Happy birthday to Heru-wer and new priesthood!

Today was the second of the Five Days Upon the Year, the days dedicated to the birthdays of gods. This one was for Heru-wer, the Greatly-Speckled Hawk Whose Eyes are the Sun and the Moon. As one of my personal gods Heru-wer gets great attention in my household and today was no exception: for His birthday I presented him with a bottle of Glenrothes Scotch that I had been saving for the occasion, and then I went and trained priests for our priesthood at the beginning of our Wep Ronpet retreat.

This morning we witnessed the vows and training of two new W'ab priests, or purity technicians, the priesthood that cares for altars and implements and makes sure that liturgies are ready to be held. A huge congrats to Hatyt'ahethert and Yinepuwaret. I'm proud of both of them and think they're going to do an extraordinary job. (And what a birthday present to yourself, Waret! More work! *grins*)

In the afternoon after we finished with the basic training we completed some advanced training. Nine priests total were recognized as Heri-sesheta, or those who are "over the secrets" of their particular god(s). These priests include Djehutymenekh, Shefytbast, Tuwerherbastmut, Qaitsenu, Kai-Imakhu Meresinepu, Wenemaset, Imakhu Asetmekti, Imakhu Senyt-menu (Senut) and Kai-Imakhu Neferu. I could not be prouder of this crowd. Each made an exemplary presentation to earn their right to bear the secrets proudly in their personal work.

Very, very soon we'll be entering the day of Set and the first open public day of our Wep Ronpet retreat here in Joliet. As is almost prophetically usual on His birthday, it's starting to rain and the storm clouds are coming in from the West. I'll try to check in as soon as I can with more news including the news you've all been waiting for on the God(s) of Year 17.

Love to you all. May you continue to have a good Intercalary season!

Nine Shemsu Named!

Em hotep!

This evening we were delighted to be able to name nine Shemsu as our final group ceremony for Year 16.

Nekhtet! for Pa-isu-Itu, Hedebbast, Ma'atiuwepwawet, Emtehiserqet, Khenteshibemsekhmet, Tawaisenu, Tahekerutaset, Darytessekhmet and Khumekitu!

It was wonderful to have 50 people watching the nine get named, along with family guests.

We are getting ever closer to the Kemetic New Year. Are you ready?

New Year's Resolutions

There's another new podcast, this one by Rev. Craig and all about New Year's Resolutions.

I'm going to take his advice and set myself a reasonable goal: one blog post a week. Since this is "Kemet Today," it should really be once a day, but I've also realized that right now I'm not always able to keep such a goal. So once a week means that at bare minimum I will make "today" true 1/7th of the time.

Okay, so I'm not being very adventuresome with this. But I have to start somewhere!

What'll you be resolving to do this Kemetic year?