#dua ra

Dua Netjeru, thanks for all you do for me and my loved ones, i love forward to the new year with you all.

“Voyage with Ra upon the Solar Sea”

Golden helmsman, Ra of the million mornings, you rise from the horizon’s hush— a serpent of light uncoiling from night’s womb.

Your ship of flame cuts through the cosmic tide, each wave a world, each ripple a hymn. The stars bow as oars of radiance beat the rhythm of becoming.

We are passengers in your brilliance, souls wrapped in linen of starlight, following the wake of your solar breath. Our hearts—small suns—ignite in answer, each pulse a prayer steering the vessel onward.

Through shadowed realms you voyage, past coils of Apophis, where darkness hungers for the dawn. Yet you are the eternal flame, the ever-returning promise— your eye opens and the void trembles.

O Ra, captain of truth, pilot of the unseen wind, teach us to steer our spirits through the black rivers of doubt, to rise renewed with each turning of the sun.

Let us be among your crew— to haul the ropes of daybreak, to polish the mirror of heaven, to sing your radiant name as the cosmos unfolds its endless sea.

so, I haven't talked much about my religious practice on here, and I want to change that! My spirituality is a really important and beautiful part of my life. So I'm going to talk about my routines!!

I'm autistic, and I depend on routine and habit to get pretty much everything done. While I've been practicing paganism in one way or another since I was ten, I've gone through long periods of not interacting with my spirituality. The solution I've found to prevent this is to create a routine!! Having a specific time and way and place to connect with the Gods has really helped me.

So, here's my routine: every day, I take some time to pray in the morning and the evening. I shake my sistrum, call to my Patrons, and welcome or say goodbye to the sun. In the evenings, I also give a daily offering of fresh water and natrom. About once a week, on the full, new, and both quarter moons, I do a ritual. I shake my sistrum, call to my Patrons, do any spellwork I want to get done, sing hymns and dance, and give bigger offerings (usually bread, milk, water, and honey). I also like to meditate, but i don't always have the patience for it '^^

I also celebrate the solstices, equinoxes, and Wep Ronpet- but I don't have a specific ritual for those days yet. I would like too, but I've been struggling to find or make something that feels... big enough, if that makes sense.

He who dies and is reborn each day,

The golden sun upon the horizon,

Who’s eye is Sekhmet-Bast;

As winter’s shadows grow longer,

And the shortest day approaches,

The people turn to you, oh Shining One.

Dua Re, be our light in winter’s darkness!

May Sekhmet, your Eye,

Turn her arrows of sickness away from us.

May Bastet, your Eye,

Protect us in the darkness.

May Hut-Hor, your Eye,

Bring us joy and revelry in your absence.

Since last week I’ve been almost exclusively and intentionally worshipping and talking to the Kemetic gods, especially Ra and he’s so…nice!!!

He’s one of the coolest and nicest deities I’ve ever interacted with. With him, I felt protected, watched after and guided, almost like an ox led by its shepherd

Ra is just so “WOW” it feels wonderful to talk about it

Worshipping Ra and the Kemetic gods has shifted my whole cosmology, and I don’t really know how to make it work with the one that I have already have formed, like how I associate thunder with Zeus, but now hear Sutekh roar in the clouds. I guess I’ll have to find a way to merge the two but it may be quite hard, so your support and prayers are appreciated

Under the light of the old year's sun

I give an offering unto you

O' Great Ra,

Joyous of birth and warm,

O' Great Aten,

He who delivers the breath of life

Cold nips at the world

On the day of the shortest sun

From Nut's mouth you go

Until born anew into her loving embrace

Alight upon the mound

Upon the lotus

Upon the body of Geb which you warm

And direct Shu to give the breath of life

Humanity and all that is

Receives the ankh from your many hands

Oh great and old Ra,

Allow your anger to consume you not

May Ma'at grant you clarity

As Hathor shelters you upon her back

To heavens, among the stars you reign

Oh great and young Ra,

Your reign has yet begun

The ship has been moored right for you

The docks blessed holy for you

The gods hold their weapons for you

Set and Horus offer their arms to you

He who upholds Ma'at

He who enlightened upon

The waters of ever-changing Nun

He who graced the petals of the lotus

May the cycle ever renew you

Breath back the life that you give

Dua o' Ra

Dua o' Aten

Lords of the land

The purveyors of life

The givers of warmth

Dua Ra! the defeater of the wrongs