Sacred Pilgrimage to Dendera Temple

On the Super Full moon in Taurus last Friday - a Venusian day of the week), on November the 15th, myself and two other women journeyed in the very early hours of the morning to the Dendera Temple dedicated to the Goddess Hathor. I knew it would be a potent day.

My first visit to the Dendera temple had been on the full moon in Cancer in 2022. Interestingly, unlike in the Western astrological traditions in which Aries is considered the first sign of the zodiac, the ancient Egyptians considered the first sign of the zodiac to be Cancer, possibly because of its association with the Mother energy and being a Water (Divine Feminine energy) sign.

Each visit has been very unique and different. I could share so much more than I have in this blog, but I will focus on the most powerful moments and revelations of this recent visit and the codes that came with them.

When we arrived yesterday at opening time, we were the very first visitors to enter the Dendera temple complex and hence were blessed to have the entire temple for ourselves, as most tourists don't arrive until from around 9am onwards.

Before entering the temple complex, one passes under an ancient gateway, depicting the underside (yin/feminine) of a scarab. Throughout all of Egypt, Dendera temple is the only temple to depict the underside side of a scarab. This is symbolic of the Dendera temple being a place where initiates were trainined in the mysteries of mysteries, i.e. - the secret/hidden/inner (feminine) ancient mystery school teachings.

Upon entering, my first point of call was in the one and only (out of twelve in total) underground crypt open to the public. There are resurrection mysteries depicted on the walls of this crypt, though typically, Egyptologists refer to is as a "storage room". I got to spend an entire hour meditating and toning here on my own, with not a single guard approaching or bothering me. What a miracle!

After a good hour, I made my way out of the underground crypt and was met by a guard who motioned me to follow him to another room in the temple located behind the Holy of Holies, in which a ladder ascended to a lit room half way up the back wall.

This is a room that had been closed on my two previous visits, but now I was invited to enter it. "Music room", the guard called it. This room was a small room with Goddess Hathor depicted in the centre of the wall, flanked on both sides by a depiction of the Goddess Maat with wings.

There was so much energy in that room, I again went into a deep meditation space and was left alone there over an hour, with the guard just occasionaly checking on me from below to see if I was ok.

I love connecting with and experiencing sacred sites and portals in a purely energetic way first and foremost and then later finding out about its spiritual function and significance. Sometimes, needing to know the historical "facts" about a place can distract us from its energetic purpose and the gifts of Spirit it has in store for us, if only we can come out of our minds and presence into our bodies more.

Whatever the true function and purpose of that room was, it was powerful. I felt my body heat up and waves of energy went up my spine, causing me to make a spontaneous grunting sound and burp several times.

Later that day, I discovered this room is known as the Primordial room, where the Egyptian Neteru (Gods and Goddesses) bestowed their powers onto the Pharoah. The entrance to the room is flanked by depictions of these primordials, such as snake headed women and frog headed men.

Just underneath the room there are depictions of 4 sky Godesses, holding up the sky, indicating to one that when one enters this room, they are being lifted above to the heavens. Some of the hieroglyphs in the room spoke of "one being seeded with Love in this room" (as a rough translation) and "eternity".

On the walls of that room I noticed something I had not seen in any other temple before - depictions of a few beings and their doubles, working in unison right beside them, symbolising the unity of the Ka and Ba (Soul and Spirit and Upper and Lower Self) in each of these individuals.

In one of the photos someone took of me in the Primordial room after spending over an hour being activated in it, my hands seem to dissappear and turn into Isis wings and my eyes and enlarged:

In the Hypostyle Hall entrance of the temple, the twelve signs of the zodiac are depicted on the ceiling by a depiction of the Sky Goddess Nut, who is seen swallowing the sun every evening and birthing it every dawn. Six of the zodiac signs are depicted on the left side of the ceiling of the entrance hall and six on the right side.

By the depictions of these zodiac signs, there are images of individual beings on boats, flanked by a blue lotus flower on both ends. This, I found out, is a deptiction of the MerKaBah, a vehicle of higher consciousness which the ancient Egyptians used to travel to other galaxies in the cosmos. The galaxies they travelled to were depicted by the square above the boat. The number of stars surrounding the square indicating the number of stars in that particular galaxy.

The next powerful moment for me was when I found myself in the room where the mysterious, 13th sign of the zodiac is depicted on the wall, though to be precise, Ophiuchus is a constellation, not a sign, of the zodiac.

Before I go into this, I feel to share that the number 13 has come up countless times in the last week. In every way, from hearing about the 13th dimension, reading about the 13th sign of the zodiac, seeing the number 13 being mentioned in two different books, having a client request to book a distant healing session specifically on the 13th day of the month and seeing the number 13 on an item in the room I am currently staying in.

The 13th card in the Tarot is known as the Death card. Yet with death comes resurrection, renewal and rebirth. It represents transformation and the death of an old way of being, and the birth to Spirit and a higher level of being. The Hebrew letter Nun is associated with the 13th card. It stands for fertility, growth and decline, descent and resurrection and also means fish.

The number 13 is considered a very sacred number connected to the Divine Feminine in several ways. There are 13 lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year and it is also said Mary Magdalene is the 13th apostle.

The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter Mem, and is stongly connected to the Divine Feminine. Mem stands for womb and the water element, the emotions, fluidity and flow, mercy and compassion, rebirth through baptism in water and is connected to the water priestesses and the Mary's (Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene). Mary was traditionally a title meaning "priestess", rather than a name.

Gematria is a Kabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew scriptures by reading words and sentences as numbers, assigning numerical instead of phonetic value to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The gematria of the number 13 refers to the Hebrew words for love and unity, namely Ahava and Ahad.

The number 13 and the Divine Feminine also connects to a mystery of the Pistis Sophia, who consciously returns to the True Light by way of 13 repentances. As these cycles imply the 12 zodiacal signs of the Human One, the 13th may be contemplated as their Unity and Integration/Integrity.

Now let us return back to the 13th sign of the zodiac, the Ophiucus. It is said by some that the serpent Ophiucus is holding is the great Ouroboros, the serpent that swallows its own tail, symbolic of the mystery of the non-dual union of inside and outside.

In it’s curled state, the Ouroboros symbolizes the feminine (Shakti/Yin) aspect of the cyclical rhythms of life leading unto death leading unto life again. She dwells in all realms and her serpentine path both through the cosmos and through our physical lives forms the desires of seekers willing to experience the mysteries of the unknown. In the Tao, she is known as The Way, in the Kaballah, the No Thing, in Buddhism, the Eternal Void. She is the dark and impenetrable primordial womb, the Black Madonna from which stem the ancient Mystery school lineages of the Divine Feminine such as Isis and Mary Magdalene. From this unnameable and unknowable place she leads us into physical manifestation and guides us out again when our time is done here. This is why Egyptians wore the image of the coiled and erect asp around their foreheads.

Within Ophiuchus, the left hand of this snake points upward, toward her Source, reminding us from whence we have come and to which we shall return. Known as the radial line of the Serpent, the standard measure for the Motions of the heavenly bodies and the cycle of time in the mysteries of the Mysteries.

In Greek myth, Ophiuchus represents the god of medicine, Asclepius. Asclepius was the son of Apollo and was taught the art of medicine by Chiron, the Centaur. He learned how to bring people back from the dead. The youth mastered the art completely, so much so that Hades, King of the Underworld, feeling threatened should Aesculapius be able to raise the dead, complained to Zeus. The great god regrettably decided that Aesculapius must die, and struck him with a thunderbolt, thereafter placing him among the stars. To this day, Aesculapius and the serpent are associated with healing.

The ouroboros was invented as a reference to the Milky Way Galaxy and the connection that it has to many of life’s answers that we seek. There are many references in mythology to ‘the serpent of light’ that supposedly lived in the heavens. This serpent resembles the ouroboros and the location is an obvious reference to the galaxy.

Plato refers to the ouroboros as the first living creature in existence. As the first, it was the most perfect because of its self-sufficiency. The ouroboros had no eyes because outside itself there was nothing to be seen. It had no ears because there was nothing outside itself to listen to. This creature was a self-eating and circular being. Despite of its self-eating nature, however, it had no organs that would allow it to digest for there was nothing that could come into its system that existed outside of itself. It also lacked the ability to breathe for similar reasons.

The only one of the senses that this creature was given was the ability to move and writhe in it’s circular nature that represented the essence of its being.

From a Gnostic viewpoint, the opposing ends of the ouroboros was interpreted as the divine and earthly in the human, which, despite being at odds with one another, existed in unison nonetheless. In this sense, it is comparable to the Chinese yin and yang, depicting the harmony of contrary forces, as well as the cosmic dichotomy of light and darkness.

The ouroboros also appears in many other ancient traditions. For example, in Norse mythology, the serpent Jörmungandr encircles the world with its tail in its mouth, while in Hinduism, the ouroboros forms part of the foundation upon which the Earth rests.

If the Ouroboros represents cycles, perhaps Ophiuchus is showing us how to control or change those cycles, by transcending death. When the ouroboros is stretched out, it is the way out instead of circling back around the cycle. Think of it this way, the ouroboros is naturally eating it's own tail. Ophiuchus mastered death, and leads souls out by stretching out the serpent from it's cycle shape.

It is known that in many ancient cultures around the world, the most hidden, or secret teachings of the mystery school involved resurrection rituals in which an initiate would experience death and come back into the same physical body in an enlightened state. The intention was to die before ones dies, so to speak, i.e. to master death and come to know through direct experience that there is, in truth, no death of the soul. These resurrection rituals were initiated by priestesses who often wore the colour red and would administer concoctions of a plant medicine to induce a temporary death state.

In this room of Ophiucus, there are hieroglyphys depicting various DNA activations. There are also depictions of stargates into other, specified galaxies. Between two particular stargates, there is a hieroglyph of a human with a scarab directly above their head, indicating that this person was now starting a new life in a different galaxy.

Outside, on my way to the smaller temple that houses the birthplace of the Goddess Isis, we went down a trodden staircase, that led to a crypt containing water. This water was incredibly soft and had a pure, milky, ephemeral quality to it. It didn't seem to be water from the Nile at all as the Sacred Lake beside it was completely dried up.

Could it have come from a deep, underground well spring of water? Intuitively, we felt to anoint ourselves with this water from the crypt, collecting some to take home.

Each of us had our own unique, highly activating journey through Dendera. After having spent well over seven hours thoroughly immersing ourselves in it, we felt it was time to return to Luxor. We each knew and understood that we had each been changed by the experience and were returning home as not the same people who had left.

By 7:30pm I was in bed and slept like a log for 12 hours straight, integrating the multidimensional shifts within my being, feeling deeply grateful and connected to all.