Is tradition important in the worship of Isis?
Part of my shrine for Her; traditional-ish As is so often the case, it depends on who you ask. Folks who are trying to reconstruct a form of ancient practice will, of course, find it very important....
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Love Her beautiful feet in this pic! Mid-week mini-post! I so enjoyed talking with Bridget Engels of the Oracle of Luna podcast about (I’m sure you are all so very, very surprised) Our Lady Isis. The...
View ArticleNephthys & Osiris?
Osiris, Isis & Nephthys I’m reading an interesting paper on the Egyptian evidence we have/don’t have of the alleged affair between Nephthys and Osiris. And I thought I’d share. The only actual...
View ArticleIsis Magic almost out of print, oh my!
Not sure I ever thought this day would come, but come it has. There are less than 100 copies of Isis Magic left. After those are sold, the second edition of Isis Magic, like the first edition, will be...
View ArticleIsis Pelagia, Lady of the Sea
Isis Pharia with Her sail and the lighthouse an Alexandrian coin Throughout the ancient Mediterranean world—from Alexandria to Carthage, from the Roman port of Ostia to Corinth, and on to Palmyra in...
View ArticleThe Awe-full-ness of the Goddess
From the Goddess Power Oracle. Not too long ago, I came across a collection of epithets of Isis in which the author translated the core concept as “awful.” What? But, in the original sense of the...
View ArticleRaw Nephthys
I had nothing specific in mind for today’s post. So I did a bit of meditation with the Beautiful Sister, Senet Noferet, and I’ll share with you what we did. Blue Lotus Garden by Luiz Celestino,...
View ArticleIsis, Horus & the Holy Day of December 25th, Updated
The Holy Mother & Her Holy Child Every year, at about this time, one post on this blog starts to get a lot more “traffic,” that is, visitors viewing it, than any other. (In fact, it’s already...
View ArticleWeaving Magic with Isis, Nephthys & Tayet
Tayet with Her name in hieroglyphs below In Isis Magic, the “Ritual of Becoming the Beloved of Isis,” the initiatory rite for the Prophet/ess of Isis, involves three priestesses who takes the roles of...
View ArticleThe Occult Unveiled…with me!
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ashley Ryan, aka Pythian Priestess to those of you who TikTok, for her excellent podcast The Occult Unveiled. We talked about all things Isis and...
View ArticleWho is Isis?
Can we relate? Not just what we read about Her myths. Not just what we learn about Her history. Who is Isis when we experience Her? A gentle caress? An earthquake? A tingle up the spine that makes...
View ArticleIsis & Sophia or Isis-Sophia?
In Michelangelo’s famous Sistine Chapel painting, Wisdom (Sophia) nestles in the crook of Jehovah’s left arm during Creation The connection between the Goddess Isis and the Goddess Wisdom (Sophia in...
View ArticleMaking Offering to Isis
Many blessings of whatever winter holy days you celebrate and Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating today. On this day of gift-giving, I shall be making offering to Isis and Nephthys. It will...
View ArticleAn Isis Rite for the New Year
The Star of Isis is directly overhead at the New Year. “Open up your head” and let the Goddess light fill you. Every year at about this time, I like to remind myself of a little miracle that happens...
View ArticleIsis the Alchemist
Miriam, the Hebrew prophetess; from the Dormition Church in Jerusalem; photo by Deror Avi Like Her fellow Magician Deity, Hermes Trismegistos (aka Thoth), Our Lady Isis is associated with early...
View ArticleIsis & D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence as a young man If you’ve read Ronald Hutton’s masterful Triumph of the Moon, a History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, you might remember a chapter in which Hutton refers to a novella by D....
View ArticleEarly Feminist Margaret Fuller & Isis
This painting is by Nicholas Roerich and is called Mother of the World. I first encountered it as the cover art of Caitlyn Matthew’s book on Sophia. Beautiful and powerful, as Goddess is. Almost from...
View ArticleI am Isis—the Goddess & Her Aretalogies
I very much like this Cosmic Isis by artist Dahlia Khodur. Here’s a link to her Instagram, though I don’t see this one there. Let’s talk a bit about the Isis aretalogies. The aretalogies are those...
View ArticleRed Isis
Oregon’s Painted Hills Egypt has its Red Land, its desert, but so does my home state of Oregon. My Red Land is in eastern Oregon, just over the mountains from Portland. The eastern Oregon desert is...
View ArticleDreams, Healing & Isis
A Dream of Osiris I wonder if Osiris dreamed while He was dead? Did He dream of Isis? Did He dream of being healed? Sometimes, people write to me about their Isis dreams. They hope for confirmation of...
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