Reverent Mariela
The Philosophy

EMBODIED
ANIMISM

Restoring the Conditions for the Flourishing of the Human Soul & The Soul of the World.

Mariela at the river's edge, her hand resting on a stone offering of cosmos flowers on a lily leaf

Everything has soul,
everything has Anima.

And the human soul — the animal body — was designed to be in relationship with The Soul of The World, Anima Mundi, through each of the senses.

A hand wearing beaded bracelets reaching toward cosmos flowers on a lace tea table
Lose your mind and come home through the senses.

For the soul that is hungry, I create immersive experiences of exquisite beauty that help you come Home — to the body, the present moment, and The Mother Web.

I promote Spiritual Homemaking and Soul Hospitality: the art of creating the right conditions for the flourishing of the human soul and the Soul of the World.

We are children starving for the nourishment of The Mother.

There’s food here!

"I am The Mother Web,
and you belong here.
Belonging is the first law
in my house."
The Gospel of The Mother Webaccording to Venus, as told to PsycheWritten by Reverent Mariela

The Return Home to the Mother Web

This is the story of returning home to the Mother Web — of belonging to life again.

Mariela seated at a forest table set with tea, fruit, and flowers
“If your Psyche is hungry, she can find nourishment at the divine mother's table.”
Our Kosmology
Kosmos: Ordered Beauty, a handmade artwork by Mariela

We follow the ways of The Mother, Kosmos, which, to the ancient Greeks, meant Ordered Beauty.

This cosmology (worldview, philosophy, orientation) connects the cosmos with the feminine art of spiritual domesticity and bringing things into loving relationship.

The Kosmology

Ordered Beauty & the Mother Web

Kosmos, the ancient Greek word for the universe, means Ordered Beauty. This is the kosmology I follow — a Venusian philosophy of interrelatedness.

To me, that Ordered Beauty is The Mother Web: the womb of creation, a sentient intelligence of sacred electricity.

We are all reality creators — colorful weavers inside this Mother Web, inside this fabric of creation. Everything in this web carries a Soul, and that Soul carries its own original beauty, its own medicine to heal its corner of the web.

This was my road from spiritual homelessness to spiritual homemaking. I now keep a house for The Mother. She is a hostess, and the gods — the planets — arrive as her guests as I set a place for each one.

This is a place where we practice relationship:
with our bodies, one another, our ancestors, the living Earth, the gods and planets…

Through ritual, rhythm, resonance, and relationship, we practice belonging to Anima Mundi, the great web of life.