Priestess

The power of the Priestess is the power to remember.  You are remembering.  You are remembering all that has ever been so that you can understand what is.  Through remembering what has been, you shall know what is to become.  You shall break every pattern and mold, and your service to the Earth World shall be thoughtful.  You are preparing for your ministry by activating the memory of what has gone before, and with this memory activated, you are preparing to remember the depth of who you are and the sacred form of the future.  You are remembering that you are limitless. You are remembering your sacred dance, that the dance is universal, that the whole of the universe is the sacred temple for the dancer who is awakened.

The power of the priestess is memory.  The priestess remembers all that has been, all that is and all that ever shall be.  She blocks nothing out, denies nothing.  She opens her inner vision and sees all.  All knowledge -- all that seems dark and light alike -- stands revealed.  The priestess is keenly sensitive, highly aware.  She realizes that every experience contains a message.  She learns.  She grows.  She finds omens.  She heals.  She teaches.  She learns.

This is her mystery: Through the dark collective memory of all that was, is and shall become, the one light of knowledge is revealed.  Truth shines through the collective memory of darkness.  There is light in the darkness.  We know this to be true, and yet the source of our faith remains a mystery.

The priestess carries male in one hand, female in the other.  She is yang as well as yin, light as well as dark, positive as well as negative, action as well as reception, initiative as well as response.  In her hands she holds the Akasha, the sacred records of all that has been and all that is yet to come.

She stands at the conjunction of the Eternal Father and the Eternal Mother.  She is the Fulcrum.  She is the Union.  She is absolute balance and creative potential, the sexless, sex-full, equation for life.

And always and forever, she stands as the bridge across the Abyss.  Always and forever she stands as endless spirit in the eternal light facing darkness.  She comes to know the nuances of the Abyss.  She befriends dark creatures and embraces her lessons.  The unknown becoming known is the source of her creativity and the source of her humility.

She draws from the Abyss the essential energies that represent the highest potencies of the human soul.  And these potencies she cherishes and these potencies she nurtures.  She knows the void well.  Her body is built around it.                               -- Pamela Eakins