Storm Constantine - Egyptian Birth Signs - The Secrets of the Ancient Egyptian Horoscope

For example, between the dates of 28 September and 27 October, the presiding deity is Horus. During this time, you can perform the Horus working to call upon his help, no matter what sign you are yourself. The deities have particular ‘specialities’, which sometimes might be of significance to you, but it’s important to remember that all the gods and goddesses share the qualities of protection and helpfulness, and can be called upon whenever you need their strength.

To perform a working, look at the correspondences for the sign. If we use Thoth as an example again, make sure you have the appropriate stone, flower, herb, etc. you need and construct a small altar by arranging these items around a central orange candle (Thoth’s colour). Coffee tables make particularly good altars! The Ancient Eygptians made offerings to their deities of food they believed the gods particularly liked. In keeping with this idea, place a relevant offering of food (in this case, a segmented orange), arranged in a small dish or bowl on your altar. The gods were also supposed to be extremely fond of perfume, so you should burn a scented oil, incense or joss stick of the pertinent flavour. Bark, leaves, fruit or flowers of Thoth’s personal tree can also be included in your altar arrangement. If you’re unable to gather all these items, don’t worry, just use as many as you can. Choose an incense flavour closest to the one given in the correspondences. Correspondences were very important to Ancient Egyptian priests. They believed that things of like colour or flavour shared the same magical properties, so you can use any orange flower if that’s all you can get.

You can add as many personal touches to the altar as you like, including a small statue of the deity (if you have one) or else a picture of him. (The hieroglyphic symbols for the gods that appear in each chapter can be used as templates, which you can copy.) You can use an altar cloth of the pertinent colour or place other items upon it that you feel are appropriate – for example, ornaments, feathers or stones of Thoth’s colour.

When you are ready, sit comfortably before your altar. Have some soft music playing in the background that seems right for the occasion. Breathe deeply and slowly for a minute or so with your eyes closed. This helps alter your state of consciousness, so you’re in the right, meditative frame of mind. Then, read out the prayer to Thoth. When you have finished, you can eat a segment of the orange, if you like. It is said that the gods can experience earthly pleasures through humans, so it’s like giving Thoth a taste of the fruit. Make an offering of what is left by casting it out over your garden, or some other patch of earth, for wild animals to consume.

The prayers for each sign have the same basic framework. I do not suggest they are word-for-word facsimiles of invocations used by Egyptian priests, but I have used known titles for the gods, and in some cases, literal Egyptian translations of some of those titles. In other cases, the use of an Egyptian-English dictionary provided the inspiration I needed. Basically, I took the information I had and expanded upon it, using my imagination. This is something you can do yourself too. If you want to, you can expand upon the given prayer to include particular things for which you would like help or inspiration. The most important aspect of doing work of this kind is the amount of your will and intention you put into it.

When you do a magical working, you are putting out your intentions into the universe, making a connection with the source of all, whether you believe that’s a mass of formless energy or a god or goddess. Gods are the masks worn by the universal life energy, so that we, as humans, can understand it and give it a face. Presented in this book are some of the more exotic faces of this energy, and I hope that in understanding a little of them so you will come to understand more about yourself.

Storm Constantine, 2001.

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