ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE Edition No3 'INITIATIONS' | Page 30

I am a Priestess and that ritual initiation allowed me to embody the truth I held inside.
It was the spark that set my course in a whole new direction.
In 2005 I experienced a profound and uprooting challenge that led me once again to go to nature
seeking comfort and guidance. I sat there on the ground crying and asking not only “why”, but more
specifically I began to ask,”what can I do with this pain?

How can I use this teaching to serve the world?”
Instantly there was an answer. Like a thought in my own
mind I heard:

“Jasmin what we need you to do is empower the women
of the world to return their sacred womb blood back to
the land. When they do so, men will stop killing each
other for what you can so easily offer”.
My tears halted, I inhaled deeply, I saw a path before me and
without any questions … I said “YES”.
Red Tent by Jasmin © Jasmin Starrchild

It made so much sense to me and I sat for a while to fully receive the visions coming along with the
calling.
The following year I drove south to mark my Priestess path with another Initiation, but this one was
special, this was an ordination, by a beloved mentor Ariel Spillsbury. I formally devoted myself to
this path of awakening and dedication to serve the Goddess. Ariel’s ferocious intelligence and
hilarious approach to teaching was exactly what I needed. There is something about looking at all of
our yuck and muck in front of other people that really helps clean up your internal landscape and
focus on what’s next.
I was ready to step up, I was ready to

claim my power

and I was ready to inspire the

world.
Shortly after this I was hesitantly walking to work one day thinking, “I don’t want to go”, and when I
got inside I just blurted it out, “I am going to go home, I don’t want to be here anymore” and I walked
out. It was my heart speaking. I just had to do it, I was unhappy there and I was not serving my grand
purpose. I was not being challenged in life, so I quit and challenged myself.
I decided in that moment that I was ready to be true to my Spirit.

I was ready to take a risk and try something new in the world. I believed in myself and I believed
the Goddess would take care of me. I believed in my dreams and my goals, my passions and my skills.
Most of all, I believed in that calling from the Earth. I felt it in my bones and there was only one way to
achieve such a big task. I had to work for myself; I had to work for the Goddess.
From that decision, freedom sprang forth, and from that freedom to be true to myself, a
multitude of projects have begun to fulfill the vision I was gifted.
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