Notes from a lunch hour
I’m craving a certain kind of spiritual reading, but I don’t know exactly what. Or perhaps I’m craving the doing that such reading would describe. I often find that reading about something is a...
View ArticleSenut for the Seven Arrows
As noted here, for the last seven days I’ve been doing Senut for the Seven Arrows of Bast, one god on each day. Below are the impressions of my experiences. Heavily UPG, of course. Bast She reminds...
View ArticleSlightly disjointed update post
I’m back again, after another short posting hiatus. For the main part I’ve been absent because everyone else in the Kemetic blogosphere has been making such great posts that I haven’t felt as though I...
View ArticleFalling into Fallow Times
I think there are a number of ways to fall into fallow times, just as there are many ways to approach and experience the Divine. One way, strange as it may sound, is an inability to let go — in...
View ArticleKRT: The Gods and you
– Do I need a main deity to practice Kemeticism? If so, how do I get a main deity? – Am I able to say no to a deity that shows up at my shrine? – Am I obligated to learn everything I can about my...
View ArticlePieces of Kemet
A collection of bits on variously honoring the Gods…. It was snowing fairly heavily on Friday, so I wore red for His Redness, the Lord of Storms. I’ve posted before about the incongruous-but-not-ness...
View ArticleKRT: Unverified personal gnosis (UPG)
Unverified Personal Gnosis/Doxa: - What is it, how you do get it? - What are the rules on it? - How important is it? Should we rely on it? - Should we pay attention to others’ UPG, or let it...
View ArticleBringing the doing
Sannion has a couple of recent posts (here and here) on the issue of there being too many writers and not enough do-ers in pagandom. That people are so busy venting their opinions on whatever the...
View ArticleMaking peace with distraction
Happy Beautiful Feast of the Valley! I’m sorry I didn’t manage to organize a blog celebration for this festival after all. I was derailed partly by needing to put some attention toward a freelance...
View ArticleHolding on
Ah. Rough week, full of medical shenanigans and “Really? This is my life?” moments, but at least I haven’t completely lost it. I did shrine rite tonight, and with Bast’s blessing got my ritual for...
View ArticleCommunity thought
This post was interesting to me, considering all the talk that goes back and forth about how to build community and who is or isn’t part of any given community at any given moment: The Art of the...
View ArticleHome from Retreat
The clouds came in at some point today. I didn’t notice it, but the sky turned from the morning’s horizon-spanning clear blue to soft white quilting. I’m back from the House of Netjer’s annual Wep...
View ArticleCatching at peace
Driving in to work this morning with the music shuffle off, watching Ra gild the half-bare treetops in his rising, I felt a flicker of peace, and wondered at how fragile and fleeting a feeling that can...
View ArticleFlurries
First snow flurry of the year this morning. Dua Set! (All right, so it’s not a mighty storm, but one has to start somewhere after taking the summer off.) * * * * And just in time for the Feast of the...
View ArticleThe power of primordial Wenut, or, why I’ve been quiet here lately
Around the middle of October, I performed a predawn ritual for the Saq-Khmun festival. The focus of the ritual was on a primordial form of Wenut, Wenut at the time of creation — a UPG/inspiration...
View ArticleStart as you mean to go on
I feel very clear tonight, more so than I have in a long time. I got the balance right today, more or less: morning into afternoon of writing; state rite and some blog catch-up at night; and...
View ArticleComing back from the field
I had a dream the other night in which I had left my Seven Arrows of Bast statues hidden in the tall grass around the edges of a field. I was going back to look for them, and I was afraid that someone...
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