Annual Journal Retrospective (Night of the Mothers)

                                                          TWO EVENTS

                                               Online December 28, 2024  

                                                                  AND  

                                                In Person January 4, 2025

                 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM  ($60)             10:00 AM - 5:00 PM ($80)

                                                   ALL TIMES EASTERN

 For over 25 years this annual journal retrospective has drawn together young and elder writers to spend a long winter day contemplating the shape of our lives through the passing or recently past year. We share poetry, write and read our work together. We cry and laugh (In person, we hug and feast, too) as we celebrate our year's adventures, our successes and failures, our dreams, our losses, and our surprises. Get your journal ready. 

To preregister and prepay through Paypal, contact Normandi before December 26. Details on time and place, as well as payment information and Zoom to follow.

THE ACADEMY OF ORACLE ART

On MONDAYS, January 7, 14, and 21, 2025

5:00 - 7:30 PM Pacific Time / 8:00 -10:30 PM Eastern Time

Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is made of signs and symbols working together. In every part of this course, we will examine the mindset behind these ancient texts and begin to write our own Books of the Dead, the book of your heart. 

The scribes of ancient Egypt were masters of hieroglyphic thinking, which gave them the power to create worlds through their words. And like scribes we can give our dreams form and recognize our life's purpose.

In this upcoming course, we will learn how to think and write like a scribe as we craft our own Books of the Dead and connect more deeply with our own spiritual contract.

 The true name of what we call The Egyptian Book of the Dead was known to the Egyptians as The Book of Coming into Light. The manuscript reveals how we are living vehicles for the consciousness of the universe. Whether existing on the physical plane or in the astral afterlife, we are a language of light, adhering to light codes embedded in our atoms, molecules, and DNA.  This is why understanding the contents of the Book of Coming into Light is important now, rather than trying to navigate the afterlife without this knowledge.

In this course, we’ll learn about these ancient prayers and texts and be guided in meditations to connect with our own prayers and Neteru (divine principles of creation in the form of plants, deities, animals, etc) that make up the pantheon for our own Book of Coming into Light (Book of the Dead).

The scribes who created the hundreds of books of the afterlife chapter by chapter, who inscribed the coffins and tomb walls, who worked the inscriptions of golden shrine boxes, considered themselves the most blessed of Egyptians.  

"The scribe who knows these inscriptions is a thousand times blessed," the ancients used to say. Their knowledge of the Book of the Dead gave them insight into how to live their lives as beings of light, of choice, and of illuminated consciousness.  This is why we create our own books.