Blessed Summer Solstice!

"My golden hair is wheat and oats,

My robe the ever-changing sky;

The lady-bird My finger bears,

My eyes shine forth in lake and sea.

From the depths of earth My inner sun

Glows through the hearts of all existences.

Atoms and stars: creatures that grow and move,

Know Me as Mother and as Consciousness.

My breath inspires every breath:

The healing rays are Mine.

Look upwards, round about and down,

For I am everywhere." ~ Oracle of Grainne, as received by Olivia Robertson ('Summer Ritual of the Sun', from "Dea, Rites and Mysteries of the Goddess")

First Picture: Art by Olivia Robertson "We Reap to Share"

 

Summer Ritual of the Sun

Isian News issue no. 168, Beltane 2018

Beltane Blessings! Isian News issue no. 168, Beltane 2018 has just been published. Cover art: Photo of Olivia Robertson taken by Ishtar Klaus at the Symphony for the Goddess, 2000, hosted by Hamsa Devi and Thomas Wehmeyer in the famous Teutoforest, near Bielefeld, Germany. Oracle: Invocation and Oracle of the Goddess Niamh by Olivia Robertson. 

This issue is filled with news, reports, wonderful articles, art and poetry, along with offerings from FOI members, including a review of a new book "Divining with Animal Guides" by Hearth Moon Rising and "Soulscapes Tarot" by Jade Ashcroft Moore.

You may view the current issue as a pdf at this link: Beltane 2018.pdf

Heartfelt thanks to all who members who contributed to this issue of Isian News. It is truly a blessing to see Isian News, the original newsletter of the Fellowship of Isis continue on as such a warm and vibrant publication. Isian News was created by the FOI Co-founders and first published in the summer of 1976. It has been continuously published quarterly since that date.

Happy Birthday Olivia Robertson

Remembering Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis. Olivia was born April 13, 1917. Today marks the 101st anniversary of her birth.

Blessings to you, Olivia as you walk the starry pathways! We Say Your Name, That You May Live!

To learn more about the life and work of Olivia Robertson, please visit this page on www.fellowshipofisiscentral.com

http://www.fellowshipofisiscentral.com/olivia-robertson

Founding of the Fellowship of Isis

Blessings Aset Shemsu! In honor of the upcoming anniversary of the founding of the FOI, during the FOI Convocation at Isis Oasis, Geyserville, California, USA, 2006, Olivia Robertson gave the following account of the Founding of the Fellowship of Isis

Enjoy!

Anniversary of FOI Founding: March 21

March 18- Celebrate the Birth of the FOI on March 21: “Earth Magic of Transformation” in Urania. Rite by Attunement for All FOI Members are free to join in by around the world on March 21st, Spring Equinox, which is the actual FOI Birthday/Date of the Founding - either as full ceremonial, or reading it, and visualising it.

There doesn't have to be a specific time as that is difficult to coordinate internationally, without it being inconvenient for some. All the rites can be done solo, by reading aloud, perhaps with a candle, and or incense, or more elaborate if you choose! Relax beforehand, and anoint your brow with water before you start. Make sure you won't be interrupted by phones or people. Cats and dogs usually like to join in! 

Registration within the Fellowship of Isis

Registration within the Fellowship of Isis

Just a friendly reminder: the heads of all centers are responsible for keeping their own records of titles conferred via consecration or ordination, and all degrees earned. This is in accordance with the wishes of FOI Co-Founder Olivia Robertson, who continued the gradual decentralization of the Fellowship of Isis, a process she began in 1999. Any members who wish to send copies of their records to FOI Central for listings on the website or for inclusion in Isian News are warmly welcome 
to do so!

 
www.fellowshipofisiscentral.com

(Photo: Olivia signing a charter at the Nesu House, Isis Oasis, Geyserville, California, 2007)

Oracles of the Seasons: Oracle of the Goddess Tara

ORACLE OF THE GODDESS TARA THROUGH HER PRIESTESS

Priestess: (Invocation) I invoke Thee, the Goddess Tara! Thou art the Pristine Spirit, the Ultimate Nature and the clear Light of Heaven. Thou art the One Who encloses the Universe. Help us to rise above the sorrows and follies of this material world!

Oracle: Have Peace. Peace is now, in your heart, if you will accept it. You will not attain Spiritual Light by refusing to face the darkness. The darkness not only contains your past but also, through transmutation, your future. Have courage. I have gone before you as a mortal woman and shall come again. I breathe my life into all beings and I suffer with them and share their ignorance and follies!

The greatest evil you fear is death. There is no death. While you are identified with a body of clay you find it difficult to enjoy the bliss of the heavens. You are beset by grief, hatred, violence and cruelty. But you also acquire merit through overcoming these obstacles to Illumination. There are souls who never incarnate upon the earth. And these shine like the stars with pure light. But those such as yourselves who struggle bravely every day with its worries and sorrows gallantly walk backwards into the future! You do not know even what your next day will bring.

The peace I bring is faith in the Divine Love, Buddhi. Take my lotus of ever-renewing life and so accept the future, whatever this may bring you. Know that the delusions of this earth become the material for creation in the Heavens. My magic is renewal. I do not ask you to reject evil, but to transmute it through understanding into good. I am Tara of the Many Selves: of the Heavens, of the dreaming moon, of the harsh earth. I enclose all these Selves in my rainbow Halo that encompasses all beings in my eternal Love, Beauty and Truth.

"Oracle of the Goddess Tara" from the FOI Liturgy Book “Melusina, Life Centers of the Goddess”, Ritual no. 12, “Lighting the Rainbow Aura" by Olivia Robertson.

Photo: Shrine of Aquarius dedicated to Uzumi, Tara and Kwan Yin