Isis and Osiris in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos

Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Her name literally means Queen of the Throne. Isis is the feminine archetype for creation; she is the goddess of fertility and motherhood, described as “she who gives birth to heaven and earth, knows the orphan, knows the widow, seeks justice for the poor, and shelter for the weak”. Isis has gone by many names such as Demeter, Astarte, and Aphrodite and is said to have played many roles in history and mythology as goddess and female creator during the period between around 3100 BC until sometime during the 6^th Century AD.

She was worshipped as the ideal mother, wife, the matron of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, who also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers. Isis worship was concerned with the acquisition of knowledge since knowledge could only be attained from the gifts of the gods.

The Myth of Osiris and Isis

The Temple of Isis

The Egyptian Emotional Clearing Technique is founded in an ancient aromatic ritual described on the walls of the Temple of Isis in Egypt. The modality uses Young Living 100% pure therapeutic grade essential oils produced by founder of Young Living D Gary Young, a Dr of Naturopathy. Whilst studying and living in Egypt Gary Young was privileged to be invited to visit the Temple of Isis. This Temple is generally locked and closed to visitors.

During his visit in the locked temple Dr Young observed glyphs describing the process for “cleansing the flesh and blood”. It was an initiation, rite of passage, over a period of three days and nights for pharaohs, high priests and priestesses and those in high office in preparation for transition to the next phase or the afterlife. It involved

“This wasn’t some kind of esoteric religious ceremony but rather a three-day ritual to cleanse the body of mental and emotional illnesses which they regarded as evil deities. The process used by the Egyptians involved the use of essential oils. These were applied to the person, with two other people being present to support the individual.” Stone tubs on the roof of the Temple were filled with water and essential oils where the person receiving the ritual would be submerged at the commencement and at the end of the ritual, and over the course of the three days the person would lie on a stone table to be anointed with a combination of essential oils. ” The ancient Egyptians believed that if they didn’t clear the body and mind of negative influences (negative emotions) they could not progress into the next life” (Wellbeing Magazine )

For the Egyptians life continued after death –  death was only a temporary interruption or pause to life and preparation for the afterlife became a lifelong priority. To ensure that the dead had a comfortable afterlife, various funerary practices, procedures and rituals were carried out, such as mummification and reverence to the gods. As part of their sacred rituals they would perform a cleansing ritual to release these negative emotions to ensure a smooth transition through the underworld to the paradise that was the afterlife (for more visit The Australian Museum)

Gary Young recalled “While visiting the Temple of Isis on the Isle of Philae, I found on the walls the hieroglyphics of the three-day ritual they called ‘the cleansing of the flesh and the blood.’ This ritual depicted the use of essential oils for the release of emotional trauma. With the help of the Egyptologists at Cairo University, we worked to translate and learn about the oils. I have done much research to determine how these oils were used…”   – D. Gary Young, N.D.

The glyphs translated at the Museum of Cairo inspired Gary Young to create the deeply nurturing Egyptian Emotional Clearing Technique for the modern world, bringing a new and profound way of transforming emotions. (Fortunately in the modern world we perform the treatment on a comfortable deeply cushioned massage table in one day.)

Under the Grand Portico in the Temple of Isis (David Roberts 1838)

This post by Jenny Schiltz discusses how we can change our perception of how life is and how it should be and in so doing, change our life. It’s a channelled message from the Ascended Master Quan Yin and provides some insight into how many of us are feeling at the moment.

For example, looking around you and judging others, perhaps envying others what they have without realising that the very reason we judge that person is that we secretly want what they have, whether it be the freedom to express themselves in the way they want, to have unconditional love and support, to be able to feel deeply and show it without fear of recrimination. It’s something that’s been surfacing recently in my client work and I have even noticed it in some ways myself and I ask why. Whatever is bringing up feelings for you at the moment, take a moment to analyse what is really going on and ask yourself “Why am I judging?”, “Why am I limiting myself?”, “Why can’t I have what they have?” Because the answer is you can – when you can your perception, when you raise your energy and your expectations to the level of positive anticipation. But be prepared for change when you do this – and it might be fast in the current “quickening energy”. There’s an air of urgency in what we do now, a subtle push from within to live as our authentic self and to fulfil our mission here on earth.

Check out this message, it’s very insightful, and then take a moment to think about it in terms of your own life. Reclaim Your Sovereignty

This is our chance, our time to review our lives to this point and to decide if we want to continue as is or to make changes.

My partner and I opened a Gallery a few months ago. We opened it with the intention of having work/life balance, enjoying our life in the new town whilst making a reasonable income to support us and a part-time employee, and allowing me time for my client work and my partner time to create the handcrafted timber pieces for the Gallery – each of us is passionate about what we do and we received very positive feedback from many visitors to the Gallery.

However recently we reviewed our progress to date and realised that we in fact did not have work/life balance, we weren’t particularly enjoying our life and were feeling pressured to do the things we love to do instead of enjoying our work – my time to concentrate on my work was suffering too – and whilst we love our new town and the community in which we live we found ourselves struggling to have the time to put into our relationships with the people in our neighbourhood and with those closest to us. So following that review we decided to close the Gallery which will happen in the next few days.

And guess what, so many new doors are opening for us since we made the decision to close the Gallery! We will have a choice of outlets for his goods, the support of the business community around us has been wonderful and so as one door closes another opens. We are looking forward to quality time to enjoy working in our passions and to spend with the special people in our lives, including each other.

This post by Jenny Schiltz from her Channelling the Masters Channelling the Masters website is very timely as it helps to explain very clearly and succinctly what many of us are experiencing right now. Are  you struggling to stay balanced? Feel like old issues are coming up again? Or do you feel like you need to be of service? Do you need to make changes in your life?

Jenny explains “Emotionally, many are experiencing what feels like a life review. Things are coming up within our memories and even in the physical so that we can reconcile and release the past. It feels very much like we are all making the choice of do I want to continue as I have always done or do I want to release and walk into the new. Some are even finding that people from their past are contacting them again or that another person who holds the same type of energy as a person in the past have come forward. For instance, you may encounter someone who has the energy of a past romantic partner so that you can decide if you want this energy in your life going forward.  When you see it this way, the patterning that we hold becomes clearer and it allows us to see how much we have changed in this process.

What I am also seeing is the resurgence of our stuff. Things we thought we had under control. Things we thought had changed or that we had overcome.”