Temple Priestesses

The Daughters of the Goddess Womyn’s Temple Priestess training program is a journey for womyn interested in serving Goddess and the Temple in a deeper way. Each womyn that has completed our program has exhibited a deep commitment to her own personal transformation as a foundation for creating healing and magickal space for others.

In Daughters of the Goddess, we feel that our magick, mana, and spiritual power is only as strong as the commitment we make to actualizing change and transformation within our own selves. As we change ourselves by examining our shadows and strengths, we are better able to hold the bigger circle for other womyn to enter into. Through creating this larger energetic container within and around ourselves, we become capable of midwifing and facilitating the journey of spiritual awakening and regeneration of the Goddess path.

Prerequisites:
1. Full attendance at Open and Tita Series for a minimum of one year
2. Successful completion of Daughters of the Goddess Witch School
3. Participation in Kokua
4. Dedication to Daughters of the Goddess Temple and its mission

I’m a native Californian, born in San Francisco. I was raised in a small town just south of the city. My first introduction to Goddess was through the Catholic Church, in the form of Mary. The church I attended with my parents had a huge painting of Mary behind the altar that covered the wall from floor to ceiling. It wasn’t until my early teens that I realized that they were actually celebrating the man not the Mother. I left the church in search of Her.

I was a Solitary for many years. I learned my craft in the quiet of my bedroom, running through the foothills, on the beach, and by the bay. I learned the tides of the oceans, seasons, cycles and rhythms of this wonderful place we live. I learned how the moon above is our shining star, and how She of 10,000 Names is in all of these things and in us. Thankfully she led me to Leilani and Daughters of the Goddess in October of 1999. I started my Priestess training with Leilani shortly after coming to the circle and was initiated on June 9, 2001. I found that the learning didn’t stop there. I’ve continued my training by working with my Sisters within Daughters of the Goddess, and in the Spiral Door program in the Temple of Diana.

I especially thank you, Leilani, for establishing this Temple, and continuing the work for the last nine years. I hope to walk at least another nine beside you. And to you, my Sisters, blessings of the Goddess shine upon you. I hope to see you in circle.

Patrice

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My background includes a degree in creative writing, an abiding love for medicinal/magickal herbalism and our Green Allies, and a lifelong commitment to feminism and the raising up and empowerment of womyn. I hope to help facilitate the healing of womynkind, so that we may once again remember who we are, and rise up and call Her name together in community and sisterhood.

I feel blessed to call Leilani Teacher, Sister, Mentor and High Priestess. I am deeply grateful for her love and guidance, and for this wonderful community of womyn—Sisters—she has brought together. I am hugely thankful for the teachings she has shared with me, as well as the expectation that I would always do my best.

I give thanks to all those womyn, named and unnamed, who have laid the groundwork on this spiraling path, and who have shared their love, knowledge, and wisdom with me. I give special gratitude and great respect to those whom I consider my Elders and Teachers: Z Budapest, Mother of the Dianic Tradition, High Priestess Bendis of the Blue Roebuck Tradition, Herbalist Barbara Nardozzi of Bramblewood Herbs and Gardens in Hinesburg, Vermont, Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar of Sage and Founder of The California School of Herbal Studies, High Priestess Oloya Tyehimba-Scott of The Kindred of ShiEndra, Moon Priestess Extraordinaire Sobeit, and Priestess and Singer ALisa Starkweather. These womyn have all gifted me with a part of themselves that allowed me to more fully expand myself.

Thank you
Jesamyn

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