PART OF AN ALTAR TO RA BY SANCTUM OF THE ROSE Amon - Amun - Amun-Ra - Re - Ra - A powerful force of connection for any solar work including the vitality of the Summer Solstice Energies. All these deities and aspects become inseparable as history flows through pharaonic timelines over some 3,000 years. In the Pyramid Texts he is seen as the primeval creative force aligned to the element of Air with Amenet (Amentet/Amonet/Amaunet) his feminine counterpart, hence his associatio

Basking in the Solstice Sun last year - 2024 by the water with my magickal sisters. The Wheel has turned passed Beltane for those of us that dwell here the Southern Hemisphere and now the blooming seasons pulls us towards Summer Solstice and the longest day of the Year. Many call this time Mid Summer, though the light may slowly start to reduce from here, the heat does not where I dwell anyway, the middle of Summer can so often endure until late in January, depending on the m

"This is the time when sweet desire weds wild delight. The Maiden of Spring and the Lord of the Waxing Year meet in the greening fields and rejoice together under the warm sun. The shaft of life is twined in a spiral web and all of nature is renewed. We meet in the time of flowering, to dance the dance of life." Starhawk Images from Beltane past and prepartion for this Years Summer Rose. All pics by Sanctum of the Rose. As the Southern Hemisphere Wheel turns we flow now towar

Serqet, Tomb of Nefertari, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons   Scorpio Season - honouring Goddess Serqe t ( Srqt) .   Scorpio Solar Season is now unfolding, for me associated with Scorpion headed Egyptian Goddess Serket - She who: "Causes the throat (or mouth) to Breathe" , alluding to her associations with bites and stings, with poison and venom and her alignment to healing, protection and toxicity. A reminder that the difference between healing and harm is often in the dos