A Vision of Nephthys
Iridescent wings, dark and gleaming As always…this is my visionary experience; your vision may (and will) vary… When She comes, She arrives in a splendor of iridescent wings, dark and gleaming like...
View ArticleDO Look Up…and see Her
This is a slightly revised repost, dear Isiacs…and a little earlier than my usual Sunday posts. But don’t bounce. There’s a secret here that all who love our Goddess should know. I am posting this...
View ArticleThe Scorpion Wives of Horus
The Goddess Serket guarding one of Tutankhamon’s shrines, along with Her sister Goddesses, Isis, Nephthys, and Neith You already know that Isis is a Scorpion Goddess. She is Iset Ta-Wahaet, “Isis the...
View ArticleOf Scorpions, Horus & Isis
She to Whom One Petitions We are not yet done with our fierce friends, the Scorpions. Last time, we learned that Horus, Son of Isis, is married to (at least) seven Scorpion Goddesses. From the little...
View ArticleScorpion Goddesses, Birth Goddesses
Isis the Scorpion I think this is the last installment about Scorpion Goddesses, at least for now… You may recall from last time that the Scorpion Wives of Horus were sometimes invoked during...
View ArticleMy Mother, My Heart
A heart amulet inscribed with magical text This is an update to a previous post. Nephthys will come back. But in the meantime, know that “we are alive in our hearts, we are wise in our hearts, we are...
View ArticleIsis, Lady of Light
She shines She is come. The Goddess arises and Light flows into the world. Once again. While I know some of us are buried in snow right now (especially those of us in the northern hemisphere), even...
View ArticleThe Knife of Isis
During these last few years, there have been far too many things cut out of our lives. I miss my people. On the other hand, this time has also given many of us the opportunity to discard things that...
View ArticleThe Night Isis Accepted Me
Wings and lotuses, always I am terrible with memories. I don’t mean my memory is bad. I mean I don’t honor ‘things past’ enough. I don’t take many pictures (and certainly not of myself). I tend not to...
View ArticleLamentation & Magic
The Big Wailing Woman and the Little Wailing Woman lamenting Once more, and still, we are feeling sorrow as we look out upon the world. Our hearts break. Again. And again. Often, we are told to just...
View ArticleIsis, the Milk Provider
She even has eyeliner Have you ever looked into the warm, earth-brown eyes of a cow? Not in a video or a photo, but right there with the living cow, as her body heat radiates upon you and you share...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Isis in Antioch
A photo of the site of the House of the Mysteries of Isis in Antioch Ancient Antioch, modern Antakya, is in Turkey. It was originally founded as a Greek city and located on the banks of the Orontes...
View ArticleIs Isis a Wandering Goddess?
Part 1 Isis Wandering in Search of Osiris, by Louis Braquet If your first reaction is, “Well, heck yeah; She wandered all over looking for the bits of Osiris,” you would not be wrong. But I’m thinking...
View ArticleIsis as a Wandering Goddess
Part 2 In a recent post, we wondered whether Our Lady Isis might be one of the Wandering/Distant/Returning Goddesses of ancient Egypt. And while we don’t have myths of an angry Isian departure or a...
View ArticleThe Heart of Isis
Let’s take a break from our Wandering Goddess exploration. It’s been a bit intense. So today, instead, we come back to the heart of the matter, the reason so many of us are here: Isis and our...
View ArticleWandering Isis
Part 3 Thoth, in the form of a baboon, lures Tefnut, in the form of a lioness, back home to Her father Re Let’s finish up our exploration of Isis as a Wandering Goddess by looking at some additional...
View ArticleGraffiti and the Goddess
“May the good name remain here.” This is one of the numerous graffiti scratched into the walls of Isis’ great temple at Philae by one of the many, many pilgrims (and tourists) who have journeyed to...
View ArticleJoined to Your Star
You often see me post on this blog about the late-summer return or rising of Isis’ star, Sirius. Nuet, Full of Stars But if She has a return, She must also have a disappearance. And, here at latitude...
View ArticleTalking with Isis
A meditation on beautiful Sirius, the Star of Isis When we connect with Isis, how do we do that? Prayer? Meditation? Invocation? Visualization? Can we talk with Her, actually have a back-and-forth...
View ArticleThe Blood of Isis
The Blood of Isis amulet I have been thinking about things related to human biology (and rights) lately. You, too? Frankly, I am terrified. You, too? I hope so. We all must get motivated and we must...
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