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Embodying the Priestess | Canada Day Magic

Artist: Katia Honour

Artist: Katia Honour

On Canada Day I was very excited to be working a high-end party in Downtown Vancouver. I was hired to do readings for two hours. It was the perfect opportunity for me to dress up and embody the Priestess that I am. The Priestesses work is varied and often Priestesses have a particular skill or ability that they enjoy doing and specialize in. In Indian Culture there are 64 Arts Priestesses used to be trained in that range from dancing, singing, and flower arranging to carpentry, architecture, and word crafting. If anything every happened the Priestess would be prepared to take care of herself and she would be a valued member of society.

The Priestess in my opinion is a representative of the Divine Feminine. When she is doing her work she is literally a conduit of that energy and a perfect representation of Source energy. It is why she is accurate and potent in her work and how she can be so “tapped in”. When I work at a party  like this, it is one of my favourite things, because I get to dress up and be that representative of the Divine and hold space in a way I don’t get to often do. It is a sacred space, and I open myself to allow the perfection of Divine Flow to work through me when I am in this space.

As per the Divine Flow I broke my phone on my way to the party rendering it inoperable. It was dropped as my friend tied my dress for the party. I worked for two hours, reading after reading non-stop, due to the line up of clients. On the last reading I did my dress broke, a signal to me that there would be no more readings that day. I changed into the extra dress I had brought (thank god for intuition!) and was surprised how much my energy changed just based on the dress I wore.

It took me a few hours to come back into my body fully, and when I did, I came back with joy and gratitude for this beautiful experience and opportunity to embody the Priestess, something that I love, and hope to do more of as I continue my studies and practice.  Such gratitude. <3

P.S. I was talking with a Priestess friend of mine and we have both agreed that there needs to be a clothing line of Priestess wear for ceremonial use. I am starting to collect ideas as I’d love to make this line a reality in the future, within the next five to ten years, but I have a lot to learn by then. I would love to hear if you have any Priestess clothing links to stores and jewellery people!

Late New Moon Post!

Ah! Apologies for the late blog post this week! I would say that it won’t happen again, but it very well might.

You see, this week I’ve realized that I have a ton of projects on the go, none of which are close to completion. The pile keeps getting added to while I’m feeling the importance of writing for this blog, my own novel and content for the Willows Lavender newsletter (still awaiting its first edition).

I decided this week to re-prioritize everything that I’m doing. I’m feeling a pull to complete a few things that have been lagging for the past few months. So, the blog post is late because I started maybe five of them, but none of them have sufficient quality content that I would be happy to post due to the lack of contemplation.

Thus, I’ve decided to write a short blog post in honor of this past weekends New Moon!

I have come to love the passing of the New and Full moons because they signify a passage of time that is natural and inherent to our own bodies passage of time. Since being a child I’ve often wondered what it was like to live in a time where the only time keepers were the sun and the moon instead of the artificial time that we race around to now. Instinctively it feels that to me we would all be much more relaxed, and our bodies would function better.

Never did I guess that by simply acknowledging the passage of the Moons with ceremony that my body would adjust itself to the natural cycle of the moon.

I’ve recorded for the last four months that my period ends the day the New Moon begins. Last year at this time, my cycle was irregular and I could only guess when my flow would start. Now I know exactly when it will start. It has stayed regular throughout all of the changes and stress in my life over the past four months which is amazing to me.

Just before the New Moon I will feel quite tired, and things that need to end will be ended that week. My understanding of this is that in a new cycle energies that are no longer serving me don’t need to be in the new. It might screw up the manifestation power of the New Moon if old energies join new!

On the day of my ceremony for the New Moon I will write down all the new things I want to invite into my life, and look over the things that I’ve asked for the last New Moons. Gratitude hits me with each stroke of my pen that crosses off the things that have manifest for me, the wishes that have come true, the wishes that came true but weren’t quite right, and the knowledge that my wishes will come true.

Each night I find myself out and about I catch myself looking for the moon in the sky and breathing in the sweet and fresh air – its a moment to pause everything and give respect to the power that nature still holds over us even in the city. With each passing I find myself being more and more drawn to join the nature that surrounds me.

I think nature is growing on me… I was thinking of going camping soon…