Temenos
A sanctuary space for conversations around women’s faith and spirituality
During 2025, members of The Hearth (i.e. ‘founding members’ of The Art of Enchantment) were invited to participate in conversations around women’s faith and spirituality, in a section called ‘Temenos’ – an old word for a sanctuary, or an enclosure in a temple or other sacred place.
Some of the questions we engaged with included:
How do we find meaning in an increasingly secular – and challenging – age?
Why are women still not accepted as equals within traditional faith hierarchies?
How do we find our own authentic ways of honouring the divine and the sacred feminine, outside of those institutions and hierarchies as well as within them?
Please note that the Temenos thread at The Hearth will close at the end of 2025 and this publication will no longer offer founding membership.
Temenos posts
Sophia and the Divine Feminine in Judaeo-Christian Traditions
[W]hen a woman offers the truth about her struggle to wake up, to grow beyond old models of womanhood and old spiritualities that no longer sustain, when she expresses what it was really like to discover and relate to the Feminine Divine, to heal feminine wounds, to unearth courage, and to reclaim her power, then women’s differences tend to give way to …
Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti