YshaYe Sacred Rose Temple
Betz McKeown, OM, HTP, INHC, CTCM
Women's Empowerment Guide
Energy Medicine Practitioner
Intuitive
Anointress
Ordained Ceremonialist
The Story of YshaYe Sacred Rose Temple
(YshaYe, pronounced ee-shaw-yay)
A few years ago, I was blessed to go on pilgrimage with an amazing group of sister priestesses to the Big Island of Hawaii. There, we participated in several deeply transformative sacred rituals, including holy oil anointings, which was then a part of my training.
The anointing I received impacted me profoundly. Afterwards, I was pretty dazed, and chose to stay behind at the house to meditate on my experience instead of joining my sisters on an excursion to the beach. Even through dinner I found it difficult to focus on conversation and went to bed right after eating.
Throughout the night, I was in and out of consciousness - that liminal yet lucid place between wakefulness and dreaming. Just before dawn, I saw myself on a cliff, facing west. I recognized the land as being close to where Big Island is now, with a wide expanse of sea before me, reflecting a pastel sunset. Beyond the sea were the purple silhouettes of a mountain range (there currently is no land just west of Hawaii - so, Lemuria, maybe?)
In this trance-like state, I had long black hair, and was naked except for some sort of fabric draped around my waist. I was dancing to the sunset, swaying to the sound of the sea and the surf hitting the rocks below, until I suddenly heard a voice say, "YshaYe. You are YshaYe, High Priestess to the Goddess of Light." And I jolted awake, feeling energized and joyously fantastic!
This vision has stayed with me for years, and I still remember every detail as if I had just awakened from it. It became clear that this was to be the name of my practice. And this is where the YshaYe part of the name of my temple came from.
The Rose part comes from my training as an Anointress. My teacher/mentor, Diana DuBrow, assigned me Keeper of the sacred anointing oil, Rosa Mystica, an oil she crafts from three kinds of rose essential oils. Rosa Mystica is also the name of the Priestess Path I trained in, and I follow the Rose lineage of priestessing.
And there you have it ... the birth of YshaYe Sacred Rose Temple.
