“It was a stormy night. You know the kind where the lighting strikes. Darkness. Two lovers united in passion. He gives her pain that she endures. Let there be light she moaned in agony. It got brighter and lighter. Hot. Hotter. After nine months the hottest day of the year arrived. They couldn’t stand the heat and she laid in pain to sacrifice to the universe. And so Sekhmet was born and balance landed among the earthlings. The Black Cat was born in the Egyptian month of Paopy.”
I GUESS MOST PEOPLE WONDER WHAT SEKHMET IS. AS WE KNOW, ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION GETS US CLOSER TO A RESPONSE, SO WHO IS SEKHMET WOULD BE MORE OF A CORRECT QUESTION TO ASK.
NOW IF YOU KNOW ME OR KNOW OF ME YOU MIGHT AS WELL KNOW THAT I AM NOT YOUR AVERAGE CHICK. SOME KNOW ME AS THE AFFECTIONATE KITTY WITH THE BASS VOICE AND THE LOUD VIVID LAUGH, TO OTHERS I AM KNOWN AS THE CONFLICT PROVOKING, BLUNT WITCH WITH THE EVIL LAUGH. LET ME TEACH YOU SOMETHING.. I AM BOTH. I CAN BE ONE OR THE OTHER AND I MAKE GROUPS WANNA SPLIT. ALL OF MY FEATURES ARE CAT-LIKE. I WAS BORN ON THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR 1984. I AM A LEO. THE FIERCE QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. I KILL FOR MY OFFSPRING AND MY MATE. MY MOON SIGN IS SCORPIO, FULL OF AGGRESSIVE IMPULSES LEADING ME TO TRANSFER MYSELF AND SITUATIONS IM INVOLVED IN. OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I CAN’T REFRAIN MYSELF FROM TESTING OTHERS WITH CUTTING REMARKS – NOT BECAUSE I WANNA HURT THEM BUT BECAUSE I GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER THROUGH YOUR REACTIONS. LIFE AND FEELING ALIVENESS ARE EXPERIENCED THROUG REBELLION AND TENSION. MY OTHER EXTREME IS MY CRUELTY, MY JEALOUSY AND MY OBSTINACY. THE HARD HEADED NEVER LEARN.
MY RISING SIGN IS ARIES WHICH MAKES ME ENERGETIC AND QUICK TO ACT – SO WHATEVER UR ENERGY IS, IT WILL BRING OUT ONE OF THESE ENERGIES IN ME AND ITS A LITTLE BIT OF A LOTTERY GAME WITH ME.
I AM VERY PROUD TO CARRY ALL THE SIGNS OF THE WOMEN IN MY FAMILY IN ME. MY MOTHER IS A SCORPIO AND MY SISTERS ARE ARIES AND LEO, BUT TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT – IF YOU KNOW ME, YOU KNOW I POLARIZE.
AS I AM CURRENTLY IN NEW YORK AND I HAD TO FIND A NAME FOR MY BLOG, I WAS GOING TO GO BACK TO MY ORIGINAL ALIAS WHICH WAS ” URBAN NOMAD ” BUT I GUESS ID MAKE TOO MANY PEOPLE THINK OF NOMAD THE ARTIST. THEN THE IDEA OF BLACK CAT, INSPIRED BY THE MOVIE BLACK CAT WHITE CAT ABOUT SERBIAN GYPSIES, WAS THERE SINCE MY EARTHLY ROOTS ARE IN THE SINTI/ROMA CLANS OF ROMANIA (AND WHO KNOWS WHERE ELSE). LEAST, I ASKED SOME OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS OUT HERE, THE TWIN SISTERS DYNASTY&SOULL AS WELL AS TRAE IF THEY COULD GIVE ME AN INCENTIVE. INDEPENDANT FROM EACH OTHER THEY TOLD ME I HAD THE ENERGY OF SEKHMET. NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHO SEKHMET WAS.
SEKHMET WAS KNOWN TO UPPER EGYPT AS THE GODDESS OF WAR AND IS DEPICTED AS A LIONESS. SHE WAS THE PROTECTOR OF THE PHARAOS DURING WARFARES. HER CULT WAS SO DOMINANT THAT EVEN THE CENTER OF HER CULT WAS MOVED ALONG AS PHARAO AMENEMHAT I MOVED TO THE CAPITAL OF EGYPT ITJAWY. HOWEVER, FURTHERMORE SHE WAS A ROYAL SON GOD, BEARING A SOLAR DISK AND URAEUS AND LATER WAS EVEN IDENTIFIED AS THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUN GOD RA. HER NAME SUITS HER FUNCTION AND MEANS THE ONE WHO IS POWERFUL.
FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL ABOUT HER PERSONA: “Upper Egypt is in the south and Lower Egypt is in the delta in the north. As Lower Egypt had been conquered by Upper Egypt, Sekhmet was seen as the more powerful of the two warrior goddesses, the other, Bast, being the similar warrior goddess of Lower Egypt. Consequently, it was Sekhmet who was seen as the Avenger of Wrongs, and the Scarlet Lady, a reference to blood, as the one with bloodlust. She also was seen as a special goddess for women, ruling over menstruation. Unable to be eliminated completely however, Bast became a lesser deity and even was marginalized as Bastet by the priests of Amun who added a second female ending to her name that may have implied a diminutive status, becoming seen as a domestic cat at times.”
TO ME IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT MY GIRLS WERE SEEING THIS ENERGY IN ME AS THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE WAY I LOOK AT MYSELF. THE FIERCE HUNTER ON ONE HAND, THE DOMESTIC CAT ON THE OTHER.
AS STATED ABOVE MY IDEA OF CALLING MYSELF THE BLACK CAT DERIVED FROM THE MOVIE AND I DIDN’T WANT TO LET GO OF THAT IDEA BECAUSE IT DESCRIBES ME AS PART OF A ALSO POLARIZING RACE. THERE IS THE IDEA OF THE BAD, HOMELESS, STEALING GYPSY BUT ALSO THE ROMANTICIZED PORTRAIT OF THE GUITAR PLAYING NOMAD THAT IS IN TUNE WITH THE NATURE AND THE TRAVELLER OF COURSE ALSO. PLUS IN THE END OF THE DAY I AM A TRAVELLER AND A NOMAD AT HEART AND MIND. HENCE THE NAME SEKHMET AKA THE BLACK CAT.
MY INTENSIONS ON THIS BLOG ARE STRAIGHT UP NONE. I WILL SHARE MY MIND WITH WHOEVER READS AND HOPEFULLY I WILL INSPIRE SOME OF YOU. NO EXPECTATIONS.. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. JUST STRAIGHT UP THOUGHTS FROM THE MIND OF SEKHMET.
PEACE AND BLESSINGS.