll Discover:
How to navigate the delicate protocols of spirit etiquette with confidence and clarity
Ancient techniques for protecting your sovereignty while walking the spirit roads
Methods for developing clear discernment between genuine contact and illusion
Practical frameworks for maintaining balance between worlds
Ways to transform isolation into sovereignty through direct spirit contact
Tools for reading the language of omens
Practices for safe spirit flight and Otherworld navigation
Methods for building lasting, reciprocal spirit relationships
Mater Medusa calls those who are ready to lose their heads to gain true vision. If you feel the pull of her powers, if you sense there's something more waiting beyond the veil of ordinary perception, this transmission opens a doorway.
This isn't casual spiritual tourism. It's an invitation to profound transformation for those who are ready to walk between worlds with both power and discernment.
Are you ready to step through?
I'm guilty of passing up intriguing opportunities, but every so often, I regret my choices in time to fix my mistakes. This was one of those times. I wasn't particularly keen on Medusa's tale, it always felt wrong and utterly unfair, so I brushed this workshop off. Yet, it kept reappearing like a siren's song until I caved. And boy, was I in for a wild ride! Amaya's passion for Mater Medusa whisked me away, spinning me into a vortex of wonder and dropping me onto an isle where Medusa's voice echoes loud and clear. Sometimes it sounds eerily familiar, and other times, it's a new tune altogether. This workshop is best savored slowly. Engage with it intermittently and dive into a fascinating narration. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Amayas words echo through my imaginal world, but it was clear that I needed to take a pause every once in a while, to catch my own breath. If you are like me, each plunge will take you deeper and the lines between worlds will blend and blur beautifully as rich pigments in a sea-water aquarelle. Synchronicities will foam up from unknown depths and on each bubble: the gorgons reflection. But beware! This workshop harbors the paradox of the famished; the more you feast on it, the more your hunger grows. A hunger that might cost you your head. Luckily, Amaya offers a divination spread to those eager to bare their necks. I can’t wait to see where this journey will lead me. Heads are overrated anyways… - @birken_pech
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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After purchase you’ll be sent a pdf with a link to the folder where you can download the workshop recording and bonus materials.
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-Downloadable 3+ hour pre-recorded video workshop
-Bonus: downloadable divination spread to find out if you are compatible to become a witch initiate of Mater Medusa
-Bonus: downloadable 80+ page PDF of the suggested steps for attempting initiation with Mater Medusa, as well as a suggested star calendar connected with various witchcraft rites and seasonal changes that happen year-round.
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No, you do not need to know astrology to benefit from this workshop. Any use of astrological timing will be explained in the initiation guide, and which includes the ritual and devotional suggested calendar that you can follow at your discretion.
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This workshop is designed for anyone from beginners to advanced practitioners. Even if you have no experience, you can start a witch initiation using this framework.
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This workshop is for anyone who feels drawn to Medusa’s witchcraft. It does not require any particular personal chart signature.
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My other workshop, Wearing the Primordial Mask of the Creatrix, is an astrology-focused workshop.
This workshop is based on my personal gnosis with the entity Mater Medusa. It is not centered on astrology, but on witchcraft.
I split this into 2 workshops so that they were of a manageable length. And if people wanted to choose which side to focus on (astrology or witchcraft) they would have the ability to do so.
They compliment one another greatly, as they contain different details important to the myths and how to interpret them with what ancient Greeks were more likely implying in the story based on the culture at the time.
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They are very complimentary to one another.
Please note that there is some cross-over in the mythology and history sections.
But they are still significantly different to one another.
Wearing the Primordial Mask is centered on the astrology of fixed star Algol.
This workshop, Mater Medusa, Potnia Theron, is focused on the witchcraft process of initiation with the Mistress of Animals.
I split this into 2 workshops so that they were of a manageable length. And if people wanted to choose which side to focus on (astrology or witchcraft) they would have the ability to do so.
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There is only a single-pay option to buy the workshop. The workshop is already priced for accessibility while still respecting and honoring my time and spiritual vulnerability in sharing this framework.
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Yes! You can email me at amaya@amayarourke.com to discuss how best to send your donation.
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I am honoring the spiritual tides that I have been pacted to ride with Mater Medusa, which includes when to open this for access and when to close it.
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At this time a transcript is not available, but I am negotiating with Mater Medusa to make this more accessible.
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Yes, you can contact me via email: amaya@amayarourke.com
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If you have problems please email me! amaya@amayarourke.com
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Per my website terms and conditions, I do not offer refunds.
All courses, classes, and workshops are sent via an automated system and come with one-on-one support via email. As such, all courses are non-refundable due to the nature of the automation and due to the ongoing support made available to you throughout the duration of the course.