Sekhmet and Bastet

the divine duality of feline nature

In the ancient Egyptian mysteries, the feline goddesses were never merely symbols of animals, but living archetypes of divine consciousness — guardians of instinct, intuition, sovereignty, and sacred protection. I see them as multidimensional intelligences connected to cosmic wisdom, star lineages, and the awakening of humanity’s deeper spiritual memory.

Sekhmet carries the frequency of the sacred warrior-healer — the feline who stands at the threshold between chaos and order, fierce enough to confront darkness yet wise enough to transmute it into medicine. Bastet moves differently. She is the velvet-footed traveler between worlds, dancing through liminal spaces with elegance and intuition, guiding souls through mystery, pleasure, dreamwork, and even the passages of death and rebirth. Ancient traditions connected her not only to protection and joy, but also to spiritual guardianship in the afterlife.

Together, they reveal the complete nature of the cosmic feline: one who roars and one who purrs, one who guards the temple gates and one who slips effortlessly between dimensions. In many contemporary starseed and consciousness teachings, these goddesses are remembered as carriers of celestial intelligence — beings who awaken courage, sensual sovereignty, intuition, and the deep remembering that softness and strength were never opposites, but sacred companions.

To Play and to Fight

We don’t have to look far for examples of how felines are inherently playful and ready to fight. This is powered by a strong yet sensitive nervous system – read here on Feline Starseed Nervous System. When we observe domestic cats we can see how quickly the react, and how much joy they find in play/fighting, walking the thin line. That part, very primal, was never eradicated from felines on their ascension journey, and as humans we often work extra on balancing the tendency to be protective, feisty or actually, accessing the play state. I have encountered many Lyrans so overloaded in their nervous system, that play state, so very important for our life quality (for ALLLLL of universes creatures!) is far away, blocked and needs tender care to bring back online. If that sounds familiar, you might want to reach out for a 1:1 mentoring session here

Bastet carries the vibration of sacred play, joy in expression of dance and creativity.

When we learn about Sekhmet, we often encounter the myth in which she goes into bloodlust fury, and that in itself is a very intriguing information on the capacity of Lyran, lion and feline being – a fierce warrior. A quality of a dragon. It is a great paradox to connect healing and being a fierce warrior together in one goddess, but if we think long enough about it a picture of the paradox becomes clearly logical. To be able to strike a perfect hit as a hunter or warrior, one must understand anatomy, must develop observation, be fully present in the moment, have crystalline discernment to know what is and what isn’t, all qualities incredibly neccesairy to being a high adept healer. Lyrans are Surgeons of the High Light and this quality is embedded in archetype of Sekhmet as a key to our understanding of what does it mean to unite fury with most motherly love. In mystical work with Sekhmet, I was revealed the revelations on Sekhmets and connection to Rose, to the Marys and to Dragon. She is much bigger then Kemet, Ancient Egyptian cult and modern Rose interpretation. If Sekhmet reached out to you, or you would like to know more – see here.

In the deeper mystical traditions, Bastet is far more than a gentle feline goddess of hearth and protection — she is a dancer of liminal spaces, a radiant guardian of thresholds who moves effortlessly between worlds, guiding souls through the invisible doorways between life, death, dream, ecstasy, and rebirth. Like Hecate at the crossroads or Baba Yaga within the forest between realities, Bastet embodies the sacred paradox of playfulness and initiation: she teaches that transformation need not always arrive through fear or severity, but can emerge through rhythm, sensuality, laughter, mystery, and graceful surrender. The cat itself became her perfect symbol because felines exist as living portals — creatures long associated with intuition, spirit realms, moon magic, and the uncanny ability to slip between seen and unseen dimensions. In many esoteric interpretations, Bastet does not drag souls toward awakening; she entices them, teasing consciousness beyond its rigid identities until the soul remembers that existence itself is a cosmic performance of divine intelligence discovering itself through form. This is why enlightened beings across traditions are so often depicted laughing — from the ecstatic smile of the Laughing Buddha to mystics who dissolve into joy upon awakening. At the highest levels of spiritual realization, one does not become detached from life, but intimate with its sacred absurdity. Bastet’s medicine is precisely this: the revelation that even the most serious initiations are still part of the great cosmic dance, and that liberation arrives not only through wisdom, but through the ability to move lightly between worlds with an open heart, a fearless spirit, and a knowing smile.

You might have seen the mystical statue of Sekhmet going viral on multiple platforms, you might have seen videos and pictures of phenomena around the statue which are beyond explanation. Why is she kept aside, in the temple of her name? In 2024 I have traveled to Egypt, to visit places from previous incarnations. Just stepping the threshold of Philae temple, and standing next to the parade of lionesses got me crying uncontrollably, shaking with waves of energy, remembrence, longing. Below you can see my picture from that travel, sobbing as I touched the stone engravings encoded with energy, memory and song of hundreds of priestesses before. Imagine that power but magnified, encoded by high priestesses of Lyra lineage, put into one single statue of dark stone, rich in quartz (the crystal of crystals, capable of holding great capacity of information). The symbology of dark stone is significant in itself, especially if you are familiar with the Dark Feminine and the Black Madonna. A few months later in the British Museum I stood in front of another Black Sekhmet statue, not as charged as the one in hidden chamber of Karnak temple, but still absolutely magnificent in her connection to the Goddess and Mistress Lioness. Again, as soon as I approached her, waves of energy flew through me leaving me ugly-crying in the middle of a busy museum corridor. No shame. She is raw, powerful, graceful, and truly, the Lady of Thousand Names. Sekhmet in Karnak is a Master Activator and in an upcoming episode we will go deep into the Mysteries of Sekhmet – look here for our media and sign up for updates to get notified about airing.

Now imagine she was publicly available and mass activating all the Lyran starseeds, all the feline souls in human form, all the warrior female pilgrims. Not necessarily convenient for a mass tourist place, without going into more spicy interpretations.

me, crying in Philae temple under a parade of Lyran priestesses

MASTERS OF THE LOWER TRIAD

Sekhmet and Bastet can teach us much about the importance of Lower Triad – Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras, (I also include The Holy Womb Chakra into the Lower Triad, listen here to learn why).

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