10/10/2025
Rebirth in Myth and Cosmos: Seeing the World as Metaphor - part III of the Rebirth series.
Its time to take the explorations of rebirth into myth, cosmos and divine design. I'd love to share my learning and own explorations with you here...
Throughout all mythical knowledge of Egypt it is clear that the people of those times had a strong connection and relationship with the cosmos. Even richer myth shows that science, spirituality, and philosophy was simply the way of life to the ancients. Those alive lived to serve a greater purpose - a purpose connected to the whole. Nature, human, cosmos - a symbiotic relationship.
Egypt was an era of heightened wisdom and knowledge, and the soul - or the eternal life was the purpose of the individual. To ensure that life was lived in accordance with ma'at - the virtues and principles of being human. This assured safe passage into the field of reeds - what the Egyptians saw as the destination between this life and the next in the eternal evolution of the soul. The closest place to what would more modernly be seen as heaven. The opposite place was into the mouth of the god/dess Ammit where your soul was devoured and ceased to exist. Therefore, becoming good at living with purpose was rather important.
Those who understood the purpose of the temples and energies of those times created the reliefs that cover the temple walls. A large quantity of the depictions show the pharaoh making offerings to the gods and being reborn as the appointed guardian of the realm, who then has dominion over the gods and the worlds. The pharaoh was the human one in the spotlight, the way shower, the one who communed with the gods to know how best to serve his people.
One thing I hope you'll agree on with me is that history is open to interpretation. I believe this to be more than true when it comes to Ancient Egypt and the Neteru. Egypt is one of the very few remaining places on our planet where it is clear that the energy of the cosmos is pulsating through continuously. Even without having stepped foot there (in this lifetime) many of us feel the energy, the pull or call - the connection to something greater than us. My interpretation of the clues left for us, is that the feeling, pull or call is what the ancients want us to trust.
This doesn't mean that I disbelieve the history and remarkable discoveries - to the contrary - but what I do believe is that we must also feel for our personal message, our personal clues from these lands. And one of the clearest messages I see and have felt is that of rebirth. With contemplation it is clear to see that in life, we continuously die to be reborn. Just as the pharaoh, who died to his simple life to be reborn as a child of the gods - or as a god in human flesh. This is the journey of life. Change and renewal.
Everything in our lives is real, and it is metaphor, symbolic, and sublime. We live in a world where duality is our greatest lesson to master. Not to choose sides, but to learn the balance of - and/both. Therefore we must see that life gives us good experiences and bad experiences. There is a place for our light and our shadow. It is by living through all the experiences that we discover over and over again who we are. We use the bad experiences to shed the old, wake us up from a life no longer meant for us, the bad experiences shape us. The good experiences are where we are co-creating an existence that is beneficial to more than just ourselves. We apply all that we learn to further betterment and this leads to the greatest aspect of duality - seeing that we are spirit living in matter. That we are here to be both human and soul, to learn how to walk the harmonious path of opposition.
So what if the people of Khemet felt this message from the lands? What if they studied nature and saw this process and how important it is? Perhaps their attention was on what they could feel, and if that reflected what they saw, perhaps they were compelled to build temples where the energies were strongest. Perhaps they built temples that would house a certain frequency that related to a certain energy they also felt in their body. Perhaps they noticed that the sky mirrored the earth and that we are the stars that they looked up upon. We could even go as far to say, that the eras that followed such as the Greeks, Romans, Ptolemeic also built upon the sacred lands - temple upon temple, seedstone upon seed stone, to relay what they felt, saw and were in relationship with.
The River Nile closely resembles the curvature of the spine and of our Milky Way galaxy itself. The sky Mother Nut (pronounced noot or nuit) is depicted as a blue star filled body that arcs over the land and her husband Geb the earth god. The two were so in love that they remained entwined for an eternity. Ra sent Shu the god of air to hold them apart because from the separation of the lovers of earth and sky came the greatest creations of all. Isis, Osiris, Elder Horus, Nephthys and Set. The very beings that tell us the best tale of the ultimate sacrifice for eternal rebirth.
When Set tore his brother Osiris into 14 pieces Isis, and Nephthys set out to find all of them. One story tells that everywhere they found a piece of Osiris a temple was erected. Each temple was created as a contribution to a great whole - the rebirth of Osiris.
Grief, passion, love and devotion are strong intentions. Is it possible that Isis and Nephthys' feeling for Osiris created an eternal pulsation of renewal throughout the lands of Khemet? That from a bad situation, something good was becoming?
History is open to interpretation. Myth, is a story laced with metaphor. I have noticed that each time I return to the story of Osiris I feel something different. Could it be that I have died and been reborn since the last time I felt the energy of this myth? Yes, many times. Each time I feel a starting point reappear, I feel a call to return to the wisdom of my body and chakras. Usually a realignment is required, sometimes I can do it myself, other times I need a guide or space holder for the gentle piecing back together. Like Isis did to Osiris. Sometimes it is simple and quick, other times it is a longer process.
Interestingly, the milky way galaxy is made up of arms, a central nucleus with curved bands of constellations which astronomers have named. The arm we are located within is the Orion Arm, or Orion spur. At certain times of the year, depending on your location it is possible to view the the centre of the milky way galaxy which is the image we most relate to - the resemblance to the Nile river comes from our view of the central column of our galaxy. What makes this even more interesting is that the star Sirius, Egyptian name Sodpet was so important to the Ancient Egyptians and was referred to as the soul of Isis or Isis in the sky. When we look for Sirius in the night sky, the easiest way to do so is to first search for Orion's belt, then see Sirius rising as if following Orion. Orion in many references to the ancients is seen as Osiris in the sky, and Isis is seen to be following him into the underworld (over the western horizon). The stars disappear from view for 70 days which happens to be the number of days given to the funerary rites of Osiris. The length of time that the people mourned his second death. The inundation of the Nile river at the time we see Sirius rising in July/August is spoken of in some myths as the tears of Isis at the sorrow of the death of Osiris.
Each myth or story of Isis and Osiris is woven with the energy of resurrection, the rebirth. We see it in two forms - Osiris who does not return to life fully, but instead leaves the earth plane but is alive in his Light body, every Egyptian in ancient times lived to become Osiris - that is, to become eternal. To live beyond human life.
Horus was the fruit of immaculate conception - when Isis and Nephthys re-membered Osiris, Isis used her magic to conjour the seeds of life from Osiris and became pregnant with Horus. This part of the mythic-story is where the concept of remembering who we are comes from.
Through the initiatory process of death-rebirth we go through the separation of who we were, we are torn apart like Osiris, then we become Isis, mourning the loss of what was whilst walking the liminal space discovering what is left of us, what works and what doesn't. Piece by piece we remember who we are, from what remains. And what we actually discover is that we had everything we needed within us all along. The death-rebirth initiation revealed more of this to us. It took us through a deeper awakening.
Slowly, by moving through the death-rebirth journey over and over we begin to notice the feeling of a familiar rhythm - the feeling of the natural laws, the ebb and flow of the current of life and what we discover as we ride it.
By using the metaphor, symbology and subtle energy guiding us we come into deeper relationship with nature and cosmos through a deeper relationship with ourselves, and the wisdom held in our body.
Using metaphor we can tap into the concept of the Nile being like the Spine of light within us - the chakra column. We can open the chakras like unlocking a gate, crossing a threshold through the body accessing the subtle energy from the chakras, like we would at the temples. The body is our temple. Metaphorically and metaphysically walking through it, into the temples of the chakras we move into deeper wisdom. Through an internal and symbolic rebirth. We listen to the wisdom we have gained which has made us become anew.
The chakras are a system, much like the nervous system, digestive system, cardiovascular system - each of these systems has its own job which contributes to the whole. Sound familiar as to the principles of living for the ancients?
So how would it feel and what would it look like if we began to look for the ways in which we can intentionally create, walk and sit in the energy of natural laws and principles. To see them playing out in our lives?
Could you then begin to see that they already are? They are the daily experiences, relationships and catalysts that shape us, they are the actions and thoughts we have. If we were to take some time to see life through the macro-micro lens to see where the the cosmos (or universe) is guiding you and working through you, we would all find a simplicity to the ebbs and flows we are moving through and we would navigate the world, our body and our spiritual nature differently.
Have you ever closed your eyes to meditate, expecting stillness, yet instead you find yourself guided to go on a wild inner journey? Perhaps you are flying over a desert to end up swimming in lava, to then be stood speaking with a guide or plant or animal? The inner world interactions are how we see the cosmos within us. They are there to support our transitions and initiations, such as a death-rebirth within life.
In the next writing I will give you a glimpse into the journey we will take as we walk through Egypt in November. The pilgrims walking with me have been preparing themselves and are feeling deep initiatory processes beginning. As we move through sacred ancient lands, through temples that activate and awaken, we will be doing so with a conscious rebirth as our intention. We will be walking through the temples and the body in a sequence shown and confirmed to me as a rebirth pathway.
Thank you for reading and I encourage you to ask me any questions or leave any comments about what may have risen for you as you have been reading this. I am also putting together a list of resources (books, speakers, ways to access ancient wisdom within) if you would like to receive this please let me know.
There is still a small window of time to join us on the Wings of Isis Egypt Pilgrimage, read more here: https://www.lightofthesoul.co.uk/egypt-spiritual-tour
Gemma x
