Saturday, September 24, 2011
Age of Mythology, look at you now!
Circle casting - My first one!
Em hotep!
So yesterday I casted my first circle, following Egyptian Paganism for Beginners by Jocelyn Almond and Keith Seddon( I've had this book for over 18 months now and haven't done any thing with it but read it). It was amazing! I invoked Heru sa Aset, since I wanted to work with a Netjer in a circle that I've worked with before. I've never felt closer to him then I did in the circle. When I used to do rituals, I would follow what I learned over various forums and books on Kemetic recon or Kemetic Orthodoxy (forum only), but it felt like when ever I was praying or offering to the Netjeru, it felt like I was yelling across a very long canyon and we were having a hard time hearing each other.
So a few months ago, I starting looking into Tameran Wicca and Egyptian paganism, just to learn at first, thinking 'oh well I don't see any need for casting a circle, that's a Wiccan thing and I'm Kemetic but this stuff is interesting though!' but then I started watching a few YouTube channels. Most of the YouTubers were Wiccan or Tameran Wiccan, and after watching many videos on magick and circle casting and why you cast a circle, and it changed my mind on the subject. The circle has a point - to keep energy in! It's also just another way to communicate with the Netjeru. I can't believe how long I've kept this out of my practice!
So yesterday I casted my first circle, following Egyptian Paganism for Beginners by Jocelyn Almond and Keith Seddon( I've had this book for over 18 months now and haven't done any thing with it but read it). It was amazing! I invoked Heru sa Aset, since I wanted to work with a Netjer in a circle that I've worked with before. I've never felt closer to him then I did in the circle. When I used to do rituals, I would follow what I learned over various forums and books on Kemetic recon or Kemetic Orthodoxy (forum only), but it felt like when ever I was praying or offering to the Netjeru, it felt like I was yelling across a very long canyon and we were having a hard time hearing each other.
So a few months ago, I starting looking into Tameran Wicca and Egyptian paganism, just to learn at first, thinking 'oh well I don't see any need for casting a circle, that's a Wiccan thing and I'm Kemetic but this stuff is interesting though!' but then I started watching a few YouTube channels. Most of the YouTubers were Wiccan or Tameran Wiccan, and after watching many videos on magick and circle casting and why you cast a circle, and it changed my mind on the subject. The circle has a point - to keep energy in! It's also just another way to communicate with the Netjeru. I can't believe how long I've kept this out of my practice!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
On the wrong side of the bed
This morning, I woke up very annoyed with everything that makes me angry. As in, everything that angers me, I was annoyed with. I'm human and I get angry, but that doesn't mean that I like it.
So I was thinking, in my anger, how to get rid of it. Venting my anger on the source seem to be the first choice. But then I thought back to a Wiccan book I read a while ago, and what the author said about preparing for a ritual. The author suggested to stand out side and let the wind take your negative energy away, so I thought maybe I could use this technique. Being a Kemetic pagan, Shu is the wind to me, and I've never prayed or offered to him, but I know he is strong. I didn't go out side (there were lots of children playing loudly outside and I thought my apartment parking lot was being worked on but it wasn't) but I did open the porch door and the kitchen window, and the window in my bed room. I do believe there was negative energy in the apartment in addition to my anger, but once I let the light in, along with Shu, the wind, in my apartment, my anger left and the air in the apartment felt lighter.
So, Dua Shu!
So I was thinking, in my anger, how to get rid of it. Venting my anger on the source seem to be the first choice. But then I thought back to a Wiccan book I read a while ago, and what the author said about preparing for a ritual. The author suggested to stand out side and let the wind take your negative energy away, so I thought maybe I could use this technique. Being a Kemetic pagan, Shu is the wind to me, and I've never prayed or offered to him, but I know he is strong. I didn't go out side (there were lots of children playing loudly outside and I thought my apartment parking lot was being worked on but it wasn't) but I did open the porch door and the kitchen window, and the window in my bed room. I do believe there was negative energy in the apartment in addition to my anger, but once I let the light in, along with Shu, the wind, in my apartment, my anger left and the air in the apartment felt lighter.
So, Dua Shu!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
What is this?!
It's been a while since I've held up a blog, but since blogs are a good way to look back on your past and your past thoughts, I've decided to start again. The blogs of others are always fun to read, you can always learn some thing from other people, even if they're just complaining about whatever. Blogging is a way for a person to be heard and an out let for thoughts. Wait... Why I'm I talking about blogging and not telling you what my blog will include?
I'm going to be blogging about my spirituality, my art work, and my complaints, if they are not endless rants...
I'm a Kemetic pagan (I am solitary), and I'm looking into Tameran Wicca. The Netjer or Gods and Goddesses I find my self closest to are Horus ( Heru-sa-Aset and Heru-Wer), Hethert (Hathor), and Bast. I would love to get closer to Djehuty (Thoth), Aset and Sekhmet. I do worship Freyja on the side, in the Norse way (that I've looked up in Asatru books) just to honor the way my ancestors might have worshiped.
Anyway, I found yet another muse while listening to an online pagan radio station. I was working on a the beginning sketch of someones dog, and thinking about the Netjer. I have been wanting to have someone ask me to draw their cat (since I do pet portraits) but no one has a cat that wants a pet portrait. I think Bast put the idea in my head to draw her in an image of a cat in my life. Just take a picture of a cat and give it a Kemetic make over in the drawing. I've done this before 5 years ago in high school AP art, one of Heru and another of a hippo (I had no deity in mind when I did the hippo) in graphite. This was before I became a Kemetic pagan and I was still and Atheist at the time. I'm looking forward to doing this piece!
I'm going to be blogging about my spirituality, my art work, and my complaints, if they are not endless rants...
I'm a Kemetic pagan (I am solitary), and I'm looking into Tameran Wicca. The Netjer or Gods and Goddesses I find my self closest to are Horus ( Heru-sa-Aset and Heru-Wer), Hethert (Hathor), and Bast. I would love to get closer to Djehuty (Thoth), Aset and Sekhmet. I do worship Freyja on the side, in the Norse way (that I've looked up in Asatru books) just to honor the way my ancestors might have worshiped.
Anyway, I found yet another muse while listening to an online pagan radio station. I was working on a the beginning sketch of someones dog, and thinking about the Netjer. I have been wanting to have someone ask me to draw their cat (since I do pet portraits) but no one has a cat that wants a pet portrait. I think Bast put the idea in my head to draw her in an image of a cat in my life. Just take a picture of a cat and give it a Kemetic make over in the drawing. I've done this before 5 years ago in high school AP art, one of Heru and another of a hippo (I had no deity in mind when I did the hippo) in graphite. This was before I became a Kemetic pagan and I was still and Atheist at the time. I'm looking forward to doing this piece!
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