Cave Space

Attuning to the Underworld Within & Without

Cave Space is a 4-week offering across Scorpio season for those turned on by my astro-mystical approach to transmuting shadow, shame, and trauma into love and aliveness.

Join me in my 4th year of offering this experiential journey! It’s never the same twice.

Many of us grew up in communities without resonant rituals, aesthetics, or libations for honoring death and rebirth initiations. We often feel alone, fucked up, despairing, and marginalized when we go through periods characterized by what astrology calls the cave space: the 8th House.

I am inviting you into CAVE SPACE to initiate your own belonging to the underworld. Here you’ll find tools, nourishment, humor, and clever tips for navigating your way there and back again.

Become strange unto yourself so that you might remember how wondrous you are.

Resource yourself with life force that’s too long been hidden.

Tap into the truth that we live to die and die to live. We can renew. We can rebirth. We can regenerate.

I have found it to be true that wild aliveness pulses at the liminal interstices between who we have been and who is emerging in us.

This is Emergence Astrology.

I’m inviting you to know yourself where your skin peels back, revealing the shiny, slithering revitalized form of yourself that you both deeply fear and deeply desire to know.

The spirit of Cave Space is to cultivate the head-back cackle. The guttural sound you make when you find all life erotic and hilarious.

Scorpio season is energetically the ideal window of the year for learning, experiencing, and practicing how to engage with the Underworld: within and without.

The Underworld within refers to the parts of you that are hidden from your conscious self. The taboo. The repressed. The grieving. The fragmented. The forgotten.

The Underworld without refers to the realm outside of you which includes the dead, our ancestors, spirit guides and psychopompic beings who guide us to and from the above world across the veil to the other side.

If you’ve found your way to this course page, you know that I am a weaver of multiple disciplines and dimensions. I will be your lantern holder into the cave, showing the ways I’ve learned for traversing these pathways, and encouraging your own self-trust and inner knowing so that you can navigate these worlds any time of the year.

Just as caves bring us inside of the planet’s body, so Taurus-Scorpio govern the openings of our human bodies: the mouth-throat and the genitals.

It is the nature of shadow work that when you illuminate and bring home the hidden, you then have increased access to the more throbbing and erotic parts of yourself.

know yourself where the cackle comes through.

CAVE SPACE IS FOR YOU IF…

• Scorpio: Say. No. More.
• You love synthesizing astrology, myth, magic, and ritual
• You dig experimental approaches to learning and unlearning
• You are engaged with your healing path
• You are open to tapping gently at your unconscious realm, where you may have stored trauma, uncomfortable memories, “shadows,” and fears, because you trust in your ability to alchemize these into life force energy for a more integrated self
• You are drawn to or are ready to explore autumnal themes of death and decay
• You want to learn more about Pluto and how Pluto’s invitations run through you and around you
• You love horror movies, Halloween, gothic romances, and Underworld stories
• You collect candelabra, curios, and memento mori
• You trust my stewardship and feel good about saying Yes

At the heart of my approach to Cave Space is compassion, brave honesty, and bawdy humor. If you’re new to exploring what we often call “shadow work,” you can trust that I will not push you anywhere you don’t want to go.

I have found it to be true that snake speech comes out of my mouth effortlessly. (I lead with Mars as Aries Rising.)

To balance this, I cultivate a sumptuous space for our pleasure and enjoyment. (Venus in Pisces is my most powerful placement.)

Most of our time will be spent at the mouth of the cave, as in these photos. We will gather there and settle in to the feeling of being inside the earth a bit, with less light. We’ll explore stories by the lantern light, and let the visions of the stories light up the cave walls for inspiration, understanding, and truth consciousness.

You will be the one who decides how deep you want to explore the pathways down and in.

“Cave Space offered me a container to catalyze the deep transformation that I was in, holding me in its frequency to accompany me in this shift. The alchemical frequency of Cave Space goes deep and the myths, teachings and transmissions were always bringing me the medicine that I needed, through profound insights or powerful triggers. Cave Space was the beginning of a powerful journey that I’m still walking, leading me every day, with each step, closer to my power and myself. I know now that when my soul sent me the erotic yes for Cave Space, she was making sure I wasn’t gonna go in the dark alone. If you feel the yes, follow it. You won’t regret it.” ~ Laurence B-L

CAVE SPACE CURRICULUM

The curriculum offers a mix of live and pre-recorded material. You receive a total of 12 hours of highly potent, engaging, and catalyzing teachings plus loads of Britten’s favorite resources for deeper learning.

There is no “late” or “behind” in Cave Space. If you want in after Scorpio has begun, this is not a problem.

There are 5 live sessions total.

Each 90 minutes.

Meetups will be a mix of transmission, ceremony, ritual, discussion, reflection, and quiet. Each one will be unique. Once you’re inside the container, you will learn more about what to bring and expect.

Attendance is optional, and all teachings will be recorded and work beautifully as replays.

All times listed are Central Standard Time.

Tuesday, October 22, 4-5:30 pm (First day of Scorpio season)

Initiation: Libra to Scorpio: On Becoming the One Who Can Stand What You See

Friday, November 1, 2:30 pm – 4 pm (Samhain & New Moon in Scorpio)

Greeting the Unwanted: Inanna, Ereshkigal, & the Underworld Journey

Wednesday, November 6, 6-7:30 pm (Moon in Capricorn)

Fear & Desire, Grief & Wonder: Vulture Magic & the Emergent No

Thursday, November 14, 4-5:30 pm (Full Moon in Taurus)

“Who Will Plow My Vulva?”: Inanna, the Bull of Heaven, and the Throat-Genitalia Axis 

Thursday, November 21, 10:30-12 pm (Last Day of Scorpio)

Scorpio Dreams of Sag: Preparing to Face the Solstice

There are 3 pre-recorded deep dives.

• A 75-minute conversation with guest teacher Luis Mojica of Holistic Life Navigation on The Alchemy of Trauma Releasing
• A 2-hour Unshaming the Signs: Scorpio recorded transmission
• A 1-hour teaching on how I locate Underworld themes in a natal chart

It’s the nature of the hidden that you don’t know what you’re looking for. This can feel frightening to the parts of us that like to control, to know, to have guarantees.

When you join Cave Space, you are giving your Yes before you have certainty about what you’ll receive there. Your Yes comes from curiosity about a feeling, an instinct that there’s treasure ahead.

Cave Space will not only help you find this unknown treasure, it will offer you an opportunity (root of opportunity is the same as portal – a doorway) to build your own pathway for your Future Self to find more treasure on your own.

Because you say Yes on trust and instinct alone, you are guaranteeing a magical experience. Magical because what unfolds will be charged with the wonder of the unexpected.

What you discover for yourself in Cave Space will be more valuable to you than the cost of admission. This is the nature of an investment (a very Scorpionic word). To invest means to put something valuable in so that it may flow back to you in new form. You invest money, time, attention, and trust into anything, and what flows back astonishes you in its trans-form-ation.

The Exchange

Doors open Wednesday, October 16

Tuition: $250

At-need BIPOC & trans students can find a special code at the sales pages for 20% off

Students in Emergence Astrology Year One, Underdog to Diva, and Moon to Moon, alums of Cave Space 2023, as well as my private clients will all receive special discount codes by email before 10/16.

No refunds or withdrawals after entry.

If you need a payment plan, you can receive one through an outside provider like Affirm or Afterpay after you cross the payment portal.

All participants can purchase my Living the Signs: Scorpio workbook at 30% off for deeper learning.

“The way Britten uses the language of astrology as a tool for confronting the hidden, unloved aspects of ourselves is exactly what I didn’t know I was coming for.”

– M. B., previous Cave Space student

YOUR UNDERWORLD GUIDE

BRITTEN LARUE

I am a transformational guide, astrologer, author, and teacher. I am known for describing the complicated ancient art of astrology in ways that feel profoundly heart-opening, connecting, and inspiring.

Author of the book Living Astrology, I am the founder of Emergence Astrology. Here we speak astrology as a technology of wonder and an ecosystem of support while we co-create our pathways in the dark.

Emergence Astrology disrupts the horoscope economy to empower each of us to listen to the data of what is present. We turn to the cosmic teachers who have just the right curriculum.

In Emergence Astrology, everything is unfolding right on time.

Born with Persephone in Pisces in the 12th House next to her Sun, Mercury, and Venus, I have learned to see my grief as my service. My vulnerability speech as a pathway to wondrous expansion.

I am a trauma-informed practitioner and an openly wounded healer. Some say I am a lantern lighting the way.

As the host of CAVE SPACE, I am calling in an experience that awakens consciousness to parts of you that have been hidden in the dark long enough. I trust that the skills and exercises in this offering will deepen your relationship to your wholeness, sovereignty, and power. I am quite certain we will also have fun.

“Cave Space is a perfect landing place for anyone looking to descend to the depths and reemerge softer than they were before.” – Samar Jade

Questions & Answers

What is a “cave space?”

~ A RETREAT. A space to come home to yourself. To rest. To listen. To hear your inner guidance. The Hermit’s cave.

~ AN EXPERIENCE. The underworld journey described since ancient times, when we die to some parts of our conscious self and ascend renewed and changed.

~ A PRACTICE. An alchemical one. Of consciously allowing yourself in a regular way to listen in the dark, to the songs of the lost or forgotten self, and bring them home.

What is

Some Background Behind My Interest in Cave Spaces

Since before I found astrology, I have been fascinated by underworld stories, aesthetics, and experiences. In fact, my doctoral dissertation was going to be titled The Visualization of Atomic Science in Popular Culture. I had a whole chapter written on the ways the U.S. government sold folks on the military’s building of missile silos under sparsely populated prairies and deserts all over the country.

Our land is literally littered with underground weapon spaces! And I wondered what future humans would say about the ruins of these “cave spaces” when they found them.

In the process of of my research, I studied the underground as a context of myths, science fiction, and fantasy in the history of literature. I ended up writing a paper on Alice in Wonderland. Alice fell down a rabbit hole, which was a hidden silo for dreaming an alternate reality where the world becomes “curiouser and curiouser.”

For this project I learned a powerful term:

katabasis, whose roots mean “going down.”

The katabatic journey describes a narrative structure that includes a threshold crossing, a descent, an inversion, and then a re-ascent. Any time we move through periods of change, we often feel like we’re undergoing katabasis.

At the center of the mythology of Scorpio is the myth of Persephone and all of the related stories of journeys to the Underworld. In these Cave Spaces, we witness characters who inspire us with ways to reframe our struggles with magical language.

“Therapy” comes from the Greek therapeia meaning “attendance upon the gods.”

This suggests that what we seek in therapeutic modalities are the right deities, archetypes, principles, or stories to bring in for integration and healing.

This is part of why I love astrology and the tarot, and their related myths. You can call on the archetypes to “attend” to you: to help you awaken into your full self.

Questions? Reach out at info@brittenlarue.com.