The Paths of Shamanism, Seidr & Priestessing

"When we walk the old ways, we remember how Spirit, Earth, and Soul are woven into one living whole."

What is Shamanism?

Shamanism is an ancient, earth-based spiritual path that honors the deep connection between all living things. Practiced by Indigenous cultures around the world for thousands of years, shamanism offers a sacred way to connect with spirit, heal from within, and awaken your inner wisdom.

At the heart of shamanism is the shaman—a bridge between worlds, one who journeys beyond the physical realm to receive guidance, healing, and messages from spirit guides, ancestors, and the energies of nature. These journeys often involve drumming, meditation, and altered states of consciousness, allowing the shaman (or seeker) to move beyond the everyday mind and into the spiritual realm.

For modern spiritual seekers, shamanism is a powerful tool for:

  • Deep soul healing and energy clearing

  • Reconnecting with spirit guides and power animals

  • Finding purpose, clarity, and spiritual alignment

  • Cultivating a sacred relationship with Nature and the unseen realms

Shamanism isn’t a religion—it’s a spiritual practice and path of direct revelation, where each person can access divine wisdom through personal experience.

Seidr (pronounced sayth-er) is an ancient Norse magical and spiritual practice rooted in the mystical traditions of the Vikings and pre-Christian Northern Europe. Woven into the myths of the Norse gods and the deep wisdom of the land, Seidr is a path of intuition, fate-weaving, and sacred connection to the unseen realms.

Traditionally practiced by volvas (seeresses) and seidmenn (male practitioners), Seidr involves entering altered states of consciousness—often through chanting, breathwork, or rhythmic drumming—to receive visions, speak with spirits, or shift the threads of fate. It is deeply tied to the Norns (the weavers of destiny), the spirits of nature, and the ancestral lines of those who walk this path.

What is Seidr?

For the modern spiritual seeker, Seidr offers a way to:

  • Receive prophetic insight and guidance from the spirit world

  • Reclaim connection with ancestors, land spirits, and the Old Ways

  • Practice energetic weaving—shaping outcomes with intention and sacred will

  • Deepen your relationship with the runes, the gods, and the web of Wyrd


​Seidr is not about dogma—it is a living tradition, passed on through intuition, experience, and the whispers of the soul. It calls to those drawn to earth-based spirituality, northern mysticism, and the timeless art of seeing beyond the veil.

What is Priestessing?

Priestessing is a sacred path of service, embodiment, and spiritual leadership—one rooted in ancient traditions yet profoundly alive in the hearts of modern women and feminine-identified beings who are called to walk between the worlds.

A priestess is a guide, space-holder, healer, and ceremonial leader. She serves as a vessel for the Divine Feminine, weaving together the sacred and the everyday. Through ritual, intuition, and presence, the priestess holds space for transformation—within herself, her community, and the world.

​While ancient priestesses once tended temples and oracles, today’s priestesses rise in new forms: guiding circles, officiating rites of passage, holding ceremony, and awakening feminine wisdom within a world longing for balance and depth.

For the modern spiritual seeker, the path of the priestess may include:

  • Deepening connection to the Goddess, the Earth, and the lunar cycles

  • Honoring and facilitating sacred rites, like births, deaths, unions, and initiations

  • Tending to the soul—through ritual, energy work, and devotional practices

  • Reclaiming your voice, intuition, and role as a spiritual leader and wisdom-keeper


​Priestessing is not a role to be earned—it is a soul calling. It is an invitation to live in alignment with your truth, to honor the sacred in all things, and to rise as a vessel of light, healing, and ancient remembrance.

How I Weave These Sacred Paths Together

Shamanism is the root of my work—the path that first taught me to walk between the seen and unseen, to trust my intuition, and to listen to spirit with the whole of my being.
It opened the doorway to a life lived in relationship with the elements, the ancestors, the spirits, and the wisdom carried within the body.

In seeking to understand my own lineage—
my own blood, bones, and ancestral memory—
I was guided to Seidr.

What surprised me was not how different it was,
but how profoundly familiar.

Both Shamanism and Seidr hold the same essential truth:
we are not separate from the spirit world.
We move with it, listen to it, breathe with it,
and find guidance in the places where our world and the otherworld touch.
Each tradition is a thread of the same great weaving—
bridging worlds, tending connections, and learning from the unseen.

Priestessing is the way I carry and share that wisdom.

It is the devotion, the tending, the offering.
It is how I honor the Goddess, the earth, the ancestors,
and the teachings I’ve been entrusted with.
Priestessing is not a title I hold above anyone—
it is the way I serve, witness, guide, and walk beside others as they awaken their own knowing.

These three paths—
Shamanism, Seidr, and Priestessing—
are not separate for me.
They are one living braid, woven through my life, my work, and the way I hold space.

Together, they create the heart of Mystic Spirit Wisdom:
a sacred place where the ancient and the modern meet,
where the spiritual and the human are bridged,
and where you are invited to step into a deeper, more luminous remembering of who you are.