June 22, 2018

Sun in Cancer

 
Blessings of the Sun in Cancer!  Below is a link to an audio clip of Lawrence Durdin-Robertson during an FOI rite:

Audio transcript:
"Companions on the quest for occult wisdom hidden within the Great Deep, know that the Sign of Cancer was reverenced in remote antiquity. In the fourth month of the Chaldea Duzu, it is the Northern Gate of the Sun whence, at the Summer Solstice, it commences its retrograde movement. With Scorpio and Pisces, Cancer forms the Watery Trigon. To the Coptic Egyptians, this sign was the Power of Darkness of the Jackal Anubis, Guide of the Dead, a Deity of Sirius. It was known as the Dark Sign with no eyes. The Ancient Egyptians knew it as Scarabeus, the beetle Kephera that holds the mud ball of earth. Cancer is depicted as Sacer, the Water Beetle of Immortality, in the most ancient Zodiac known, found in the Temple of Isis in the Denderah Temple of Hathor."
 
(Photo of the Shrine of Cancer, Foundation Center Temple, by Minette Quick.  Audio and photo copyright reserved.)
 
 
 

June 20, 2018

Festival Report: Summer Solstice

"As Nature unfolds its ever-changing drama each year,
it surely provides the ultimate demonstration
of ever-present creativity and true Divinity."

You may read the full report on the Summer Solstice Festival at the Fellowship of Isis Foundation Center by clicking on this link:




(photo Foundation Center © Durdin-Robertson, Huntington Castle)

Summer Letter from Cressida Pryor

"May we too remain open to harvest
all the loveliest flowers of the soul;
be it a smile to the stranger
or an out reaching hand of welcome."
 
The Summer Solstice letter from FOI Steward, Cressida Pryor, has been uploaded and you may read it in full by clicking on the following link:
 
 

June 13, 2018

German & Spanish sections


Please note that the entry pages for the German and Spanish sections of our website have moved.  The new URLs are below:

 

Here also is the page for the FOI Manifesto translated in various languages:

Many thanks to our team of translators for giving their time and support in this manner.  If you would like to help with translations in any language, please feel free to contact us.



(artwork of Isis & Osiris, © Olivia Robertson, photo © Minette Quick)

June 7, 2018

Castle Tours

 
The Castle is holding summer tours once again. The Gardens and Tearoom are open 11am-5pm and tours of the House are 2pm, 3pm and 4pm, May through September.




(photo © Durdin-Robertson)

June 1, 2018

June Oracle: Goddess Athena


"Understand the meaning of what I am,
and you will gain comprehension
of your own lives and destiny."
 
The Oracle for June is from the Goddess Athena.  You may read it in full and listen to audio of Lawrence and Olivia by clicking on the link below:
 
 
 
(Pallas Athena, Medusa Altar/Members' Shrine. Foundation Center Temple. Photo © Minette Quick.)