Priestess
by Rainbow Jo
If you are called to be a priestess do not rejoice.
You must first undertake a long and arduous training.
Some of it will be very painful.
You will probably never see your greatest teachers.
You will be alone when you most need help.
You must learn to be strong in your times of greatest weakness.
You must always feel the pain to reach the understanding and the
acceptance.
And in the end you will have gained knowledge, which you can never pass
on.
You will be alone at your time of greatest power and no-one will ever
know.
The lessons never end, even when life ends.
Do not choose this path lightly.
You must turn and look at it, and know what is to come, and you must
accept it because, for you, there is no other way.
But if you are called, and choose knowingly, then every lesson will be
within your grasp.
You will never face hardship you cannot overcome.
There will always be help when you need it.
You will find strength when you are weak.
And pain, you will come to find, is the terrible gift, from the greatest
teacher.
If you can still laugh at yourself, and rejoice, then life goes on as it
should.
Some say the above is rather pessimistic, all that pain... It does seem to miss mentioning the great joy and fascination of being a Priest or Priestess of the Old Ones, of the Goddess. As the mysteries unfold it spurs you on, thinking, feeling and experiencing them. Then one day you realize you are not the same person you were when you started, mind, body and spirit have begun to merge as one... you are becoming a Priestess.
If you aspire to this, and are prepared for the tears and the years there are two ways we can offer:
You can take my online course. Go to 'what is paganism' and follow the links to Wicca. Remember that Wicca is just a tag give to the main path; there are many parallel paths and forks you will want to consider along the way. There is a yahoo group associated with this course. This is a world wide group with over 400 students.
You can join the small physical group in Norfolk/Cambridge UK. This is organised as an inner court/ outer court structure and we also have Priests in training by our High Priestess. Come and be one, become one, be one, be
picture: Thebian Priestess
