Panicked Witchery

The life of a Tech, Divination, Kemetic, Cosmic witch who works with dragons sometimes.

[thepanickedwitch]

For wep ronpet today we started off with a morning ritual to Bast. Then I worked a bit on self care and hygiene and had some breakfast with the Netjeru. Then I went to the store and bought things for a cherry vanilla cake. I brought my mini Bast statue (which for now is just a pusheen tin I use as a travel altar) with me too. I got home and we baked the cake. We let it cool off while going out to grab some dinner and offered it to the Netjeru. After that we named the cake a/p/ep and sliced that bish up and ate it. In a bit i'll be writing down a list of things to get rid of for the coming year and ripping it up. I'll also be working on my handwritten prayer book 🥲 i would say wep ronpet 2023 was a success.

[hesy-bes]

A devotional poem for Djehuty for a good academic college year! As he is the god of knowledge :) thank you very much.

O' Netjer of Knowledge,

my arms are raised to you.

Heka flows from my lips,

instilled by your strength and wisdom.

To you my brain sings,

stimulated to learn and create.

For it is with your word,

that we shape reality to our touch.

Dua Djehuty!

[thepanickedwitch]

Day 5

Dua Nephthys

Wife of Set

Daughter of Geb and Nut

You helped your sister revive Osiris

Mistress of the House

Lady of the Temple

You protect the souls of people and link us to the heavens

May we honor you and celebrate you on this fifth day

We offer to you in abundance

May you be sated and pleased

[maceofpentacles]

what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?

mine are the tower and the chariot

[twoheartedangel]

The World and The Empress :)

[fieldofpapyrus]

Judgement and The High Priestess

[thepanickedwitch]

The Magician and The Sun

[thepanickedwitch]

Day 4

Dua Aset

Lady of Peace

The daughter of Nut and Geb

Today we celebrate you

O Lady of Light

May you shine on us as we honor you today

Let our prayers find you

Mistress of Magic

We offer to you in abundance

May you be sated and happy

[windvexer]

Shout out to the people for whom Witchcraft and the Gods totally fucking suck sometimes

A few years ago, I was being mocked in a Discord server by someone who believed that if I was having a difficult relationship with my primary god, then that was my fault and I needed to "be better."

He's a god of Witchcraft, I tried to say. He's the Folkloric Devil. He can be an asshole. Sometimes, working with him is very difficult.

The person implied it was a phase and that they hoped I "figured it out" because the gods would ~*nEvEr*~ ever behave as complete cunts.

Sigh.

I see great posts around. "Witchcraft isn't supposed to be stressful! Witchcraft shouldn't give you anxiety! If you don't like your witchcraft, stop doing it! Change it!"

It's a great message, in general. But what if you can't? What if you shouldn't?

I see these support posts side-by-side with posts like, "where is all the advanced witchcraft? People should post more of their path!"

I hate to say it out loud and in such a boorish way, but a lot of the time, "advanced witchcraft" is tedious. It's a chore. It's making pacts that you can't back out of, that become burdensome responsibilities.

(Not trying to get into a discussion about what constitutes "advanced witchcraft" so I'm going to stop using that term)

There are a lot of people out there who are now bound to paths that they don't really like, didn't intend to become a part of, are having difficulty changing, or who are going through a phase where everything fucking sucks, but they are still dedicated to seeing it through to the end.

So, anyway. If you feel the gods have betrayed you, if you feel trapped in your practice, if you feel exhausted by the responsibilities you have taken upon yourself, if you feel like things are being taken away from you, if your Craft feels like a chore: you are not alone.

And from time to time I get really burned out on posts that seek to make witchcraft and the gods so accessible for beginners that anything that gets a tiny bit serious, or tedious, or burdensome, or scary, is erased. And called fearmongering. Or called gatekeeping.

I think it would just be nice for time to time that people who are not beginners, and who are struggling, also get community support. And not erased or shut down just because their lived experiences might be scary to a hypothetical beginner.

[rootandrock]

I remember 'warning' someone about an initiatory experience. A "buy the ticket take the ride" moment where, once I'd gotten to this particular point there was no backing out. It HAD to happen, there was literally no other option. My feelings were immaterial. My discomfort was an unintended side effect.

I remember this person having some sort of meltdown because "the gods would never do THAT to someone!!!!"

Yeah, right, sure, okay... but that one did. So it might be time to step back and re-evaluate your hypothesis.

"Why isn't there info about-" Because any time someone posts about that sorta they get beaten over the head with sticks. Because when they do their information is rejected. Because it's a hell of a lot easier to attack someone else than it is to question our own preconceptions.

I still have a strong working relationship with that spirit and its retinue. That was a pivotal, formative, priceless moment in my path. It was still painful and frightening in the moment.

The reason we tend to give warnings about terribly dire stuff, and not a lot of fluffing up the good things is that you don't need a heads up about the bountiful, endless, soul-deep joy. You do, however, need a little warning that sometimes a spirit is going to do something you don't expect or appreciate and you might just have to take the L and keep on going.

[thetwistedrope]

i feel this very hard. its a tough balance to basically tell newcomers that the majority of folks will likely not have to worry about the Unseen becoming a tedious nightmare that you're stuck dealing with. but that doesn't mean that there aren't still risks. i've been collecting stories from people for over a decade now, and believe me, sometimes the gods are royal fucking assholes.

people get burned. people get hurt. people burn out. people leave.

like with any other traumatic thing, i've found it very hard to find places where people are willing to tolerate someone with these sorts of issues. let alone people who even know how to support someone caught in the thick of things. while i've found that i'm allowed to complain about it, i've never really found folks to know how to help. more often than not, the entire room just goes silent the minute things get remotely difficult or uncomfortable.

i think its a byproduct of our culture, because in the dominant US culture, you're not supposed to make things too heavy. no one is taught how to handle stuff. and part of the blowback is you usually get people being like "oh no, you must be mistaken, it can't be that bad" or w/e. just do some yoga at sunrise type shit.

and that that same attitude happens in religion, too.

i never came into kemeticism with the intent of doing anything Important. i never came into this religion with the expectation that the gods would harass me to hell and back. i was young and naive and took up work i had no way of knowing where it would end up. in many ways, my own faults and trauma were weaponized against me, and all these years later, i just slammed the door shut because i was tired of it all.

these stories exist and we must learn how to give them the space they need for people to be able to heal. every "the gods generally are chill with whatever" needs to be balanced with "but sometimes they are absolute jerks, and this is the [suggested] protocol for handling that". this is why having posts that caution people from randomly picking up work without any limitations are needed.

we need to do better.

[clerical-error]

An emissary of Nefertem reminds you that at every sunrise, the world is created anew. A new beginning awaits you. – Nefertem is an Ancient Egyptian god associated with perfume and flowers (especially the blue lotus), healing, and the newborn sun. Though He was most frequently depicted as a human with a lotus over His head, He could also be shown as a lion as the son of Sekhmet or Bast. Lotus flowers rise up from the muddy waters to bloom at sunrise, just as the sun rises from the dark every morning to illuminate the world once again. In some creation stories, Nefertem is the child-god born from the first lotus emerging from the primeval waters.

[ben-the-hyena]

I absolutely love Sekhmet/Bastet (they are the same goddess with 2 different aspects ; basically Bastet when happy and horny and Sekhmet when violent and blood thirsty) X Ptah for all it implies

A myth says that they met after Sekhmet woke up from being drunk from all that red colored mead (long story short for those who don't know Ra created her from his eye when humans started to rebel against the gods so that she could kill the rebels but she loved killing and eating so much she kept on and on and they feared she would off humanity so they had all the women make beer and color it red to lure it as blood and she got drunk as shit and passed out and that's how humanity was saved) and that he was the first person she saw at this moment and they had a love at first sight. That's already adorable

Ptah and Sekhmet/Bastet are almost always depicted as one another's spouses, essentially the myths in which they were with others were the most ancient and got retconned, no infedility, Ptah had no harem despite the fact royalty and gods could have several wives, etc just themselves for each other

They also have only 2 children, Nefertem and Mahas whose father is always Ptah and the mother is always either Bastet or Sekhmet, but no one else after the "retcon" (I know it's not called like that for religion but bear with me). Kids between each other. And Bastet being a goddess of maternity and described as a good and tender mother, it means she cherishes the sons she had with the man she loves

They often are seen together, notably in the places were both were adored. There are temples dedicated to them both or to one of both sons too

Love how they are complementary, she is in both aspects a solar goddess while he is a lunar god, plus both can heal

They are quite cotrasting which makes it hilarious, notably when she is Sekhmet. Goddess of war, death, blood, fire and diseases while he is just the god of craftmanship, and he is pretty much a chill god. Malewife and girlboss, even funnier since he is a PRIMORDIAL GOD often said older than her father Ra himself but he is one of the chillest gods he just wants to build stuff

Bastet is the goddess of music, dance and joy. Who knows, maybe she is curious and playful about what he creates and that makes him happy to have finally someone interested. Heck maybe he makes her instruments, and weapons as Sekhmet

Bastet is also a goddess of carnal love, lust and desire. For her to be happy in her marriage, it means dude must actually fuck a litteral sex goddess like a pro and like nobody before and must satisfy her perfectly. Ptah and his mummy looks plays his cards close to his chest

And Ptah doesn't just want Bastet, he loves her as scary and violent Sekhmet too, claims he is married to both etc instead of just preferring the sexy happy aspect of her, he loves her under all her forms and aspects and she must be moved by that, heck who knows maybe he is the one to help her calm down and reassure her during her violent outbursts/crises into becoming her gentle again

In conclusion, mythological OTP

[sat-neteru]

“Nefertem is often thought of as the god of perfumes, but this association is a secondary one and he was primarily the youthful god of the lotus blossom which rose from the primeval waters according to Egyptian myth. Nefertem was thus not only identified with the blue lotus (Nymphaea cerula)…” Richard Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.

I always loved the lotus motif and since walking my path in the Egyptian mysteries I’m particularly fond of the blue lotus, which actually is a water lily.

About a year ago one evening I sat on my sofa, relaxing, when I suddenly felt a piercing pain in my ribs. There was no physical source for that. It had an energetic source. So I sat with that pain, being aware, opening myself to it. When I asked the energy about its identity, the answer was astonishingly clear:

Nefertim

Not Nefertem. It was clearly Nefertim and looking them up I came across Nefertem, god of the blue lotus and son of Ptah! That got me curious, so once again I tuned in to connect with Nefertim and received an amazing insight:

The Nefertim are a collective of all the blue lotus seeds that there ever were, are and will be.

Whenever I see lotus, I remember this quote: NO MUD, NO LOTUS. It’s a flower associated with enlightenment, but for me it’s intimately connected to shadow work. The mud at the bottom of my consciousness, that needs to be stirred up now and then to rise to the surface so that I can bring it to my awareness and transform it into something that will resemble the beauty of the blue lotus blossoms.

That’s what the Nefertim come to teach me now and then. Recently I see blue lotus a lot and it makes perfect sense. It fits this time of the year, when the days are getting shorter and shorter and the darkness is stretching out more and more.

Life is not all love and light. We need the darkness and there is no reason to be afraid of it. Even in the deepest pits the Nefertim will share their bright seeds with you, if you wish for it.

Ask and you shall receive.

[thetwistedrope]

i made a version of this way back in 2013 or so. i felt it was a good time for an update.

[shadowwhisper123-deactivated201]

Some random words in Ancient Egyptian

1. Hetep or Hotep = Peace. Also used as part of the greeting: “Em hotep,” meaning: “In peace,” along with its variations: “Em hotep nefer,” (“In great peace,”) and “Em hotep nefer weret,” (“In very great peace,”).

2. Ankh = Life. Used as part of the phrase: “Ankh, udja, seneb!” meaning: “Life, strength, and health!” Which was a blessing.

3. Senebty = Farewell 4. Iiti = Hello

5. Yeh! = Hi!

6. Iiwy = Welcome

7. Imi-ib = Heart’s desire. Equivalent to: “Beloved,” or “darling.”

8. Nedjeb = Sweetie (as in “dear” not candy)

9. Mewet = Mother

10. It = Father

11. Sa = Son 12. Sat = Daughter 13. Senet = Sister 14. Sen = Brother (Note: In addition to referring to your actual brother as this, you would also address someone around the same age as you as “brother” or “sister.” So when you see Egyptian love poems addressing people as “brother” and “sister” it’s not meant to be incestuous.)

15.  Neb=  Lord. Also, Neb-i = My lord 16. Nebet = Lady. Also, Nebet-i = My lady 17. Heka = Magic

18. Ib or Ab = Heart 19. Nefer = Beautiful, or great, depending on the context 20. Dua Netjer en ek! = Thank you! Or, literally: Thank God for you! If speaking to a woman, it’s: Dua Nejter en etj!

21. Kemet = Egypt, or “Black Land.” Sometimes spelled: Khemet

22. Hem =  Husband

23. Hemet = Wife

24. Itja = Thief 25. Nefer sedjmek = May you hear only good things. This was a common way to end letters. If addressing a woman its: “Nefer sedjmetj”

26. Tjatey = Vizier 27. Per Ankh = House of Life. A type of sacred library that could be found in various temples and was run by priests and used by them and the nobility.

28. Khered = Child

29. Izi nek djesek! = Go f*** yourself! (note: they probably didn’t actually say this, but this is sort of how you would say it if the did. Likewise with the next word.)

30. Henen-tep! = D***head!

31. Ii = Come

32. A'nen! = Come back!

33. Khefttey = Enemy

34. Khenmes = Male friend

35. Khenemset = Female friend

36. Merwet = Love (noun)

37. Meri = Love (verb)

38. Maa = True

39. Tjen? = Where?

40. Duat = The Land of the Dead. Neter-Khertet was also used.

41. Mau = Cat. Also Miu = Kitten

42. Khet = Fire

43. Sesen = Lotus flower. A symbol of the sun, creation and rebirth. The Egyptians believed that the sun rose of out of a giant lotus on the first day.

44. Seba = Star

45. Sma = Owl

46. Im = There

47. Nefer uy phuy ky! (or Nefer phwy ky)=How beautiful are thy buttocks! (No, really. Set said this to Horus in one of the stories about the gods.)

48. Maat = Divine truth

(PS: If any of these are inaccurate, I apologize.)

[kinahmi]

Another endearment is ibib, which basically means “the heart of my heart”, as in “beloved”.

[deitiesofduat]

[01] – OSIRIS

✦ TITLE: Lord Osiris, King of Duat – The God of the Dead, the Afterlife, and Resurrection

✦ SACRED ANIMAL: The Bennu Bird ✦ DIVINE WEAPON: The Crook and Flail ✦ NOTABLE EPITHETS: “Ruler of Eternity; Lord of Silence; One Who Presides on His Throne; Sovereign of the Underworld” ✦ PROFILE: https://deitiesproject.com/portfolio/osiris/

———-

Lord Osiris, the King of Duat, is the first-born and eldest of the royal children of Nut and Geb. He is the husband of Isis, and the father of Horus.

The once-deceased god-king Osiris dutifully serves as the ruler and judge of the underworld. He was resurrected following years of conflict within his divine family. He values his second life, but understands his solemn burden of restoring stability to the entire pantheon.

DEITIES x OC_TOBER – Deity Profiles [Full Character Lineup]

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[thepanickedwitch]

PRAYER TO BASTET

Lady in the grasslands of Bubastis

She who has many forms

Lady of Jewlery

Allow me to find peace and serenity

Allow me to accept what is to come

Lady of the East

Allow me to offer you the finest of offerings in exchange for your greatness

Lady in Bubastis, in the waters of Ra

Call to me as i call to you

Let our connection grow stronger

Lady of messengers

Allow your signs and influence to flow

Allow me to interpret these messages effectively

Lady of Light

Deliver Ra safely through the sky

As we awake safe and complete

[cerleansky]

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

[speaklavenderthoughts-deactivat]

absolutely obsessed with these tags

[frndlywtch]

Tarot Inspired Journal Prompts

Fool: what is something new you are doing or want to do?

Magician: what is a magical way to enhance my day? Or, how can I be more like the magician?

High Priestess: what are my thoughts on divination? What about intuition?

Empress: what part of myself do I want to grow/nurture?

Emperor: what part of my life needs me to take authority? How can I?

High Priest: what are my personal traditions? How is my spirituality unique to me?

Lovers: what relationships mean the most to me?

Chariot: what part of my life needs me to be more combative/ warrior-like?

Strength: what part of my life should I face with courage?

Hermit: what do I need to do alone more often? What do I need to do with others more often?

Wheel of Fortune: what do I think about luck, fate, and/or fortune?

Justice: when do I need to focus on legality vs fairness? Or, What may cause me to seek justice/retribution?

Hanged Man: what have/will I sacrifice for -x-? What am I never willing to sacrifice? What will I easily give up?

Death: what is something personal I want to end or change? What is something that will end or change no matter how I feel? How can I accept it?

Temperence: what part of my life needs more patience? What part needs more balance? How can I achieve both?

Devil: what is a primal desire I have? Should I grant it to myself? Why or why not? How can I get what I want?

Tower: what can I learn from the current or recent chaos/disaster in my life?

Star: what do I hope for? How can I get it?

Moon: what part of my life is best kept private? Why?

Sun: what makes me happy?

Jusgement: what part of me needs reflection? What is a fair assessment of that part?

World: what parts of my life have been fulfilled? What parts are still lacking?

[violatememoreplease]

BoS prompt: Make a mindmap of your craft

This is tomething I decided to do a while back, to get some clairity on where I wanted to evolve my practise for the coming season. And although I probably forgot some things, and the sketches are a bit crude, I really enjoyed making it. I think it's a fun way to go about thinking what your practise consits of, what areas might be connected etc. So I thought I'd share it!

[runlittledeer]

I was given a 100% cotton t-shirt to paint it and decided to do a winged Isis. Now I only have to tailor it to fit me and look a little more feminine, because right now it looks like a sack on me :3