Women's Mysteries - Rites of Passage & Priestesses.

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Women's Mysteries - Rites of Passage & Priestesses.

Definition of a Priestess; a woman regarded as a leader (as of a movement)

What are the powers of a priestess? ~ Associated Powers ~ Forbidden Knowledge~ Magic Detection ~ Magic Intuition.


Women’s Mysteries are the physical, emotional, and psychic life cycle passages that women share by having been born female, by having experienced girlhood, and by living as women in a patriarchal society.

Women were the midwives, they held the wisdom to these sacred rites of passage, and we are claiming them back.

Personal Ritual.

Personal ritual can be transformative in so many ways. Bringing ritual into our life can help us to claim new paths, to recognize where we have been or where we are going, to call in what we desire and transform ourselves.
Ritual can be a private event or a meaningful shared celebration. Rituals can be sign posts on the road of our life, marking times of transition and significance.
The scope for creativity and invention in personal ritual is endless, and there’s no life event or desire too small or too big to be addressed through ritual and dance.

Life Passages.
In everyone’s life, changes happen that move us from one state of being to another.
Rites of passage recognize the importance and sacredness of these transformations.
Weddings - Baby Blessings ~ New Mother Blessing ~ Funerals ~ First bloods ~ Physical & Life transitions.
We all go through many life passages throughout our life and through this apprenticeship we will re-create and claim back theses rites of passage again.

The invitation to create meaningful rites for ourselves, then, is a radical one.
It is an invitation to move freely into our own spiritual lives, to take charge of marking the passages that we find significant, in the ways that we deem meaningful.
And if something has been lost in our becoming a less tradition-bound culture, something equally valuable has also been gained:
the freedom to take responsibility for the direction and meaning of our own lives.

The task now is to claim and shape this freedom — consciously, deliberately, and joyfully.

Every rite of passage is an act of becoming, an act of taking responsibility for the self we are choosing to become next.
A meaningful rite binds knowledge to action, intention to expression, doing to being. For women, this is a matter of weaving the Masculine into the heart of the Feminine.

'I am here,' a rite of passage says. 'I am present in my life.'