Spirit Spoke,
I Listened...
I Am Aliaithusa.

It all started in 2024, when I was given a powerful vision — one that sealed my initiation, not just into a name, but into my sacred calling:

 

In my mind's eye, I saw a lead rock — heavy and unyielding — suddenly burst into flames. From those flames, a phoenix emerged — radiant and alive — soaring directly into my heart, returning home. With it came both a gift and a responsibility: to walk this path as a shamanic practitioner, to hold sacred space, to burn through illusion, and to carry the torch of transformation — guiding others out of the dark. 

 

When the flames finally subsided, a single word remained, etched in shimmering gold upon the stone: Alia. In that moment, I knew in my bones, Alia was the name I would be called — but it felt incomplete. In the stillness that followed, I heard a soft whisper: Aithusa.

 

At the time, I didn’t know what either name meant — only that they were sacred and true. Later, I discovered their deeper meanings:

 

• Alia means noble, exalted, and to rise or ascend in many cultures. In Hawaiian, it also means salt bed — the sacred ground where salt, a powerful tool of purification and protection, is formed by sun and time.

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• Aithusa means Light of the Sun and She Who Burns — the fire of truth, the radiance of spirit, and the power to illuminate and transform.