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M. Isidora Forrest
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Devotee, writer, ritualist
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Last week, a friend asked for epithets of Isis for resisting. This post offers some, and ancient Egyptian spell suggestions for the same. BTW, some apps are now flagging the word "resistance."
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Isis & Resistance
As traitorous and cruel goons continue to kidnap our neighbors from home, school, and work, as this fucked-up and evil regime continues its attempts to strip rights from women and anyone else not w…
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December 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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As always, keep resisting—and look to the skies, where the star of Isis shines brightly. At the end of this post find a new Sirius rising calculator to find Her heliacal rising in your area. isiopolis.com/2025/11/30/i...

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Isis is a Star Goddess
So, I’m still working on the funeral for Osiris (the mini-Khoiak Festival), but I’m getting there. I plan to perform the rites on winter solstice, under the dark moon. Sopdet by Jezhawk…
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November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Oops. Missed yesterday's post. So here t'is.

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Lamentations, winter solstice & dark moon rites
I spent yesterday working on a funeral for Osiris, and totally forgot to post. Oops. Isis & Nephthys, as kites, and in human form, lamenting Osiris This is something She asked me to do recently…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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If you've been waiting for Offering to Isis—it's available now, but only a limited number of copies were printed. Details in this post. Thanks for being patient. And Isis Magic is coming in spring! As always, keep resisting! isiopolis.com/2025/11/16/o...

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Offering to Isis, Available Now
I know a lot of you have been waiting a Very. Long. Time. for the new edition of Offering to Isis. (And yes, Isis Magic is coming, too. This spring!) I’m thrilled that Offering to Isis is her…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Keep resisting, keep invoking. Keep your heart strong. isiopolis.com/2025/11/09/y...

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Your First Steps with Isis
Many of you who subscribe to this blog are well beyond your first steps with Isis. If that’s you, I do hope you’ll share your stories in the comments or on social media. But some of you…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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While we are still in Samhain Season, I offer you this Isian way of honoring the dead.

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Isis and…Halloween?
Turns out the Isia is a festival of the Goddess Isis recorded in a calendar from 354 CE commissioned by a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus from a prominent, also-Christian scribe named Phil…
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November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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There's more Isis lore to share with you today. This one is the aretalogy of Isis from the Greek island of Andros.

And on the other, eternal, note: keep up the resistance, America!

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The Aretalogy of Isis from Andros
A Roman image of Isis Today, I’m delighted to share with you an English translation of the Isis aretalogy from the island of Andros, Greece. The island is in the Cyclades and the aretalogy wa…
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October 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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So many people write to tell me about their dreams of Isis. She does communicate in dream. Here's an Isis dream from the last native ruler of ancient Egypt: isiopolis.com/2025/10/19/a...

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A Prophetic Dream of Isis
As we continue finding the scattered bits of Isis lore, today I bring you a dream. Not my dream. An ancient dream. A dream of the king Nectanebos II—it is a dream of Isis, of course. Nectanebo II w…
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October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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What's your experience? Has Isis ever "saved" you? isiopolis.com/2025/10/12/i...

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Isis Soteira; Isis as Eternal Savior
One of Isis’ epithets in the Hellenistic world was Soteira, “Savior,” or more precisely, “Savioress.” A Greco-Roman image of Isis If the Christian* Deity, Jesus, is th…
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October 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Meanwhile, in still NOT "war-ravaged" Portland, let's talk about some more theisms. isiopolis.com/2025/10/05/i... What's your favorite flavor?

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Isis, the One & the Many More
More on the various theistic ways we might explore our relationship with Isis
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October 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Portland friends, do you remember "Naked Athena" from the last time we so graciously hosted the feds? isiopolis.com/2025/09/28/b...
Bodies, Sexuality, Strength, and Badass Sorcery—Again
If you’ve ever looked into the topic of ancient Egyptian sexuality, you’ll know that they were pretty comfortable with sexuality. Sex was part of the great cycle of creation, life, deat…
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September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Never give up. Never surrender. Who knows what I'm quoting? See you at the next march for democracy.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This is for all my Pacific Northwest folks.

Join me for my keynote at Spirit Northwest con next spring. isiopolis.com/2025/09/22/i...

Register by Dec. 1st & use code: SNW2026ISIDORA to save 10%. See you there!

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It’s About Time We Had a New PNW Pagan Con
And now we do! Pacific NW folks, this is for you… Our new Con (as of last year) is called Spirit Northwest, and I had a pleasure of being one of the speakers for the inaugural gathering this …
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September 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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What's your concept of the Divine Reality? isiopolis.com/2025/09/21/i...

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Isis, the One & the Many
The many and varied “theisms” that humans have developed each may have some clues about the Divine Reality.
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September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Meet Tayet, Goddess of Weaving isiopolis.com/2025/09/07/m...

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More Weaving Magic
Tayet with Her name in hieroglyphs below The new publishers of Isis Magic, REDFeather, and I have been working on updates and edits to the book. Which means I have been re-reading everything—even t…
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September 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Come shapeshift with Nephthys. Let's do some magic.
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And don't forget to join one of the thousand protests tomorrow, Labor Day! We must show strength.

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Shapeshifting with Nephthys
It’s been a while since I made a post about Nephthys, but you might remember that She has been working with me on shapeshifting because, according to Her, She does it better than Her sister. …
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August 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Don't give up, folks. Keep fighting. We, like the Wandering Goddesses of Egypt, have a right to our anger. isiopolis.com/2025/08/24/i...

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Isis & the Wandering Goddesses at Philae
Procession for Her return If you’ve been reading along with this blog, you may know that I believe we should count Isis as one of Egypt’s Wandering Goddesses. You can read about that he…
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August 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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How did you know that Isis was calling you? isiopolis.com/2025/08/17/i...

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Is Goddess Isis Calling Me?
Hello, all! Yes, this is a repost. But it’s with good cause. I just received files of the NEW 25th Anniversary Edition of Isis Magic, which I must review and proof on a deadline. So I’m…
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August 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Learn how to resist: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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More on mooring posts, flint, and stars. Well, now I'm gonna have to get myself some flint. isiopolis.com/2025/08/10/i...

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Isis, Flint Knives, Mooring Posts & Stars
Part 2 Last time we saw how the ancient Egyptian constellation of Iset Reret—in Her upright-hippopotamus-with-a-crocodile-on-Her-back form—was envisioned as using a flint mooring post and golden ch…
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August 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Look what came in the mail today! Go to the blog post to see more pix of the interior. It is BEAUTIFUL! Thank you Azoth Press and Miskatonic Books! This is going on Her altar right now! isiopolis.com/2025/08/08/o...
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Oh My Goddess!
I just received my author copy of the deluxe collectors’ edition of Offering to Isis from Azoth Press and Miskatonic Books. It is simply stunning. Stunning, I tell you! First, you see a sligh…
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August 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We are very much in need of a "flinty," fierce, and protective Goddess these days. Introducing Isis Reret. isiopolis.com/2025/08/03/g...

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Goddess Isis & the Mooring Post of Flint
Part 1 If you’ve been flipping through the new edition of Offering to Isis, you may have noticed that two of Her sacred symbols—which can also serve as offerings to Her—are a mooring post and…
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August 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Ankh is you love Isis :) isiopolis.com/2025/07/27/i...

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Isis & the Ankh
Egyptologists still aren’t sure what the familiar oval-and-cross shape originally represented. Some believe it has sexual symbolism because some ankhs have what appears to be a female pubic triangl…
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July 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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More fodder to add to your Isis lore. Hymns from one of Her temples. isiopolis.com/2025/07/20/h...

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Hymns to Isis at Her Faiyum Temple
Medinet Madi The Egyptian Faiyum is in middle Egypt. In ancient times, it was an important oasis with its large, freshwater lake, fed by the Nile, and known in Greek as Moeris (from Egyptian Mer We…
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July 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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How do you get ready for magic? isiopolis.com/2025/07/13/i...

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Isis & the “Magical Mindset”
Ritual is how we DO religion. And to do ritual, we perform a set of prescribed actions and, usually, words. Our rite may be something as simple as sitting quietly and counting our breaths or lighti…
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July 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM