Sisters of the Burning Branch Goddess Gallery Presents...

The Goddess Selket

Level 2 final project

 
By Onyx Moon

Selket, the Egyptian Scorpion Goddess, Guardian of the Dead, Goddess of Magic, she is also with women during childbirth.
She is a healer of venom bites; she’s a bit complicated in the best sense.  She is also best known for the Curse on those that entered King Tut’s pyramid.
It was her magic, her guardianship of the sacred canopic jars that allowed King Tut’s grave to be secluded for so long and then cursed those that violated his tomb.
She is also the daughter of Ra by Rait, probably. (Farrar)

In Grandmother Moon, you call to her when a change is needed, or when you are ready to leave this world for peace.  (Budapest)
She grants a peaceful death, a time of rest and recuperation from the pain and suffering from life. She provides the missing love from life in death. 
There is no time limit to how long you stay with her. 

Rest a while, this is a time of healing; gain back your strength, your self esteem, your self-Love. It is you who decide when to go back.
When you do decide to go back, she will open the way; erase your memory of her till you both meet again. (Budapest) This is another association of Selket, childbirth.
(McDevitt)

The challenge though, is facing her. She is death, her “pet is the scorpion.” (Budapest)  She is fearsome because of her reputation with the scorpions
and how she used her magic to curse those who desecrated King Tut’s resting place.

By S. Rehema

 What is needed is courage. The courage to ask for a change and to accept that change. 

 Ritual to Selket

by OnyxMoon

Lots of Sage

Candles to circle around your altar, (gold, silver or white in color)

Write down what needs to be changed in your life

Mini toy scorpions (optional)

Cast your Circle

Call the Quarters

Light all the candles

Let the Sage smoke up the area

Invoke Selket

             “Selket, Goddess or Scorpions and Magic,

I invoke thee with

courage and truth

            I seek a change, a rebirth

            Things are just too crazy!

            What is it that I need do?

            What do I do, to get on a path

that is clear and

            True?”

 
After invoking Her, speak to Her. Read to Her what you wrote. Let out your stresses to Her. She will take them.

Visualize the candle lit room growing brighter and warmer. This is Selket presences’. She does hear and acknowledges you. Feel Her loving warm embrace.
She is with you. Give her a gift so she’ll know your sincere.

 When She leaves you, it is done. Hopefully the feeling you have is a weight lifted off your shoulders and a grounding strength and peace to move forward.

 Close your circle

Embrace the courage that you faced Selket in a loving, living way. Now carry your paper of change with you to remind yourself that change is possible.
 That Selket is with you, helping you along the way. 

 Works Cited:

Budapest, Zsuzsanna E. Grandmother Moon, Lunar Magic in our Lives. 1st Edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.

Farrar, Janet and Stewart. The Witches' Goddess. Blaine: Phoenix Publishing, INC, 1987.

McDevitt, April. Egyptian Myths. 5 March 2008. 23 12 2009 <http://www.egyptianmyths.net/selket.htm#up>.