The High Priestess Rites
QUESTION OF THE DAY What is the difference between a Priest/ess and a High Priest/ess?
Simply put, the rites, responsibilities and leadership role one is able to perform with the feminine principles of occult metaphysics. A priest/ess is equipped to take on a Leadership role in a spiritual ceremony where Spirituality will be practiced, taught or demonstrated. ***A Priest/ess of Vodu is one initiated (by an ancestor, ceremony-sacrifice or community appointment) to take on a leadership role in Vodu Rites A HIGH PRIEST/ESS is as it's Major Arcana II Tarot card demonstrates, one who holds the MYSTERIES AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES OF OCCULT SCIENCES that allow for teaching and preserving them. (Whereas the I Tarot card The Mage/Magician holds the Energies and Masculine Principles of Occult Sciences, that allow for creating and destroying!!! ) A High Priest/ess not only can Divine deep spiritual insights, but has the Metaphysical wisdom to BALANCE AND HARMONIZE diverse elements, make connections and create formulas based on knowledge and experience with these diverse elements, modes, paths and Spirits. This ability to Balance and Harmonize, Preserve and Initiate, allows a High Priest/ess to take on a Leadership Role in Spirituality and Community. ***A High Priest/ess has earned their rites with sacrifice and practice and therefore has the experience necessary to teach and perform these rites to others, Whereas a priest/ess may have a practice limited to one spirit/mode, may have simply paid for their title or may have performed a ceremonial rite of initiation without yet earning or understanding the mysteries within the heritage. The High Priest/esses have serious responsibilities to the Spirits (ancestors of Vodu) and may well have these responsibilities that others have not yet taken on, earned or been chosen for within the community, including but not limited to: -Ability to service and heal the Mystics, Healers, Priest/ess', Mages already evolved in their crafts/business -Occult Sciences, Divination, Mysticism, Spirituality, Witchcraft, Alchemy and outstanding, Metaphysical insight or expertise -Knowledge of and Access to Spirits, Entities, Dimensions, Realms -Ritual Sacrifices or Offerings to the relevant Spirits; Obedience -Embodying the Ase or power of a particular ancestor/spirit they are serving under or serving as; demonstrating ones initiations -Practicing and embodying the FEMININE PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUALITY; knowing who to share them with!!! -Preserving and concealing the esoteric and arcane mysteries that must be earned by others, knowing when to be quiet and absent!!! -Teaching, initiating and servicing the individuals, families, and communities earning such Rites; servicing the chosen ones The best way to know the difference in ones self is to ask the Ancestral Spirit Guides that you work with the most if you have earned the rites to take on the responsibilities of a Priest/ess, or a High Priest/ess. If you don't have a working relationship with an Ancestor or Spirit Guide... you have your answer.
Black High Priestess