NUIT

SUGGESTED MANTRA: CONNECTION
Nuit's esoteric attributes are those of oneness, bliss and universal love. She helps us bond with our planetary family, while her cosmic energy acts as our bridge to the realm of cosmic consciousness, thereby removing barriers of segregation.

SUGGESTED AFFIRMATIONS:
~ I am an indivisable whole
~ I am charged with cosmic energy
~ I am in control of my destiny
~ I am one with humanity
~ I am connected with the cosmic source
~ Every person carries a piece of the puzzle

Related essences: Clover, Carnation, Cinnamon, Peppermint, Violets

Related gemstones: Amethyst, Moss agate, Chalcedony

Nuit is an Egyptian goddess, typically depicted as a gateway between heaven and earth. Her body arches over the earth into the skies, while her hands and feet connect to the earth, thus forming the gateway.

She is related to our crown chakra - our connection with cosmic light. When this chakra is in balance, we have a feeling of oneness with ALL. To communicate with Nuit takes deep relaxation in order to open our crown chakra to send and receive the cosmic impulses that let us enjoy empowered lives with absolute confidence.

For some women, when the crown chakra is open, they may experience a contact with a guide, whether by voice, automatic writing, or other stimulus. To achieve this, a deep meditative state is necessary, as well as an openness, will and intent to meet your life guide. It may take more than one session to conquer traditional barriers to opening oneself to the universe's pulse.

As Nuit is associated with the colour purple, it may help to surround yourself in violet, purple and amethyst influences. If blockages continue, work on your chakras so that all are in balance and you are truly ready to soar.
It may take more than one session to conquer traditional barriers to opening oneself to the universe's pulse. As Nuit is associated with the colour purple, it may help to surround yourself in violet, purple and amethyst influences. If blockages continue, work on your chakras so that all are in balance and you are truly ready to soar.

DO THIS

This meditation has been borrowed from a goddess intuition teacher.

In a quiet space on a starry night, visualise the immensity of Nuit's body in the night sky above you. See her smiling at you, inviting you to join her. You step onto a spiralling path of stars that has appeared in frontof you. Now you are surrounded by Nuit's immensity, her vastness, her blackness. You continue to climb the spiral path of stars until you are standing before her welcoming being. She holds out her arms and you walk into her embrace, engulfed by her wondrous mystery. You open your heart and experience a deep sense of oneness with the unknown. You feel safe and calm, centred and secure in Her embrace. You stay there until you feel full, satisfied, ready to move on. Thanking Nuit, you walk the spiral path of stars back to Earth, back to your home, back to your body. Take a deep breath and, when ready, open your eyes. Welcome home!

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The Mythology

Nut (pronounced noot) is the Egyptian Goddess of the night sky, also known as the Great Deep, the Celestial Vault, who daily gives birth to the sun each morning then consumes it again each night. Disapproving of the incest of Nut as she lay over her brother Geb, the earth, Ra, the sun or high Gd, had them pried apart. Nut was then lifted into the sky where she remains, her body formed into an arch. Painted inside the inner lid of a sarcophagus, she mothers and protects the dead on their journey.

The Lessons of this Goddess

Nut's twinkling vast dazk vault stretches out in your life to remind you to open to the mystery. Have you been planning every aspect of your life and left no room for mystery? Is your life wound up too tight? Are you trying to make everything safe by defining it, labeling it, knowing it all? Give way to the mystery, the unknowable. The Wise Woman knows there is much in the universe that will remain a mystery and leaves space for it in the weaving of her life. The Goddess says the way to nurture wholeness is for you to trust that the mystery you let in will be exactly what you need for your journey to wholeness.

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    Nuit (also called Nut, Nwt, or Neuth) is the ancient Egyptian sky-goddess. Nuit is the consort and twin sister of Geb, the Earth God; and is the daughter of Shu and Tefnut (wow, these Egyptian deities are really into the sibling/mate thing ). She is the mother of the major Egyptian deities Osiris, Isis, Seth (Set), Nephthys, and sometimes Haroeris. The circumstances of Their births is described in the Story of Re. They were born on the five epagomenal days of the year (in Egyptian, "the five days over the year"). Every year these days were celebrated throughout Egypt.
    Nuit is the personification of the sky and of the heavens, especially the starry sky of nighttime which all people can look up into and see eternity. It is said that She swallows the stars every morning and then gives birth to them later into the night sky. As sky-goddess Nuit is portrayed either as a cow or as a naked woman covered with painted golden stars with 5 points who wears on Her head a vase of water. Many times She is shown as a woman whose hands and feet touch the ground so that her body forms a semi-circle. Her hands and feet each touched one of the four cardinal points or directions and the arc of Her body represents the arc of heaven and the stars of the Milky Way. Her arms and legs represent the four pillars on which the sky rests. She is held up by Her father Shu (the God of the air). Her husband Geb lies on the ground reclining on one elbow and His knees in the air. In this position He depicts the hills and valleys of the land. It was said that when Shu raised Nuit (the sky) above Geb (the earth) He brought an end to chaos and if He ever left this position, chaos would return.
    The principal sanctuary of Nuit was at Heliopolis. The priestesses of Nuit were known for their erotic dance ritual, the forerunner of modern erotic dance and stripping. At Heliopolis, Nuit is honored as a death Goddess and plays a part in the resurrection of the dead. Nuit's star-studded body is often painted on the inside of coffins and sarcophagi with outstretched arms, so that she may "embrace the deceased.". The pharaoh was said to enter Her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected.
    The modern English words "night", "nocturnal", and "equinox" (as well as the French "la nuit", meaning night) are all derived from Nuit's name.
    Nuit's symbols are the stars, the night sky, and cows. Lapis Lazuli is also sacred to Her. Nuit is associated with Thursday and also with March.

Lord of the Wild Hunt by D.J. Conway   The Lord of the Wild Hunt is the most misunderstood of all the Pagan God's aspects. He is the Celtic male counterpart of the Greek Goddesses the Erinyes, deities who see that justice and what we call "fate" is carried out. Unfortunately, the early European Christians managed to covince people that the Lord of the Hunt was really their devil, who supposedly went out on dark, stormy nights and on Halloween to kidnap unsuspecting souls and carry them off to the Christian Hell.   Actually, this Lord is very different from anything imagined by the Christians. The Lord of the Hunt carries out the will of the Goddess in Her role of recycling Mother and Fate. He makes certain that souls who are ready for the transformation from life to the physical death are in the right places at the right times to meet their destinies. It is also his duty to bring to jsutice those who have broken the laws of the Goddess.   The story of the Wild Hunt or the Ride of Death is known all over Europe. The Nordic and Germanic cultures say this Ride is led by Odhinn/Wodan, or Erl King. Others were also were said to lead a Wild Hunt: Dietrich of Berne (Teutonic); the French Grand Huntsman of Fontainebleau; the Celtic deity Arawn; the Norse Lusse (an evil spirit in the form of a great bird of prey); and King Arthur. Even the folk hero Robin Hood (whose story goes back much further than medieval times) was a type of the Lord of the Hunt. He used his arrows to bring down and punish offenders.   Many Pagan male deities can be identified as the Lord of the Wild Hunt. Arawn of Wales was the god of Annwn, the Underground kingdom of the dead. Gwynn ap Nudd of Wales was the King of the Faeries and also ruler of a section of the Underworld. The Dagda of Ireland was known as the god of death and rebirth.   Odhinn had an aspect as Lord of Death. He was God of the Hanged, and collected his share of warrior-souls from the battlefields. His wolves, Geri and Freki, ran with Odhinn and the Valkyries when he led the Hunt. A shape-shifter, he produced the battle panic called "battle-fetter," a psychological state that caused men to be unable to act.   The Danes knew Odhinn in his aspect as Lord of the Hunt and called him the Ellerkonge (Erl King), or king of elves. The Erl King was associated with the elder tree and with Hel in her aspect as Old Lady of the Elder.   The Norse god Hod or Hodr, who slew Balder, was sometimes shown as a threatening god, wearing a death mask and a hood, very similar to the father of Robin Hood.   In his night ride through the sky, the Lord was accompanied by a pack of spectral hounds (a Goddess animal), and great host of ethereal entities, who possibly represent theancestors of the person he is seeking. The Hounds of the Hunt are known by a variety of names. In England, they are called the Gabriel Hounds, Yeth Hounds, the Dartmoor Hounds, and the Wisht Hounds. The Irish called them the Hounds of Hell, while the Welsh knew them as the Cwn Annwn (Faery Hounds).   The God in his aspect as the Lord of the Hunt is not to be feared, for, contrary to many stories, he performs his task with compassion. Without his gentle guidance, our passage at death would be much harder. We shouldn't fear the Father whose firm but compassionate correction of our mistakes helps us live a better and more spiritual life