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GOFUNDME: SAVE OUR NAVAJO LANGUAGE

“I never learned my Navajo language and I was never inspired to learn it.  As I got older, I realized how valuable our language is to the livelihood of our Navajo Nation. ” -Dr. Shawna L. Begay

Our Navajo or Diné language is in danger of becoming extinct.  Help us create and develop the first Navajo-English educational media TV puppet show, “Diné Bí Ná’álkid Time” which means ‘The Navajo Movie Time.’  It will inspire and teach our youth basic language skills using media as a technology tool. Parents, grandparents, children and grandkids can learn to speak Navajo  fluently together within their own homes. Long-time friends and educators, Dr. Shawna L. Begay and Charmaine Jackson have teamed up to create this new TV pilot for an all-ages audience or for anyone who wants to learn the Navajo language.   With your support, it’ll be the first educational Navajo and English puppet show that will teach and preserve the Navajo language and culture through digital media.

After several years of extensive research on the Navajo Nation, Dr. Begay recently completed her PhD from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with her doctorate thesis, ‘Developing A Navajo Media Guide: A Community Perspective.’ As project director, she quickly realized she was a pioneer on the topic.

If you, like me, cannot seem to make a sigil your happy with for the life of you, then sigilscribes.me is the perfect, simple way around your perfectionism. You can literally just type in what you want, and it produces a fully formed sigil. Feels like a bit of a cheat, but I’m happier doing it like this than stressing myself trying to make one I like aesthetically 😂.

(Bunnies and Sunshine)

Easter is coming up! And it’s a terrible time for pet store bunnies!

Rabbits are marketed as “easy”, short-lived, starter pets, especially during the Easter holidays, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth! A healthy, well cared for bunny can live just as long as the average cat or dog- 10-12 years!

What’s more, they have more complex needs than a cat or a dog. Rabbits are prey animals and do not behave or show affection in the same way as predators like cats and dogs; they don’t deal well with being outside-only animals; they can get sad if they’re on their own and don’t receive enough attention; and if they’re bought as a male and female couple, they can start reproducing from as early as 5-6 months of age, and they can carry multiple litters at the same time!

They have a specialised diet (NOT carrots!), need a specialised living area (unless you want all your things to get chewed up!), and they need specialised vets! Caring for them costs as much as caring for a dog!

They’re a big responsibility!

here is a little ritual you can do to bring warmth, joy and harmony to a home to make it feel cozier and more welcoming. best done during a full moon, but you can do it any time. you will need:

☾ a small bowl of ceramic, wood or glass

☾ a clove of garlic (bringing warmth + togetherness to a home)

☾ a sprinkle of lavender flowers (tranquility and calm)

☾ a sprig of pine (home blessing, cleansing, grounding)

☾ a brown candle (home and hearth magick)

sit in the main area of your home. light your brown candle; sit comfortably on the floor or couch and meditate on the candle for a while. warm your hands with its flame.

set the offering bowl in front of the candle. take the garlic clove in your hands and visualize the way you want your home to feel: warm, lived-in and welcoming. warm the clove over the candle-flame briefly and set it in the bowl.

take your lavender flowers in your hands. close your eyes, take a deep breath and inhale the scent of them. let it calm you, as it will calm the energy of your home. place the flowers atop the garlic.

lastly, take the sprig of pine. use it like a wand; point it toward all four corners of the room you’re in. place it against your heart, and set it in the bowl.

I give you bread,symbolizing your multiple gods,sides,and legends. They are all beautiful and intricate. 🍞🍞🥐🥐🥖🥖

I give you candles,like Ma'at,lighting the way through isfet. 🕯🕯🔦🔦💡💡

I give you crystals balls,symbolizing hope for a better future. 🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮

An offerring of praise and worship to the gods and the goddesses.

Dua Netjeru!

An offerring of song and dance to the gods and the goddeses.

Dua Netjeru!

An offerring of beer and rum to the gods and the goddesses.

Dua Netjeru!

An offerring of incense and thanks to the gods and the goddesses.

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the sun and her flowers - a happiness spell

hello dears~ with all this lovely weather here in the UK lately, i figured it was time for me to upload a spell i’ve used on and off over the years. i don’t particularly like hot weather, but i adore the sun - this is a spell that uses the sun’s energy to boost your positivity! as always, this is highly customizable for the witch that might not have many supplies. enjoy!

you’ll need - 

a yellow candle (or white, if you don’t have yellow), a sunny day, a taglock sigil

optional - 

clear quartz, citrine, buttercups or sunflowers, The Sun tarot card, vanilla incense (or any incense you associate with happiness and/or the sun)

what to do - 

the whole point of this spell is to do what makes you happy. so, if you have a certain layout you like to use for your spells, any deities you wish to ask for assistance, or any rituals you like to do before magical workings… do them!

your taglock sigil should represent the target of this spell (i made one for myself and my partner) and can either be written below the candle or inscribed on it. arrange the spell how you’d like to at this point - no right or wrongs, but it’s important you put this in the sunlight.

once you’ve arranged it and lit your incense, speak this poem by rupi kaur - 

there is

nothing left

to worry about

the sun and her flowers are here

then, light your candle. leave this in a sunny place for as long as you can, and try to keep out of direct moonlight! the idea is, when you need a boost of happiness or sunshine, lighting the yellow candle will provide solar energy and boost your mood. i like to play ‘here comes the sun’ when i do this spell!

So I’ve seen this pop up a couple of times in the tags and on Ask a Kemetic so I thought I’d chuck in my own 2 cents. Now this is KO influenced a bit, but hey, there are rituals in “kemetic” beginners books that read like the zombie of Gerald Gardner wrote em so who says influence is all bad? So here we go, super beginners and casual, no worries the Noof has got you.

What You’ll Need

- a flat surface. A bed is flat enough just not like an exercise ball or something. Floor is ok just maybe give it a good clean first or put down a cloth (yes a nice clean towel works)

-A light source. Candle, LED candle, even a flashlight if that’s what you’ve got

-Some good smelling stuff. Incense,oil warmer, those meltly wax cubes, or have your light source do double duty and have it be scented like a scented candle. A spritz of perfume even is ok.

- Water. If you can get nice purified kind that’s aces, but if tap is what you got go with that.

- Offerings. This can be bread, some of your pizza, gems, just something you want to give to  (the) Netjer that is from your heart. You can even make a votive offering by drawing the thing you want to offer, from bread to an iphone, if you can draw it or print it out and it’s from your heart then it’s a go. 

- An icon of the specific Netjer you are trying to say hi too. You can draw this, write out their name in hieroglyphs. If you just want to do a “Hey all ya’ll “ you can just use the sign for God/Netjer 

(From “conceptions of god in ancient egypt by Erik Hornung) you can use this lil fellow too:

We aren’t going to worry about stuff like Natron quite yet, so just go wash up as best you can and put on some clean clothes. If you are bleeding from a wound, clean that and redress it with fresh dressings. Menstrual taboo stuff I live up to each person. If you feel up to it ok go ahead, if you wanna wait it out ok. Unless you join an organized temple like KO it’s between you and your gods. 

So you’re all cleaned up and have set up your stuff so it looks nice to you, so have a seat if you want.You could do this all standing, or even laying down if you are bed bound, just don’t get so comfy you fall asleep. Take a second to count your breaths, center yourself. This can be hard, you might be nervous, or giddy or any other number of things.Just try and be as calm as you can get in that moment. Take your time. 

Turn on/light your light source and say 

“ Hail to you Netjer! Shining ones! Lover’s of Ma’at and haters of isfet!

I (your name goes here) call out to you, pure of heart and true of voice!

Please come and guide me so I may have a good life, doing ma’at, loving you and pass into the west.”

You can add on to this if you want. 

Pick up your water and hold it up a bit, presenting it to your icon and say;

“ I offer this water to you so you may be cooled and your love flow into me”

Put that down and pick up your good smelling thing/spritz it/waft it round and say:

“Oh Netjer! May this scent please and harold your coming into my life! May you give me life and breath!”

Take up your offerings and say 

“May this offering of -blank- please and sustain you as you sustain me”

You can use this time to make personal prayers, read from a book, meditate, do some divination it’s up to you. When you feel that you’re done, turn off/snuff out your light source, thank Netjer for being with you and generally clean up.

Trouble Shooting:

1: I want to work with a specific god.

In that case, do a little bit of research first, find out what they like in terms of offerings, for example Amun loves Myrrh, so you might want to offer some of that as a chunk or incense. You generally can’t go wrong with bread and water though. Then in the spoken portions where it says “Netjer” just insert the specific deity’s name.  

2: I didn’t feel anything! It was boring!

That happens. It is perfectly normal and ok. Not every ritual is going to be a magical mystery tour of spiritual elation. Sometimes you are going to be bored and feel silly sitting there talking to a picture. It’s part of this path just as much as visions and ka embraces. You can repeat this ritual again the next day if you want to, you can wait and look for signs, dreams, divination’s or go try another ritual by someone else or make up your own. Sometimes the netjer are busy and so you might get the proverbial “answering machine”. Don’t get to down on yourself. It happens. Keep at it. You can also shoot me an ask or message.

3: That was too casual and just what? Nothing like the ancients! Iphone votive offerings?! LED candles? Non-canon prayers!? What is this crap!?

A few months into exploring Kemetic religion and it’s been a struggle to find books that are actually useful and informative. I thought I’d make a little list of ones that I found to be helpful. Most of these I got on my Kindle, and some I bought in a local used book store. I thought maybe this would be useful for other beginner Kemetics.

Rituals & Practice

Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World by Richard J. Reidy

Egyptian Religion, Generally

Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt by Emily Teeter

The Gods of the Egyptians (Vols. 1 & 2) by E.A. Wallis Budge (Old and somewhat dated, but lots of good information)

The Egyptian Book of the Dead translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, Edited by John Baldock (lots of good illustrations)

Myths & Stories

The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Garry J. Shaw

Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green

Gods of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Watterson

Egyptian History

The Egypt Story: Its Art, Its Monuments, Its People, Its History by P.H. Newby & Fred J. Maroon

Discovering Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David

Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation by Aidan Dodson

The Life and Times of Akhnaton by Arthur Weigall

The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness. 

If you would build something solid, look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable, yourself. 

Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world.

All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and you shalt know god.