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The Seven Gates of Becoming: A Soul's Initiation

Writer: SHE Is Annette
SHE Is Annette
Jun 6, 2025
3 min read

Written by: Annette Aviles

There comes a moment where everything collapses…The fear gets loud. The emotions feel endless. The pain — personal and collective — grips you.

But this isn't the end. This is the activation. A soul contract unfolding. A portal disguised as chaos.


You didn’t come here to follow the crowd. You came to break free. To split from the programmed hive. To walk into the unpredictable field of potential —where your true self waits. Don't cling to the fear. Don’t hook into the emotions. They’re energy in motion. Temporary messengers. You’re not broken. You’re remembering, And this moment…is the fire that forges you!


The following is from the Inanna the Goddess of Love, War, Fertility and Political Power also known as Ishtar the Queen of Heaven which shaped Aphrodite, Astarte and Venus. Her mythical presence is dual in nature with the embodiment of sensuality and destruction, creation and chaos. Known as the Goddess who descends into the underworlds to strip away Illusions and rises transformed a mirror to your own journey.


This is an initiation, called forth from Inanna and your soul to choose transformation.


"You have arrived. The path opens before you. The hive trembles, urging you to stay. But the fire inside you knows—you did not come to obey. You came to become. Walk forward. Shed the illusion. Cross the gates. And rise."


Gate 1: The Gate of Fear   "You stand at the threshold, gripping the familiar. The hive tells you to stay, to obey, to shrink. But fear is not your master. Step forward and leave behind the illusion of safety." You have released your fear, step forward, who were you before the mask?


Gate 2: The Gate of Identity   "Strip away the title, the expectation, the mask you built to survive. Who were you before the programming? Before they told you what to be?" Release the identity of old programing and move into surrender.


Gate 3: The Gate of Control   "Your grip is tight; your hands bruised from holding too much. But becoming is not force—it is surrender. Release what you cannot control, and step forward." Get ready to meet the other part of yourself.


Gate 4: The Gate of Grief (Meeting Ereshkigal) "Here, you face the abandoned self—the shadow, the sorrow, the rage that was silenced. She is your mirror. Do not turn away." This is not divine timing, it's time for integration.

Gate 5: The Gate of Stillness (The Hook) "Here, you hang suspended. The void is quiet, waiting. Transformation is not instant let yourself pause before the rise." You are not better you are and always have been whole.

Gate 6: The Gate of Power   "Rise now, but do not return unchanged. The fire burned away the illusion. What remains is your truth." Great power is not in what you say it's in how you experienced and felt from a greater truth.


Gate 7: The Gate of Sovereignty (The Remerging ) "You do not belong to the hive. You belong to yourself. And now, you walk as one who has seen, felt, and returned awakened."


"You are sovereign. You carry the fire of descent and rise as one who has seen, felt, and returned awakened. No one can take this knowing from you. You are free." Carry on differently the same, PERFECT, WHOLE AND COMPLETE!"


I share this knowing that some of us are walking this now, stripping away illusion, meeting your shadows, preparing for your rise, so Inanna's story is your story and mine, and you are not just reading about her you are her.














 
 
 

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