The Sekhmet
Ritual Meditation
Experience the Ritual
Each month, our community gathers for a guided meditation in honor of Goddess Sekhmet. This practice awakens the body as a living temple, aligning breath, power, and spirit with the symbols of the Goddess.
On the altar, a statue of the Goddess is lit by candlelight and surrounded by traditional offerings of red beer, blue lotus petals, and burning incense.
Invocation of Her Names
The ritual begins with the chanting of Her many names, drawn from ancient temple inscriptions. One hundred names are spoken aloud, each carrying a facet of Her power. Participants are invited to notice which name stirs within them, and to carry that name as a companion through the meditation.
Sekhmet
Great One of Magic, Lady of the Place of the Beginning of Time, At Who’s Wish the Arts Were Born, Flaming One, Awakener, Lady of Enchantments, Opener of Ways, Enlightener, Empowerer, Overcomer of All Enemies, Great One Of Healing, Destroyer by Fire, Lady of the Waters of Life, Powerful of Heart, The Aware, Lady of Jubilation, Great One of Laws, Protectress of the Divine Order, The Beautiful Light, The One Before Whom Evil Trembles, Sekhmet Who Gives Joys, Beloved Teacher, …, Beloved Sekhmet.
Purification and Preparation
Before entering Her Lands, each person purifies themselves with water - touching third eye, heart, and sex - aligning breath, power, and spirit.
The chant Sa Sekhem Sahu rises:
Sa - Protection
Sekhem - Power
Sahu - Spirit
This simple rhythm opens the body to Her fire.
Inner Journey to Her Lands
We then travel together into Tawy - Her Lands. This is the Egypt of five thousand years ago. Lush green hills, slow rolling river, papyrus marshes, and desert cliffs. Each participant chooses their personal place to begin: resting in the grass, beneath a palm, floating on papyrus, or sheltered in a cave. These landscapes are not imagined but remembered, thresholds into the living presence of the Goddess.
Embodied Symbols
Sekhmet’s ancient statues are adorned with Her sacred symbols:
𓌂 Sekhem (staff of power) - power rising from Her lands.
𓋹 Ankh (key of life) - life‑force flowing through the heart.
𓆓 Iaret (cobra) - creative impetus undulating along the spine.
𓂀 Udjat (third eye) - vision without and within.
☉ Aten (solar disk) - a portal of connection to God, Goddess, the Universal.
Through visualization, movement, and chant, participants embody these symbols, opening the flow of energy through the body. The ritual unfolds in cycles: first locating each symbol within, then weaving them into a living pattern of power, life‑force, creative potential, vision, and divine connection. The meditation may be embodied individually, or in connection with a partner or partners.
A Taste of the Practice
“Feel the power of the Goddess rising from Her lands up through the sekhem staff and into your hand. Let the life‑force carried by the ankh key at your heart shine forth to ignite your sex. The iaret cobra undulates along your spine, carrying this awakened creative impetus upward. Your udjat third eye opens. And at the crown of your head, the aten solar disk shines as a portal of connection with God, Goddess, the Universal.”
Sacred Offering
In this ritual, arousal is honored as sacred devotion, and orgasm as offering to the Goddess. Together we remember that sexuality, transformation, and spirit are not separate, but one.
Closing Reflection
To enter this practice is to step into a lineage that stretches back thousands of years - a lineage of priestesses and seekers who knew that the body itself is a temple of the Goddess. Each meditation is both ancient and new, a living fire tended in community.
✨ We invite you to join with us in this circle. Step into Her Lands.
Join the next meditation and let Sekhmet’s fire awaken within you.
Sekhmet - Pleasure Is Our Prayer, the Body Is Our Altar.