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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Festivals</title>
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		<title>The Year of Zep Tepi</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/08/12/the-year-of-zep-tepi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehet Weret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mut]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today: the smell of rain on hot pavement, a blissful breath of cooler air, the hope that this long, sweltering summer might finally be drawing to a close. The House of Netjer&#8217;s New Year celebration was last week, so we&#8217;ve just entered the season of the Inundation, the rising of the great river, when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/05/31/memorial-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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This morning I got up at the crack of dawn to do a small ritual for Memorial Day (as I&#8217;d mentioned previously). Out on the front lawn, I set up a little shrine with offerings and read the following prayer out loud at sunrise:
&#160;
A Memorial Day Prayer for Heru-hekenu and the Akhu
Dua Heru-hekenu! O Son [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
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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>Set, Lord of the Oasis</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/03/30/set-lord-of-the-oasis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>

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Two weeks ago, witch hazel and white crocus were ablaze all along Shapiro Walk. Last week, those fiery explosions had already faded and dried to a dark maroon, and the crocuses had slumped down onto the mulch, their lightless petals shriveled and translucent. This week the forsythia are in full cry, and the lily-flowered magnolias [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Home and Temple]]></category>
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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>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>
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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>
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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>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>
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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>Opet, Year 17</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2009/09/23/opet-year-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the overcast day, a moment of sun &#8212; brilliant white clouds pull together like slow Symplegades, thin swirls of cirrus curling between them like the spray of waves against stone. They kiss, and gray shadow falls again.
We&#8217;re in the midst of Opet, the festival of the Theban triad, celebrating the union of Amun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May joy be your companion</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2008/12/30/may-joy-be-your-companion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2008/12/30/may-joy-be-your-companion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the day after the festival of the Establishment of the Celestial Cow, honoring Ra&#8217;s departure from Earth into the heavens, the dividing line of mythic time and human time. It&#8217;s also the day before the end of the secular year, part of that funny little week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s when hardly anybody [...]]]></description>
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