Connect To Goddess Power: Sekhmet

A special request for a special warrior goddess! This is a longer meditation upon the Egyptian Sun Goddess Sekhmet with whom we journeyed in the Goddess Within Course here on Insight Timer. If, like many, you were inspired by Sekhmet and her power. Here is another chance to journey with her light and healing fire.

This meditation is also a ritual and I invite you to light a candle and find a restful place for this meditation.

Transcript

Greetings friends and welcome.

In today's practice we'll journey with the beautiful Egyptian goddess Sekhmet.

Now Sekhmet has already featured in one of my meditations,

She's part of my course connecting to the goddess within.

She is such a popular goddess and she speaks to so many that I thought a longer meditation and a simple ritual would be really nice just to journey with her a little more.

And not least because she,

As well as being a beautiful solar goddess,

Is a goddess of fire and healing.

And that seems very appropriate as we seek to heal in stressful times.

And the meditation before you will involve some time to meet and connect with the goddess,

Some time for visualisation and ease for breath work and also some time of quiet just for your own chance to find and to visualise and to journey in your own way.

I also wanted to bring just a little element of ritual into our practice today as a way to mark this time as sacred and special to us.

So I want to invite you to get a candle and something to light it with.

If that's not convenient then feel free just to envisage a candle flame in your mind's eye.

There is no right or wrong way to do this.

We might just light the candle and place it somewhere safe and sensible.

And during our meditation you might want to be seated so you can gaze upon the candle.

Or you might be happy to lay down and you might either watch the flickering light of the candle flame on the walls and the ceiling or just close your eyes and just have a sense of that warmth of the flame behind your eyes.

And I invite you now to light your candle and to find your restful place for meditation.

As we allow ourselves to settle and relax,

Beginning to let the noise and busyness of the day fall away.

And a sense that this candle flame is from this small flame surrounding us with light and warmth.

A healing circle of light surrounds us.

We'll just take our time to envisage that circle surrounding us,

Protecting us,

Guiding us.

A safe space of calm and peace.

A place where we can allow ourselves to relax.

To allow the body to soften.

To be supported by the earth beneath you.

Allowing held tensions within the body,

Muscles,

Joints and bones.

To relax now as we consciously release those areas we can hold tension within.

You might consciously relax the legs,

The knees,

The feet,

Soft and calm.

Relaxing the arms and elbows all the way to the tips of your fingers.

Relaxed and easeful.

Letting a wave of calm radiate through your centre,

Through hips,

Tummy,

Heart and chest.

And shining up through neck and jaw all the way to the very top of your head.

And when we come to the head perhaps any busy thoughts,

Any schedules or to-do lists,

We'll just let them drift away as well.

As we allow ourselves this time to journey towards peace,

A little step or two towards peace.

You You You You You You Sekhmet is a powerful goddess of sun of light and of healing And there is a beautiful story that suggests that Whenever Sekhmet breathes out She breathes fire this light and Warmth that covers the areas of Egypt to that great heat that brought warmth to the lands That was the breath of Sekhmet So as the light and warmth of our candle flame surround us gently We're just gonna take that very simple little breathing exercise.

We're gonna take a nice deep inhale through the nose We're gonna sigh and exhale through the mouth In the nose And Now through the nose and exhale through the mouth Allowing each exhale to be a release Breathing out of gentle fire just like the goddess Breathe out Into flames into light Letting go of that which you wish to let go of But also connection to this fire this candle this light As we are Sending our own Breath the fire out into the world and letting it surround us Blending mingling with that candle flame The light and the warmth and the flames go stronger around us a Healing fire This healing fire can be whatever comes to your mind So it might be the healing warmth of sands underneath you like the sand dunes of Egypt It might be a great golden Sun above you shining upon you It might be flickering flames or warm embers Bringing warmth,

But also this great power to burn away You You You allow yourself to be to bus To breathe in this light in this warm Life surrounded by this glowing light this warm this energy You you We create this healing light for ourselves the power is already there within us But perhaps as we invoke the power of light sunshine The energy of the warrior goddess Perhaps a vision of goddess segment joins you She might come to sit beside you or to watch over you You You may envisage her perhaps in her goddess form of The body of a woman and the head of a beautiful lioness She may be able to see you in her form Of the body of a woman and the head of a beautiful lioness Maybe you envisage her As someone who means something to you who represents that energy of fire and healing Maybe today That energy of the goddess Comes to you is simply a light a warmth like A beautiful sunshine and sunbeam shining upon you Surrounding you and holding you You You You This love Of the goddess that we may feel within Is also connected to Sekhmet's energy of the warrior of the light of the flames So when we think of this love for ourselves it might be in passive form in taking time for ourselves to rest and heal But it also might embody that warrior aspect of goddess Sekhmet in that we can be proactive In our self-care as well We may consciously say no to things that are draining us or are not right for us We may consciously and mindfully separate or burn ourselves We may intentionally separate or burn away things that are not serving us You You You So do not be afraid to embody that strength of this powerful goddess To take your steps forward In claiming what you need What you need for healing What you need in terms of time and rest and self-love And we're connecting to your true self your authentic self your own path And there may be elements within that that you're not sure about yet and that is okay as well We can claim our journey and our next steps Under that light of love of the goddess She's watching over us She's reminding us of the strength within ourselves to find our own path Our own path to wholeness and to healing And to healing And the candlelight is just a symbol of that of our our way being lit Of light and warmth to guide our way upon our path upon our journey So So So So Let's take our time Time to bring our awareness back to the room and back to the day Take your time to take perhaps some deeper breaths or to stretch or move the body And really take your time if you are laying on the ground and you'd like to come to seated Just give yourself a little time to to rise without hurry without rush And now perhaps we may take the candle that has been burning bring it before us And with just a little thanks and gratitude to the goddess for this vision of light of healing fire We'll gently blow out the flame And just knowing that you can come back to this place you can come back to this flame The light of the goddess whenever you wish These simple rituals of connecting to the goddess within ourselves And that beautiful power of the goddess around us she is within the candle flames Within the sunlight within the warmth She is wherever we need her to be So whether we wish to connect to her via simple ritual or within meditation She is always there and that can be a comfort in itself So for now my darling ones I will send you thanks and blessings and love for joining me today I look forward to seeing you soon thank you and namaste you

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Wonderful 🌞 thank you 🙏🏻 I have a special relationship with Sekhmet, both of us dwelling in the land of the hot hot sun (I in Las Vegas, NV) we have a beautiful Sekhmet temple not far from here, where she has spoken to me. Blessings ✨🔥