Part 1 | Priestess Presence

PART 1: 9 CORE PRIESTESS SKILLS
Please take some time to read through the following seminal skills of the Priestess and see how adept you feel with them.
Rate yourself from 1-5 (1 meaning not at all, 5 meaning adept.)

Remembrance:

Of creating sacred space and claim the priestess gifts you carry this lifetime. This includes:

- Feeling and remembering what it means to stand as a modern- day, Alchemical Priestess.

- Understanding the social, cultural, and spiritual function of the Priestess.

- Know what it means to "hold presence" and form an "alchemical vessel."

- Reclaiming the Priestess by entering a remembrance ritual with a direct embodiment practice.

- Claiming the keys of your Priestess lineage(s).

Empty Presence:

Dropping out of your mind then into your inner heart and womb knowing. As a priest/ess of the Temple of I am Not, how much ease do you have in this skill? This includes

Demonstrating Empty Presence

- Willingness not to “know” with the mind, rather remaining in empty presence.

- Being in the present moment.

- Accessing truth directly from the “womb of silence.”

- Experience in the mystery: I Surrender/I Receive as a state of being from which everything is born.

- Activation of the Sacred Tool of The Cauldron.

- Experience Empty Presence as an embodied practice.

- Embrace presence and emptiness as words that create an opening for you to embody the Divine Feminine.

- Ability to access your ability to "hold space" by becoming the "still mirror" so your organic wisdom emerges.

Feeling Navigation, Resonance, and Coherence:

The art of subtle awareness where you develop your intuition and oracular skills. How do you rate your ease in demonstrating feeling navigation, resonance, and coherence: some of the primary skills of the priest/ess? This means:

Coherency
- Being able to coherently follow the current of energy where it is going in each moment and act on its prescribed direction.

Feeling Navigation
- Operating from the requiredness of the moment.
- Demonstrating stewardship and discernment as to whether something that is being said or done is relevant to the whole or personal in nature.

Resonance
- Directing the flow toward coherency and the larger, more mythic archetypal and transpersonal containers of Self.

Experience direct embodiment of Feeling Navigation, Coherence, and Resonance.

Ability to cultivate your skills to pool silence, listen-in, and hold space.

Awakening the Open Heart:

Understand the open heart as the portal through which you connect to your Essence and divinity. This includes:

- Entering the mystery of Unconditional Love.

- Embracing surrendering to the intimacy of "being here now."

- Accessing the ways you've shut your heart to vulnerable, intimate love.

- Willingness to dissolve shields you've been wearing to protect your heart from love.

- Revealing your vulnerability as a source of strength and depth in your life.

- Willingness to deal with the shadows of comparison and competition that would otherwise divide and separate us.

- Immersion in the frequency of True Beauty.

- Vulnerable strength.

- Direct embodiment practices to awaken the heart and experience the transformational power of unconditional love through Aphrodite.

- Unmasking, embracing, and fully loving all parts of you that have held the stories of perfection.

- Understanding that intimacy and vulnerability are gateways to magnetism—which does not seek validation outside self.

Authentic Power and Sovereign Alignment:

Embrace radical self-responsibility, anchor what truth and aligned power feels like in your body, and activate your Inner Queen. How at ease are you with this seminal practice? It includes:

Authentic Power
-  Entering the mystery of I Intend/I Empower.
-  Claiming your Authentic Power.
-  Embracing all the ways in which you wobble from being aligned with your authentic power.
-  Seeing where you've avoided standing in your power and felt afraid to be in your center.
- Alchemizing the shadow of misaligned power.

Sovereign Alignment
- Demonstrating the ability to take responsibility for the upliftment and inspiration of the circle as a whole.
-  Learning how to anchor and discern what truth feels like in your body so that you can always return to what feels real.

Sacred Witness
-  Demonstration of being able to hold the position of the sacred witness of each being’s transformation.
- Understanding that all beings are self determined in their awareness and relationship to the whole.
-  Knowing there is no need to fix, change or advise anyone.
-  Trust concerning how shadow is archetypally catalyzed and resolved.

Experience direct embodiment of your authentic power and sovereign alignment through accessing your inner Sovereign Queen—who represents radical self-responsibility, impeccability, and truth.

Integrity and Truth:

Remember the seminal skill of determining what is real. How at ease are you with the skills of integrity and truth? This includes:

Truth
- Discernment into what is real.
- Understanding what truth feels like in the body.
-  Knowing that truth can change moment-to-moment.
-  Adept at feeling navigation to determine what is real.
-  Accessing your inner truth and find the seat of your integrity.

Integrity
-  Discernment and aligning with what is real.
- Taking loving action and remaining in alignment with what is true.
-  Accessing self-authority.
-  Standing in direct alignment with the Divine Mother.
-  Demonstration of self-authority and self-empowerment and the lack of any need to ask for “permission” for anything of anyone outside the Self.
- Demonstration of the difference between Essence-based and ego-based decisions.

Devotion and Blessing:

Free the caged feelings of limitation, transforming it to abundance and flow. How at ease do you feel with this practice? It includes:

Devotion
-  Commitment in Action.
-  Demonstration of your commitment to the Path of the Priest/ess in this lifetime by creating a vision and/or mission statement that supports your life through doing Goddess work.
-  Working directly with the shadows of limitation and scarcity as powerful gateways to freedom.
- Freeing stories of limitation, transforming them to new stories of abundance and flow.

Blessing
-  Embracing manifestation as a heart-aligned act of love.
-  Feeling into what’s calling to be manifested through you.
-  Attuning to refinement—an energetic subtle realm that increases vitality and aliveness in all aspects of life.
- Clarifying the motivations of your desires to increase the magnetic field of abundance.
- Amplifying your desires and state of abundance through sustainability, satiation, and ultimately, Lakshmi's gift of enrichment.

Non-Attachment:

Skill to liberate your ego’s attachment to roles and identifiers. How at ease do you feel in this skill? It includes:

-  Meeting Others on Equal Ground.
- Demonstrating a clear relationship to the non-egoic use of personal power.
- Moving beyond the “student/teacher” modality in not needing to be seen as anything but an equal in a circle of equals.
-  Being aligned with any action or manifestation you’re being called to take/create and letting go of any outcomes of what that “should” look like.
-  Building upon Empty Presence and the Womb of Silence, knowing that you are supported at all times.
-  Trusting the highest good in all aligned circumstances.
- Releasing any potential outcome to what your role or ego wants, surrendering to what is.
-  Clarification of how the labels serve you and may also impact your ability to fully serve.
-  Distinguishing the energetic difference between walking the Priestess path and owning the role of Priestess.

Ecstasy, Bliss, and Freedom:

Anchor the practice of turning toward love, at all times, to live a life of tender, open, vulnerability so that we can transmit and pollinate new stories in ourselves and in our world. This includes:

Ecstasy
-  Understanding the power of the magnetic field that is created through trust, release, and surrender.
-  Embodying your sensuality.
-  Having some clarity around how you're specifically being called to embody sensual, erotic aliveness.

Bliss
-  Awakening your blissful sensuality as a radical path of embodied presence.

Freedom
-  Unveiling, releasing, and transforming deeply held old stories of shame in the body—collectively and individually.