Becoming a Priestess: Training and Preparation
Welcome to Part 9 of Becoming a Priestess Series. I am so glad you are here… Let’s dive in a bit 🧚🏼♀️
There is a moment — sudden or slow—when the sacred calls your name.
You feel it not with your ears, but with your bones.
It doesn’t sound like language, but longing.
The pull toward the priestess path is ancient. Fierce. Tender. Inevitable.
And once you feel it, nothing else will satisfy your soul.
But how do we begin to walk a path that stretches across centuries and timelines, through temples, tombs, and stars?
The answer:
We train.
We practice.
We research.
We embody.
We listen
Because priestesshood is not a title we claim — it is a sacred frequency we live. It is cultivated through devotion, curiosity, and repetition. Through sacred study and messy humanity. Through remembering and unlearning. Through dancing with mystery until it becomes your mother tongue. We train to hold more light. We practice to stay grounded in truth. We research the ancient paths to reweave what was broken. We listen to our heart and the Goddess. And we embody, again and again, the medicine we are here to carry.
The Ancient Mystery Schools
In ancient times, spiritual training was not casual. It was a sacred initiation — a lifelong devotion. Women called to the priestess path would enter Mystery Schools in places like Egypt, Avalon, Delphi, or the temples of Isis, Inanna, or Hathor.
These were not short-term experiences. They were years — sometimes lifetimes — of:
Temple rituals and cosmic alignment
Alchemical purification of the body and soul
Embodiment of divine feminine archetypes
Silent retreats, oracular rites, and elemental initiations
Direct transmission from High Priestesses and star wisdom keepers
These schools were secret, rigorous, and often dangerous to access. They required silence. Purity. Total devotion.
And the rewards? Transfiguration. Power. Service to something far greater than the self.
These were women who remembered how to walk between worlds.
Women who anointed kings and channelled prophecy.
Women who served in veils and candlelight, offering the divine back to the earth.
Modern Mystery Schools
Today, the temples look different. We meet in Zoom rooms instead of stone sanctuaries. We light candles in flats, not ancient caves. Our teachers don’t know our names due to “self-paced” pre-recorded trainings. But the essence — the invitation to live as a vessel of the sacred — remains.
Modern priestess trainings carry threads of the old ways, but in a world that is profoundly different. Some are steeped in lineage and devotion. Others are creative, intuitive, and freshly channelled. There is more accessibility now — but also more noise.
Modern trainings can be:
Beautifully immersive, weaving ceremony and sisterhood
Focused on empowerment, healing, or embodiment
Infused with psychological tools, somatics, energy medicine
Expensive — because holding sacred space is no small task
Yet sometimes too rushed or aesthetic-driven to go deep
This is not to judge the modern path. Only to say: discernment is essential. Not every program that uses the word “priestess” is a Mystery School. And not every true teacher comes with a temple background.
The Beauty and the Cost
Let us not romanticize the path. Priestess training will cost you — And not just in money (though often, yes, it is an investment).
It will cost you illusions.
It will cost you false identities.
It will cost you the comfort of hiding.
But it will give you so much more:
The remembrance of your soul’s voice.
The power to stand as a channel of grace.
The joy of being in integrity with your deepest truth.
It is not a performance.
It is not a brand.
It is a lifetime path of service, devotion, and transformation.
Preparing for the Temple Path
If you are feeling the call—but unsure where to begin — know that your preparation has already started.
You are not behind.
You are not unworthy.
You are simply being asked to root before you rise.
That is why I am creating the Priestess Training Prep Course, soon available through House of Soul Alchemy on Substack.
This self-guided offering is a soft yet powerful starting point.
It doesn’t rush you—it attunes you.
Inside, you’ll explore:
🌹 What it means to walk as a priestess in modern life
🌙 Reflections on sacred responsibility and discernment
⚜️ Foundational energy practices for temple readiness
🖋️ Journal prompts to clarify your soul’s call
🔥 Teachings that bridge ancient wisdom and modern expression 🪽 Feminist theology of the Goddesses and Ascended Masters 🌀 Space for questions, discussions, and medicine circles.
It is a warm, sacred threshold.
Not the whole path — but the opening of the gate.
✨ If this speaks to you, I invite you to get on the waiting list and I will be in touch once the doors open.
Let this be your first sacred yes.
The quiet beginning before the spiral deepens.
The soft step onto stone temple floors that live, now, inside your Soul.
With Love,
Katia
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