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The Is-ness of Isis
An Isis altar at The Hallows I don’t often rant on this blog, as those of you who have been following along well know. But you are about to read one. Sorry. But it’s a tiny one. And kindly meant. You...
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Worshiping Isis
It is morning and quiet here. I enter Her shrine, light the candles, ignite the charcoal in the censer, pour Nile Water into the cup. The stillness of the morning settles in the shrine and in me. I...
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Isis and the Word
An Isis healing statue This beautiful statue of Isis is Late Period dynastic, about 664-525 BC. It is made of greywacke, a very hard, dark-grey sandstone, and sits slightly over two feet high. That’s...
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First Steps with Isis
Many of you are beyond your first steps with Isis. If so, I hope you will comment and add to this post your own thoughts about your first steps with Isis. But many of you—perhaps coming across this...
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On Resurrections and Do-Overs
Osiris rising, protected by the wings of Isis We human beings are always looking for a second chance, a new beginning, a do-over. And most of the time, we can have one. But usually, even when we get...
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Isis, Lady of the Air
Isis, Mistress of Wind Deep breath. In and out. I don’t know about where you are, but here in the Pacific Northwest, it is…just…beginning to feel like spring. Finally, finally. So far, it’s been a...
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Iset Hekaiet, Nebet Bau
My beloved got me a new Isis sacred image for my birthday. Made in a studio in Egypt, this unusual image shows Isis striding, touching the head of a sacred baboon with one hand and a ba-bird with the...
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Isis & Hathor, Twins?
The partially restored Temple of Hathor on neo-Philae (Agilkia) island On the island of Philae, east of the Temple of Isis, stands a smaller temple to Hathor. The Hathor temple was restored, at least...
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Magical Images & Isis
A female image in hippopotamus ivory from the early predynastic period from Badari As with so many things in Egyptology, there’s controversy surrounding the many female figurines that have been found...
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The Mother of Isis
A most beautiful Nuet While Isis is Herself a Mother Goddess, She also has a Divine Mother. Isis’ mother is Nuet (Nut, Nuit), the Great Egyptian Sky Goddess. I am not Nuet’s priestess, but O, the...
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Isis Outside of Egypt
A statue of Isis from a private sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods near Marathon, Greece built by a Roman statesman. How many of us were Egyptophiles from very early on in our lives, even as children?...
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A Summer Solstice Isis Rite
We’re not quite there yet, but I thought you might like to have this small rite early in case you’d like to find a special outdoor place to celebrate the coming solstice. In Egypt, about 3000 BCE, at...
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Iset Demdjet, Isis the Bone Collector
Bone Woman, Crone Woman by Joan Riise. Find her work here. We know quite a lot about the history of the Great Goddess Isis. For instance, we know that She was already important by the time of the...
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Horus’ Twin Sister
I’m taking the holiday weekend off, so here’s a repost of what I think is an important connection. Warning: this post refers to rape in myth. Boy and girl Divine Children, enwrapped in the protective...
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The Veil of Isis
This work is by Ludovic Pinelli; you can purchase a print here. To Isis, a VeilEn Iset, Behen This is a gift I bring before Isis the Hidden One, Who, Revealing Herself, Shakes Destiny: an invocation...
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Knot Magic & Isis
Note the knots in the straps of the Goddess’ garment as well as the little loop between Her breasts. I am slightly obsessed with knots in Egyptian magic. The basic idea is fairly simple: tied knots...
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Talking with Isis
A meditation on beautiful Sirius, the Star of Isis I was talking, not with Isis, but with a couple priestess friends of mine, last evening at a lovely party we were having. We were talking about our...
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She is Rising 2023
For me, there are two things that make August wonderful, here in Portland, Oregon. One of them is all the produce that I can go pick on Sauvie’s Island, fresh from the farmers’ fields. (My countertops...
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What is the Mensa Isiaca?
Have you ever heard of the Mensa Isiaca? Did this mysterious Isiac artifact serve as the altar when Plato received his initiation into the Egyptian Greater Mysteries in a secret, subterranean hall...
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The Occult History of the Mensa Isiaca
Frontpiece of the oldest known treatise on the Mensa Isiaca; first edition 1605; Lorenzo put himself in the picture as the artist/scholar Part 2 A Mysterious Artifact At about the time we first hear...
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