The Little Jackal

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My life as a background Kemetic

My Kemetic name is Tjema'awy, my secular name is Isha, and my Shemsu name in the Kemetic Orthodox tradition is Tai'awepwawet, where I am a Shemsu-Ankh. In that tradition I was divined a child of Wepwawet, beloved of Serqet, Bast, and Ra-Heruakhty. I received later beloved divinations which confirmed Hethert-Amenti, Nit-Nebthet-Seshat, and Sekhmet-Hethert as beloveds as well.I'm 37, live in the UK, and have been Kemetic in some form or other for probably about 20 years now. I joined the Kemetic Orthodox House of Netjer in 2009, left in 2011 after some divinations led me to feel Wepwawet wanted me to walk an independent path, and until 2018 I lived as an independent Kemetic.This was a necessary time for me, I have come to believe. Without a structure and perceived path, I had to figure out where I was going for myself, I had to figure out what I wanted, what I needed, what I believed and why. When I rejoined the House of Netjer in 2018, it was with a much better sense of where I was spiritually.I am a perpetually tired pigeon, and that can make spirituality hard for me. Faith is faith, but spiritual acts take spoons. Even the act of keeping the Netjeru (Gods) in my focus is subtly draining, and kicks other things, things I need to be doing, out of my brainspace. But after all these years of ups and downs, closeness and distance, and being taught by my Gods to walk Their path without Their handholding, I still feel I'm in a good place.I hope I can share some of that with you through the services that I offer on this site.

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Dem Gods, Dem Gods, Dem Dry gods

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There are a lot of Kemetic Gods, lets be honest. And not all of the information about them is easy to digest. Here I present some short(-ish) blurbs about my personal experience with these particular Netjeru, to add clarity as you read the rest of the site.

Wepiu (Wepwawet)

Hethert-Amenti

Sekhmet-Hethert

Nebthet

Serqet

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Divinatory Revelatory

I love divination, and have all of my adult life. I practice tarot and oracle reading, and a few casting methods including Yijing/I Ching and an oracle system of my own devising. I also practice the Kemetic Orthodox system of Fedw. I am happy to perform readings in any of these systems.For a bullet list of the decks and other methods that I use, please check this page. Detailed information on Fedw, a system which communicates directly with one or more of the Netjeru (Egyptian Gods), and/or more rarely the Akhu (ancestors/blessed dead), can be found here. And finally, further information on the Bone Oracle, a method of my own making based loosely on the Oracle Bone Script, can be found on this page.

Requesting a Reading

To request a reading with any of these systems, please send me a message using the button below. I do not accept payment at this time, but you are welcome to buy me a Ko-Fi (except for Fedw), and you are always welcome to donate time, energy, or money to charity if you feel an energetic exchange is important.

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Fedw

(Feh-doo)

Fedw is a geomantic method of divination taught by Kemetic Orthodoxy. Four objects are thrown, and divined upon. Each diviner throws and divines only for their "Parent" God or Gods, or in some cases, perhaps a "Beloved", or the akhu (blessed dead). Parents and Beloveds are specific categories of Netjeru divined in the Rite of Parent Divination, a rite of passage within Kemetic Orthodoxy.In my case, I currently divine for Wepwawet, a jackal God known as the Opener of the Ways, Hethert-Amenti as "all Hetherts", as well as for the Akhu, the Kemetic term for one's ancestors.

◽My particular form of Wepwawet is Wepiu, whose name means "The Divider/Judge/Opener". Some more historical information on him can be found here, but my experience with him various from a great King and Judge on his throne, to a heart-warming source of light and joy, to a very friendly and casual friend full of banter.◽Hethert-Amenti is Hethert as Mistress of the West, guardian and greeter of those recently deceased. However, when I asked her to be my Beloved, while she came to me as Hethert-Amenti, she was clear that this is not the only face that she is coming to me with. But that all of her forms and faces would be important. Hethert seems to be available for divination on a cyclic basis. Depending on which half of the year it is, either myself or my headmate Sekhemib may take on the request.◽The Akhu are, in my experience, extremely honest. Don't ask a question if you don't want to know the answer! I also find them to be very "loud", but this is mostly my experience as the diviner.

Fedw is never done for payment, and it cannot answer medical, love, or legal questions, or questions of a serious spiritual nature (eg: "Does my God love me?", "Is X my spiritual Parent?").Fedw also does not deal well with open-ended or loaded questions, or questions where the client already knows the answer, but guidance is provided to some degree on how to best phrase your query for the system.Currently I usually only offer Fedw itself for yes/no style questions. For questions that need further exploration or expansion, or for questions that cannot fit the yes/no style format:◽For Wepwawet, I use runic and oracle deck divination with the querent's consent. I have cleared these with him to be able to take answers through him much as with Fedw itself.◽ For Hethert, she will use Fedw for some expansion, but anything at all detailed would need to go to another diviner until I have my own method established.◽For the Akhu, I have other systems such as Yijing/I Ching, and my recently created bone oracle, both of which the Akhu come through strongly with.

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Decks and Other Methods

Tarot Decks

Oracle Decks

Casting Methods

¹ This method is quite strongly linked to Wepwawet. While he is not always the direct author of the answers, his energy is woven through the deck such that it is difficult to separate answers from him completely.
² Similarly, this deck is strongly linked to the Four Ladies (Aset, Serqet, Nebthet, and Nit), and to a lesser extent Seshat.
³ These methods can be more involved, depending on the reading. They also have strong links to the Akhu (the blessed or revered dead, ie: ancestors).
⁴ This tarot is Queer. Respecting our hearts and questioning the world around us is hardcore baked in to this tarot. I recommend reading up on it before requesting it. This blog post is a good start, as are Niko's Twitter threads on the deck, linked in the post.

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Bone Oracle

Origin of the System

I had the idea for this oracle following an extremely vivid dream. Dreams are relatively rare for me, and even rarer to remember in any kind of detail, due to a medication I am on, so when they are very clear and full of significance, I try to pay attention to them.

The oracle is loosely based on the 甲骨文 (pinyin - jiǎgǔwén), the "Oracle Bone Script" or "Shell Bone Script", which is apparently the earliest known form of Chinese writing. I selected a group of characters from the omniglot.com page for the script, as while I do have a very large collection of characters from it, those do not come with translations and it would have been inappropriate to guess.

I then created divinatory meanings for each character within my oracle. This was a mix of intuition and my own associations, and research into Chinese mythology, symbology, legend, and so on.This forms the backbone for the system as it stands now, though I am using sites like Chinese Etymology to further refine and add to it as needed.The characters are thrown onto a casting cloth, and interpreted from there. Note that this is very different to how the original system would have worked. I make no claims to my oracle being similar to the original - I have no easy access to either a large enough fire, nor large animal bones, even if I could write fluently in the script!

I find this system to have strong connections to the Akhu, ie: the blessed or revered dead, or ancestors. However, much like Yijing/I Ching, I find the ancestors involved to be less immediate and loud than those who I work very directly with in Fedw. This may be because both are Chinese systems, and I am not Chinese, it may be because of the age of both systems, a combination of both factors or indeed something I haven't thought of.That said, while they are not as loud, nor as obviously perceptible as individuals, they certainly make themselves known. Both the Bone Oracle and Yijing are very honest methods.

Is it Appropriative?

Sharing this concern, I asked about it on multiple, large, multi-ethnic Discord servers before starting this project. Each time I asked, I made sure to wait a significant period of time for answers, in case someone might stumble upon my question a while after asking.In each case, I did not receive any answers. While this means nobody said "it is appropriative", I acknowledge that it also means nobody said "it is not appropriative".I went forward with creating the system because I honestly did not know where to go from there. While I felt an ancient script no longer used was less likely to be considered appropriation, I do not personally know any Chinese people or groups where I know I could get a final answer, and did not want to try and join a group just to impose like this.Because of this, I put this system here with a clear caveat:If you have qualms about this being here, I have created an anonymous Google Form to allow you to contact me without the need to reveal your contact details etc. I am completely willing to remove this oracle from my site and to stop using it in private as well.

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