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Order of the Mystai

The Order of the Mystai is a sisterhood united by a common love of the Lunar Mysteries. For almost two decades, we have shared love, laughter, and a deep spiritual connection both in person and through the aether. Our group includes the Order of Priestesses as well as Sisters in Goddess whose light and love are part of our circles. We realized early on that while earthly seasons vary—leaving some sisters in the blistering heat of summer while others are nose-deep in parkas—the Moon, She Who Shines For All, remains identical for all Her daughters.

Almost twenty years ago, the Mystai Order was founded by our mother coven, the Dream a New Dream Coven, because we realized that we had stepped onto a new Path in our work, pushing past the boundaries of our decades within traditional Goddess-oriented frameworks.
Since that transformational moment, our sisterhood has steadily morphed and matured. While our original mother coven has since ceased to be, the living current it birthed did not fade. Instead, it evolved into the international sisterhood we carry forward today.

We have bonded together in a vision of the world as it can be—the world that we WILL to be. The central tenet of our group is the Manifesta of the Dream A New Dream Coven, created at the founding of our Mother Coven as a description of our vision in words and intent. We aim to live this Manifesta daily, both together when we share sacred space and separately in our individual lives. We are a small group for now, but we welcome womyn to look over what we have to say and see if it applies to them. We know that we are embarking on something new within the traditions, and we welcome our sisters on the journey.

So why are we new?

There are several reasons, but the most profound ones are two-fold:
First, we have realized that constantly reacting to patriarchy puts us in a position of weakness relative to it, so we refuse to do it. Instead, we see patriarchy's desperate need for absolute control and its willingness to employ fear and violence to its ends as direct signs of its intrinsic weakness—its frail, desperate hold on "reality."
Second, since we are an international Sisterhood, we have decided to not celebrate the seasons as observances within our collective rites as a group. The seasons vary in their manifestations and intensity depending on where in the world you are; when some of us are experiencing the blistering heat of summer, others are nose-deep in parkas. But the Moon—She Who Shines For All—is identical for all Her daughters. Therefore, our collective rites are entirely lunar in focus within the group, while observations of the seasons are done individually, directly reflecting the seasonal realities where we each live. We consider the seasonal rites to be a community celebration where men, womyn, and children have traditionally come together to mark the cycle of Life within each community, whereas the lunar rites have historically been observed by womyn alone.

The Meaning of the Mystai

The word Mystai comes from the Greeks and their traditions. Mystai were initiates or priestesses of the various mystery traditions, which included the Rites of Eleusis. A Mystes (the singular of mystai) is one who goes within, finds the deity, meets Her in the spirit realms, and communes in the deepest Mysteries of that deity.
We see that path as a critically needed one as the world is rebirthed from the five-millennia-long nightmare of patriarchy. The Mysteries and the way they were practiced in ancient times are lost to us, but we as womyn can create new Mysteries and new rites. The Goddesses are still with us, and They still speak to those with ears to hear. We do not need to legitimize our worship by mimicking something exactly the way it was done in the distant past.
Goddess-tradition is ALIVE! It lives, it breathes, and it grows! We grow by following the Goddesses wherever They wish to take us, creating a world of love where womyn are free and the Mysteries once again are celebrated!

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