A passage through Egypt
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Nile in Nubia
LIBRA . MA-AT
Meanwhile in the real sky, the Sun has entered the sign of Libra the scales of balance, karma, mutuality and justice.
I have returned from Egypt, learning Sidereal Astrology and tracing the yugas, grand cycles of time. Ancient Egypt is fascinating, complex and a vast topic that branches out into so many arenas. What ‘little’ I have learned is still too much to put to words. And it is not my intention to turn these Passages into an Egypt blog (even though the next few passages will probably include references to Egypt) or myself into an egyptologist. Nevertheless, all ancient spiritual traditions share a common thread through history. The Ancient Egyptian civilization has left a deep impressionable stamp on collective western European culture and thinking, whether you are aware of it or not. In the context of linking the Anahata lineage to history and tracing back to the time when humanity aligned time and cycles with the real stars I will reference Egypt.
Libra comes from the scales of Ma’at, the goddess of order who weighs your heart (the home of your soul) and deeds against the weight of a feather. Only when your heart weighs equal to or lighter than a feather will Anubis, the Jackal headed opener of passages to the afterlife allow you to continue your journey to the court of Osiris. Otherwise your soul will be devoured by a monstrous creature.
The Anahata yogi will appreciate the symbolism of this story; balance and liberation (libra) through the heart. 🙂
photo : Deir el-Medhina Temple, Ma-at with a single feather on her head. Horus and Anubis weighing the scales. Thoth documenting the result.
The Egyptian mystery
The Egyption allure and mystery is that the archaeological finds do not chronicle a clear evolution but rather portray a devolution of a civilization. There’s barely a trace of how the ancient Egyptians learned what they were able to do. The oldest structures and art are the most precise, beautiful, intricate, delicate, profound. And the latest ones are the most crude. When you see this first hand, there is no debate. The structures and some art dated to the pre-dynastic (before the pharaohs) era are the most beautiful, mysterious and technologically advanced yet. Impossible to replicate today.
photo : pre-dynastic. made of pure stone, schist
photo : early dynastic pottery
This points to an earlier, more advanced civilization and culture, with more advanced beings (perhaps human, perhaps not). A notion that defies the mainstream historical narrative. I no longer speculate that the yugas are real. The human race as it is now, is not the peak of progress. The ancients, had incredible knowledge including astronomical and cosmic knowledge.
photo : Osirion at Abydos Temple.
Megalithic temple structures are found beside and beneath the surface temples and pyramids.
They carry a different aesthetic, precision, pure materials, no decoration.
Seamless granite
granite jigsaw corners
pre-dynastic
hollow, pure stone (schist?)
pre-dynastic
pure stone
pre-dynastic
pure stone. the width of the vase’s shell is equal throughout
Back to BAlance . Karma . Ma-at
As awe invoking as ancient Egypt is it also carries this shadow; The dynastic Egyptian story chronicles the fall of a civilization and perhaps humanity into abuse of power, corrupt hierarchy, black magic, false prophets, trickery, manipulation, scattering and inversion. The energy field of modern Egypt (close to the current war in Gaza) is low and survival based.
When I contemplate the suffering in the world I often contemplate karma. I semi-grew up in a paradigm that believes that being born into a life of suffering is due to karmic debt. Perhaps it is so, but this is not only due to personal karma it includes collective karma as well. A notion I have struggled to grasp and have been confronted with in my therapy work. It lead me to seek out Anneke Lucas and the Unconditional Model, highlighting the ‘power pyramid’ paradigm we have today which enables those on the top of the pyramid to ‘offload’ their negative karma to those at the bottom. The power pyramid is prevalent in the Hindu caste system (this is rarely talked about in yoga circles), ancient and modern Egypt and many other scenarios but perhaps a topic to dive into in another Passage.
I say this because I do not want to mask reality and mislead with ‘pretty pictures of Egypt’. I believe that if there is a universal law of karma and balance, it is upheld through us and our own inner work, sense of responsibility and quest for knowledge.
Below are curated snippets of the Egyptian journey. (Without the hustle, hassle, poverty, pollution.) I hope they enable a transmission of experience.
Pieces
The first night we arrived. I gazed up at the sky and saw a shooting star flash between Orion and Sirius. I took it to be a fantastically good omen. 🙂
Luxor
The tombs were full of love for the life of who they belonged to. The rocky hills nestling the valley were powerful. That is why they chose the location.
See beyond the structures.
Valley of the Queens
Mother Sky and Father Earth, Nut and Geb.
The literal translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is “Spells of Coming Forth by Day.”
‘Book of the Dead’ is a title given by a German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius because he saw the ‘story’ depicted in all the tombs. Could it be that the trials and gates are not only for the afterlife, but are rites that take place during life to dissolve the ego?
In preparation for death.
Valley of the Kings
A stargate
One of many we found in 4 different temples. All made of the same black granite.
The hieroglyphs on these stargates read ‘Star Gate’
Dawn light basking at Hatsheput Temple
Karnak Temple of life, built according to the Fibonacci spiral. A vast complex, to explore.
To the back of the Karnak compound I ‘discovered’ the goddess Seshat, daughter of Thoth, wisdom. Seshat is depicted with a 7 pointed palm leaf (star) over her head. She is the goddess of astronomy, astrology, writing, architecture, mathematics, surveying, accounting and sciences.
Her father Thoth, Hermes Trismegistus (thrice Great) famously wrote “As above, So below” the emerald tablet.
If I were to choose a patron goddess, it would be her
Dazed in the hall of the Hathors and the celestial ceiling.
Dendera Temple
The black square hiding the 13th decan, Ophiuchus.
The entire ceiling used to be black, covered in soot as people used to live and cook in the temples. The story is that they ‘forgot’ to clean this one square during the restorations. And so the 13th sign remains (symbolically) hidden.
A replica of another celestial ceiling. The original is at the Louvre, Paris. The French created a replica of the soot covered ceiling which can never be cleaned and sent it to Egypt.
Foundations of a ‘dream hospital’ . The roots of hypnotherapy, dream therapy, trance therapy.
Dendera
Sweet Sekhmet, the mama lioness goddess.
The proportions of Luxor Temple correspond to the human body. The body is a temple.
Abydos Temple, not so many tourists make it here. The energy is sublime.
Rayo showing me the way. The art at Abydos is exquisite, subtle and fine. There is a famous wall here (I filmed it, so no pics) That depicts the reigns of Egypt and states that the Neteru, beings that embodied divine energy were the first to rule over Egypt.
Water
Nile
As magical as the ruins of the ancient temples are
Real nature and her elements are more magical still
Sunset strolling at Habu Temple
Celestial Ceiling at Esna Temple.
The moon phases
The Sun is depicted by the Udjat, Eye of Horus.
The Egyptians developed the Solar calendar, that became the Julian calendar, that became today’s Gregorian calendar.
Beam me up vibes at Edfu Temple
The power went out
The hieroglyphs on the wall to the back of Edfu reference Atlantis.
I would travel to Egypt just for the Nubian good nature.
Aswan
“Keep your eyes open” he said.
“What can you see?”
At Karnak Temple they confiscated my analema wand (I use to structure water) and broke it without telling me.
In Nubia I was gifted this piece of silica, quartz glass. <3
Nubian village view
5 Elements
Home cooking
Spiced coffee along the Nile
We were the very first in the King’s Chamber and had it all to ourselves for a good 10-15 min. 🙂
HUGE granite slabs, seamlessly joined.
My travel companion measured the bovis energy, it was in the 110,000’s
Evidence I was there. The real entrance is sealed. You can see the pointed arch above me. We entered through the black hole to my upper right.
There’s a convincing theory that the Sphinx was originally an Anubis statue surrounded by a moat. I tend to agree that proportions of the body more resemble a hound than a lion.
A sarcophagus for a holy Hathor cow made of pure black polished granite and the best travel companion. A 1.85m tall, 7the generation dairy farmer highly in tune with earth, energy and animals. Serapeum
