A Kemetic Teaching, Guided Meditation and Sa Sekhem Sahu Practice

On August 22, 2026, we were honored to appear as featured guests on Global Peace Tribe’s The Awakening World.

Our gathering unfolded as the Sun approached its annual conjunction with Regulus, the brilliant star known as the Heart of the Lion—a celestial meeting that occurs on or near August 23 each year.

Astrologically, Regulus has long been associated with leadership, courage, visibility and the responsible use of influence.

Yet the deeper question is not:

How powerful can I become?

It is:

What will my power serve?

In this replay, we explore that question through the wisdom of Kemet—ancient Egypt—and the living teachings of Ra, Sekhmet, Heru, Ma’at and Hor-em-Akhet.

The experience includes a Kemetic teaching, an embodied guided meditation, sacred music with Donny, and a devotional Sa Sekhem Sahu hekau led by Heather.

Watch the Replay

We invite you to create a quiet space before you begin.

During the guided meditation, you may wish to sit or lie somewhere comfortable. You are always welcome to keep your eyes open, soften your gaze, change your position or simply listen.

If possible, allow yourself a few quiet moments after the replay to receive whatever has stirred.

There is nothing to force and nothing you must experience.

The Sun and the Heart of the Lion

Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo and has traditionally been envisioned at the Lion’s Heart.

Every year, the Sun comes into conjunction with Regulus on or near August 23. During this time, the star is hidden within the brilliance of the Sun, rising and setting with it. EarthSky explains this annual astronomical conjunction here.

In the tropical zodiac, Regulus is now positioned near the beginning of Virgo.

For us, this offers a beautiful symbolic movement: from the image of royalty and visibility into the Virgoan mysteries of devotion, discernment and service.

The royal heart is not measured by how much attention it receives.

It is revealed through what it protects, what it nourishes and what it is willing to serve.

Sacred sovereignty is not domination. It is the capacity to stand within ourselves with integrity—to become responsible for the gifts, energy and influence that move through us.

The Kemetic Arc of Sacred Power

Within this teaching, we explore four interwoven Kemetic principles: Ra, Sekhmet, Heru and Ma’at.

Each reveals a different aspect of sacred power.

Ra: The Living Solar Presence

Is Ra simply the physical Sun?

The answer is both more intimate and more expansive.

The people of Kemet encountered the Divine through the living forms and forces of nature. The visible Sun was not merely a symbol placed at a distance from the sacred. It was one of the primary ways solar divinity revealed itself—through light, heat, rhythm, regeneration and the daily return of life.

Ra is not merely the physical sphere we see in the sky, nor is Ra wholly separate from it.

The Sun may be understood as a visible expression of a larger solar intelligence and generative power.

Each dawn reveals the mystery of Ra:

Light returns.
Life stirs.
What was hidden becomes visible.

Sekhmet: Power Tended With Care

From the Eye of Ra comes Sekhmet, the lioness associated with power, protection, healing and fierce solar force.

Sekhmet teaches us that power itself is not the problem.

The question is whether that power is conscious, coherent and rooted in the heart.

Sekhmet was never meant to be suppressed.
She was meant to be tended with care.

Her story is not simply about rage, but about carrying great power without losing the heart.

When our inner fire is unconscious, it can consume indiscriminately.

When it is rejected, it may erupt from the shadows.

When it is tended with wisdom, the same fire can become courage, warmth, protection, healing and clear boundaries.

This is the Solar Heart: the union of love and will.

Love without will may struggle to act.

Will without love may forget what it is acting for.

The Solar Heart joins them.

Heru: Clear Sight and Restored Wholeness

Heru—often known by the Greek name Horus—carries the mysteries of clear sight, rightful direction and restored sovereignty.

The story of Heru is not the story of someone who was never wounded.

His eye is injured during his struggle with Sutekh. Through healing and restoration, sight returns.

The Eye of Heru therefore becomes a symbol not of untouched perfection, but of wholeness renewed.

Clear sight is the ability to perceive beyond our immediate reactions.

Heru asks:

Can we see what is truly here?

Can we distinguish intuition from fear?

Can we distinguish sacred action from the desire to prove ourselves?

Power requires direction. Heru helps us see where that power is being asked to move.

Ma’at: The Measure of Power

Ma’at embodies truth, balance, justice, sacred order and right relationship.

She is not simply an external set of rules. Ma’at is the principle through which life remains in harmony.

The feather of Ma’at gives power its measure.

It asks whether our choices create greater coherence or greater fragmentation.

It asks whether our speech, actions and leadership are aligned with truth.

Ra gives the light.
Sekhmet gives the force.
Heru gives direction.
Ma’at gives measure.

Together, they remind us that power becomes sacred through relationship.

Fire needs the heart.

Vision needs truth.

Leadership needs responsibility.

Strength must know what it serves.

Hor-em-Akhet: Heru in the Horizon

At Giza, these teachings meet in the colossal lion-bodied guardian commonly called the Sphinx.

The word “Sphinx” comes through Greek tradition. The monument’s original Old Kingdom name is unknown, so we cannot claim certainty about its earliest name.

By the New Kingdom, however, it was honored as Hor-em-Akhet—Heru in the Horizon.

Hor-em-Akhet is carved primarily from the living limestone bedrock of the Giza Plateau. The monument carries the powerful body of a reclining lion, the head of a human sovereign and a gaze directed east toward the rising Sun.

The lion offers strength.

The sovereign brings conscious direction.

Heru brings clear sight.

The horizon is the threshold where darkness becomes dawn.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities places the monument within the Fourth Dynasty and associates it with Khafre. It also records that by the Eighteenth Dynasty, the monument was understood as a solar manifestation called Horemakhet, or “Horus in the Horizon.” Read the Ministry’s historical overview here.

The Dream Stela and the Sands of Forgetting

Between the great paws of Hor-em-Akhet stands the red-granite Dream Stela of Thutmose IV, who ruled around 1400–1390 BCE.

The stela tells us that Thutmose, still a young prince, rested near the monument during the heat of the day.

At that time, much of the lion’s great body lay buried beneath the desert sands.

As the prince slept, Hor-em-Akhet appeared to him in a dream. The great guardian promised him kingship if he would clear away the sands and restore the buried form.

Thutmose later became king, cleared the monument and erected the Dream Stela between its paws.

Standing before the lion’s chest, the stela appears almost like a great stone breastplate. This is our poetic interpretation rather than an ancient title, yet the image is powerful: a covenant between human consciousness and sacred power.

The prince was not simply promised a throne.

He was given a responsibility.

Before he could receive the visible expression of power, he had to uncover what had been buried.

This is where the ancient story becomes our story.

We also accumulate sands of forgetting:

Old identities.
Inherited beliefs.
Fear.
Grief.
Distraction.
The voices that taught us to diminish our gifts.

The inner Hor-em-Akhet does not need to be manufactured.

It needs to be remembered.

What sacred presence within you is waiting beneath the sands?

What truth, strength or gift is ready to meet the horizon again?

Awakening the Lion’s Heart

The guided meditation within the replay leads you into an inner encounter with the Lion’s Heart.

Through the experience, you are invited to:

• Feel the grounded strength of the lion’s body

• Receive the golden light of Ra

• Tend the inner flame of Sekhmet

• Awaken the clear sight of Heru

• Clear one layer of the sands of forgetting

• Bring the feather of Ma’at into the heart

• Ask what your power is here to serve

This is not an invitation to seek power over another.

It is an invitation to remember the power to remain present, speak truthfully, choose consciously and serve life.

Sa Sekhem Sahu: An Embodied Hekau

We close the experiential portion of the replay with Sa Sekhem Sahu, offered as a contemporary Kemetic devotional hekau within our living practice.

We do not present the complete phrase as a verified formula from an ancient inscription. We work with it devotionally through three intentions:

SA — Protection and sacred boundary

The hands surround the heart, gathering a protective field that allows us to remain present and whole.

SEKHEM — Awakened power

One hand rests upon the heart and one upon the solar center, bringing love and will into relationship.

SAHU — Luminous embodiment

The arms open gently outward, allowing sacred presence to move through the whole body and become available in service to life.

The movement becomes a simple embodied prayer:

Protection.
Power rooted in love.
Luminous presence in service to life.

You may return to this hekau whenever you need to remember your center:

Sa … Sekhem … Sahu …

A Reflection for Integration

After watching the replay, allow yourself a few quiet moments with these questions:

• What within me is waiting to be remembered?

• Where is my inner fire asking to be tended with greater care?

• What becomes visible when I look through the eyes of the heart?

• What does Ma’at—truth and right relationship—ask of me now?

• What will my power serve?

You do not need to answer immediately.

Let the questions travel with you like a small golden flame.

Meet Us at the Horizon

For those who feel called to encounter these teachings within the sacred landscape of Kemet, we invite you to join us for our Spring Equinox Sacred Pilgrimage through Egypt.

March 19–April 2, 2027
15 days and 14 nights

Our pilgrimage begins before dawn in the presence of Hor-em-Akhet as the Equinox Sun rises upon the horizon.

We will enter not simply as tourists observing ancient monuments, but as pilgrims listening for what is ready to be remembered.

The experience includes sacred temple teachings, private and intimate encounters, an eight-day Nile journey aboard a dahabiya, and visits to gateways including the Great Pyramid, Abydos, Dendera, Karnak and Philae.

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If the horizon is calling you, we would be honored to meet you there.

With love,

Heather & Donny Regal
Co-founders, Black Swan Temple

Dua Hor-em-Akhet.
Honor to Heru in the Horizon.