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CurrentHigh Priestess is Australia’s premiere Witchcraft education and events company. “A world without The Goddess is a world in which women cannot recognise their inherent divinity.” - Leela Cosgrove We are living through a time of great societal upheaval – but a lot of people don’t realise that many of the battles we’re fighting right now are historically quite recent. It was quite common, throughout pre-Christian civilisations, for women to be revered as witches, healers, and teachers. They were wise women, herb women and midwives. Their communities trusted them as physicians, and to dispense wisdom. In these civilisations, there were no monotheistic religions. Every spiritual practice honoured the feminine equally to the masculine. There were always multiple goddesses to counterpoint the multiple gods. Goddesses of childbirth and of war; goddesses who ruled the home, who watched over business dealings, who provided good crops to those who paid them tribute. Women were priestesses, with their own practices, not cloistered away from the world, but free to travel and learn – to help people. This was true for tens of thousands of years - it’s only in the last two millennia we’ve struggled with an ongoing erosion of women’s rights. Of women’s mysteries. In stripping away the Goddess – in downplaying women’s contributions and relegating them to footnotes in history – women lost touch with their own, inherent divinity.