Em hotep, everyone!
It was quite a long time ago when I checked the forums of the House last time, or even got in touch with the Netjeru, so I try to re-introduce myself.
I’m a 28-year-old Hungarian Shemsu, who joined the community in 2020. I live in Budapest with the love of my life and our 9-year-old cat, Charlotte. I’m a product & marketing manager at my fiancée’s Warhammer 40,000-themed café-shop-club, and I’m also a FatChanceBellyDance®Style (formerly American Tribal Style®) dancer and (hopefully) soon-to-be FCBD®Style teacher.
Beside dancing, I also like reading, listening to music, collecting Tarot and Oracle cards (also doing some readings), wargaming, going to trips and learn about different cultures. I also love studying Ancient Kemet, of course (I almost became and Egyptologist, but university was just too stressful for me at that time, so I left it).
My RPD was in January 2021, when I was introduced to the community as Hethertshema’anefer (meaning “Hethert makes beautiful music”), Divined Daughter of Hethert-Sekhmet and Beloved of Bast and Yinepu-Wepwawet - and also the one who got the longest Shemsu-name ever, haha. That was a joyful moment with a lot of emotions for sure.
I had a little crisis-like thing in my life, which distracted me from focusing on my spiritual life, so I needed to solve those profane problems (and still have to deal with the aftermath). Fortunetaly some good things happened as well - I was engaged, for example, and we soon start planning our wedding with my fiancée.
Good thing that I also found my passion in a modern, group improvisational style of belly dance (which is FCBD®Style), and I’m training hard to become a teacher, and also to win (or at least get a good place in) competitions.
Good thing that I’m part of my love’s business and we do it as a family-business, so I feel this job much more stable and nice than any other I’ve had before.
But, after stabilizing my life and finding my passion, I’ve also realised that I miss the Netjeru and being part of the community, so, at least from Wep Ronpet, I try to be more active and start doing the Senut again. We moved to our current flat not a long time ago, so not even my altar has a place yet. It’s quite a small apartment and one cannot have too much private sphere, but maybe I can think about a solution - a “box-altar” I can put away or something. If anybody has any experience about it, feel free to write and share your thoughts on it, I would gladly accept some advices on how to make a movable altar.
And, of course, I also look forward to see how things will change around the House, like we will still have the RPD or not, how the clergy and priest-training will change, etc (yes, I had a call to become a priest myself, but now I don’t want to think about it, just about to reconnect first).
So, I hope I can be here more often, and I wish everyone good health and a joyful Summer with your loved ones!
Senebty,
Shema’a