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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Ten Days of Joy</title>
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		<title>Bast guards the Two Lands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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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>Ten days of joy: Day 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Feast of Bast Guarding the Two Lands. In the dark time of the year, She is the flame that never dies, the Eye that never ceases in Its vigilance, the great Goddess Who acts without faltering, effective in the upholding of ma&#8217;at. 
Today, even while it was a day of rest and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s joy was supremely simple: the joy of being at home. Holiday shopping done, presents wrapped &#8212; nowhere else that I need to go for the next day or so, nothing planned but reading, relaxing, and celebrating. I can just be here, in the place where I am. And I give thanks for my good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was out doing my holiday shopping, not at the mall (thank the Gods!), but in the artsy small village of New Hope, PA. The recession seems to be hitting the place pretty hard &#8212; a number of stores were closed, and since it was a weekday afternoon the streets and sidewalks were far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s joy was a quiet one: the peace of drowsing beneath a cluster of warm, happy, purring cats. Three cats are actually enough to make a very substantial furry blanket!
Dua Netjer! Dua Bast! Nekhtet!
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The piercing pang of resolution. The kindling of renewal on the shortest day of the year. The sweet, brilliant light of clarity. Today&#8217;s joy is an instant of seeing things as they are, of seeing what needs to be done, of seeing all the places where I&#8217;ve fallen short and yet feeling no despair, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Days 4 and 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the weekend hosting a Bast festival get-together for the House of Netjer&#8217;s Northeast region, so I wasn&#8217;t able to post for a couple of days. Time to catch up&#8230;.
Day 4: The joy of sitting in the darkened shrine room with my brothers and sisters in the faith, talking quietly together about our gods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s joy is stillness after constant motion: sitting on the couch with a cat and the computer, a candle burning nearby, resting now, with the whole house cleaned and tidied. Now there&#8217;s just the waiting for the guests to arrive, the hush of preparation awaiting its fulfillment, the quiet anticipation of the celebration ahead.
Dua Netjer! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 2</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/17/ten-days-of-joy-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s joy was two-fold, relating to preparations for this weekend&#8217;s festival: the feeling of clearing out old magazines that have been collecting for months, lightening the burden of clutter and letting me breathe more freely; and the discovery that it is, in fact, extremely easy to make your own candies with chocolate molds. Now I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy: Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/16/ten-days-of-joy-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stalking Beauty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[From today, the new moon, through the Feast of Bast Guards the Two Lands on December 25, I'll be doing posts for Ten Days of Joy. This was an exercise for the Shemsu and Remetj of the House of Netjer, a couple of years back, which honored Bast by sharing with each other daily that [...]]]></description>
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