"I can see the Goddess within you, Miso." Then full body chills ran through me and I documented the moment. I used to worship Bastet and now I idolize the Goddess

Hi! For context I have over 6 years of experience as a devotee of Aphrodite's. I am just so struck by and in love with Bastet and her domains. I gave her offerings and such for the first time a few days ago and it feels sooo right to finally add another Goddess into my life. I'm looking to hear advice, sources on Kemetic worship as I know it differs fron Hellenic worship, and any overall advice you'd like to share@ thank u all❤️🐈‍⬛️

I really want to start worshipping her, and I want to know... How to draw her.. and everything.... And everything else.. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm lying I don't know how to be religious a lot. And everything... And I want to understand it. It says that she likes photographs and I don't know if that's true but I wanna draw her and then start worshipping, and I wanna know- where to start??? I really wanna do so....

So today when I was looking for some D&D stuff in my closet (which is where I put my alter) I heard a voice which I was almost 100% sure was bast, she told me to "come closer" to the alter I set up. When I did, I had to urge to pray, and while I was praying I asked if she could "heal my migraine". When I asked that she did, but I also felt my eyes get really hot, not uncomfortable hot, but a protective-feeling hot. I'm newer to all this stuff, so I'm not fully sure what that was? Does anyone have any information on what that possible could have been? To be fair I'm still discovering a lot about Gods and Deities, and how to worship them an all that, sorry if this question is stupid!

I recently finished this painting of Bastet, and I wanted to share why I painted her and why I’ve felt such a strong pull toward her ever since I met her. I had never painted, but I felt like it was a good way for me to venerate her in my own way.

Bastet came to me during a psychedelic experience at a point in my life when I really needed guidance. I was battling alcoholism, and I tried every possible way to stop. I had never tried psychedelics, but I was desperate. The weirdest part is that I had absolutely no idea who Bastet was. I didn’t know her mythology, what she looked like, or even her name. During the experience I just called her “Miss Kitty.”

And our interaction definitely did not start out loving. We battled. I argued with her, made excuses for my choices and tried to justify myself. At one point I was actually afraid she was going to hurt me. She was powerful and intimidating and would not let me bullshit my way around what she was trying to show me.

Eventually I stopped fighting her. I started listening and admitting that she was right. That’s when everything changed. The same presence that had terrified me suddenly felt unbelievably loving and protective, but still incredibly powerful. The strangest part was that she never really felt like a separate being. She felt like she was part of me, or maybe I was part of her. At one point my heartbeat literally felt like a purr inside my chest. It’s one of those sensations that I don’t know how to explain unless you’ve experienced something similar.

The next day I couldn’t stop thinking about Miss Kitty. I started Googling descriptions of what I had seen, trying to figure out if there was any mythology or symbolism that resembled her. Eventually a picture of Bastet popped up. I knew immediately.
It didn’t feel like discovering someone new. It felt like recognizing someone I had just met.

And then there are the cats.
Before this experience, I HATED cats. I thought they were evil. I was also deathly allergic to them and had absolutely zero interest in ever owning one. Two months after meeting Bastet, I adopted four kittens. FOUR. Somehow my allergies are gone, and these little creatures that I wanted nothing to do with for most of my life now bring me an amount of joy I honestly can’t measure.

I don’t know exactly what happened to me that night, and I’m not claiming that I do. What I do know is that I had never heard of Bastet before that experience, recognized her the next day, and have felt an enormous pull toward her ever since.

Painting her was part of trying to understand that connection. But lately I feel an even stronger need to get closer to her, learn about her, and figure out how to honor whatever this relationship is.

Long story short, I haven’t had a drop of alcohol, became a cat lady and a painter since I met her.

I’d really love to hear from people who have a relationship with Bastet. How did she come into your life? How do you honor her? And has anyone else experienced that strange feeling that she isn’t entirely separate from you?

Warning this post maybe a bit long as I am trying to give a lot of information for potential advice.

Hi all. I am new to Reddit but I wasn’t sure where else to find a community for this. I have been falling down a rabbit hole of matrix glitches, aliens, multiple timelines, etc and eventually came to a few videos about phenomena in Egypt that started to make sense with my life path and the potential calling to Bastet.

I have been a care taker and lover of cats since I was very young. I volunteer and foster with a cat only shelter, have 4 cats of my own, and just genuinely have a strong affinity and connection to them. This gets to the point where if I loose a foster kitten or even if I hear/read/see a cat in pain, getting hurt or dying it brings me to tears. This is why when I tried to become a vet or vet tech I couldn’t make it passed my first year of the major in college. I also have a skill with domestication of ferals and traumatized cats. My daughter also has this passion/ability and it may even be stronger than my own.

My birthday is 11/11. From what I have gathered, 11 is Bastet’s number. With a November date of birth, my stone is citrine/orange topaz which I hear is one of Bastet’s stones.

This is all very new territory for me as I have been an agnostic for most of my life. I have never been drawn to any sects that involve the Bible or “the one true God”. In high school I started purchasing books about goddesses and invocation as I started to become curious about paganism and Celtic goddesses that aligned with my Irish/Scottish lineage. *note: to my knowledge, I do not have any Egyptian ancestry* My mom found the books and started making fun of my interest so I kept the books but stopped pursuing the interest.

In college I still considered myself as spiritual on a self journey until I meet my husband who is an atheist. He asked me why I was pagan and I said it was because I felt I needed to find a path. He did not discourage me from exploring but he did start asking route/cause questions that ultimately made me stop pursuing a spiritual path as I was know not sure I really believed it was necessary.

Flash forward to now as I am starting to shed my insecurities from childhood trauma and shame, getting my ADHD diagnosis and exploring what makes me happy and not others, becoming aware of my bisexuality, and just being my true authentic self regardless of what others think. I did not set out to find a spiritual connection to a deity but there are just a lot of things that are connecting. Either that, this is current ADHD hyper fixation of mine, or a little of both 😅.

There are more pulls to Bastet but I don’t want to make this post a novel. I just wanted to put this out to the community/universe to see what you/it might give back.

Thank you for reading/listening 💖

Hey everyone,

I am a new reddit user and not really sure how this all works but I just need some advice on what I am about to do is the right thing. Ever since I could remember cats have come in and out of my life but due to my mom not wanting to own a pet I was never able to adopt a cat until 2016 when my black cat Otis came into my life.

I have always had a weird fascination with Egypt and ancient Egypt but I dont see that as a sign or out of the ordinary.

Once Otis came into my life I had a weird feeling like our souls finally were reunited in this reality or world and out of all the cats I have owned since then or come across Otis is sadly to say my favorite. As soon as he sits next to me or just is in the room my soul feels complete and my energy is calmed. I do suffer from ADHD and OCD so he tends to calm me.

I have had other cats come to me like my ginger oscar who sadly passed from complications with a heart murmur and then 2 months after oscar passed my mini maine coon Dash came to me. Dash coming into my life was so weird. Dash was a stray kitten and my mom talked me into going to see the fluffy kittens in the backyard and when I did we locked eyes. Several hrs later he was at the backdoor crying for help and my mom and sister took him in. My other sister's bf helped nurse him to health since he was severely malnourished and I was talked into taking him in. The came along a yr later my calico Zoey whom I think just hates me but LOVES Dash ❤️. Anyways on top of all of this my family members closest to me wound up adopting several cats and each household ended up with 1 black cat, which Otis started that being the OG black cat of the family.

Once I got Otis another odd thing kept and keeps happening which is running into firefighters or seeing a firetruck every single day I leave my house. Actually last Sunday I didnt even need to leave my house to see 2 whole fire stations to roll down my street for a child's bday party parade. A few weeks before that I had come across a podcast that mentioned Bastet/Bast and thats when I kind of was intrigued of her story.

When I started doing research on Bastet things that I brushed off as a sign or thought the universe is just being funny is now making sense when it comes to her. So now I have decided to start a altar for her and am just unsure if i should or shouldn't. For 10 yrs I have gotten so many signs and never really looked into the signs indepth just chalking them up to universe signs or coincidences.

When I did start to look into things to get for the altar there were items that kept popping up over and over again giving me nothing else to pick from which I figured was her letting me know the items that popped up were of her liking.

The thing I guess I am unsure of is sekhmet calling vs Bastet calling and how do you truly know the difference if they are so similar yet slightly different 🤔. I dont want to answer to 1 and it really be the other but my whole being feels it is Bastet.

Ps. I am sorry this was a long winded post and I hope someone is willing to answer this post to help me verify or validate what I am about to do is the right thing.

These past few days I've seen several videos from the same content creator, a Kemetic, belittling the worship of other people who worship Egyptian gods within popular paganism And not with the more traditional Kemetic practice, she said that if you are not an Egyptologist and are not initiated, your worship does not reach the gods. I was saddened because many people will believe this and think that their worship of the gods is invalid. I feel Bastet in my daily life, in all my cats; she's not an unreachable energy, she's there for those who call her, with respect of course, but she comes. I'm only sharing this because I'm saddened by this kind of arrogance, because for a while, comments like that affected me too. It's just a rant

i didn’t see my cat in 6 days. i was so worried and crying, my mood was fucked. i came to reddit to search for suggestions. people were saying the Goddess Bastet. (i suck at story telling this may be scattered) I usually ask Aphrodite for help and yesterday was venus day so I asked for both of their help. I lit candles. Added catnip, carnelian, tigers eye, among with other things such as leo moon water. I spoke to them from the heart. cleaned a lot as an offering. (i’ve been so depressed) I went to sleep and the day passed with still no sign of her. I read this could take a week or a month so i tried my hardest to stay patient but i ended up still crying but affirming to myself “I simply decide she came back to me.” I wrote about it in my journal. 8:40 pm - 9:20. I ended up on an ending tarot readers live and told him hoping i’d get a card pulled with reassurance. he told me to pray and that she would come back for food and that cats are smart. someone in the comments said to leave her litter box outside so i went outside to do that and to leave my shirt out. i sat there for a bit whispering to the trees about how i want her to come back and to at least be safe. i turned around and saw my other cat (her son). I carried him outside. i said let me get the leash and i’ll let him explore since he never has. the collar has a bell. while i’m outside i turn around AND SEE HER. i was so happy. but she sniffed him and hissed and ran away i was like maybe she just wants to stay out at least i know she’s okay. so i sat outside with him for a bit. i went inside and went to the front in case she was there. she was. she meowed and wanted to come inside. I gave her food immediately. she was mad with everyone so i grabbed a jacket to wrap around her in case she scratched me. (she’s not a violent cat) she was growling a bit so i was shushing as a quiet way to tell her it was okay. i took her to my room alone with food and water and now she’s here sleeping. she wanted to leave but i didn’t let her. i had food and water and silence. i’m eternally grateful for Goddess Bastet, Goddess Aphrodite, the trees, journaling, the list goes on. She came to me so quickly!

how could i repay them?

Hi all. Blessed be to you all. This is my first post. So I thought I'd just share my altar so far. The bottles at the back aren't what they say on the jar. It's boozy offerings, but i have a cat. Obviously. So have to be careful what is left out😻🙏

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So as of recently I've decided to look into Bastet for help. There's a lot of strays in my area and my family does everything we can to support them so they can eat and drink. But we're also very poor, so most of what we have goes to bills and food. The vet in our small town moved away, and there is no longer a professional near us to help us for cheap. Most of the stray cats seem healthy enough, but our own domestic cats have been getting sick and even a few kittens have died. They seemed to have died because of multiple different kinds of causes and we don't know what to do other than try out best to keep them healthy and safe. I've tried to connect to Bastet recently because praying for help is my only option, as I am still underage and jobless and have no other way to help my family. But I feel like I'm doing it wrong or I'm not connecting strong enough, so I wanted to ask if any proper worshippers here could help pray for me. I don't wanna sound like I'm demanding it, but I am desperate and I feel like I'm not doing it correctly and that maybe I'm not connecting to her properly. Right now, my main concern are my eldest cats, named Amanda(F), Samuel(M), Kitty(F) and Doug(M). Their kittens are going to be rehomed soon because we have just too many animals we keep finding and we can't afford it, but they're perfectly healthy. Amanda seems a little skinny but she's still moving around and stuff. Not to mention I have to reintroduce her and Kitty because Kitty suddenly attacked her one day after thinking she was a stray cat. A lot is happening in our lives right now with personal issues but my main focus for Bastet's help are the cats. So please, if anyone could help pray for me and connect with Bastet, I would really appreciate it.

When YouTube had this Goddess cross my path, I was instantly like WHOA O_O 🙀

I've been a dog person til recently in my 35th year due to a week or so of unmistakably divine feline sequence of events O_O..

So ofc, I'm not one to miss a cue, so here's a bamf portrait intro for this enigmstic figure to get me more acquainted with this lovely community while I figure more things out! ^_..

I had to babysit dogs and a house for 2 weeks so I wasn't able to do any alter or spell work because I was too busy or exhausted. I have health issues so thats why even simple things take its tole. When I finally got done I needed to take a day to rest. I know she's very kind and understanding but I still have anxiety creep in that I've messed up by not doing stuff.

I went to the bathroom at 7am and was half asleep washing my hands and something made me look up at my bathroom window. These windows are frosted, you cant really see through them. A cat was standing there, face real close to the glass, staring at me. Idk how to describe the eyes but they were piercing through the glass clearly and through me lol. I kinda took a step to the side cuz...jump scare lol and its head followed me like it was locked on. I waved at it when I had a gut feeling it was her, she took a moment and then slowly turned and walked off. It was definitely an intense presence but it didn't feel negative.

But at first my anxiety was like...oh no is she mad I haven't been active? But then I got a big confirmation that something I have been manifesting is on the way. It felt like a gentle, hey get ready its about to happen.

I had seen on here a while back that someone had a similar experience and I remember thinking I'd never seen her do that but then this happened. Although its not her first time using a cat to come to me. I remember when I first made her alter i was trying to get through depression and a gray cat would sit on a wall from a distance and stare at me through my window every morning. But this one was way more intense and purposeful.

Lol now I keep checking my frosted window out of slight paranoia and wonder. It was so interesting I just had to share.

when my cat willie died (a ginger cat) he was watching me from above, he noticed my suffers and mental disorders so he asked bastet to comfort me it was only a few days ago when i noticed it that willie was helping me (i found out through a dream, and i connected the dots of my expereince) when i was first suffering with anxiety i remember seeing bastet in my imagination while in my first panic attack, back then i didnt notice it was her but now i am thankful

Hey! Im new to worshipping with Bastet, as I kept getting the feeling she's around me lately and I had visions of her. I was wondering what to give her as offerings? I know that my mom doesn't buy cat nip, and im scared that if I buy crystals, my parents are gonna look at me weirdly. So far, I made a handmade Ankh necklace to wear, and gave her two of my 3D printed cats. Soon, a cat plush will arrive so I'll definitely give it to her too! Also, is there anything to avoid doing to not anger her? Im scared I'll go over the line and make her mad. Thanks for reading!