Blessings,
Dear Ones,
Today is the 4th
Birthday of our Sisterhood and I have been spending a lot of time reflecting on
what our community stands for. My
initial musings say that we are a stand for women’s empowerment, self-worth,
self-love, abundance, joy, commitment, authenticity, truth-speaking,
conflict-resolving, peace, and clear, non-violent communication.
Over the year
that just ended, called our Year of Flourishing Foundations, we created our Community
Code of Ethical Conduct for both Circle-Sisters and our Leaders; clearly defined
our Priestess Council and its role, requirements, and Agreements; and, at our
annual Imbolc Rite of Dedication and Devotion, Initiated our first two Witches
into the lineage of our community and tradition. We are preparing to Initiate our first
Priestess into the lineage in a few months.
Our
Sisterhood, whose Tarot Guide/Soul card is the Chariot, now moves from this
Year of Flourishing Foundations and into the Year of Dedication and Devotion. Using the Tarot, we see that this is a year
our community is guided by both Justice and the High Priestess cards. The Justice card deals with fairness, truth,
accountability, responsibility, connection, balance, and harmony. Barbara Moore defines the High Priestess as,
“Something that can only be understood through experience.” To me, this card represents intuition and the
deeper Mysteries as well as introspection, vision, wisdom, and “knowingness.”
On a personal
practice level, I have been called to set aside this year to spend in
Dedication to the Element of Fire and the archetype of the Queen of Wands, and
my Tarot Guide for this year is Strength.
I can already feel the Fire calling me to examine further and more
intently my will, my ambition, my goals, my passion, and my bravery.
I see
matching energies between my Fire Dedication and the community energies of the
Chariot, with the supportive energies of personal Strength: courage, compassion, patience,
responsibility. To truly dig into
community, to truly dig into our own individual and collective spirituality,
requires the personal experience called for by the High Priestess card. She tells us that we can read all the books
in the world but not truly, instinctively “get it” without practice and
repetition—that those visceral, in-the-body, on-the-emotional-level, almost
otherworldly, experiential encounters with the energies of our magickal and
spiritual practice are absolutely imperative to knowing and feeling the true essence.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines dedication and devotion as
follows:
Dedication:
a feeling of very strong support for or loyalty to someone or something: the
quality or state of being dedicated to a person, group, cause, etc.
Devotion: the use of time, money, energy, etc., for a
particular purpose; a feeling of strong love or loyalty: the quality of being
devoted
So we move
into this Year of Dedication and Devotion extending a heartfelt invitation to
women to join with us for this next year and a day. You are invited to ride the
Chariot deeper into our community, holding the intention and desire to
experience that profound connection to Self, others, and the world, delving
deeper into the Mysteries and that sacred power-within, while you are held—and
hold others—inside a supportive container filled with harmony, truth,
awareness, and self-care.
We invite all
women of integrity and calling to make this the year that you choose to
dedicate and devote to your sweet Self, viewed and experienced through the lens
of a group spiritual practice within the Sisterhood of the Moon. We currently meet for one ritual a month—can
you carve out this space, one evening a month, for yourself, your Sisters, the
world?
We hope you choose
to accept this sincere invitation to connect, and we stand ready to open the
doors and welcome you. There is always
room for more Sisters on our Sacred Chariot!
Blessed be,
Lady Jesamyn
Angelica
High
Priestess, Sisterhood of the Moon
www.SisterhoodoftheMoon.org
