Leeza Robertson - Tarot Priestess: Using the Cards to Heal, Grow & Serve

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vi Tarot Priestess: Use the Cards to Heal, Grow & Serve 2022 by Leeza Robertson.

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Names: Robertson, Leeza, author.

Title: Tarot priestess : using the cards to heal, grow & serve / Leeza

Robertson.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications,

2022. | Summary: A blend of tarot card meanings and a goddess-based

spiritual path. Includes spreads, meditations, and exercises Provided

by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022004501 (print) | LCCN 2022004502 (ebook) | ISBN

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Contents

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

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The Four Steps of Initiation

From Pages to Kings

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 xi

The Temple of Wands

Lighting Your World on Fire: Priestessing with Lilith

The Temple of Cups

Healing with the Priestesses of Avalon

Introduction

Womxns spirituality is a complex and oftentimes traumatic path. Throughout history, womxns spiritual practices have been mocked and ridiculed and have oftentimes led to persecution and death. I am not just talking about cis womxn here eitherI am including all who identify as womxn and all those who seek out feminine spiritual practices. You will notice that womxn is spelled in the inclusive manner, not the one given to us by patriarchy, the spelling that defines us as an addition to men. The goddess is not an addition, she is equal, her own whole being, sovereign. Which is why despite the danger, the call of the goddess comes to all who share her lineage, even though many fear the call and do not know how to serve her. For how does one step onto a path littered with so many wounds with an open heart and a devotional mind? Despite the efforts of the patriarchy to eliminate sacred feminine practices, we have seen a rise in womxn healing the devotional scar. From the Red Tent Movement to the Rise Sister Rise community to the swelling kundalini yoga community, the goddess is awakening and with her the call to service and leadership is being blasted out throughout the feminine world once again. Tarot Priestess taps into one of those rising paths, one that is also seeing a renaissance and calling all who identify as womxn from all over the world to come and serve at the feet of the goddess once againthe priestess.

I was initially introduced to the priestess in the nineties at university through my art history lectures; back then, these religious womxn were merely figures in a story. They belonged to a time that no longer existed, and history didnt seem to paint them in a very favorable light. Fast-forward to 2014 when I first set foot inside the Temple of Sekhmet not an hour from my home in Las Vegas, where I met a living modern-day priestess. I knew in that moment I was being called back to the goddess but didnt know how I was meant to serve her or what devotional practice looked like for me. It took me another three years to figure out that tarot was not only my priestess path, but also my way of serving the goddess. Never in my wildest dreams did I think there was a way to be a Tarot Priestess, but here we are more than twenty years from my initial invitation from the goddess and Tarot Priestess is exactly what I do.

What you are reading now is the pulling together of what I am calling the Tarot Priestess path. This book offers you another way to answer the call of these goddesses. You are invited to deepen your spiritual practices, heal devotional wounds, and rise in your own life as a daughter of the goddess. See yourself as a modern-day living priestessa vessel of the sacred feminine, ready and able to serve in a way that is authentic to who you are while providing clues in answering the questions of why you are here in this life, in this body, and in this lineage.

Walking the Priestess Path

More than likely, you are already treading footsteps along your own priestess path and have been doing so for years without any conscious awareness of it. Its okayI was also a walking spiritual zombie for a long time. I too was being guided by the goddess without truly recognizing it. I was carving out my own priestess path without any understanding of what I was doing, which is why I felt so compelled to write Tarot Priestess. I believe this book might just rub the sleep from your eyes and allow you to see what has always been right in front of you: your priestess self. If you have been using the tarot for spiritual practice or even incorporating it into some form of daily devotion and ritual, you are a Tarot Priestess. If you have ever called to the goddess pantheon and asked for help while placing a tarot card upon your altar while lighting a candle and saying a prayer, you are a Tarot Priestess. If you have used your tarot skills to help your larger community or take your tarot wisdom to conduct a sacred circle, used the cards in a form of healing, or even just used them for their designed divination purpose, you are a Tarot Priestess. The sacred act of selecting cards, asking questions of the Divine, and tapping into the universal consciousness for answers are all very priestess things to do.