My way to becoming Priestess
Kellie Guenther
Who is the Priestess?
She encourages us to integrate our light and dark, to bring the unconscious aspects of Self into consciousness. To awaken. To live on purpose.
I started the Third Level with The Institute for Intuitive Intelligence without knowing what being a Priestess meant. As I’ve learned, the Third Level doesn’t teach you to become a Priestess—it teaches you how to recognise fear, meet it, remove it, and rise.
The Priestess begins with herself. You are your own Priestess. Because a Priestess cannot hold space for others to meet fear without first having met her own.
So, what does fear look like?
This is unique to each of us. I’ll speak from my own experience. In 2015, after the birth of my second son—two years before starting the Third Level—I returned part-time to my professional role as an Environmental Consultant. It was comfortable. We had a mortgage to pay and two gorgeous souls to care for.
But mid-year, things began to shift. I felt more and more that this job was no longer aligned with my values. What did this look like?
Ha! A mother rushing from daycare drop-off in the morning and racing from work to pick-up in the evening… yelling at her kids at night… drinking most nights… and crying. Crying a lot. I now know—that was fear banging at the ego’s door.
I thought, “I have to resign from this job. It’s making me crazy.”
Six more weeks I stayed. SIX WEEKS. Now, I think—six weeks of that would be unbearable!
Then I was pushed. (Of course—by the Universe.)
I indirectly called my boss a dickhead… and resigned the following week.
Honestly, I didn’t know what would happen. I had surrendered—mostly from exhaustion—because I knew, deep in my soul, I was not meant to stay in that job.
The following year, I studied yoga while freelancing—work that just fell into my lap!
Yoga caught me. It began the re-scaffolding.
BUT… the mind stories. The victim stories. The narratives of how I was wronged—they lasted a full 12 months, at least. I now realise those stories programmed 2017.
Then came another level of fear.
We were wronged again—on a grand scale—by a builder who overpromised, underdelivered, and took our money.
What did fear look like then?
More crying. So much crying. Over money. Over trust.
But at that exact time, I was divinely guided to the Institute for Intuitive Intelligence and the Third Level. The name didn’t even make sense to me. The title “Priestess” was being thrown around. And I thought, “I’m not a Priestess.”
Truth? I didn’t even feel like one at graduation.
But I do now.
Because I’ve continued to face fear.
To hear it.
To deal with it.
To move on.
Now, I am ready to fully step into this role—holding space for women to break… and put themselves back together again. Not the same. Different. Awakened. On purpose.
Step 1: Break.
Step 2: Surrender. The Universe will catch you.
I’m living proof.
BIO
This article was first published in Spiritually Fierce Magazine, Issue 2, 2019.
Kellie is a Spiritual Mentor to professional women seeking to reconnect with their purpose and with Mother Earth. She lives with a water-loving man, two soul children, and one fur baby on the NSW Central Coast. She believes Spiritual Sustainability can guide us back to an earth-centric lifestyle—and that it starts with activated, aligned women. Kellie is a Certified Intuitive Guide, a Registered Yoga Teacher, and a Certified Environmental Practitioner.
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