The Wound of the Priestess

A contemplation on the priestess wound of the sacred prostitute

One of the archetypes of the priestess is the sacred prostitute. This archetype is one that many women carry, and I want to shed some light on it here.

The priestess under patriarchy (which was most of the time) wasn't in full control of her pussy, pleasure, or sexuality. She had to perform, her sexuality and divine connection to source via her pussy was commoditized. She did not always (or even often) have a choice about becoming a priestess, and part of her spiritual job was to be a vessel of connection to the divine for the priests, the masculine.

There are likely many women who walk the priestess path today who hold this divine wound - the wound of giving their sexuality, pussy and pleasure away during past lives as priestesses. This article is about the sacred prostitute wound and how to recognize it. Scroll down for an audio exploration of the priestess path and the exploitation of the pussy for even more insight into this energy.

My sacred prostitute wound surfaced in many ways in this life. I experienced sexual trauma from a young age, and then experienced it again and again. Repeated sexual trauma brought up this wound to the forefront of my psyche: the wound of my sexuality not being fully my own.

I experienced sexual disconnect in relationships, where I easily fell into a pattern of giving my partner sex without paying attention to what my body really wanted. The pattern of sacred prostitution was deceptively easy to fall back into, and it led me to feeling disconnected and resentful over time.

I went on a years long journey to reclaim my sexuality. And from the get-go I thought of this journey as one of reclamation. Like I had lost my sexuality somewhere. Like I had lost my sexual power to others. To the patriarchy. To disembodiment. To past partners, trauma, lives.

My sacred prostitute wound surfaced as a constant fear and feeling of scarcity. How next would I need to sell some part of myself to make a living? What next would I need to commoditize of myself and my energy to make sure that I didn’t fall into “not enough”? Scarcity lived in my pussy, womb, ovaries, digestive system, heart. Scarcity was built into my DNA, because the shadow side of my past lives as a priestess was that I was only given enough to live on if I used or exploited my body. Used or exploited my sexuality. When I started my business in this lifetime, I fell back into those same patterns. Selling was simply a new way to express sacred prostitution. Money is the currency we use today, but it held the same imprint for me: show up, do enough, be divine enough, be tapped into your pussy enough, and you’ll be given enough.

My sacred prostitute wound also surfaced in a desire to be “perfect”. To “heal enough”. The more perfect I am, the better life will treat me, right? And how many of us hold that same wound! The wound of perfection, because that’s what we believe we must be. Always perfect. Another wound that goes along with this is the wound of independence. The wound of needing to prove your ability to be independent and make your own way, provide for yourself, as a way of reclaiming your body and womb for yourself.

Sacred prostitution is a core wound of the spiritual feminine. Many spiritual women want to be a priestess, wants to claim past lifetimes as a priestess in Egypt or Delphi or the Celtic lands, etc, but what does it truly mean to come into this life with a past life priestess experience?

It means that you likely have a lot of unlearning to do around sexuality and the womb. It means that while you may have a strong draw to spiritual work, there is a lot of unpacking to be done in this lifetime to make sure that you do not fall into the same patterns the priestesses of old had to use in order to survive. It means that this life is one where you must learn to harness the power of your pussy, and to respect her. This is a life where your womb likely will ask to take center stage, so that you can heal old imprints and lead a womb-led life, free of scarcity, obligation, or manipulation. This is a life of healing and stepping into your womb-led power. Reincarnating with priestess gifts and a priestess past is hard work. It’s not what social media makes it out to be. It’s so much more. So much deeper. So much more sacred and painful.

Listen to the audio below for an exploration of the energy of exploiting the pussy. As I have been exploring the sacred prostitute wound, I have also been exploring how this wound can lead to exploiting the sacred energy of the womb and yoni. We can exploit our womb in many ways - including by performing healing in ways that doing nurture or give back to the live giving energy of our womb space.

And finally, if you’d like to explore your sacred prostitute wounds, you can watch the video below to receive a live teaching on healing these wounds of the priestess: