Altar del Cielo

[A hymn to Ra]

The Lord covers me with his hand,

His billions of rays beaming down on me,

His kind eyes looking at me with fatherly love

As he rises from his horizon.

With the Lord evil does not befall me.

His light banishes darkness, nothing escapes his sight.

He sees good and evil, just and unjust,

The beauty of the world he made shining in his light.

His self-renewing fires casting golden hues over the universe

He made the heavens and the earth,

And the universe obeys his word.

He is the Sun, the Lord, the great King who is known as Ra,

Who emerged on the day of the First Occasion,

Lord of all, lord of life.

May I see him both in life and in death

As he passes through the gloomy Duat.

One of 12 Roman mosaics with the Latin inscription of each month and allegorical images, from early 3rd century, found in Tunisia.

This mosaic refers the festival of this month. In Ancient Rome, death and resurrection of Osiris was commemorated during the first days of November. The main figure with an Anubis mask and caduceus represents the god Hermanubis, syncretism between the Greek god Hermes, guide of souls to the afterlife, and the Egyptian god Anubis, guardian of the tombs. Hermanubis arrived in Rome to the relief of the ancient Romans who especially feared during November the souls that wandered the earth tormenting the living.

Blocking out her name and picture to protect her from harassment, but this is a Palestinian journalist reporting out of Gaza who I've personally had contact with through Twitter.

Money and aid is not getting through. Crowdfunding is not helpful. Ordering things is not helpful. Buying keffiyehs that say the money goes to Gaza is not helpful.

Gaza is a concentration camp - nothing is getting in or out that Israel does not approve of and right now Israel wants people dead or dying.

Most of social media, and tumblr is no exception, skews toward "taking action" being things that put you at zero risk and only ask for money or bits of time, or sometimes just doing nothing and calling it a boycott. "Call your rep!" "Buy this thing!" "Share this link!"

The reality is that you get out what you put in and if it was easy and low risk and comfortable for you to do it, then that is the level of impact it is having - low, comfortable to ignore, and flimsy.

Palestine, Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, NEEDS real help and the reality is we do not have the power as individuals to give it.

We DO have the power to band together and influence things collectively and the best way to do that is to loudly unequivocally express our anger and clarity of purpose.

So that does mean calling reps and being polite and firm and brief and giving your real address because otherwise they can't confirm you're a constituent and they'll ignore you. "Hello, my name is ______ and I am calling as a constituent to demand representative/senator _______ support aid to Gaza and to call for an end to support for all support to Israel."

It is important that your support for Gaza include opposition to Israel - there is no supporting Gaza while supporting Israel, it genuinely is one or the other.

Tear down pro-Israel posters. Tear down those fake kidnapped propaganda posters. Show up to rallies and marches where you can and if you can't, find out who's organizing them and get in touch to offer your support and help. Talk to family and friends. LEARN! Read up on these things and teach yourself history so you can better advocate and push back on propaganda.

Be willing to have people not like you. Losing friends over this is, and I don't mean to be cold here, nothing. It doesn't matter. Fuck em. If advocating against genocide costs you friendships and gets people calling you antisemitic, fuck em, good riddance. Privately process the loss of those relationships if they really matter to you, but publicly don't give it air because this is not a time to be focused on the feelings of people who cannot bring themselves to oppose ethnic cleansing.

A ritual to invite the presence of a Netjer(u) to a designated space.

Step 1: Designate/Create a space for the Netjer(u)

Step 2: Cleanse the space

Step 3: Set up space/shrine

Step 4: Present offerings

Step 5: Invoke the Netjer(u)

I invoke you,  _____ here and now. Let Your Presence be known to me, let Your Strength permeates this area, let Your Might fill this space. I have call upon You, ______, in this moment and time to come forth and let your presence be known.

Hear me now, ______, and come forth to this domain. 

Hear me now, ______, and descend down to this domain.

A sanctuary I have created for you _____ to imbue with your presence and power.

I have made for You, _________, a sanctuary to rest your weary bones and your tired mind. I have made for you a sanctuary to rest thyself, a place to call home. Let this space become your domain so that I may worship you and bask in your presence.

Hail to thee  ____, a sanctuary I have created for you, so fill it with Your Might and Power, Your Glory and Greatness, so that I may bask in your Divine Presence. 

Step 6: Say thanks to the Netjer(u)

Seek well the small souls

Under the rubble

Oh, Sekhmet;

Stoke hearts to roar

Guide the healers;

O Thoth,

Look well on the writers

Keep safe their stories, voices and names.

Dua Maat

Dua Maat

Not everything you receive via spiritual communication is a sign. Your sensations can be deceiving and might need double checking. 

Only you and the Deity/spirit/entity you work with know what is and what isn’t a sign. 

People you have never met, especially people online, have no authority over the validity, truthfulness, and meaning of your communication. 

There are no rules nor regulations that would stop you from reasking if something feels off or makes you paranoid. 

People claiming you need to do or be something before reaching out to Deities are fearmongers. If a God wants something first, they will tell you. 

You are not in danger for customizing your own communication. 

You are not obliged to keep up communication that makes you anxious. 

Your wording, pose, spacial orientation, appearance, and other physical characteristics do not define validity of your communication. 

Your intrusive thoughts do not manifest. They are not intentional. 

Your Deities, spirits, and entities can tell your intrusive thoughts apart from your conscious thought process; they won’t make the former come true. 

You do not offend your spiritual companions with thoughts and emotions you cannot control. 

credits for the images:

I am a living flame of Bast None shall harm me or mine! I call down fire in the name of Sekhmet I call down fire in the name of Mafdet I call down fire in the name of Maahes I call down fire in the name of Bast!

"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur