{"id":209,"date":"2011-11-02T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:57:40","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/magic\/giving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"giving thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been praying to Serqet for protection against poison, and healing from old poisons, since we got to Texas and I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tybarbary\/6013812798\/in\/set-72157625895692321\">this necklace<\/a> as a focal point\/talisman. I have never felt Her presence, but I have continued to thank Her for Her help. I&#8217;ve had a handful of not-so-random dreams with Her touch on them, so I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m praying into silence.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, a situation was defused that had the potential to be particularly venomous. (That&#8217;d be why you saw my thank-you prayer yesterday.) Because of the enormity of what could have been and wasn&#8217;t, I wanted to give Her offerings&#8211; and, for the first time, I felt Her choose what She wanted among the options I laid out.<\/p>\n<p>I lit a candle and incense at shrine, knelt, and presented the drink and food that She wanted. I thanked Her again and again. And, to my surprise, I felt Her presence as She consumed the offerings, and when She was done, I reverted them gratefully.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to have strong color associations with Netjeru, to the point where the color I&#8217;m picking up indicates Who&#8217;s around, to the point where I can distinguish even similar shades, like Wesret-orange and Ma&#8217;ahes-orange. I would have expect Serqet to be the yellow of the deathstalker scorpion, but She wasn&#8217;t&#8211; Hers was more of an old, dusty amber color. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve gotten enough of a sense of Her to perceive any color at all, and I&#8217;m honored that She stepped in and accepted Her offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Dua Serqet for all Her help, past, present, and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been praying to Serqet for protection against poison, and healing from old poisons, since we got to Texas and I made this necklace as a focal point\/talisman. I have never felt Her presence, but I have continued to thank Her for Her help. I&#8217;ve had a handful of not-so-random dreams with Her touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}