Charlotte Elea Dovechild
Temple Founder, Board President, Ceremonial Priestess, Shamanic Guide, Minister of the Goddess, Director of Ministry & Education.
Charlotte is a Ceremonial Priestess initiated within the Magdalene Rose, Irish Celtic Shamanic and Avalonian ancestral lineages and wisdom traditions. She is a ceremonial leader and space holder, shamanic healer, HERstory teller, radical visionary, walker between worlds, and a mentor in transformational, embodied and feminine spiritual leadership.
She devotes her life to alchemical transformation, stewarding the earth, embodying the Goddess and guiding those who are ready to embrace their own Divine Feminine path.
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Charlotte initially studied and trained as a psychotherapist in Clinical Feminist Psychology, and spent her first career as a social worker serving several different underserved communities including domestic violence survivors, intravenous drug users, the LGBTQ community, at-risk youth and children separated from their parents.
She changed careers due to a pressing need to heal her childhood traumas and wounds, and explored the worlds of start-up businesses, marketing, creative writing and finally entrepreneurship. Her healing path brought her into energy work and spirituality, and she went into business for herself as a tarot reader and spiritual coach, before discovering her destined path as a Priestess.
Her life changed when she mentored with Diana DuBrow within Rosa Mystica Mystery School, and initiated as a Scent Anointing Priestess within the Lineage of the Rose with Mary Magdalene and Goddess isis. She learned to embody the unconditional love of the Great Mother, and to follow the codes of archetypal embodiment, alchemy, spiritual death and rebirth as a pathway of transformational healing. She then took her Priestess Vows to devote her life in service of the Goddess.
Her spiritual path took her deeper into her sacred ancestry after she visited Glastonbury, England and entered into the lineage of Avalon with Morgen le Fey and Goddess Brighde (Brigid) as her guides. She then began an intensive apprenticeship in Irish Celtic Shamanism with Sli an Chroi, alongside a self-study in the ancient (pre-colonial) underworld tradition of Avalon. She came into her spiritual medicine as a Psychopomp and astral traveler and became an adept in the hidden dimensions of inner earth guided by her ancestors. She uncovered a path to karmic healing+freedom and soul embodiment through the inner earth journey.
Charlotte is passionately committed to bringing back the ancient lineage teachings of the Goddess, the physical Goddess Temples, and Divine Feminine leadership as a pathway to heal and transform our world. She holds wisdom teachings, practices, and energetic codes from her countless initiations of spiritual death and rebirth, and is ready to pass them onto others who are ready to step into their own self-healing and empowered sovereignty.
She guides a path of spiritual embodiment and awakening the codes that bring you into oneness with spirit, body and earth at once. She holds the center pillar of Goddess Temple Central Coast, upholding the alignment, vision, and integrity of the temple in service to Mother Earth. She guides the spiritual and ministerial programs of the temple while also serving as President of the Board of Directors.
“As a resident of the California Central Coast, it is an honor and privilege to live upon the sacred land of the Chumash and Salinan tribes, and to nurture the mother of this land, creating the temple together. I live in Paso Robles and steward two beautiful acres of rolling hills with my wife, two cats, two dogs and several chickens.”
Credentials
Shamanic Healer:
2-year intensive training with Slí an Chroi, teachers John Cantwell and Dr. Karen Ward, in the earth-based mystical healing arts of ancient indigenous Ireland (2022-2024)
Certified as a Shamanic Energy Therapist (2024)
Self-taught in Celtic mythology and folklore.
Initiated Priestess, Magdalene Sisterhood of the Rose:
Two-year apprenticeship with Diana Dubrow and Rosa Mystica Mystery School as a scent-anointing priestess of the Magdalene Rose lineage (2020-2022).
Self-Ordained: Ceremonial taking of Priestess Vows guided by Diana DuBrow in Mount Shasta, CA (2021).
Initiated Priestess of Avalon:
Two-year apprenticeship with Avalonian otherworld allies, guided primarily in the dreamspace through astral travel and direct revelation.
Self-taught in faerie-lore: an ancient oral tradition of northern Europe.
Temple Guide & Sacred Space Holder:
6-month training in women’s circle facilitation with Sora Schilling (2018).
4-month Temple Guide Training in ceremonial space holding and archetypal embodiment with Elayne Kalila and Priestess Presence (2020).
Facilitated numerous women’s circles, healing groups, ceremony and temple spaces since 2018.
Ordained Minister:
By Church of the Goddess Central Coast as a Minister of the Goddess to perform all duties as a religiously ordained person (2025).
By Venus Rising Association of Transformation as a Shamanic Minister to perform all duties as a religiously ordained person (2023).
Tarot Reader:
Self taught in the western mystical tradition, Wicca, and numerology since 1999.
Read professionally and led Intuitive Tarot Reading workshops, Los Angeles and online since 2014.
MA in Clinical Feminist Psychology:
New College of San Francisco (2003). Foundation in depth-oriented and Jungian psychology, and post-colonial feminism.
Four years of clinical service to groups, individuals, children, youth, couples and families (2002-2006).