13 Moon Practitioners
Meet our 13 Moon Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers
ABOUT 13 MOON MYSTERY SCHOOL LINEAGE
The 13 Moon Mystery School™, founded by Ariel Spilsbury, is an initiation into the feminine mysteries through establishing direct, personal encounters with the Goddess via archetypal consciousness.
Having intimate experiences with the Goddess through archetypal frequency—in a disciplined and rooted way— creates vibrational alchemical transformation so that shifts in consciousness can take place.
We believe we must fully embrace the Divine Feminine within us, and bring her into the hieros gamos of sacred union with the Noble Masculine to bring much-needed unity and harmony to the planet.
ABOUT 13 MOON™ PRACTITIONERS: ORDAINED PRIESTESSES & FOCALIZERS
The Ordination & Focalization Path is not a lightweight commitment with a rubber-stamp completion.
Our Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers have demonstrated that they walk as a vessel of empty presence, in service to the Goddess, and thus can alchemize and transmute through their presence and love alone. This is the feeling harmonic that is recognized as the 13 Moon™ lineage.
13 Moon™ Priestesses have honed their lineage gifts so they may offer themselves in service to the awakening of the One Heart with clarity, integrity, and devotion.
Elayne Kalila, founder of the Priestess Presence School of Sacred Arts & Temple, has been the Initiator & Focalizer of these practitioners, training them extensively to be modern-day priestesses.
These incredible Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers have been held accountable within a dedicated sisterhood. They’ve experienced disciplined, rooted initiations into the cycles of life, death, and rebirth through direct contact with archetypal energies. Now, holding a feeling harmonic that’s in resonance with the 13 Moon™ teachings, they’ve taken a vow to walk as love, as Priest/esses of the Goddess.
Our Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers have demonstrated that they walk as a vessel of empty presence, in service to the Goddess, and thus can alchemize and transmute through their presence and love alone. This is the feeling harmonic that is recognized as the 13 Moon™ lineage.
13 Moon™ Priestesses have honed their lineage gifts so they may offer themselves in service to the awakening of the One Heart with clarity, integrity, and devotion.
Elayne Kalila, founder of the Priestess Presence School of Sacred Arts & Temple, has been the Initiator & Focalizer of these practitioners, training them extensively to be modern-day priestesses.
These incredible Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers have been held accountable within a dedicated sisterhood. They’ve experienced disciplined, rooted initiations into the cycles of life, death, and rebirth through direct contact with archetypal energies. Now, holding a feeling harmonic that’s in resonance with the 13 Moon™ teachings, they’ve taken a vow to walk as love, as Priest/esses of the Goddess.
Stories from Sisters on the 13 Moon Priestess Path
Going through the training to become ordained completely changed my life in every single way possible … from my relationship to Source, my ancestors, myself, my family, and my place in the world.
Ordination itself was just the beginning, not the “end” of training with a rubber stamp; far from it. It feels that now, I’m called to step even more fully into alignment with my soul’s purpose and vocation.
I’ll forever be grateful and in deep humility for this work.
Honoring the call to become ordained within the 13 Moon Mystery School has been a homecoming back to my heart-knowing and soul essence.
For me, ordination was the full body YES to step through my gateways of deeper initiation to further alchemize and transmute my shadows in love. Through this vow of remembrance and devotion, my heart has opened to receive the gifts of initiation rather than deny them.
Becoming an Ordained Priestess changed my life…the whole process has brought me home to myself, to life and to the Mother: That is the biggest gift and blessing.
It showed me the deep transformative spaces we can create for each other and provided a channel for my love that felt authentic, empowering and life-affirming for myself and those I serve.
It has made all the difference in the world to me. Not only has it improved my relationships and how I relate to others but it has improved my relationship with myself.
I am free and empowered. It’s like being Neo from the matrix and the world has become clear- I move though it in an empowered way- I see things more clearly. I have become more authentically me without the baggage of fear. It has changed not only my life but of those I love.
PRACTITIONERS TRACK
ORDAINED PRIEST/ESS
Our Ordained Priest/esses have been through rigorous initiation. They can perform rites of passage, including marriage rituals.
Unless they’re also Focalizers, they will not initiate, ordain, or teach the works of the 13 Moon Mystery School™.
FOCALIZERS APPRENTICES
Our Focalizer Apprentices are individuals who have petitioned to experience rigorous mentorship with Elayne Kalila so they can become Focalizers. To petition as an apprentice, one must have completed at least 3 years of training within the 13 Moon Mystery School™; and, if not already ordained, in preparation to become ordained.
Apprenticeship is an individualized, deep commitment.
Apprentices serve in devotion during online temples and in-person initiatory retreats, developing specific skills to ground and transmit the 13 Moon™ teachings.
FOCALIZERS
Our Focalizers have completed the most rigorous path in the 13 Moon Mystery School™, becoming a lineage bearer of Ariel Spilsbury’s work.
This includes ordination and extensive tutelage/apprenticeship with Elayne Kalila, or another lineage bearer, who has been personally ordained by Ariel to carry on the 13 Moon Mystery School™ transmissions.
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This includes certification and tutelage/apprenticeship with Diana DuBrow.
They are lineage bearers of the Scent Priestess protocols, aligned within Rosa Mystica Mystery School, and may continue to offer their gifts through teaching or transmitting the sacred art.
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The Focalizers listed here have apprenticed with Elayne Kalila and in some cases, with additional lineage bearers.
They’ve experienced many gateways of personal initiations and inner work to stand as clear, grounded Initiators. They’ve deepened their gnosis and embodied understanding of alchemical transformation so they can— with integrity—initiate, ordain, and teach others the 13 Moon Mystery School™ work.
Focalizers have the responsibility to hold the “sword of truth” with love, integrity, and authenticity.
This degree of training is akin to a Ph.D.; it’s the most outward expression as an emissary to the Goddess, becoming Her Initiator and initiating others with the sword of truth and love.
Guiding Principles
01 Inner Alchemy & Shadow Work
We believe that before you can effectively create & hold sacred space for others, you must experience the alchemy that comes from personal initiation & shadow work.
03 Devotion & Service
We believe that after personal shadow work & becoming highly skilled at holding resonant, coherent space for self and others, you can enter a deep commitment to being in devotional service.
02 Resonance & Coherency
We believe that after a sufficient amount of inner alchemy/shadow work so that you can hold yourself through challenges, you can begin to hold space for others in a resonant & coherent way.
Guiding
Principles
01 Inner Alchemy & Shadow Work
We believe that before you can effectively create & hold sacred space for others, you must experience the alchemy that comes from personal initiation & shadow work.
03 Devotion & Service
We believe that after personal shadow work & becoming highly skilled at holding resonant, coherent space for self and others, you can enter a deep commitment to being in devotional service.
02 Resonance & Coherency
We believe that after a sufficient amount of inner alchemy/shadow work so that you can hold yourself through challenges, you can begin to hold space for others in a resonant & coherent way.
How our Practitioners Walk in the World
Our Ordained Priestesses & Focalizers have willingly experienced extensive gateways of personal growth and spiritual maturation to such a degree that they experience their initiations as an alchemical transformation not only for themselves, but for the collective.
My own experience in the cauldron has burned away nearly all the remaining residue of fear and inauthenticity. I trust my sisters, because I’ve learned to trust myself more. I feel safer in the world, not because the world has changed, but because I have changed. These are but a few of the amazing side effects of the medicine ETM brings to your world.
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Ordained Priestess, Other Titles
PRACTITIONER PROFILES
Amanda Starshine
Certified Scent Priestess, 13 Moon Focalizer Apprentice, Certified Temple Guide
Amanda Starshine is and apprenticing focalizer and priestess of the 13 moon mystery school. She is a medium, mystic and practicing medicine woman. Starshine works in the mundane world of western medicine and the world beyond the veils. She is a blend of science and magic and can bridge the gap between those two worlds.
Astara Ashley
Certified Temple Guide
As CEO and Publisher of Flower of Life Press, a boutique, full-service publishing agency, Astara is deeply committed to supporting authors in unleashing their unique voices and achieving full self-expression via their books and oracle card decks. Her expertise is rooted in a rich blend of corporate publishing experience and a Master’s in Transpersonal Psychology and Art Therapy, alongside her spiritual journey as a Priestess in the 13 Moon and Rosa Mystica Mystery Schools.
Catalina Rivera Dois
Ordained 13 Moon Priestess, Certified Temple Guide
Catalina Rivera Dois is an ordained Priestess of the 13 Moon Mystery School and Keeper of Our Blood Mysteries Temple: a sacred space dedicated to the rebirthing of our womb mysteries into modern-day life. She is an emissary of Mother’s Love through simple heart/womb knowing, magic, and fun.
Dianne Chalifour
Certified Scent Priestess, Certified Temple Guide, Ordained 13 Moon Priestess, Focalizer Apprentice: 13 Moon
She is an ordained Priestess through the 13 Moon Mystery School, ordained in the Order of Melchizedek, and a certified Scent Priestess through the Rosa Mystica Mystery School. She is the owner of a wellness center/crystal shop on the New Hampshire seacoast born through her passionate calling to offer tools and services to assist in healing and elevating consciousness.
Eden Amadora
Focalizer, Ordained 13 Moon Priestess
Eden Amadora an archetypal channel, a mystic and a muse. As an ordained priestess and focalizer in the Divine Feminine 13 Moon Mystery School she is in service to those who are ready to embody their most essential, radiant selves and express their authentic voices as she combines her Divine Feminine guidance with yogic, shamanic, and intuitive practices and specializes in mudra, mantra, sound, song and archetypal embodiment.
Elsa Alegria Perez Dean
Certified Temple Guide, Ordained 13 Moon Priestess, Focalizer: 13 Moon
Elsa Alegria is an Ordained Priestess and Focalizer of the 13 Moon Mystery School. She is also the temple keeper of The Radiant Heart Sanctuary, offering women spiritual guidance and ceremony as a sacred feminine wisdom keeper.
Julie Santiago
Ordained 13 Moon Priestess
Julie has dedicated her life to getting to the bottom of why certain successful women are wired to burnout and how we can change this – so you don’t have to piece it all together alone.
She started her lucrative career on Wall Street; to the outside world, it appeared she achieved the pinnacle of success…but the story on the inside was very different.
Michelle Long
13 Moon Focalizer Apprentice
Michelle Long, MA, is the founder of The Practice® for Women, a sacred business that supports women as they step more into their truth and claim the life they desire. Michelle has been a teacher of feminine spirituality, yoga, and women’s leadership since 2002. She has a master’s degree in Holistic Health Education, is a certified Women’s Wholeness Coach, and has owned and managed a women’s yoga and healing center for ten years.
Rebecca Cavender
Certified Scent Priestess, Ordained 13 Moon Priestess
Rebecca is an Ordained Priestess with the 13 Moon Mystery School, Certified Scent Priestess with the Emerald Temple, and founder/steward of Golden Snake Temple. She holds powerful snake medicine, rooted in primordial wisdom, initiating people into these mysteries as a faculty in the Quintessia Mystery School and Golden Snake Temple.
Sarah Jenks
Ordained 13 Moon Priestess, Certified Scent Priestess
I’m seconds off of guiding a circle for my Whole Women Membership and I held my first etheric temple online; the level of healing that happened in the past hour for the 700 women in my program was incredible.
They were able to access such depth, truth, and simplicity just by stepping in temple space.
SISTERHOOD OF DIVINE LOVE
I joined Enter the Mystery after what I thought was a difficult year – and it was – yet the next two years would be even more traumatic and tumultuous.
The power to survive came from within me, yet the framework of the archetypes and the sisterhood I have been part of guided me in discovering my connection to that power, to my divinity.
When I started to walk to the path of Priestess Presence, I was not connected to Divine Feminine energies. I was very introspective, my heart was open but guarded. The deeper into the teachings the more I could feel and hear her voice. The remembrance of walking with the divine feminine and who I was, am and will be has been coming clearer with each moon. The enhancement of the program is the Sister Circles. I am truly blessed to have chosen Lettie Sullivan as my mentor/sister.
The very first time I stumbled upon Priestess Presence and heard Elayne Doughty speak about what it means to walk the priestess path, goosebumps ran up and down both my arms and I had a visceral feeling that shook my body from the inside out.
I have to say that I have before noticed or experienced anything like this feeling.
My biggest transformation this year has been shifting my deep fear of being intimate with people in general and the resistance to being connected.
The great mother really shifted my core to get this year started and it helped me on a really massive level to heal my inner child wounds from my abusive upbringing.
I was able to reconnect my roots to a much bigger power and recognize my own magic and purpose in the world.
I’ve been working with the 13 moon archetypes since 2015, and last year I felt like I was ready for something deeper, some new clarity and I really wanted to be fully held. And so when I found out about Ruby circle, it was a no brainer.
I was such a yes. And I haven’t regretted one part of the journey, even the intensities, and the initiations have been so beautiful. The way Elayne Kalila creates space and holds you in this journey is amazing in and of itself.
The best way to put it is there’s the me before the Ruby circle, and there’s the me after the Ruby circle.
What this means is that I now get to live life with more of me these days, that I get to live my life knowing what it means to be my authentic self in my fullest expression and living in alignment with my soul.
There are even parts of myself that have surfaced that I didn’t even know existed.
The biggest transformation in ETM that I’ve had so far is a deepening remembrance and connection to who I am and the sacred feminine within. This has led to shifts in the ways I see and experience my everyday life.
It’s as if I have a new lens that I am seeing through.
It is a lens that has always been in my pocket and now that I have pulled it out, polished it, and depending on how I hold it, I see things from different perspective.
Being part of the Enter the Mystery Priestess Presence group has been transformational.
Workng with Elayne Kalila is an absolute pleasure. She’s very gifted and caring and loving. All of her assistants are very supportive as well.
I am so pleased and honored to be part of this amazing group.
Diana, Elayne Kalila, and Jacquie are part of a Sisterhood circle of powerful women that bring together the potency and symphony of these amazing oils that Diana has channeled.
Each sacred oil brings me to a deeper understanding and an amplified experience of what it is to be a Priestess and an Oracle.
I’m eternally grateful for Enter the Mystery, it’s the most transforming, powerful, and empowering journey I’ve ever embarked upon.
I’ve felt so deeply held and supported all the way. I continue to be in awe of its magic, power, and depth every day.
This is a true feminine mystery school of pure love and heart, and complete, wild feminine awakening. I highly recommend this journey, it’s essential curriculum for every woman.
My connection to the Divine Mother has amplified through my path in Enter The Mystery. I feel at home, as I find such alignment in the teachings.
Elayne Kalila came into my purview when I saw her on the shift network doing a special on Mary Magdalene. I instantly knew she was my teacher. I came in with years of meditation and other spiritual practices and teachers, but I felt ungrounded and I hadn’t felt held so I couldn’t explore the depths of my soul. And that’s what we do in the Ruby circle.
Each year Elayne Kalila mentors a small group of women, women who are daring women who are ready to be vulnerable and do the deep work.
My own experience in the cauldron has burned away nearly all the remaining residue of fear and inauthenticity.
I trust my sisters, because I’ve learned to trust myself more.
I feel safer in the world, not because the world has changed, but because I have changed. These are but a few of the amazing side effects of the medicine ETM brings to your world.
I felt deeply called to RMMS but I really had no idea how profound the experience would be for me.
The Emerald Temple oils have become such an important part of my spiritual practice and personal self care that I can’t imagine not having them with me as I continue on my path of healing and personal development. For those who feel called to enroll in Rosa Mystica I can’t recommend it highly enough, your life will be profoundly changed for the better.
My biggest transformation is the realization that I create my reality by tapping in, tuning in, and getting in the different frequencies and archetypes that serve me at any given moment. That I have all the answer within.
This comes with a confidence and empowerment that allows me to serve from a place of wholeness and solidity that I don’t have prior.
I’m in awe of the mystery and magic and am devoted to this practice for a lifetime.
The biggest transformation in ETM I’ve had so far is that I have nurtured an active and ever-present connection to the divine, in both an etheric and practical sense, in my personal and professional life. Every single day I am feeling into the spirit and archetypes within me, and around me.
Whether I am in nature, releasing old stories into the healing waters of mother, nestled amongst her trees and communing with their wisdom.
We all have deeply held traumas, fears, vulnerabilities … .BUT, the beautiful thing is that we are all also amazing healers who can hold safe space for each other…witness each other, and support each other. That is the most powerful medicine on the planet. I love each and everyone of you. Thank you for saying yes to yourself and therefore to all of us. You are magic!!
The biggest transformation for me is that I am beginning to fully accept and love myself more and more unconditionally. For so many years I felt wrong for who I am and now it feels like coming home to my true self and falling in love with me. This is such a relief and an incredible gift.
In accepting that I do not have to heal or to become anybody else I could start to watch into the mirror with the eyes of love.
This is my first time doing the Enter the Mystery Program and it has been such a transformational and emotional experience. The entire sisterhood, my specific group, and my mentor have all been incredibly supportive and I have witnessed some amazing transformational journeys in such a short time.
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