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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Sep 10

Neuro-spicy brains are like glitter:
annoying to some,
everywhere once you open the jar,
and impossible to contain.
That’s Sacred Divergence. And I wouldn’t want me any other way.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 6

Keeping the peace should never mean killing your voice.
If your calm is costing you your truth...
It’s not peace—it’s performance.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just because it’s loud doesn’t mean it’s true.
Don’t react — research.
Then respond, if it’s even worth your energy.
Fear-mongering isn’t a spiritual gift, babe. It’s just performative panic.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 2

Ever feel like you’re trying to build a temple in a space that sometimes feels more like a trauma landfill?

Me too.

But I’m lighting the incense anyway.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 2

He was the hit.
The high.
The withdrawal.
And I kept calling it “connection”
because I didn’t know how to say
“chemically induced trauma bond."

A cracked metal heart with flames and gothic detailing

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 2

Not everything that crumbles is a crisis.
Sometimes it’s just your spirit clearing space.  Not breaking down—breaking open.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 1

Why TF am I missing him? 
We’re DONE done.
 Then I remembered:
THE MAGICK + TRICKERY OF TRANSITS ✨
Transits don’t just add noise—they complete gaps in your chart. And when they light up a gate that holds your wound (hello, Gate 30)... That ache? It flares.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Aug 1

Your breadcrumbs tasted delicious.
I nibbled on hope like it was a meal.
But now?
I’d rather starve than beg.

That’s what healing does.
It ruins your taste for crumbs.

— High Priestess Raven | The House of Embers

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 31

Before you leap into a new month — pause.
Don’t pressure yourself to “start fresh” with fake fire.

Instead, ask yourself:
🖤 What did I outlive this month?
🖤 What lie did I stop feeding?
🖤 What part of me is ready to be laid to rest?

Welcome the new month with presence, not pressure.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 26

Stop Holding the Door for Ghosts. You’re not a doormat for divine timing.
But somewhere along the way, you made a sanctuary out of absence and called it sacred.
Burn the welcome mat. They’re not coming back. And honestly? You’re not even there anymore.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some days you sprint.
Some days you stall.
Sacred rhythm isn’t always linear.
The starts and stops?
Still movement.
Still holy.
Still you.

And gosh darn if I ain’t sitting in a stall day. Time for some tea. 🫖

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 25

Oh yeah… 555 is no joke. That is buckle up buttercup energy. The universe just hit shuffle.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 24

Spiritual microaggressions are the subtle jabs hiding behind compliments.
The coded shaming dressed up as guidance.

This isn’t about nitpicking language.
It’s about naming the ways spiritual spaces can still harm—
even when everyone’s holding crystals and claiming compassion.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venting moment - I post on Substack and Medium and this formatting for “readability” is totally yucking my yum. I love to write ✍️ and this is cramping my style. And no one is reading it anyway! Ahhhhh - I said it!

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 22

There’s a holy grief in the moment
you stop confusing hunger with hope.
When you stop calling it spiritual chemistry
and start seeing it for what it was—
just… inconsistency and a choice.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 21

I’m done mistaking emotional crumbs for a feast.
I was never hard to love—they were just unequipped. (In ways that matter)
I won’t chase clarity from chaos or beg loyalty from confusion.
They don’t get to call it love if it starved me.
I didn’t unlove them (wish I could)
I just outgrew the hunger.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 19

Coming out of the spiritual closet is one thing.

Coming out as a threshold-walker, wound-namer, spiritual journalist — with scars still bleeding — that’s another.

I started writing again because my bones said “enough.”

It’s not easy to be this visible. (Open wound here.)

But it’s necessary.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 18

You called it healing.
But really—you were shrinking.
Shrinking rage into polite prayers.
Bypassing your truth and calling it peace.

But sacred rage doesn’t vanish.
It waits.
Not to burn you—
To forge you.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 17

When the sky gets heavy with what it can no longer hold, it doesn’t ask for permission to release. It doesn’t schedule its feelings. It doesn’t apologize for the boom.
It just lets go.
The storm doesn’t perform peace to keep you comfortable. It rages clean. It rumbles truth.

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 16

Don’t text the ex.
Not because you don’t miss them—
but because you don’t miss the version of you
who needed to be half-swallowed
to feel whole.

You’re not here
to reapply for roles
you’ve already outgrown.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 15

They told you to be nice. To be small.
To be soft enough to keep your edges from cutting.
You were never meant to be anyone’s comfort object.

You are the flame. The forecast of change.
You are what happens when a woman stops waiting for permission and starts listening to her own damn self.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Lilith and Eve Chat About Empowering Women: When Divine Rebellion Meets Sacred Surrender

[Scene: A celestial garden lounge somewhere between realms. Lilith reclines on a chaise, wearing a bold red jumpsuit with statement…

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✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 13

She didn’t rise from the ashes. She ordered the fire to kneel.
Stop calling it rebirth if you never burned anything down.
That feathered voice whispering in your chest?
That’s your own becoming—unfiltered & unpolished
This is not a glow-up. This is a soul detonation.

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 12

If I ever fall in love again, he better know the Latin for banishing rituals and not flinch when I say “my altar stays.”

✨ High Priestess Raven @highpriestessraven.bsky.social · Jul 11

If I had to explain my spiritual journey to a child:
- I used to be scared of the dark.
Now I throw tea parties in the underworld.