Protection, guidance, purpose, alleviate grief and hardship. Jackel-headed god, child of Osiris and Nephthys, born secretly, into the unseen. Guide and guardian of the dead, protector of the living.

Strength, vision, transformation, spiritual progress, inspiration. Hawk-headed god, Divine child. All-seeing and able to rise like the sun out of darkness to exceed all conflict.

Healing, understanding, clarity, intensity, response, ingenuity. Wife and sister of Osiris, mother of Horus, the Divine Child, conceived supernaturally. Isis is 'ignorant of nothing in heaven and on earth'.

Harmony, quieting fears, involvement, faith, universal rhythm. Goddess who personifies Truth and the cohesion of the universe, whose emblematic ostrich feather is set against a person's soul on her scales.

Secret ceremonial work, risk, unconscious depths. Sister and 'shadow' of Isis, mother of Anubis, whose enticement stands for the pull of the unknown and nature's in-built faculty to decompose. Dark, dangerous, exciting.

Explore dark realms, recall past lives, personal harvest. God of the dead and the afterlife, both solar and lunar: in life he brought agriculture to Egypt, after death he was god of fertility.

Empowerment, assertion, success, individuality, creativity. Primal sun-god who came into being out of the formless dark waters of prehistory. Rules rebirth, vanquishment, Light, energy and life-force.

Fierce, warlike attributes, determination, standing firm. Lioness-headed goddess of destruction, sun-god Ra's daughter who ferociously fought his enemies in the desert. The 'powerful one'.

Ritual work, second sight, truth, and hermetic wisdom. Ibis-headed god of wisdom who won 5 extra annual days by gambling with the Moon. Clarity.