Themes:  Harvest; Protection; Water; Beginnings; Fertility

Symbols:  Water; Sand; Pyramids

About the Sphinx:  This goddess is the Egyptian guardian of the Pyramids, but she also has other important duties. 

She signals the beginning of the Nile's fertile flooding, the water from which replenishes the soil at this time of year. 

This abundant productivity and protection is what the Sphinx offers us in preparation for autumn's harvests.

To Do Today:  The Egyptian new year is celebrated in September to correspond with the annual flood cycle of the Nile and to mark a new planting season. 

The Sphinx joins in this celebration by producing plenty wherever it's needed. 

To encourage this further, find a pyramid-shaped object (like a fluorite crystal) and place a symbol of your need beneath it (like a dollar for money). 

This puts your goal beneath the Sphinx's watchful eye so she can attend to that matter diligently.

If you hold any type of ritual today, use sand to mark the magic circle, along with this invocation to the goddess and you can change the words boldfaced here to reflect more personal requirements:

Great watcher, Lady of the Pyramids,

I sprinkle your sands to the wind---

let the magic begin.

Sand to the east for abundant hope;

sand to the south for fiery energy;

sand to the west for flowing love;

sand to the north for firm foundations;

and sand in the center to bind the powers together. 

So be it.