Soteira Temple Priestesses
Priestess Kat Evans is a seasoned spiritual teacher, ritualist, and community leader whose work bridges ancient traditions with modern practice. A devotee of The Morrigan and a Priestess of the Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple, she brings over two decades of experience in the healing and mystical arts. She currently serves as Executive Director of Soteira Temple. She also serves as a board member of Northwest Indiana Pagan Pride, supporting inclusive community building and public education around earth-honoring spiritual traditions.
Trained as a Shamanic Practitioner and initiated in the Norse Völva tradition, Kat is deeply rooted in ancestral pathways of wisdom. She is a certified Reiki Master, blending energy healing with spiritual insight and shamanic drum work to guide others through profound transformation. Her work is grounded, embodied, and shaped by lived experience as a Priestess, teacher, and mystic who walks what she teaches. Her intuitive oracle readings are an extension of that lineage. Through trancework, ancestral sight, and symbolic fluency, Kat reads beyond the surface. Her sessions illuminate shadow patterns, soul threads, and the deeper currents shaping a seeker’s path. She delivers guidance with precision and truth, offering clarity that is both mystical and actionable.
She can often be found wandering graveyards and wild places, listening for the whispers of what longs to be healed, and answering the call.
Priestess Yeshe Meryemana Matthews is a Mandala Priestess and Sibyl of Mt Shasta Goddess Temple (Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling), serving women with ceremony, initiatory education, pilgrimage, and reverent communion with the unseen worlds. Her work is shaped by a lifelong devotion to Goddess across cultures, with a disciplined path of lineage reverence, gnostic epiphany, death-tending, purification practices, symbol study, foundational devotion, and a seasoned ethic of spiritual mentorship. She is a guide for women standing at thresholds, helping them bring their gifts into an arc of service that is beautiful, grounded, and real.
A scholar-practitioner, Yeshe holds a Master’s degree in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College and has spent over twenty years studying women’s mysteries, shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism, Priestesshood, and matriarchal or women-centered traditions. Her teachings focus on soul refinement, ancestral relationships, the arts of love and beauty, and the embodied transmission of sacred knowledge through ritual and lived practice. As Spiritual Director of Soteira Temple, she provides guidance in temple formation, Priestesshood, the intersection of ritual and scholarship, and spiritual coherence.
Yeshe is also an oracle, having completed over 20,000 readings for clients worldwide. Across all of her offerings, Yeshe’s aim is steadfast: to help women remember the inherent holiness of their existence and become joyful, visionary practitioners of Goddess devotion.
Priestess Devanna Sira is a fine artist, illustrator, jeweler, and ritual crafter devoted to sacred creativity and living through inspired, visionary magic. She creates devotional art and ritual objects across multiple mediums, including hand-printed linocut icons, painted goddesses, original hex signs, and her self-published divination decks, The Incidental Tarot (2012) and A Curious Oracle (2015). Her work encompasses handmade sacred jewelry, rosaries, ritual tools, and forged ceremonial objects—offering bowls, braziers, and candle scribes—crafted to bring beauty, meaning, and intention into spiritual practice.
Devanna is a Skydancer Priestess and Sibyl of the Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple since 2020, dedicating her primary devotional work to the goddess Hekate. She also co-leads Via Carmen Pythia, the Temple’s two-year Sibyl Training Program. Her path centers on teaching Goddess spirituality, divination, magic, ritual creativity, and creating sacred tools that support transformation, devotion, and spiritual depth. Her newest project, the Crossroads Goddess Temple, is devoted to cultivating a living spiritual community rooted in these values and practices.
As a graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer, Devanna brings refined visual discernment and cohesive creative direction to spiritual projects and sacred spaces, uniting aesthetic excellence with meaningful devotional intent. As Creative Director of Soteira Temple, she brings artistic leadership, clear spiritual vision, and grounded imagination to empower women to claim their voice, cultivate their power, and embody their unique spiritual authority.
Priestess Sarah Trew is a Shakta Hindu practitioner, spiritual mentor, and guide devoted to Kali as Ādi Śakti and the Mahāvidyās. She has been devoted to the Goddess in her many forms for over twenty-five years, cultivating a devotional path rooted in sacred storytelling, embodied spiritual practice, and lived relationship with the divine feminine.
At the heart of her work is holding space for the hearts of women. Through mythic storytelling and archetypal exploration, Sarah supports women in meeting their inner lives with compassion, releasing old patterns, and reclaiming their spiritual authority within themselves and in community.
Sarah’s path is shaped by decades of devotional study, pilgrimage, ritual leadership, and lived spiritual practice. Her work is grounded in relationships - with the Goddess, with the land, and with the living stories that help women remember who they are beneath roles, wounds, and expectations.
She is a priestess of both Sisters in Freya’s Moon and the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple, and the founder of the Alberta Goddess Temple, where she facilitates both in person and online women’s circles, classes and gatherings devoted to goddess spirituality, myth, and ritual. As Director of Community Connections in Soteira Temple, she helps women heal their hearts, find their voices, and express their loving devotion to the Great Mother.