Goddess Festival: The Osirian Mysteries & Lamentations of Isis

To Dea Matrona: Modron, Cerridwen, Danu, 

To all my Deae Matres, my Great Mothers, I Sing Your Praises! I Give Thanks!

In Lamentation and Gratitude for the Loss and Gifts of our Beloveds

I join with Isis and Sing:

To all my Mothers -Dea Matrona - and Lineage of Mothers

I Sing Your Praises! I Give Thanks!

To Dea Matrona Modron, Cerridwen, Danu, 

To all my Deae Matres,

I Sing Your Praises!

I Give Thanks!

The Triple Spiral turns

From Maiden to Mother to Crone

From being birthed to giving birth 

I call to all my mothers

To Dea Matrona Modron, Cerridwen, and Danu, 

My Mother Goddesses of Britain and Ireland,

To all my Deae Matres, my Great Mothers

Who have birthed me

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!  

I, Deborah Mary, mother, musician, teacher, writer, healer, seer, call to my mothers.

To Audrey Elizabeth, my mother, university graduate and artist, teacher, musician, gardener, church community member, wife to a botanist, and writer.

To Elizabeth Joan, mother of Audrey, university graduate and teacher of home science, herbalist, gardener, church community member, wife to a wool merchant and musician.

To Eleanor Elizabeth, mother of Elizabeth, university graduate of science and arts and teacher, national advocate for women as wife to a parliamentarian.

To Elizabeth, mother of Eleanor, born in England and first pilgrim to Christchurch, New Zealand, on the ship Sir George Seymour, in 1850, wife of John, cathedral organist from Cambridge England, also first pilgrim to Christchurch, New Zealand, 1850.

To the continuing lineage of mothers who birthed my mothers, my Deae Matres, 

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!

I sing your praises and give thanks 

For your gifts of life, love, protection, nurturing, healing, and sustenance

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your teachings of beauty, painting, craft making, silverware, embroidery, of music, study, writing, and teaching

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your teachings and lived examples of compassion, kindness, justice, equality, and freedom

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your art of marriage, homemaking, and of mothering

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your gifts of courage, strength, independence, truth, and resilience.

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your resourcefulness and sense of community

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your love of the land, of nature, gardening, cooking, and of our earth

I sing your praises and give thanks. 

For your love and connection to Spirit, to inspiration and to honouring each person’s unique Soul and Calling.

To all my Deae Matres

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!

To all my Deae Matres

For all your hard-won sacrifices in manifesting your gifts of wisdom, virtues, talents, and skills

As you travelled through the Triple Spiral of Maiden, Mother, Crone

Of Birth, Death, and Re-birth

I now walk in your footsteps

I surrender to the turning of The Triple Spiral

I dedicate myself to its gifts and lessons in my transition 

From Maiden to Mother and soon to be Crone.

I look back to you, my Deae Matres,

For inspiration, courage, strength, resilience, wisdom, love, compassion, and joy.

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!

I surrender all my sacrifices as woman and mother 

Through my manifestations of life and death 

As the Triple Spiral turns.

I call back the lost and forsaken soul parts of myself

Given up in my sacrifices and gifts as mother

To marriage, to birthing my three sons, and to homemaking

For manifesting my gifts of music, teaching, counselling, healing, writing and seership

For lessons learned, strengths and wisdom gained, beauty and love known 

Through the sacrifice and deaths through illness of my body, my music career, my marriage and family life, my home, and communities.

I honour the sacrifices and gifts of all my Deae Matres.

I return to my ancestral lands of Britain and Ireland 

Through my matriarchal lineage

Through Invocation and Shamanic Journeying

And through the Divine Portal of the Heart.

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!

As I thank my Deae Matres, 

I also thank Mother Earth, Gaia

For your beauty, fecundity, sustenance, and nurturing. 

I pick up my drum and drum to you Oh Gaia!

I sing your praises!

I give thanks!

To your trees, plants, stone people, waters, sky, earth, and fires

To your animals, two-legged, four-legged, finned, winged, and furred.

I sing a song for all our souls to be carried home

To the souls of all our ancestors and of all our lands.

I ask to carry the inspiration of air and the breath of Life 

The purification and healing of water 

The firmness, foundation, and sustenance of earth 

And the light, clarity, and compassion of fire in our hearts.

I call for Healing, Guidance, and Re-Empowerment 

Reaching back into the past 

Standing strong in the present 

And being inspired for the future 

Through our matriarchal lines and our gifts of mothering. 

To all my Deae Matres

And to you Oh Gaia!

I sing your praises!

I give thanks! 

Blessed Be!

NB: Modron and Cerridwen are the Welsh and Gaelic Mother Goddesses I have chosen as the Goddess of my British ancestry, and Danu as the Irish Mother Goddess of my Irish ancestry being my mother’s, mother’s father’s place of birth and ancestral home.

Goddess Festival: November 12th

The Osirian Mysteries & Lamentations of Isis

This Festival is one of a series to Grieve, Honour, and Give Thanks in remembrance of Isis and her husband Osiris who was murdered by his brother Set.

It has many different stories interwoven over the longest Festival and leading into The Festival of The Black Cow and the Feast of Isis on December 21st which pre-empts our Christmas rituals and stories. These two Festivals have the most influence of all the Egyptian stories on other culures and religious practices and beliefs.

Although Isis is mourning the loss of Her husband, I chose to write on the matriarchal line and honour my mother and her mothers as my response.

Yes, I have lost my husband through divorce, and my father through death.

But for me, engaging with the Goddess, The Divine Feminine, The Great Mother - this is what spoke to me and particularly remembering Isis as The Great Mother.

The Feast of Isis and The Black Cow which follows the Lamentations are about Isis becoming The Great Mother after her period of mourning and loss.

For Your Reflections

Normandi Ellis suggests themes associated with loss, death, murder, anger, grief in particular.

To work with these themes you may wish to:

1. Retreat

2. Commune with the Dead

3. Reflect on Sacrifice and Wisdom gained

4. Karma and investigating Past Lives

5. Create a Ceremony, Ritual, and Eulogy for someone you have lost and grieve

6. Look for lost things or things you wish to restore, heal, find

7. Celebrate as I did in memory and gratitude for your life and your ancestors.

   
   

One Ritual we have performed at Abaydos in the Temple of King Seti 1 (13thC - BCE) is to stand under the "Honour Board" called "The Kings List" of 76 Kings of Egypt each with their names written in heiroglyphics as a Cartouche. We then each utter the name of one of our ancestors whom we give thanks for their gifts to us in this life.

This piece above is my Houring and Gratitude.