In the year 2001, Thoth appeared to me for the first time, me not knowing who he was or much at all about Egyptian mythology, really just helped me believe it more.  He introduced himself to me at my first breath workshop; the class consists of breathing consciously with intent for almost two hours. I had begun using the Yogi Breath of Fire meditation and knew how powerful that was for me I wasn’t sure if I could deep breath for two hours straight. I decided to try.

 

      Almost immediately it felt like I was transported, into the inside of a giant pyramid. I had a strong feeling I’d done this breath work before. A strange golden bird with a long beak appeared before me and it took me Spirit traveling. Two hours later, I wasn’t ready to stop breathing. I wanted to keep going.

 

     Afterwards while sharing my experience; we figured out that this golden bird was Thoth. Not knowing anything about him I immediately looked him up on the internet and discovered that it is said in the translation of “The Emerald Tablets”, Thoth was an immortal who founded a colony in Khem, Ancient Egypt after the sinking of Atlantis. He ruled 16,000 years, from approximately 52,000B.C. to 36,000BC. It is said that Thoth built the Great Pyramid of Giza, (erroneously attributed to Cheops) directly over the entrance to the Halls of Amenti. By those in the age of darkness which followed his passing Thoth was defied as the God of wisdom.

 

     I did not feel connected to Egyptian themes. After the workshop, Thoth came to me twice more, once in vision with golden symbols and once in a vision journey. The visions journey was extremely powerful and I thank him for coming to me, but that had been it for his appearances in over two years until he showed up in my painting.

 

     As I stated before Egyptian Mythology had never interested me, I felt unconnected from and even afraid of it.

 

     At the end of my first journey with Auyawaska a medicine plant from the Amazon used to open vision, I saw the Egyptian Goddess Nefertiti bow her eyes in recognition to me twice. Therefore to honor this experience I have a bust of her in one of my sacred spaces in my home. That had been my conscious touch on Egypt.

 

     I’d met a woman briefly at a retreat in Sedona, and a few months later the next time I saw her she had been to the Great Pyramid of Giza and meditated with a small pennant of Nefertiti in which she gifted to me. Upon receiving it I said out loud, “okay I‘m opening to this information I have been so fearful of receiving in the past, with regards to all this fear around Egypt.”

 

          At 12pm on the Winter Solstice, I held a ceremony in the Medicine wheel near my house/studio with a group lead by a Native American friend, Bear Cloud. Sacred geometry was used with songs, tones and vibrations, all were apart of the ceremony and it was beautifully powerful.

 

     I began Thoth the day after this ceremony. I had been preparing the blank canvas for a few days before this. I like to Bless and sing and in many ways honor the canvas I am about to bring Spirit onto. I could feel the painting was going to have a strong energy about the Goddess. Then the male figure appeared after it dried I was surprised to see the Ibis above his head. I knew then that this was no ordinary man, this was Thoth the Ancient Atlantean who is known as the Scribe, for his keeping of esoteric records as well as written word and much more. Besides the fact that I could see from the beginning he was certainly connected to his feminine, I didn’t know where else the Goddess fit in and that was fine with me. I was thrilled to be given this opportunity to explore Thoth within the realms of my painting.

 

     One week after I began painting on Thoth I received a call from an activist friend of mine from Los Angeles. She and a friend had been trying to get onto the Navajo reservation to deliver some supplies and support, but they found the roads too muddy to drive. She was looking for a place to crash for the night before they made the long drive home.

 

    I hadn’t seen her since I’d moved to Sedona. Like sisters we sat and talked, candles flickering in front of the Sacred space where Nefertiti sits. She began telling me how she feels she has so much darkness inside it frightens her. I ask if she wanted to share what she meant. She continued with a detailed description of a reoccurring dream that had taken place in ancient Egypt. In one part of the dream she was watching from above a woman using her arms to drag herself desperately across the stone cold floor of a dark tomb. When she backed up, the scene revealed the woman had no legs from the knees down. Julia expressed how traumatizing this dream was to her.

 

   A couple of months ago she said she watched a National Geographic program on the Discovery channel. They had thought possibly the discovery of Nefertiti’s tomb had been made. As the camera panned they showed a dark tomb, the body had been buried arms crossed over the heart like royalty in ancient Egypt, but they couldn’t explain why her legs were broken at the knees. The tomb had been robbed and desecrated; therefore they closed it back up stating no proof existed and Nefertiti’s missing tomb was never confirmed.  She believed the woman in her dream was Nefertiti. Julia’s story sent chills up my spine.

 

     She was very upset and I suggested that the information came to her for a reason, and to go into a meditation and ask why. She did and immediately Nefertiti came in and said, ask Cher to help free me. I listened silently knowing Julia did not know I have often worked with disincarnate spirits. She said she’s been buried within a curse that has held her powers of wisdom in bondage. We both sat silent for awhile feeling the possibilities and if this actually could be true.

 

     The next day I began doing research on Egypt and the history of Nefertiti’s time. She was the favorite wife married to King Akhenaton, who was the first ruler of his time to introduce the idea of a monolithic God. Eventually he had many cult statues and deities destroyed throughout Egypt and forbid this type of worship. This sole worship was unprecedented and most likely caused quite a silent upheaval. He was branded a heretic and a rebel after his death and the old ways of worship were restored.

 

     It’s no secret that the people of ancient Egypt took great pains to insure a proper burial for entrance into the afterlife and black magic was a huge part of this time period as well. The more I read and understood the more I felt this story could actually be true.

 

     Fear began to surface for me, who was I to go into all this old Egyptian black magic stuff and mess with the unknown. I did not feel I needed to be meddling in someone else’s darkness of death.

 

     But I had been asked and I couldn’t ignore that. I prepared a place in my studio in front of the Thoth painting and went into a meditation where I asked what I could do to help in this situation, always asking for my Highest Good. Osiris came in right away, with Horus and many deities of Egypt. I was told they were preparing a gate of golden symbols that grew deep into the earth reaching the Halls of Amenti where all records of antiquity are kept. I felt relieved I wasn’t alone in this adventure and agreed to do what I could.

 

     Afterwards I tuned into my painting and meditated with it for a while, I had seen a face within the paint the day before, and now I could see the whole thing that was explained to me in my mediation. The Face is Nefertiti’s and she carries the Ancient Emerald Tablets of Wisdom and Knowledge. She climbs a stairway to a golden gate made of symbols. Inside the gate, waiting for her arrival is a white dragon and many other Beings of Light.

 

The hummingbird is her guide to enter through the gate by entering through the Eye of the Ankh. I do not know any correlation between Egypt and the hummingbird.  For me the hummingbird is a sign to use plant medicine, such as herbs and a guide into the fairies realm, in this case here, she is being guided through the golden gate.