Black Swan Temple, Haiku, HI (2026)

09/06/2026

The eclipse showed us what we could no longer carry.

The Virgo New Moon asks what we are now willing to tend.

Between release and renewal, there is a quiet threshold. We meet it at the water.

We pour a libation into the flowing stream—a gesture of gratitude for all that has carried us to this shore.

Blue lotus for awakening.

Roses for the wisdom of the heart.

Then we bless fresh water and drink, allowing the prayer to pass from words into the body.

Pisces teaches us to surrender to the current.

Virgo asks us to become devoted to what the current reveals.

What we release creates space. What we practice within that space shapes what comes next.

This is the movement from Eclipse to New Moon—from letting go to choosing with discernment, from dissolution to one clear act of care, from the old plan to a living rhythm.

Virgo reminds us that a more loving world is created through the smallest acts we are willing to repeat.

May the wisdom remain.

May the weight dissolve.

May what matters now be nourished through our daily devotions.

Nuk pu Hapi.

I am Hapi.

The living current moves through me.

As we approach the Virgo New Moon, what simple practice are you ready to tend?

Let me know if the comments below!

With love and devotion,

Heather
Black Swan Temple

09/02/2026

Before the first morning, there was water.

In one stream of ancient Egyptian creation imagery, Nun—the primordial waters—held the possibility of all that would become.

From those waters, the blue water lily emerged.

Known in ancient Egypt as 𝘀š𝗻, often rendered as 𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘯 and commonly called the blue lotus, its opening became an image of the newborn sun rising into the first morning.

This flowering was embodied by 𝗡𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺—the youthful deity associated with the lotus, fragrance, beauty, renewal and the dawning light.

In the Memphite tradition, Nefertem is the child of Ptah and Sekhmet: creative power and solar fire giving birth to a fragrant new beginning.

And in Utterance 249 of the Pyramid Texts, King Unas appears as Nefertem—“the lotus at the nose of Ra”—coming forth from the horizon each day.

Perhaps this is why the blue lotus continues to speak so deeply across the ages.

It rises from the unseen world beneath the water, opens itself to the light and reminds us that creation is not only something that happened long ago.

Creation is happening still.

Here on Maui, we tend blue lotus in our ponds—nourishing the roots, clearing the water and making room for the blossoms.

Soon, we will return to Kemet and walk among the temples where these ancient stories still breathe through stone.

𓆸 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗴𝘆𝗽𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟵–𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳

If Egypt has been calling to something ancient within you, we invite you to explore the pilgrimage through the link in the comments ... or comment EGYPT!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

With love,
Heather & Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

Image notes:
Nefertem artwork is a contemporary artistic interpretation by Sam Bacon.
Pyramid Texts image: Utterances 253–247, Pyramid of Unas, Saqqara. Public-domain image via Wikimedia Commons.
Sekhmet & Nefertem Karnak Temple photograph by Heather Regal Salmon.

08/31/2026

So much of what supports a blossom happens where no one can see it. 🌿🪷

This weekend I tended our blue lotus ponds—feeding the plants, caring for the surrounding area, and removing some of the water-cleansing plants that had become so abundant they were beginning to crowd the lotus.

It reminded us that devotion is not always about adding more.

Sometimes it means clearing space.
Sometimes it means nourishing what lies beneath the surface.
Sometimes it means trusting what has already begun.

This is also the work of integration.

The ceremony may create the opening, but what follows is tended through rest, water, reflection, and the small choices that help what we received take root.

If you feel called to enter our Pisces Lunar Eclipse Kemetic Yoga & Sound Healing Ceremony, the replay is now available.

Explore the ceremony at the link in our bio, or visit:
https://www.blackswantemple.org/events

What are you quietly nourishing within yourself this week?

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08/26/2026

WHEN THE OLD PLAN DISSOLVES…
Our first instinct may be to reach for another one.
To find the answer.
Choose the direction.
Make the uncertainty disappear.

But a lunar eclipse does not always offer immediate clarity.
Sometimes it asks us to pause long enough to recognize that something has already changed—even if we cannot yet explain what is taking its place.

This Pisces Lunar Eclipse invites us to soften our grip on certainty and listen for the quieter truth moving beneath the surface.

What are you continuing to carry because it was once useful…even though it no longer feels alive?

What might become audible if you stopped forcing an answer?
On Thursday night, the Moon will move through Earth’s shadow in a deep partial eclipse.

Then on Friday, we will gather online within its integrating afterglow for a 𝗣𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮 & 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆.

Through embodied movement, breath, hekau, meditation, and restorative sound, we will create space to soften, listen, release, and receive.

Within our guided meditation, we will enter the Nile and rest within the renewing waters of Hapi—allowing whatever has completed its purpose to dissolve.

Not to erase the wisdom.
To release the weight.

🌕 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
12 PM HT · 3 PM PT · 6 PM ET
Live Online
Sliding Scale: $11 · $22 · $44
Replay included with every registration
No previous Kemetic Yoga experience is necessary. Come exactly as you are.
Reserve your place through the link in our comments
https://www.blackswantemple.org/events

The eclipse does not ask us to see the entire path.
Only to recognize when the old shore is no longer ours—and become quiet enough to feel the living current carrying us onward.

With love,
Heather & Donny

08/25/2026

July opened a doorway in the sky.

August has been teaching us how to cross it.

Between July 18–22, Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune in Aries, Uranus in Gemini and Jupiter in Leo gathered near 4°, forming the rare planetary cradle we have been calling the Renaissance Alignment.

It was never meant to resolve in a single moment.

Then came Wepet Renpet…
the Leo Solar Eclipse…
and the Sun’s meeting with Regulus, the Heart of the Lion.

Each carried the invitation deeper:

What is ready to be lived?

What has become too alive within you to remain hidden?

What must change so the future can move through you?

Now the Pisces Lunar Eclipse arrives within that same 4°–5° field, drawing Uranus, Neptune and Pluto back into the story.

But Pisces changes how we meet the threshold.

We are not being asked to push harder.

We are being asked to soften…
to listen…
to release what no longer belongs on the path ahead…
and to receive what can only be heard in stillness.

The doorway is still open.

What are you ready to leave at the threshold?

🌕 Pisces Lunar Eclipse
Kemetic Yoga & Sound Healing Ceremony

Friday, August 28, 2026
12 PM HT · 3 PM PT · 6 PM ET
Live Online via Zoom

As the eclipse continues to reverberate, we will enter the receptive waters of Pisces through Kemetic Yoga and sacred sound—making space for the body, heart and spirit to integrate what this eclipse season has revealed.

Sliding-scale exchange: $11 · $22 · $44
Replay included and emailed following the ceremony.

𓆃 Reserve your place through the link in our comments
https://www.blackswantemple.org/events

With love as we cross this threshold together,

Heather & Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

08/24/2026

Sometimes we do not fully know what is moving through a teaching until we hear how it was received.

After our recent experience on *The Awakening World*, a viewer shared:

“You are bringing through a lineage so ancient, so powerfully—and the chalice is overflowing through this field to all of us. Thank you.”

We are deeply grateful for everyone who entered this field with us.

Together, we explored the solar consciousness of Ra, the courageous heart of Heru, and Hor-em-Akhet—the ancient Guardian of the Horizon. We then moved from teaching into embodiment through meditation, sound and the Hekau:

Sa Sekhem Sahu.

May the life force awaken within the spiritual body.
May the lion’s heart remember its strength.
May the light we receive become light we can carry into the world.

We have now gathered the teaching and replay into a new blog post so you can experience—or revisit—it in your own time.

𓆃 Read the teaching and watch the replay through the link in our comments
https://www.blackswantemple.org/blog/the-lion-s-heart-sacred-power-in-service-to-peace

With love and gratitude,
Heather & Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

08/23/2026

𓆃 𝗪𝗘’𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬!
Donny and I are honored to be featured guests on Global Peace Tribe’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

Join us for:
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡’𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧
𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦
Together we will explore the Kemetic wisdom of Ra, Sekhmet, Heru, Ma’at and Hor-em-Akhet—and the deeper question:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲?

Our 50-minute experience will include:
☀️ A live Kemetic teaching
☀️ A guided Lion’s Heart meditation
☀️ The embodied 𝗦𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝘂 hekau with sacred sound and movement
☀️ An invitation to bring courage, clarity and power into service to peace

𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 — 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟮
𝟯 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶ʻ𝗶
𝟲 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰
𝟵 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻

You can join us in either of these two ways:
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲:
https://www.facebook.com/TheGlobalPeaceTribe:

==> https://www.facebook.com/TheGlobalPeaceTribe

𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83354701156?pwd=DhIl6VX2OVnuloxEhZDOcyYdd34qC2.1:

==> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83354701156?pwd=DhIl6VX2OVnuloxEhZDOcyYdd34qC2.1

Bring your breath, your body and your voice—and come as you are.

We would love to share this luminous field with you.

With love,
Heather & Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

08/22/2026

𓆃 𝗪𝗘’𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬!
Donny and I are honored to be featured guests on Global Peace Tribe’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

Join us for:
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡’𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧
𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦
Together we will explore the Kemetic wisdom of Ra, Sekhmet, Heru, Ma’at and Hor-em-Akhet—and the deeper question:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲?

Our 50-minute experience will include:
☀️ A live Kemetic teaching
☀️ A guided Lion’s Heart meditation
☀️ The embodied 𝗦𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝘂 hekau with sacred sound and movement
☀️ An invitation to bring courage, clarity and power into service to peace

𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 — 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟮
𝟯 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶ʻ𝗶
𝟲 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰
𝟵 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻

You can join us in either of these two ways:
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲:
https://www.facebook.com/TheGlobalPeaceTribe:

==> https://www.facebook.com/TheGlobalPeaceTribe

𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83354701156?pwd=DhIl6VX2OVnuloxEhZDOcyYdd34qC2.1:

==> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83354701156?pwd=DhIl6VX2OVnuloxEhZDOcyYdd34qC2.1

Bring your breath, your body and your voice—and come as you are.

We would love to share this luminous field with you.

With love,
Heather & Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

08/21/2026

𝗦𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝘂.
Protection. Sacred power. Luminous embodiment. ☀️
This embodied hekau is part of our living Kemetic devotional practice—a marriage of sacred sound, intention and movement.

𝗦𝗔 — protection, guardianship and sacred boundary
𝗦𝗘𝗞𝗛𝗘𝗠 — awakened power, vitality and spiritual authority
𝗦𝗔𝗛𝗨 — the luminous spirit embodied

This is not power over another.
It is the power to remain present.
To protect what is sacred.
To act with a clear heart.
To allow our gifts to become a blessing.

As the Sun approaches its annual conjunction with Regulus—the Heart of the Lion—we are being invited to ask:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲?

𓆃 Join us tomorrow, Saturday, August 22 at 6 p.m. PDT, as featured guests on Global Peace Tribe’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

We will share a live Kemetic teaching, guided meditation and embodied 𝗦𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝘂 chant:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁: 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲

Come breathe, move and sound with us.

With love,

Heather and Donny Regal
Black Swan Temple

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