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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Being Kemetic</title>
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		<title>The year&#8217;s end and the power of heka</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doing Heka]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Days upon the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Djehuty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I mentioned the chaos of the end of the year. The idea is that as the year winds down, things everywhere begin to unravel, including in our personal lives. This disarray reaches its peak in the five epagomenal days, the Days upon the Year that stand outside the rest of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for the Inundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Kemetic calendar, we&#8217;re currently in the third season, Shomu, the time of greatest heat and dryness. Only a little over a month remains until the turning of the year and the beginning of the season of Inundation, but for that time the chaotic energy of the year&#8217;s end holds sway. Here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts before the solstice</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/19/thoughts-before-the-solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tending the Shrine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[summer solstice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a little time outside today, enjoying the dappled sunlight under the trees, the gentle wind, the sweet, green smell of early summer. It&#8217;s nearly the solstice, the peak of the Eye of Ra&#8217;s presence before She turns toward the south. And although my Mother isn&#8217;t the face of the Eye who departs for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to my jungle</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/10/06/welcome-to-my-jungle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though a lot of my posts relate either to my commute or to being at the gym, so let&#8217;s have a change of scenery today. The picture above is of my desk at work (click photos for larger versions). Although the picture was taken back in the spring, the space still looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bathrooms for Bast</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/06/16/bathrooms-for-bast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home and Temple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, I heard my Mother&#8217;s voice for the first time. Usually when I &#8220;hear&#8221; Bast, what comes through is an impulse or a knowing that immediately is translated into words inside my head by what I call the &#8220;Bast voice,&#8221; which is not unlike the inner voices that belong to my various fiction characters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Beautiful Feast</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/05/27/after-the-beautiful-feast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beautiful Feast of the Valley has just ended, the great twelve-day festival during which the holy triad of Gods from Uaset, the city of Thebes &#8212; Amun, Mut, and Khonsu &#8212; sail to the western bank of the river to pay Their respects to Hethert and Wesir, and during which the people of Kemet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making ready the Door of the Sun</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/03/23/making-ready-the-door-of-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was the spring equinox, and the weather was absolutely beautiful, so I spent a large chunk of time outside&#8230;doing yard work. (Which I actually do enjoy, although right now I have more tasks than I do energy.) At any rate, my plan on Saturday was to begin by picking up some pine cones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bast guards the Two Lands</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/27/bast-guards-the-two-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/27/bast-guards-the-two-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ten Days of Joy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major part of the process of settling and growing in Kemetic religion is figuring out one&#8217;s calendar. With some hundreds of known festivals filling almost every day of the year, it can be entirely overwhelming! Most people seem to prune it down to a handful of focused observances, with at best a quick candle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing anew</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/10/13/seeing-anew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stalking Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offerings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a good weekend &#8212; a friend and fellow Kemetic priest came to visit, and we went to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and also simply spent time together talking about our practices. On Sunday, after the grocery shopping, I usually make offerings to my Beloveds, the God of the Year (currently Djehuty), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time and abundance, satisfaction and peace</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/06/30/time-and-abundance-satisfaction-and-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/06/30/time-and-abundance-satisfaction-and-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of yard work this weekend, since the weather was cooperating. Actually, the weather has been quite cooperative in general over the last week or so: rain when I need to be indoors working on a freelance assignment, sun when it&#8217;s time to work outside. (And rain again when I&#8217;ve worked more than enough [...]]]></description>
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