Betrayal, the initiation you never knew you needed

Women on the Priestess path, that is the path of embodying the full spectrum of your power and thus bringing your creativity and spiritual gifts to this world, often go through life-altering experiences. Usually, these events are painfully brutal, don’t make sense, and leave you asking why me?. The truth is what you have experienced is not only unfair but also undeserved. You may have had different parts of your innocence taken from you, your kindness mistaken for naivety, and your sometimes unsuspecting nature be used against you. It can often times feel like we are gazelles surrounded by hyenas waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on us just to leave nothing left.

The betrayals and heartbreak we experience reveal dark truths about human nature while enabling us to shed the maiden archetype so that we can embody our power in its purest form. To elaborate, the maiden archetype consists of attributes society- particularly, patriarchy has programmed women to believe we need to embody so that we can be desirable. People pleasing behaviour, dumbing ourselves down, leaking our feminine energy and essentially teaching us to be prey. For the priestess, as well as other women, embodying the maiden archetype can leave us in incredibly dangerous and shattering positions where recovery becomes extremely difficult. This is because of three factors the priestess always stands out and effortlessly draws out the shadow sides of both men and women, the priestess in her wounded form requires pruning on a cellular level to close out karmic cycles, the priestess has a very specific and narrow path to take so great deviation from her path can bring about dire consequences.

When priestesses (whether they are consciously aware of their identity or not) experience betrayals, they cut deep on a spiritual level. For us, betrayals reveals the dark nature of humans who refuse to do the inner work, but instead project their darkness onto us through violence. I can recount many times people who were meant to care for me and love me wanted to diminish my light, unleashed their violence onto me, or simply wanted me gone.

Navigating the pangs and confusion of betrayal is an experience that cannot be entirely articulated through words. I have found myself swinging between vengeful thoughts and the desperation to quickly get rid of the heavy feeling betrayal brings.

My ability to alchemise betrayal into deeper embodiment of my power did not come from forgiving those who betrayed me. While I forgave them (which by the way was not a one time choice) so my power could easily flow through me without being constricted by ideations of vengeance and deep feelings of bitterness, my deeper embodiment of my power came through the process of betrayal itself.

Let me explain, betrayal, in whatever form it comes against the priestess activates our dormant power, abilities, and DNA. This is especially true of betrayal that is extremely metaphysical in nature such as spiritual attacks, spell work, and various forms or abuse. This is not to say that these attacks are ‘good’ for you, however, because of you are encoded with the ability to embody great primordial spiritual abilities, you will naturally alchemise whatever is sent to you into embodying a greater level of your power. While this does not mean that the process is easy, on the contrary, it is precisely the complex and confusing nature of the attack that activates your dormant spiritual DNA.

Alchemising betrayal will come naturally to you through this process. Despite this, I encourage you to make use of calling upon your spiritual team, engaging in grounding rituals, and taking necessary steps to ensure your safety. Through this process, you may find that your spiritual gifts sharpen quickly and you may begin to develop new ones.

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