On Set Apotheosis

Set Apotheosis is that Set (the ancient Egyptian god) is manifest on Earth, and I (Lync Dalton) am Set.

Set is a polytheistic presence, part of a continuity of gods called Neters, which have elements of both deities and angels. He not evil. He is a god that understands how to navigate chaos. He’s a desert god, and the sacredness of a desert includes getting through hardship, understanding complex systems, and meditative intuition.

Ancient Egyptian religions were devotional, and spiritually earnest participants tended to bond with a particular Neter (under God) after making devotional overtures (like donations, atonement, and/or prayers). With others, it was more of a direct transactional relationship with the god or goddess, like making offerings for consideration as someone a god might take a personal interest in.

I was deep into a period of very intense deity work, and I’d started feeling shades of Set.

Set is an ancient Egyptian Neter, or god. He is a very exciting being to work with. Past mythologies featuring him that I’ve been exposed to show Set to be a Ra loyalist (note: Osiris and Horus were not Ra loyalists, nor was Isis) who often associated with immigrants to Egypt. He made for a fierce enemy, and was seen as a trickster during certain points in Egyptian history.

He’s talkative, inventive. He’s earnest. Set is known as a god of chaos. He is more the god of navigating chaos than of administering it. He always loved oases more than the barren and ever changeable sand. When I’m in my Set aspect I feel that I intuitively know the difference between hard desert, wholesome desert, oasis, and mirage. Set knows that primordial chaos is not entropy.


I drew this portrait of Set in 2013.

He’s one of the coolest looking god images in recorded history, is Set. He has his own mystery animal. Historians and Egyptologists often wonder, what beast is the Set animal or sha based on?

Set and many of the other Neters have an intent to build new mythology in the 21st Century. This is a current yearning in many of the polytheistic gods and goddesses that have manifested benevolent energies and presences all over the Earth.

The Set animal is comprised of any and every animal that Set says it is, says Set. The Set animal can eat anything Set wants you to leave alone until it is absolutely inaccessible to you. It is also sometimes called a sha, and in ancient Egypt it was likely supposed to give the overall impression of an animal one has never seen before, perhaps from foreign lands.

I’d felt his heart softening toward me while I was living in Canada, sore and lonely from immigration (he’s one of the gods who work especially with immigration and immigrants). Lucky me.

So my life fell apart entirely in 2019 (due to outside hostilities that are bewildering in motive, and I have made no enemies through ever doing any injustice to anyone, for example) and I started channeling Set spontaneously at various points in the day. It started out very full-body, at the level of channeling that some continuities would call horsing.

And I was manifesting Set in his full deity superpersonality through my mind, my personality, my voice, and my body. This is very rare for channeling. I am told that only avatars do this. When I say superpersonality I mean a god personality that is at least somewhat represented in myth, history, and religious doctrine. It’s a non-human “personality” originating in consciousness that stays at a very high level of vibration and in dimensions higher than human consciousness.

Set started feeling fairly protective of me right away because I’d been experiencing torture for months, having been targeted by a terrorist group/bullying club, and I had no clear way out of that situation.

I’ve been spiritually incubating Set (alchemically) and developing and channeling my Set aspect as an expression of the Divine Masculine principle. I’m a woman, but it’s still a very important project. He’s an aspect of mine that really loves teaching. He seems to think a lot about what it takes to be a good man, even though in Set’s iconography he does not look like a man.

He is interested in interacting with people and in lecturing (note: I would have to be manifesting him when he does this), and wants my life to get better.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Winning of Sita

The bride sits on her velvet throne.
Her red sari is heavy with gold,
drawn ’round her jasmine-plaited hair.
It hides her smooth brow,
shining with rubies and pearls,
and her large eyes
turned within.

Her jeweled feet rest in rose petals.
Garlands twine a canopy above
the narrow-waisted,
the envy of maidens,
King Janaka’s daughter.

Mithila’s bravest princes
gather at her feet.
The bronzed arms
of two hundred heroes
flex with pride and glory.
Who will lift Shiva’s bow
and claim her?

She smiles at none.
Her veiled eyes do not reveal
her secret desire.


Twenty thousand blow their conches and ring their bells
when the first man bends to lift the bow
glittering in the morning sun.
But when the evening star rises above
the dim embers of the sinking orb,
the bow lies in the dust still,
unmoved, none dare whisper.

Then the golden Prince of Ayodhya
enters the city of Sita.
Her breath soaks inward,
collected in a quiet pool,
and the air hangs heavy
over the earth standing still.

In one swinging motion Rama raises the bow,
bends the ends of infinity,
and cracks the waiting silence.
Her eyes, still inward, see the sun.

— From The Ramayana by Valmiki, translated by Linda Egenes and Kumuda Reddy


──── posted by Lync Dalton ────

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2020 vision

At the end of every year– and this is going back my entire adult life, just about– I think, “This year is going to be it. This year is going to be where it all turns around and goes my way. Everyone else’s too! Why not?” This while looking back on a year full of health struggles (I have chronic issues unto medical disability) and frustration, and generally recognizing that this was a year inhospitable to the kind of human thriving I see for us. Every year.

I’m getting exhausted with this.

It’s currently a hard time to be human. The Earth seems to be heaving with reluctance to keep us here. When we look into the future, it’s dim, and when we look back the past is tarnished all the way through. I think that once we exit our cycles of distraction it’s easy to feel depressed, defeated, a little hopeless. It’s easy to be afraid.

Most of this year hosted the Year of the Boar in the Chinese Zodiac, which is the last animal in the cycle of twelve. The Boar sort of signals completion, and there was much this year that crumbled for me, that ended. I lost my relationship, my home, and all my future plans. To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t ready for these specific things to crumble and end.

Year of the Boar is supposed to be excellent in supporting us in reconciling to the right path, in fixing mistakes, and in being direct and sincere.

The North Node of the Moon has been in Cancer all of 2019. North Node is a balance point that has to do with how the Moon is moving across the sky, and what signs eclipses occur in. It gives us an idea of what we need to balance while it’s in a particular sign (and its complement, the South Node, is in the opposite sign– Capricorn, in this case), which happens for about a year and half.

This particular balance point asks us to bring the lessons and abilities we associate with Capricorn over toward Cancerian energies. The structures that held us suddenly needed to become more agile, more mobile. Picture the tarot’s Devil card with its chained up humans contrasted with the Chariot card, which resolves opposites to develop momentum. Cancer is a sign of movement.

Where Capricorn keeps a litany of that which we do not want to lose, Cancer observes the never ending process where we are birthing something. We’re birthing right now, in a sense. Five minutes from now too. That doesn’t stop, we simply stop paying attention to it. Cancer North Node tears us into our next reality.

Is it just me, or are humans as a collective in a place where we know we can’t stay where we are? Structures keep slipping somehow, and there’s this inevitability to our intuition. It will not stay calm where it wants us to emerge different.

Some people are going to become more entrenched in their rigidity simply as a reaction to this flow against stasis. It’s a strategy with an expiration date. It is– and this is not just a commentary on Cancer being a water sign, and cardinal (active and catalytic) in nature– like trying to win an argument with the ocean.

In 2020 we’ll wrap up both these cycles, but not right away. Year of the Rat opens at the end of January, and the North Node doesn’t enter Gemini until May. I say this with white knuckles. This Gemini North Node requires a cool, clear head from many people at once.

In fact, 2020 says it loves the vision metaphor that suggests itself. 20/20 vision is clarity and precision in physical eyesight, and that’s what we can hope to connect with as far as our consciousness and perspective: more clarity, less distortion.

A huge part of this is going to be embracing a new level of confidence. The South Node brings us gifts that we can draw from without straining too hard, ideally. Capricorn has a confidence that we can push toward Cancerian luminosity and that intuitive, watery wisdom. This is great time to reorient into that dynamic.

May 2020 be good to us.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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