A guide to harnessing the ancient power of hieroglyphs

• Reveals hieroglyphs as magical tools for manifesting ideas in the material world

• Offers in-depth interpretations of 60 hieroglyphs and guidelines for understanding them as words of power, oracles, and dream symbols

• Explains how to create your own hieroglyph cards and amulets and use them for divination, meditation, and manifestation work

Words are magic. They operate on many levels through both sound and symbol. Egyptian priests understood that language and thought could create realities if the exact words are uttered at the right time, properly intoned, and filled with intention. They called their magical language of hieroglyphic symbols medju neter, meaning “the Word of God.” These symbols were said to have been created by Isis and Thoth and were presided over by the goddess Seshet, keeper of the Akashic records. Through their chant lines and repetitions, sound vibrations, and hypnotically recurring images, hieroglyphs, such as those found inside the pyramids, were intended to activate a trancelike state that allowed the individual to ascend into the heavens and thus, riding on this incantatory language, converse with the ancestors and the Creator.

In this detailed guide, author Normandi Ellis explores how to use hieroglyphs as words of power for manifesting ideas into the material world as well as how to utilize them in magic, meditation, divination, and dream work. She offers a deep look at the many layers of meaning contained within 60 important hieroglyphs, breaking down the elements within each symbol and explaining the myths behind them, the gods and goddesses they are connected to, their initiatory significance, and their oracular and dream meanings. She also shares guidelines for interpreting hieroglyphs so readers will be able to come to their own understandings about the secrets they hold.

Providing instructions for creating your own hieroglyph cards, amulets, and other magically empowered objects, Ellis offers practices and strategies to use them, with detailed explanations for the historical, magical, practical, and symbolic reasons why each method is effective. She offers several layouts and card spreads for divination readings based on Egyptian myth, numerology, and astrology. Revealing the depth of meaning behind each of these powerful ancient symbols, Normandi Ellis shows that we can still harness their millennia-old magic today.

Normandi Ellis is an award-winning writer, workshop facilitator, and archpriestess of the Fellowship of Isis. The author and coauthor of several books, including Awakening Osiris and Imagining the World into Existence, she leads tours to Egypt. She lives in Chesterfield, Indiana.

FOREWORD BY NICKI SCULLY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE HIEROGLYPHS
The Word of Gods

THE UNIQUE MAGIC OF THE HIEROGLYPHS
Opening the Way to Meaning

Familiarize Yourself with the Hieroglyphs in Meditation

Use the Hieroglyphs as an Oracle

Invoke the Hieroglyphs When You Dream

Engage in Ritual Work with the Hieroglyphs

Create Amulets to Access the Hieroglyphs’ Healing Power

Use Number Magic to Broaden Your Understanding of Hieroglyphs

A Final Caveat

THE HIEROGLYPHS
Words of Power
Akh
Akhet
Amen
Ankh
Anpu (Anubis)
Arit Asar (Osiris)
Ast (Isis)
Aten
Atum
Ba
Benben
Blank
Djed
Djhuty (Thoth)
Dser
Duat
Geb
Heh
Heka
Heru (Horus)
Het (Khet or Khat)
Het-Hor (Hathor)
Hotep
Hu
Ib (Ab)
Ir-ma’a
Ka
Khaibit
Khat
Kheper
Ma’at (Ma’aty)
Manu
Meri
Nebhet (Nephthys)
Nefer
Nefertum
Nu
Nut
Per-ā
Ptah
Re (Ra)
Rekht
Ren
Sahu
Seba
Sekhem
Se-Shen (Lotus)
Se-Sheshet
Seshet
Set
Shen
Sia
Sopdet
Ta
Thet
Wab
Wadjet
Waz
Zep Tepi

THE LAYOUTS
Tools for Divination

The Dendera Zodiac Layout
The Djed Pillar or Tree of Life Spread
The Sphinx Reading
The Conversational Reading
The Daily Numerology Reading
The Ennead ( Journey) Reading
The Ogdoad Reading

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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