The complexity of the process a woman accepts to become priestess is often minimized or poorly understood. A woman studying to become priestess will be subjected to a transformation process hard to describe and can cause her much difficulties, but will bring her an intense illumination.

The initiation to the priesthood is in fact an initiation to the magic of the goddess Isis. Isis is a creating goddess, a powerful magician, who also has to power to heal diseases. The priestess has then in a first time to separate from her well-known environment. This is why the ritual usually takes place in an remote place, with the presence of few people.

She has then to go through a symbolic death, to bury her previous life to begin a new one, freed from her old burdens. This is the only way for her to open her soul to the goddess and receive her first powers.