Mission Updates

Beautiful Beings / December 2020

As many of you know the Temple of Isis here in the heart of Sonoma is dedicated to the Divine Feminine since 1976, making us the oldest and largest interfaith Goddess temple in North America.

I can honestly say that 2020 has definitely been the year of the tradegy for us here at the temple. We’ve lost five amazing clergy members to the COVID-19 situation which deeply saddened our collective hearts.

Our Isis Oasis Sanctuary & Retreat Center has been closed for a total of seven months this year due to COVID-19 shutting us down and due to 2 1/2 weeks of being shut down during the huge fires which came in half a mile of our sanctuary.

We provided sanctuary for up to 25+ people in our housing program at the temple. We maintain a animal collection of over 100+ rescue animals here at our wildlife sanctuary which we deeply care for. As the fires were raging through out the Guerneville area here in Sonoma, we provided refuge for 22 fire evacuees. The fires caused us to evacuee all of our 100+ animals due for over 10 days due to the horrible air quality.

Normally we get by through running the retreat center which provides all the funding for all of our charitable efforts. This was definitely not the case this year.

So it is with a humble heart and faith in the Divine Grace of Isis, The Great Mother Goddess that we are for your donations to help us get through this Holiday season! 

The Divine Mother definitely blesses you for your giving.

May you go in love for love is the path of the divine mother!

Many Blessings,

Temple of Isis

Oh Beautiful Ones! / March 2020

The Temple of Isis was founded because our beloved founder Lady Loreon Vigne understood that the power of the Divine Mother Isis was truly needed in the world. She experienced that divine kindness & love firsthand, she understood how it radically transform lives. 

She knew that she had to build a sanctuary that leads with that divine kindness – allowing us to carry into our schools, our workplaces, our communities – and a place that validates the emotions of people so that no one feels alone or broken. Because we are all the Divine Mother’s Children.
Every thing we’ve created and supported since our founding has been built around those beliefs, supporting individuals as they create akinder, braver world. 

Every day at the Temple of Isis, we focus on supporting kindness, love, and the hopeful, engaged individuals that are changing the world for the better!

We here at the Temple of Isis are asking you to shift culture with us, to help us look for and amplify kindness and love, and build the community that powers it. With your donation, the Temple of Isis can support this vision via programs like:

• #Sanctuary, this has be at the heart of the Temple of Isis since the very beginning. It was the reason Lady Loreon Vigne established the Isis Oasis. She wanted a place for all the orphaned children of the Divine Mother (Be they furred, feathered, scaled or our human brethren) to be safe in. Drawing inspiration from the ancient temple of Isis, where they provided sanctuary to all – we do the very same thing now 43 years later! We Are asking for your help now to keep this going! 

• Our Programing, this is our mission where we manifest six yearly Goddess inspired events that explore all the names of the Divine Mother, that keep all of us, Her children, connected and allow us to keep expanding the reach of Her Divine Love through the Temple of Isis.

• Our Community Partnerships, these are events and retreats that we co-host yearly here at the Isis Oasis Sanctuary – Like our twice annual seasonal Harp Concert (next one is Dec.21st) that is celebrating it’s 18th year! We also hosts a series of plays and concerts through out the year in partnership with local Sonoma Theater Group – Curtain Call Theater. 

• Artists in Residence, where the Temple of Isis via our newly established Goddess Gallery, in memory of Lady Morning Glory & Lady Loreon(sponsored by Author Margaret Atwood) invites in artists, mystics and priestesses to come explore and develop their art in t he Gallery dedicated to all the faces of the Divine Mother. In 2019, we hosted three different artists over the period of a several months. Visit – www.mgzgoddesses.org

• Our spiritual work, supporting all the clergy of the Temple of Isis as they meet the spiritual needs of people across the United States and beyond… This year alone, some of our newly ordained Ladies created the 1st ever Goddess Temple at Burning Man as an ‘official’ Burning Man Art Installation! Visit – https://www.iowasource.com/2019/08/07/bee-divine-elizabeth-huebner/

You are changing the world and it matters. It matters to the Divine Mother, it matters to the Temple of Isis, and it matters in the world. 

Let’s keep going, together. Click here to donate $5, $10, $50, or more!