Life Always Rises

The Priestess Path and Magdalene Mysteries are not a religious process. We do not attach ourselves to one spiritual school over another, and all women and humans who do or have experienced life as women and who wish to heal from those experiences, from all systems of belief, are welcome in circle.

I acknowledge that I live on land stolen from the Indigenous human beings of the lands now called America. I honor them in ceremony and in spirit and give thanks for their ways of living and being on and with the land. I give gratitude for their stewardship of the water, air, and earth and for their example that leads me in the ways of a more sustainable guardianship and future for the land and those who inhabit it.

I recognize and acknowledge the stolen and enforced labor through which our country and my family’s privilege were built. I remember those who were kidnapped and whose heritage, ancestral stories, and families were stolen and whose physical bodies, wisdom, and strength were exploited. I also acknowledge the immigrant labor including voluntary, involuntary, trafficked, and undocumented peoples who have always and continue to contribute to the building of our nation and our nation’s workforce.

Much of these last 2 paragraphs from Rev Ruth Littlejohn who cannot remember her source. If you know that person’s name, please contact me so that I can appropriately credit them.