Hathor, Set, and Wadjet The magic of Hathor’s unconditional love prepares us to meet our shadow selves. Set, as the Trickster, shows us our shadow and clears the pathway for each of us to receive Wadjet’s great awakening and the infusion of life force energy. When you draw this card, engage with these neteru directly and see how they are…
Magic Medicine Woman/Integration Beauty permeates the goddess of love and joy, celebration and intoxication. She is the cow goddess of the night sky whose nourishing milk streams forth as the Milky Way. In the lineage of the most ancient grandmother Neith, who is sometimes depicted as a serpent who reaches inside of herself to pull out all of creation, an…
Sacred Archetypal Element of Air The sacred crested Ibis, known to ancient Egyptians as the akh bird, is associated with the element of air, and with Thoth as he relates to the cosmic mysteries. .The crested ibis is in essence the pheonix rising from the fire. It speaks not only of rebirth but also of the clear thinking that gives…
The High Priestess Intuition/Mystery Nephthys is the hidden or veiled one who serves as a medium between worlds. She comes to us in dreams, flashes of intuition, and visions. Along with Isis and Nekhbet-Mother-Mut, Nephthys is an aspect of the Triple Goddess. She relies upon spirit to direct her in all things and she holds the mystery teachings of life,…
Ptah, Nut, Geb, and Anubis Ptah speaks from his intelligent heart and reality is created. Anubis, the fully awakened Shaman Priest, enters the sacred garden through the portal created by the divine parents-the overarching sky goddess, Nut, and the rich, green Earth god, Geb. Thoth is also present as the rainbow serpent who offers the fruit of wisdom and eternal…
Wholeness Creation of Sacred Purpose/Divine Parents Nut and Geb represent the result of Ptah’s dreaming of the universe, at least in terms of the perspective of human consciousness. Nut is the night sky herself, the vault of stars that arches over and surrounds her lover, Geb, who is the earth, the original Green Man. The two exist eternally in sacred…
Master Craftsman Creator of Form/Organizing Principle Khnum is one of the great creator gods of Egypt. He is depicted with the head of a ram, his horns spiraling outward like DNA spirals. Khnum is the highly skilled Master Craftsman who creates the eternally evolving varieties of material form upon his potter’s wheel. He holds the universal secrets of the organizing…
Bast, Anubis, and Osiris Bast awakens Anubis’s holy longing with fruits from the sacred tree of life. Anubis hangs in anticipation, preparing to meet his father in the depths of the waters of the dreaming world. Osiris awaits Anubis’s surrender into his watery embrace so that renewal and rebirth can result. What are you dying to discover and/or renew? When…
Illumination Architect of Wisdom/Enlightened Communication Thoth most often appears with the body of a man and the head of an ibis, although he expresses his wisdom through many forms. (He is the serpent in the Key Card and cards 12 and VII and often appears as a baboon.) Representing the highest concept of mind, he is the one who brought…
Sothis Khonsi, and Amun-Ra The shining star-Sothis-generously pours her gifts upon our planet as Khonsu-the moon god-travels the sky, reflecting for us the faces and phases of our divinity, and Amun-Ra-the radiance of the sun’s all-seeing eye-transfigures our selves and our creations into the alchemical gold of enlightened being. If you have chosen this card, focus upon the images of…