Standing as Souls
When we started landing Chesapeake Temple in spring 2021, we had no idea what that really meant, only that there was something inside of us that said yes to soul, yes to the reemerging mystery temples, yes to the land and soul of America and yes to giving everything for the purpose of our souls’ incarnation. The experience has been for both of us the most magical and impactful of our lives; where words fail to express the love, joy, heartbreak, ecstasy, agony, revelation and mystery of dancing in the soul realms in this way. Two years later, we are still standing and now ready to share some of the happenings at Chesapeake Temple that have inspired, humbled, and made lasting changes in our beings. Thank you for witnessing our souls emerge alongside this temple.
With Love,
Marcus & Tracy
Year in Review (Spring Equinox 2022 - 2023)
As another Spring blossoms, we are settling back at Chesapeake after a transformative 2.5 months in New Zealand, being immersed in breathtaking nature and as part of the triad holding the service field of the last 6-week Temple Training at Highden Mystery School.
We are in deep gratitude for the last year of mystery, magic, adventure, challenges, and breakthroughs and feel excited for the future in the midst of the ongoing global crisis because it offers a real possibility for a civilizational shift that is so needed on the planet.
This past year we have brought Chesapeake Temple on the road with us to Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Italy, Hawaii, and New Zealand, finding purpose, soul and magick in each of these lands.
Clear themes of purpose have emerged in this time for the temple and for us as individual souls:
Group initiation: activating group ecstatic body through coherence and the vibration of sound, how to evoke individual and collective soul initiation notes.
Healing through soul and spirit activation.
The cross pollination of the global mystery schools and temples.
Living myth as a force of creation, renewal and beauty.
An imprint of the core vibrational shift necessary for a new economic system.
The importance of the death process in soul initiation.
Within these larger themes, we wanted to share some of the highlights of our year:
Tracy and Marcus co-created a deeply transformative group-guided 4 week journey in Bantry, Ireland to listen for a future mystery school with a group of 9 Temple Training graduates in April-May 2022. This was a profound glimpse into the technology of group soul and how to be organized by love and wisdom for initiation and revelation. A group harvest of the journey recorded via Zoom can be found here.
Tracy rejoined the 4th cohort of Luminous Awareness Institute in Spring 2022 and is part of the healing team. After 5 years of journeying with Luminous, she continues to deepen and expand in love and purpose with the community.
Marcus and Tracy joined soul friends Sophia, Lisa and Carter for a summer solstice gathering and ritual on Carter’s land in Upstate New York where he plans to build a temple community
Marcus traveled to Nikkila Temple in Finland for a workshop led by Bruce Lyon called “Monadic” in July 2022. He also participated in the first temple currency gathering that explored the myth of a new kind of currency and how to manifest this through the temples.
Chesapeake hosted its first Soul Residency this past fall as a 3 week journey with participants from California and Finland to deepen into soul culture and group coherence.
Tracy launched her personal client practice, Harmonic Soul, on the Autumn Equinox 2022 and offers highly attuned, personalized intuitive sessions in service to opening and integrating soul, both online and in person. Her website here.
Marcus started his journey as a “soul curator of digital art” in September 2022 with the pseudonym SoulSeed7 in order to bridge the vibration of soul into the metaverse. See our digital altar on the Chesapeake Temple website.
Chesapeake Temple released its first NFT digital art piece entitled “Love Letter to Humanity” in February 2023 as a collaboration with East-West fusion artist Baiwei. Over 200 pieces have been minted to date.
Tracy and Marcus were part of the triad holding the service field of returnees and templars for the most recent 6 week Temple Training at Highden Mystery School January - March 2023.
In this next 12 month cycle, we are opening the temple for more gatherings and events, supporting other soul/temple initiatives in the US and globally, stepping into more roles of leadership and continuing our own soul education.
In the year to come…
Tracy and Marcus will join Jon Eden Khan, founder of Avatara, to help the manifestation and curation of Spirit based projects in the world for Avatara’s global community and platform.
Marcus and Tracy began Teachings for the Temple on the Spring Equinox, a 9 month journey led by Bruce Lyon into the blackhole mysteries with 100+ people around the world.
Marcus will join Singularity, a multinational political party sourced in the One Life of the Earth, as a founding member and a pillar on the wealth council.
Marcus will host Soul Roots, a 4-day gathering of Asian bodied souls at Chesapeake Temple in April to heal and activate the wisdom of our ancestral lineages as part of a new myth of Asians in the West.
Tracy and Marcus will be attending the first USA Templars gathering in Grass Valley, Nevada in May. This group will explore landing mystery schools and temples on US soil.
We are returning to the Big Island of Hawaii in June to explore a project that wants to birth there. Last December we found a magical 100+acre parcel of land in North Kohala and are in the process of crafting an investor plan for a community and temple. Stay tuned for more information on this in the coming weeks!
Chesapeake Temple will be holding Liminal: Between Life and Death - a Summer Solstice gathering. This will be the first of a series of offerings at the temple exploring the potency of death as lover and its many faces, and the initiation portal that is held within the grace of this embrace.
Tracy will be attending the second gathering of Monadic, a deeper exploration into the primordial dark, held at Cae Mabon in Wales in July.
Tracy is part of the triad holding the next Temple Training, a soul initiation journey at Nikkila Temple in Finland starting in September of this year.
Ask for Support
Thanks to the generous support of family and friends, we’ve been given the resources to land at Chesapeake the last two years and establish a soul field that is now ready to open to a wider audience. To be honest, temple and soul work is extremely challenging in the US given our culture’s enormous focus on market capitalism, scientific & spiritual materialism, political polarity and personality glamor. It has taken our full focus and will to stay present and grounded in order to anchor a soul field at the temple where it isn’t about business as usual and transactional living.
We still sometimes struggle with integrating soul with the current paradigm. Part of this struggle is asking for support in the work that we do which is often invisible or in the subtle realms. And while we are focusing this year on bridging soul more concretely into offerings, gatherings and projects, we are in a transition period and would be very grateful for material support.
If you feel moved to support us or the temple, you can find out more on our website: https://chesapeaketemple.org/giving. Any amount donated would be warmly and gratefully received and will contribute to the flowering of soul on American soil.