Healing the Priestess Wound:
Remember Your Radiant Gifts & Power
- priestess “herstory” & wounds
- goddess culture
- healing & liberating gifts
Are you drawn to or repelled by the word, priestess?
Perhaps you’re magnetized to this word…
It’s likely you simultaneously sense a remembrance and a distinct feeling of discomfort.
Maybe it arouses a deep fear within you of being mocked, scorned, or humiliated.
These are common responses to such a powerful word and historical role.
Let’s dispel some of the mystique together.
During this webinar, you’ll learn about the herstory of the priestess, the demise of Goddess culture, and why so many of us carry specific priestess wounds—similar to, but different from, the witch wounds.
Our mothers & grandmothers took us to the temple to train in the rituals, arts, and ceremonies of the Goddess
In ancient times, our temples were in every corner of the earth, built in every form imaginable…
We lay in dream temples, dreaming our world into being.
With the rhythm of the waxing-waning of the moon, we bled together, speaking in languages of light and vibrational beauty.
We trained in various healing arts:
Astrology, magic, alchemy, divination, oracle, prophecy, energy, dreamwork, herbal medicine, blood mysteries, sacred sound, sexuality, and theater.
The Priestess was a community leader, responsible for spiritual health
The Priestess was part healer, oracle, visionary, and ceremonial leader.
She held a position of great importance and was the container—the alchemical vessel—for her community’s hopes and dreams.
When people visited the temple, they were received by priestesses who blessed them with oracle readings, sacred healing, sexual initiation, soul challenges, penetrating love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
She:
- Midwifed births
- Anointed at death
- Held the doors open to all levels of spiritual knowing
- Guided those who stepped into the mysteries
The Priestess was part healer, oracle, visionary, and ceremonial leader.
She held a position of great importance and was the container—the alchemical vessel—for her community’s hopes and dreams.
When people visited the temple, they were received by priestesses who blessed them with oracle readings, sacred healing, sexual initiation, soul challenges, penetrating love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
She:
- Midwifed births
- Anointed at death
- Held the doors open to all levels of spiritual knowing
- Guided those who stepped into the mysteriesy
With the love of the Goddess radiating from us, we healed & reminded others of their wholeness
We sat with the scorned.
We aided the ill.
With embodied grace, we held the Mystery in our hearts and wombs.
All of us—men, women, two-spirits, every being—bowed to the Goddess.
We loved Her, honored Her.
Do you remember?
Our temples & mystery schools were systematically destroyed by the patriarchy & church
The winds bit like the sting of a scorpion.
You could taste the bitter air, ripe with blood and fire.
Iron and ash were on the edge of the horizon.
There was an infiltration of fear, swift and sly as a trained intruder.
Eeriness spread, dense as a poisonous fog.
Our sacred spaces became vacant, mired with hostility.
Our music dimmed to hushed chanting prayers.
Fear howled on the ethers, ricocheting across the plains.
We recognized the chill in our bones…
It became the deepest winter of winters.
–The Sacred Call of the Ancient Priestess,
Elayne Kalila & Rebecca Cavender
Over the past 3,000 years, Goddess temples have been destroyed, Her image defiled, and our collective knowing of Her left in ruins
We’ve been navigating with the absence of the Divine Mother in our cultural and spiritual lives.
Without our sisterhood and temples, it became easy to believe lies the toxic patriarchy told us to stifle our freedom and feminine power.
This has had catastrophic consequences for our world with the demise of how we honor all nature, the Earth herself, and one another.
Eventually, all forms of priestess arts and folk medicine became outlawed and banished…
Those of us with priestess ancestry and encoded memory of other lifetimes, remember, in our bodies, being punished, maimed, tortured, killed.
Consequently, we’ve been conditioned to distrust our intuition and our innate wisdom.
We still feel the repercussions of this today…
Priestess can evoke ancient memories of
joy, devotion, and even painful wounds
Although her mystical presence was a crucial ingredient in communities globally, the Priestess has not been recognized with the reverence she deserves in our culture for thousands of years.
The diminishment of the Divine Feminine and the sacred role of the Priestess has created wounds that continue to reverberate.
You probably recognize some of these priestess wounds:
- Something “wrong” with you
- Fear of humiliation & being “cast out”
- Powerlessness, domination
- Innate unworthiness
- Shame of body, intuition, sexuality
- Not being enough
- Being “too much”
- Deep-seated fear of being seen
Perhaps you have fears around embodying your…
- Gifts & magic
- Freedom of expression
- Authentic purpose
- Innate feminine power
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It’s time to come out of hiding…
So many women with priestess wounds have the fear of being truly seen, of being visible.
There are compelling reasons for hiding out. I hear them almost every day from the sisters I walk beside:
“It’s not safe to come out.”
“I will fail if I do.”
“People won’t like me.”
“I will be be shamed or humiliated.”
“I am not enough.”
“I am too much.”
…and so the list goes on.
You’re not alone if you’ve felt this way.
Many of us are afraid of showing up, because it hasn’t been safe for us to openly share our connection to the Divine Feminine.
The Goddess has risen again and you’re now safe to be seen and embody your priestess wisdom.
As you do, every part of your life will shift to create the space for you to radiate your power and divine liberation!
Let’s gather & heal
these sacred wounds
Alchemize your priestess wounds to...
- Stand in your power & the reclamation of your gifts
- Reclaim & reinstate the reverence, respect, and true vocation of priestess in the community
- Heal sisterhood wounds & deepen in authentic connection with women
- Work with any wound to release its gift
- Be more present & centered in your life
- Show up in your authenticity & truth
Beloved, step into your brilliant, feminine power
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Disclaimer
The Priestess Presence LLC “Path of the Alchemical Priestess: Enter the Mystery Foundation Program ” is an initiatory process for spiritual training. This program is not designed to treat or diagnose any psychological disorders. If you have any mental health issues please consult with your medical practitioner before joining the program. It requires breaking through old patterns and ways of being – an initiatory process that can feel uncomfortable. Our work affects many levels (mental and emotional), is rigorous and not for those who suffer from mental disabilities, depression, have suicidal episodes or are presently in therapy.
The Priestess Presence LLC “Path of the Alchemical Priestess: Enter the Mystery Foundation Program ”/ The 13 Moon Mystery School and its founder, Ariel Spilsbury, and Focalizer Elayne Kalila Doughty, are not, and will not, be held liable for any assumed damage that is deemed to occur at any time. Initiates must accept that all knowledge is given in good faith. Initiates must understand that they are entering into training in a pioneer field and all such training is given in good faith to the highest known safety standards or perceived practices within this discipline.