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Sekhmet Guided Meditation
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You find yourself standing on a sand dune. The heat of the desert washes over you in waves. Everywhere you look there is only sand. There is no vegetation or wildlife, just the heart of the sun and the ocean of sand before you. You begin to walk, each footfall sending sand trickling down the sides of the dunes.
After what seems like an eternity, you see something in the distance. It is almost the same color as the sand, but as you come closer you see it is a temple. Excited, you begin to travel faster toward it. Soon you walk through a long promenade of statues. As you look up, you see that each statue is of a woman with the head of lion carved from black stone, and you know you have come to the temple of Sekhmet, lady of the desert, goddess of the sun and of divine justice.
You walk up the steps and into the temple. Large columns rise up around you, and images of the lioness decorate the walls. Soon you come to a larger statue of the goddess. Like the other statues you passed on the promenade, this too is carved from black stone. The goddess stands with an ankh, the symbol for life eternal, in one hand, and the other hand is outreached as if beckoning you.
Feeling compelled, you walk closer to the statue. Although you didn't notice it before, there is a low altar below the goddess's statue. You see seven large jugs filled with what looks like wine on the table. You reach out a hand and hold one of the vessels. It is made from a thick ceramic. The dark red liquid smells delicious, and without thinking you put the jug to your lips and to drink deeply. Before you know it , the jug is empty. You immediately reach for another and begin drinking it down. It doesn't taste like wine; it tastes like the most delicious thing you have ever tasted. It fills you with a feeling of elation, as if you were drinking in all of life. Soon you have consumed the contents of all the jugs. You feel as if fire flows through you, as if all of life courses through your veins.
You close your eyes, and in your mind's eye you see Sekhmet standing before you. Her body is that of a lithe woman in scarlet robes. Her head is that of a lioness, although the eyes that look into your own are human. "You know me as the lady of the desert, the bringer of destruction, but I am much more. All of life lives within me. To know that to destroy is to only make way for new beginnings."
She holds up a cup filled with blood-red wine. "I am the spark that engulfs, I am rage, and I am laughter. There is nothing I cannot conquer. I drink deep of life's bloody wine, the blood of the slain, the blood of death, the blood of birth, and the blood of the womb that flows freely from the thighs. These all belong to me. The blood of life flows through me; it fills my veins like fire. From my crimson stained maw I drink, and drink and drink."
Sekhmet offers you the cup, and again you drink the wine of Sekhmet. You feel her fire filling you. Within you, you offer up all that is not longer needed in your life to the fire of Sekhmet. All that no longer serves your purpose in this life is consumed by her holy flame. And as Sekhmet's fire burns away these things within you, you feel it also empowering you uplifting you. The fire of the unconquerable goddess burns within you, and you know there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Meditation taken from Drawing Down the Sun; Rekindle the Magick of the Solar Goddesses
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