Priestess Tasks?

[qos]

Recently a friend sent me this question: At several points in your journal, you mention some elements of your work and calling. While you you have discussed healing the world, wearing the role of hieros gamos, and of priestess, those strike me as concepts and roles, rather than duties. If I may ask, have you found there to be specific tasks involved in your path of devotion?

That's an excellent question, and the answer is "very few at this time."

At this point I'm still developing my basic skills as a priestess, and most of my tasks are around keeping up my daily practices, which are the calisthetics of my path. I do a dark moon ritual with/for Ereshkigal every month. The form of it changes in response to what She wants.

There is a twice-daily ritual I perform with LM which is part of my "path of devotion" -- which does have benefits for my priestess path even though it's not a devotion to a deity.

I also see keeping this blog as a task of my path. "Keeping silence" is one of the qualities of the mage, and there are some things I don't speak of -- but I do feel strongly that part of what I'm here to do is write about my path so others can benefit from my insights and my mistakes, or feel less alone.

The Ereshkigal devotional, despite the slow pace of its progress, is also a specific task for Herself, and something I have to finish before I move on to other things.

But I don't have specific set of rituals that I do, and I don't have specific work that I do as a priestess. I suspect that as my skills deepen I'll be given more specific things to do.

Does that make sense?

Comments

[wyldlingspirit.livejournal.com]

Perfect sense, anam chara.