Experiencing Tarot as a Priestess

Tarot Priestess: Using the Cards to Heal, Grow, and Serve by Leeza Robertson

Begin an incredible journey that unites your deepest self, your beloved tarot cards, and your destiny. Walking the priestess path is exciting, demanding, and most of all, healing. Let’s take a look at what to expect from this experience (excerpt from the book):

Tarot as the Path, Initiation and Temple

This book is structured to give you a framework to connect your tarot practice back to the goddess and recommit your feet to the priestess path. The chapters of this book walk you through three priestess gateways, four goddess temples and introduces you to the four stages of the initiation process. Some of the concepts in this book may be new to you, especially if dancing with the goddess is something you are unfamiliar with. Or perhaps you may find this book reawakening your inner priestess and reminding her how confident and strong she felt when she was connected to a more conscious and structured practice. That means that for the sake of this book the Tarot itself plays three very distinct roles, it is firstly the Path we shall follow throughout the pages of this book, guiding you through the gateways and the temples. When I use the word Path throughout this book, I am referring to something we walk energetically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. It might be one of the listed ways, or it might be all of them. The Path is what takes us from one point to another. Or in this case, through one lesson to another. The three gateways you will pass through are in the major arcana, these twenty-one cards have been broken up into three groups of seven to illustrate the roles each row of cards plays along the priestess path.

They are as follows:

• Gateway One; From the Magician to the Chariot, Ritual and Ceremony
• Gateway Two; From Strength to Temperance, Pilgrimage, Initiation and Rites of Passage.
• Gateway Three; From The Devil to the World, reclaiming the wild shadow and dancing in the light.

The second role the tarot will play in part two of this book is the process of Initiation. This is done via the court cards as their inbuilt hierarchy are perfect for the many different levels to priestess training. Each of the court cards have been assigned with a position that one would hold within the temple. These positions give you a clear path of the way you would work your up the initiation scale if the is what you choose to do. Of course, you do not have to and a lot of people who enter spiritual studies just find the position that is right and true for them and stay there. You started this book as one of these initiation personalities.

The stages are:

1. Neophyte/Page
2. Acolyte/Knight
3. Priestess/Queen
4. High Priestess/King

Perhaps you were the Page now, maybe now you are the Queen. You will find out as you make your way through this chapter.

The last role the Tarot will play in this book is as Temple, not a physical building, but a temple framework, a sacred space of devotion, instruction, and connection. Your tarot deck will become the touchstone of your priestess work as well as becoming the very vessel and space within which you will practice. The best part, it is completely mobile, not tethered or restricted to one particular place. This allows for a sort of freedom in your spiritual practice to do it whenever and wherever you feel called. This is yet another form of breaking the old stereotypes and creating new living models in which to align your new priestess identity, for instead of the priestess being tied to the physical location of the temple, your tarot deck becomes the priestess temple you can put in your pocket, place in your purse or pack into your backpack and take it anywhere you go. But then again, you have already been doing this, you just didn’t know you were carrying around an entire temple with you.

The temples you will find in the minor arcana, each providing you with an invitation to join the goddess and learn the skills and lessons of each temple through its corresponding suit.

They are as follows:

• The Temple of Pentacles – Connecting to earthly devotion, Priestessing with the daughters of Danu
• The Temple of Swords – Truth, knowledge, and light, priestessing with Saraswati
• The Temple of Wands – Lighting your world on fire, Priestessing with Lilith
• The Temple of Cups – Healing with the priestesses of Avalon

Due to the very structured format of this book, it is recommended you work your way through the content from cover to cover, at least initially. Each gateway leads onto the next just as each temple lays the groundwork for the next. You can come back and work on just one gateway or dive deeper into one of the temples after you have done your first reading of the information in these pages. Purpose, discipline, and organization are keys to your Tarot Priestess success so consider this book your first lesson in ritual, you always start at a specific point and end at another.