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A Summer Solstice Isis Rite
We’re not quite there yet, but I thought you might like to have this small rite early in case you’d like to find a special outdoor place to celebrate the coming solstice. In Egypt, about 3000 BCE, at...
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Isis & Epona?
Epona on a horse carrying a basket of abundance Well, this one is new to me. And I always love, love, love it when I find out something new about Isis. I found this ‘something new’ in an article about...
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Horus’ Twin Sister
I’m taking the holiday weekend off, so here’s a repost of what I think is an important connection. Warning: this post refers to rape in myth. Boy and girl Divine Children, enwrapped in the protective...
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The Veil of Isis
This work is by Ludovic Pinelli; you can purchase a print here. To Isis, a VeilEn Iset, Behen This is a gift I bring before Isis the Hidden One, Who, Revealing Herself, Shakes Destiny: an invocation...
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Knot Magic & Isis
Note the knots in the straps of the Goddess’ garment as well as the little loop between Her breasts. I am slightly obsessed with knots in Egyptian magic. The basic idea is fairly simple: tied knots...
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Isis & the Soul
What is your concept of the soul? It’s one of those things that we often talk about, but we don’t have a firm definition of what, exactly, it is. Is it the divine part of ourselves? Is it the immortal...
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Isis & the Soul, Pt 2
A beautiful, bronze ba statue Last time, we talked about the Egyptian ba—very loosely translated as the soul. When represented in tombs, the ba is shown as a human-headed bird, often a falcon or hawk,...
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She is Rising 2023
For me, there are two things that make August wonderful, here in Portland, Oregon. One of them is all the produce that I can go pick on Sauvie’s Island, fresh from the farmers’ fields. (My countertops...
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What is the Mensa Isiaca?
Have you ever heard of the Mensa Isiaca? Did this mysterious Isiac artifact serve as the altar when Plato received his initiation into the Egyptian Greater Mysteries in a secret, subterranean hall...
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The Occult History of the Mensa Isiaca
Frontpiece of the oldest known treatise on the Mensa Isiaca; first edition 1605; Lorenzo put himself in the picture as the artist/scholar Part 2 A Mysterious Artifact At about the time we first hear...
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More Occult History of the Mensa Isiaca
Isis leading the initiate… Part 3 For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been looking into the history—occult and otherwise—of the unique artifact known as the Mensa Isiaca or Table/t of Isis. And it is,...
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Is Isis a Moon Goddess or Sun Goddess?
Isis as a Lunar Goddess by artist Mikewildt. Visit him on Deviant Art here. As we approach the time when night and day, moon and sun come into a brief and beautiful balance, let’s talk about Isis’...
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Hello, Isiacs! No new post this Sunday as I am off in the wilds of Ffynnon celebrating the Rites, Devotions, and Mysteries of Hekate for Fall Equinox. Many blessings of the Equinox to all of you and...
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The Divine Bread of Isis
Offering bread to the Goddess Here in the famously cloudy Pacific Northwest, I find myself thinking of a hot bowl of soup and a slice, well buttered, of bread. So today, I write today in honor of...
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Is your sacred image of Isis “alive”?
If so, how did that happen? Did you do a specific ritual? Did it slowly gain its living quality over time? Following the inspirations of ancient Egyptian cult, for me, the ones that are alive are so...
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An Isis Divination
Oops. I totally forgot to post yesterday. We had a divination party on Saturday, so was cleaning up and resting after that. But in honor of that and in the spirit of the veil-thin-between-the-worlds...
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What time does Isis exist in?
And is it different than the time you exist in? Here in the US, we just set our clocks back an hour, returning that daylight hour we borrowed in the spring. We all just decide to agree on this...
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Neheh, Djet & Isis
I’ve done some more reading and some more meditation and I want to come back to neheh and djet. Why? Because I am very inspired by a 2022 work by Egyptologist Steven Gregory on the subject. Unless...
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Isis & the Ankh
The awesome scene from “The Mummy” when the statue of Isis raises the ankh to save Her reincarnated priestess from a lovestruck but murderous mummy Of all the emblems of ancient Egypt, the...
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How often do you connect with Goddess Isis?
Offering prayer Once a day? Once a week? Once a month? Only at festivals? And no matter what you do, do you sometimes feel guilty that you’re not doing enough? Do you worry that Isis may be displeased...
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