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EGYPT 2027
Lotus • Lioness • Ra: Nile Mysteries Pilgrimage
A spacious, luxury-held pilgrimage where Egypt’s lands and Nile waters reveal their living mystery—temples, water rites, and rare private moments held as true initiation. Guided by Lotus • Lioness • Ra, you’ll be received into sensual remembering, fierce clarity, and solar direction that changes what you carry home.
10 days / 9 nights (9-18 January 2027)
The WATERS remember, your body understands.
Lotus is the Blue Lotus of Egypt, the flower of sacred waters, sensual presence, and inner remembering. It speaks to the way the Nile restores you: softly, steadily, from the inside out.
Lioness is Sekhmet; she is fierce love, clear boundaries, and the holy fire that burns away what isn’t true. She brings the courage of embodied leadership: calm strength, clean choice, and a heart that knows its own power.
Ra is the solar current of the pilgrimage. Ra is illumination, vitality, and true-direction power. You arrive one way, and you leave carrying a brighter inner sun: renewed, aligned, and clear in what you’re here to create.
The Journey Woven
You arrive in Egypt with the sky in its dark-seeded cadence, a new-moon hush that draws you inward. Cairo is the first threshold. The land of initiation, where Ma’at meets you in the beginning: breath becoming steady, intention becoming clean, the inner scales finding their balance. The Blue Lotus opens in still water, and the current of the journey starts moving beneath your skin.
Then you travel south into the Isis lands of Aswan, welcomed by the Sacred Nile and held by the grounded, river-rooted energy of the Nubian village, where colour, culture, and water-life soften you into presence. Isis holds the temple of return, guiding you through devotion and restoration, gathering back what belongs to you. Hathor arrives as radiance in the heart and voice and beauty as initiation, joy as medicine, song as a key.
And then the Nile takes you fully. You are wrapped into the river’s embrace aboard the dahabiya, the Magdalena Temple Boat, and initiated by water itself where sailing becomes ceremony, time becomes spacious, the temples arrive like living gates. As the days unfold, Ra crowns the journey with solar gifts of clarity, courage, sovereignty, a steady inner throne, while Khepri stirs becoming, and Khnum-Ra shapes new life at the unseen wheel, remaking identity in quiet, sacred increments.
As the Moon gathers light, the pilgrimage gathers voltage. Sekhmet steps forward as holy fire. She is precise, purifying, unwavering, burning clean what dilutes you until only truth remains. The journey completes in Luxor, where we close with a final ceremony to seal what has opened, bless what is emerging, and anchor the codes you’ve received into breath, body, and choice.
You leave with more than memories: you’ve been initiated into the mysteries of Kemet. You were received by her temples, shaped by her desert silence and Nile waters, and strengthened by the solar current that runs through her stone. Gifts arrive: clearer sight, cleaner boundaries, deeper devotion, and a steadier channel for your work in the world.
You step off the boat changed, softened and strengthened at once, your mission humming, your presence unmistakably luminous.
Lotus • Lioness • Ra
Itinerary + Highlights
Stay in beauty. Immerse in temples and sacred sites. Sail in slow rhythm and let the Nile bathe you in her living current. Welcome the sunrise with the Lioness and Ra, gold light rising in your body, courage soft and sovereign.
9 January – Arrival in Cairo. Check-in at Noya by Dhara f0r 2 nights — boutique-luxe close to Giza. Dinner and Welcome Ceremony.
10 January – Sphinx, Grand Egyptian Museum & Great Pyramid. Private access to the Sphinx at sunrise. The Sphinx holds the Akashic memory stream of Giza, its guardian current humming through stone and sky. Breakfast at the Grand Egyptian Museum, newly opened, overlooking the Giza pyramids. As evening arrives, private entry into the Great Pyramid, the largest of them all, moving through ancient passageways into the King’s Chamber for a sacred sound healing and initiation. A true threshold day. Kemet meets you in stillness, and the mysteries slide from mind, shifting the body, awakening the soul.
11 January – Saqqara & Aswan. Visit the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Egypt’s first stairway to the heavens, then a soft return to scent, beauty, and renewal over lunch as the Blue Lotus codes settle in over lunch at the Blue Lotus Garden. Flight to Aswan and check-in to the Nubian Village at Wadi Kiki for 2 nights; river life, colour, softness, and a slower rhythm on the Nile.
12 January – Sohel Island, Anuket Temple & Nubian Village. Visit to Sohel Island and Anuket Temple, for intimate Nile magic. Anuket, goddess of the first waters, blesses flow, safe crossing, and deep receiving. Shopping in the Nubian Village.
13 January – Philae & Nile Boat. Visit to Philae (new Isis Temple) and the Old Island, which is the original site of the Isis Temple pre-flooding (private entry); Isis’ temple waters, unhurried. The space is ours; Isis's energy is potent, and we are close; the anointing is quiet and real, the Nile waters remind us of water as life.
Check into the dahabeya, our Nile sailing boat, for 6 days / 5 nights sailing on the Magdalena Temple Boat — a luxury dahabiya with devotional design, a crown-deck sanctuary, and an onboard pace made for integration.
14 January – Edfu & El Kab. Sailing day with visits to Edfu and El Kab Temples. Edfu (Horus Temple) — protection, victory, clear-eyed sovereignty; a temple that sharpens direction & El Kab (Nekhbet) — desert-still guardianship and maternal protection; a place to listen deeply.
15 January – Esna & Luxor. Early visit to Esna Temple (Khnum + Neith + Heka) — creation-magic and cosmic order; alignment, right timing, and the feeling of the Nile teaching you how to flow. Sail to Luxor, with a visit to Luxor Temple (Amun-Ra, Mut, Khonsu), energy is of kingship ceremony and heart-steadying devotion, the current of renewal through the Opet lineage. We will also visit the Luxor bazaar.
16 January – Dendera. Visit the Temple of Hathor, symbolising beauty with power: joy, music, 'new life' codes, the Zodiac ceiling, crypt mysteries, and Osiris chapels that braid cosmos and underworld.
17 January –West Bank & Karnak. Sunrise at Hatshepsut Temple (Deir el-Bahri), sovereign feminine devotion at first light, with Amun, Hathor, and Anubis holding the temple line. Afternoon dive into Karnak and private access to the Sekhmet sanctuary — Ipet-Isut’s vast ceremonial field, then the lioness inner sanctuary without crowds, just our group, up close, unhurried — purification, protection, and activation in the precinct of Mut.
18 January – Closing ceremony. Check out of Nile boat. Departure transfer to Luxor Airport.
Pilgrimage Includes
2 nights in Luxe Hotel in Cairo
2 nights in a Traditional Luxe Hotel in the Nubian Village
5 nights on the Per Ba Merkabah (Light Body Vehicle) Temple Boat
Private access to the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, the Goddess Sekhmet Sanctuary and the Goddess Isis temple gates.
Meditations, activations, sound healings and guidance
Kemet Tribe Priestess guided initiation inside the King's Chamber, Giza Pyramid and at the Great Sphinx
Blue Lotus Ceremony while on the Sacred Nile
All Meals
Airport transfers
Internal flight from Cairo to Aswan (one way)
Entrance fees into all of the temples and sacred sites according to the itinerary
Private Egyptian Tour Guide
Non alcoholic drinks on the boat
Tipping for the guide, hotel, drivers, temple guards, boatcrew
Blue Lotus Awakening Oracle Deck (Seven Stars Temple's very own deck)
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Price does not include
International flights to Cairo and from Luxor
Egyptian tourist visa (USD 25)
Travel insurance
Any extra services
Personal tipping
Food and drink beyond 3 meals a day
A note on investment
I want to name this with care and clarity. This pilgrimage is a decent investment. It reflects the reality of travel in Egypt, private group experiences, luxe accommodation, and the way I hold the journey with depth, stillness and integration time, grounded and full presence. and very intentional, sacred planning of this experience at every step. We will have complete private access, meaning just our group, into the very centre of the largest pyramid, inside the King's Chamber, as well as up close and personal to the guardian Sphinx and into the inner Sanctuary of the powerful Lioness Goddess Sekhmet. We also have private access to the temple gates of Goddess Isis, at her original temple island. It's hard to describe what this actually means, but it's the most deeply moving and igniting experiences I've had. I know you will love it too.
We are spending 5 nights aboard a luxury Dahabiya, a Nile sailing boat. I have chosen a high-quality boat where both the kitchen and dining area are air-conditioned, ensuring the food offerings will be fresh, safe, and clean. The boat is brand new and has been designed to create a sacred spiritual container for our journey. I have engaged Hala, an Egyptian woman, Knowledge Holder, who holds many keys to the secrets of the temples and places we will visit. She will be ensuring correct cultural authority, spiritual permission, and alignment for our journey.
The Lotus, Lioness, Ra Egyptian Pilgrimage is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the right person. For those who feel the call, it tends to land as a pivotal yes, because the returns are not only memories. They are spiritual gifts, life upgrades, and a deep remembering that keeps unfolding long after you come home.
Investment
Early Bird USD 6,100 (Shared Suite)
Early bird is available until 31 March 2026
Regular price USD 6,500, after 31 March 2026
Deposit to secure Early Bird rate (until 31 March): USD 1,100 (non-refundable)
Private Suite (all the way through from hotels to boat) available on request
Payment plans available on request and welcomed
Your facilitators
Arkellah is the key facilitator of the pilgrimage, holding the spiritual and intentional container for Lotus, Lioness, Ra. She guides the journey as a living ceremony, weaving embodied practice, ritual, and sacred pace so the land can be received deeply. Her facilitation is warm, grounded, and devotional, creating a safe, beautifully held space where participants can soften, listen, and be genuinely moved by what Egypt awakens.
Hala is our Egyptian guide and Egyptologist, a trained scholar of ancient Egypt with a rare gift for bringing history to life. She brings depth, context, and a felt intimacy with the temples and symbols, as if she carries a living thread to the mysteries within the walls. With Hala, the stories become more than information. They become a remembrance, revealing layers often missed and inviting the deeper secrets of Egypt to speak directly to the heart.
In 2024, Hala entered Arkellah's life, and something in her softened into recognition. Sisterhood, warmth, and a sense of being held by a bond that felt ancient and natural. It was the kind of meeting that makes you realise how the path is guided, and how the right people appear when the land is calling you home. Hala and Arkellah are together, weaving the magic and mystery of this pilgriamge.
Arkellah, founder of Seven Stars Temple and Goddess Yoga, is the heart led facilitator of this pilgrimage, devoted to creating sacred journeys that are felt in the body, held in the nervous system, and remembered in the soul.
For over 25 years, she has held space for people through yoga, women’s circles, mentoring, and ceremony. As a senior yoga teacher trainer and embodied guide, she weaves depth with warmth and devotion with grounded care. She holds a steady, protective presence that helps people relax into trust and meet themselves honestly. Her work invites presence, tenderness, and real transformation, the kind that ripples into how you live, love, and choose.
Arkellah is a Blue Lotus ceremonialist and the creatrix of the Blue Lotus Awakening Oracle Deck, bringing sacred vision to life through beauty, symbolism, and initiatory wisdom. Egypt has lived close to her for years through dreams, visions, and an unmistakable inner calling, and that connection has deepened through time on the land and in the waters, where remembrance becomes tangible.
Her relationship with the Goddess Sekhmet is a living thread through this journey. Through years of study and practice in Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki, an advanced, high-frequency Egyptian energy healing system, she has been shaped by Sekhmet’s fierce compassion and sacred precision. In Egypt, entering Sekhmet’s inner sanctuary brought her to her knees, and in that moment she felt a profound receiving, a deeper communion with Sekhmet’s presence and power. This pilgrimage carries that transmission, held with reverence, devotion, and a steady hand, offering participants a rare opportunity to be met by something ancient, protective, and profoundly alive.
Hala Shawky Elhefni is an Egyptologist and tour guide with over 30 years of experience devoted to ancient Egyptian history and philosophy, known for her gift as a storyteller and guide. She is a founding member of Kemet Tribe, weaving grounded care with a felt reverence for the land.
As a temple guide, Hala has a rare way of making Egypt personal. She translates symbols and hieroglyphic worlds into something you can actually feel in your body, steadying the nervous system while expanding perception.
People leave her guidance with more than information. They leave with a sense of relationship, as if the temples have spoken directly to them. In her presence, the journey becomes a doorway: into beauty, into remembrance, into the quieter inner knowing that has been waiting for the right place to awaken.