Keepers of the Temple

In this Mystery School, we embrace and celebrate the beautiful diversity of all humanity—honoring every age, ethnicity, body size, religious belief, sexual orientation, and ideological perspective.

Community of the 13 Moon Mystery School:

The Sanctuary of the 13 Moon Mystery School community is available to you immediately and throughout the journey of your lifetime. Ariel Spilsbury, founder of the Mystery School, offers her ministry of Love through an abundant series of by HEART-donation online calls each moon.

These are opportunities to deepen your Priest/ess skills and connect with other like-hearted beings, and are not meant to be initiatory experiences. It is supportive to have a background in this work for those calls, as they will deepen the skills and awareness you have opened to.

Initiatory Experiences such as a 13 Moon Mystery School Initiation Circle:

There are a few Focalizers who have gone through the rigorous training to hold these initiatory experiences. Each one holds circles in their own unique way, with their own unique frequency and on their own unique rhythm in time.

We encourage you to find the Focalizer and community that is most in resonance with you and explore the various offerings from each Focalizer as they carry unique experiences and gifts alongside the 13 Moon circles.

The Temple of the Swan is one of those communities woven together by Greyson Kirby & Sarah uMa, two Focalizers within the greater 13 Moon Sanctuary. When you step into an experience within the Swan Temple, you will travel with a circle dedicated to exploring these 13 Moon Wisdom Teachings, Archetypes and Gateways of Consciousness, and it is your choice to also participate within the greater 13 Moon Mystery School community, which we highly encourage.

Our Facilitators are called Focalizers. This is because they are not “facilitating a process” trying to get you to any certain outcome. There is no pre-determined script, no set of processes that are outlined in this training. This is because the primary focus of the Focalizer is to become empty enough to allow the Goddess to flow through them, offering in each present moment what is needed and called for for the whole.

Focalizers have gone through rigorous training to prepare themselves for the energetic space in consciousness that they will hold for others as well as the catalytic energy that moves through them as they “focus” the magnitude of the archetypal force that flows through them into ceremony. 

You can read more about our Focalizers and their unique gifts on this page.

The 13 Moon Mystery School is a unique kind of group experience. It’s not a lecture or a teaching, or a group where we meet or focus on the ego personality. You will enter into a frequency field of ceremony, where you will go through a series of processes to meet your deepest Self that calls that part of you forward. You will never be required to share anything, and all of you is welcome to express authentically. You will, however, be lovingly challenged to step into your authentic Self, and to look at the unconscious shadow aspects of your self, even if you don’t come in knowing what that looks or feels like. If you are open to trying a new way, it is incredibly powerful to move through things in a ceremonial group context. You receive as much healing from witnessing others as you do from your own journey and also develop a deep bond with the other initiates.

Personal mentoring with a Focalizer is another option if you desire to do this work solo. However, you may find that by traveling alongside others in this experience, you receive reflection and insights that you might not have been aware of in journeying alone. Neither is right or wrong, it’s an inquiry for you to sit with your hesitation and really ask if it’s a growth edge you are ready to cross, or so far beyond your comfort zone that it creates a trauma response.

This work began with Ariel Spilsbury, founder of the Mystery School in 1997, though the technologies themselves were studied extensively in the times of Avalon, when Priest/esses would devote themselves to 13 years of study in order to become ‘ordained’ in the Sacred Arts. The source text which has become the foundation of this work is called The Alchemy of Ecstasy, and was transcribed by Ariel as a template to be used in ceremony in 1997.

The alchemical work began in small circles focalized by Ariel in the late 90’s with workshops and circles held around the globe, primarily in California, Hawaii and Japan. Ariel went on to shepherd several other beings through the rigorous process of training to become Focalizers of this work. Only certified 13 Moon Mystery School Focalizers are privileged and blessed to carry this work forward.

The solar or masculine face of God is the version of the Divine most prevalent in our culture, and in this paradigm, the feminine aspects of the Goddess are hidden-both within and beyond your awareness. This is a lineage based on seeing the Unity in all faces of the Divine, and opening you to your unique connection with Source, by whatever name, face or way you experience its grace. 

Archetypes awaken and inform consciousness beyond any one religion, so you will find the characteristics of love and expansion can and will show up in any context that is particularly moving for you. We welcome beings from any and all religious or spiritual backgrounds. We invite you to explore within or beyond the facets of the Divine you have yet discovered, even if that means none at all.

 We celebrate the Turns of the Wheel of Nature, and see the value in bringing forward the feminine mythologies that have been lost, manipulated and turned inside-out by those seeking power in the past. Not to worship them, but to honor the aspects of human and divine human nature THAT they represent and make available for us to live more integrous, aligned and fulfilling lives.