Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. — Joseph Campbell Sacred Space is what you make it. It can be an intentional altar, a room, a chair, an outdoor space. The key is the feeling. How does your heart express itself in this space? Gather your symbols, your treasures. What reminds you […]
Goddess Nepthys
Goddess Calendar Feast Days and Celebrations for July 2017
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” ~ John Lubbock Goddess is opulent and profuse. Berries are thick and dripping on the vines, begging […]
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Autumnal Equinox – Honoring Isis and Nepthys {M. Isidora Forrest}
Here at the 45th parallel on the west coast of the US, we are perfectly situated to experience the turning of the seasons in a nearly archetypal form. Very often, the first day of autumn or winter or spring or summer turns out to be a ideal expression of the forthcoming season. Today, the first […]
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Greeting the Goddess Nepthys {M. Isidora Forrest}
This time I’d like to share two things: a thought on how Isis and Nephthys may relate to each other and a meditation/vision I had with Her. The vision has particularly struck me and hasn’t quite left since. It may or may not strike you; we’ll see. Even better, perhaps you will have your own vision with […]
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The Great Mother and Her Mother and Her Mother’s Mother {M Isidora Forrest}
Not too long ago, a friend of this blog asked a very interesting question. She asked how we can reconcile the idea that Isis is both Mother of All with the idea that Isis has a mother Herself. It’s a question I’ve been wanting to work on ever since it was asked, so with this post I’m finally getting around […]
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The Goddess ISIS and Her Dark Twin, the Goddess Nepthys {M. Isidora Forrest}
Older Egyptological books informed us that Nephthys was never worshipped alone and had no temples of Her own. But that was only because they hadn’t found any yet. Thankfully, we now know of several Nephthys temples, a smaller New Kingdom one within a Set temple precinct at Sepermeru, halfway between Heracleopolis and Oxyrhynchus (where that huge cache of […]
