1 Isis-Seshat Journal Personal Post of the Fellowship of Isis Issue #29 Spring 2011 Volume 8 Number 1 2 THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI The Divine Mother, Isis, Amaterasu, Kwannon, loves and cares for each one of Her children suffering from the earthquake. We in the Fellowship of Isis together with all who love Her send Her Blessings to all in Japan. --Lady Olivia Robertson 3 Isis-Seshat Journal Issue #29 Vol.8 No.1 ISSN: 1552-082X TABLE OF CONTENTS: Cover art: Faun and Water Nymph, by Sara Kobuszko .....................................................................................p.1 Inside Front Cover: For Japan, by Lady Olivia Robertson ..................................................................................p.2 Subscription Information ....................................................................................................................................p.3 Letter From the Editor……………………………… .............................................................................................p.4 Letters From Readers ........................................................................................................................................p.6 News ................... ..............................................................................................................................................p.7 Deosil, by Lillian Morgan Evans .........................................................................................................................p.10 To Our Native Goddesses and Female Protectors, by Pavel Tulaev .................................................................p.11 Report on Magical Workings For Egypt, by Lady AMber Dawn .........................................................................p.20 Thank God It’s Over! by Gloria Taylor Brown .....................................................................................................p.23 Healing By Laying On of Hands, by Sarah Rooke..............................................................................................p.25 Meditation and Hymn to Herakles, by Demetria Nanos ......................................................................................p.27 Contemplations on the Manifesto of the Fellowship of Isis: Founders, by Deena Butta………………… ............p.29 Diana Nemorensis, by Myth Woodling ...............................................................................................................p.31 Magic of Manifestation at Isis Oasis, by Loreon Vigne .......................................................................................p.32 My Trip To Egypt: Ten Things, by Lady AMber Dawn .......................................................................................p.34 The Mist It Tells Me, by Dorn Simon-Sinnott ......................................................................................................p.35 Story of an Iseum, by Lady Haight-Ashton .........................................................................................................p.36 Exploring Eos, by Demetria Nanos ....................................................................................................................p.38 Contributors To This Issue .................................................................................................................................p.52 Inside back cover: Archpriesthood Union Directory...........................................................................................p.53 Back Cover: The Manifesto of the Fellowship of Isis .........................................................................................p.54 Uncited artwork from Dover Publications and Microsoft Office. 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] 4 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear FOI Family, I get Equinox Jitters every year about three weeks before the actual equinox. Do you? The rising of the earth energies floods my being like a strong electrical current hitting the system…without the transformer to step down the energy, it almost makes your system vibrate with more energy than it can handle. It is important to stay grounded at this time of year. The FOI “Spring Rite of Good Health” is helpful for that reason, and excellent practice to celebrate it every spring regardless of your other observances and celebrations. Among the various lessons we face in this school called “Life On Planet Earth” are those about levels of reality, as demonstrated on the glyph of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Each individual finds some lessons of the different sefirot (spheres) easier to grasp than others. My own personal curriculum is taught by the sphere of Geburah, which corresponds to the planet Mars and its mysteries. What IS energy? What IS conflict? What IS effort? What IS striving? Is Mars really about aggression? What are its deeper levels of meaning? For example… what does it really mean to be a warrior? What is right action? The Lyceum of Alexandria chose Magic of Mars and the Morrigan, with its mystery of the jeweled scabbard, as our Vernal Equinox ritual. It seemed pertinent in light of the political and natural turmoil erupting around the world…although in actuality we were guided to select this rite before all that started. I believe we shall be processing its lessons and those of its corresponding sefira for some time ot come. This year‟s Goddess Festival liturgy will be The Winged Pegasus. It is about creativity, which requires its own kind of strength and right action. Going into the 5th world, we will need creativity. The Winged Pegasus honors the Muses, goddesses of the arts and sciences. Associated with their story are the Goddess Mnemosyne, and the gods Apollo. Zeus, and Poseidon. Water is a major theme in The Winged Pegasus. It is hard to think of the Muses without thinking of the Muses Symposium, an FOI society created by Lady Olivia in 2007. Its hallmark is freedom from structure and necessity. The arts 5 can save the world. People communicate on multiple levels with each other through the arts (even the verbal ones) and they bypass the conflict by going to the heart of their vision. The Muses Symposium is an important network within FOI. Estara and Deena feel called to be more active with The Muses Symposium at this time, thus they have created Helicon, a new chapter of the Muses Symposium, which has as its purpose to introduce and connect everyone who serves the goddess through creative effort. The Muses Symposium is open through Helicon to all people doing creative work in the arts and sciences, who want to find each other, and promote the message of the land of Arcadia, the many Arcadias in our world, and the work of FOI. Visit The Muses Symposium Blog http://musessymposium.blogspot.com and the Muses Symposium website www.musessymposium.org Conact Estara or Deena to be listed as a member of the Muses Symposium, or to have your Arcadia listed. Olivia says: “Dionysos and Apollo represent love and truth. Symposiums take place in lectures halls, but Arcadians meet in pubs.” These two are in harmony with each other in the Eleusinian Mysteries as well as atop the Parthenon. What is the difference between an art, an art form, and art? What distinguishes the arts from anything else? Anything can be an art if it is done in a way that imbues it with beauty on any or all levels of reality. If something is done thoughtfully and with care, it becomes something powerful that reverberates throughout the worlds. It becomes an art, something beautiful, for all times. When something is simply done mechanically or in a hurry or thoughtlessly, it is cold, without any kind of fire. And it is not an art. Anything can be done artfully. In the new world that is coming, to make it a world of beauty, all things must be done as an art…that is, with care and thoughtfulness and reverence. And where is Arcadia? It is wherever these things are accomplished! Arcadia is wherever your particular creative source is located, physically or metaphysically. Giving it a name and honoring it raises the vibratory level of where you are. That is your Arcadia! The Muses \Symposium encourages all arts and art forms that honor the goddess and heal humanity. But it can also help to raise our level of awareness so that even the most humble things we do become an art. May you walk in beauty! May strength and vitality surround and fill your being! May you dwell in Arcadia! Blessed Be! and Happy Spring! Love and blessings, Deena 6 LETTERS FROM READERS From Victoria Preobrazhenskaya, Egyptian Theater of the Mysteries in Moscow, On International Women‟s Day, March 8, 2011: Dear Ladies…Priestesses and daughters of the Great Mother! I congratulate you, on this International Women‟s Day [March 8] of Spring and Sun! May there universe filled with light! I wish you all the best…. Love, Kindness and Joyfulness! The Sunshine of Hearts! The Female Age of Light is coming! An Age of Harmony and Gold! Planet Earth has a new future -the Enlightened World of Light! Let's bring this future closer! For, it is woman who bears Inspiration, Love and Beauty to this world. And much depends on the openness of our hearts and the wish to change all around