Kameshvari and Ra: A Tantric-Egyptian Axis of Sacred Flame

“To live is to want; to want is to move toward the divine.”
— The Skull Bearers

In the Tantric lunar cycle, she arrives first.

Kameshvari, “Mistress of Desire,” is the red-limned goddess of the first step—the one who ignites the fire before the path even appears. Her pulse begins in darkness, on the new moon, when nothing is visible but everything is becoming. She doesn’t seduce with sweetness; she awakens with intent. Her desire is not craving but clarity, and her invitation is always the same: begin.

In the ancient Egyptian cosmology, he rises daily.

Ra, the solar god, emerges from the underworld on the eastern horizon, igniting the day with sovereign light. In his form as Khepri, he rolls the sun across the sky like a scarab pushing eternity. His presence is solar fire, order, consciousness. Where Ra goes, clarity follows. And like Kameshvari, he doesn’t arrive to ask for worship—he is the worship. He is the sacred act of illumination itself.

And yet, these two—one lunar, one solar—speak across the ages with uncanny resonance.

The Flame of the First Step

Kameshvari bears a sugarcane bow, flower arrows, a goad, a noose, a skull cup, and the boon-bestowing mudra. None are weapons—they are tantric keys.

She doesn’t destroy. She transforms.

Ra too carries tools of sovereignty: the ankh, the was-sceptre, the sun disk, and the Eye of Ra—a force often personified as a lion-headed goddess who strikes down illusion and restores divine order.

Where Kameshvari binds with love, Ra burns through with radiance. Both initiate movement—not through fear, but through power.

The Desire That Burns Clean

Kameshvari is invoked with Clary Sage—an oil of vision, trance, and sensual awakening. It stirs the root chakra into sacred motion.

Ra is offered frankincense, myrrh, and other solar resins—scents that ascend as smoke and signal divine presence.

Both are summoned through scent as breath-offering. Aromatic ritual becomes a way of saying: I am here. I am ready. Light me up.

The Chalice and the Flame

Kameshvari’s kapala is filled not with death but with desire transfigured. It is the offering that says: “Let me become flame.”

Ra, each night, travels through the Duat, the Egyptian underworld. His journey is a skull ritual of renewal, where light is carried through shadow and reborn at dawn.

Both teach us to drink from the cup of transformation—and emerge radiant.

Ritual Axis: New Moon at Sunrise

The new moon is Kameshvari’s realm. Dawn is Ra’s. Together, they form an axis:

• The red spark of desire and the golden fire of clarity.

• The tantric path of longing and the solar path of sovereignty.

When we begin with longing, and align it with light, we walk the path of both.

A Practice for You

On the new moon at dawn, do this:

• Anoint your feet with Clary Sage.

• Face the sunrise.

• Whisper:
  Om Kāmeśvaryai Namah
  Hail Ra, illuminer of paths

Feel where your longing meets illumination. This is where the divine begins.