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The real reason for the season (2024 edition)

It’s a little weird to talk about love being the reason for the season when so many of us are surrounded by not-love. Especially for those of us in the US (but soon perhaps, elsewhere too, regretfully), we have been pummeled and badgered by the results of a brutal election – not brutal physically, not brutal with street riots (I don’t think), but brutal in the promise of a government that…

The real reason for the season (2024 edition)

The importance of being seen

The importance of being seen

Or, what I learned at church today. I wasn’t sure what to pick today, so I went with this. LOL. I went to UU services today. The service touched on a sampling of the variety of holidays we all celebrate this month: Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa. We had a Solstice story and hymn, a Hanukkah meditation and hymn, an Advent homily, and a Kwanzaa video. It was very nice to get this sampling…

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Doing the Akhu Rite for my mother

Doing the Akhu Rite for my mother

My mother, Eileen Pare. May 29-1943-May 11, 2020

I’ve continued doing Devo’s Making Ma’at rites into this year (and really have no intention of stopping, unless the world becomes miraculously better). Two days ago, I did the Akhu Rite for my mother for the first time.

Now, technically, I suppose I cheated. I think this rite is supposed to be used for those bas who have become akhu – in…

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Two anniversaries

I didn’t expect them to be back to back. My shrine as it would have looked on January 20, 2024, when I was celebrating the anniversary of my encounter with Sekhmet. My shrine as it would have looked on January 23, 2024, when I was celebrating the 18th anniversary of my conversion to Kemeticism. January is a big month for me. I had my long, dark night of the soul, which resulted in Aset, Hathor…

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Shot glasses on the shrine!

Shot glasses on the shrine!

Okay, that was very clickbaity. (I couldn’t resist.) But, well, check it out… My shrine, with statues of Aset and Sekhmet. Oil burner: Ma’at. (Credit: Louise Pare-Lobinske) This all started with the realization one day that since, very frequently, I do rite to multiple gods at ocne, maybe those gods would like their own separate drinking vessels. But the space on my shrine is limited. What to…

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My two worlds collide :)

I’m leading a UU service on Kemeticism. Image via Pixabay. Hi, guys. Sorry I’ve been away – been doing things like having surgery on my driving foot, getting dumped off one of my meds, finding out we have a diabetic cat…It’s been a bit crazy. And because I thought I needed more crazy, I volunteered to lead a UU service on August 6th. Why did I do this? Well, our interim minister is leaving…

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Kemetic/Christian Prayers for My Father

Kemetic/Christian Prayers for My Father

Dua AsetGreat Mother, Magical HealerCast your spells of healing on my dad.Let your incantationsRaise his oxygenBring him to consciousnessPurge the infectionAnd bring him back to us. Dua SekhmetGoddess of DoctorsAllow Dad’s surgeons to knowHow to heal him. Dear Jesus,I beg you, stay your hand.Take not your son to you yet.If he knocks on heaven’s door,yell from the other side,“Not yet! Come back…

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Year of Rites: So far (now that the year's almost over)

Year of Rites: So far (now that the year’s almost over)

So I have wanted to post for a long time now, but my efforts in March required some extra thought. Anyway, here I am, finally.

Setup directly after the Full Moon/Propitiation Rite in January.

I posted way back in January that I was going to start doing Devo’s Making Ma’at 2k19 rites this year, in addition to the regular, so-called “Daily Rite” that I had been doing. I got a late start, missing the…

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Matt Dillahunty: "God's a pr!ck"

Matt Dillahunty: “God’s a pr!ck”

Okay, those weren’t his words as I recall them, but let me explain all this. Screenshot of an Atheist Experience video with Matt Dillahunty (probably not the one with the quote). So as I’ve said before on this blog, my husband is an atheist. We both have YouTube running almost constantly on our TV (because we don’t have cable so we don’t have the Weather Channel [wah]). In my husband’s case, he…

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The real reason for the season

It’s that time again. I hope that whatever holiday(s) you’ve celebrated/are celebrating this year, that they are joyous and full of love. Be well, everyone. Reblogged from a 2016 post: I was doing rite to Hathor, the Lady of Love, today (i.e. December 16), and something came to me. Maybe it isn’t earth-shattering, but I wanted to share it with you guys. Let’s not lose sight of this during the…

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