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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Thoughts and Reflections</title>
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		<title>B is for Bast</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/01/22/b-is-for-bast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I debated whether I should do a PBP post on Bast. For one thing, this blog is already largely about my relationship with Her and my experiences as Her priest. For another, Bast is so multifaceted for me that I could probably write a whole book just on Her. But since She is so central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting where we are</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/12/28/starting-where-we-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[zep tepi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, sitting in shrine with Bast, I saw an image of a small tree with gnarled, twisting branches, deep, velvety-brown bark, and clusters of large, lovely white flowers. And I heard, in that soft inner voice, Would you cut the tree down just because it doesn&#8217;t grow the way you want it to? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purity and priority</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/12/27/purity-and-priority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home and Temple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little bit tired today; it was a slow, rough, frustrating day at work. Fortunately my festival calendar is clear until the end of the week. Or perhaps not so fortunately after all. Some festivity might rejuvenate me. Well, instead here I sit with a peppermint hot chocolate and two sleeping cats being ridiculously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/12/02/returning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[introspection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lioness goddesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the first day of the first month of Peret, the season of Growing. It&#8217;s a very holy month for me, featuring the Ten Days of Joy and one of the most important of the Bast festivals, as well as the Return of the Distant Goddess at the Winter Solstice and, of course, &#8220;Moomas,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for the Inundation</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/23/waiting-for-the-inundation/</link>
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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>
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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>Circles</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/02/circles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heru-hekenu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the freshening breeze, the heat was mild enough today that I walked down to sit by the lake on my lunch hour. Light dazzled me, sunlight breaking from the wavelets as if from diamonds, the brisk wind flurried about me, and I felt the presence of Heru-hekenu, that brilliant-shining falcon, adorned with stars. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good days</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/01/good-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The process of getting back on my mental and emotional feet continues. I&#8217;m learning new and better means of coping, learning to measure my thoughts and reactions with new eyes. The main struggle right now is with the side effects of my current medication cocktail, which make it difficult for me to focus, particularly on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The scent of cedar: Renewal and return</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/02/21/the-scent-of-cedar-renewal-and-return/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/02/21/the-scent-of-cedar-renewal-and-return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fragrance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heryshef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been going through one of those stretches where I feel as though I have so desperately much to get done that I can&#8217;t figure out how to direct my energy, so I run in mental circles until I fall over in a heap. Add to that a week of intensely focused, deadline-pressured work at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/01/02/making-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not making resolutions this year. I&#8217;m making dreams. I dream myself taking a purifying ritual bath in my beautiful redone bathroom. Surrounded by the green and gold of a desert oasis, candles burn and fragrant waters murmur as I tend to both body and soul. I dream myself deepening my connections to my Gods [...]]]></description>
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