Our Empress Council
What is it?
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What is the Empress Council?

"Belonging is not something we negotiate with the external world. Belonging is something we carry in our wild hearts.” Brené Brown
Our Sisterhood Council is for those living in a female body, who want to transform their relationship to their creative power. Our Empress Sisters are committed to their sustained self-love, care and soul responsibility. This Sisterhood is our space to be honest and vulnerable with ourselves, while we learn to be connected to our own bodies, each other AND to all of life!

Fill out this reflection form to explore joining us on the journey! (*Our Empress Council, formerly “The Empress Circle,” opens its doors 1-2x per year.)

Sister Voices & Experience

Christine Bostic – Somatic Embodiment Guide, Dancer
​& Feminine Alchemy Initiate
Madeline Holly-Sales -
​Music Educator, Singer & Feminine Alchemy Initiate 
Singing for Well-Being: https://singing-for-well-being.teachable.com
Dr. Natalie Lewis DACM, LAc
​@ Dr.natalielewis

A Healing Alchemical Sisterhood


​Our Empress Council is for women, and those who identify as female, who want to:

  • safeguard and assimilate our full spectrum of wisdom and replenished energy
  • be sincere about the vulnerable intricacies of being human and divine
  • practice being sovereign and in relationship to life and others
  • long to bring forth our deepest truth and soulful capacities
  • fortify what has grown inside and create from it
  • commit to a trustworthy container for ongoing growth, play and work, while remaining rooted in our inner pleasure and nourishment
  • be sincere that restoring and being fulfilled as a woman is a continual commitment, choice and lifestyle
  • be fully accountable to and responsible for our own struggles AND pleasure, so we can each liberate and create beauty, purpose, joy and life from our aliveness
  • honor our joy, creative expression and holy liberation for the well-being of all
  • live in continual interconnection to the healing of the planet, each in her own style, way, pace and pleasure within a Healing Alchemical Council of Sisters
*If you’re just learning about Sharon’s work and feel called into this space, please reach out.
Sharon is available to chat further and discern with you if this is an aligned fit.

Archetype of the Empress

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The Empress is an ancient archetype, found in the traditional Tarot deck, and known throughout history in many cultures.

And the Empress that’s beckoning us… who Sharon’s been listening to of late, is one that began to reveal inside her body. At the pinnacle of her menopausal midlife journey. Which is a time when a woman’s system and life reorganizes itself, re-absorbing and redefining all she has put out into the world, to replenish and rebirth her own system.

In ancient Chinese Medicine, each organ is connected to a symbolic ‘character’ with qualities that honor its purpose and function. The Empress is the guardian of the heart, which is considered a Yin (feminine) organ. And when it's functioning optimally, the Empress is a benevolent leader of the entire system. 

All other organs are designed to support and protect the functioning of the heart. The Empress is the central figure within our highly refined and purposeful system, to which all things organize and orchestrate around.

Tending to her well-being and care, and honoring how all other organs are naturally and inherently designed to respect and keep the whole system thriving, is key to this way of living and loving.
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In the Chinese tradition, the heart is the center of perception itself, and thus of our self-awareness. It is where our consciousness takes root.

In essence, it is where the soul can find an entry into our deepest reality of wholeness, to create rejuvenating residence within us. This lends to a greater understanding of the significance of The Empress at the Heart of all Life.



During an intensive 5+ year passage, Sharon began to hear the Empress’ call, speaking to her about the body’s alchemical order as microcosm for the thriving order of the planet. She heard and saw the Empress revealing a more aligned “order” for her system to coalesce around. In support and healthy protection for her heart – the center of all life – to thrive within. The Empress within, invited her into greater allowance. An allowance of the vast cosmos, within her body, in protection and restoration of her deepest fulfillment. Through this process, she began to reveal how to honor this within her everyday life.
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In the natural world, there is organic order at play everywhere.

The more we notice this, it emulates and magnifies the order of our own bodies, and the potential we have to relate to each other and life through a ‘sacred purpose’. Not one that the mind can understand. Yet one that the inner organizing system of our bodies IS on board with.

Through years of gardening and urban farming, Sharon witnessed various species working towards and supporting ‘one purpose.’ The most visceral example was when she’d sit and commune with the bees. It was an embodied experience of everyone ‘protecting and serving the queen at center.’

Though it was not actually about the queen, as a figure of ego-filled high and mighty purpose. It was about what she was devoted to… a harmonic order within her system that she honored and emanated. Through a practical, respectful understanding and instinctual wisdom for how to keep the hive and everyone individually thriving.

This is the legend of the Empress. Calling us here today. Beckoning our allowance of the order of our own being into our lives.
The Empress is showing us how to allow our systems to coalesce around the heart of our being in care for all of life. She invites us to tend to the thriving of our soul, for the thriving of our world.
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