✨ Remembering the Why — A Love Letter to the Path of Feminine Leadership & Modern Priestesshood
by Sophia School of Wisdom
In this era of Instagram bios filled with titles like Coach, Facilitator, Priestess, and Guide…
In this world of accelerated certifications, weekend trainings, and viral video snippets of sacred teachings reduced to soundbites…
It’s easy to forget that this path — the true path of feminine leadership — is not one of performance or perfection.
It is one of initiation.
Not just the kind you receive in ceremony…
But the kind that life delivers you — wrapped in shadow, in grief, in sacred unraveling.
The kind that strips you of who you thought you were, so you can remember who you actually are.
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Once upon a time — in ancient temples of Lemuria, Atlantis, Egypt, Avalon, India —
Women trained for years.
Not to be seen as priestesses…
But to become the kind of women who could hold the codes of love, healing, and truth with integrity.
They sang to water, whispered to herbs, sat in silence with the Earth.
They faced their own shadows in the mirror of sisterhood.
They bled on the temple stones and birthed new timelines through their wombs.
And they served.
Not because it made them powerful in the eyes of others.
But because it aligned them with the Divine.
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We live in a different world now — and we don’t need to go back in time to reclaim that lineage.
We simply need to remember what makes us leaders, facilitators, priestesses.
It’s not the certificate.
It’s not the number of followers.
It’s not even the number of trainings you’ve taken.
It’s the why.
The why is everything.
So let us ask ourselves (and gently invite others to ask too):
✨ Why am I drawn to this path?
✨ Is it coming from a deep desire to serve, to heal, to contribute to the awakening of humanity?
✨ Or is it sometimes entangled with my longing to be seen, to be worthy, to feel special or safe?
✨ Can I hold both with compassion — and still walk in devotion, knowing the path itself will purify my intentions as I walk it?
Let this not be a place of shame or performance, but of prayerful honesty.
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Because yes — the ego will come along for the ride.
Yes — money is part of the conversation in this realm.
Yes — there will be moments when we falter, when we project, when we forget.
That is part of being human.
But if we stay close to our why…
If we keep tending the sacred hearth inside…
If we remember the heart of Sophia beats within us — wise, imperfect, ever-loving —
Then we will keep coming home.
Over and over again.
Not to the mask of leadership…
But to the true priestess path: humble, holy, and wholeheartedly real.
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We are not here to be perfect.
We are here to be present.
To be pierced by beauty.
To be cracked open by purpose.
To become trustworthy vessels for something far more ancient and alive than any trend.
And in doing so…
We serve the generations to come.
We lay the stones for a world of care, of integrity, of living ritual.
And that is the true legacy of the feminine leader.
