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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Bast</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></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>Ten Days of Joy (2011): Day Ten</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/12/21/ten-days-of-joy-2011-day-ten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the Feast of Bast Guards the Two Lands, the last of the Ten Days of Joy. My housemate and I are celebrating the Feast part this weekend, when I&#8217;ll be home and can roast the duck, but tonight I offered shrimp tempura sushi at dinner and then, during Senut, Belgian chocolate mousse cake. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Days of Joy (2011): Day One</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/12/12/ten-days-of-joy-2011-day-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ten Days of Joy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time once again for the annual Ten Days of Joy, a celebration of the unique joy of each day as we approach the Festival of Bast Guards the Two Lands. Today&#8217;s joy is the joy of strength and will unlooked-for, of rising to meet a challenge rather than surrendering to inertia. Dua Bast, Mistress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The year&#8217;s end and the power of heka</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/25/the-years-end-and-the-power-of-heka/</link>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Days upon the Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Djehuty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nut]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=827</guid>
		<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>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[Bast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[priesthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>
		<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>Fire in the west</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/06/10/fire-in-the-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wild Sky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the drive home in a thunderstorm, the sky above dark rosy gray, split by threads of lightning, and in the west the eye of the sun blazing red through the clouds, turning them to carnelian: the fire of the goddess, dangerous, fierce, and fulfilled. Tonight, strong heka: a silver bowl filled with white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In all Their Names</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/29/in-all-their-names/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stalking Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wild Sky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hethert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Set]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tem]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, shoveling my driveway after the season&#8217;s first blizzard, I paused to look up into a sky of the most extraordinary blue, only a couple of shades lighter than lapis. I murmured a prayer to Hethert, the Lady of Heaven. Only a moment or two later, I glanced up again to see a hawk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy (2010): Day 10</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/23/ten-days-of-joy-2010-day-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a perfect day, from walking out my front door this morning into bright, silvery sunlight and a whirl of the tiniest snowflakes, to finding exactly the right last-minute holiday gifts in the artsy little town of New Hope, to celebrating my Mother&#8217;s festival, the Feast of Bast Guards the Two Lands, with special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy (2010): Day 9</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/22/ten-days-of-joy-2010-day-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/22/ten-days-of-joy-2010-day-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the festival of the Procession of Bast, and today&#8217;s joy has been the joy of understanding at last and letting go &#8212; of a lesson finally sliding home as I knelt before the shrine in prayer. May Bast walk through your day and your nighttime in this season of Her festivals, bringing Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy (2010): Days 4-7</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/20/ten-days-of-joy-2010-days-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/20/ten-days-of-joy-2010-days-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell a bit behind due to the Northeast region&#8217;s Bast festival last weekend, so it&#8217;s time to catch up. Day 4: The joy of a truly luxuriant shower, warm and fragrant and soothing. O great gift of cleansing waters! Day 5: The joy of a shiver of ecstasy, the ringing of the sistra loud [...]]]></description>
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