The longest day of the year is one of the more personal holidays I like to celebrate. It represents the height of solar power and can be a very potent time to perform rituals. Over my solstice I celebrated a secondary festival with my community that was called the Flower Festival. The Flower Festival celebrated … More Summer Solstice
It has been an interesting few months. The winter has melted into Spring and on the way to Summer. Flowers are blooming all around me in the new house, neighborhood and city we moved to back in September. This is the first spring/summer in this house and I am enjoying watching it unfold. I also … More The Field Goddess
The relationship between gods and devotees is not static. It is fluid, growing and changing as the person changes. There is not aspect of life that remains still for very long. Why should the relationship of gods to their people be any different? When I first began my journey with my gods things were pretty … More Kemetic Bloghop: Into the Heart of…
Star gods have been out there for thousands of years. The decan stars used to tell time throughout the night by the egyptian priests were powerful beings and linked to ancient constellations. However even stars can change given enough time and so the full knowledge of the decans is lost to us. What we do … More Decan gods
So a big thing happened. I published a deck of oracle cards and a booklet for them! Links below. It is 100 cards, playing card sized, depicting 99 gods and spirits of Ancient Egypt in my own style. They are water color collage pieces, all 101 made during the first month of the pandemic shutdown. … More Oracle Cards
Well, we are surviving. 2020 is continuing to kick my butt It has been some time since I posted and that is because huge changes have come up. Not only are we all dealing with country wide plague, elections coming, but we also moved! Between end of July and end of September we have decided … More Summer is coming to a close [personal update]
The word service is used often to mean the action of helping or doing work for another. It also has the connotation that to be of service means always placing others above yourself. Their needs mean more than your own. And that can really cause a person issue. Because service should never mean giving up … More Service does not mean Suffering
Love is not always an easy thing to attain, learn, or keep. It is not always happy or clear. And learning to love yourself, all of you, can be a nightmare. This last bit is becoming pretty evident as I am stuck at home due to plague 2020. Living oneself can be extremely difficult once … More Hethert to the Rescue [personal update]
So after a weird dream about Heqat I was inspired to create a heka for her. In my dream there was an epithet of her’s about calming or commanding ‘the storm.’ This led me to this heka whose goal is to help deal with the inner storm but may also be useful in calming the chaos … More Heqat Heka – Calm the Storm
While not a very well known or often talked about god, Bes is easy to find in statuary in modern times. He is the (often) naked dwarf god of Ancient Egypt. Bes is a bit different than the other gods in a few ways but most notably because his imagery is always of him face … More A Lesson from Bes
