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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River</title>
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		<title>Onion Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/03/10/onion-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The snow crocuses are blooming, gold, pale blue, white, and lavender on the southern slope of the lawn. The willows are showing the first tinge of yellow-green along the lake shore. The earliest hints of spring that I mentioned in my last post have become more than mere hints as warmth settles over the land. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hints of spring</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/28/hints-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, in the wake of the torrential downpours, a beautiful, burnished evening &#8212; the trees like bronze in the westering light, the woods warm and wet, filled with numinous pools reflecting the gold-tinged sky. And I thought, can this really be January? But then I realized with a shock that January is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing home</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/20/seeing-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stalking Beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally went to see James Cameron&#8217;s Avatar last weekend. It was splendidly done, no question, a visual spectacular, showing a satisfying triumph of beauty and spirituality over corporate greed and blindness. I enjoyed it greatly, and yet I came away from it not feeling profoundly moved. My reaction may have been colored by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: God&#8217;s Wife, God&#8217;s Servant</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/15/review-gods-wife-gods-servant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/15/review-gods-wife-gods-servant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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God&#8217;s Wife, God&#8217;s Servant: The God&#8217;s Wife of Amun
By Mariam F. Ayad. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Hardcover, 216 pages, 51 b/w and color photos.
I pulled this from the library shelves because I was interested in the subject of women in priestly or priestlike roles in ancient Egypt. After a general historical overview of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning a new decade</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/01/01/beginning-a-new-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, I was at the peak of my fandom phase, heavily engaged in writing fanfiction and moderating a mailing list, and without much at all happening in the way of spirituality. Five years ago, I was halfway through the House of Netjer&#8217;s beginners&#8217; course, still not sure of where it was going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look up!</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/29/look-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wild Sky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Establishment of the Celestial Cow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, before getting in the car to go to work, I paused outside the garage to look up. Above the branches of the pine tree across the road, silhouetted against the gradually lightening sky &#8212; a pale swath of delicate cloud veil and a single star, golden and startlingly bright.
Later, during the drive, I [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/25/ten-days-of-joy-day-10/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/24/ten-days-of-joy-day-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/24/ten-days-of-joy-day-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ten Days of Joy]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/23/ten-days-of-joy-day-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/12/23/ten-days-of-joy-day-8/#comments</comments>
		<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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