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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone,
welcome to their spiritual
spotlight series.
Today I am joined by DawnDelvecchio.
She's a priestess mentor andsacred feminine leadership guide
.
She's the host of a privatepriestess community and the
founder of the annual return ofthe priestess speaker series.
She also channels guides andnonphysical master teachers,
including divine femininemasters which we would call
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goddesses.
She does all of this becausethis is part of her soul's
mission.
Dawn, thank you so much forcoming on the spiritual
spotlight series.
I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Rachel, thank you for
having me.
I'm happy to be here with you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm so excited.
I just felt like the wholeenergy just shifts, Like I feel
like the masters are here.
I love this.
I just felt that shift.
So you've had over a37-year-old journey in this
sacred space.
What was maybe the catalystthat led you to take on the
mantle of a priestess mentor,especially after your
rededication in 2017?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, great question.
Well, originally it came fromhaving a home birth in 1984, in
a state where it was neitherlegal or illegal because so few
people were having home births.
So my midwives I had twomidwives and an apprentice of
theirs connected me with otherwomen they were supporting for
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their birth process.
We started a mother's supportgroup that began exploring tarot
, feminine spirituality, goddess, etc.
So it was early in my you know,I was very young when that
began, I was 19.
And so throughout my life andthe many experiences and
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journeys and career choices I'vemade, what stayed with me was a
connection with Divine Mother,the tarot, astrology and women's
circles.
From time to time Sometimes Iwould go long periods without
any groups, but it was always athread in the fabric of my life.
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And then, through a fewdifferent journey, with the
warrior energy, I was a martialartist for many years and then
as a professional writer formany years and then a business
coach.
I had an experience in Baliactually Bali, indonesia at a
women's awakening conferencewhere I encountered a lot of
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women who were talking aboutbeing a priestess and goddess,
lore, and some of them, I'm sure, were authentic, mature, had
done shadow work, had beenthrough some dark nights of the
soul, but others were quiteyoung and new and experienced,
and I really felt at that time,divine Mother, come very
strongly to me and say it istime for you to put aside all of
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your chasing of otherworldlythings, to step into what you
came here for, because we needpriestesses and we need feminine
leaders who have the courage,the groundedness, the capacity
to hold space for shadow andreally the wisdom tools to guide
others for the times to come.
And that was back in, I want tosay, 2016.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, Wow, that's
amazing.
So you mentioned a couple oftimes inner shadow work, healing
.
Can you maybe expand on thisand share how it is and share
how it integrates into thesacred arts of the priestess?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, okay, so we
were all born into I'm a little
bit channeling this here, I'mjust bringing it through.
I would say we were all borninto what we could call the 3D
matrix that's my language, 3dmatrix, but others use it as
well A realm in which we arefocused upon the material and
not upon the divine, not uponour own inner divinity.
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So we chase the things of thisworld and we create our
identities based on externalmarkers like our looks, our
values, how much money we have,all of these things right.
And in the process of thatjourney, we encounter and bump
up against plenty of otherpeople, including our parents
and teachers who guided us.
And what happens is we, becausewe're off track with the love
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that we are.
When I speak about divinity atthe ultimate level, what I mean
is love unconditional, theoneness of all of us.
So when we are not in alignmentwith that, we end up having
experiences in this incarnationand others that create trauma,
distress, upset, guilt, shame,etc.
Increasing separation betweenpeople, between our loved ones
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and ourselves, our capacity toreally expand into the present
moment, to be happy, etc.
So what happens is theuncomfortable feelings, the
things we might feel guiltyabout, or maybe the traumas
we've encountered as children orother lifetimes, from other
lifetimes.
We bury them and they becomehidden in the shadows of our
subconscious, just like aniceberg.
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You see the tip at the top, butyou know it's a massive thing.
Beneath Most of our programmingwhether it's trauma or just
conditioning programming tooperating with the dominant
paradigm, which is one ofseparation, domination and
control, that is under thesurface of our conscious
awareness.
And so, as we are movingthrough this ascension journey
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on planet Earth, right now weare being bombarded with solar
light, photonic light, the lightof the central sun as we align
more our solar system with it,and so, because of that, the
light is like literally shininga light on the shadows in our
subconscious and what'shappening is that's creating
incredible disruption anddysregulation.
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For those who've never done anyshadow work, such that you know,
crazy making happens, shortterm decision making happens,
more attack, more, more fear,more fear, more fear.
So shadow work is the processof consciously going in with
guides, or with literal,physical guides who are mentors
and know how to guide youthrough shadow work or spiritual
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guides, to look at our ownconditioning programs, our own
trauma, our own judgments, ourown self judgments, our own self
loathing all of that stuff tobring it to the light and love
it up into frequency, totransmute the shadow into more
light, and that is what we aredoing.
So when I talk about shadowwork, I talk about it at both
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the psychological and thespiritual level, or the
psychospiritual level.
And as we do that, what happens?
It's literally like you couldimagine, like you got a whole
lot of dust bunnies.
They're hiding out in theshadows, underneath the bed of
your conscious mind, and youstart cleaning them out and then
you have more room.
You have more room to bring inmore light.
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So the work of the priestesscan be manyfold.
There are different priestessesdoing many different things on
this planet and, having led forReturn of the Priestess Speaker
Series, I've interviewed about90 priestesses, so I can say for
sure all around the planet thatmany priestesses doing many
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different things.
But perhaps one thing we allshare in common is this devotion
to the divine and the choice toalign our will with a higher
will in service to humanity, tolove, to the divine.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I love that.
So let's talk about this annualReturn of Priestess Speaker
Series.
What inspired you to createthis platform and what
transformational stories haveemerged from it?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Wow, yeah.
So the name or the words Returnof the Priestess came in a
download to me.
I would say mid 2019.
And because I had been inmarketing and copywriting and
coaching for a number of years,I knew that when such a powerful
statement dropped in, you gobuy the URL.
So that was the first thing Idid and then I sat on it because
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I actually knew what it was.
I knew that my next step was toliterally rise my own light up
and shine it, to call mycommunity to me, that I had a
contractual soul contractagreement to serve people at
intimate levels, but also atmore like through a platform
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like Return of the Priestess.
So, but I was quite nervousabout doing that and Divine
Mother and I really feel likethis was ISIS, particularly the
goddess.
Isis had been my support allyfor stepping into my Priestess
leadership role, priestessleadership and to call the
Priestesses back to the temple,the inner temple, for our own
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sacred feminine leadership.
And so I knew kind of what itwas and a bunch of people and
circumstances came into supportthat unfolding, even though I
was kind of quaking in my boots,you know kind of that thing of
like what if I have a party andno one comes, except in this
case.
What if I spent, have a partythat cost me about eight or
$9,000 and nobody costs?
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So I, you know, I carefullysaved the money just in case I
had to take a loss, and I workedwith my tech VA to arrange the
timing for it, which was goingto be early April 2020, having
no idea that that would be whenwe were all in lockdown.
I see you're getting theimplication here.
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So Return of the Priestessunfolded.
The first one and we hadbasically a kind of captive
audience, if you will, and oneof the free bonuses I gave at
that time, thinking I'd have youknow, maybe 100 people register
was a one on one 30 minute callwith me.
Well after, yeah, thousands,thousands.
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So we had to cut that one offat like 150.
But nonetheless I got to speakwith about 150 women, one on one
, to really receive firsthandfor them the transformation that
unfolded.
But there were literally womenwho were on the verge of suicide
who found their mission.
There were women who werereinvigorated in what their
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inklings had been for a longtime.
There were women who steppedinto their leadership, who dared
to boldly step into what theywere called to do.
There were women who workedwith me.
There were women who choseother leaders on that summit to
work with.
But I would say overall we hada global impact of awakening the
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sacred feminine leader in womenand connecting that energy of
leadership, spirituality and thefeminine.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So why do you feel
like right now, 2020, 2021,
present day that really leaninginto the sacred feminine,
stepping into the priestessleadership role is so paramount
right now, in this current state?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, we have lived on
a planet that has been based in
a paradigm of domination, andin that paradigm of domination
the masculine has beendominating the feminine, and
that's internally as well asexternally, in terms of male and
female, and so that is alsoextended to the paradigm of the
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divine.
So God has been a disembodiedthinking dude with the white
beard and you know clouds andsitting on the clouds and all
that stuff, and that is notbalance.
That only speaks to half thepopulation, if that, and really,
truly at the highest level, god, if you will, god is a title
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that represents the love that weall are Now living here, as we
do, in a polarity, a system ofpolarity where we have, you know
, for procreation, we have amale and a female right, we have
a planetary family of femalesand males and we are moving
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toward a consciousness that isin partnership with Earth and
each other.
So we cannot continue to have ahierarchical, a dominator model
.
We need more of a partnershipmodel, to use Rhianizler's terms
.
I don't know if you're familiarwith her work, but she wrote the
Chalice and the Blade manyyears ago very influential work
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in my life and she's part of thepartnership studies or
partnership institute.
She's the founder of that.
So this partnership model wecould also call, at the
spiritual level, the innermarriage, the hieroscomos of the
inner feminine and the innermasculine within women and
within men.
And so, in order for us toreally begin to harmonize and to
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value also to take care of ourmother Earth, our planet, and to
honor all of it, the feminineaspect of that which we call God
must rise, and the priestessesare the embodied emissaries of
Divine Mother, of the Motheraspect of God, the nurturing,
encompassing, embracing, foldingin holding, birthing aspect of
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that which we call God.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's just how I'm
so important, especially right
now.
My goodness, I'm having amoment in my brain With the
focus on the sacred feminineleadership for a planet in
transition.
What are the codes of lightthat you frequently talk about,
and why are they vital at thisjunction?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, I touched on
the codes of light a little bit.
With regard to, I'll just speaksort of scientifically, not
really like literally right now.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like all the light
that you said, the shiny.
Yeah, this light that's comingin.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So our solar system
is moving through an area of the
galaxy called the photon belt,so we are being bombarded with
photonic light.
So that's like literal,measurable right.
And then there's the solarflares, the solar activation.
Of course the sun goes throughcycles of that.
And then there's also ourpositioning in the arms of the
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Milky Way Galaxy where we'recoming into more alignment with
that central sun energy and thatmeans that we're able to
receive that more.
So that's at the sort ofphysical, literal level.
And so when I refer to, someoneasked one of my priestess
mentees asked me this other dayso what do I mean by codes?
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The codes are literally likefrequency rays that are coming
in.
It's part of, we see, theawakening of humanity.
We see, even back in the 80s,when all this began for me, we
saw suddenly people starting toask questions like gee, maybe we
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should recycle instead of throweverything away.
And what about all this plastic?
And I don't think I want tohave my baby in a hospital full
of drugs and chemicals.
And how about saving seeds andorganic?
I don't know that I want tohave all these chemicals and
GMOs in my food.
All of these are the result of akind of awakening because of
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the light codes that areactivating consciousness.
They're reawakening us to ahigher order of consciousness.
We have been deeply asleep inlooking at the again to the
outside world, like how muchmoney do I have, how good do I
look, how am I going to get ahusband or a wife or all of that
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material stuff?
And while, yes, we came to thisphysical earth to have a
physical experience, we've beenputting the cart before the
horse, or the servant in frontof the master, or the ego in
front of spirit.
And these codes of light areenlightening our consciousness
to realize wow, when I connectwith my higher self and lead my
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life from that way, I'm happier,I'm more free, I magnetize more
success, more wealth, moreopportunities, more joy to
myself, I simplify my life and Istop serving an ego that's
never satisfied.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And do you find that
right now like it's 2023, right
now it's October 2023, whenwe're having this recording?
Do you find like, especiallyright now, this is really coming
on to the planet and a lot ofpeople are shifting?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah, I call this
the quickening, actually, and
I've been in collaboration witha number of sisters to create
experiences and offerings tosupport the increased frequency,
the quickening, the increaseddysregulation of the systems, as
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the old unloving systems areunraveling and, even though
we're just seeing the hints ofit now, it's going to accelerate
like a snowball rollingdownhill kind of thing.
And so for us, the light workers, the star seeds, the
priestesses, our job right nowis to keep pace with that
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acceleration, because those whodo not have skills, who have
never done any shadow work, whoare deeply invested in the
unloving systems not saying thatthey're unloving themselves,
but their jobs, their careers,their money, their investments
as those unravel their owndysregulation is going to
increase.
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So, yes, right now, as werecord this, we are in a
quickening segment of time, andI don't I don't know that it's
going to slow down.
Perhaps after the wintersolstice we might get a bit of
respite, like from anastrological perspective.
However, we are increasing thetransformational energies, the
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light is increasing, and so ourrole is to stay above the fray
and in the frequency of love, inthe vertical axis of attunement
with our higher self, and theother side of the vertical axis
is connected with Gaia,connected with our Earth mother
as well.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Absolutely.
I like it too.
The work that I do is I workwith the central column of light
, and you make sure that you'redefinitely connected.
This is pretty much the samething to different terms.
It's so important right now tostay just even grounded and
centered.
I run a doctor's office so it'sa little bit chaotic.
It's just very interesting that, like you said, you're having
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this calling.
I love the fact that you'rebringing together people to help
those that may not have a dailyspiritual hygiene practice or a
meditative practice or a shadowside practice that you can say,
okay, here's some tools, let'shelp you through this because,
like you said, it's also to beof service.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, absolutely.
Thank you for sharing that.
I did not know that you'reworking with the column of light
, and this is exactly where weneed to be at and to bring those
tools to as many people as wecan.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Absolutely.
I love energetic meditation.
Everything, central column oflight yes, ma'am, everything is
there.
So, with the rich backgroundsin evolutionary astrology,
terror reading and NLP, how dothese practices intersect and
enhance your role as a priestessmentor?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, thank you for
asking that too, because I
didn't get to talk about thatwith regard to the shadow work,
so in terms of NLP, orneuro-linguistic programming, I
was trained by some beautifulpeople who were really masterful
at it and I bring this to playwhen I work mostly with
one-on-one clients, butsometimes some of the hypnotic
language in group sessions to doinner healing work.
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The NLP, particularly timelinere-imprinting, is a powerful
tool for shadow work, forliterally going back to places
in our past, either thisincarnation or others, where we
had trauma that needs to bere-imprinted, where we need
healing, where we're calling fortransformation, so that we can
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shift the pattern of what we'redoing now that's not serving us.
So that's definitely a shadowwork tool.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I love that.
Wow, that's so interesting.
Okay, I'm having a moment withmy mind.
I'm like wow, that's sopowerful.
Because I think a lot of peoplethat may not be familiar with
this kind of work, I don't thinkthey realize how much trauma
and energy and everything getsimpacted into our cellular
tissue and, like you say, gointo maybe doing shadow work or
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whatnot.
A lot of people, I don't thinkthe body keeps the score.
Yes, yeah, they don't realizehow much trauma is held in their
body and I would imagine, withyour clients, you're able to
identify, have them walk itthrough and actually do
exercises to help them releaseit.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yes, yeah, and that
changes the trajectory of our
choices, of our health.
Potentially, it changes theentire patterning from the
subconscious level, because whenwe're little, we're dependent
on the adults around us and wefigure out methods of coping
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that serve us, and what happensis they don't serve us
necessarily when we grow up.
And so, even though you mayhave grown up in a reasonably
stable family, not too much inthe way of trauma, it wasn't
anything that big of a deal.
Remember that you were raisedmost likely by parents who were
deeply steeped in a 3D matrixbased on domination, control,
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all kinds of things kids shouldbe seen and not heard, and all
different things going intoschool and doing the rote
behaviors of school obeying andthe bell, like Pavlov's dogs.
The bell rings, oh, it's timefor a break, getting permission
to go to the bathroom and have apee these things are in there.
Yes, and if we are to step intoour authentic leadership, to
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open, to be able to receivehigher guidance, to follow our
inner guidance and trustourselves and not just trust
authorities out there, thosepatterns need to be re-imprinted
.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah.
So it doesn't have tonecessarily be like heavy trauma
, because it's easy for peopleto say, like I didn't have heavy
trauma.
Yeah, my family had their stuff.
You know their patterns, theirdysfunctions, whatever, but it
wasn't, there wasn't seriousstuff, and still patterning
resulted where I experiencedlimitations in my capacity to
reach, to serve, to receiveabundantly, to live
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authentically, I would say, tolive in alignment with my truth.
So that's the NLP piece.
You want me to talk a littleabout the astrology too.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yes, because I'm not
too familiar with evolutionary
astrology.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay.
So evolutionary astrology wasbrought forward, was channeled
forward by a man named JeffreyWolf Green back in the I want to
say maybe the 60s, and Itrained with three of his direct
students.
But I was studying his work fora number of years and it all
came about because I had a darknight of the soul, I had an
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astrology reading and theastrologer at that time guided
me to his books.
So evolutionary astrologyreally is looking at your soul's
evolutionary journey throughmultiple incarnations.
It's based on the premise ofmany, many incarnations and
within the chart we look for thesoul signatures, what your soul
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came in with, what the traumaand soul fragmentation
signatures are, what your soulintended to grow into in this
life, the skills, abilities andtalents you already have, the
things that it's time for you tolet go of your patterns in
relationship at a soul level.
So that's how I work withclients.
That's mostly how I workone-on-one with clients and then
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sometimes we bring in the NLPif they want to work longer with
me.
But to really look at the bigpicture context of why are you
having the same pattern in yourlife?
That's annoying the heck out ofyou.
Why are you?
Is it okay for you to make thatbig investment decision.
Will it pan out?
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Yeah, from a soul level, is italigned with your soul?
So it's not about a timingissue of like, oh, invest at
this time because you're goingto make a million dollars.
It's not that kind ofprognostication, but rather your
soul is aligned for these typesof investments of your energy
and time.
And then we look at the timingof things based on the transits
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from there.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That sounds like very
powerful work.
Like it's not just a oh, I'm aLeo and this is what house, my
whatever is in, like this is mysoul, like that's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And in fact, just to
kind of illustrate that at a
picture level, we start inevolutionary astrology.
The first thing we look at isthe outermost planet, which is
Pluto, and then the outerplanets.
Rather than what's your sunsign, what's your moon, all of
that gets plugged into the outerplanets by aspect.
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We call it the houses and alsothe nodes of the moon which show
the soul's journey ortrajectory in this incarnation.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
That sounds like very
transformative, powerful work
for anyone that is interested inthat type of reading, Like I
imagine a lot of your clientsare like oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
A lot of ahas, big
time ahas.
It's a very, very helpful toolfor people to understand and
understand their inner workings,their soul architecture, their
tendencies.
And a lot of times, because somany of us were born deep in the
3D matrix, depending on how oldwe are we were made wrong for
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our tendencies.
We were asked what's the matterwith you?
Why can't you blah, blah, blah?
And so this can be a deepconfirmation for people there's
nothing wrong with you.
You're wired to be this way.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, I'm thinking
about like you're a center, you
did this, you did that, Like wow, that's very, very powerful.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, for me.
I'm a traveler, I love totravel, I've always wanted to
travel, I spend a lot of time inSoutheast Asia, I speak other
languages and I was born into afamily for very karmic, cosmic
reasons that I've also lookedinto that they like to stay in
one place, even my son, and sothere was a lot of wrong making
a lot of dream stomping andagain, I'm not trying to throw
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my parents under the bus,they're loving parents but there
was, it's like, where did thiskid come from?
She's nothing like us.
I wasn't wired to stay in oneplace, and when I finally really
saw that, it allowed me to ownit without apology and without
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without apology, without makingmyself wrong and without trying
to negate it and suffer,therefore, from not allowing
myself what was true for me.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, absolutely.
And also probably to you know,to talk to your son and talk to
your parents, like, look, thisis what makes me happy and this
is how I'm going to move forwardas a being on planet Earth.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I love that.
So let me ask you this Ifanyone is interested in booking
this amazing evolutionaryastrology or maybe they feel
like they're having a calling toreturn back to the priestess
what is the best way for them toget in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, the best way to
get in touch with me is to
really to get on my email list.
Okay, that's, that's first ofall.
So just go to my website,dawndelvecchiocom, and there's a
free gift you can get, but thatlets you get my weekly
newsletter and it also availsyou of any specials I offer.
I do offer an astrology specialthat I'd be happy.
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I don't have the URL memorizedin my head right now, but I'd be
happy to provide that to you ifthat, if that's helpful, yeah,
but really the best way is tojust go to my website and
register, and the lot of thelanguage on the website is more
definitely geared toward women,but I do work with men too, so
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not as much, but you knowbrothers who may be listening to
this.
Absolutely, if you know, if youwant an astrology reading, you
could also go there and find thecontact you know.
Find the way to contact me,yeah, or you can reach out to
support at dawndelvecchiocomthat's another way and Lori, my
assistant, will get you theinformation you need for
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anything specific that you mightwant.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I love that.
So, as we wrap up, for anywoman or man who is listening,
who feels the call to work thepath of empowered leadership, as
a priestess, maybe what is onefirst actual step that they can
take to honor the sacred calling.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Wow, there's so many
things that are coming in, so
let me just really feel.
What is the one thing?
Because everyone's different ontheir path, I would say tune in
to develop a practice ofsitting in stillness and asking
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and then waiting to receive.
So ask, please, guide me,divine Mother, guide me.
What would you have me do tostep into this leadership?
What would you have me do totake the next step into
awakening my sacred femininegifts?
What would you have, pleaseshow me, guide me, who is the
right mentor for me, what is theright spiritual practice for me
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?
And consistency of connectingwith divine guidance is
absolutely essential, and thatcan come in an infinite array,
but just sitting in thatstillness, asking and then
receiving is the first step.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It is beautiful, don.
Thank you so, so, so much forcoming on the Spiritual
Spotlight Series.
You are amazing, thank you.
Thank you again so much.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Thank you, Rachel.