Goddess Festival: Blessing of The Fleets by Isis

Goddess Festival

Blessing of The Fleets by the Goddess Isis

March 5th

Inspired from my time at Alexandria 2^nd-3^rd November 2023.

Much of this was as I experienced it spontaneously while swimming at Alexandria, without knowing the full details of

The Festival for The Blessings of The Fleets at the time.

I was called to go to Alexandria and still feel a pull to return,

And especially to travel across the Mediterranean to deepen the connections with the seafaring nations and cultures that I touched into

standing on the sands and entering Her waters.

My eyes look far out to sea, searching for things

intimated and awoken at Alexandria last November.

Remembering Alexandria

Debbie Irvine

I stand on the sands of Alexandria at the edge of the Mediterranean,

Mixing with the sacred waters of the Nile

As She flows out to Her freedom,

Released from the bondage of mountains and riverbanks.

The Lotus Flower of Nile Delta Streams

Carry flotillas filled with fragrant spices and perfumes,

Exotic food, animals, papyrus,

Marble, granite, building materials,

Weapons and men of war,

Women of beauty, love, and children,

And the Gods and Goddesses

In Their Blessings and Good Fortune

For all who sail the sacred seas.

I enter the waters at Alexandria and swim,

Merging with the waves

As the swell carries me deep back through time.

I offer prayers for all those lost at sea.

I encounter many men, women and children

From eras known and unknown to me

Spirits floating amongst the debris

Of lost cities, ships, anchors, swords,

Statues, columns, coins, lamps, and ankhs.

I offer prayers to the Souls of the Departed

To their lost hopes and dreams

And to the patronage of Alexander, Cleopatra, Caesar, and Anthony.

To Isis and Osiris

Who cycle between the waters of the Nile and the ocean at Byblos,

Seeking each other and guardianship

Of all who sail the sacred waters of the Nile

And defend Kemet’s sacred lands.

Isis blesses all who sail,

Knowing the risks and magic

Of adventure, love, loss, and death.

For Isis knows the daily cycle as night follows day;

Ra travels the sky in his Solar Mandjet Barque by day

And in his Mesektet Barque across the akhet at sunset

To the subterranean Nile and twelve gates of the Duat

Through the hours of the night

To rise again at sunrise and be reborn.

I swim in the waters of Alexandria,

And remember my own paternal forefathers:

Sea captains who sailed their ships across the seas

From Northern Hemisphere to Southern and return.

I give thanks for their compasses and guiding Lights,

Inner and Outer,

Their courage and their strength.

I too am reborn,

As I return to this sacred land of Kemet here at Alexandria

And sing praises to my ancestors’ spirits,

Who join with all the seafarers from the past,

And with the Gods and Goddesses

Who carry me across the seas of my Life,

Joining all together, Past and Future,

As I pay homage to

The Blessings of the Fleets.

Ra’s Boat at Isis Temple, Philae