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24/11/2024

Dear friends and fellow Isians, I'm very—very!—excited to let you know that Offering to Isis, Knowing the Goddess through Her Sacred Symbols is available for pre-order from Azoth Press at the Miskatonic Books website right now. If you'd like to go directly there, here's the link. I know a lot of you are familiar with Isis Magic, but maybe you haven't yet come across…...

Dear friends and fellow Isians, I’m very—very!—excited to let you know that Offering to Isis, Knowing the Goddess through Her Sacred Symbols is available for pre-order from Azoth Press at the…

17/11/2024

As the teal-blue waters of the Nile swirl and eddy upon the rocky shores of Her island; as the daily rebirth of Re fills the horizon with colors of peach and purple and red; as Mother Night smiles at the glory of Her reborn child—every morning, in Her beautiful temple at Philae, the Great Goddess Isis was awakened in Her sacred image....

As the teal-blue waters of the Nile swirl and eddy upon the rocky shores of Her island; as the daily rebirth of Re fills the horizon with colors of peach and purple and red; as Mother Night smiles …

10/11/2024

Well, part of the rite was asking the Goddess to accept me as priestess. The answer was, "no." And the elaborated answer was, "go study and come back in a year."...

Well, part of the rite was asking the Goddess to accept me as priestess. The answer was, “no.” And the elaborated answer was, “go study and come back in a year.”

06/11/2024

Thalia Took's beautiful image of Isis mourning. You can get prints of this work here. We need to know that we are not alone in our pain and outrage. And we are not. For right now, our Goddess hears us. She knows our hearts. She, too, has mourned. She, too, has raged. She, too, has feared. She understands us when we bring our hollow hearts and roiling bellies to Her....

Thalia Took’s beautiful image of Isis mourning. You can get prints of this work here. We need to know that we are not alone in our pain and outrage. And we are not. For right now, our Goddess…

03/11/2024

How do you find poetic inspiration? Can poetry be channeled?...

How do you find poetic inspiration? Can poetry be channeled?

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate. We'll be giving out candy and watching the Boris Karloff mummy tonight. This movie scared the stuff outta me as a kid, but Isis saves the day in the end!

27/10/2024

Isis as a syncretic Goddess and a hymn to Her you may not have seen.

A Roman Isis The worship of Isis is one of the most important examples of religious syncretism in the world. Whenever the topic of syncretism arises, you will inevitably find a discussion of Isis i…

27/10/2024

A Roman Isis The worship of Isis is one of the most important examples of religious syncretism in the world. Whenever the topic of syncretism arises, you will inevitably find a discussion of Isis included. When it comes to religion, talking about syncretism often centers on whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. But maybe, syncretism just…...

A Roman Isis The worship of Isis is one of the most important examples of religious syncretism in the world. Whenever the topic of syncretism arises, you will inevitably find a discussion of Isis i…

20/10/2024

Do you see Isis in the moon?

Last night, we held our All-Hallows Eve rite (a bit early, I know). As we welcomed our Honored Dead in the presence of the Dark Ones, many of us were very aware of the bright moon shining above, ju…

20/10/2024

Last night, we held our All-Hallows Eve rite (a bit early, I know). As we welcomed our Honored Dead in the presence of the Dark Ones, many of us were very aware of the bright moon shining above, just two days past a full Hunters' Moon. The moon, the moon, the moon. And I am thinking now of the moon and Our Lady Isis....

Last night, we held our All-Hallows Eve rite (a bit early, I know). As we welcomed our Honored Dead in the presence of the Dark Ones, many of us were very aware of the bright moon shining above, ju…

13/10/2024

Is there an Isiac "Samhain" ritual? Oh, you bet there is. What do you do to honor your Dead?

Turns out the Isia is a festival of the Goddess Isis recorded in a calendar from 354 CE commissioned by a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus from a prominent, also-Christian scribe named Phil…

13/10/2024

Turns out the Isia is a festival of the Goddess Isis recorded in a calendar from 354 CE commissioned by a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus from a prominent, also-Christian scribe named Philocalus. The Calendar of Philocalus is famous because it contains the first known reference to the Christian festival of Christmas....

Turns out the Isia is a festival of the Goddess Isis recorded in a calendar from 354 CE commissioned by a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus from a prominent, also-Christian scribe named Phil…

06/10/2024

Oh yes, Isis is Lady of Wine and Beer. And yes, Osiris is Lord of Wine. And yes, Isis' Philae temple owned vineyards. (Indeed many ancient Egyptian temples had their own vineyards, producing both white and red wines.) But today...today, it's harvest time at the Hallows in our backyard vineyard. And we, along with a glorious gaggle of all our beloved friends, are picking and crushing the Syrah grapes from our backyard arbor....

Oh yes, Isis is Lady of Wine and Beer. And yes, Osiris is Lord of Wine. And yes, Isis’ Philae temple owned vineyards. (Indeed many ancient Egyptian temples had their own vineyards, producing …

29/09/2024

But they took appreciation for hair, especially feminine hair, to a whole new level of magnitude. For them, hair was magical. And, of course, Who would have the most magical hair of all? The Goddess of Magic: Isis Herself....

But they took appreciation for hair, especially feminine hair, to a whole new level of magnitude. For them, hair was magical. And, of course, Who would have the most magical hair of all? The Goddes…

22/09/2024

Bright Sister Isis & Dark Sister Nephthys are twins and yet opposites. Together, They are the embodiment of the Mystery of the Equinox....

Bright Sister Isis & Dark Sister Nephthys are twins and yet opposites. Together, They are the embodiment of the Mystery of the Equinox.

15/09/2024

In these papyri, we have everything from tax documents to personal letters to books to magical workings and invocations. Blessedly, we have an amazing Invocation of Isis in which She is invoked by Her names and epithets, first in the nomes and cities of Egypt, and then in other parts of the Mediterranean world. The Invocation goes on to offer praises to the Goddess. Scholars think it was written by an initiate of Isis, possibly a priest at Memphis. It was composed in Greek and it ranks as one of the most important Isiac documents ever found....

In these papyri, we have everything from tax documents to personal letters to books to magical workings and invocations. Blessedly, we have an amazing Invocation of Isis in which She is invoked by …

08/09/2024

Knot magic was well known in Egypt from an early period; an inscription in one of the pyramids states that Isis and Nephthys work magic on Osiris "with knotted cords.”...

Knot magic was well known in Egypt from an early period; an inscription in one of the pyramids states that Isis and Nephthys work magic on Osiris “with knotted cords.”

01/09/2024

Many of us are working solitary these days Come, Hathoru, You Seven Hathors, You Egyptian Muses—come and help me to sing in praise of working rituals with groups of actual living humans. These days, many of us are doing our rituals, spells, and meditations solitary. I'm reading an academic study of this particular phenomenon right now. (Yes, there are scholars who actually study us—though not…...

Many of us are working solitary these days Come, Hathoru, You Seven Hathors, You Egyptian Muses—come and help me to sing in praise of working rituals with groups of actual living humans. These days…