The Rose Line
I’ve been an initiate and devotee of the Rose Line ever since I was a girl.
When I was pregnant with my first son at the tender age of 15, a neighbor went to a church rummage sale and bought me the book “The Great Cosmic Mother” by Monica Sjoo, and Barbara Mor. The book includes these radical drawings by Sjoo. (see below) Artworks that felt like they opened a portal in me. The book is as big as a Bible. I would lay awake at night with my swelling belly, reading passages from the book, and being transported by the imagery.
I am now 46 and the Rose Line is still first and foremost on my mind when I wake. It’s on my breath as a drift off to sleep. It colors my dreams.
It has become my life.
My path.
My gateway to divinity.
And I want to tell you what I’ve learned about this potent lineage.
The first thing is, If you are interested in the Goddess, and the words “Rose Line” awakens something within you, you are likely called to enter this lineage yourself. That’s just how it works. It is mystical that way.
What is the Rose Line?
The Rose Line is a living, embodied lineage of feminine presence. It is a current of remembrance that threads through time and space and surfaces wherever the Great Mother is recognized, and revered. It is the sacred Red Thread that connects women across cultures, eras, and incarnations. It does not belong to any institution, creed, or doctrine. The Rose Line predates them all. It lives in the body, the breath, and the shared field of those who are remembering how to be alive within the Mystery.
Read the following paragraph more than once if you need to. Allow it to really sink in. I will write it in italics to impress upon you how important it is.
At its heart the Rose Line is a network of goddess presence and transmission. These presences, and transmissions, are living intelligences that still move through the world when we open our senses to them, they are not distant divinities, or stories trapped in books. They emerge as forces of love, initiation, transformation, threshold crossing, and rebirth.
What Goddesses Are Part of the Rose Line?
Inanna stands at the threshold where life meets death and rebirth. Her descent into the underworld and return is a mirror for the human soul’s journey through loss, transformation, and regeneration. She carries the codes of underworld wisdom, feminine sovereignty, and the paradox of strength that comes through surrender.
Ereshkigal, Inanna’s sister in the underworld, embodies the darkness that is not absence but depth, the kind of initiatory descent where identity dissolves and the soul learns to hold itself through the most primal intensity of life. Her presence in the lineage calls us back to depth, to the visceral truth of what it means to be alive.
Isis, whose myth travels through ancient Egypt into Christianity and beyond, stands as a teacher of resurrection, magic, and sacred motherhood. She is the weaver of spells that heal broken worlds, the protector of the thresholds between what was lost and what is being born. Her wisdom is about restoring what has been fractured and guiding the sacred flame back into the world.
Mother Mary holds the Rose Line through humility, devotion, and quiet endurance. She is not passive sweetness, but profound interior strength. She carries the intelligence of the womb that says yes to incarnation itself. Through her, the feminine becomes the vessel that consents to life entering matter. Her sorrow is not weakness but depth. She knows how to stay present with suffering without closing the heart. In the Rose Line, Mother Mary teaches receptivity as power, patience as initiation, and love that remains faithful even when the world misunderstands or wounds it. She anchors the lineage in compassion that does not bypass grief and in devotion that does not require recognition. Her presence reminds the Rose Line that holiness can be ordinary, that the sacred can live in kitchens and quiet rooms, and that the deepest transformation often happens in silence, through trust, endurance, and an unwavering openness to what life is asking to be born.
Mary Magdalene carries a unique place in this Rose Line. She is an embodiment of the awakened heart — a soul who walked with presence alongside the Mystery of union and of return. In the lineage she is a midwife to soul remembrance. Her field dissolves shame, calls forth forgiveness, and reveals that the sacred feminine has never really gone away — she was simply hidden beneath layers of misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and suppression. Mary Magdalene’s presence reminds us that the feminine divine is not timid, apologetic, or secondary. She is sovereign, alive, and resonant in every woman who remembers her own sacrament of love, grief, devotion, and surrender.
The Rose Line continues through all who carry this Red Thread. It is a current that weaves through the Goddesses of dawn and dusk, through Sky Dancers and threshold walkers, through the priestesses of everyday life and the women who bring sacred presence into ordinary moments.
What connects these goddess presences is a shared invitation: to remember that the body is a temple, that the feminine is not subordinate but sovereign, and that culture itself was shaped not by distant systems of control but by those who lived life with awareness, intimacy, and devotion to the Mystery. The Rose Line is a call to return to the body as chalice, altar, and oracle, and to know that love, beauty, and meaning are not found outside of us but arise within us when we drop into the depth of our own lived experience.
This lineage is about bringing the sacred into the world, into families, partnerships, communities, work, and the simple moments of being alive. It is a lineage of service, presence, and inner attunement. It grids the world with roses of remembrance, one life at a time, quietly and powerfully, wherever a woman shows up as who she truly is in service to what is real.
*If you’d like to tune in with a more poetic mediation on the Venus Path and the Rose Line, Click Here
Artwork by Monica Sjoo. Take your time to really gaze at the images.
Allow them to evoke remembrance in you as they did for me.
This list of images is not exhaustive. Feel free to search for more if they peek your fancy
