I’ve been a-making a new witchy journal for Samhain. (This is admittedly fueled by my stationary-buying addiction.) So I have been reading through my old witchy journal for any nuggets of gold that can inspire my new one.
Earlier this year, I was hunting for spiritual direction, some way to to work towards my concept of Priestessfullness. The idea of being a priestess has always been very alluring to me, however, no priestess training programs that I have read quite resonate with me in the way I feel they should. I figured that the best way to work out what being a priestess would mean to me would be to really think about and put to paper what a priestess would be like. So this is what I wrote.
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What does being a priestess mean? What would a priestess be like?
She would be a visionary. She would start every day at her altar, blessing herself and the day ahead. She would pour love and light into her day. She would ask God and Goddess for help, and center herself in their love. She would give offerings to them.
A priestess would accept herself as she was. She wouldn’t take on too much work and she would leave herself lots of time to be unstressed in. A priestess would create in honour of the Goddess. A priestess would honour herself. She would feed herself good food and look after her body. A priestess would do very regular rituals of self love, devotion to gods, self-honour and purification. Like one a week of each.
A priestess listens to the Goddess’ voice in her heart, and does her work fearlessly. A priestess surrenders to Goddess and her will and wished for her, and she is happy about it.
A priestess meditates every day, and takes time to listen to Goddess.
She recycles and spends lots of time outside, she has a full and happy life. She is a lovely person. She is strong and soft and fearless and compassionate. She brings her whole priestess self into everything, and spends her life doing what her deepest Goddess self tells her to do.
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I am so glad I re-discovered this. I find it so inspiring. The key thing I feel about my priestess description is that she loves and supports herself no matter what and doesn’t get angry at herself for not doing x amount of things today. She goes easy on herself, and shows herself great love and tenderness always. I remember being surprised when I wrote this originally that self love was such a huge point for my inner priestess self. I had no idea.
I now see that isn’t about guilting yourself into doing spiritual things. It’s ok not to be taking overt spiritual action all the time.
I feel like I have direction again in my spirituality. Using my priestess ideal, I’ve been able to write a list of actionables to take me closer to my priestess self, and to give me stuff to do when I feel the spiritual urge but am unsure of what to do about it. I know what I am aiming for now, and because it’s priestessery according to me, it feels good and right.
I love this! I love how self-loving your idea of Priestess is, which makes perfect sense as a devotee to the god/dess.. it’s definitely something to aspire to!
All of this is lovely and very much in alignment with what I thought a Priestess should do as I prepared to go into training. Now 2 years after ordination, I find the Buddhist saying to be true; before becoming a Priestess chop wood/carry water, after becoming a Priestess chop wood/carry water.
May Goddess bless you on your path!
Oh my Goddess this is beautiful! I love your description and how inspiring it is. I too have always been called to becoming a Priestess. In fact, so much so that when I was young, being raised Catholic, I thought I wanted to be a Nun, it was more about the community of women, then for the reasons one would be come a nun. Later, when I found my spiritual path, I’ve read up on lots of Priestess trainings, but have yet to find a good fit for me. You inspire me ♥
Beautiful post! I think we are all on the path of becoming those things that we most admire. When I was younger I would imagine an older woman in my life, who embodied the qualities that I wanted in a mentor. One day several years ago I realized that I had become that woman. It was very moving for me. I know you will be able to attract what you need at each stage of your journey.
This is so gorgeous and something we should all aspire to. It beautifully highlights the fact that in order to nourish and nurture others we must continually nourish and nurture ourselves and the goddess within us all. ♥
Brilliant description – I think when I did my priestess training, this is very close to how I envisaged my life would be.
Blessings
TANJA