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God(s) of the Month: Wadjet
Say heru em meses nefer (Happy birthday!) to: no birthdays today
"Cairo Calendar" Entry:
Are you still feeding your Ka?
A day of celebration is followed by a day of rest. We continue to honor our ancestors in the Beautiful Feast of the Valley, soon to close, and prepare for additional festivals later in the week.
As we enter the second to last month of our Kemetic year it is appropriate to think about what we've done. This year according to our annual divination belonged to the god Geb; a year of foundations and beginnings, of clearing out the things that are unnecessary and returning to the strong building points of creativity. What have you changed this year? What things have you done in your life that provide a stronger foundation for you and the year to come?
Give a special offering to Geb in these days, as His year passes, that His blessing of strength and solid ground will stay with you as the Opening of the Year commences with new gods and spirits in its wake.
Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Dua Ra! Nekhtet!
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God(s) of the Month: Wadjet
Say heru em meses nefer (Happy birthday!) to: W'ab Herupaneb in California and Shemsut Setjataset in Australia (May 29); Shemsut Rekyheriheru in Florida (May 30); Shemsut Mekhatsenyt in Illinois (June 1); W'abet Bashabi in Kansas (Sunday June 4).
"Cairo Calendar" Entry:
Are you still feeding your Ka?
I don't normally comment on political matters in my official letters, as I live in a country where a separation of church and state is observed, a separation I believe in and respect.
Today, however, I am breaking my silence.
In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." And this matters. For those of my people who are not part of the United States political entity as citizens, I beg your indulgence to speak to my fellow countrymen for one day. Next devotion we'll return to our regularly-scheduled emphasis on Kemet.
This morning I heard the official weekly radio address by our President, discussing his support for and intent to pass a Constitutional Amendment that would define marriage as "between one man and one woman," thus legally barring homosexuals from the legal benefits of marriage in our country. Toward the end of his address, he said:
"As this debate goes forward, we must remember that every American deserves to be treated with tolerance, respect, and dignity."
Evidently being treated equally is not part of that tolerance, respect and dignity in his mind.
The "Marriage Protection Amendment" is unnecessary. The framers of our Constitution were very careful never to include social agendas in the document, realizing and understanding that the country was large and changing and that such issues are not to be defined by lawmakers but by individuals in a so-called democracy.
Furthermore, this proposed Amendment is discrimination, pure and simple, and thus those who honor Ma'at must find it wrong to discriminate in any way, for any reason, by anyone, anywhere.
Would we be in favor of such an amendment if the document said not "only one man and one woman" but "only two people of the same race" or "only those who will have children" or "only two Christians"?
Why is it acceptable to this Administration to ignore the very real problems we are dealing with in favor of divisive, unnecessary legislation designed to placate a very small base of very loud bigots who keep them in power?
I ask all those who honor Ma'at and who live in our country to look very carefully at the events of the next few days and contact your Senators. The people who make our laws need to know that legal discrimination is wrong, no matter who it is legislated against. We need to stop sitting around complaining and start doing something before discrimination is written into the very foundations of our legal system. This does not have to stand, if those who refuse to remain silent allow themselves to be heard.
I am proud to be part of a religion that does not believe marriage is a matter of law but a matter of personal conscience. I have been honored to marry people of the same gender, and I will continue to do so in the future regardless of its legal status. I pray to all the gods and goddesses that our countrymen will see past the hype and read this document for what it really is, and stop it cold before it becomes official that our country considers everyone equal -- except those groups the government doesn't like.
Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Dua Wadjet! Dua Heru! Dua Iatut-Heru! Dua Min! Dua Khnum-Ra! Dua Taweret! Nekhtet!
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