Isis-Seshat Journal Personal Post of the Fellowship of Isis Issue #35 Autumn 2012
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1 Isis-Seshat Journal Personal Post of the Fellowship of Isis Issue #35 Autumn 2012 Volume 9 Number 3 Isis Seshat Jounal #35 (vol.9 no.3) 2 September Blessing by Demetria Nanos Lift a cup to the goddess of the vine, Geshtinanna Lift a cup to the goddess of the beer, Golden Siduri, Golden Siduri Lift a cup to the goddess of the dates, Inanna Inanna Inanna May September be sweet and savory for thee! May the skies be clear and the stars guide thee! May the nights be restful and the days happy for thee! Lift a cup to the Goddess! Isis Seshat Jounal #35 (vol.9 no.3) 3 Isis-Seshat Journal Issue #35 Vol. 9 No.3 ISSN: 1552-082X TABLE OF CONTENTS: Cover Art: The Metagalactic Rose, by Victoria Preobrazhenskaya ............................................................................................ p.1 Inside Front Cover: September Blessing, by Demetria Nanos .................................................................................................... p.2 Subscription Information ............................................................................................................................................................... p.3 Letter From the Editor……………………………… ....................................................................................................................... p.4 News Alerts ............ ...................................................................................................................................................................... p.5 Alone, poem by Hennie Van Geel ................................................................................................................................................ p.5 News Digest From FOI Websites ................................................................................................................................................. p.6 Members’ Notices... ...................................................................................................................................................................... p.8 Prayer request from Nigeria .......................................................................................................................................................... p.8 In Memoriam ........... ...................................................................................................................................................................... p.9 Reviews .................. ...................................................................................................................................................................... p.9 Great Goddess, Holy Breath of Being, poem by Wynn Manners ................................................................................................ p.11 Report On Gathering at Clonegal Castle 25 August 2012, by David De Roeck ......................................................................... p.12 Special Guided Journey for the Dark Time of the Year, meditation by Lady Olivia Robertson……………………………………p.13 Stella Being, poem by David deRoeck………………………………………………………………………………………………….p.16 Spell-Working Is Not a Game, essay by Lady Skydancer…………………………………………………………………………….p.17 Iseum of Hathor, Lady of the West, article by Donna Swindells.................................................................................................. p.20 Pan: He Is All, essay by Sarah Kobuszko .................................................................................................................................... p.21 About the Culture of Russian Spirit, essay by Victoria Preobrazhenskaya ................................................................................ p.22 Nephthys, a channeling by Sarah Rooke ..................................................................................................................................... p.30 Invocation of Maat, an account by Lady AMber Dawn ................................................................................................................ p.31 Tlachtga and the Ancient Roots of Halloween/Samhain, article by Luke Eastwood .................................................................. p.32 A Matter of Life and Death, article by Jerry Gardner ................................................................................................................... p.35 Hekate, article by Duirin ................................................................................................................................................................ p.37 Contemplating the FOI Manifesto, by Deena Butta ..................................................................................................................... p.42 Goddess Festival forms ................................................................................................................................................................ Contributors to this issue .............................................................................................................................................................. Inside Back Cover: FOI Directory of Key Personnel .................................................................................................................... p.48 Back Cover: FOI Manifesto ........................................................................................................................................................... p.55 Uncited artwork from Dover Publications and Microsoft Clip Art All legal rights reserved by the contributors. ISIS-SESHAT SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Inside USA: $30 per year or $8 per issue, shipping included. Outside USA: $38 per year, or $10 per issue, shipping included ISIS-SESHAT c/o Deena Butta 3334 W. Eastwood Ave. Chicago IL 60625-5334 USA Please make checks out to “Deena Butta” with “magazine” in the memo line. You may also send payment via Paypal to [email protected] Isis Seshat Jounal #35 (vol.9 no.3) 4 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear FOI Family, My September Letter is usually a poorly constructed quickie because by now we are all up to our eyeballs in Goddess Festival planning: rehearsals, silk scarf painting, choreography, programming, correspondence, costume design, catering, and everything else connected with the Annual Chicago FOI Equinox Goddess Festival. The closer we get to the Mayan Galactic Alignment of December 2012, the more my thoughts turn to wondering what the re-setting of this Galactic Clock will be like. Of course it will not be the end of the world in any prosaic sense. Will it be like the Times Square Ball Drop? If we think metaphorically, of course it will have much to do with “time squared” and “crystal ball.” Turning out the lights will allow us to simulate the experience of the psychic journey to Aquila and Lyra, the darkest part of our galaxy. This year’s Goddess Festival concerns this dark hole at the center. We all have gone through personal darkness at some time in our lives. This alignment of sun and dark centers is very much like uniting yin with yang. Can they ever be united? How? We all know what happens when we try to push together the polarities of the magnet. “The difficulty of uniting Yin with Yang” is the subject of this year’s main liturgy, Magical Journey to Aquila and Lyra. We strive to unite opposing principles, which reminds me of the statement made by Eckhart Tolle about this planet being an insane place, because of the human error of identifying with thought and emotion. Let us instead do this metaphorically. Let’s allow ourselves to drop into the Yin-Yang symbol to see what happens. We fall into the arms of a great swirling polarity. Is this the great mother and the great father? Perhaps we should not over-think and over-feel, since that is what seems to cause much misery on our planet. Lets return to the darkness of the womb and the brightness of emergence. Regardless of what happens we are safe in their arms. Is the uniting of egg and sperm the answer to the riddle? Maybe not, because the issue of polarity is theoretical. Yet indeed the only way to unite the polarities is through love..and to top thinking, stop feeling. We are made of love. Eros is the oldest of the gods and we are made of love. The dark hole says to me that the increase in anxiety and insanity in our world is The Creator trying to figure itself out. We are fragments of the Great Mystery, the Creator, 7 or 8 billion fragments of The One manifesting as The many. We are…all of us…The One figuring itself out. We think of ourselves as children of the gods, and indeed our species does act like children. The wiser we think we are, the more we behave like children. As we go forward into Autumnal Equinox and thence to Samhain, let’s celebrate this time of darkness and release. What a relief to release it all, and make room for something new. We must invite the new into our world, because the old is no longer working. Lets become the parent…to help God figure itself out. Let’s send healing light to God. It’s time for our species to become The Loving Parent. The closer we get to Galactic Center Alignment, the more polarized our societies become. Polarities may be good and necessary in nature, but not so good in politics, religion, and other social situations. The more we try to unite them the faster they spring apart. There is comfort in some concepts from the interesting book, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. He says, “One can go so far as to say that on this planet “normal” equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of