Words on Water Poetry

IMy intention is to publish to my Patreon for subscribers, my reading of original poetry. This first video is free. And here it is. I hope you can support my work by subscribing. There are free pages there for some of my writing, but a simple sign up for $5 a month will give you access to all of my work in creative writing, in astrological teaching, in nonfiction essay, and in memoir that has appeared on the Patreon.

 I ask this favor in deep, deep appreciation. If you have read this far, if you have seen my Facebook page, you know that I normally do not post personal things, but these last few years I have been faced with significant health challenges that created serious financial challenges. It is with deep appreciation to all my friends, to all my readers, that I say Thank you for reading my work over the years, for writing to me and for supporting me. I love you immeasurably. 

 https://youtu.be/FiSTPR39OhY

Classes in 2025

 We are making a list and checking it twice for YEAR 2 Classes:

$80 per class 8-10. Classes are recorded and sent out by prepayment and by request.

TAKE NOTE

Dec 2, 9, & 16 Ancient Books of the Afterlife with the Academy of

Oracle Arts

Dec 14 Tapping into Hieroglyphic Oracles with The Theosophical

Society

Dec 28 Night of the Mothers Journal Retrospective 12-6pm

($90) Online Elective Class in Spiritual Journaling

Jan 17 & 4 SACRED CALENDAR

Mar 10 & 17 MOON MAGIC (Mondays)

Apr 15 & 22 ASTROLOGY

May 13 & 20 DREAMWORK

June 3 & 10 INVOCATION AND PRAYER

July 1 & 8 NUMEROLOGY

Mar 04 & 11 MOON MAGIC19 BUILDING YOUR ADYTUM ($160)

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2023 - REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

     Things change. No matter how we fight them, we find that leaning into the painful change allows us to open to new heights. I have moved from Camp Chesterfield, a community I dearly loved, and I am living now in Kentucky--the place of my birth, nestled between its green grasses and hills like a soft, firry animal finding a comfortable lap. I am home.

   Here is where I spent my days and a few evenings, writing--and waiting for friends to come to write with me, to study mystical texts with me, to smile, to remember and to spin a few yarns. Please contact me. Message me on FB and let's get together to share tea, coffee, memoirs. I love how you stay in my memory and my heart. I call you forth.

Exploring the Unseen Conference

Announcing my new book THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF ANGELS by participating in this remarkable conferane on the Unseen. It's time.

You can feel the energy changing these days in a multitude of ways. In these transitional times, which also hold great potential for transformation and the awakening of our individual and collective consciousness, messages from the unseen world have never been more available to us – or more valuable.

 

With the world at a choice point, our ability to connect and work with the unseen is one of the most essential skills we will need to root us in our authentic power, support our expansion, remember who we really are as divine humans, and help birth the New Earth.  

 

That’s why I’m so delighted to be one of the presenters at Exploring the Unseen: Unlocking the Secrets of the Non-Material World [https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis], an online event and retreat April 23rd to 29th, 2023.

Through discussion, experiential practices, ceremony, and activations, you’ll explore and deepen your noticing, listening, receptivity, and discernment on a journey through the non-material world of multidimensional consciousness, dreams, the Akashic records, angels, guides, nature spirits, mediumship, the ancestors, and much more. 

 

This unique global event, co-hosted by my colleagues, Leslie Zehr (The Universal Dancer) and Keren Brown (WiseWoman Leading), will be live-streamed and interactive, including special opening and closing ceremonies direct from the island of O’ahu.

What might you gain from the Exploring the Unseen Conference, where you can 

1. Deepen your access to the non-material world to expand your consciousness

2. Enhance your connection to the unseen world

3. Exploring the many ways to enter the unseen realm – and find out why it matters

4. Expand your multidimensional awareness to stay grounded and in your power

5. Strengthening your connection to the unseen as an essential skill for tumultuous times

6. Enhancing your ability to connect with the unseen: your best superpower in uncertain times

7. Remember who you truly are in uncertain times

8. Joining other cosmic visionaries, pioneers, authors, guides, and teachers, I will be speaking about [Angels, Neteru and Divine Messengers] on [April 26, @ 10 am ].

    

   This retreat will help you:

    

   ·  Access deeper wisdom, clarity, and knowing so all areas of your life can flow with more ease and grace

   ·  Trust your intuition and guidance more than ever before

   ·  Stay more rooted, centered, calm, and focused, even in the midst of external challenges

   ·  Connect you to a deeper sense of meaning and purpose so you can be the change

    

   This promises to be a profound and transformational event and I look forward to connecting with you there!

    

   To claim your spot, register here [https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis

    

   P.S. And please share the love! If you would share this with others you know, that would be wonderful. Send them to this link to register [https://bit.ly/ExploringtheUnseen-NormandiEllis] and enjoy the event experience with a friend. Attendance is free!

Earth Day Shivers

I am waiting in the dark
like one ray of sunlight
Aten
ready to pop out
from behind this cloud.
I am morning
longing for bird song.

I am trillium
with my two budded
lips pursed
suckling cold dew
from the teat of morning.
I am worry, prayer
a trembling kiss.

I am the chattering
pink teeth mark of redbud
waiting to explode
along the arm of tree.
I am the green hearts
of leaves longing
for perfect light.

In a cold viral world
I cry: Wake me!
For goddess sake,
unmask the glory
the aching craving--
this falling in love
with the earth
burning in light.
--Normandi Ellis

2020 is a Power Year

Did you know Pythagoras--yeah, that ancient Greek guy who was responsible for your having to learn the Pythagorean theorem in high school geometry--spent 30 years tramping up and down the Nile, wandering around lost inside the temples of ancient Egypt, begging the old scribes and priests of Ptah and Thoth to teach him everything, or anything, or whatever they knew about magic, the heka of hieroglyphs and numbers.

EGYPT!
That's the source of all our mystical, magical numerology, as well as our geometry and alchemy.  It's a story of secrets and struggle and working against the odds to gain what our heart and mind --nay, our very soul!-- desires.
It's a story fit for a new year--this new year!

Our 2020 is going to be filled with amazing energy.  2+0+2+0 = the Master number 22, which is the foundation of Temple building. Have you been called to build your Temple yet? Do you know how to manifest the desires within yourself as you stand inside your holy of holies, that sacred ground of your spiritual and alchemical constellation?

This planet Earth is undergoing massive changes at the hand of the Divine that has cojoined with our human hands to implement The Great Work. This is the future we've been waiting for. We are entering the wave of the New Age.

Two is the number of partnership, and this year we enter the greatest partnership we can ever imagine, that of partnering with Cosmic Intelligence. Two plus two.  (Isis and Thoth.  You and me.) We stretch out our hands to touch the hands of the divine. That's four hands, folks!  We are linked in a great building partnership. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of love, and a lot of commitment to build this kind of energy to accomplish the Work at hand.

AND that God Force Energy is twice amplified by the repetition of the number Zero, the Ouroboros--the forcefield of creativity from beginning to end, spiraling over on itself, recombining beginning and end. I'd expect a radical re-shifting in your priorities from focus on the material world to amplified visioning in the spiritual world.

Which doesn't mean we will be getting off easy with 2020.  It is the year of the Master Builder. Perhaps you foresee big things in your life. Thoth and Isis, the Ascended Masters, the Daimon, the Angels of Your Higher Nature--call them what you will--are beside you all the way, ready to assist with the building of the staircase that leads to enlightenment. You are ready to set your new life in motion but remember it is a daily re-ignition of the dream that will keep you going. You can achieve whatever you wish, with a bit of angelic help. And a lot of human determination.

Keep lighting candles. Affirm your positive steps daily. Get out your day planner. Do the work. Be grateful you are here on this planet to do the work. It is a gift, an honor to be here, working elbow to elbow with the Gods, Goddesses, Angels, and Ascended Masters. Roll up your sleeves!!!

Let's go.


I have some 2020 news of my own. My new book Hieroglyphic Words of Power: 
 Symbols for Magic, Divination and Dreamwork will be coming out from Bear & Co in May 2020. You can order it here: 

https://www.innertraditions.com/hieroglyphic-words-of-power

Its writing has been a labor of love for about 10 years, the same amount of time it took to write Awakening Osiris, which began my love affair with hieroglyphs and was published back in 1988. This new book explores why hieroglyphs have entranced  countless Egyptophiles like me throughout the centuries. Symbol and mythology, combined numerology and the pulse of vibration, the music of language... all moving together to create a kaleidoscope of meaning, layer upon layer.  I think you're gonna like it.

AND

There is a deck of cards that can be bought separately to accommodate your interest in using the hieroglyphs in an oracular fashion. I've been doing readings with Egyptian hieroglyphs for about 5 years now. First, I made my own deck of cards, then started meditating with each one of them daily, using them in private readings.  After a while and some work with my guides, I was able to use them clairvoyantly from my public demonstrations at Camp Chesterfield. The book is a result of all those meditations and work.  You can make your own deck, but there is a beautiful ready to go deck called the Oracle of Seshet, which contains the beautiful photographs of hieroglyphs that A. Auset Rohn and I created after a trip through Egypt searching the temples for images that demonstrate the magic of the language. By the way, her photographs appear in the book as well.  And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the handiwork of artist Lexy Hovis also graces the book so that you can draw the hieroglyphs is you like.  If you prefer to order a pre-made set to begin with, go to the bottom of the page here: http://www.thegoddessinside.com/must-have-books

In the early days of working with the hieroglyphs, I teemed up with Jean Houston to do some writing and editing in her book The Passion of Isis and Osiris. That followed the first tour I took in Egypt with her in 1992. For the last five years I have enjoyed traveling around the country teaching my classes in Hieroglyphic Words of Power and giving students the opportunity to learn hieroglyphic oracles by drawing their own cards on slips of papyri.  That's still a wonderful way to do it, but I now have included a deck of the same 60 hieroglyphic oracle cards in HiWoPo. They are called Seshet's Oracle, which can be.

So there's some of my new news.
Interested in studying with me? Contact me at ellisisis@gmail.com.
Stay tuned for more information about my travel plans for Egypt March 2021.

Keeping Sacred Calendars

When the Egyptian god Thoth created the world in his cauldron, according to myths in Heliopolis, he stirred the waters of creation and found there four pairs of beings, that were basically Infinite Light (Ra & Raet), Infinite Darkness  (Kek & Keket) Infinite Time (Heh & Hehet) and Infinite Space (Nu & Nut). Some include these two as well: Infinite Mystery (Amen &Amentet).

This talk evolved in the class I was teaching in sacred calendar, exploring a study of time, space, light, and dark as well as creation of the world.

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Some of you may think that since the close of the Mayan calendar in 2012 there’s not an imperativeo for learning sacred calendars. I don’t believe that’s true. The sacred calendar lends a basic understanding for any metaphysical practice. In essence, sacred calendar is about learning to understand patterns now so well that you can predict the future and understand the past. Synchronicity is just a larger pattern that we have not yet grasped. It’s all in the timing.

Sacred calendar is steeped in several important phenomenon: Light, Vibration, Pattern, and Timing. And as light workers, which is what spiritualists are – whether Christian or Unitarian or Spiritualist or pagan – sacred calendars help us understand the importance of the liturgical year as well as give us a grass on the underlying power of light and dark, the rhythms of human life.

Meditation is useful as a tool because in it, you practice being in two worlds—stepping into earth time and sitting within eternal time. In meditation in eternal time, you can experience two things. It slows down your body clock enough so that you can move backward and forward across an infinite psychic space. This is the true meaning of the voice that speaks over the waters mentioned in Genesis. Here is how sacred calendars began.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. (New American Standard Bible Genesis 1:1-5)

Thus, the first sacred calendar…

In other versions we are told that this is the voice upon the face of the water. And what is voice but a vibration or read them which sets out an energetic force that we may define as (New American Standard Bible Genesis 1:1-5) consciousness of God or God’s will. This vibration is time that ripples across space and sets the world in motion. From it emerge all atoms, planets and cycles.

Sacred calendar is all about seeing the pattern of your life as a mirror of God consciousness. In meditation you tap into that divine eternal creative. We can safely say that learning sacred calendar is part of learning how to use the Law of Vibration and the Law of Rhythm. Rhythm and time are intricately linked, as space and form are linked to vibration. The law of vibration monitors such things as the movement of atoms, the beating of the heart, the tug of the moon tides, the spinning of planets, earth, galaxies and universes. The construction of brain waves is part of what we metaphysicians call the Law of Thought – and thought is vibration.

Vibration is what composes space and time. Space and time themselves create consciousness. Consciousness is the meaning of matter – the things that exist in time and space in relationship to each other.

This study also shows us the powerful Law of Opposition wherein the sacred calendar reflects the potencies of light and dark, day and night, hot and cold, birth and death, sleeping and waking. Without primitive mankind ever knowing that the earth was tilting on its axis, she understood that a pattern was set for creating cold winters and hot summers with temperate springs and autumns. By tracking these patterns of opposition, she could regulate the times when it was important to plant and sow seeds, as well as to reap grains. Observing the movements of planets, stars and the sun he could predict the movement of game across the landscape and thus plan his hunting routes.

Time in general is about understanding cycles and light. (I have to say that as I was working on this material all of the clocks in my house began to check and run backwards. After three days they righted themselves. Make of that what you will. It’s a synchronicity I’ve yet to unravel.)

And so we have used sacred calendars, possibly since the beginning of human history, to help us modulate our life activities. They tracker agricultural seasons so that we don’t plant seeds too early or too late, and so that the shepherd knows when to send his flock or cattle into pasture. Women were probably the early calendar keepers because they noticed that their menstrual cycles and the cycles of the moon were similarly influential. Planetary and stellar cycles influenced the great ancient civilizations: The Mayans tracked the planet Venus with incredible accuracy and the ancient Egyptians tracked the helical rising of the star Sirius to ascertain the timing of the Nile flood.

Even birds, without calendars, migrate North or South based upon the amount of available sunlight in those places where they live. Their mating season and the production of eggs to create new life forms is stimulated by the effect of sunlight on their pineal glands. We are all creatures of light. And as light workers it is especially important to understand the power that the cycles of light manifestation have upon us.

Everything is pattern. Observing pattern is not simply observing things that are the same, but also observing the interaction between things that are somewhat dissimilar and yet hold a relationship between them. Synchronicity is a pattern whose cycle we haven’t understood yet, perhaps because we have not observed other occasions where two seemingly dissimilar things are in conjunction. In truth, the Law of Unity reminds us that everything is connected by the power of the divine.

Sacred calendar shows you your place in the cosmos. If you choose to accept it – and by that we mean work in accordance with it and not against it – your life becomes God-inspired and you reflect the divine spark. In accordance with the Law of Karma, we might say that difficult lives are about correcting the missed timing and actions that are out of rhythm from previous incarnations in a particular place and time. Now you can see that karma is also a cycle of time.

Karma keeps us in balance. Sacred calendar and karma are linked in terms of the Law of Balance. Karma in a psychological sense as well as an experience is equivalent to calendar rectification. If you are out of sequence with time in small ways you must gain or reduce atomic second, which is what NASA has done over the last decade. If you are out of balance in your life, it may require the addition of extra lifetimes (epigominal days) to restore the whole pattern. Balance in your life in large ways may be acquired through many lifetimes, which is the personal equivalent of the precession of the equinoxes.

Any time that you enter into the area of prediction, that is trying to ascertain where and when an event will occur, you are gazing into the time and space of a divine intelligence. The Law of Preponderance tells us that everything is a part of God consciousness. It all moves together like swarms of bees in a pattern that may appear random on the surface but the movement altogether has a kind of intelligence about it. The ancient alchemists who constructed orreries and planetariums in their laboratories understood that the movement of heavenly bodies was like watching the cogs in a wheel. One has only to glance at the Mayan calendar to see that they were making clocks well before the Swiss or Germans. Stellar bodies and planets have consciousness and operate on the Law of Vibration. Natural law is God or infinite intelligence. God is eternal – the past, present and future.

That said, you will find that learning sacred calendar will help you understand such things as astrology, numerology, and full moon meditations, as well as finding its usefulness in your work through the metaphysical journal, practical metaphysics, and ceremony practicum. It is the groundwork for all sacred ritual in every religion.