The ancient Egyptian New Year came in late summer and marked the beginning of the fertilizing Nile Inundation. Here in Portland, January is certainly part of our own inundating rainy season, but it is hardly in tune with the ancient late-summer New Year. Yet for devotees of Isis, there is a New Year’s treat to […]
Sacred Rites
How to Create a Sacred Water Altar {Kathryn Ravenwood}
In 2012 my book, How to Create Sacred Water: A Guide to Rituals and Practices (Inner Traditions/Bear & Company) was published. It was the story of my becoming a priestess for the waters, how I created a sacred water altar at the guidance of Spirit, and how my relationship with water, Spirit, Gaia, and myself […]
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The Key to Egyptian Magic – Part 1 {M Isidora Forrest}
Yep. I’ve said it. Balls out. If I had balls. So ovaries out, I guess. I’m certain that the technique I’m going to talk about today is one of—if not the—key to Egyptian magic. It has no known Egyptian name, but you find it everywhere throughout Egyptian sacred written materials. It freaked out the Greeks […]
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Dionysian Rites {Carol P. Christ}
In today’s blog, I offer an excerpt from my soon to be re-published memoir, A Serpentine Path: Mysteries of the Goddess. The setting is Zaros, Crete, the time of year is mid-October. We had a scrumptious dinner of fresh fish, salad, fried potatoes, local amber-colored wine, and tiny olives. Later the two waiters, Themis and […]
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Entering Her Myth – The Goddess Sekhmet – Part 2 {Anne Key}
This article and future articles are a three part series from Anne’s time at the Sekhmet Temple and excerpted with permission from her book, Desert Priestess. I began to have an understanding of Sekhmet in her context in ancient Egypt. But I wanted to understand her in the depths of my bones, in the depths […]
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Winter Solstice Invocation by Judith Laura {Rhythms Winter 2015}
Holy and blessed Mother, who brings forth the sun in the passion of sacred orgasm, May all children born of you and of us know the fullness of their sexuality and feel the pleasure of your love May all children born of you and of us know the freedom of their body’s gifts and bear […]
