In August 2025, I visited Goddess Temple, a quarter full region design by Sharon Edwyn. Dedicated to the Sacred Feminine and with a particular focus – although not exclusively so – on the goddess Hecate (HEK-ə-tee). I found it a genuinely magical setting, mixing elements of physical world mythology with a sense of mystery and mysticism.
More recently, Goddess temple has relocated and expanded and in mid-August 2026, Sharon re-opened it to the public, and I was curious to see the new design.
Still occupying a Full private region utilising the Land Capacity bonus available to such regions, Goddess Temple now occupies almost an entire half of the region. More importantly, it has both maintained and extended its sheer beauty whilst deepening its atmosphere of reverence and air of mysticism.
The Goddess Temple was created as a place to honour the Sacred Feminine and to celebrate the Goddess in all her different aspects, forms, and expressions. There are two main temples within the sanctuary, dedicated to Hecate and Aphrodite, but throughout the Goddess Temple you will also find statues, symbols, and other elements representing many different goddesses from the ancient world. Each one reflects a different aspect of the Sacred Feminine and the archetypes connected to it.
– Sharon Edwyn on Goddess Temple, describing Goddess Temple
The setting retains much that will be familiar to those who visited the previous iteration of Goddess Temple, expanding on the overall design and on the motifs neatly folded into it as well. The result is that for those of us returning to the location, there is both a sense of the initial familiarity as might be felt in making a returning pilgrimage and of experiencing something new.
This is particularly true of the Landing Point with its paths, canopy of forest-lie trees and hints of ancient structures. The crossing of paths here, together with the information board, will immediately be familiar to those returning for the first time since the move, but a quick camming around will reveal elements of the new – perhaps most noticeably the much extended path running to the east.
This is a setting split by a long, broad channel of water also pushing its way eastwards. Fed by high falls and dropping over much smaller ones as it seeks the open waters east of the region, the channel at first appears to be and intentional physical barrier to travelling further south into the setting. However, appearances tend to be deceptive.
Certainly, the views south over the water from various points along the paths are tantalising. Across the water and marvellously cut into the high cliffs and rock formations inland are signs of life: vine hung balconies push through the foliage and archways allow glimpses of corridors and rooms from under overhangs and more vines and branches, with some curtained by waterfalls. But how to reach them without getting wet? Even if one to wade across, there are no obvious steps up into any of the visible rooms or hallways.
The answer to that question lies along the east-pointing path and beyond the pavilion it passes, shaded by the forest’s trees. Find the route and it will open the way to Aphrodite’s temple and also to where a gondola sits quietly moored alongside ancient ruins. Accept the Experience on sitting in the boat for the first time, and you will have your means to cross the water smoothly.
In this, your destination is obvious: across the water sits another gondola with room to moor alongside it. It floats beneath the tall figures of carved dogs – the companions of Hecate. Between them and the cauldrons illuminating them, lies the shadowed entrance to her temple.
This temple is utterly magnificent in nature and contains elements related to Hecate’s legend. A tall figure of the goddess stands at the back of the temple against a blue sky, facing the circular pool of water which takes up the main floor of the temple. The sky and water remind us of Hecate’s connections to both, whilst the torches she holds aloft speak to her role as protector and guide. Spaces opening off of either side of the temple form libraries, reflecting her roles as a goddess of wisdom and (perhaps) a practitioner of magic.
One of these libraries offers the entrance to a large complex of rooms and hallways – some of them being those so tantalisingly visible from the far side of the water channel. Most are open to the public. However, I’m not going to describe them here, as they all deserve to be witnessed first-hand. All I will say is that the stairway located mid-way through them leads up to a private residence – so please, no trespassing there!
As well has Hecate, Goddess Temple continues to encompass other goddesses of legend. Here again, the presence of water perhaps plays an important role. Persephone, for example, has a statue out on the water channel. Like Hecate, she is linked to the Underworld, so it is not great leap of the imagination to see the water flowing through Goddess Temple as a metaphor for the Styx, separating as it does the aboveground gardens to the north from the “underworld” of the temple and its associated rooms and corridors to the south.
Aphrodite is also celebrated here, her temple rising from the eastern waters of the setting whilst she also – in the form of Venus – watches over the bathing pool within the underground complex; the pairing of temple and statue with water again neatly referencing her connection to the sea and seafaring.
I could ramble on in this respect, but I’ll save you the pain of my burbling! Suffice it to say, when visiting, be sure to keep an eye out for the signs sitting close to some of the statues, as these will provide additional information for those interested in the various goddess and deities celebrated here.
What I will say is that the new iteration of Goddess Temple builds on the last, presenting a deeply captivating, immersive and beautiful setting, rich in detail. It carries with it a genuine mix of myths and architecture which, whilst based on western histories, also touches on eastern roots as well (e.g. Hindu Shakti) through the modern referencing of Sacred Feminine.
As Sharon notes, Goddess Temple should not be seen as an attempt to manifest any form of historically accurate representation of ancient temples or historic sites. Rather, it is a place in which to find peace; to rest the mind and spirit, and celebrate the natural. For this, the setting offers multiple places in which to relax on both sides of the waters splitting it – but I’ll leave you to discover them in your own explorations!
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