Workshop -
Embodying the
Symbols of Sekhmet
Are you ready to experience Sekhmet’s presence through the embodied practice of Her symbols?
In this workshop, we begin with history, learning how each symbol was understood in ancient Egypt. But the heart of the work is practice. Through guided meditation, you will travel into Her Lands, where the Goddess may place these symbols in your hands. They are not claimed, but received as Her gifts.
Once you have received them in meditation, you can carry them into daily life. Even when they are not visible in the physical plane, you can grasp your staff of power, use your ankh of life, awaken your cobra of creative energy, focus your Udjat eye, or open your Aten connection, and feel their force flow through you. These are not abstract ideas; they are embodied tools that can steady you, strengthen you, guide you, and connect you with the Goddess in the midst of ordinary life.
𓇾 Tawy - Her Lands
We begin our practice by grounding into Her Lands. For the ancient Egyptians, the world was Tawy, “the Two Lands”: upper and lower, red desert and black soil, east of the living and west of the dead. Tawy was the place where chaos and ma’at were held in balance, and Sekhmet was its fierce protectress.
In practice, Her Lands are experienced as a place of comfort and safety for Her followers. In meditation, you are guided to enter this landscape as your foundation, a sanctuary you can return to whenever you need steadiness, protection, or a calm center in the midst of life.
𓌂 Sekhem – Staff of Power
In Her left hand, Sekhmet holds the Sekhem, the staff of power. In ancient Egypt, sekhem represented both divine authority and the vital force within every being.
To receive the staff is to be entrusted with a share of Her strength. You may grasp your sekhem:
To steady yourself when you feel shaken or uncertain.
To give weight and clarity to your words when you must speak truth.
To draw on a source of power that fuels your ritual, prayer, or creative work so that it carries real force.
To ground into Her Lands, rooting yourself in Sekhmet’s vast reservoir of strength.
The sekhem is an embodied gift. When you use it, you allow Sekhmet’s power to flow through you, supporting your actions with force and presence.
𓋹 Ankh – Key of Life
In Her right hand, Sekhmet holds the Ankh, the key of life. For the ancients, it conveyed the breath of life and the power to vivify. Pharaohs received it at their noses to ensure eternal existence; priestesses used it in blessings of “life, prosperity, stability, joy of heart.”
To receive the ankh is to be renewed. You can use your ankh:
To vivify and enliven your body and spirit.
To purify and restore balance.
To bring courage to your heart before a difficult choice.
To rejuvenate and restore, bathing yourself in the fluid of life.
To illuminate within, from the tips of your toes to the crown of your head, burning away what does not serve.
To shine that illumination outward, sharing vitality with the world.
The ankh is an embodied gift. When you use your ankh, you allow Sekhmet’s life‑force to flow through you - enlivening, renewing, and illuminating.
𓆓 Iaret – Cobra, Channel of Creative Energy
The Iaret, the rearing cobra, takes its name from iar - “to ascend.” Iaret is the feminine form, and the cobra rises from the sex along the spine, undulating upward with life‑force.
The Iaret is the source of creation and creativity. It is where life begins, where the seeds of inspiration come from. It is the impetus for sex magic, making offering of our sex a way to honor the Goddess who delights in pleasure.
You can use your cobra:
To feel sexual energy rise as vitality and joy.
To reclaim your sexual power and pleasure, letting pleasure return to places that have felt excluded or forgotten.
To spark imagination and bring new creations into being.
To offer your sexual energy as devotion, transforming desire into sacred gift.
The cobra is an embodied gift. When you use your Iaret, you allow Sekhmet’s creative fire to rise within you - ascending from the energized sex, transforming pleasure into creation, and creation into offering.
𓂀 Udjat – Third Eye
Sekhmet is the Udjat, the third eye of Ra and of Heru. As the right Eye of Ra, the Udjat looks outward to reveal what is hidden in darkness or lost in chaos, with the heightened awareness of a lioness patrolling her lands. As the left Eye of Heru, it looks inward, offering the self‑awareness that helps you recognize what is needed to live in greater balance and wholeness.
You can use your Udjat:
To sense what lies beneath the surface, sharpening your outward awareness.
To guide renewal by seeing into your own body with clarity.
To illuminate your inner truth, helping you recognize what supports your integration and growth.
To experience ma’a: the sacred act of beholding the Goddess.
The Udjat is an embodied gift. When you use your Udjat, you allow Sekhmet to expand your vision - outward to what is hidden, inward to what is true, and toward the self‑knowledge that supports wholeness.
☉ Aten – Solar Disk
Above Her head blazes the Aten, the solar disk. For the ancients, it was the fiery sun, but also a universal connector - a portal of divine essence. Hymns praise the Aten for illuminating and animating creation, casting rays that end in ankhs to bestow vitality.
To receive the Aten is to open a channel of connection. You can use your Aten:
To feel the Goddess’s radiance flow into you as comfort and care.
To release burdens upward, letting them be absorbed into the vastness.
To offer Her access to your senses, so She may share in your experience.
To send your energy upward - through dance, prayer, or orgasm - as offering.
The Aten is an embodied gift. When you use your Aten, you allow Sekhmet’s presence to surround you, connecting you with the divine and opening the possibility of union.
Invitation
Together, these symbols form an embodied system of relationship with Sekhmet: grounding in Her Lands, receiving power through the Sekhem, life‑force through the Ankh, creative energy through the Iaret, vision through the Udjat, and divine connection through the Aten.
We have come to know these symbols not as abstractions, but as embodied companions that steady, enliven, awaken, and connect us in daily life.
✨ If you are drawn to this path, this workshop is an open doorway. We invite you to come and explore with us what these gifts of the Goddess may awaken in you.
Sekhmet - Pleasure Is Our Prayer, the Body Is Our Altar.